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Bigmode game jam

Shoot targets and swing your cursor out of bounds to reload with style

Was quite happy with the texturing tricks in this one. It's just gradient colours, but with a brush texture slapped on top for a bit of colour variation. Two very quick and dirty UV maps instead of one complicated one, actually made it very easy to pump out a bunch of small stylised props.

Didn't get in everything I wanted, but I thought the menu was fun and the levels have a little bit of variety. Was happy to get the custom level tool in, but I don't know how much fun it is for anyone else. (Would you believe the project overscoped again?)

Once again, time management was the biggest issue.

#godot 4.0 #gamedev #game jam #bigmode

Fractals are neat

Fly through a strange landscape

Submitted to brackeys game jam. it's another contribution to the 'is this a game' bucket, but I think raymarching is very neat.

Learned a lot of cool things about modulo operations and depth buffers. Trying to figure out how I've messed up a coordinate transformation is not heaps of fun though.

#godot 4.0 #gamedev #game jam

Godot compute shaders are neat

this particular example can run a grid about 40x80 on a single thread, but 1024x1024 in a compute shader. the way I've done the algorithm is probably completely backwards though.

thinking in parrallel is an interesting challenge!

trying to figure out how to express things in glsl is also a challenge

#godot 4.0 #compute shaders

Godot @export const trick

Wouldn't it be nice to have a const we can see/change in editor, that can't be edited at runtime? set functions can do this! @export var ATLAS_DIMENSIONS : Vector2i = Vector2i(40,40) : set(val): if !is_node_ready(): ATLAS_DIMENSIONS = val

we just make sure once the node is 'ready' the value cannot be set!

#godot 4.0 #gamedev

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Constant custom cursor colouration in Godot

The 1bit colour scheme was a little undermined by a white cursor - but godot allows you to set a custom cursor programatically! (Which is a lot better than having a sprite follow the cursor)

(Sorry if video ends up very blurry)

var image = cursor_original.get_image() for x in range(image.get_width()): for y in range(image.get_height()): var col = image.get_pixel(x,y) if col.a > 0: col = light if col.r > 0.5 else dark image.set_pixel(x,y,col) var tex = ImageTexture.create_from_image(image) Input.set_custom_mouse_cursor(tex)

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this was for a Game Jam submission for the 1-bit game jam 8! It's actually one of the games of all time

something has gone horribly wrong with the printer after its bath!

#game jam #1 bit art #godot 4.0

Constant custom cursor colouration in Godot

The 1bit colour scheme was a little undermined by a white cursor - but godot allows you to set a custom cursor programatically! (Which is a lot better than having a sprite follow the cursor)

(Sorry if video ends up very blurry)

var image = cursor_original.get_image() for x in range(image.get_width()): for y in range(image.get_height()): var col = image.get_pixel(x,y) if col.a > 0: col = light if col.r > 0.5 else dark image.set_pixel(x,y,col) var tex = ImageTexture.create_from_image(image) Input.set_custom_mouse_cursor(tex)

#godot 4.0 #gamedev #godot #1 bit art

Pixel font has weird line seperations?

Check if your pixel font is representing every pixel as box (instead of a nice outline) Fontforge is good for this! You can use Elements>Overlap>Remove Overlap to convert everything to a nice outline. The hotkey Ctrl+Shift+O will make a nice outline for every glyph selected, so its very straightforward to collect everything with Ctrl+A

As a nice side effect, the file size of the font gets a bit smaller too!

(Fontforge may warn you about em things, but it should export your new and improved font just fine)

also if you are looking for pixel fonts I think you should: A: try making one! B: check out VEXED on itch.io https://v3x3d.itch.io (high quality fonts at a bargain and their pixel art is also crazy)

#fonts #pixel font #pixel art

How to make a very simple dithering shader

First you need a number that represents your gradient, if you're lazy like me, r value is fine. Then you see if its value is higher than your dither texture. screen_texture.r > dither_texture.r

Just realising all this is explained better here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered_dithering I probably should have read a little bit before reverse engineering the provided gradient example, but live and maybe-not-learn I guess.

