Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 18hyea that makes sense. idk why I was trying to re-invent the wheel 000
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 18hstomach's a good one. I'm definitely thinking of a few gags in that direction (no pun intended) 110
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026guy who looks like a zombie but is just badly food poisoned #godot #indiegame what can I add to sell this better 2123
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yea I feel the same way. it adds a ton of ambience. And I enjoy emulating these quirks of retro consoles on modern hardware. 010
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Right now I’m applying a vertex-wobble shader-material manually to each model. To make a slider I would need to loop through every mesh at runtime and apply the shader-material, and assign its parameters. hopefully not too difficult to implement. 000
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Is vertex wobbling something players will want to turn off on a psx horror game? is it like screen shake 221
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026to be clear a loosely coupled architecture is not for game jams, and is not for complete beginners (I was one very recently). but it makes large complex projects easier to manage, at the expense of additional overhead early on. 000
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Switching to a loosely coupled architecture means if there’s a problem with the quest system, changing that script will not impact the music system etc… it’s gonna enable me to respond to changes found during playtesting faster than before. 110
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was writing tightly coupled code for my first two games using the event-bus pattern (a global script containing every signal). This made it impossible to re-use even simple modules like a quest system across games. Also made debugging a nightmare as complexity grew. 100
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026most impactful #godot video I’ve ever watched. I went from reusing barely any code between projects to re-using entire systems overnight through the magic of dependency injection. Steep learning curve but benefits are immense. youtu.be/HkjOE4FbrXo?...youtu.beReplacing autoloads with scoped contexts for scalable Godot architectureYouTube video by hoveringskull 130
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A horror game on a cruise ship. Added a tiny room where the ship's employees live. #godot #psx #horror 070
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026oops accidentally didn't put the Korean translation in with the final Lucky Break build, despite paying for it... welp here the comes the Korean Language patch! 030
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026forgot how much I like game writing, really can just put whatever you want, and the zanier the better. #godot also implementing a simple dialogue system was neat. 150
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this scared me so bad #godot Courtesy of a degrees-to-radians bug 1141
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Creepy hotel. Been having fun making 128x128 albedo-only textures using blender, ucupaint, krita, and #godot. Shoutout @passivestar.bsky.social who created a great tutorial on this process. passivestar.xyz/posts/proced... 0192
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026looking forward to it! and a discord chat could be cool to coordinate future bundles / or just discuss game dev. 010
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I saw a gamedev who was putting out 12 ai heavy games a year since 2022. sometimes releasing 2 in a month. But the reviews were mixed to bad for every game. I just don’t think it’s a winning strategy to pump out slop. Handcrafted, artisanal, human first, is the way to stand out. Less is more. 141
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Signal up, call down” gets passed around very casually in the Godot circles. But imo 90% of people are not following this, as the implications of adhering to this pattern significantly change your codebase. imo the Godot docs don’t go far enough in explaining this best practice. 010
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Peglin rules. It has everything I liked about Peggle from back in the day + Slay the Spire progression. 010
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Feel this in my soul. intro to machine learning was one of the best classes I took in grad school. The space had so much creativity, and untapped potential at the time. Its a tragedy what it has become. 010
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This means I’ll be sacrificing some time early on in the next game to establish a code architecture that prioritizes loosely coupled modules by taking advantage of the Observer pattern, and dependency injection. I’ll be posting my architecture diagram when it’s finished. ✅ 010
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026For next game I want to spend the majority of dev cycles on responding to playtesting feedback, and iterating. To do this, I need clean architecture that is loosely coupled. Because if I need to remove/add a feature, I want it to be entirely independent of other systems in the game. 220
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’ve been writing tightly coupled code up until now and it’s benefitted me while learning, as it enabled me to ship games. However once the projects grew in complexity it became hell to maintain. also made responding to player feedback very difficult as the code was one big knot. but no longer!! 130
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026released Lucky Break today! Gonna write a fire post-op tomorrow 150
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026got it working. Hid the ipad's default cursor, and handled it in game. Had to simulate all mouse_enter, mouse_exit, click events manually via area2d collision because mouse_warp() isn't supported on web/mobile. but we take those! 000
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I assumed that wouldn’t work b/c the iPad is capturing the mouse (I can’t even change default cursor icon via the game). but I’ll try it, and if it works I’ll feel silly! 100
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Anyone know how to flip the right and left motion of a Bluetooth mouse connected to an iPad? Up and down is correct but because of the mirror involved, mouse right is now left etc… all the text is backwards in game to compensate but mouse is still flipped left/right #godot #peppersghost 140
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026A horror murder mystery that takes place on a Cruise ship 010
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026irl game jam tomorrow, final Lucky Break development push, game release, then start figuring out what my next game will be 010
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Making a game that will be projected using a hologram. Part physical diorama, part digital interface. Turns out the digital UI is reversed and blurry, so i will have to compensate for that. This is why we prototype! 020
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026small games are good for the soul. Working on an incremental in between development sprints of my main game. #godot 051
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A roguelike deckbuilder where you play as a degenerate gambling addict. I'm looking for players to join the public playtest. #godot #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/4155880/... 2110
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026super happy to have gotten a build out. And with controllers and multiple languages supported 👀. I'll do a proper post tomorrow but now I sleep 020
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Opened the public playtest for Lucky Break. Been doing friends and family testing, and ready to open it up. store.steampowered.com/app/4155880/... 051
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Free Palestine. Zionists conflating criticizing Israel with anti-semitism makes American Jews unsafe. Furthermore there is no reason Jews need an ethnostate. Ending all military aid is the first step to undoing this. 030
Reposted by Ian DurraLydian Games @lydiangames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🎉 Stories of Somnia has reached 10,000 wishlists! 🎉 I am thankful that so many people would want to see this game succeed. Thank you to all of our supporters, friends, and fans. I can't wait to bring you the full game. ⭐Try the brand-new demo on Steam ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3635640 197
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yea way easier to conceptualize mentally. and ideally individual components can be used again on next game (actual results may vary). 110
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026There also needs to be regulations on unlimited scroll. because it’s way too addicting. Companies should be limited in how addicting they can make their products. 020
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It’s not realistic to go fully analog in our society, but I think limiting some of the more toxic aspects (doomscrolling), can result in healthy interaction with technology. 120
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’m coming to believe that Internet/phone is as good as you make it. Like personally I love Discord/Bluesky b/c I connect with awesome people in my mutuals. But Instagram/Tiktok are too addicting/toxic for me due to recommending strangers content. 120
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026thats a good one, I like the end results people create in that tool. Definetly on my list of tools to learn 020
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’m going the blender route. I looked into it more and the ucupaint plugin in blender allows for smart materials. A little less plug and play than SP but should get me most of the way there. 000
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The upfront architecture cost will be worth it when it’s easier to make changes later 111
Reposted by Ian DurraWhatever Works @whtvrwrks.io · 13/09/2026Quick tour to show what I managed to make so far (and yes, I plan on changing the generic Blender brick texture... eventually...) #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #wip #godot #blender #b3d #screenshotsaturday 0369
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026cool, I'm excited to try some of this stuff out. See what I can do. 100
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yea that’s a good point. There’s value in me learning the hand painted method as well. B/c once I have those skills will improve other aspects of technical art. 010
Ian Durra @freddifish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’m more genuinely surprised there’s not a cheaper alternative. SP is $200 for a lifetime license on Steam 👀 but I guess you are paying for those smart materials and algorithms. 110
