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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Speaking of cats. This is Jiji. She’s my lil void and I will use every opportunity to post pictures of her.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Dug this up the other day. Time to start a run through my favorite game of all time! #zelda #majorasmask

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've also been working on an autobattler that I want to get out sometime in October. It's not much to look at right now. I want it to have very combo heavy gameplay, so I've been focusing on building the system and different characters. #godot #gamedev #solodev

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Streamed some #gamedev for a few hours last night and started a fishing game. Using the wonderful SUCC controller from @bearlikelion.com and some jank fishing rod code I cooked up, here is the progress after the first stream. Going to add some actual fish mechanics and multiplayer next. #godot

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There’s no fomo for cat pics.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Man #godotcon was such a great time. What a wonderful, friendly, and smart community. Thanks @godotcon.bsky.social and @scentree.bsky.social for a great event. Here’s looking forward to next year!

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Continuing my decent into random hyper fixations, here’s my #warhammer40k mini that I painted yesterday.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I have begun to learn sheet #music Now I just have to figure out what it sounds like.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

So i hit a new stage in my journey to distract myself from working on camera shy. The local #gamedev meetup I organize is running our first game jam, so i started working on my entry for that yesterday. spent a couple hours yesterday and got func_godot and player movement set up #godotengine

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Back to the #gamdev updates! yesterday was pretty busy! I got a lot more functionality set up in func_godot for level design and I fixed a small bug I found (which they already fixed in an unreleased branch, but still) Today i've been working on my game's fake email client #solodev #indiedev

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Here’s a #caturday shot of Jiji walking me up.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

So I’m making orange soda now

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Here's a screenshot of the city scene from up high. It's all smoke (well... fog) and mirrors 😉 #gamedev #godotengine #indiedev #solodev

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Blocked out the street level over the weekend. I'll do a visual pass on it eventually, but I think I got the imposing vibe of the evil corp building (the red one) and the streets itself have the kind of dreary vibe I was going for. #gamedev #godotengine #indiedev #solodev

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Oh yeah 100% I have a really hard time visualizing things in my head, so seeing it exist is huge for me. Sometimes I do plan out the square footage of a room, but I usually place a person in there and see how it feels, scale-wise Like here the stairs are too shallow and doorway too small.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Got some pretty good progress yesterday. I took this sketch of the "hacker den, " made my first set of 3d tiles in blender, and used the godot gridmap to make the space. I added a bit of clutter and lighting to liven it up, but it's good! Next up is the street #gamedev #godotengine #3dart

rough sketch of the space I wanted to make

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

So I’m flipping through “101 things I learned in architecture school” while I wait for this meeting and I came across this page. It’s the exact opposite advice that I’ve received over my entire career as a web developer. That probably means this is actually very good advice.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Ha! It even runs on mobile! Tho at like 1 fps.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I also started making the 3d model for the main character of camera shy. Not sure if I want to have PNG cutouts or low poly 3d models during dialogue scenes and whatnot, so making a rough mesh of her for now and juts stretching the intial design over it. #solodev #art #gamedev

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I just talked with the folks at @gang-fight.com and saw the first draft of the character design! They said I could share this one early. From the left, that’s Exodus, Red (the character you play as,) and Dotcom. Really getting hyped to see them colored in. #gamedev #solodev #art #characters

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Still working on my #GodotWildJam game. Got rotations working and repeat working. Now it's just adding shapes and making little critters. I think I'm going to make 3 little pointy head things today. Anyway, here's another video, but with the repeating effect #gamedev #solodev #godotengine

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Alright, back to the real world. I'm going to do #godotwildjam this week both since it'll distract me a bit from camera shy, but also I think it'll be good for me to totally finish something small, but still in godot. Going to be making a game with ray marched critters like this guy #godotengine

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We don’t get a lot of berries in Florida, so it was cool to run across some of these walking around Atlanta #plants #georgia

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In other news. I fired up my game for the first time in a week, since I've been focused on non programming stuff and with fresh eyes, I really kind of dig the vibes. It's too bright maybe and the scale isn't perfect, but i like it all furnished and with lights. #solodev #gamedev #indiegames

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

No router? Several blankets will do. #cats

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev day 47 Today i'm trying to make some of the main cast in VRoid studio. It's not really the art style I want to end on, but at least I can start to visualize the key parts of the characters. This isn't one of the characters, but it was fun playing around and making it.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#gamjam at Thank you Miami. 3/5 people using Godot too! #gamedev #godotengine #miami

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

#indiedev #gamedev #devlog day 44 Today I sent a pitch to a publisher! I don't think it was excellent and the game is still very early on, but I figure it's better to start early and build those connections. Other than that, I got the severance lights in engine and I think they look pretty good

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

#gamedev #solodev #devlog Day 39 Dressing up some more of the rooms. It's coming along much faster now that I figured out the UV stuff. This week i'll start really digging into lighting. I plan on keeping everything fairly dark, but still.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

#gamedev #solodev #screenshotsaturday Dressing up my greybox levels with ceilings and furniture. This one looks the best right now, still missing some wall fixtures and ceiling lights, but it's coming together

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Am i doing environment art right? What does this scene feel like to you (besides unfinished 🙃) ? #godotengine #solodev #gamedev

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Luckily it seems like everything is just 2x too big. so scaling it by 0.5 makes it looks much better #gamedev #blender #godotengine

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

#indiedev #gamedev #devlog day 34 So i should've noticed that the assets I got were made for unity and not #godot, so the materials don't come attached and the scale is a little weird. I have the source files though, so it's not too bad. Just some manual work Here's me cleaning up the desks

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

#indiedev #gamedev #devlog Day 30! That's about 1 month of game dev and I have almooost 3 puzzles built out. Today is more work on this puzzle. I want to try playing with perspective with this one, so I added windows and... uhh... I wish it would stop staring at me...

A window into a room with a red block and a creepy green dude.

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

#indiedev #gamedev #godotengine Day 20! Finished up the next level (at least in function) The rest of today will be sketching out the next level. Trying to make this next one without coming up with new mechanics 😅 Here's a quick video of the minimap, shortcut, and new level

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

#indiedev #gamedev Day 18 Got up early this morning to work on the shortcut mechanic a bit more. I figured that it'd work best with a minimap, so I'm doing that. I need to move the UI labels to the screen space position of the cameras, which wasn't too hard at all :) #godotengine

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

It's not pretty (yet,) but this is the level meant to introduce the "shortcut" (name pending) mechanic. Cyclops makes quick levels like this _really_ easy to build in #godotengine #solodev

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

feels kind of nice to get out of my own head and really build this out to be ready for people. Got the lobby looking decent, but pretty dark too. #indiedev #gamedev #CameraShyGame

Screenshot of godot engine development scene showing off some lobby lighting

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

#indiedev #gamedev Day 14 Two weeks! Today is all about adding a bit of polish to the gameplay demo I’m sending to my friends tonight. Pretty exciting!! Last night I replaced the Godot icon with some windows 98-inspired icons I made on stream last night

“Call it support” and “email icons” made in the windows 98 style

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

#indiedev #gamedev As i keep building out this first level, I realized that I wanted characters to talk to give hints and context to the puzzles, so last night I added a little hovering speech bilboard

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BenBot @thebenbot.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Another day down! The lobby level is coming together. Here's a small demo of the virtual desktop I've been putting together over the past few days. Big issue right now is how to _hide_ cameras initially while still making them jumpable later on. But so far, I'm feeling good. #indiedev #gamedev

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