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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Been making steady progress towards the helo prototype. Still very unoptimized and buggy, but I'm happy with the progress. First real multiplayer playtests will be coming soon! #godot #indiegamedev #helicopter

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

one of my favorite things to happen this year is the offset transform introduced for control nodes. This is my new default on any control that I need to reposition programmatically. #godot #gamedev

a screenshot of a portion of a control node’s inspector panel in the godot engine editor. It shows the position ratio is set to (-0.5, -0.5) and the `visual only` bool is set to false.

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

made a quick little crosshairs for the pilot in #helo inspired by bf6 and real life helicopter HUDs. Used inkscape for the dotted line and calculated the dash / gap pixels by calculating the circumference of the circle, then dividing by (2 * num_lines * stroke_width) 🤓 #godot #indiegamedev

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Coded some improvements to the third person camera to make it more usable. Man rotations are hard. #indiegamedev #godot #helo

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Josh @frenchjoe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

ready for takeoff #gamedev

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Made a "stinger" missile enemy to create a threat to the player in our helicopter game prototype. I had fun reading about how real stinger launchers work for inspiration on how to program the missile's guidance, which uses proportional navigation 🤓 #godot #helicopter #indiegamedev

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We're taking the approach of making a fun prototype first before rabbit holing into oblivion. Since the flight was in a good enough spot, I did some work on the gunner's experience. Any ideas for what/who the enemies are? Robots? Terrorists? Robot terrorists? 🤔 #godot #indiedev #helicopter

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Started a new game prototype last week with my friend @frenchjoe.bsky.social and I'm really enjoying the process so far. It's loosely inspired by games with co-op flying gameplay like battlefield BC2/3/4/6, planetside 2, even dust 514. All assets are placeholder :) #helo3d #godot #prototype

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Feeling burnt out so I'm creating something simple.

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Last day of #GDC2026, looking forward to the experimental game showcase.

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Josh @frenchjoe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

rotating a 3D model > drawing the rotation by hand #Godot #indiegame #gamedev #ProjectHelo

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Yesterday I glued together this diegetic main menu interface for my game. It's kinda gimmicky but I really like it. #godotengine #indiegamedev #zombies

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Josh @frenchjoe.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

how much do you show in a pitch deck when your game is still pre-alpha? trying to figure out the balance between "here's the vision" and "here's what exists." if you've successfully pitched at this stage, I'd love to pick your brain. #indiegames #gamedev #godot

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Been working more on a new direction for this night scene I've working on. I'm going in a new direction for Zombulacrum with a specific demo in mind. It's been fun! #godotengine #indiegamedev

A 3D game scene of a small town street intersection at twilight.

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Today I got some real world topographical data into #godotengine using the #terrain3d plugin. Really it's just as a visual backdrop, but is used for the ground plane as well. I slapped some purchased assets into the scene and called it a day. Nothin' too fancy but progress is progress.

A screenshot of a 3D scene in the godot game engine. There's some green hills in the background with a few buildings in the foreground. The sky looks to be at sunset.

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Made a splash screen today in #godotengine. It's a minor thing but somehow this makes the project feel a lot more real. I also had to add skipping for each logo just to satisfy my impatient brain.

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Just went to my last class of my undergrad ever at UC Berkeley. It’s surreal. I remember how my first semester at community college felt. I learned so much in these 6.33 years, it’s insane. #goosebumps #graduation

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Josh @frenchjoe.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

got #helo running with steam #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #gamedev

a screenshot depicting two games being played simultaneously

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Starting the day right with a cuppa mud and reading the #GodotSteam and #Steamworks documentation. #gamdev #indiedev

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Josh @frenchjoe.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Pre-flight systems check... complete. All lights are green. #ProjectHelo multiplayer is spooling up. Standby for launch, pilots. #gamedev #indiegames #godot

green text made to look military-esque. it is code output from Godot

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Josh @frenchjoe.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

about to be back on my gamedev grind. got a really cool project that I started with @julian-pr.bsky.social that I’m super pumped about will be showing the process on here #ProjectHelo #gamedev #indiegames

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Burnt some midnight oil to get some sound effects in the game. Might just be placeholders but it helps to feel out what I'm going for. And also just cuz it's cool. (I know I gotta turn the zombie noises down) #indiedev #godot #gamedev #sfx

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Damn my blueksky is hella dusty. I think there's a dead rat around here somewhere. Anyway, here's a more recent screenshot from my zombie game :)

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Jiikae @jiikae.com · 02/08/2025

I think people these days are more impatient when it comes to learning new skills or honing their craft because the internet lets you see other people's results all the time Makes people feel like they aren't going fast enough instead of focusing on the process

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Been busy the last two days with school work, and going to be busy for a few days more. So not much time for working on my zombie game and dev logs :(

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I think I’m gonna try share at least one thing per day somewhere on the internet. Could be as small as a screenshot or as big as a dev log. Really more as a journal than anything. It will be neat to look back at previous states of my game later.

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I had forgotten that I picked this book up a while back. It’s pretty interesting and it’s helping to make me more confident in post my stuff online. If the image isn’t loading, book is “show your work!” by Austin Kleon

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Josh @frenchjoe.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

working on this gave me the push I needed to start working in 3D. I don’t play 2D games so what business do I have to try and make one?

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Josh @frenchjoe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

my friend Julian isn’t blasting his dev-logs on here, so I will! this one shows some cool lighting effects + some absolutely insane mesh generation at the end @julian-pr.bsky.social #gamedev #devlog #indiegame

youtu.be

DEV LOG 04: Big Lighting Changes and Experiments with Mesh Generation

YouTube video by Dithyrambic Games

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Josh @frenchjoe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

made a submission with my good friend @julian-pr.bsky.social for #PirateJam 16 its more of a concept than a full-fledged tutorial level, but I think it may have some legs. either way, I had a blast working on it and I learned a lot!

hackerzilla.itch.io

Gunther the Gun by hackerzilla

You are a gun. A concept.

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Julian Pearson Rickenbach @julian-pr.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

First post on bluesky! Sharing a progress pic of the zombie survival game I’m working on. This game is loosely inspired by Boxhead by Sean Cooper among other games. Hoping to finish it by this Summer! Finally getting around to making posts about my process. More to come! #boxhead #zombies #indiedev

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