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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 10/04/2025

Let’s freakin go!! Crashlands 2 just crashed on Steam 💙💙 You will not be disappointed, @bscotch.net always delivers store.steampowered.com/app/1401730/... #games #videogames #crashlands2

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 22/03/2025

🦀 Playstacean 🎮 www.reddit.com/user/GingerO... #Gaming #Games #VideoGames

A PlayStation console modded to look like a crab.

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 11/03/2025

Let's learn about tariffs (and how they affect #boardgames 😒) #BoardGame manufacturing happens in China For most of the world there is no domestic alternative They do not make components/mtls that are needed for your game, they import them from China and middleman you (💲💲💲) A 🧵 #TTRPG #GameDev

Imagination Spongebob meme, with the word "Tariffs" in the rainbow.

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 26/02/2025

Just saw this in my old album. This was the first week we had our old man. Hard to believe he turns 10 this year 🥲 #dog #corgi #corgilover #puppy

My Corgi as a puppy with his hedgehog toy

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 19/02/2025

Saw this on Reddit I think. Too real. Line must go up, CEO must get their multi-million bonus. #GameDev

Meme showing that you can work on a successful game like Marvel Rivals or a complete failure like Concord and you will be laid off regardless

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 16/02/2025

Watching Dexter Original Sin and the latest episode has a flashback at the shipyard Tyler the Creator’s #Chromakopia shipping container is in the scene 🤣 Wonder if it’s an Easter egg or just stored in the same shooting lot 🧐 Dope album btw

Chromakopia shipping container in Dexter episode

Tyler the Creators Chromakopia merch and stuff

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 13/02/2025

Most definitely! So my cards are actually 3D (image 1) so the flip is an actual flip on the Z-axis (image 2), and the pop you see is lifting the card vertically toward the camera (image 3) You could recreate this in 2D though. The pop/lift would be scaling up the card, and flip sprites via zindex

A playing card in Godot Engine implemented as a 3D object

Godot GDScript code that runs when a playing card is brought out from the deck and flipped into position on the field of play

Godot GDScript code that runs when a playing card is discarded from the playing field into a discard pile

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 12/02/2025

This is all we need in "globals.gd": ======= extends Node func pause_for_tween(tween: Tween) -> void: tween.set_pause_mode(Tween.TWEEN_PAUSE_PROCESS) get_tree().paused = true func end_pause() -> void: get_tree().paused = false ======= This will pause the game, but let the tween still run...

Screenshot showing the code from this post so you can see it formatted properly

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 12/02/2025

Create a global singleton/autoload if you don't have one 1. Right click in filesystem -> Create New -> Script --Inherits: Node --Name it "globals.gd" or similar 2. Configure it to autoload as a singleton Project -> Project Settings -> See Image

Godot project settings showing and autoload/singleton called "globals.gd"

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 12/02/2025

Still learning #Godot 🤖 engine, making a card game Lots of very quick tweens when moving cards around, needed to let the tween finish before any other input allowed Came up with a very simple solution, wanted to share 💙 Code / mini tutorial in replies... #gamedev #godottips #godotengine #solodev

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 09/02/2025

"Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?" -Steve Buscemi, Spy Kids 2 #food #pizza #cooking #foodporn (?🤣)

A slice of pizza with spaghetti and meatballs as the topping on a red plate

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 02/02/2025

If you write #GDScript in the #Godot Editor install the Script-IDE plugin godotengine.org/asset-librar... Omg it will make your life SO MUCH easier It gives script UI proper tabbed navigation, better outliner with func and var refs, and useful search 💙 #GodotEngine #SoloDev #GameDev #IndieDev

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 30/01/2025

Yeah I’m going to say I agree It’s not that there aren’t other good learning sources out there, but the value for your money and quality you get with gamedev.tv is hard to match They are always on sale too. Check their site and Udemy and get the cheaper one #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 28/01/2025

Probably easier to visualize this problem with some footage With the rise of folding phones we are seeing more 4:3 (or close to square) displays, so it is important to keep your content fully presented in certain types of games #Godot #GodotEngine #IndieGameDev #GameDev

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 28/01/2025

Ran into an interesting #Godot issue today Making a 3D game with an always on-screen section (think Hearthstone's game board) isn't possible using built-in settings Here is a script that handles the FOV trig for you 💙 gist.github.com/RedPlanetGam... #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #GodotEngine

1. You design your game with a static sized game board

2. The Keep Height setting of the camera allows an ultrawide monitor to see additional environment bits on the left and right that are normally just off camera

3. If the player is using a square monitor or a vertical monitor, the camera is still keeping the height, so the left and right sides will get cut off

4. So we will need to calculate a new FOV value that maintains our visible area

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 21/01/2025

It’s a #SnowDay in #Houston ☃️🫨 This pretty much never happens. We usually get more sleet and ice but today we have a solid couple of inches of powder Needless to say the little ones are having the best day of their lives 😊 Anyone else live in the south and catch some of this weather?

