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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Been a minute since I've posted an update, life's been busy but I've also started whiteboxing my game's first real level 👀 #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

Screenshot showing a blocked-out level in a video game. A pig character stands on a dock looking at a building, a pavilion, and a culvert.

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He has no style, he has no grace, this Kong has a funny face (used squares for the treetop platforms because I haven't modeled proper climbing trees yet lol) #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I want my game to have climbing like DK64, where you can climb curved trunks and circle around them freely, I THINK I've come up with a plan but need other #gamedev folks to tell me if it's a dumb idea, my plan is in the replies (1/2) #godot #indiegame #indiedev #n64 #lowpoly

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

HEARD. Added a clean little leapfrog hop to get up ledges 🐸 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Adding a quick hitbox to bounce off enemies' heads and WHAT hahahaha #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ledge hang! So far I don't have a clamber-up action...but the jump has enough movement where you can get up with it? I'm 50/50 on leaving it as is or making some kind of hop-up. 🤔 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

RigidBody3D vs CharacterBody3D on the slide, and MAN I'm happy I was able to make them work effectively the same way. Should make for some fun challenges! #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of the last parts of Snork's base moveset: carrying things! Tried to lean as far away from a "modern game engine's physics object" feel and as close to what feels like #n64 physics as I could (the weird egg is a placeholder lol) #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #godot #lowpoly

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Wanted to put some personality into the different fidget animations that play when Snork talks, I'm happy with how they turned out! #gamdev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #blender3d #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Oh yeah, we can talk now. Talking animations, speech bubbles, and zooming camera are all working! So many moving parts in a full dialogue system 😫 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #godot #n64 #lowpoly

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

WIP: conversations are all coming together! I'm using Snork's walk animation as a placeholder for talking (the Woolie NPC will have one too) and I still need the camera to move, but we're getting there! #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Got the stem working on the speech bubble! Going to add thought bubbles next but it should use the same code. Usually you won't have movement control during speaking scenes, so it'll just let me not have to manually position the bubbles. #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Set up a speech bubble that moves so it won't cover the speaker's mouth! Don't have the stem yet to point to the speaker, working on that now. #indiegame #gamedev #godot #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Making speech bubbles that move dynamically to not cover the speaker’s face, thinking I’d need some complicated math to get the speaker’s 3D position mapped onto the 2D view. Nah, cameras just have an `unproject` method. I love #gamedev haha #indiegame #godot

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

An icy slide has appeared in my sandbox level! #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My #godot player and enemies kept getting stuck inside a new piece of terrain so I swapped from Default to Jolt physics. Which broke is_on_wall()?? Had to make a DumbWallRaycast just to keep my wallslide state functional, smh #indiegame #gamedev #lowpoly

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Me learning #godot, very dumb: Forward is -Z, not +Z? I'll flip the character model so it faces +Z and base all my physics on that, there's no way that'll bite me a year from now. Me now: Huh getting some weird bugs when I adjust the model's sliding angle #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Been busy but found time to work on sliding! Being on terrain in the Slide group triggers it, and it'll be a forward or backward slide based on how he's facing at the start. Adding the animations now, should make for some fun levels! #indiegame #gamedev #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Moving platforms 🚫 Easily-configurable moving platforms ✅ Settings for looping, boomerang-ing, flickering/lingering before despawning, respawning after a delay, auto-starting, and exposing sub-scene shapes and mesh to the parent scene! #godot #indiegame #gamedev #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Working on a devlog + being on-call at work + kiddo having a couple rough nights of sleep + brainstorming about the backend of a dialogue system without having any UI yet = a real lack of updates to post about huh lmao #gamedev #indiegame

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

First devlog script is done! Now to record a lot of B-roll and the actual voiceover. Then learn the basics of editing in DaVinci Resolve 🤨 #gamedev #indiegame

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

More Pokopia 🥳 New Xenoblade 😮 "In a kingdom ruled by the gods--" "In a land where one kingdom remains--" "In a world where kingdoms rise and fall--" Thumb wrestling 👍 Link with RTX on 🫪

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Bit the bullet and fully replaced the AnimationTree with a custom tool script. I needed: - some animations to auto-advance when they finish - simple centralized custom speeds for certain animations Best time to code it right: from the start. Second best time: right now. #godot #indiegame #gamedev

A code snippet defining the custom properties for an Animation Manager class. The dictionaries that define when animations automatically advance and which ones have custom playback speeds are set up in the _get_property_list function such that they will have dynamically-populated dropdown lists to pick from all animations present on the provided AnimationPlayer.

A screenshot of the Animation Manager's interface once it's attached to a node. The Animation Player is set and both the Auto Advance Anims and Custom Playback Speeds dictionaries are populated with animation names and values.

