Slow Rush

Super Exciting Announcement: #Steam page for my #noita-inspired multiplayer falling sand game is now LIVE at store.steampowered.com/app/3816900/Si… Trailer: slowrush.dev/signs-trailer 2 years making an engine - now the real work begins :) #fallingsand #indiegame #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev

If you like this game, please check out other games from my region of the world (Western Australia); Many will be in the ANZ Indifest Steam festival starting this Saturday: store.steampowered.com/curator/453483… (I'm particularly looking forward to Frostliner and Signs of Danger, personally)

If you're in #Perth , come to Tokyo Alley on May 9th or 10th to playtest Signs of Danger in person! real soldiers aren't afraid of bright pastel colours

Ported my #noita -like from #macroquad to #SDL and #WGPU over the last 2 months And multi-threaded the heck out of it too. GIF-heavy devlog: slowrush.dev/news/porting-p… #indiedev #gamedev

@justff777 yeah exactly. Towerfall has something like this, so you can see how the heck that arrow curved around to nail you!

@SlowRushDev letting players rewatch their final seconds in rewind is such a cool death screen — you actually learn what went wrong

So my #noita -like is 100% deterministic (for multiplayer netcode) Hacked up time travel as a debug tool: so awesome being able to replay backwards w/ full debug info and explore alternative timelines! how about a "rewind 5 secs when you die" perk #indiedev #gamedev #roguelite

@justff777 Yes, now that I have played with it some more I'm thinking it would be a shame to keep it as only a debug feature - want to let players view their final seconds this way too!

@SlowRushDev deterministic sim with time travel debug is genius. being able to scrub backwards through game state sounds like the ultimate "what killed me" tool. the rewind perk idea is cool too — could pair nicely with a risk/reward system where rewinding costs something

@chris_suffern Ahaha! I would get sued for sure :)

@SlowRushDev Amazing tech. Missed naming opportunity - The sands of time

@MichaelTeschne7 Yeah it's a harsh taskmaster for sure. But the good news is you learn to love the cage that constrains you. (though that may be stockholm syndrome)

@SlowRushDev Decided lol. I’m coming from C++ so the borrow checker is going to be a pain

Reworked character controller on my #noita -like to run directly against the falling sand pixels No kinematic bodies for movement -> 20% speed up! Looking forward to spamming a bucket load of enemies now #indiedev #gamedev #roguelite

@MichaelTeschne7 Despised or decided? I assume the latter but sometimes I definitely wish I didn't have a borrow checker breathing down my neck!

@SlowRushDev I’ve already despised to make my next project in rust and webGPU, so it’s cool to see projects like this using that stack

@MichaelTeschne7 Sure! Was macroquad for a long time, but just recently ported it over to wgpu + sdl3. I have investigated bevy multiple different times but the netcode is based on GGPO-like rollback (my fork of ggrs) and Bevy makes that harder in various ways!

@SlowRushDev If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your tech stack for the engine? wgpu rendering? Bevy?

Added this "chaos mode" to my #noita -like roguelite for benchmarking the falling sand physics 60 times a second it spawns some material, triggers an explosive, spawns or kills an enemy, etc. It's actually surprisingly fun? in slowmo #gamedev #indiedev #fallingsand #roguelite

Graphics programming is such a weird beast Even when you stuff it up you get cool results Here the radiance cascades lighting for my #noita -like suddenly gained a disco mode, but only at certain screen resolutions #gamedev #indiedev #shaders #wtf

Started out trying to solve a minor bug of players getting mixed up Ended up making my own gamepad-compatible UI framework with animations and localization: slowrush.dev/news/uis-playe… Taffy-powered, iced-inspired: immediate API, retained UI under the hood #gamedev #indiedev #rust

Accidentally got a parallax terrain effect for my #noita -like Except it's in front of terrain instead of behind it Definitely file under "shader accidents not worth keeping" #gamedev #indiedev #shaders

Watch my new video on the spell system for Grimorium! youtu.be/RsKU42ic850

It’s finally time to… Unleash the ✦⁺₊✩GIRL POWER✩⁺₊✦ Don’t Stop, Girlypop! is officially OUT NOW!!!! You better be ready, because this sh❤t is serious 👇 bit.ly/4q6lJFB

New devlog exploring my equiv to #noita wandcrafting With new playable web build - feedback welcome, hit me with your hard words! slowrush.dev/news/signcraft… #indiedev #gamedev #roguelite #devlog

When you give a #noita player access to your game's version of wandcrafting, but you haven't actually balanced it yet #gamedev #indiedev #roguelite

My equiv of #noita 's wandcrafting is coming along Signs can trigger other Signs - hopefully this tree is clearer to players than Noita's wand draw rules? Force directed tree was too springy so trying out Reinhold-Tillford trees here instead! #gamedev #indiedev #roguelite