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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks! I probably have the original patch with the crash, as I found it a few years ago. I hadn't played it yet, so I'll make sure to use this one instead. Deleted the original post since my info on V2 and GX was incomplete. Next time I'll do my researcxh before getting excited.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I had just discovered it so I didn't know. Nevermind I guess.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I had no idea about the GX patch. That's disappointing.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I was surprised about GX too. But it's complete. V2 is weird. I guess the group making that patch had a falling out. There are unfinished betas of that patch floating around, and it's playable all the way through. But the text formatting gets worse the further in you go.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't highlight my old work here. Mostly because I'm harsh on myself and see the flaws in it. But every time someone discovers my old projects they ask me to open source them. Using my ancient work is not a good idea. I didn't know what I was doing back then. But it's still cool that people care.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's called an alarmpogo for a reason. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's not as hard as it sounds. The controller guts need to be removed. Then you take the plastic parts for the buttons and shell and wash them by hand. It's not like I'm throwing the pcb in the sink. Just everything else.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also, yes I still use a dualshock 3. The early units used magnetic sticks before they were cool, so they don't drift. Also they work on linux out of the box and the batteries are easy to replace.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You should deep clean your game controllers once in a while. I do it all the time, but there's a thing you should know about dualshock 3s specifically. The 2 pcbs inside are connected by a contact pad. Make sure the screws are tight or else the button board will start disconnecting and acting weird.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Boss 3 is finished. Not going to show it just yet but I really like how it turned out.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You ever get the feeling that others just don't like the things you like for the reasons you do? That's me right now.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's because when designing a game, you typically have to keep the length of the game in mind, and if you remove 1 way of making it longer, that length is going to creep back in using other design elements instead.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That is because the designer has to consider that you only have 3 tries going in. On the flipside, look at any stage designed without lives as a constraint. There are hazards everywhere.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Look at any stage from a game with lives and try to find the lava. You'll find that there aren't as many spikes or pits as there are in modern platformers.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Most environment art I've shown is from level1. There's a reason for that. Starting out I needed to learn how to make maps. After level1 I built tools to make the process faster. This room took a week and most of it was time spent making modular tiles #godot #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Reach for the stars and you might just hit the moon. Reach for the moon and I dunno man...

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Most levels get their own tileset. But that doesn't always mean what it sounds like. Not every tile is a tile. Sometimes it's a model that occupies a slot. And tiles can have their materials switched. I can mix tilesets together too. So each stage will look unique, but they'll often borrow things.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Time attack is a big part of my game, and I found a problem. If this boss does not use a certain move, you're not getting the best time. So you can now bait it into charging by running away. Then you can use the boom box weapon (it's weakness!) and knock it over #godot #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Years ago I built a skybox tool in blender, and it's still what I use. But it was locked in an older version, because blender updates broke the cloud shader. But now that I've decided to use Blender 3 instead of 4 again, all of my art is on the same version. Clouds included. Silver lining I guess.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yup you can knock this boss out of the sky, pick it up, and throw it at lithium crates now.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I'm programming another boss and because of how I structured enemies I was accidentally able to pick it up and throw it. I should turn this off... But I could also make it part of the fight. I think I'm going to follow the fun here.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

MegaMan Network Transmission is one of my favorite games. But there are some things it never tells you that you need to know: You can slide under the legs of bosses. Cannons can be a standin for the megabuster until its powered up. Get 30 and make it a regular chip. The penguins drop double jumps.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I hadn't thought about the arena shape much, but you're right. It just kind of felt right since you're moving the analog stick in a circle and also running in circles. So I made it a circle.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

All the python scripts work now too.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Make that 1 day. I have successfully backported every model from 4.2 to 3.6 and only 3 of them exploded. Now I just need to make sure my python scripts still work.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The final straw was adding additional bones to my rig, explicitly telling blender to parent them to DEF for the 3rd time, and having IK break on the game side again because the bones got parented to MCH anyway. Every time it does this I have to redo a character scene in godot. No more.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've decided to downgrade blender versions. Somewhere along the line I started using 4.2. Originally I used 3.3. Rigify is way different now. The problem is the amount of extra steps it takes to do anything. Got some NLA tracks to fix, but it'll only take a few days. Time to get my speed back.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think steel boils at about this temperature.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I think steel boils at about this temperature.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm at that point where the gizmos stop looking intimidating and just look like the coolest thing ever.

A screenshot of a scene in the godot editor. There's an untextured warehouse room in the scene. In the center is a transform gizmo, a reflection probe, a bunch of baked ambient light probes, and also the main mesh of the scene is outlined purple wireframe. The purple represents the occluder instance. There's also some cyan wireframes under a ledge. Those are part of the navmesh.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm making a backup and thought it would be interesting to share the file sizes. Backups come in 2 parts: ProjectSource & AssetSource ProjectSource is the godot project. AssetSource contains all of the source art & sound. ProjectSource is: 943.1 MB AssetSource is: 8.5 GB Both compressed: 4.4 GB

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There's some wacky stuff going on in the test room. Who programmed this anyway? ...Don't answer that. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There's some wacky stuff going on in the test room. Who programmed this anyway? ...Don't answer that. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I probably shouldn't be staring at the sun like this. But look at that lensflare! #godot #gamedev #indiedev

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I probably shouldn't be staring at the sun like this. But look at that lensflare! #godot #gamedev #indiedev

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I added an attract mode to the the game. I think this is really underrated teaching tool. There are so many tricks I've learned about games just by watching demos on the title screen. Also, the game has a physical sun now with a lensflare shader. #godot #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I guess the attract mode works. That's a lot more attention than I usually get.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Camera control is on the right analog stick. Move it however you want.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It doesn't have a name yet. It's a thing I'm making in my spare time. When it gets a steam page it will get a name and I'll announce it here.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I just think lensflares are cool ok? The better question is "what kind of lens is that?"

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

PUT THAT THING BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM OR SO HELP ME-

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is how I used MMF2 most of the time. The engine had me learning about data structures before I even knew how to code.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

There's not a sequel because the investors think a remake will sell more copies.

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Nick West @nickwestdev.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Andross from Starfox. Back when I was first learning 3D modeling I made this by eyeballing footage from the SNES game. It's one of my first models in Blender. #blender #art #StarFox

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