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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 14h

Not much to share this week, ported the Protoss to DOTS as had issues with larger puzzles It can now do puzzles with 100k+ blocks np (they won’t be that big, just nice that it can 😂) That said the idea has evolved update incoming 😅 #indiedev #gamedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Made a mockup of this, but not sold on it yet, will toy with it & try & find the fun 🤷‍♂️ Demo video in comment 👇 Oh excuse it using blocks & not 🐑 😂 #indiedev #gamedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you struggle to sleep don’t think of sheep! Think of how those sheep would migrate to the centre of multi piece cube when spaces were made due to sheep removal (Welcome to my past 3 days laid up on the sofa 🤣) (New puzzle game incoming) #indiedev #gamedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No update on the Ball Robot 😕 Been a rough week & spent most of it on the sofa trying to get my back to calm down 😞

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Saw this in an Ars comment earlier today & thought it was too good not to share (Has crossed my mind a few times since hence the share 😅) Well worth the watch!! #sci-fi #noai #ai #shortfilm (8mins)

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Sci-Fi Short Film “Slaughterbots” | DUST

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Update on the Ball Robot Mostly done now (few tweaks I want to do) Making everything so it can fold up inside has been a real faff tho! 😂🤷‍♂️ #blender3d #indiedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Not posted much lately so figured I’d share a perfect normals robot ball I’m working on It has been quite a faff getting to the point I could do Boolean operations without wrecking the normals 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #blender3d

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I remember when scenes like this were reserved for movies😬

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Been doing a lil add-on for Blender the past day or so & it still amazes me how much you forget about a language when not using it 😬 #developer #b3d

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Sappy Seals: I Forgot!

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Got to love going down a rabbit hole 🤣🤷‍♂️ Struggled with animating non-humanoids, FPS arms etc over the years & hit it again recently ..so I got @pierrick-picaut.bsky.social AOER2 (Art of Effective Rigging 2) course & now feel I’m using a sledgehammer to crack a nut with my use needs 🤣 #indiedev

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Simpsons Learning

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Murska Digital @murskadigital.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Forced our 3d guy at gunpoint to write an article on the hair tech we are using for She Hunts. Using #Blender, for #Godot, he magics through geo nodes a generator for hair cards. If you're interested in the technique you can read more on it at: murska.digital/blog.html #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Sooo, after a rough couple of weeks (including hospital visit 😞) I decided to redo my weapon system from the ground up now I know how I’m implementing it Only saving grace is it’s going a lot quicker this time round & is a lot more streamlined without extra calls, events, etc 😅 #indiedev #gamedev

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Bob The Builder: Can We Fix It?

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Matt | DEMO OUT NOW! @pmrd.net · 20/06/2026

Unreal Devs! Do not sleep on this, specially if you're making a demo, first impressions are VERY important and this will get rid of pretty much all the stutter issues. #gamedev #indiegame #unrealengine #ue5

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Unreal Engine 5: Setup Precompiling Shaders (Bundled PSO's)

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J. Isaac Gadient (they/them) @jisaacgadient.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Love, Your friendly neighborhood disabled gamedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Welp… The first idea of using a traversal style chooser table & schema to select the correct interaction montage & start time hasn’t worked like I hoped 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #UE5

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The Struggle Castle: Geometry Dash Style Game

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Gonna fix the “grab” next week 😅 Need to create a way to move him to the an interact location first tho 🤔 So that’s the plan for next week, make a way for him to get from A to B to then interact with whatever it is 😅 (Likely use a similar system to traversal 🤷‍♂️) #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Not posted much of the game lately so figured I’d share an update 😬 It now has gun receiver modes, supports multi-projectile shotguns, weapon slots & new weapon wheel I decided to add last Friday 😅 Oh & I moved the weapons to DataAssets which was a hassle 🤣 #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #ue5

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Ugh decided to redo do my weapon slots from… Y Tap: Switch Primary/Secondary Y Hold: Select Side Arm To using a weapon selection wheel & changing the actions too Y Tap: Switch between Current & Previous Y Hold: Always select Side Arm making Current previous #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

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Madagascar Penguins: Now This Is More Like It

