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I think a control playground where players can optimize their settings, look up control schemes, and choose sensitivity and other accessibility options... would be cool. Also good for me as developer to dog food and validate my functionality. #GameDev #SoloDev

Greybox prototype screen, with some space ships, a colored checkered plane with letters and numbers, and yellow floating vector text reading "Direct Neural Interface Calibration Suite V27.3"

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The idea is to help with spatial perception by always having some kind of visual parallax hints. When the user wants to look a certain way, the focused object moves out of the way but stays in the frame, so the spatial relationship is preserved and the players don't get literally lost in space.

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I am once again evolving my input controller. 😼 Still lacks the focus / sensitivity heuristic, but #GodotEngine has InputEvents that I can use to compoe actions into intuitive "point to bring me the horizon" gestures. This is 100% mouse wheel, look, middle and right mouse button. #Ui #GameDev

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Something like that, I guess. Need to figure out how to generate my star catalog into into a Godot .tres file... Anyway - in the process, I explored shader instance variables, managing texture arrays as resources, and how to render scaled billboards with a custom spatial shader. #Space #IndieDev

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jupiter // blue @jupiter.blue · 08/07/2025

Curiosity killed the cat, but attention to detail brought it back! #GameDev

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When your project reaches escape velocity, or: Why in my headcanon, PlasticSCM merge links read as Hohmann Transfers.

Branch Explorer view of the PlasticSCM version control system. It's 3 horizontally arranged branches, with nice arcing merge links as arrows between changesets strung up like pearls along them. A particular link shoots out in a very wide arc through the bottom of the screen.

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jupiter // blue @jupiter.blue · 05/07/2025

Found a new filter in Paint.NET: > Sketch Blur > ...this bad boy is going to become my entire art style! (for skyboxes and cloud textures) #ScreenShotSaturday #GameDev #IndieDev

A stylized space skybox, with a gentle blue "space dust" texture behind it.

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jupiter // blue @jupiter.blue · 03/07/2025

The only checkmark that matters #GitHub

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13 followers https://fennecs.tech

jupiter // blue @jupiter.blue · 03/07/2025

Don't want to live on this planet anymore? Transjovian Travels has got you covered, fam! (porting my floating origin systems smaller bells and whistles - such as interplanetary parallax, as the Jupiter System alone is ~0.2 AU across - with... some success) #GameDev #Jupiter

video game prototype screenshot, "jupiter.blue", camera perspective 30 million kilometers past jupiter, looking inwards. Venus, Earth and Mars can be seen orbiting the distant sun.

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jupiter // blue @jupiter.blue · 02/07/2025

Are #Godot SubViewports okay? 🫠

Repeated red error messages, like:

ERROR: Node not found: "../../root/@EditorNode@20470/@Panel@14/@VBoxContainer@15/DockHSplitLeftL/DockHSplitLeftR/DockHSplitMain/@VBoxContainer@26/DockVSplitCenter/@VSplitContainer@62/@VBoxContainer@63/@EditorMainScreen@103/MainScreen/@CanvasItemEditor@10870/@VSplitContainer@10515/@HSplitContainer@10517/@HSplitContainer@10519/@Control@10520/@SubViewportContainer@10521/@SubViewport@10522/Game/Interplanetary/SemiMajorAxis (Jupiter)" (relative to "/root/@EditorNode@20470/@Panel@14/@VBoxContainer@15/DockHSplitLeftL/DockHSplitLeftR/DockHSplitMain/@VBoxContainer@26/DockVSplitCenter/@VSplitContainer@62/@VBoxContainer@63/@EditorMainScreen@103/MainScreen/@CanvasItemEditor@10870/@VSplitContainer@10515/@HSplitContainer@10517/@HSplitContainer@10519/@Control@10520/@SubViewportContainer@10521/@SubViewport@10522/Game/Interplanetary/SMA-Jupiter/SMA (Mercury)/Mercury").

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jupiter // blue @jupiter.blue · 29/06/2025

I structured them, temporarily, in static groupings. These will probably become editable, though each of these groups has one targeting computer that can be fitted and configured. (compute power and capability is one of the limited resources in jupiter.blue)

Godot node list, showing all sorts of ship batteries; Dorsal Forward Battery, Ventral Forward Battery, Port Missile Launch Group, etc.

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jupiter // blue @jupiter.blue · 29/06/2025

Weekend #GameDev recap... Greyboxing 2.0! a) wrote #GodotEngine editor @tools to pick apart some very complex hierarchies and turn them into inherited scenes. b) added materials with per-instance color components. c) up-gunned the fsck out of two cruisers and a battleship, for ships and giggles!

Godot editor view of some blocky, grey boxed space ships (somewhat resembling literal modern era ships) with their decks packed with guns and missile launchers.

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jupiter // blue @jupiter.blue · 23/02/2025

I'd laugh if I wasn't already busy crying.

The interview scene from satire comedy movie office space.

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jupiter // blue @jupiter.blue · 21/02/2025

If you see this, quote with games you have replayed multiple times. Obviously Turrican I, II, and III. But also a lot of other rainbow arts titles, like M.U.D.S. Later, original Doom, and recently, The Quarry Feel free to tag someone :) @rokojori.bsky.social @superstrategyhorse.bsky.social

Turrican 2 - The Final Fight (it wasn't final)

Still one of my favourite inspirational quotes, from one of the OG Astronomers. I still use his orbital elements today. In my #IndieGame - jupiter.blue

As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter...
(Johannes Kepler)

Whaaaat?!?! We got there, like, in no time! THANK YOU FOR 100 STARS ON GITHUB! github.com/outfox/fennecs Anyone want to join us and celebrate with some pizza? #GameDev #FNA #Raylib #Godot #MonoGame

a cute cartoon fennec fox, winking, making a double victory sign; it stands in front of several stacks of pizza boxes taller than itself

Around 2660CE, runaway climate change drives the last survivors of Earth to seek refuge around planet Jupiter and its many moons. What remains of sentient life in the Sol system huddles around specks of dust in the void in this harsh, hostile, wondrous world. #IndieDev #GameDev #ScreenShotSaturday

A stylized space ship approaching planet Jupiter and the glowing orbits of its inner moons Metis and Adrastea

A stylized space ship orbiting Jupiter and its moon Io. The sun shines brightly in the background.

A stylized spaceship seen against the sun, somewhere between the orbits of Jupiter's moons Callisto and Ganymede, which can be seen in Green and Blue colors, together with the other two galiliean moons, Europa and Io. Their names are abbreviated by the astronomical symbols for these moons.

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Omg, it's happening!?! The little C# Entity-Component System I uploaded as open source might score its 100th star this weekend! If you create games - take a look, and let me know what you like, and what I could do better. github.com/outfox/fennecs #ScreenShotSaturday #IndieDev #GameDev #CSharp

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