Max!

THYSIASTERY IS OUT NOW!!!
The Labyrinth opens today. Your descent into the unknown awaits.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3140180/

This launch marks the beginning of a new chapter for our studio and for everyone who has followed the journey so far.

Re9 comic Grace and Leon on opposites site of a gate Leon: Don't worry, you'll be fine Leon: You know how to suplex a guy, right? Grace: umm... no... Leon: oh... but you can parry a chainsaw, yeah? Grace: what?! no!!! Leon, walking away concerned: "oh... well, good luck anyway" Grace looks very sad and pathetic

smh what are they teaching kids these days? 😕 #re9

Who's ready for more stickers? Dropping in the shop tomorrow!

That's a workflow determination that can only be made hands-on, not really planned-for in theory alone? 🤷

Just to make this concrete, here's the "scaffold" level editor prototype that send me down the "I should autogenerate instead of hand-place" rabbit-hole. It's _really good_ at getting 90% of the way there for 90% of ideas, but falls flat at the "second 90%" haha :\ youtu.be/RDZPNKNbJYc

Where I think as a coder/subject-area-expert in unreal engine errata I can value-add is in adding better nonlinear deformers than just Translation/Rotation/Scale, as opposed to fully-generating geo from minimal scaffolds like I've been pursuing.

I think the sweet spot is something like a "snapping system" where all the enviro kit is quantized to standard sizes, so it's easy to line things up and jigsaw puzzle them together. I can auto-scatter when it's easy, but it should also be easy to hand-place as needed.

I'm sort of just thinking out loud here, but it connects with someone out there, haha.

So having to do "lots of math" to make a highly-productive tool to realize new creative ideas trades one form of productivity for another. I can map out spaces fast, but I can't follow up on inspiration quickly.

I think I've been indie-gamedev-stuck for a while with "automation paralysis" -- like if I didn't super-automate level authoring, I wouldn't be able to keep going solo. Starting to rethink my assumptions about where productivity and creativity meet.

#ScreenshotSaturday? #ScreenshotSaturday!

Working hard on next Dart Racer update, have a couple clips from upcoming new tracks! :D

Wishlist on Steam or Quest!

#gamedev #indiegames #metaquest #virtualreality

Promo Art vs. In-Game Art

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame

Old drawings of character by @FUCH_official on twitter i forgot to send oops.

Show me someone who brags that Claude writes 99% of their work, and I'll show you someone who's job is 99% writing boilerplate.

Nancy 3/4/26 💅

I am overjoyed to see that this picture is still exactly where I left it on the internet and nobody has noticed.

Yesss touch the orb that makes you evil!

Finally got around to work on our shoreline shader for #surfpunk game.
Based on the wonderful tutorial by @cyanilux.bsky.social ❤️

#gamedev #indiegames #vfx #realtimevfx #techart #unity3D

I'm using the same mesh for collision (since it's static) - when I add render detail it'll be as LODs

Yah -- I stretch within limits, and just model different "stamp" meshes as needed.

I put that method, and some other shorthands, on a subtype that's marked "Blueprintable" so I can make BP-components to hold all the mesh-specific methods (e.g. in this case I added a BPC_NineGuideScaleableMesh asset) so they can be reused across different GeneratedDynamicMeshActor blueprints.

Some implementation details:

I'm using a hidden PoseableMeshComponent to adjust the bones before copying them to a dynamic mesh. For Geometry Script to see the updated bones you need to bind a BP function to call RefreshBoneTransforms().

They can be dropped into the scene as-is, or chained with a Geometry-Script pipeline to do repeated-stamping, further deformation (e.g. following a spline), or CSG booleans (union, intersection, etc).

OK, this is all working in real-time in the level editor.

To clarify: I'm not "procedurally-generating" anything, I've just rigged enviro kit-pieces with joints (like a character mesh), "posed" them, and baked them out to static collision.

Our first Unreal Engine 3 president

Yooooo I just realized I can use this same technique for things like nine-guide-scaling or bevel-adjustment without having to make a bunch of conventions or extra configuration! I'm so smart!!

Let's goooo, I just had a brainstorm -- Geometry Script can copy skeletal mesh skins to static geo, so instead of doing highly custom deformations, I can just rig complex stamps like branches, and use posing for adjustment -- and the leaf bones mark up precise "junction points."

Pipeline for distortion + stamping cross-section meshes along a spline. I only had to write one small(ish) helper function (converting the X-coordinates of the source stamp to spline-distance ranges & getting the relevant anchored transforms), instead of the whole damn thing.

One nice bit about #UnrealEngine Geometry Script is that there's enough "batteries included" library functions built-in that I usually only have to add one or two small C++ utilities, instead of the whole pipeline.

Development screenshot from my game, Nightshift Galaxy. Right: a "stamp" I authored in blender that's like a cross-section of a tunnel. Left: the stamp repeated and distorted to follow a tunnel-spline.

Back in the saddle working on my "scaffold" level-editting system for Nightshift. I got a bit exhausted having to procedurally topologize everything (esp texture UVs, ugh), so I'm experimenting with making mesh "stamps" in blender that are distorted & combined in the game editor.

Whale bros, from Abraxas and the Earthman by Rick Veitch, 1983

Oh shiiiiitt!

Whale song? No, we're pod-casting.