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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 29/09/2026

Also, because I *love* graphviz dot, I made a cutscene .dot exporter (that little dot button in the gui) to visualize what's going on. This is the script for the cutscene #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 29/09/2026

More silly cutscenes! For this one, we have: async/parallel actions (actors walking "simultaneously"), multiple dependencies (surprise jumps depend on both "goto target" commands finishing) and creating a condition in the editor (if step on two plates, reveal door) #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 26/09/2026

New cutscene test: "Hot Pagan Activities". Refining the cutscene system a bit more, with some more interplay of instant and asynchronous actions. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 20/09/2026

Added support for multitile decals, for occasionally more exciting decorative art... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 19/09/2026

More cutscenes: now eating my own dog food and making these maps and cutscenes from the game gui. Here cutscene spawns guardians, player surprised, guardians threaten, cutscene ends, battle starts. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 15/09/2026

Ok, the tooling around cutscenes is progressing, so I can now create a few simple "demo" cutscenes of increasing complexity. The most trivial one: 2 instantaneous actions: say sth and play a look-around animation #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 12/09/2026

Reflective Dear ImGui inspector in #Godot! Because with nearly 2000 classes and many of them supporting GUI inspection, I'd rather abandon ship than writing per-class GUI code Inspector has been refactored to key/value pairs in tables, for readability #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 30/08/2026

Some developer GUI update... It's basically a custom inspector for all my C# classes. Before (left) and after (right). It's certainly less "WTF is going on here" (imo). Restructured the whole thing to tables, so I can have property names on the left, plus alignment. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 29/08/2026

Weapon preset support! Light on GUI at the moment, but you can have up to 10 main/off hand presets, including the ever-useful torch, so that you can quickly swap between situations. But beware of nearby danger as swapping costs a turn! #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 15/08/2026

Premade rooms/areas can now contain stairs that can connect sensibly to other stairs during the procedural generation process. Basically, you can now have procedural definitions of "the creepy cellar under the lodge in the forest" #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 01/07/2026

A bit more work in my simple level editor. New bits include support for some entity properties. It's all aimed for a pre-made tutorial level. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 27/06/2026

Cutscene support is now in place. There is support for AI actions, camera movement, a few animations and a few effects. More to do on several fronts, and more examples will eventually follow! #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 05/06/2026

Hey #PitchYaGame! In Sigil of Kings: 🌍 Explore or forge huge procedural worlds in vibrant 16-bit pixel art ⚔️ Conquer dungeons with might, magic & cunning 👑 Complete quests, ascend guild ranks, shape city fates 💀 Make your mark in a living, breathing world. Or perish! 👉 Wishlist on Steam, link in bio

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 23/05/2026

The rabid auto-explorer strikes back. Blink and you'll miss several turns of frenzied bump-attacks, exploration and looting anything not rooted to the ground. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 21/05/2026

Honored to host #TurnBasedThursday! 🛠 #GameDev folks, show your #turnbased games below, and use the hashtag above 🎮 #Gamer folks have a look, as there are a lot of TBS gems in here, out or in the making Spam our favorite buttons 🔁/❤️ to show your support, and comments are very much appreciated!

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 16/05/2026

Yeti wants to go to lodge for some chill time. Part 1: High-priority - don't care about the player. Part 2: Low-priority - kill enemies first! #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 10/05/2026

Every few hours, predator AI (our yeti here) will get hungry and pick some walking meal to hunt. After that, the predator will resume its idle routine until the hunger clock strikes again #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 04/05/2026

When a creature that patrols an area gets distracted and starts chasing enemies, after it's done, it will navigate back to it's patrol area and resume patrolling #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 03/05/2026

Too many! But Moonstone left a huge impression. Thankfully back then fantasy decapitations etc were quite accessible to 9-year olds and nobody bat an eye 😁

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 03/05/2026

More AI work: Yeti patrolling an area (defined by two procgen'd endpoints - it's a #procgen map after all). With a little "animation" at the target points, to visually communicate that. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 02/05/2026

"Huh? Where did that cowled coward go? Let me turn on some lights ..." *splatter* #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 21/04/2026

Quite excited - traveling tomorrow to Amsterdam for #GodotCon! Hopefully see some of you folks there :)

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 09/04/2026

Water ambience in levels! Sound ON 🔊 in stereo too. The tricky bit here is that water is procedurally placed, so sound sources need to be dynamically calculated at every move, in terms of position (=> panning) and intensity. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 09/04/2026

Happy #turnbasedthursday and thanks for hosting @andreadprojects.bsky.social! In Sigil of Kings, currently working on water ambience in levels 🔊 Here's a level example without distracting beasties

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 01/04/2026

Arrows are fragile. When shooting them, sometimes they get destroyed on impact! Just added the (procedural) destruction visual effect so it's clearer to see what happened! #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 29/03/2026

Typo spotted in Gemini's AI result! OMG haven't seen one of those in ages...

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 18/03/2026

Getting there! In the meantime, busy fixing things based on a first round of feedback #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 17/03/2026

Ah, Fire and Ice! Got it as I thought I'd be playing Frazetta's super-cool axe wielder, but instead I got dorky coyote

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 17/03/2026

Whoever tries to convince you that the "DLSS 5 Off" look is remotely normal and not intentionally shitty, remember that this ran at interactive frame rates ... 19 years ago (GPU Gems 3)

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 08/03/2026

Logo preference: right, left, or different opinion altogether? #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 06/03/2026

Hey #TeaseYaGame, here's Sigil of Kings: 🌍 Explore a huge procedural world in vibrant 16-bit pixel art ⚔️ Conquer deadly dungeons with might, magic & cunning 👑 Complete quests, ascend guild ranks, shape city fates 💀 Make your mark in a living, breathing world. Or perish! 👉 Playtest soon on Steam!

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 28/02/2026

A city by a lake near the mountains. I now have taller and not-as-tall mountains to differentiate between two elevation levels, and they're all 100% procedural. Lakes also have a greener colour to differentiate from the sea. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 14/02/2026

Some more examples of image-powered maps! With and without color-to-biome mapping. #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 10/02/2026

A procedural map that uses a real map for a game map that can also be used as a map outside of the game. Confused yet? #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 10/02/2026

Feature Creep Studios present ... "iconomorphic maps" (Rolls off the tongue don't you think? xD) More to come! #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 09/02/2026

World Forge new features: biome normalization and gradient brush! (And with that, there's just one more major feature to finish for this "side quest") #indiedev #gamedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 09/02/2026

Look Ma, I'm a Professional! (great idea, esp. if you're into maps and large data vis)

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 07/02/2026

Some more World Forge improvements: sounds and animations for rising mountains and appearing vegetation, plus a gradient brush for "delta terraforming" #indiedev #gamedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 04/02/2026

Are you thirsty? Because HERE'S SOME JUICE!!! Only in the WorldForge mode, just to make editing a bit more playful and nicer to look at. Next is sound effects for that, and then onto another WorldForge feature before wrapping things up w/ polish and sharing outside. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 01/02/2026

Natural grayscale filter, side by side comparison

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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 31/01/2026

Savannah trees from yours truly, lovingly crafted pixel by pixel - not the prettiest, but imo more fitting for Savannah compared to the previous chonky brown trees #indiedev #gamedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday #pixelart

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