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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 13/11/2025

I keep hearing the advice to not make your dream project as a first game... but how do you stay motivated when you're not working on what you're truly passionate about? #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 01/11/2025

Working great on switch here! Did you guys throw in the Kyrandia reference with the rest of the jesters or have I just not played in too long? 😅

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 22/10/2025

Right? I went to some youth christian pizza thing a friend invited me to when I was a kid. But I went with intent for pizza so I remember... pizza. Apparently it was some big christian speaker of the time? I dunno, hah. My mom, appreciating free food: "Don't get converted!"

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 12/08/2025

Torn on some use of #AI for #gamedev... I don't like AI. But I haven't made progress on anything in several weeks because my own malfunctioning brain is getting in my way. Using AI let me start a functionality script and iterate on it until it did what I needed. But I still don't like AI. 🫤

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 30/07/2025

True! Just, my issue was I was getting stuck on the details and never making real progress. The details can come later. I need to prove I can make this function first!

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Levi V. B. @levivbaudio.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The resonance cascade, but with homemade sounds. This redesign was tricky - and it's funny how the rubber ball sound didn't need much modification. What do you think about the result? The gameplay footage is from Black Mesa. #sounddesign #halflife #blackmesa #gameaudio #gamedev #foley #indiedev

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 29/07/2025

Well, alright. My mind is completely blown. Bravo!

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 29/07/2025

This is actually great advice. I was trying to work on making some parts nice, but now I'm just going bash together some prototype parts and cubes and whatnot, with prototype textures and make the base functionality work. I hope, anyway. XD

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Chromatic Dream @chromaticdream.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later (maybe) #indiegames #TasteOfHeaven

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 28/07/2025

I've seen "Please note, that it is partially made with an AI." on most of the individual packs I looked at. In what way is AI used for this, and which one? There's still a lot of copyright concern surrounding AI graphics.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 31/05/2025

Nah. T-shirts make surprisingly great rags.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 30/05/2025

The shirt might be redeemable in some form or other... The human inside it, not so much.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 30/05/2025

Nice. (Oh, and the information, too, of course.)

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 01/04/2025

Your privacy policy used to state this: Your email address will be added to our mailing list and we will send you promotional announcements on courses and other products by Zenva and our approved partners. Emphasis on "and our approved partners." Which can mean basically anything.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 01/04/2025

This was quite some time ago when I got a bundle from Humble Bundle. Looks like the website has changed fairly considerably since then. Also looks like the cross-site resource loading you use is very much not friendly with Firefox and/or some extensions.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 01/04/2025

I just found out that yesterday was the International Transgender Day of Visibility... I had no idea! So to all the #trans #gamedev (and non-gamedevs too!) folks out there... KEEP BEING AWESOME!

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 23/03/2025

It seems to me that in the professional world, Godot is still seen as something of The Little Game Engine That Could. Which is a little disappointing. It's been pretty great.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 23/03/2025

My #gamedev motivation has been more or less dead, so I've been tinkering with something fangame-y for now. May or may not ever see light of day. Got some stuff together, but I dunno what engine to pick. Godot is what I want to work with for myself. Unity/Unreal could give me experience. Thoughts?

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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

💥 New Zealand knows what’s up!!

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 05/02/2025

Participating in the Bigmode game jam has me rethinking how I'm doing my project. I learned so much. Definitely pretty burned out though. And yes, it's broken. I'll make a new upload for a fixed version in the future. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev catballgames.itch.io/charge-cube-...

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Charge Cube - Bigmode Jam 2025 Entry by CatballGames

Control a tiny cube set with the tast of restoring power!

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 28/01/2025

Oh nooo. I do/don't miss coding for RPG Maker. The simplicity of javascript is wonderful, but also quite limiting.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 28/01/2025

This is why I gave people I know a 2 week warning to find me elsewhere, and yesterday, downloaded my data, and started the account deletion. Gotta keep the main Meta account for the Oculus though. Not in a financial position to replace a pricey gift such as that.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 28/01/2025

Good old shallow copy - array 2 is just a reference to array 1. You unfortunately gotta iterate array 1 and copy the elements to array 2. But depending on what you use, maybe there's a built-in and/or better thing to use. :D

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 27/01/2025

There. Have done the #DeleteFacebook. Their new rules allow for calling me property, and calling friends and family I have mentally ill. It's bullshit. Fuck Facebook.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 15/01/2025

Well, upside being, side project or just tinkering with things, I'm likely to learn something new. Learning is always good.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 15/01/2025

My #gamedev focus is lost for the time being... Think I'll need to find a side project to poke for a while so I can come at my main one with fresh eyes again. Yay for #adhd I guess.

