RippleRidge Games

GBSR#4: Minimum Playable Prototype is alive! Roll tech, design ships, refit, fix, send to battle, loot, repeat. The full loop works. Hardcoded most of it, true programmer art. Your eyes will need therapy. But the mechanics? It seems to work! #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Same universe. Same lore. Everything else is new. And honestly? I haven't been this excited about the game since I started. RIP Star Forge. You taught me what the game actually wanted to be. #indiedev #gamedev #roguelike #strategygames

Combat stays but better: pause to issue commands, relic powerups that change your build mid-run. Story progresses on reset, new intel each cycle while the main arc moves forward. Your veteran destroyer survived 8 ops? Lose her and it hurts.

Major announcement for my 8 followers: I killed the mobile game. A few months from release. Star Forge was a mobile puzzle game. Months of work. It worked. It was fine. "Fine" is a death sentence for a game.

GBSR#3: #Godot is amazing, the mobile background ran fine on PC. But "fine" isn't good enough when you're avoiding actual features. 500 DrawCircle calls → one GPU shader. Nebulae, 3k stars, meteors, fleet dogfights with pulse fire. 0.7ms GPU. Programmer art! #indiedev #gamedev

@DivinumGame The map opening up as you explore is clean. Are the zones hand-placed or does it generate the revealed areas from the player's actual path?

The map is now fully functional, always showing your position and opening up as you go -- no equipment slots wasted on QoL. And yes, pretty early into the game you'll be able to fast travel to checkpoints at any time 👀 #screenshotSaturday #metroidvania #pixelart #indiedev

@TenkemoGame First person gives it a completely different energy. What made you want to try first person, was it a gameplay thing or just curiosity?

Trying first person view for the first time... looks like I might need to create a few new animations for this view 🤔 Help us reach 2k followers on Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/mehst… #indiedev #gamedev #godot #kickstarter

@FangstormGame Runing smooth! Are these fully animated individuals or are you doing something clever with instancing and LOD batching at that count?

I keep hearing Unreal Engine is "poorly optimised"... Anyway, here's me vs 180 goblins Fangstorm - UE5.7👇 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

@gameralphabeta The color palette alone is doing half the storytelling. Brazilian cyberpunk is a setting I didn't know I needed.

Sky Dust is a cyberpunk metroidvania indie action game, with stunning pixel art, set in a Brazilian city, that's been poisoned by the destruction of the moon! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gaming

Going backwards status report: 8 custom shaders for the UI. Frosted glass, chamfered corners, edge pulse. Looks correct on paper, feels wrong on screen. Ripping it out. PointLight2D and GPUParticles2D might do in 20 lines what 8 shaders couldn't. #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Going backwards status report: Pulled shared controllers out of all 8 game screens (MVC separation), wired up dual-build config. Mobile and PC now compile from the same source tree. Zero new features. Never been more productive. #indiedev #gamedev #godot

As any good engineer, with the finish line in sight I decided to rewrite the game. Mobile-first to PC-first. Because launching into the Play Store void with zero audience felt like shipping a fleet into the void.. Am I making a horrible mistake? #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Since working on actual game levels is so hard, I wrote the main menu with smooth transitions instead. Priorities. #indiedev #gamedev

Every player's tech path is different. Your Kinetic Slug isn't my Kinetic Slug, and my Existential Dread Ray definitely isn't yours. Over 90 templates. Branching upgrades. No two catalogs alike. #indiedev #gamedev #scifi

Built in Godot 4 + C#. Deterministic fixed-point math. A genetic algorithm for balance tuning. 352 commits by one person who should have been sleeping. #godot4 #gamedev #indiedev

Meet ARIA, your AI companion in Star Forge. She masks existential dread with statistical analysis. "I have nothing to critique. This is... uncomfortable." #indiedev #gamedev

@VideoGameCream Star Forge, a sci-fi fleet design & tactical simulation. Solo dev, been working on this since 2004 (kinda). rippleridge.games #indiedev

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@Riftwalkergame Also a solo dev chasing a dream game, mine's been sitting in a design doc since 2004. Your work puts mine to shame, this looks incredible. Wishlisted!

I don’t have millions in funding. I’m a solo dev. A dad. A husband. I’m building this with everything I have. If you love The Mandalorian, Dune, and Max Payne, I’m making this game for you. Wishlist on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/4109980/Ri… Support the journey patreon.com/RiftwalkerGame #wishlistwednesday #gamedev #indiedev

@thepixelform 'Close Ranks', the kind of order that sounds simple until pathfinding, collision, and formation math all need to agree. I deal with fleet formations too, deterministic sim means every edge case is permanent. Looks clean!

Shields together, swords as one. -Added new "Close Ranks" order in case you need fill gaps. #pixelart #godot