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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

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Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Wake up! "Spooky Candy Crush" was just announced! Basalt: The Cursed Vein is a match-3 roguelite where you delve haunted depths to rebuild a decripit mining town ☠⛏️ Steam: s.team/a/3930130 Trailer: youtu.be/-OEli70mPdc #MadeWithGodot by @gamespeopleplayas.bsky.social and @rubarb.bsky.social

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Gamers & Games @gamersegames.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Basalt: The Cursed Vein mistura roguelite e match-3 em uma sombria cidade mineradora #gamersegames #themixshowcase Basalt: The Cursed Vein traz ação roguelite com match-3 em pixel art sombrio. Adicione agora mesmo à sua lista de desejos no Steam. www.gamersegames.com.br/2025/08/29/b...

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Basalt: The Cursed Vein mistura roguelite e match-3 em uma sombria cidade mineradora

Basalt: The Cursed Vein traz ação roguelite com match-3 em pixel art sombrio. Adicione agora mesmo à sua lista de desejos no Steam.

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gamespeopleplayas.bsky.social @gamespeopleplayas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We just announced Basalt: The Cursed Vein! A grim roguelite match-3 where you mine, rebuild, and face things best left underground. The deeper you dig, the greater the rewards, but the villagers warn: Don’t dig too deep! We’re making this game together with @rubarb.bsky.social

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

ordep.dev/posts/writin... The marginal cost of adding new software is approaching zero, especially with LLMs. But what is the price of understanding, testing, and trusting that code? Higher than ever.

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Writing Code Was Never The Bottleneck

LLMs make it easier to write code, but understanding, reviewing, and maintaining it still takes time, trust, and good judgment.

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Where are you now? You were synonymous with VR. :)

Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

gamedev.city is like HackerNews for gamedev. So much cool content in one place! Went straight on my browser startup page. #gamedev

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

You are using the new modifier on the methods in the sub-class, which hides the methods in the parent-class. Mark the methods in the parent as virtual and use override to extend them in the sub-classes.

Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The on the right has better line and letter-spacing, and the thickness makes the letter stand out more. But it’s hard to read due to lack of lower case letters. Left has too many details and is too thin to be easily read. But is better because of lower case letters.

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The Games playlist I maintain on Spotify just surpassed 2,000 songs, 116 hours of music. Should be enough for a few work days. Features soundtracks from Crypt of the Necrodancer, Fez, Teardown, Silent Hill, SOMA, Slime Rancher, Limbo, Minecraft, Below, etc. #gamedev open.spotify.com/playlist/5NA...

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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Ah, yes, I remember playing Balatro 95 back in my dad's office

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Awesome key-art! :D Game looks fun too!

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I've always been nervous about copying other games, even though I always do. This quote made me feel less nervous about it. 😄

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Cool! I’ll have to try that one. :)

Thanks! :) Gamedev logos was something else back then! We've lost that playfulness somewhere on the way. Was Oil Barons good?

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There is an old game called Oil Barons, which I think has that minigame. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Bar... The one which is my starting point, looks like this. Gorgeuos isn't it? :)

Dragonsweeper by Daniel Benmergui

Dragonsweeper is one of those games that makes me wish I was smart enough to have come up with the idea myself. Try it, it's good! danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

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A roguelike minesweeper adventure

Share Wars - Have fun bankrupting your friends!

Gamedev is my 9-5, and my 9-12. Our studio has fully embraced Godot, and I’m working on Share Wars forum.godotengine.org/t/share-wars... I like following the updates on your game. Looking forward to trying it. :)

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Hello fellow Godot developers! My name is Thomas, and I run a small games studio together with two friends. Our studio is called Rubarb. I’ve been a Unity developer since it was in version 3, and hav...

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KRAK @mckrak.ink · 17/11/2024

I've been seeing a lot of pixel artists struggle with Bluesky's image compression, so I'd thought I'd share how to get clear, crisp pixels on the site! Share to help a fellow pixel-artist! #pixelart #tutorial

When uploading to Bluesky, remember to resize your works to 800%!

Why? Images are converted to .jpeg when uploaded. .jpeg compresses the image into 8x8 pixel blocks.

If a block has more than one colour, that dreaded compression occurs!

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Check out Dig Dig Boom! It’s a different kind of mining game.

Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Glad you like it! Happy to be of help. 😊

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The Bustling World looks amazing! Would like to try it. I get exhausted thinking about how many hours it must have taken to make all those assets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY0u...

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The Bustling World - Official Trailer #2

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I never thought I would say something like this, but Godot has made setting up UI a fun experience. #godot

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Ategon @ategon.dev · 03/01/2025

Daily Godot Tip #32: You can use @ icon to assign a custom icon to a node instead of it having the default icon. You will need to close and then reopen the node to see the changes and icon must be put before the class declaration #godot #gamedev #godottips

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Sounds like a simple and useful system. :) What types of action do you use it for? Movement, attack, defense and such?

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

So any entity that wants to do something on the current turn enqueues an action object? Do you yield on the execution to allow for playing animations and sound effects?

Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Looks good! :) What do you use the queue system for?

ChristinaC.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @christinacoffin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

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Does your #godot game startup slowly? Do you use NoiseTexture2D by chance as textures in some materials? Check this thread to find out how you can unknowingly ruin your game startup time + level load times either instantly, or slowly over time by using unbaked noise textures. 🧵 #techart #Gamedev

An extreme example of poor startup time in a test scene using 4 unique noise2D textures. Each texture spread across 4 different materials, the time from starting the game until the first rendered frame visible to the user is 12 seconds.

startup time measurement in seconds of a NoiseTexture2D using FastNoiseLite at increasing resolutions and features enabled.

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

haha! Can relate. :) I sometimes find that hacky solutions are never touched again, and are left in the final build. I guess at that point, they change from being a hack to simply a solution. :) Fun to follow along your experimentation!

Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Why is this such a terribly hacky solution? I’m asking out of genuine curiosity.

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Thanks for the mention! :D Actually, the game is made by @jackkristoffersen.bsky.social and his company Games People Play. Rubarb has only helped Jack realize his vision. Good times! Looking forward to making more games togheter! In #godot of course.

Daniel Cook @danctheduck.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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Why does 'finding the fun' fail so often as a design strategy? #gamedesign New designers are told to prototype and 'find the fun'. But the naive version of this is a garbage tactic that mostly results in poorly thought out prototypes that are never going to converge on gameplay.

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Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I have worked with both, but prefer text.

Thomas Viktil @mandarin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

- Higher information density in text. You can fit more of the shader’s instructions on your monitor. Makes it easier to also work on laptops. - Better control of any optimizations, as you don’t have the extra step of converting nodes to instructions.