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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 7h

Will these be available to purchase as rigged assets? They'd make for great characters in #MazesForDazes!

Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 9h

I really like the aesthetic, but it bothers me that the waterfalls have a drip effect at the bottom. If there's a steady flow of water, shouldn't the falls be continuous?

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 9h

Life is keeping me busy, so I haven't been working much on #MazesForDazes and I'm feeling guilty about it. 😅 So I'm spending a little time working on a celebration #animation in #Blender. Very much #WIP -- posting to feed the #content monster 👹 #IndieDev #CharacterAnimation #ScreenshotSaturday

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 10h

It's nearly 2027. Why is hold music across the board still a 1-min loop with 64kb compression? 😩 Is it too much to ask for a small playlist of varied tracks? 🤔

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Lightning Rod Games @lightningrod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A puzzle game about communication. A love story about distance. A world you can fold. A Fold Apart: Recrafted – coming soon ❤️📃 #indiedev #puzzlegames #screenshotsaturday

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Issue: Many options = Much clutter 🫤 Not looking to add more steps/screens between launch & gameplay. (I may have to, though😑) Thoughts? Before starting a #maze run, players can select various modifiers, from camera angle to adding enemies. #IndieDev #UI #UIDesign #MobileGames #MobileUI

Run configuration window in Mazes for Dazes, where players can select which modifiers to apply to their maze run.

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

256x256 is too low-res for my needs, but good luck!

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My Secret Garden maze theme needs some shorter placed objects. All these columns make traversal a pain.🏛 🐶 Puppy collect is a goal type that takes longer than just finding the exit. More game time per maze! #IndieDev #IndieGame #MobileGames #TapItTuesday #mazes

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Currently a mix of OC textures and purchased 3D assets. I'm doing my own anims at this stage. Plan to commission better artists down the road for maze themes and characters. 😄

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's coming along! I think it would look a little cleaner & less hectic if you swapped out a few grass sprites for 'empty' spaces w just the bg dots.

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

AnimatorController in #UnityDev is going to need some supplemental code to handle quick input and state changes. I have most of the pieces now, at least! 🧩 Fixed bone anims that weren't coming in from #Blender by switching from Humanoid to Generic import. 🦴 #IndieDev #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#Blender to #Unity workflow for #animation is working. Need to finish & polish animations, adjust for the floaty height, as well as wire everything up in Unity's AnimatorController. I'll note the shoulders are wonky because the rig isn't 1:1 Unity "Humanoid" 🫠 #GameDev #IndieDev #MazesForDazes

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Character anims are coming along! Have a few more to do a first pass on. This is most of the player locomotion bits and a quick idle. 🚶‍♀️🏃‍♀️ Hands + face poses will be applied as additional layers in #Unity3D 🤲 #IndieDev #GameDev #Blender #WalkCycle #RunCycle #Animation #IK #SoloDev #MobileGames

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Shared for v1. That may change once I actually have more characters 😅

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm aiming for smooth blending of states, with the 'punch' coming from a combo of world- and screen-space fx. Mostly, I'm hoping to have an animated rig that easily retargets for new character meshes! 😅

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yeah, now we're getting somewhere! 🎆 #Blender 🏃‍♀️ Still needs polish on the curves, but first I want to export back to #Unity3D and make sure the workflow, offsets, and such are all good. Hands + Face will be handled in Unity. #SoloDevelopment #IndieDev #IndieGames #MazesForDazes

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New walk cycle just dropped 💥 I am grate artiste. I mean animanimator. Aminator. Follow me for all the best workflow tips! 👍🌟 #IndieDev #Blender #Animation #Amination #WalkItOut #WalkItOff #TheseDootsWereMadeForWalking

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some anims will be 1-frame poses, others short loops. I'll leverage the #Unity AnimatorController for blending and transitioning between states to keep it smooth. Sometime down the line I might revisit to add a little procedural handling to the hands & feet. Maybe.

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Going full IK solvers for #MazesForDazes char anims was an impulse call 🫤 Fun to play with, but ult not worth how long it would take to get the math and aesthetic nailed down. Pivot: I've updated #Blender and I'm dusting off my #animation chops. Wish me luck! 🍀 #IndieDev #WIPWednesday #GameDev

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Internally debating leveraging Animator transitions and blending over #ProcGen IK. Buuut, it's fun messing with the IK and watching it come to life! 😀 If I can't get it looking good enough, at some point I may pivot. #IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #MazesForDazes

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Valve @valvesoftware.com · 14/09/2026

Steam Frame is here! Our wireless VR headset + controllers, available now in the following models: Steam Frame 256GB Steam Frame 1TB Sign up now and learn more on @steampowered.com : store.steampowered.com/hardware/ste...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/09/2026

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The wiggling arms up high during jumps has me cracking up. 🤣Reminds me of a bad marionette. Or "the signal" from Team America 🇺🇸 Also -- ragdoll death! #IndieDev #GameDev #mobilegames #ProcGen #MazesForDazes #ragdoll

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Working on a sandbox scene for tuning procedurally generated character IK movements. Auto-cycles through movement inputs while I mess with values. #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #mobilegames #madewithunity #ProcGen #tools

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡, 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS 🦋 Approximately 6,000 undocumented immigrants were taken to ground zero to clean up the rubble. Many are suffering from cancer/other health issues because of the work they did & are now being targeted by #ICE.

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've only just dipped my toes in. Working on a test scene where I can preview all movements in a loop while tuning. 😉

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is how people run, right‽ Turns out this rigged asset didn't have animations. So I made the choice to explore procedural IK anims. I expect it to be a challenge, but the in-progress visuals are cracking me up 😆🤣 #IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDevelopment #ProcGen #Procedural #Unity

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Scaled up the player to better fit the existing scale of props. Which, naturally, caused problems 🙃 #Progress is progress! I'm having trouble extracting anims from this model in #unity, but it's a well-rigged mesh with a full set of facial blendShapes 🥰 #IndieDev #WIPWednesday #GameDevScreens

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Standard button handling wasn't working on multitouch devices when using a single thumb. Switched to polling, and it's working much better. Nav arrow points to the nearest #puppy to collect, or the exit. I'll clean up the spacing and UI overlap, don't worry. 🙃 #IndieDev #SoloDev #MobileGames

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I haven't been posting, but I haven't been idle, either. Working on new default mobile controls, a humanoid character, and the nav arrow as a gameplay option in #MazesForDazes #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieDev #GameDev #MobileGames #madewithunity

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Congrats and all, but maybe take a break every now & then for a full recharge! 🧡

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

omg I loathe this dialog and all of it's ineptitude!

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I got my hands on a #SteamMachine and controller, but I've been so busy they've sat untouched 😭 Adulting is the worst. Haven't worked on #MazesForDazes in weeks. Dealing with a gap in antidepressants on top of the nonstop responsibilities. I need some downtime.

Steam machine and controller, unplugged.

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Mazes for Dazes | they/them @mazes4dazes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Bonus shot if you made it this far. 😉 We were sad that we missed #Poppy at the Paramount. 😥

Seattle's Paramount theater. Sadly, we missed Poppy!

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