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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A few short videos of early combat in the dojo

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A few short videos of early combat in the dojo

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A few short videos of early combat in the dojo

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A little something with the Kay Lousberg assets.

Screenshot of a WIP 3rd person scene showing a player character attacking a mannequin using a slashing weapon.

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’ve been working on the Brain enemy and its interaction with the Human. #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday @godotengine.org

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Stumbled across some old footage of #SPLEENWEEVIL Old HUD, switchable weapons, glowy RED #gamedev #indiegames @godotengine.org

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Some death animations. These are Characters3D animations that I now need to retarget to a Rigify armature. #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday @godotengine.org

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Basic death animation. I was hoping to maybe Ragdoll this but I’m having plenty of trouble with the physics bones affecting the character transform. I’m sure my rig / mesh could be tweaked to fix this. I bought an anima pack which I thought had some more death anims but turns out they’re in pack 1

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Some super early spawn and death effects for the humans There will lots more layers to this in the final effect. Currently it’s just a couple of Mesh Shatters in reverse with different lifetimes and starting distances. #gamedev #indiegames @godotengine.org #vfx

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Upgraded to #godotengine 4.6. today. Literally unusable! (but seriously, great work on the theme changes)

An image from the Godot game engine editor v4.6 showing the difference between the top and bottom borders of the Collision Layer widget.

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It's been a fun distration messing about with the Robotron sprites but it's time to get serious now! #ERROR_PROTOCOL @godotengine.org #gamedev #indiegames

Screenshot of a WIP FPS written in C# using the Godot game engine. The image shows the play area (the inside of a cube) with some human NPCs that require rescuing by the player. The player's gun looms large in the bottom rigt hand corner of the screen.

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Very slowly, I feel it's starting to come together. Little by little. #ERROR_PROTOCOL @godotengine.org #indiegames #indiedev

Screenshot of a WIP indie FPS shooter written using C# and the Godot game engine. Image depicts a curved areana, rendered in a pseudo wireframe style with chunky, pixelated enemies aproaching the player.

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Anyone know how to create ASCII art diagrams for code comments - I'm trying to describe operations like this... Any ideas? Is there a tool for drawing lines in stuff? @lorenschmidt.bsky.social maybe? You always have great comments 🤔

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Turns out it was quite straightforward to decompose the velocity 👍 this means I can dynamically grab them when I need them and not have to think about storing different things separately. #indiegames #gamedev #ERROR_PROTOCOL @godotengine.org

Screenshot of some Godot / C# code to decompose a CharacterBody 3D's velocity into horizonal and vertical components.

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"They're coming outta the goddamn walls!" A simple enemy steering behaviour has the enemies homing towards the player given some target radius. #indiegames #gamedev #screenshotsaturday @godotgameengine.bsky.social

Screenshow of a WIP FPS written in Godot. The image shows a debug view of the play area which is the inside of a bevelled cube. Various enemies approach the player. The game features a dynamic gravity system so enemies can spawn on floor, walls and ceilings.

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Progress is mainly refractoring junk code, moving stuff around to sensible locations and my favourite, deleting stuff :-) The idea rattling round in my head is Robotron meets Ancipital. #gamedev #indiegames @godotgameengine.bsky.social

Screenshot of a WIP FPS written using the Godot game engine. The image shows a bunch of chunky pixelalted enemies (sprites from the game Robotron) approaching the player. A checkerboard floor extends into the distance

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Working on the entities. SPLEENWEEVIL contains a bunch of hacky, quickly thrown together, 'my first Godot project' code. And I've been fighting Godot since the beginning, trying to remain out of the editor and in Visual Studio as much as possible... #gamedev #indiegames @godotengine.org

Screenshot of the Godot game engine editor, showing a Scene tree with a bunch of components and a pixel mesh Grunt enemy from the arcade classic, Robotron.

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Doing bits on #ERROR_PROTOCOL over the weekend. *Slowly* morphing from SPLEENWEEVIL into it's own thing. I wonder if I'll sort out all the // TODO, // HACK and // FIXME @godotengine.org #gamedev #indiegames

Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Writing your own 'engine' is a ton of work. I love the gameplay code but collisions, physics, rendering is such a time sink! I'm going to pivot to @godotengine.org again for the new thing. #ERROR_PROTOCOL is going to be an FPS, building on what I learnt writing #SPLEENWEEVIL #indiegames #gamedev

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Progress on the game. The start of a GPU particle system. #indiegame #gamedev #particles

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

No matter how many times I try to turn off this Microsoft AI nonsense, they always find new ways to annoy me. I just want to type some words and occasionally browse the API using good old fashioned intellisense. Don't clutter my doc, don't capture keystrokes, just display the text FFS 🤬

A screenshot of VS Code showing some C# class with a super annoying, incorrect, obnoxious, CoPilot suggestion.

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Started the particle system. I'm hoping I can do 99% of it all on the GPU, pretty much compute all the way. We have a few effects here (1) hit sparks (2) muzzle flash, which contains a couple of emitters currently. Excuse the programmer art :-) #indiegames #gamedev #gpuparticles

Screenshot of a WIP GPU particle system for an Indie FPS

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Pumpkin Games @pumpkingames.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I really like the (pure) #ECS style design, not for the reported speed benefits, mostly for the way I can structure the program. It's just one flat list of systems. #indiegames #gamedev

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