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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 06/05/2026

Here you go. As promised, A photo of the Jules Verne and Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveau poster inspired artwork framed! Love it and so pleasing to see the labour of love in the real!

A Jules Verne and Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveau poster inspired artwork that has been framed in an antique gold nautical rope effect frame.

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 06/05/2026

Well. This is a first for me. Using the "Rebelle 8 Pro" art software, it's oil painting (simulation) mode and some patience, I've painted this. Can you see who it is? Anyone that knows me, knows I'm a sucker for these shows old and new. Beam me up... #digitalart #sttos #CaptainKirk #noai #art

A digital oil painting portrait of Captain Kirk on the bridge of the enterprise. Painted by Andrew Gisby with absolutely no creative input from AI!

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 19/04/2026

"Seven Seconds from Home" - Finished! I started this digital watercolour and pencil artwork soon after the launch of Artemis 2. It's taken the duration of the mission plus several days to finish painting it using Fresco and my ancient Kamvas graphics tablet. #artemis2 #nasa #digitalartwork #art

"Seven Seconds from Home" - Finished! I started this digital watercolor and pencil artwork soon after the launch of Artemis 2 (something to do whilst waiting for the mission to progress 😄). It's taken the duration of the mission plus several days to finish painting it using Fresco and my somewhat ancient Kamvas graphics tablet. Whilst I was working on the exhaust plume, I read that the Kennedy Space centre is a nature reserve! So, I thought I put in some worms eye view spectators found there.
Final piece roughly 50cm high
Not everyone's taste, but I tried hard with this to match lightning and colouration from various photo references of the rocket launch. Pretty pleased with the outcome. All by me, no AI slop. #Artemis #NASA #art #digitalart

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 27/01/2026

A Jules Verne and Alphonse Mucha Art Nouveau poster inspired artwork that has given me an amazing amount of relaxation and pleasure drawing (No AI was used to create this imagery). Fine art printing is done and I'm really looking forward to seeing it framed and on the wall. I will post the result! 🥲

Alphonse Mucha inspired art nouveau stylised poster of scene from the Jules Verne 20,000 leagues under the seas novel. Depicting the leviathan squid approaching the Nautilus. The poster is tall and thin with naturalistic patterns, and sea floral and fauna cascading around the borders with a blueprint style elevated view of the Nautilus submarine at the bottom.

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 06/08/2025

My daughter and her partner did a thing... A game jam thing... All about reincarnation... Go play it #gamejam #indiegame #IndieGameDev #rebirth 😉👍 apusgames.itch.io/reburf

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Reburf by Apus Games

The worlds silliest immersive sim

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 18/05/2025

"A life on the ocean wave..." 🎵 Been a while but I've been down a rat hole of generalising controls, wheel and levers against physics forces and floating objects. However, I'm emerging from the conundrum and sailing the high dungeon seas! #godotengine #gamedev #indiegamedev youtu.be/Y2KsrPuJJCY

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Conjurer's Curse Progress 18 5 2025

YouTube video by Duckocide Games

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 24/04/2025

Good to get some downtime from #gamedev or whatever occupies the day 🙄🌞🙂

Two cold beers in the late afternoon English sun.

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 15/04/2025

🎶What shall we do with a drunken sailor...🎶 Yay, the buoyancy physics approach works for the big stuff as well as the little stuff! It's totally unfinished but this ship is pretty big on the aft section (just not visualised). #godot4 #madewithgodot #indiegamedev #indiedev

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 13/04/2025

So my vertex wave generation and pixel shader code is different, but this video really made things click for me (when it came to making the physics work) - So obvious in the end www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R2K...

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How to make things float in Godot 4

YouTube video by Crigz Vs Game Dev

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 13/04/2025

Yeah boy, that's totally buoyant! Watched a video, learnt some new tricks with synchronisation of GPU and physics on CPU, and oh boy... I've got things floating on the noisy water. So excited about getting larger sailable vessels going now. Whoop! #godot4 #madewithgodot #indiegamedev #godotengine

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 06/04/2025

🎶Out of the sun (Under the boardwalk) we'll be havin' some fun..🎶 ...And in the game proper! An initial iteration of some procedurally generated piers (boardwalks). #godot4 #indiegamedev #indiedev #madewithgodot

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 06/04/2025

So I wonder what the key is to a good Quay? It would be in the wood right!?🙃 #godot4 #indiegamedev #indiedev #madewithgodot

Initial model of a wooden quay for a dungeon based computer game

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 03/04/2025

In the "fragment" part of the shader, Blended normal maps (a rock material one and a bubbly/foam one), with a low roughness (0.1) setting mainly (shinny). Some trig (sine) math as well to vary the normal map lookups (uv coordinates) to make it look fluid.

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 01/04/2025

🎶 You spin me right round baby right round... 🎶 Refining the movable whirlpool feature. Once again, pretty pleased with this evenings #indiegamedev efforts. I think #godotengine is starting to sink in and made this pretty comfortably (mostly shader work tbh). #godot4

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 30/03/2025

Makes such an amazing difference a wee bit of weathering! nice job.

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 30/03/2025

Why the water? Well there are some vast rooms in these dungeons that will be navigable by vessels of various forms the exhibit both safety and danger (...aka "boss" type entities). (Started making these over a year ago! 😀) #godotengine #indiegamedev #indiedev #dungeon

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 30/03/2025

And in the game... I need to procrastinate and endlessly tweak this water (the edges need to be a bit more foamy for me), but I'm pretty happy with these murky wet death traps. #godotengine #indiegamedev #indiedev #dungeon

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 30/03/2025

Yeah. It will need a bit tuning for sure although generally, when in the dungeon game, camera mostly looks down so hoping I can hide the crimes so to speak. Honestly, it's a very simple shader really and I didn't want to spend ages on it.

