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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Slowly but surely making progress with the levels. This subway level was massively sprawling so took some time to cut it down. Maybe I'll finish it sometime this year 😅 #indiedev #lowpoly #gamedev

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Another pain point, stairs. I mean, its fine but the extra work to get the camera to look "okay" puts me off having them in levels. They do "feel" pretty good gameplay-wise though

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Pew pew in the subway. I thought that making these corridor-type levels would be easier than wide open areas, but keeping it interesting is definitely more work.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I had about 6 unused levels from the first version of Point Rescue. 2 of them were intended to be boss levels, but never got around to it. So after years at this point, I'm prototyping out the second boss. Biggest challenge has been fitting in the events/AI into the existing wave spawn system

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Been experimenting with the camera focus timings. Found it actually more fun to vary the camera speed. Provides a nice challenge.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Holy crap it has been a while. It'll be interesting to see how easy it is for me to get going making a new level.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I love #lowpoly crts. Flat screens never seem as appealing. Perhaps I'll have to model one and see.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Just a mix of lighting and texture variations.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A different view of the #lowpoly living room.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thanks, spent a long time finding references to try and achieve that

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Almost there. Just need one more room then gonna call this one done. #lowpoly

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A bathroom to go with the #lowpoly living room. Garish but hopefully not eye gougingly ugly.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Pictures on cubes can take you a loonng way :D

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

So good, the animation is so damn charming.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I don't know of any formal courses, but the sickly wizard's videos are supremely well done. Lots of tips and techniques www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmW_... Summer85 doesn't have tutorials, but you can still learn alot from their time lapses: www.youtube.com/@Summmer85

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How to make PS1-esque graphics with Blender 2.8 (Introduction)

YouTube video by TheSicklyWizard

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I really need to share more of the process. Been on quite a long hiatus art wise, so very much re-learning stuff. Definitely give it a go, tis fun. The limitation of only using diffuse textures is also kinda liberating. Less to think about (stops me getting distracted).

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Trying out some higher resolution textures than I usually do; that and some lighting. Typically keep to unlit and some vertex colours, but quite liking this. #lowpoly

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

More progress on the #lowpoly kitchen. Streadily filling out the various props needed.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

More #lowpoly, texture painting experimentation.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

More progress on the campsite, or at least the surrounding foliage. #lowpoly

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

More progress on the campsite, or at least the surrounding foliage. #lowpoly

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

An experiment on my shack with some different colours and shading.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Pixel art plants and vertex colours

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Had to make some tweaks, liking the colour a bit more here.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Some more lowpoly/pixel art experimentation.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Feels like an age since doing any art/modelling. Really wanted to experiment with some low res, low poly with lighting. In the past I've always done unlit. Had fun with this #lowpoly #pixelart #b3d

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Fancy some retro arcade light gun action? Why not give the Point Rescue: Arcade alpha demo a play. magellanicgames.itch.io/pointrescue-...

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Point Rescue Arcade by MagellanicGames

Play in your browser

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Whelp that's another day that has just flown by. Here's some Point Rescue. #indiedev #lowpoly #psx

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Another Point Rescue Arcade repost. Looking forward to getting back to it. Leaving projects on ice for a bit seems to kinda be a good way for rejuvenating enthusiasm for them. #indiedev #gamedev #psx

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Some more Point Rescue Arcade. This is some footage I took when testing with the Sinden lightgun a while back. Currently working on some other stuff, but looking forward to getting back to it #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #psx

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Took a little longer than I would have liked but finally got Y billboarding sorted as well as a "model viewer" camera control mode.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Writing a new set of camera functions that use composeable transforms so arbitrary rotation and movement is easier. i.e, derive global positions from a combination of relative local transforms. Was hitting issues with the old and very-under-developed functions. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

His videos are such a good resource on stuff. I remember his raycasting videos helping immensely not only with implementing a raycaster but understanding the algorithms/maths behind it.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

One of the challenges of rolling your own is always the lack of integrated WYSIWYG, but been having good fun using blender. It has been doing the heavy lifting until I fully implement the in-game editor (25% complete roughly) #indiedev #gamedev

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

A bit more work on the in-game editor to atleast show a 2d view of the rooms as well as UI for displaying notifications on in-game events. #indiedev #gamedev

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 03/11/2024

Putting all that 2D overlay code to work showing reload progress, stamina drain as well as healthbars and damage numbers. Time is starting to enable more gamedev time than engine dev. (which is good and fun) #indiedev #gamedev

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Spent way too long getting 2d text and 2d healthbars to overlay correctly...but it is done. Huzzah!! Decided against using billboards as with this no need to worry about distance scaling/ #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Steadily adding gameplay stuffs and experimenting with room layouts. Working on an equipment system, what are you working on? #indiedev show me your #gamedev. Wanting some inspiration!

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Giving my encounter editor a test run. Not very pretty but it beats using a plain old text editor. Next step will be more visualisation of the levels/rooms. #indiedev #gamedev

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

A demo of seamless (almost) loading between level areas. The demo had hard stop/starts between and I generally prefer how Virtua Cop was seamless between areas. The demo didn't have moving scenery either, so even the doors opening/closing is a nice upgrade to encounters #indiedev #gamedev

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

How have you gone about your UI systems? Did you go with immediate style or more traditional events/mvc? Been playing around with immediate GUI (my own implementation, not imgui) and really been liking it but still not 100% sure on it's scalability. Look's awesome btw

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I love vertex colours, especially baking lighting to them.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Gotta have destructible items to distract from what you SHOULD be shooting at. #indiedev #gamedev

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Indeed it is, the demo anyway

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

A WIP update of Point Rescue demo's first level with the updated models and camera motion. It is using Godot 4, currently experimenting with something else. SDL3 being able to identify input from multiple mouse devices would allow local co-op #indiedev #gamedev

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