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I love #godot but man I've got to believe there's a way to make animation trees usable or at the very least legible once you need more than like ten animation nodes. Most things in my game so far don't, but my player character is ROUGH. #indiegame #gamedev

Screenshot of an AnimationTree in the Godot game engine with at least 35 animation nodes. It makes an illegible spider web of transition arrows from node to node and is very hard to parse.

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Adding all the different combinations of damage recoil animations is taking longer than I expected. I think they're looking good though! Grounded hit backward, aerial hit backward with a landing and getup animation, etc. Halfway done! #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Upping the effects in my game! Sparkles, dust clouds, and bonk stars. I'm using #godot 's particle system for the passive sparkles on coins and moons, and I made a custom particle manager for the circular moving effects. #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The more I do #gamedev the more things I assumed would be complicated turn out to be really simple (working with #godot 's particle emitter right now) I'll still get stuck on something dumb for hours, but it's nice when something I expected to take a while is done in minutes

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Bellyflops so big they cause a crater! I think my next task will be to update my effects and particles, adding passive sparkles to coins/moons, adding impact dust/pow-stars/etc to the bellyflop landing, maybe a screen shake as well #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Wall Jumps Will Work! Simplified the jumps from games like Mario64 where you'd bonk and fall if the timing wasn't tight; I want it to be a tool in the player's kit, not a hard skill check. You'll slide down the wall rather than bonk and can jump at will. #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Added another jump type, the sideflip. For sure the trickiest one to nail down the animation look for, and to figure out how to balance the turning around angle + the angle at which the animation starts. His base moveset's close to done! #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If Majora's Mask taught me anything, it's that the absolute coolest thing in a video game is when the little dude does a flip #gamedev #indiegame #godot #n64 #lowpoly

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Saw it trending a few weeks ago so I added scuffed pig physics and gave Snork the ability to crawl #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #n64 #godot

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Health bar is finished! I really like how the sleepy snot bubbles turned out and how lowkey kind of stupid it is haha, it fits the vibe I want. So here's a comprehensive UI demo video! #godot #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Brainstorming what to use as health in my game. Levels are dreams you enter, and “dying” is taking enough damage to wake up, so I want it to indicate how deeply you’re asleep. Hearts? Nah. Z’s? Maybe. Then it hit me! 🐽🫧 #gamedev #indiegame

Luffy from One Piece asleep with a bubble coming from his nose

Mario and a piranha plant from Mario 64, both asleep, and the piranha plant has a nose bubble

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Various HUD updates. Didn't like it all being on the right, and the slide in/out code I wrote was spaghetti. 1. Moon talismans are now just golden moons, and their HUD icon is in the middle and the number animates as it ticks up. 🧵 #gamedev #indiegame #godot #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I figured out how Super Mario 64 does its skybox and I made it in #godot for my game! I really like how *off* it feels when it doesn't quite match up with where you'd expect the horizon to be when the perspective changes, and I think fits my game's dream levels. A thread! 🧵 #indiegame #gamedev

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Pause menu functionally complete! I've got plans for the empty spaces and some of the options are still placeholders, but it's working how I want it to. #godot #indiegame #gamedev #lowpoly #n64

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Custom blocky bitmap font in #godot using #blender3d: Sketch block letters, trace them in Blender, give them depth and an offset and a gradient texture, render a PNG with a transparent background, arrange them in ASCII order, import to Godot as an Image Font, and tweak kerning! #gamedev #indiegame

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Pause menu checklist: ✅ game actually pauses ✅ themed appearance (dream journal) ✅ multiple pages of options wired up to real values ✅ icons for collectibles to show completion stats ✅ two new custom fonts 🔲 decide how HP will look for a pig in a dream-themed game Hearts? Pie slices? Bacon? “Z”s?

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Lack of sleep from raising a newborn is a debuff to overall energy and creativity. Not working a 40-hour work week due to paternity leave is a buff to overall energy and creativity. It’s crazy how much the buff outweighs the debuff!

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Okay, spent a night awake holding my son in one arm, doing #gamedev with the other, and updated the pause menu visuals and timing. I like how it turned out! More diegetic, kind of my take on the Goldeneye watch menu. #indiedev #godot #n64 #lowpoly bsky.app/profile/phyo...

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The leak is bad news for everyone who worked on the movie and bad news for the chances of future movies being greenlit, but man it feels good to see so much Avatar all over my timeline

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I'm a dad now! Which of course means I've made a TON of progress in the last two weeks, how's my pause menu looking? Pretty sweet, right? #gamedev #indiegame #godot #n64 #lowpoly

The most basic pause screen you've ever seen, a black box with 1/3 opacity and the word "PAUSED" at the top.

The pause menu in action, being overlaid on top of the game.

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Finally wrapped up all the camera modes, and made his head follow where you’re looking in first-person! Crazy how much difference these polishes make in the overall feel. Onto more fun things! #gamedev #indiegame #godot #n64 #lowpoly

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Who decided to call it calamari and not squonion rings

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