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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 07/10/2025

Building a home for villagers in our game exploring and understanding an alien world. Also some more polish on the day/night cycle. #indiedev #gamedev #ue5

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 03/10/2025

The day/night cycle works! When the sun goes away, the mycelia comes out to play #gamedev #indiedev #ue5

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 02/10/2025

Experimenting with day/night cycles. That's no moon (there is supposed to be a moon, where is the moon) #indiedev #gamedev #ue5

Image showing the UI glowing in the darkness

Image showing mushrooms glowing in the darkness

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 28/08/2025

What a fascinating take from <checks notes> Hollywood

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 30/07/2025

When you try applying an effect designed for post-processing on a transparent object just to see if it works (not as intended, no) #ue5 #unreal #unrealengine #gamedev #indiedev #shaders

Transparent blocks which show the highlighted outlines of the objects behind them

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 29/07/2025

What kind of alien vegetation wouldn't retract when you ran through a patch of it? #unreal #unrealengine #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 21/07/2025

Exploring #Unreal 's #PCG system has lead to some interesting results. Case 1: mushroom tunnels are cool. Case 2: a whole bunch of mushrooms placed perfectly evenly in a pattern looks a lot like scales. #gamedev #indiedev

Evenly spaced mushroom caps look a lot like scales of a lizard or scale armor.

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 22/05/2025

The previous upload didn't animate, here's a retry, introducing our new character in our game via extreme close up #indiedev #gamedev

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 22/05/2025

Who is this who is this? We're delighted to share the first view of a major character in our quirky game about cozy villagers figuring out how to survive in an alien world. We can't wait to share more! #gamedev #indiedev

Close up of the mask of a character in a new game we are building

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 11/02/2025

Swapped shaders and math for modeling and Blender for the past few days as we begin work on the starter village. One landmark building down, a village's worth of houses to go. Anyone recognize the real world building that inspired this one? #godot #indiedev #gamedev

Screenshot of a tudor-style inn under the force shield covering the village and wilds beyond the village.

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 24/01/2025

"Tell me you're enjoying your new game project, without telling me you're enjoying it". #indiegames #indiegame #gamedev #godot #shaders

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 24/01/2025

Making force shields under which entire villages are trapped that the player will need to uncover how to shut down to proceed further into a mysterious world. #shaders #godot #gamedev #runonsentences

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 13/01/2025

"The best time to learn how to plant a tree in Godot was 10 years ago. The second best time to learn how to plant a tree in Godot is today." #gamedev #godot #prototyping

Screenshot of a tree, some grass, a textured ground, and a partly cloudy sky in the Godot engine.

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 20/12/2024

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

Mark Hamill as Colonel Blair, Wing Commander 3 and 4

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 19/12/2024

In #VR #gamedev, one of our goals is to design what you interact with to feel as real as possible. This selector allows you to pick the prey you want your hunters to pursue. Now only the elk is available but we'll update it for the others as the models are done. It's fun to see this coming together.

A selector that can be rotated to each target selection for a VR game.

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 29/11/2024

If you see this, post a knight.

Bastila Shan from Knights of the Old Republic

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 20/11/2024

Many years ago I wrote a script to run a dictionary against the .us registrar to see what interesting domain names were still available. This one was always special to me and always makes me think of

Shot of Merlin from the 1981 movie Excalibur

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 20/11/2024

Gizmos are helping but boy are rotations difficult when I haven't done trig in 30 years. Figuring out how to program turning a crank in XR using OpenXR interfaces. #gamedev #trig #xr

Game screenshot showing using Unity gizmos to handle rotation of the handle of a box.

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 20/11/2024

Post a ship that's neither Star Wars nor Star Trek

Screenshot of the cockpit view of Wing Commander, copyright Origin Systems

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 14/11/2024

Well that's new. I wonder if posting something will clear things up?

Bluesky error message showing "The server gave an invalid response and may be out of date" when trying to show my post feed.

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 23/10/2024

When I first got a VR headset, I was surprised to find what I found most engaging wasn't the immersive view, though that was cool, it was the tactile experience of interacting with virtual objects and how easy it was to fool my brain into thinking they were real... 1/2

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 22/10/2024

In fact it shows up as a feed?

Screenshot showing a user-made list showing up as a feed in Bluesky

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Justin @ archmag.us @archmag.us · 21/10/2024

I'm pretty sure these starter packs are going to be the killer feature for Bsky. One side effect I've noticed from my feed: i.imgflip.com/97g10o.jpg <3 yall

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