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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Here's my indie game in #15seconds. store.steampowered.com/app/3207200/...

Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Our game is for HOTLINE MIAMI fans, algorithm PLEASE FIND THEM! Our game is for HOTLINE MIAMI fans, algorithm PLEASE FIND THEM! Our game is for HOTLINE MIAMI fans, algorithm PLEASE FIND THEM! Our game is for HOTLINE MIAMI fans, algorithm PLEASE FIND THEM! #indiedev #gamedev #godot #roguelite

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

dual revolvers are cool but HOW ABOUT DUAL SHOTGUNS WITH A TRIPLE SHOT MODIFIER???? #godot #indiedev #pixelart #roguelike #roguelite #beandejo #

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Monday #Godot tip: don't be sad if your Area2D doesn't fire a body_shape_entered/body_shape_exited signal. It might be because you have a Monitorable property turned off, which doesn't make ANY sense to me, but anyway.

Area2D node with a Monitorable property turned on in Godot.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/11 Draw something on your BG tilemap layer and press the Refresh button. Your PC should explode from all the power you summoned and... my bad, it should just automatically draw shadows and walls for you. Thanks for attending my TED talk. Lemme know if you want more!!!

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/10 Now refresh you plugin by re-enabling it.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/9 Setting up a Terrain - I used TilePipe (aleksandrbazhin.itch.io/tilepipe2) for managing a complex tileset - Create a terrain set in your Godot's tileset - Go to Tileset bottom menu, select your tileset and paint everything that isn't a shadow

Apply terrain "rules" for a shadow tileset. Do the same with your wall outlines tileset.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/8 REBUILDING THE TILEMAP PT. 2 - Create walls on peaks/lows (I'm literally hardcoding tile ids here lol) - Connect the shadows and outlines Voila! Nothing works yet, because you need to set up Terrains for shadows and wall outlines.

Go through peaks/lows and manually apply specific wall tiles. I didn't bother to code it pretty, because we currently have only one tile for both.

Add shadows and wall outlines by "connecting" terrain tiles.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/7 REBUILDING THE TILEMAP (code is experimental) - Get floor cells (using get_used_cells()) - Clear everything that isn't a floor - Sort positions by X - Separate position data into blocks by X - Sort every block by Y value and get peaks/lows for every "island" (let me know if I need to explain it)

Separate cells into X-value blocks (how else can I explain that?????).
For example, {43: [Vec2(43, 10), Vec2(43, 15)], 56: [Vec2(56, 15)]}.

Sort these data blocks by Y value, go through them and find peaks/lows by using these rules:
- [PEAK] First appearance (prev_pos == null)
- [LOW and PEAK] New island (distance between a previous position and a current one is more than 1 tile)
- [LOW] Last tile in the column

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/6 Back to the functionality part. The refresh_tilemap() function is responsible for retrieving every tilemap layer in the group (yes, it doesn't expect a null lol), filtering them by name (ik ik, that's not idiot-proofed enough) and then calling a _rebuild(). Groups were assigned manually btw.

Retrieve all the tilemap layers we need and call _rebuild.

Tilemap layers that are assigned to a group are: BG, BGShadows, Walls and WallsOutline.

Create a global group named TilemapLayers and assign all these layers to it.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/5 I prefer to manually assign references to the neighbouring nodes, so that's what I did here. Don't forget to connect the button's pressed signal and call the non-existent refresh_tilemap() function (you can also use the editor icons in your UI with get_editor_theme() and theme.get_icon()).

Create a reference variables for neighbouring nodes.

Assign a cute "Loop" icon to a button by using a built-in EditorTheme. After that, connect button's pressed signal to a parent node.

Call a refresh_tilemap() function every time Refresh is pressed.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/4 What about our one and only UI element - Refresh button? I placed an HBoxContainer, just in case I'd come up with more functionality in the future, but you can skip this part. Set Container's layout mode to Anchors - Full Rect, and button's container sizing to Horizontal - Expand.

Set HBoxContainer Layout mode to Anchors - Full Rect

Set Button's container sizing to Horizontal - Expand

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/3 Let's start with our parent node. First of all, I'd recommend to set a Custom Minimum Size to something like (x: 30, y: 30). Therefore, your UI will look like it belongs there, not just hanging around.

Set the parent's node Custom Minimum Size to 30x30px

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/2 Create a new Control scene where you'll place your desired UI elements. But before we place any, we'll create a child Node that'd be responsible for the plugin's functionality and assign @tool scripts to both - we'll get back to that a bit later.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

/1 Create a plugin: Project -> Project Settings -> Plugins -> Create New Plugin

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Step-by-step walkthrough of making a #Godot plugin for the Canvas editor menu (2D scene top bar menu) that automatically places shadows and walls using TilemapLayers 🧵 #GameDev #IndieDev #Tilemap #Roguelite #Tutorial

In-editor Godot plugin for TilemapLayers that generates a proper shadows and walls based on the floor.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Made a small #godot plugin that automatically adds walls and shadows based on the floor tiles. It feels pretty good to finally have it automated, instead of spending tens of minutes on a manual labor like this. #IndieDev #Roguelite

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

my face when I'm listening to Metallica's thrash stuff while writing the most ✨precious✨ code ever (in #godot)

Jason Newsted on Metallica's "Garage Inc."

