Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Got stuck on the camera code so pivoted and working on some music today :) I think it's quite good so far #gamedev #indiedev #music #reaper 0103
Reposted by StuartORIGAME DIGITAL @origamedigital.bsky.social · 11/03/2026From the ground up we wanted to make PC feel like an authentic PS2 game not just the visuals but the the weirdly experimental nature of some of the gameplay. Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/… #lovecraft #weirdfiction #indiedev #gamedev #crt #playstation2 #gamecube 1235
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026redid climbing anims, not 100% sure on L/R, but up/down looks cute :) lil dust cloud when landing, not done, but looks ok! + more music early days, but I get excited + want to show things also working on v nice levels not just ugly test environments i promise lmao #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 0143
Reposted by Stuartmolegato (Frogun & Twinkle dev) @molegato.com · 08/03/2026Want to say, now’s most scary and stressful it’s been in a long while, and being informed is important. But your wellbeing is important too, so please take a rest if the endless stream of doom is wearing you down. Be kind to others and yourself, and fight this hate with love and care 🫂 58920
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 08/03/2026dug out my old CRT! also been working on lots of new things, more animation states, and a new ledge grabbing mechanic that took me bloody AGES. looks pretty good i think though? #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 073
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 05/03/2026God I get this, it takes me so long for those feelings to leave my system after the fact, it's never instant relief, it just sloooowly fades...glad to hear whatever it was was nothing though! 010
Reposted by StuartTransientCode @transientcode.bsky.social · 03/03/2026My current non-dev art that I’m working on as a break from tilesets and props #pixelart 0273
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026first step is this rough skeleton, getting a feel for the scale of things, where the walls will be, climbing/sliding/jumps etc..... #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign 0132
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026level design (unreadable) #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign 093
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026That hand drawn map is lovely, such a treasure! reminds me of me and my Mum playing PS1 games and her keeping notes and doing little diagrams, I so wish I still had them 010
Reposted by StuartDerek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Shout out to The Legend of Zelda after 40 years! A game whose sense of exploration and adventure still feels unparalleled to me in many ways. Art scans courtesy of @historyofhyrule.com: www.flickr.com/photos/histo... Hand-drawn map by my dad, from when we played the game together in the 80s. 739775
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I'm late to everything as per, but have today discovered @retroachievements.org is a thing??? Going through Rayman atm, no cheats, no savestates, just ~30 years of experience playing it, so I can have bragging rights lmao 000
Reposted by Stuartdissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 21/02/2026some people are very cruel and i don’t understand them. the world could be so much more beautiful 1636
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Obsessed w/ the ch*tgpt subreddit, ppl are spiraling bc there's a new version that's SO rude+ confrontational + as much as I DETEST the rotten disgusting industry, I find joy in dysregulated ppl who thought a lovely robot was their best friend suddenly being called stupid + being gaslit by the robot 000
Reposted by Stuart🐈🔥Haruka 🔥🐈 @haruka-vii.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Bon retour parmi nous, Monsieur Rayman! ✨✌️ This one is a personal tribute to the 30th anniversary of the Rayman game, as well as to its original composer, Rémi Gazel, who passed away in 2019 after battling cancer. #watercolors #watercolours #rayman30thanniversaryedition #rayman 512244
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Couple more manual pages, unfinished, messy writing, but just trying to get out as much worldbuilding-ish stuff as I can. The districts are taking shape!! (My fav are either the obsolete partying robots or the ineffectual politicians that control the weather) #gamedev #indiedev #worldbuilding 042
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 05/02/2026more manual pages. this started as a fun little side-project to see if I could make something era appropriate, but surprisingly has helped nail down some design decisions eg. District themes/item names/names of other stuff, as well as refine the lore of the world #gamedev #indiedev 062
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Procrastinating by making fake manual pages. Getting really into the idea of spreading encoded text around the environments to provide extra worldbuilding, secrets + whatnot. I love the thought of someone actually sitting with pen and paper trying to piece it together #gamedev #indiedev #gamemanual 082
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026yes! and Jak and Daxter, I remember they had a similar thing with the precursor(?) alphabet, I printed off the chart with the symbols and spending ages as a 12yo going round and translating all the signs and whatnot. never let it be said that I wasn't an absolute geek 010
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026In lighter news, I made a silly font for worldbuilding purposes, signposts/environmental text etc. might be fun to hide messages with it, if people can work out which symbol corresponds to which letter #gamedev #indiedev 1103
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026oh my god idk if it was yesterdays episode where she fell of a chair screaming JESUS WEPT god love her 000
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Fantastic news, followed your posts for a while and really pleased to hear that 🥳 010
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026more animation! i used to make little stop motion animations when I was like 9 using a terrible webcam + some clay + remember my dad bought me a book on like techniques of animation. all these years later I'm getting to apply them lil running fellow! #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 081
