scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 28/09/2026Can't get my hands on a Playdate, so I guess all I can do is make a game for the Game Boy #gamedev #retro 0123
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 23/08/2026A delightful low-poly world store.steampowered.com/app/4845040/... #screenshotsaturday 052
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 20/08/20264. Careful with procedural noise. Fog, grass, film grain, and so on. It ruins video quality for streamers and YouTubers on low bitrate. Turn it down if you want them to share your game. I learned this the hard way from a streamer's feedback. The game: store.steampowered.com/app/4845040/...store.steampowered.comBrews & Kings on SteamA roguelike city builder where every farm, mill, and road exists to brew beer. Explore a wilderness that's different each run, claim the rare ingredients you find there, and grow an economy rich enoug... 010
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 20/08/20262. Basic color grading goes a long way. Light color, light strength, ambient light, and a simple color grade shader already do a lot. They set the tone of the whole game. 3. Glitters! Fireflies, embers, campfires, sparks, birds. Almost no performance cost, and the world feels alive. 100
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 20/08/2026Same Asset Pack, 4 Months of Figuring Out Lighting. Some lesson learned: 1. Find references. It is very hard to learn lighting from text. Find images you like and study them pixel by pixel. #godotengine #gamedev 190
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 20/07/2026As a book lover, I'd like to think this is my small contribution to the book culture. 010
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 20/07/2026- The scope of a narrative game like this is much easier to control, compared to. e.g. a strategy game. - The core game loop feels finished. Once the system is in place, expanding is easy. e.g. how big to go, what kind of stories to tell, it's all flexible. 101
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 20/07/2026It's a small horror game I jammed out in a week. As someone who'd never played this kind of game before, making one felt surprisingly fresh. 100
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 20/07/2026"The books you read reveal a lot about you". That idea was pretty much the starting point for this game. You play as a bookstore clerk, fulfilling customer's order emails, and slowly uncover their secrets. devpoga.itch.io/books-for-ba... #indiegame #horrorgame #retro #godotengine 121
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 11/07/2026Sometimes your debug views looks cooler than the actual game scene... #gamedev #screenshotstaturday 062
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 08/07/2026The engine's debug view v.s. what the player actually see. Feels great to have a clean simulation engine that's decoupled from the views. Totally worth 3 months of hard work. devlog: scarlet.engineering/blog/making-... #gamedev #godotengine #godot 2111
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 04/07/2026store.steampowered.com/app/4845040/...store.steampowered.comBrews & Kings on SteamA roguelike medieval city builder where your whole city feeds one sprawling brewing operation. Scout for rare ingredients and resources, raise the farms, mills, and workshops that keep it running,… 010
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 04/07/2026Trying to catch that analog feel #gamedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday 1123
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 30/06/2026There's just not that many info on the internet about making simulation/strategy games. so here's my devlog. more parts to come. scarlet.engineering/blog/making-... #indiegame #gamedev #godotenginescarlet.engineeringMaking a Simulation game - Part 1: The Engine - scarlet.engineeringHow does a simulation game actually work? 3183
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 06/06/2026It feels amazing to have made a game myself that I actually want to keep playing while playtesting 🥹 #indiegame #godotengine #gamedev #screenshotsaturday 0143
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 09/05/2026I had an idea about organizing books on a bookshelf but failed to make a fun prototype. This looks fun as hell store.steampowered.com/app/4197610/...store.steampowered.comSave 15% on Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! on SteamLibrarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! is a single-player simulation. You need return scattered books to proper places in an Arcane Library. As completed rows of bookshelves, you can learn ability to… 000
Reposted by scarlet.engineeringAdriaan @adriaan.games · 29/04/2026Godot went through the exact “sponsor is bad, so money is bad” discourse a few months ago, and… nothing of note changed — other than more people were paid to fix your bug reports and improve the engine for everyone. This page was created, too: 914128
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 27/04/2026Tomorrow! #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/590830/s...store.steampowered.coms&box on SteamOur spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, this is a game creation platform built on the Source 2 engine. Play, create, and share games, explore community creations, and experience endless sandbox fun wi... 061
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 27/04/2026Their 2022 talk on music and sound design is also really substantial. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oBJ...youtube.comPlay the Hand You're Dealt - Against the Storm Audio Deep Dive | Save & Sound 2022Our Sound Producer, Mikołaj Kurpios, discusses the process of creating the music and sounds for Against the Storm, the limitations he faced during the process, and how he turned those constraints to… 010
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 27/04/2026... but after watching their 2024 GDC talk, I felt like I could chew on those 40 minutes for three days straight. gdcvault.com/play/1034422... 120
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 27/04/2026Against the Storm has been one of the most inspiring things I've come across in recent years. (The other one is the Steam Deck.) I used to think there were very few resources out there for this kind of management and strategy sim... 120
