Alexander Schmidt 🐘

Hey, if this site goes to heck, we can meet up over here: @lexusinator" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mastodon.gamedev.place/@lexusinator Didn't post much there yet, as I am generally more weary of social 'media' recently, but it would be a shame to lose contact with y'all. 🐘

What could be better than camping?🏕️🤔 Camping with friends, of course!🤗 🎉We're excited to announce:🎉 Nordcurrent Labs teamed up with Emergo Entertainment @EmergoE to bring you the most #wholesome and cozy adventure about the breaks on a journey – FIRESIDE. Explore a beautiful hand-drawn world, meet quirky & cute travelers, learn their stories, trade & talk at the campfire, and immerse yourself in the calm and relaxing atmosphere of Fireside.🔥🌲 🧡Wishlist the coziest game of 2024 today ➡️store.steampowered.com/app/1722700/Fi…🧡 #indiegame #Fireside #cozygame #wholesomegames #pcgaming

(German) Article with thoughts about green gaming and, generally speaking, how companies can improve their environmental footprint. Thanks to Nora Beyer for interviewing my colleague @Lexusinator from @gameswelldone and us! 🌳

So I've been using Godot for a month now and it looks very capable of 3D! Let's do a quick recap. Right now it has these things out of the box: - Indirect light (VoxelGI, SDFGI, SSIL) - Volumetric light - Screen-space reflections - Depth of Field - Auto-exposure - SSAO - Decals - Light cookies - FSR upscaling - Realistic physical sky shader - A cool built-in surface shader that does all sorts of things including refraction, proximity fade, billboarding, etc - Occlusion culling - Auto LOD generation! Things that are missing for now, as of Godot 4.2 are: - Motion blur - Texture streaming - Color grading and curves (only LUTs for now) - Custom post-processing - VFX graph (like UE Niagara or Unity's vfx graph) - Lens flares? When these things find their way into Godot (especially motion blur and custom post-processing) it's gonna be quite something! Relevant proposals: Motion blur: github.com/godotengine/go… Texture streaming: github.com/godotengine/go… Material-based post-processing: github.com/godotengine/go…

Checking out if Godot can render me something pretty. Volumetric fog goes brrrrrrrr

SDFGI lighting looks pretty good. And you don't need to bake anything unlike with the voxel approach. So you can do open world and procgen 🤌

@StrayFawnStudio @Khllffsh @unity Nice 🎉 Hit me up if you need help or infos 🙂

@Khllffsh @unity We spent all day doing Godot tutorials today.

We made our game about genetics free for schools. Now we will be charged for each student installing the game because of @unity's new policy. Not sure this is how the world is supposed to work 🙃

So this means no demos, no charity keys, no prologues, no gamepass, no ps+, no indie f2p. What a sh*t show #Unity #Unity3D How can a game company be so out of touch with the current market situation!? gamedeveloper.com/business/unity…

Turns out John was right, we were the fucking idiots after all. 🥲

🥳Our #indiegame and detective visual novel Hauma is released! 🧐Please help us by checking it out and consider buying it. 👮‍♀️Hauma is about Judith, a former police woman who starts investigating a mysterious case and uncovers an ancient conspiracy. 🛠️Made with #GodotEngine

🚨 Hauma, a true labor of love from @SenAm_Games, released today!!🙂 Buy the game and leave a review if you want, I'm sure that helps them a lot! #adventure #indiegame #visualnovel #graphicnovel

"Dutch civil planners built a canal here, robbing their citizens of an 18-lane super highway." Brilliant video by @uniquespirit889

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Visited University of Bayreuth today: Lots of awesome teams presented the projects they are working on to Bavarian Digital Minister @gerlach_judith 🤘Notably, Media Studies in Bayreuth has a very entrepreneurship-friendly environment - many fantastic entrepreneurs there! 😍

What's up Bavaria✨️💕🍻🥨 Having an absolute blast on the first day with the most amazing people! Shoutout to @BLochmann for organizing this!!

Creating economies for games is hard. That's why our systems designer @DerELM0 decided to model the economy of our game IndusTree in @machinationsio, a tool to visualize resource flows in games. Read more here: 🔖 well-done-games.com/blog/how-we-us… #gamedev #gamedesign #gamestudies

Vier #Hitzerekorde in einer Woche. Wir leben in einer Welt, vor der früher als ‚Klima-Dystopie’ gewarnt wurde. Was man nicht ahnen konnte: Dass sich Wärmepumpen-Fake-News, Parkplatz-Populismus & gekränkte Gaslobbies als valide Einwände gegen schnelles Handeln durchsetzen würden.

Behold my favorite traffic calming device.

You can put the @godotengine Script Editor in a separate window on a separate screen now, my life is complete. #godot #GodotEngine #indiedev

@marcel_zurawka Oh man. All the best to you going forward ❤️

Worst year so far for us. But we will come out of it even stronger!