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Robert Panichpakdee 🦧 @rpanich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s running so well now, and I have so much more wiggle room if I want to add any more unplanned energy intensive things later. It thinks there are errors in the tilesets, but I solved those in a round about way early on. #gamedev #pixelart #solodev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #TheUniverseOfDeath

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ichbinhamma | indie game dev @ichbinhamma.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’ve always loved tinkering with builds, but most games give you a single class with a single tree. So I’m making a game where your party of 8 loots and levels, while you obsess over the perfect build. Currently I have 16 classes and over 140 unique skills. #gamedev #indiegames

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New dev preview of my open-grid tower defence game: Dark Wisps Defence! youtu.be/w-w71CizF3s Previous version to see progress: youtu.be/9lJq3Hm-R4I #gamedev #bevyengine #rustlang #towerdefence

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Dark Wisps Defence - Early Development Demo - v0.2

YouTube video by Daniel Misior

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New walls! And all drawn via shader, no tilesets involved! #gamedev #bevy #rustlang #towerdefence

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Carter Anderson @cart.work · 10/08/2026

Today is Bevy's sixth birthday! As always, I've used this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the next year of #bevy: bevy.org/news/bevys-s...

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Bevy's Sixth Birthday

Hey! @cart here (Bevy's creator and Project Lead). It is crazy to say it, but Bevy is six years old now! As is tradition, I will take this as a chance…

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Research panel for my open-grid tower defence game. Runes may fit better in the Forge building but they will do for now :) #gamedev #bevy #rustlang

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Is this a clear representation? Energy relays can be in-network(yellow) or disconnected(orange). There is a third option - disabled by player. Red outline shows range of disabled one - player can tell it would connect the 2 areas. It's a bit cluttered but player sees it only when needed. #gamedev

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Bevy @bevy.org · 19/06/2026

Bevy 0.19 is out now! It features Next Generation Scenes, Render Bigger Scenes Faster, Contact Shadows, More Feathers Widgets, Text Input, Richer Text, App Settings, Post Processing Effects, Improved Skinned Mesh Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-19

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Bevy 0.19

Thanks to 261 contributors, 1185 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.19 release on crates.…

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Revamped wisps(enemies) look for my open grid tower defence game! Especially fire wisps look nice when they stop/resume on game pause/unpause #bevy #rustlang #gamedev

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A bit of fun making a force field shader for my tower defence game. Fields react to each other, fighting for space and forming Voronoi diagrams in the process. #bevy #rustlang #shaders

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I waited 2 years, checking every few months for AI to get me working custom render pipeline for a ripple effect. They always failed until today Claude Opus 4.6 did it! And it's beautiful : d #Bevy #shaders #ai #claude #rustlang

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

<Gemini Fast furiously explaining stuff> Me: <Switches model> Do you agree with the fast model? Gemini 3.1 pro: I cannot agree with the fast model <incoming essay on why the fast model is a lower life form> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #ai #gemini

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Arre Mind Reader - A new Speed Reading App is here! Check out the web version here: arrekin.com/arre-mind-re... #bevy #rust #reading #speedreading

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Any one intrested in speed-reading apps? The kind that shows you one word at the time! I couldn't find anything nice and free, so I'm building my own. With persisted tabs and other stuff. Web & Desktop versions built on top of a game engine to ensure max smoothness Release soon! #bevy #reading

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Bevy @bevy.org · 13/01/2026

Bevy 0.18 is out now! It features Atmosphere Occlusion and PBR Shading, Generalized Atmospheric Scattering Media, Solari features, PBR Fixes, Font Variations, Automatic Directional Navigation, Fullscreen Materials, Cargo Feature Collections, Camera Controllers, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-...

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Bevy 0.18

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Yes, of course I love cameras everywhere in my 2D open-grid tower defence game. How could you tell? youtu.be/uHZ-H9aCBwk

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Dark Wisps Defence - Expedition Drones

YouTube video by Daniel Misior

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Visual updates for my open-grid tower defence game: 16px -> 32px for grid cells - the screenshot shows maximal zoom in both versions. Walls are no longer grey squares! Now they have a texture : d Side-menu got new icons. Yellow outline when the game is paused. #bevy #gamedev #towerdefence

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Bevy @bevy.org · 30/09/2025

Bevy 0.17 is out now! It features Raytracing, Improved Observers / Events, UI Widgets, Rust Hotpatching, Light Textures, DLSS, Tilemap Chunks, Web Assets, Reflect Auto-Registration, UI Gradients, Raymarched Atmosphere, Virtual Geometry BVH Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-17

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Bevy 0.17

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

No Power, No Ore & Disabled by Player indicators are now clearly displayed over the turrets :) The game is source-available -> arrekin.com #bevy #gamedev #towerdefence #rustlang #darkwispsdefence

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Carter Anderson @cart.work · 11/08/2025

Today is Bevy's fifth birthday! As always, I've used this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the next year of #bevy: bevy.org/news/bevys-f...

