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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

screenshot of my itchio store, showing several texture packs available for purchse

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 22h

Had an idea in the shower for an algorithm to find the "rough direction of a set of points". Worked beautifully, but now I'm wondering if all I did was derive linear regression from first principles? I'm just creating a matrix of absolute values of dot products. 🤔

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Big (and breaking) update to the SyncedCollisionShape3D addon! You can now generate primitive colliders for non-primitive visuals (or a specific part). The "squeeze" button does a smart fit. Also added an extrusion feature. Get it here: codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dude, no freaking way... What you're seeing here is me doing live-blending / animations on baked lightmaps in Godot... 3700 FPS #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A little experiment with postprocessing on *baked* lightmaps in Godot (they're just textures after all!). If you snatch the internal lightmap data and do some arcane SubViewport shenanigans, you can also use it to do *spatialized* effects on the lightmap too. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Man, this really hit home. For me it was 19 years ago. I feel like I studied cog sci at an inflection point, when students who wanted to do AI-as-a-business-model started outnumbering those who wanted to study the mind / solve real problems. I never thought about it like GRIEF, until now. 😔

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Supports follow-through and poking motions too! #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love my motor system cuz it's like, oh, you wanna do a Wing Chun stance? Spread feet further apart, tilt them inward, and bend the knees inward. What's that? The penguin doesn't have knees? Okay, dislocate the femurs. Four lines of code. #gamedev #indiedev

A screenshot of the penguin imitating Wing Chun, plus a diagram showing the Wing Chun horse stance, plus the code used to achieve it:

penguin.body_params.neutral_foot_spacing = 0.5
penguin.body_params.neutral_foot_yaw = -20
penguin.hip.right_leg_anchor.position.x *= 0.7
penguin.hip.left_leg_anchor.position.x *= 0.7

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

YESSSS!! Took a couple days, but I now have one motor function that can lets penguins hit any point on anything with any point on any other thing. Probably one of the most versatile motor tasks I've made. SO happy with this! 🐧🐟🔨🙏🧊🚿🪵 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Totally procedural penguin drinking motor task. Accounts for posture, arm length, cup size, etc. 🐧🍺 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This side quest stuck with me as well when I played it as a kid. The lingering timings in the cutscene as you watch the ghost inspect various corners of their house... the final acceptance... Such a great moment in a great game.

An old illustration I did of the ghost looking at the stuff in their house. There is a desk with a compass and a map on it. There are empty clothes hangers hanging near the windows, which are overgrown with vines. There is a potted plant that has grown very large. A closet is in the back corner, with little knick knacks on top, and a cobweb near by. Little slivers of light shine through the cracks between the boarded up windows.

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

GDScript gotcha: If you use "xyz in object" to check if object has a property called xyz, it actually tries to GET xyz! If xyz has expensive getter code, just checking its existence will call it. If you're doing a check to avoid an error before getting the value, you're calling it TWICE.

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Throwback to a super early short game jam where I gave my VR penguin a touch screen on which to play another penguin game. #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Made an NPC debug panel that shows live-rendered thumbnails of every NPC, their current states, and lets me double-click to teleport straight to them. Makes debugging the game progression a lot easier!

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In Godot, you can only read scene depth from 3D shaders, but using a full-screen 3D quad to capture the depth of a wireframe viewport means the quad ITSELF becomes wireframe (a single diagonal line)! My solution: subdivide the quad by screen pixel height. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Haha, hell yeah. An actually good wireframe mode in Godot. Not quite ready yet to share as an addon, but it's quite exciting. Works with any viewport mode, too. The amount of insane hacks I needed to pull this off, though... 😱 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's not a hack if you don't admit it. 🙅‍♀️ "I always meant to do this." Make it look intentional, damn it. 🫵 #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Throwback to an old shader I made specifically to voxelize characters to avoid spoilers in social media posts. 🐧🫥 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Tibo @heytibo.com · 11/09/2026

I just like this screen, so I'm sharing it again 😁 #godotengine #wildcosmos

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh thank goodness, right as we were about to veer away from the main objective.

A leashed shiba inu looking backwards at a yellow arrow painted on a sidewalk.

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tired of your addons polluting your project view when you just wanna see your own stuff? I made an addon (haha) that gives you a little button in the FileSystem tab to toggle the addon folder. One addon to hide them all. Grab it here: codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/...