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 19/01/2025

And yet there is no shame in this whatsoever, make your game however necessary 💪 Show me a developer that doesn’t copy paste anything from stackoverflow and I will show you a liar #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #Programming

A post by LocalThunk, the creator of Balatro, explaining that the Balatro project folder is called “CardGame” and that it lives in the “Learning” directory on their computer.

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 17/01/2025

Quick #GodotEngine tutorial 🤖 Did you know that there are more ways to export properties in GDScript than just the base `@export var`? See image for several examples! 👀 more here 👇 docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tu... ♡s & ⟳s much appreciated 😅💙 #Godot #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #Tutorial

An image macro format tutorial for the Godot Engine showing different ways you can export variables/properties to the editor to achieve several different outcomes

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 13/01/2025

Worked on #MagicaVoxel some more and made this more user-friendly Now has quick-switcher that swaps between Single and Four Pane views I think there is a lot more that can be done, the UI stuff is undocumented 👀Get it here!👇 github.com/RedPlanetGam... #Voxel #VoxelArt #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev

Screenshot of MagicaVoxel software showing a 4-pane layout with a Top, Front, Side, and Free perspective. Highlights a button that switches into Four Pane mode. Model being shown is "monu3".

Screenshot of MagicaVoxel software showing a 4-pane layout with a Top, Front, Side, and Free perspective. Highlights a button that switches into Single Pane mode. Model being shown is "monu3".

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 13/01/2025

Did some configuration "hacking" on #MagicaVoxel and got a 4-pane viewport working 😵 My preferred way of working in 3D modelers, was shocked to see this isn't a default option. 🧊 #voxel #voxelart #gamedev

Screenshot of MagicaVoxel software showing a 4-pane layout with a Top, Front, Side, and Free perspective. Model being shown is "chr_knight" with outlines enabled.

Screenshot of MagicaVoxel software showing a 4-pane layout with a Top, Front, Side, and Free perspective. Model being shown is "monu1" with outlines and gridlines enabled.

Screenshot of MagicaVoxel software showing a 4-pane layout with a Top, Front, Side, and Free perspective. Model being shown is "monu1".

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 09/01/2025

Let's do this for #UnrealEngine also Materials in #Unreal have nodes called WorldAligned_____ that handle triplanar mapping for textures, normals, etc Very simple example in images below 🎮👍 #GameDev #UE5 #SoloDev #IndieDev

IMAGE 1: Scaling this wall also scales down the brick texture making it look odd

IMAGE 2: We can right-click the textures and convert them to Texture Objects, add a scale param, and run them through the WorldAlignedTexture node

IMAGE 3: And now the texture static, no longer squished with the scaling of the wall

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 07/01/2025

Tiny #Godot tutorial 🤖 If you need a material to properly tile instead of stretch you need World Triplanar mapping for the UVs This will make the material remain static regardless of the scale See images for super simple example 💙💙 #GodotEngine #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev

IMAGE 1: When we scale down our wall, the bricks get scaled as well and no longer match the bricks of the wall next to us

IMAGE 2: Select our material, go to UV1, and turn "Triplanar" on

IMAGE 3: The bricks will appear too small, so you must scale the UV down to taste, I chose 0.7 for XYZ. Then make sure you also set "World Triplanar" to On.

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 03/01/2025

Quick tip for #UnrealEngine devs from Unreal Fest 24 A disconnected but activated tick event uses ~3.5 μs of frame time in pure overhead If you left this in an Actor that is spawned many times over you could easily break into milliseconds per frame 👀▶️ youtu.be/S2olUc9zcB8 #ue5 #gamedev #indiedev

An empty tick function has 3.5 microseconds of tick overhead per frame. Don't do it.

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 31/12/2024

At my first #WWE show ever @profess0rjam.bsky.social made it sound so fun we had to check it out Don’t know who we are rooting for exactly but having a blast 😆

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 24/12/2024

Here is the complete code of "renamer.gd" with very verbose comments pastebin.com/raw/T8GzYSW5 You can now go to Project -> Project Settings -> Plugins Tab, and enable the "Renamer" plugin The tab should appear in the top left area of the editor next to the Scene and Import tabs

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 24/12/2024

Finally the meat and potatoes of the plugin, our _on_rename_button_pressed() function We do some safety checks to make sure we have a file selected, we have a name entered, and the name we picked isn't already used If that all checks out, we use the DirAccess API to rename the file and rescan it

