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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And now I've got a little rudimentary victory screen built out! Things are really starting to come together 😌 Even came up with a nice little spin on the sphere grid system for FFX for my leveling system, but I guess that's not shown here lol #godot #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #crpg #trpg #rpg

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

No wonder I’m making the game I’m making 😂 lotsa RPGs on this list #my9games my9games.net/en

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I swear godot UI is a bit like black magic Anyway, I got a little turn order display mocked up! Even got some nice little animations up and running #godot #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I found JK Rowlings most hated function in godot Anyway, #transrights are human rights

A line of code in gdscript that reads:

tween dot set trans open parentheses tween dot trans elastic close parentheses

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

And now we've got proper turn based combat ready to go! Everything's sorta mocked up of course, so I've still got a ways to go, but it is what it is lol (please ignore that the enemies aren't doing anything yet lol) #godot #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #crpg #turnbased

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What's hilarious is, I was born and raised in OKC, took quite a few trips to Texas, and NM is where my mom always wanted to move to lol

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Math is hard. Menus are harder. Got an actual menu built out and scrollable (sorta). Now to just make those commands actually do something lol Bonus points if you get the spell names references 👀 #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #godot #crpg #buildinpublic

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And the best part of the "command menu" is it's just a custom container you can wrap around any control 😌 It is both side and viewport edge aware, based on a custom bounding box component as the target. Also space aware based on the container itself! #godot #indiedev #gamedev #buildinpublic #crpg

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

First up, a menu! I love how #seaofstars and #chronotrigger do their command menus, so I'm going to try and recreate it. I love #godot, but man is it difficult to get controls placed relative to the viewport 😅 #indiedev #gamedev #buildinpublic #crpg

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I may be slow with prototyping, but the "gray box" prototype is slowly taking shape 😂 Quest system? Check Inventory? Check Save System? Check Scene switching? Check Up next, combat #gamedev #indiedev #godot #rpg #crpg

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Alright I guess lol Been learning a lot about interactions, scene transitions, bridges and bits of UI

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Finally got a pic of all of mine When did I become a collector of handheld gaming devices? 😅

Various handheld game consoles on a table

Left column, top to bottom: psp go, ps vita, Nintendo switch, Nintendo switch 2

Middle column, top to bottom: Analogue pocket, Gameboy advance sp with a custom shell, Nintendo ds lite

Right colum, top to bottom: new 3ds xl, Gameboy advance with a custom shell, Nintendo 2ds xl

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m in Amsterdam for the week and to start it off we went to the #NEMO Science museum They have a super cool game history exhibit and this really cool “build your own platformer” exhibit where you literally build your own platformer with a peg board! #gamedev

A touch screen showing a platformer video game. The game is based on the pieces attached to a peg board shown behind the screen. The peg board has various pieces which make up the game.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

And a fully implemented notification system in game 😌 #godot #indiedev #gamedev #rpg

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

And the inspiration, from Final Fantasy XVI

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I had the desire to make a little scrolling notification box for #godot for the RPG I'm making. I think it turned out pretty nice 😁 And the experiment code for it here: gist.github.com/CarsonMcKins... Very rough, obviously, and missing pieces, but it works!

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is basically how I was going to do this for my own tactical RPG I was thinking up! The colorful tiles with dots are the terrain map. Those values are read into an AStarGrid2D instance at runtime, and all pathfinding is done based off that.

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Did something similar a few months ago to a GBA and couldn’t be happier with it!

A modified Gameboy advance with new buttons, a new IPS screen, and clear housing

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Carson McKinstry @carsonmckinstry.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

So I’ve been working on a TRPG the last few months. Needs a lot more work, but it definitely starting feels like a real game now Shoutout to otterisk.itch.io for the amazing base unit sprites I’m using here! #godot #trpg #indiedev #solodev

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