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KatOtis! @kat-otis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Here I am...

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 07/01/2025

I had to replace an ailing motherboard not too long ago. Got a new mb & CPU, kept everything else. Didn't want to pay for Windows again. Now using Garuda Linux. Have had a game not run, and 2 apps not run. Adding the apps to Steam allowed them to work with no issue. My workflow is largely unchanged.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 30/12/2024

I left my game to run for a half hour or so and then went and picked up all my xp bubbles... I think I did an oops and didn't dispose of them correctly. So many orphan nodes... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 29/12/2024

Had a nice and much-needed rest over Christmas, then spent the last couple of days making some awesome progress! There's now two styles of enemies: ones that track you and ones that streak across the screen. Also, ground clutter that is chosen on map generation. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #solodev

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 16/12/2024

Mine is a survivors-like, too, at least in part (and the first part I'm working on), and I'm having so much fun with it! Hopefully you are too! 😀

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 14/12/2024

True! Part of my progress was how not to do something, so I guess that's something, too. Sometimes life does get in the way, though. I think we all just try to keep pushing onward when it happens.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 14/12/2024

Hi #ScreenshotSaturday ! It's been a very slow week for personal reasons, so here's a scene of a shiny new tripping hazard. Watch your step! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 08/12/2024

Well, PC hardware upgrade is done. Not much of an upgrade, as the primary goal was to replace the ailing motherboard. However, computer does seem to be a bit snappier, so that's nice.

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Abyssal Mice @abyssalmice.com · 08/12/2024

Post about the music you like listening to while working on your project. We find Hollow Knight's soundtrack to be really fitting! #gamedev 🎮 #indiedev 🕹️ #indiegamedev 👾

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 08/12/2024

I usually listen to Axiom Verge 1 & 2, Dredge, and Breath of the Wild. Other stuff too, but those the most.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 08/12/2024

Godot for meeeee. I WAS using Game Maker but was coming up against some limitations, especially with terrain generation.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 08/12/2024

Well, not too much done this week, but those happen. Had other stuff going on. But, as it is indeed #ScreenshotSaturday I will show off my fixed landscape. No quick video this time, but my landscape doesn't look caught in a hurricane AND my generation is improved. Cool stuff! 😀

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 05/12/2024

It can be, absolutely! It's not better and better over the years. I just wish when coming up against something that I need to look, I didn't see so many responses by people that need to get their noses out of the clouds, hop off their high horses, and talk like a human.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 05/12/2024

I think github copilot has a sense of humour today. It suggested this - utterly unhelpful, but it's okay. I feel that, too. Oh, well. No more autocomplete silliness in a few days. Can't really justify the cost after the trial. var key = "0_0" #gamedev

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 05/12/2024

True but I'm pretty sure I blocked out my memories of C from college. 🤣

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 05/12/2024

I'm legitimately floored at how much of my #gamedev stuff just plain works under #linux. To say nothing of the games I play actually working. I'm really glad I made the jump. I was pretty worried about the landing, tbh.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 05/12/2024

It's not the first time I did that, either. I did the exact same thing in game maker. That's what makes it extra hilarious, to me at least.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 05/12/2024

Yeah, for some silly reason I just assumed additional tiles would follow the seed but I don't actually have anything setting them that way... Oh well. Tomorrow me can swear at now me for it. XD

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 05/12/2024

Uhhhhh oops. The ground is NOT supposed to do that. I should have known this would happen but it hasn't been a full-brain-cells kind of day. XD #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 04/12/2024

Well, with respect, Twootle there ain't exactly bringing its best. Do remember, many of us striving to make games, or actually in the biz already started by playing games, and likely still do.

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taarna23 - Catball Games @catballgames.com · 04/12/2024

Unfortunately there's always starry-eyed new grads for them to churn so probably just shy of never. :(

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