The function that runs when we click the "rename" button

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 24/12/2024

Since this works just like a Godot game, there is a _process function as well We will use this to monitor the last file the user clicked, so if they click a new file the LineEdit populates with the new file name We also update the context label to show the currently selected file

Our _process function that runs on tick and keeps track of which file is currently being renamed

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 24/12/2024

When the plugin is loaded we _enter_tree() and create our renamer_dock.tscn and attach it to the Godot Editor dock slot in the top left -> pulled right position We fill the references to our UI elements, and connect our rename button We also set up _exit_tree() to free memory if plugin is removed

the _enter_tree and _exit_tree functions for our plugin

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 24/12/2024

Save that scene to res://addons/renamer/renamer_dock.tscn Now we can write our script. Create the script file we declared in our plugin.cfg res://addons/renamer/renamer.gd First we must declare that it is a tool, and that it extends the EditorPlugin class Create reference vars for our UI elems

First snippet of code showing our reference variables

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 24/12/2024

As a child of the VBoxContainer create a Label, a LineEdit, and a Button Rename them to Label -> Context LineEdit -> LineEdit Button -> RenameButton For the Label, set its horizontal alignment to center in the inspector and set text to "Select a file" Set button text to "Rename"

Our UI set up with a label, a line edit, and a button

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 24/12/2024

Now we can make the UI for our plugin Create a new scene and choose "User Interface" (the control node) Rename "Control" to "Renamer" and set it to Full Rect (img 1) We want our UI to stack vertically, so create a child VboxContainer and set the anchors the same way

Set the control node to use the full rect of the screen

setting our vboxcontainer to full rect as well

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 24/12/2024

The fields are all pretty self-explanatory name, description, author, version (number) Finally there is "script" This is the entry point for our plugin. We will call this "renamer.gd" for this plugin.

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 24/12/2024

Alright #Godot devs, let's do a quick tutorial on making an Editor Plugin for #GodotEngine The Godot Editor is itself a Godot project, so we can just use regular old gdscript to extend it We will make a plugin that lets you rename a selected file continued in replies #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 22/12/2024

And now we are in the Asset Library 🔥 godotengine.org/asset-librar... You can install directly from within #Godot using the AssetLib tab at the top of your #GodotEngine Editor I’ll probably add more pivot point options to this in a few days Would anyone want a tutorial on making plugins?

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 20/12/2024

Hey #Godot friends! I got tired of needing to open my .obj files in #Blender and correct the origin/pivot point, so I created a plugin that does this in the editor 🙌 github.com/RedPlanetGam... I have submitted it to the Godot Asset Library, it is pending approval 💙 #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

This cube .obj is transformed to 0,0,0 but it is sitting off to the side :(

Using my plugin I can switch to the OBJ Origin Tool tab in the dock and choose the new origin/pivot point

This will create a copy of the .obj file called FILENAME_adjusted.obj, and it now how the pivot point we wanted :D

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 19/12/2024

I am in shader hell today. How's everyone else's projects coming along? #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #godot

Shader I am piecing together for distortion correction from orthographic stretch

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 16/12/2024

Got the external GPU working with the Ally X 🙌🙌 Getting consistent 60 FPS on high settings at 4k resolution. Really sick potential for a dockable desktop #gaming rig.

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 15/12/2024

Hot #gaming take time 🔥 Starfield is a good game. If you chose to fast travel for every single quest that’s on you. There is tons of exploration, character, lore, and world building if you go looking for it. Combat sucked though.

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 13/12/2024

Now we will see the "separation" override appear in the Theme Inspector (see image 1) I can now go apply this new theme to the "Buttons" control node, then I can go back to the theme and adjust the separation value until I am happy with the result Explore other overrides, themes are awesome 💙

Theme Inspector showing the Separation value we added

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 13/12/2024

Let's make another theme for the buttons In this one I will use a different font, apply as you did before I will also change the button vertical spacing In the Theme Editor, click the + and search VBoxContainer and Add Type Now we can choose what to override, I want "separation" (see image 2)

Showing how to add the VBoxContainer to this theme

how to add VBoxContainer -> "separation" to this theme

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 13/12/2024

I could click each item and update its font in the Inspector, or I could make a theme In FileSystem, right click -> New Resource... -> Theme By default the theme lets you set some font properties in the Inspector, I'll assign a font In the "Labels" Control node I can assign my new theme Neat!

Showing my control node before I assign a theme

Showing after I assign the theme. The Title and Subtitle both now have my font applied

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Myles @myles.redplanetgames.co · 13/12/2024

Here is a quick #Godot tip/tutorial The theme system can make it easy to make large layout changes quickly Ex: I have this main menu for my game and I want more fonts, better spacing for buttons, etc Cont in replies... #godotengine #gamedev #solodev #tutorial

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