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Every item in the game can be converted any time, gracefully, to and from a serialized data representation (e.g. JSON). Here you can see me live-editing items via only a text box. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Made a fun util that lets you set "memory mines" that explode when they're freed, to help you track object life times (e.g. in coroutines). You can also embed them in other objects. Works in editor and runtime. Get it here: codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Added advanced options for NPC conversation behaviour. e.g. whether to clear/replace/augment previous activities, additional entry/exit behaviours, etc. All seamless, thanks to the motor system. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Being an Ocarina of Time fan as a gamedev means testing every new feature of your game in an OoT re-enactment (duh). Here's an old test of penguin "battle stance" and falling animations. #gamedev #indiedev #Zelda

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Found a bug that I might keep? I forgot to add chair occupancy restrictions, and penguin hips are simulated with physics, so you can get in tiny chairs with other penguins and shove them aside. 😆 #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Welp, had to update the Cozy Cube add-ons to 4.7 after all 😅, since it fixes a major memory leak bug with coroutines. I also discontinued area lights, which are now a core feature. The old 4.6 versions of the addons are available in a legacy branch. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Made a "content cluster" system to help me organize content. If I double-tap [C][C] from a viewport, it auto-adjusts the scene tree view to focus on the contents of the cluster I'm looking at, while preserving selections. Here is a demo in a small test scene: #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Can 100% recommend. Icons are high quality, aesthetically pleasing, consistent, extensive. Great UX in the form of a browser (either built-in Godot dock or web-based). My massive scene tree is now more readable. 🥳

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Throwback to an experiment I did during the pandemic which started as a geometry slicing algorithm for a cake meme, but then evolved into procedural locomotion paradigms, body-awareness and speech generation. #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Made some basic UX flow for NPCs giving/taking items in VR. Still need to handle some edge cases, but feels pretty natural so far! 🐧🫴🔄️🫳🐧 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And because I think it's equally important to show the failures behind the successes: At first I tried to be fancy with prediction and course-correction. The complexity quickly outgrew the potential gains. In the end, a simple radial push sufficed and produced better results. #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Playing with this is so incredibly satisfying, haha. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Made some big improvements to penguin locomotion system, mostly involving awareness of obstacles and other penguins. #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My dog (back) and his former-neighborhood-enemy-recently-turned-friend (front), waiting for treats. They reconciled by bonding over food.

A shiba inu and another small black and white dog on a porch, staring intently towards the door.

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How to make a digital screen glitch effect... Real VFX artist: You'll need a shader that applies distortion but also samples from a nois- Me: Artificially induce real data corruption in your game's video memory. #gamedev #indiedev #Godot

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Made a bunch of utilities for easier debugging. - Mirror view (works in editor and in VR) - Game window view (works in editor and in VR) - Editor for complete tampering of story progression. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Cool news: 3D trails are officially coming to Godot core! 🎆 All thanks go to @qbieshay.bsky.social who did a *huge* amount of work rewriting my GDScript addon as a proper, native engine feature. 🙏 Feel free to check it out early in the latest dev build! #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Using type_convert vs. the docs for type_convert: 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒

A screenshot of a console error: "type_convert()". Cannot convert argument 2 from String to int.

Then a screenshot of the docs: If the type conversion cannot be done, this method will return the default value for that type, for example converting Rect2 to Vector2 will always return Vector2.ZERO. This method will never show error messages as long as type is a valid Variant type.

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Any limits on Penguin Festival's systems are purely artistic, not technical. Anything can easily be given any kind of feature, technically. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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PRPLON - Wishlist ”Moose Migration” on Steam! @prplon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Finally got this procedural world to work! Moose is now standing on top of the world :D! What a view! #indiedev #gamedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hairy fish is not what I will be using this tech for, but it's interesting to note that if you replace a uniform distribution with an even distribution (yes, they're different), you end up with something resembling the arrangement of mammalian skin follicles. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Working on a cool feature. First step is to generate random surface points on arbitrary meshes. The distribution is uniform across the *entire surface area*, not just choosing random vertices or face centers. 🐟🎲 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This aged so poorly, lol.

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Pylons! A single VR prop can add so much silly fun. It also sometimes creates an explosion of systems work if you're not careful. Luckily, I had a lot of it done already. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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