#godot 4.0 #gamedev #dithering

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https://github.com/virtual-puppet-project/vpuppr

messing around with vpuppr is a lot of fun! I have had a lot of luck with grumpy expressions. hoping our subjects outlook will improve once I figure out how to reattach his arms.

so far: blender vrm plugin doesn't work if you have an armature, so exporting .glb is better? haven't got blinking going just yet, and not having much luck getting the pose in either.

unfortunately, vpuppr is on hiatus and doesn't have a great number of tutorials. will have to see if there are any forks kicking around.

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tried snek studio, much easier - just make sure you're exporting vrm0 the hand tracking is interesting. seems like this vrm stuff has a lot of setup involved. maybe theres a way to speed things up with blenders scripting

Open-source VTuber software using Godot Engine! Contribute to ExpiredPopsicle/SnekStudio development by creating an account on GitHub.

#snekstudio #vr model #webcam face tracking

https://github.com/virtual-puppet-project/vpuppr

messing around with vpuppr is a lot of fun! I have had a lot of luck with grumpy expressions. hoping our subjects outlook will improve once I figure out how to reattach his arms.

so far: blender vrm plugin doesn't work if you have an armature, so exporting .glb is better? haven't got blinking going just yet, and not having much luck getting the pose in either.

unfortunately, vpuppr is on hiatus and doesn't have a great number of tutorials. will have to see if there are any forks kicking around.

#vpuppr #webcam face tracking

Finally finished my 'micro project that will only take a week or something'

A little world to walk through. Walk around and talk to people.

I'm quite happy with some of the silly jokes.

#godot 4.0 #gamedev #dragon #knight #silly #pixel art

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Dragon cutscene test

Been trying to focus on bite size projects. With that in mind, have been trying to make something dialogue focused (highly reccommend godot dialogue manager) but scope creep is a consistent issue. Decided to make a very small, simple cutscene - mocked up a preview of it.

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https://20mice.itch.io/vinyet-dragon-cutscene-demo

Took me a little while to get around to uploading this.

(The actual dialogue is a bit longer than the video)

#godot 4.0 #pixel art #dragon #knight #light hearted #silly #godot #gamedev

Tennis

#tennis #I have learned a bit about the rules #enough I feel that I can make dubious quality jokes about it now

Workaround for multilayer painting in blender

Hope this is helpful for someone trying to paint PBR materials or do multi-channel painting in blender!

Brushing UV colours onto a texture lets you map roughness/metalic/colour/whatever else with a single brush! Using the blue channel can allow mixing multiple textures, but I'd probably recommend using a layer addon like ucupaint instead of multiple brushes. Had also consdidered using blue channel to show the brush texture...

This approach allows for some cool projection painting, but I think masking texture layers is probably more sensible for most use cases.

I may have to experiment with some multi-layer setups - blender has some neat addons for painting textures in layers.

Currently, blender doesn't have multilayer painting, eg. painting colour and roughness with a single brush, and I haven't been able to find a free addon to add this feature. ArmorPaint can be compiled for free but I've been having issues with performance+crashing (could just be my setup).

#blen #der #blender3d #Perhaps one day I'll have to learn how to make addons #substance painter #is too expensive

I like making little debug tools

#godot 4.0 #gamedev

Sound issues playing short SFX on godot

AudioStreamPlayer did not like to play very short sound effects when setting AudioStreamPlayer.playing = true or using AudioStreamPlayer.playing but it worked perfectly when calling .play() from a script. Not sure why this is, but hopefully this post can spare someone a headache.

#godot 4.0 #gamedev

Boss Rush Jam 2025

You're in a bit of trouble with the vampire mafia. Fight your son, then upgrade him with stuff you found in a graveyard.

Had to stay up quite late to get it done, but I've made my submission for the 2025 Boss Rush Jam! My first attempt at game music is a little interesting, as is the new disco level, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :)

I'll have to do a bit of a post-mortem to try and learn from the dev cycle.

#boss rush jam 2025 #godot 4.0 #gamedev #frankenstein #boss fight

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