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 22/04/2026Refactoring a messy prototype into a proper agent simulation system 💀 #gamedev #indiegame #godotengine 062
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 20/04/2026been stuck with this volumetric water shader for 2 weeks... The idea was to have a ISLANDERS or bad north style, minimalistic tower defense/strategy game. Kinda like how it looks but still somethings feels off... #gamedev #indiegame #godotengine 292
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 18/04/2026How do we generate our terrain with shader? #gamedev #godotengine #Shader scarlet.engineering/blog/ground-...scarlet.engineeringOne Shader, One Mesh, One Island - scarlet.engineeringHow we built organic islands with tidal water using SDFs and noise 071
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 13/04/2026Drop your favorite grid-based / proc gen / management games below. Always looking for new rabbit holes to fall into 👀 000
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 13/04/2026Making games is about making yourself happy after all. I really can't resist this kind of grid + proc gen + management/building/strategy/sim game 🥺 100
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 13/04/2026Also gave my previous weird ocean a major overhaul. Still pure shader work, with improved water volume and more varied terrain. But without good assets it still looks a bit off... any recommendations for references to study? 100
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 13/04/2026Finally recovering from last week's cough. Threw what little energy I had into experimenting with procedural generation. Plan to turn each one into a full game. Started with the basics: hex grids, Poisson disk sampling, ... etc. combined with existing asset packs. #gamedev #GodotEngine #IndieGame 1152
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 07/04/2026Making it even more organic. like a life form breathing, exploring nearby environment #gamedev #godotengine 0142
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 06/04/2026Finally got the shader where I wanted it after way too much struggling. That creeping, slightly organic, slightly unsettling water feel. #gamedev #GodotEngine 0143
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 21/03/2026A #gamedev trick that once you see it. you see it everywhere: Hysteresis Whenever you need to convert analog into binary by introducing a certain threshold, it's a good idea to add a bit of hysteresis around that threshold en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hystere...en.wikipedia.orgHysteresis - WikipediaHysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history. For example, a magnet may have more than one possible magnetic moment in a given magnetic field, depending on how the field… 052
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 07/03/2026My all time favorite coroutine trick: scripting encounters or cinematics sequences with it Waaaay easier to read and tweak compare to state machines for linear sequences. just be aware that we have no way to cancel a coroutine in godot currently #GodotEngine #gamedev 2101
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 28/02/202610k people played! not every incremental game need to have a skill tree and a prestige system devpoga.itch.io/murderhorn #GodotEngine #gamedev 061
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 23/02/2026almost 7000 plays! glad to know that people still enjoy games that just try to tell a sweet little story. 😍 devpoga.itch.io/murderhorn #godotengine #indiegames #gamedev 093
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 21/02/2026A note about designing number scaling in games to make them fun. Goals, Sub-goals, and Progressions. Curves of Fun #gamedev scarlet.engineering/blog/curves-...scarlet.engineeringCurves of Fun - scarlet.engineeringHandy functions for designing number scaling in games 061
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 21/02/2026Made a game about a mountain and humans who want to climb it. devpoga.itch.io/murderhorn #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #godot 071
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 16/02/2026Logistic functions are great ways to create rhythmic sub-goals in the overall game progression. #gamedev 151
Reposted by scarlet.engineeringGodot Engine @godotengine.org · 13/02/2026Our first development snapshot for #GodotEngine 4.7 has arrived! Virtual joysticks, drawable textures, Windows HDR support, Vulkan raytracing groundwork, and more are ripe for testing: godotengine.org/article/dev-...godotengine.orgDev snapshot: Godot 4.7 dev 1 – Godot EngineAll the colors of the rainbow (and more?) 1036348
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 14/02/2026> I’ve decided to base this first entry on the localization of Ys 1 because, amazingly enough, it actually received three fully distinct official English translations between 1989 and 19901, all by different companies working independently lizbushouse.com/localization... #gamedevlizbushouse.comLocalization Lore: Ys I (~1989-1990) - Elizabeth BushouseWelcome to a new series of mine focused on the history of video game localization! In my time studying Japanese-to-English game translations, it became 041
Reposted by scarlet.engineeringGodot Engine @godotengine.org · 12/02/2026We would love to welcome @mikeklubnika.bsky.social, developer of Buckshot Roulette and s.p.l.i.t, as a new development fund member, joining as a Corporate Platinum sponsor 💙 This is a major contribution and it helps us to continue developing the Godot Engine for everyone. Thank you! 131152132
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 09/02/2026What's your favorite, modern logistic/management game that's easy to play on SteamDeck? Sometimes I still miss The Settlers II. #gamedev 062
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 02/02/2026Is the damage number JUICY ENOUGH? #gamedev #godot 1211
scarlet.engineering @scarlet.engineering · 19/01/2026My first godot wild jam! Repurpose your followers to make the survival of all! #gamedev #godotwildjam #godot devpoga.itch.io/road-to-sanc... 041
Reposted by scarlet.engineeringGameDiscoverCo @gamediscoverco.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Interestingly, Steam just rewrote - but did NOT remove - its 'does your game have AI in it?' dev disclosure form. Valve's making it clearer the 'AI powered tools' (like code helpers) don't need citing - "Efficiency gains through the use of [AI powered dev tools] is not the focus of this section." 34818