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Bevy's Fifth Birthday

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A few additions to the repo: - New visual helper to show which supplier can provide energy to the tower - Shader using ShaderStorageBuffer to draw the supply - Examples of Derive macros The game is source-available -> arrekin.com #bevy #gamedev #towerdefence #rustlang

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I have just finished the upgrade feature for my open-grid TD game, leveraging Bevy's ECS framework. Now you can turn your rocket launcher into a machine rocket launcher! : d The game is source-available -> arrekin.com #bevy #gamedev #towerdefence #rustlang

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Bevy @bevy.org · 24/04/2025

Bevy 0.16 is out now! It features GPU-Driven Rendering, Procedural Atmospheric Scattering, Decals, Occlusion Culling, Relationships, Better Spawning, Unified Error Handling, `no_std`, Faster Transform Propagation, and more! bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-...

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Bevy 0.16

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I just made the repo for my open grid tower defence game public! Perhaps you will find something useful in there :) It features advanced pathfinding and a bit of shader work. 7k lines of code. Check it out here: github.com/Arrekin/dark... #GameDev #Bevy

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GitHub - Arrekin/dark-wisps-defence

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I'm trying to make online chess in Bevy. Server and Client; with ezsockets(websockets). It is not the easiest setup but I have it working now. WebSockets pass the requests to ECS which in turn processes them and returns responses. The whole fun is in the data flow modelling : d #Bevy

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

In my company(not gamedev-related) I did a small workshop before Christmas about Bevy Engine. The result is a simple game where you help Santa collect presents while trying to avoid snowflakes(Santa somehow lost his clothes). Check it out if you are interested in Bevy! :) github.com/Arrekin/bevy...

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Zerra's Adventure @zerraadventure.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Somebody kill that fish!! 🐟🌊🪣🧨💫🤩 #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #jrpg

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Bevy @bevy.org · 13/12/2024

Bevy is finally registered as a game engine on itch.io! You can now label your game as "made with bevy" by adding it to its metadata. itch.io/game-develop...

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

My TD game grew to the nice 7k lines of code, though it is still far from a playable version

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Killing wisps now earns you their element's essence!

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The Advent of Code 2024 has started and I'm glad to see they backtracked on last year's attempt to make the first challenges confusing to fight off AI. Last year it made me drop out early as it felt like a waste of time to focus on decyphering what the authors meant instead of having fun coding

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Minimal migration to Bevy 0.15 done ✔️ I especially like the new Node setup as it massively reduces the nesting. I still need to look into Required Components but the game is now working on the latest version 🎉 #BevyEngine

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Bevy @bevy.org · 29/11/2024

Bevy 0.15 is out now! It features Required Components, Entity Picking, Generalized Entity Animation, Animation Masks, Curves, Function reflection, Bevy Remote Protocol, VBAO, OIT, Chromatic Aberration, Fog volumes, Better Text, Gamepads as Entities, and more! bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-15

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Bevy 0.15

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

More wisps types for my grid-based tower defence game! Fire, Water, Light, Electric. I want them to be able to combine into higher forms but I am not sure what the mechanic will be or what the player could do about it.

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My most advanced game in terms of development is an open grid Tower Defence game 'Dark Wisp Defence' where you share the grid with enemies. In the demo, you can see the towers, energy supply range, and power emissions(mobs follow the gradient). #GameDev #Bevy #Rust #TowerDefence youtu.be/9lJq3Hm-R4I

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Dark Wisp Defence - Early Development Demo 1

YouTube video by Daniel Misior

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

If you are EU citizen don't forget to sign 'Stop Destroying Games' initiative! citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/...

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Prototype of a structure's menu

prototype ui, bevy, farm to windmill upgrade

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

The first part of the fifth chapter of my epic fantasy novel is out on RoyalRoad! Check it out, it's perfect to kill a bit of time or get a little break from your work and escape to a different world for a while :) www.royalroad.com/fiction/5586...

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

Abundance of resources :) I wish gifs worked on this site so we could show short snippets from our prototypes. #GameDev #Indie

fantasy game maps with buildings and resources

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Wow, this paper if true could reduce LLM weights to simple {-1, 0, 1}, reducing the model sizes and increasing computations speed by entirely getting rid of multiplications from the equation: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.114...

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Mike Berg, We 🧡 Games @weheart.games · 26/02/2024

Game asset pack that's free for a VERY limited time. Not sure what's all in here and it's targeted at video game developers, but could be some good stuff for board game prototypes. 🎲✂️

kenney.itch.io

Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 by Kenney

Includes 40,000+ game assets including 2D sprites, 3D models and more!

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

A classic. Instead of focusing on implementing the actual game, I spent time doing the tooling. Here, a little console allowing me to quickly modify the game state. Once the tooling is ready I will be ready to abandon yet another project : d #GameDev

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

I finished my mini editor for graph nodes. It won't be accessible to players but it allows me to define the map layout and available routes. UI made with Egui lib.

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Bevy 0.13 is out! bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-...

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

AI tools are such a boon for prototyping, especially for people like me who hate working with rectangle placeholders. Even with my meagre graphics skills, I stitched a map for my game project from various generated pieces. It turned out better than I imagined it.

fantasy map stitched from various art styles, game asset

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Any fantasy maps enjoyers out there? Here is one I commissioned from an illustrator; it turned out pretty nice. 4K version on my website.

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Arrekin @arrekin.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Do you like fantasy worlds and need something to read? Lucky coincidence :) My high fantasy novel with a sprinkle of sci-fi is free to read(though still in progress). Read online on RoyalRoad or download .epub files to a device of your choice. arrekin.com?source=bsky-...

silhouette of a girl standing on a sphere of bodies and holding a futuristic gun

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