Hal Builds Games

One year ago, I decided to try to make a game in Unity in my spare time. It has been a profoundly humbling experience. With no credentials, basic Matlab/HTML/CSS knowledge, and some limited Photoshop proficiency - it was a firehose. When my first C# program compiled, I had this.

@nickdiazofnauts there we go! nail some jungle grass/ferns and a performant napalm effect and we're in it

Before vs After: Updating lighting in my Vietnam war RTS Game. i can't tell if i hate it or am just not used to it. this didn't turn out the way i was hoping it would... thoughts? still need to add BIG rocks and cliffs...

@ShotgunAnaconda Please finish. Looks like a game I wish I was making. Ever play Neptune's Pride?

Working on a space idle game. Buy cargo ships, miners and they procedurally fly around trading and making you money. There's also upgrades of course. Pretty satisfying to watch in the background. Will I finish this one? We'll see lol. #indiegamedev

@nickdiazofnauts @threejs Look brighter on your screen live? I feel like we need some sunlight and jungle green! maybe just the screenshots effect

4 quick maps I just made using my custom built @threejs map editor for my Vietnam War inspired RTS game. Am I getting closer to that 'Nam vibe yet? Oh ya, I have a road/path tool now too (not just a water tool) in case you couldn't tell 😋🛣️

@nickdiazofnauts @threejs I didnt even know that was a game! That valley is just where the events of book/movie We Were Soldiers Once and Young took place. Looking forward to watching your progress

Definitely more of a company of heroes approach, no base building at this point. It’s funny you mention “No One Left Behind: La Drang” (I think is it’s official name) I didn’t even know that game was a thing until AFTER I started making this game! I watched 20 mins of one streamer playing it and was like “ok, well, that exists but it is very different than mine” but vowed not to watch anymore gameplay for fear of tainting/changing my vision of the my game. I couldn’t even tell you how enemies spawn in that game tbh but I’ll tell you that I am leaning more towards your idea than anything at this point. The story or “lore” behind my game though is more like “you are the cut off platoon in the movie “We Were Soldiers” if that gives you any better idea of what the gameplay I am hoping to achieve is going to be!!

Testing out new unit ai logic for gunfights in my Vietnam War RTS game I'm building in @threejs , as well as giving my boys a helping hand with some artillery and airstrikes 😏 So much work has been done since the last update (water tool) like the new road drawing system in the map editor and easily the BIGGEST change/update to the game that has 100% made me feel like this is an actual game now - but for now, that will be my little secret...But not for long!! Stay tuned if you like what you see and want to see more!

@Soul_Indian_IN @Rainmaker1973 Yes

@halbuildsgames @Rainmaker1973 How?? What do you think a robot on a bike, doing stunts would achieve?

Robotics and AI Institute’s robot pulling off impressive jumps, flips, and balance control

@nickdiazofnauts Broken Arrow! Broken Arrow!

When your squad gets overrun by enemy forces in my Vietnam War RTS game, just call in an Artillery Strike! (or two)😆👍💥💥

@FabienWeibel can the fish be coaxed into the pond? can i have a moat with a baby shark?

Just digging a hole in the sand. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Wishlist Sandcastle ➡️ s.team/a/3216520

@Soul_Indian_IN @Rainmaker1973 In the absence of yes/no questions, this tech will save the world.

@Rainmaker1973 How and why do these people get the urge to build something like this? What are these people trying to achieve? How does this benefit humanity? How does it benefit the common man at home? What does this contribute to my life? If any of the answers are "No", this tech is useless.

The creative vs AI-generated content. This project also looks like it will have some incredible, risk-taking game design.

Small improvement to copter pilot Ai, they now have option to be bit more aggressive and prices while moving (top new, bottom old) #Precursor #indiegame

@noio_games Have water in your game? make it a logging mission. follow them downstream and collect per log arrived in a set time

always tricky to find like.. a gameplay purpose for this kind of fun stuff but maybe we just let it be fun? without making the player 'solve' something?

@JanOrszulik Incredible work. Beautiful entry through the clouds

Do not go gentle into that good night... (bring considerably bigger ship) #Precursor #gamedev #indiedev

@AnthropicAI frame this. put it in Louvre

@GorkaGames mcp with claude on Unity is a godsend for debugging

Unreal Engine is the most limited game engine to use Claude Code and vibecoding tools. Has anyone tried to vibecode with Godot? How good is it?

@JanOrszulik gorgeous. are your foreground and backgrounds 3d? or adding surface normals to 2d assets to simulate?

Small fun little test, Screen space projected emissives, or something like that, I hate naming stuff... #Indiedev #rendering #screenshotsaturday

@nickdiazofnauts any simple way to increase the angular momentum in your controls? Maybe what you were going for, but choppy feel in the video. Lovely 3d assets though

I made a video game ✈️ Chronic pain kept me from doing what I love - streaming mobile games like PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty Mobile - so I poured everything into building the fighter jet game I've always wanted to play. Built in Three.js, rendered with WebGL, and 100% playable in the browser. Solo dev. Learning as I go from the ground up — and I'm genuinely proud of what I made. Coming February 2026. Be Ready. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #threejs

Happy Friday

@Smitty_Games ye olde goliath

RTS SciFi Tanks: You VS the guy she tells you not to worry about #RTS #RTSGame #IndieGame

@DaveOshry Ripe for a battle royale that actually shrinks the world onto players

FRAUD MULTIPLAYER REAL