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Climbing animation! playing w/ my DIY vertex weighting system for animation, easy to grab + stretch parts of model, no complex heirarchy of bones, each limb can have a min/max range of motion defined by me look at him go :D #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #unity3d 0142
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025i hate using bones. fiddly, complex heirarchy, bugs w/ positions sticking used vertex colour to create a weight system + use RGB channels as alpha in lerps to transform positions of verts w/ the shader can set min/max positions for each part + move w/ friendly sliders #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 062
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 24/12/2025intentionally breaking the VRAM for a laugh merry christmas eve! #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 0143
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 23/12/2025experimenting w/ mind boggling effects taking a portion of the tex atlas from VRAM + scrolling within its own tile, or tiling only that portion not the whole thing, was a ball ache its silly + complicated + there are far easier ways to do this stuff but I'm having FUN #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 0103
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025here is the fake PS1 VRAM that I put together to create the menu inside one shader (with a script to change values based on input) there are far easier ways to go about this, but it's been SO much fun recreating stuff like this but with the added benefit of modern tools #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 042
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025final post about menus, I SWEAR pretty much finished (apart from "options" menu) idk if anyone is interested in a deeper dive on how it's put together in one shader? ps: i will always maintain that subtractive fading out/in looks better than a smooth even lerp. #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #UI 063
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025finally added something v special, I was putting it off for ages, bc it was hard but.... framebuffer feedback fx! One of the best fx on the PS1 used in battle transitions, entering levels in Crash 3, fake motion blur in MGS etc. it's not perfect yet but I LIKE IT #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #ps1 083
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025another menu update !! now done entirely inside 1 shader. a script reads controller input and sends values. all sub menus, cursors, FX, and dynamic BG are actually a complex bunch of UV manipulations on ONE texture atlas, all blended together in different ways! #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 094
Reposted by StuartAllan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 24/11/2025As we headed into a 2nd wave of Covid in 2020, drawing York Minster seemed to offer a way of keeping steady, a little less worried. I added some pigeons (doves?) to show a bit of life. #ArchitecturalIllustration #Pencil #drawing #ArtShare 510518
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I grew up in & around York! I love it very much and this is wonderful work 100
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Yeah that combined with the clone brush to smooth the joins is excellent, I’m not very experienced with any of this stuff but it’s made it very easy 000
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025basically as long as the textures tile neatly overall (which I check using Krita and the wrap-around mode) it works. sometimes I need to rotate the UVs of certain faces as they don't always point in the same direction short answer: manually ! 000
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025with things like the cliffs, walls, detailing and hedges etc, where the texs are larger, I use smaller chunks of the texs for connected faces - which takes longer but allows me to have a larger texture over a larger area rather than it being really small and noisy 100
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025thanks :D no real trick, it's done manually - rather than unwrapping UVs - i reset them so every face has the entire atlas texture on it, then select eg. the faces I want to be grass + manually scale the UVs for all those faces down so they cover only the portion of the atlas that has the grass tex 100
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025the wall tex size is a bit overkill to take up that much of the atlas, so that will shrink! 000
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025closer look at my new textures (besides the grass and water which I still liked) still fitting into the texture atlas, but no longer using uniform squares trying a holistic approach, diff sizes based on how detailed texs are, how close they will get to the cam, etc #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 194
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025these 4 notes are used throughout the music i've written for this project, they appear everywhere in different ways, sometimes as melody, sometimes as bassline, inverted, reversed, as chords.....etc. (2/2) #gamedev #indiedev 051
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025still working on this, making the textures a bit more interesting, quick comparison + some piano I recorded this morning (1/2) #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #ps1 1193
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025more shader stuff 1 flat plane (4 verts, 2 tris), parallax map offsets stone tex to appear deep below the surface tex. distortion on the surface is also applied to the stone, offset by the PM to the same depth then blending in various ways to put it all together :D #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 0287
Stuart @stuwhen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025I can grow fake grass now!!! all done with @amplifycreations.bsky.social ❤️ slightly longer video BUT it's got captions and pictures to explain stuff, and I think it's p cool (i swear I'll stop banging on about POM soon but it's been SO much fun to play with) #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #shaders 1165