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 30/03/2025

The ducks will love it! 🙃

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 30/03/2025

A rare attempt by myself at a half decent dungeon water shader. Uses vertex deformation for waves (really!? 😜), a whirlpool and up to 16 ripple sources (for things floating). Chatgpt prompt as a starter, but refactored over 80% of the shader code (good learning though). #godotengine #indiegamedev

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 16/03/2025

It's been a while since I've posted some progress on this #godotengine game. But I'm feeling pretty stoked right now with it! Procedurally generated, this underground dungeon area quite literally 'Rocks'! #gamedev #indiegamedev #godot4 #madewithgodot

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 11/03/2025

That #indiegamedev feeling when you have just spent 2 weeks on perf related refactoring. Honing your "work of art" code to strip out, multi-task and process the bare essentials of what is needed. You run it and see it RUNNING SLOWER! Your 60fps "mostly" masterpiece now barely hitting 30 fps! 😡😟😭

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a man in a green tank top stands on the beach

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 03/03/2025

Interested to see if my C# multi-threading code still hangs together with this upgrade. Really looking forward to using the new CSG implementation. Like Christmas 😉

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 03/03/2025

Here we go then... (and breath...) 🙈

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 23/02/2025

I don't know what editorial controls are in place for ads and their sources but I guess a concern will be troll ads masquerading as gamedev with poor click-thru destinations? Could you end up spending all your time doing editorial/censorship admin?

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 21/02/2025

Err? Am I in? Is there a way to search these useful packs? Either way, great curation. 😀👍

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 11/02/2025

This place may be magical, but there are hidden depths... An earlier look at ancient barrow (in the early stages of procedural generation coding). youtu.be/vvUbzbjCk24 #indiegamedev #madewithgodot #gamedev #solodev #godot4

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Conjurer's Curse Progress Video 11 2 2025

YouTube video by Duckocide Games

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 09/02/2025

...There is a magic here!? #indiegamedev #madewithgodot #godot #gamedev (Modelling a Barrow tomb entrance)

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 02/02/2025

Yay! Good #sunday #indiegamedev day! Here's is the tomb in the game with sound effects and monster spawn triggers. 🔊 #madewithgodot #godotengine

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 01/02/2025

May be. The procrastination bug is particular gamedev one I repeatedly fall foul of though. 😅

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 01/02/2025

3 or 4 decades and counting since my first games 😜

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 01/02/2025

Genuinely happy with my lot but only getting one day a week on average to #indiegamedev does get frustrating. I do so look forward to Sunday. But, #gamedev progress can only be described as Glacial 🤔😊

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Polar Bear Lazy GIF

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 28/01/2025

We all know opening a Tomb is generally a recipe for a bad experience - Just ask Rene Belloq 😉 Oh what, didn't he see the light and got vaporized? ... Tomb opening animation and shaders therein. Need to add some sound effects and try it in the game! #Gamedev #indiegamdev #madewithgodot

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 17/01/2025

It's alive.. alive..! This monster dropped in to the game relatively painlessly. A wonderfully predictable skeleton warrior(!). The foot soldiers of a dungeon. I want to implement some tactical traits, may be some flanking behaviours. #indiegamedev #godotengine #gamedev #dungeon #arpg

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 10/01/2025

Just starting porting this wee fleshless warrior from my old unity project in to my bright shiny #godotengine project. Will definitely repaint sometime but right now I want a few more monster types wandering around! #indiegamedev #gamedev

A 3D model of a Skeleton Warrior in a T-Pose position. PBR textured and freshly imported in to the godot editor. The skeleton is outlined in red but looks, dirty and weathered with glowing eyes and a rusty old sword.

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 01/01/2025

Try not to lose your head! So I'm parking #gamedev of this element of the game for a bit. I can feel myself starting to procrastinate with it so time for a change and come back later. #indiegamedev #godotengine #godot-4

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 30/12/2024

Still working on that giant musical Orrery puzzle. Happy with it so far. All configurable and solvable without musical knowhow - Like all adventures you just got be observant really 🙉🙈 #godotengibe #indiegamedev #indiedev #rpg

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 15/12/2024

Looks awesome! I know how hard it is to work on procedural stuff and getting the joins just right with hard to predict procgen data. Keep up the amazing work.

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 10/12/2024

Thanks. I must mention as well that I often assign particular int values to c# enums. Especially bit shifted values (ie. 1<<n where n is a number 0 to 32). Opens up very fast int based math/logic. One Int encoding 32 states by it's bit settings (just like #godot visibility layers for example).

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 09/12/2024

bsky.app/profile/duck...

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 09/12/2024

I don't know about gdscript, in C# enums are of course int's. Really useful for name assignment to states (readability). I use them a lot for things like bit assignment, bit logic, command names, etc. int (enum) logic is quick. Useful for switch statements (readability). Errr I like 'em. 🤔😀

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 03/12/2024

Yes, I'm going to do it. I've been mulling around few thoughts on musical puzzle locks. I reckon I can make a gameplay that does not need a knowledge of music and relies on achieving an audio or visual "harmony" to solve. Of course you might find an illustrated book to really understand how😜

A c# defined enumerator called NoteName that contains a list on notes normally defined in a single octave.

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 29/11/2024

Now then... That's a bit cranky? Like all #roguelite #roguelike, you'll be forever searching for the right gear 😉 in this game!? #indiegamedev #arpg #gamedev #adventure #videogame

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Duckocide @duckocide.games · 28/11/2024

UV = X & Y position on a 2D texture (picture). Each point of a polygon can be given a UV coordinate. So when the render fills the 3D polygon it uses the image (texture) pixels between those UV coordinates (points). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_mapp...

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UV mapping - Wikipedia

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