SolarLune

Here lie my bones and blood, etched in silicon for others to trace. I'm an indie game developer.

[solarlunedev]

Hello!

I’m SolarLune, an indie gamedev and musician and stuff; I’ve never had a tumblr before, but with everything going on with Twitter, I thought it’d be cool to branch out to other social media.

I’m best known (I think) for being the creator of Tetra3D, a 3D renderer written in Go, and being the creator of MasterPlan, a planning tool for indie devs. I’ve also created various other open-sourced gamedev resources and stuff over on my GitHub. I’ll be chroncling my development here, methinks.

Nice to meet you all!

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[solarlunedev]

Going to stream some gamedev / work on Tetra3D:

Watch this video on Twitch Live

have a rushed trailcam deer

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Whale of a time, from the ‘SEGA 3D Fukkoku Archives’ \on the Nintendo 3DS

[solarlunedev]

They just straight up drowned and Sega's chilling

[andmaybegayer]

> looking at a new popular collectible

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

> its gambling

[andmaybegayer]

> #wait are labubu's blind bags?!

Labubus are blind bags but they're also blind bags with some of the most insane dark patterns stacked on top. The online store for them has a thing where they tell you what you got the second you order it online so that you can immediately try again if you didn't get the thing you wanted.

There's also a shake feature that is designed to encourage you to buy more than one by narrowing down the possibility space on a crate of options so that if you're hunting a specific model you can verify that it's guaranteed to be in one of these three IF you buy all three right now!!!!!

[girlishgamine]

You can read more about what dark patterns are and how to spot them here.

Deceptive Patterns (aka Dark Patterns) - spreading awareness since 2010

The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things tha

[ralfmaximus]

That is a fucking awesome site everyone should visit. Don't skip the Hall of Shame.

[dailymanners]

I just thought of this post, which was actually how I learned what Dark Patterns are, because I tried to cancel my Adobe Acrobat subscription, and it took much longer than I anticipated because several times throughout the process it felt like it was intentionally trying to trick me into thinking I'd cancelled my subscription when I actually hadn't yet.

Please read up on Dark Patterns and learn how to recognize them.

[kevinbparry]

Behind-the-scenes 😉

[skeletondoggy]

It is kinda crazy that we're in an era of trying to push character customization and create more and more options when we made an exceedingly accessible and fantastic 3D Modeling Program in the early 2000s, used it for two video games, and then it fell off the face of the earth

[skeletondoggy]

Games were using direct software that let you basically "draw" out the characters to a point where customization was getting so nuts and keen it's like so baffling more games haven't tried to chase that too

Like I'm not kidding like. While Magic Pengel used mostly its own frame work at the time, Amazing Island and (Pengel's Sequel) Graffiti Kingdom mostly used the program Teddy (which you can still use on the creator's original website + a unity plugin!!!!!!) to basically make most of everything in there. It has some of the most interesting and easy object creation I've ever seen in a game and it does make me sad we're stuck begging for games to have more options when the technology was kicking around like. such huge swings. It's crazy still these were the 2000s. like even stuff like spore too just where'd all this go

[solarlunedev]

Yeah, kinda crazy that games stopped being so imaginative and creative. Probably had to do with increased fidelity + customization focusing on paid skins.

[qualityfarmprofessorpaper-blog]

[solarlunedev]

Crazy cool and deceptively simple

[solarlunedev]

Haven't posted anything here in a while, but I've been making a lot of progress on my 3D renderer, Tetra3D!

Been optimizing and fixing up collisions and ray casting, adding light volumes, adding automatic triangle subdivision based on camera distance, etc. Somebody said it's like a PS1.5, haha.

Built on-top of the Ebitengine framework!

BlueSky here~

[sonicfangamebot]

‘Motobug’ (2020) by PaisanoJay (Mania Mod) Inspired by PolygonJim, who passed away in 2013, who made a similar 'Sonic 1’ hack. https://archive.org/download/SonicHackingContest2020

[solarlunedev]

"Player Character is a Rogue Motobug" is kind of a crazy concept for a Sonic game

[solarlunedev]

Yo, going to stream in about an hour and 15, at 12 PM PST~

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[anasabdin]

Orion Spur [ 7 colors ]

[solarlunedev]

Beautiful

[solarlunedev]

Been working on light volumes for Tetra3D, my PS1-style renderer! It's looking pretty good - feels like how a PS1 game would do dynamic lighting. The approach is pretty simple - the light volume is essentially an AABB, split into a grid. The grid cells contain colors, and I can put colors in the grid to light or shade vertices that move into those cells.

A longer video is up on YouTube here:

[contextfreepatentart]

[solarlunedev]

The internet connects all little goblins of the world together

[solarlunedev]

Created this ant man portrait on my Twitch stream yesterday over the course of a couple of hours - thought it went pretty dang hard. I used to make portraits like these back in 2021, I think it was.

Want to get back into it!

Feel free to watch the VOD on Twitch or YouTube~

[unclefather]

[superepicchan]

[solarlunedev]

What is there to even say, lolol

[solarlunedev]

Going live on Twitch right now with some gamedev!

Watch this video on Twitch Live

[notfinancialadvice]

This is so fucking embarrassing. This is one of the most embarrassing business quips I have ever seen in my entire vile career.

[birdsareblooming]

coat bath

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

tag yourselves i'm the GREAT ROOM beside the GOURMET KITCHEN

[pocket-deer-belly]

i remade it in the sims 4

[solarlunedev]

There's so much to unpack here, I love it.

PvP Bathing.

The Closet of Doors.

The Sink at the End.

It's just so incredibly cursed, lololol