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Sat hear enjoying a Friday adult beverage (or 3 🫡) & found myself mind debugging & thinking of ways to clean up the node soup I made today 😂 Things were so much simpler when it was just C# code 🤷‍♂️ How’s everyone else’s Friday? #gamedev #solodev #ue5

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Just dawned on me, I’m going to have to make up some gun names & be careful about models just to avoid any possible trademark/copyright infringement 🤔 #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

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Eric Cartman & Butters: I Don't Wanna Get In Trouble

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Not posted much game dev lately due to a mix of little actual dev time & making the transition from pistol AO to functional weapons types & slots 😬 AssaultRifle (Automatic fire) ✅ Shotgun (Multi-projectile) ✅ SMG (Burst Fire) Primary, Secondary & Pistol Slot ✅ More to do tho 😅 #indiedev #gamedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Sometimes I see posts and I’m like “no way that isn’t rage bait” all the while that lil bit of me still has an opinion & it’s a fight not to speak

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Dredgen Dale @xn--eck9c3e.zone · 22/05/2026

Fucking prophetic line

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Saw this and thought it was one of @pated.dev ‘s creations at first 😂

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

After my issues with the Boolean AND operator in #UE5 I’ve come to the conclusion that they need to update the hint to state that all inputs are evaluated before a return 🤷‍♂️ #gamedev #solodev #madewithunreal

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Ugh just learnt (the hard way) that the #UE5 Boolean AND operator node isn’t left hand short circuit 👀 At least the error makes sense now ( trying to check something on the thing I made sure exists in the previous condition) Now to go check other places I’ve assumed it did 🤦‍♂️ #gamedev #solodev

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Alex Moffat: No, It Doesn't Work That Way

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Nyek London @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If you don't spend 5 hours of coding to save 2 minutes of work, are you even a tools programmer

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Been seeing a bird of prey flying overhead when in the back garden for the past couple of summers, even saw it try and get a pigeon on a neighbour’s roof a summer ago! Saw it an hour ago & finally managed to identify it as a Red Kite 😄 (Not my pic, it was the white on the wings that gave it away)

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Used my printer for the 1st time in years today, amazingly a bit of isopropyl on the cartridge head and it was good to go 😁 Now to start plotting out locations & road networks 😅 #indiedev #solodev #indiegamedev

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MyPet Health by Vetcation @vetcation.com · 21/04/2026

When someone explains something to you for the seventh time and you still don't understand.

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

That’s less that I’d have expected! 😱

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Tried doing a bit of gardening today, needless to say I’m now laid up on the sofa 😞 On the bright side a hedge/tree the neighbour asked me to trim has been dealt with 😅 Will be popping round to get him to deal with the brambles when I’m back on my feet 🤣🤷‍♂️

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Managed to get a few bits done this week 😅 Added weapon dependant shot spread & a dynamic crosshair to show it Added the ability to shoot while running & not aiming with a much wider spread And finally I added shot spread growth on rapid fire + other fixes & tweaks #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Always fun adding features that break other stuff 😬 Turns out the new aim offset system broke the traversal system where the control rig would contort dude while traversing 🤣🤷‍♂️ Thankfully and easy fix! 😅 #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Dark Spaghetti Cat @spaghetticatdark.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🥲 I can watch soulslike gameplay forever #indiegame #gameplay #gamedev #soulslike

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Finally got a working aim offset without the horrible spring bounce that comes with BlendSpace AO, Steering & RootOffset when turning inplace Spent a week fighting it before just buying FocalRig 😱 Now just need to make the overlays for the other weapons 😅 #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

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Josh Wardle @josh.powerlanguage.co.uk · 10/03/2026

I've released a new word game called Parseword, that tries to make cryptic crosswords more accessible. You can play it here: www.parseword.com

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Parseword - A tricky wordplay game

Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Step 1 of the weapon overlay ✅ (Watching this reminded me of how much I struggled with the turn in place 😅) #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

After lots of faff here's the final traversal system, I need a few more animations but it's good enough for now 😅 #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Damn Japanese is hard! Having to learn more than one way to write same word in characters you have no concept of is no easy feat 😱 Just got this one for the last part of Kyoto 🤯

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Ty Taylor @imakeindiegames.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

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Alan Watton @alanwatton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Only took 1.5 weeks but finally got my new traversal system working! No longer does it occasionally clip through the objects 😊 Now to make some animations for better coverage 😅

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