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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

For some fucking reason the enemies can't shoot the player anymore. All I've been doing this weekend is adding debug utilities. The lines show, based on the current object's trajectory, where it'll be 5s from now. We know things collide if the colors of the lines match when the lines intersect.

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Day job has been beating my ass this week, but here's a look at the improvements to the environmental destruction render feature. Excited to animate some of these shader parameters as the game progresses. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Been working on a screen space effect to procedurally add detail to the environment, independent of material/geometry. Right now it's just cracks, but the groundwork is laid for a lot of cool future stuff. Consider following if this interests you! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

attempting to create a render pass to apply extra detail in screenspace

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The entire day has just been UI work. From shitty programmer placeholders to slightly less shitty programmer placeholders. #indiegamedev #ui

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Enemies now flash when taking damage. Implemented using a render pass for objects set on a "Damage" layer. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Buncha UI work today. Making text readable with the CRT post-processing effect is a challenge, but worth it imo #indiegamedev #gamedev

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Huge modding overhaul! Enemies + player are moving to a unified `model + overrides` flow. Way less loader spaghetti/redundancy + perf improvements by detecting duplicate material configurations and reusing existing mats. #gamedev #indiedev #unity #roguelike

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

No more sphere place holders! First enemy model! (and some basic procedural animations). #indiegamedev #gamedev

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

All bullet-based enemy attack patterns now can take an optional "path" config that can change how a bullet travels. This entire miniboss is loaded from JSON! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Mini boss WIP 3 phases, 5 different attack patterns. Had to create a new OP player loadout that's editor-only just so I could beat it. Now time for lots of balancing/tweaking... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

First stab at rendering the contents of the loaded mods in-game. I can make things functional, but god I suck at making them look good. #indiegamedev #rougelike

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Pros of this enemy system is the amount of configurability you can have for an enemy. Cons is that you have so much to configure for an enemy. #indiegamedev #rougelike

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Spending more time on editor utilities than the actual game at the moment. Regardless, pretty happy with how configurable enemy behaviour is at the moment. #indiegamedev

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Wrote my first unit test for the project and immediately found 2 bugs. Mama I'm home

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Very happy with the new item system. Building something complex as "Give 20 Luck, subtract it away until it's back to 0 as you pick up items" takes just a couple of minutes to set up. #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Item refactor is done... All items can have multiple effects that have triggers that invoke an array of actions... More complicated examples will follow soon... or work will continue to kick my ass.

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Item bag model shapurr.com/graph/d7549f...

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Fix one room generation bug, and 2 crop up in its death

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Garbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Animated Minimap! It's actually the same texture that overlays the entire map to do the room reveal effect, just blitted through a different shader. #gamedev #indiegamedev

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