iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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

So far it’s fun! Still really excited for the art pass though haha

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 · 14/09/2026

I started learning Godot by making level one of SMW, and about one week after I started he released his first vid doing the same and it completely blew mine out of the water, they’re such good videos haha

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Concept art lookin great 👀

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

Thanks! Any other ones you’re keeping an eye on? I love finding new n64-ish dev accounts to follow 👀

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

Thanks!! Ended up going with path_follow_3d.progress = curve.get_closest_offset(to_local(player.global_position)) to set the progress, worked great!

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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’ll definitely check those out too

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

So far I’m thinking of having an array of radius values that map to the Path points, and linearly adjusting the pivot radius between the two closest points. Or going way simpler and just doing top_radius and bottom_radius and not having any crazy geometry in between haha

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

I like this way more than reparenting the player whenever you enter or leave the climbing state haha, great idea

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

Was trying to think of the best solution to estimating a starting position between Path points, but I like this better. Just have enough Path points, even on a straight tree, that snapping to the nearest one doesn’t look janky haha. Anything to avoid unnecessary math!

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

Path3D following the trunk with a Node3D offset by the trunk radius under the PathFollow3D, and the player under that Node3D when climbing. Vertical movement handled by PathFollow3D progress, horizontal movement handled by Node3D z-rotation. Good idea? Over-complicating it? (2/2)

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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 · 02/09/2026

Thank you!! Yeah so far I'm toying with the idea of like a little leapfrog animation and just enough of an upward hop to put him on the edge.

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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 · 31/08/2026

Huge praise, thank you!!

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

…….I didn’t even think of that, now I’m brainstorming Chao features hahaha

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

So far? Pick it up and throw it hahaha. Eventually maybe I’ll have an egg-rescue mission or something. Also probably going to have carry-able keys or crates you have to throw off high places to break or throwable weapons!

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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

This level's looking great!

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

(this is just demo code btw, the actual game dialogue will be stored as resource files)

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

I'm using a custom dialogue system that breaks up long lines into sizes that'll fit the speech bubbles and treats each new line as a new bubble. I'll be adding Camera/Animation/Movement/etc DialogueActions to dynamically handle speech "cutscenes" entirely via these resources.

Demo code showing the lines of dialogue being defined. The first sentence is one long string that gets parsed out into two separate speech bubbles when it's shown in the game.

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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 · 05/08/2026

So many “there’s too many platforms in my platformer!” takes

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

If it works, it works! “The best code is the code that ships” Of course, I say that after having gone back and spent a few straight days refactoring my animation tree setup lol

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

Niiice, I do the same thing for recovery/getup "transition states", I just keep a list of movement-locked animations in my IDLE state and just don't switch to a movement state if one of those animations is still playing. Glad I'm not the only one doing something similar haha

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

Feels like just long enough of a wind-up time getting into it and then an almost immediate transition to being out of it so you can do other actions, seems spot-on!

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

Ooooh the orb clamping is clean

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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 · 31/07/2026

Yeah, I’d rather not make it a setting, just leaving it all caps would be enough

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

I feel like it might read as yelling more than it would otherwise because it’s next to the lower-case option 🤔 Love an excuse to bust out my old Thor comics though haha. Definitely planning on using color and text effects to add some variation and volume too!

Screenshot of Conker saying “Ok, there’s no need to get offensive now”

Screenshot from Banjo-Kazooie where Bottles is saying “…moves to learn in this world”

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Phyoke @phyoke.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

*Technically* yes since it’s a custom font, I’d just have to go back and make a less-bold one 😅 this is all there is at the moment though

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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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