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Tag your mutuals & post games with mouthwatering foods. Sleeping Dogs The infamous burger in Battlefield: Hardline The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Animal Crossing: New Leaf @aceedv.bsky.social @benjigamedev.bsky.social @kingaurorus.bsky.social @manoelpdb.bsky.social

Screenshot from a video game "Sleeping Dogs". Main character buying street food in Hong Kong.

Super ultra hyper HD burger in Battlefield: Hardline

Some random food in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Harvest Festival in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It’s so adorable to see the bluntest tool in a shed trying to “make gaming great again” and “remove DEI from games” ☺️☺️☺️ Pathetic POS, go play some stellar blade thirst trap and stop whining.

elon ma is considering buying Hasbro to secure the rights to D&D

Elon ma speaking about “video games getting interrupted by some DEI woke bullshit”

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Graphics are so impressive these days. DISCLAIMER: Yes, I'm not ashamed to quote post this with my own variation of the meme. Sue me, call me a burglar, I don't care - I'm playing by the rules of the Old West 🤠 (100% fully organic BEANDEJO promotion) #Godot #PixelArt #IndieDev #Cartoony #Western

Comparison of the character faces in 4 games: Horizon: Forbidden West, Hellblade 2: Senua's Saga, The Last of Us: Part 1 and BEANDEJO.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The player character from my indie game.

In-editor peek on the main character of "BEANDEJO".

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Repost with your 4 favorite video game sound tracks 😈

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time N64 box art

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

AAA fans shitting on Balatro (that was made by a solo dev!!!) being nominated as a GOTY. YOU PLAYERS are the reason why we still have all this Concord/Season Pass/you name it bullshit in the industry, so maybe you should stop for a second and support indies? Wtf is Stellar Blade anyway??

People on Youtube complaining about Balatro being nominated as a GOTY. They'd rather see Silent Hill 2 or Stellar Blade as a GOTY, not an indie game.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Post your fav Pokémon, wrong answers only ✨

A meme picture showing a vampire from a popular cartoon shitting a toothpaste (he is a toothpaste dispenser)

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm enormously proud to announce that BEANDEJO is pre-installed on CalgaryCade arcade machines brought to you by Calgary Game Developers Association! If you're currently located in #Calgary - rush to the Central Library and don't hesitate to check them out! #godot #indiedev #arcade #roguelite

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

what. is. going. on. here. I'd like to extend my gratitude towards my precious followers, but please do not let this extensive clarification distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

Screenshot showing that I have 901 followers.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Bell Pepper NPCs by @aceedv.bsky.social. I'm so proud of what we've accomplished in such a small time! #godot #pixelart #indiedev #roguelite

Screenshot from a game "BEANDEJO" showing a variety of cartoony vegetables (garlic bulb, pickle, bell peppers) drinking whisky and talking in a saloon.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Reposting a 2 month old level design timelapse I recorded for the BlueCheckmark platform. Should I do more of these in the future? #godot #leveldesign #pixelart #indiedev #roguelite

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

To everyone here who just subscribed to my account - I'd like to make your day worse by introducing BEANDEJO! Let your bean jump, drink booze, gamble on slot machines before boss fights and squash veggie bandits in this asburd Old West roguelite! #godot #indiedev #pixelart #roguelite #gamedev

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Is there something I should play (except of MGS 4 and Little Big Planet) on this bad boy? #ps3 #games

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Managed to find some incredible stuff in The Salvation Army today: PS3 (no controller, no AV) for 5$ and apparently a Halo Reach Xbox360 controller for 4$. So excited to try them out!!!

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Went to the park to do some birdwatching and brainstorm a few new bosses and characters. Came out pretty well, hopefully I won’t have a hard time implementing them xD #indiedev #gamedev #concept

Notebook with character drafts. Characters are primarily veggies.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Players won't refund your game and complain that it's too short if you insert a slot machine inside of it... think smart not hard As always, amazing art made by @aceedv.bsky.social 🥺 #godot #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Introducing a few (almost pickled) aged men that will make your saloon adventure a bit cozier, thanks to @aceedv.bsky.social! #godot #indiedev #pixelart #gamedev #roguelite

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The place where all the magic happens and mexican beans learn how to jump - my desktop 🪄 #godot developers - unite and share your workplace here IMMEDIATELY

A photo showing a desktop PC with an opened Godot project. You can also see a DIY Duolingo owl, glowing RGB gamer mouse and BEANDEJO business card on the table.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

24 hours ago I had less than 50 followers, but it quickly changed. Now there are 200 people who’re willing to follow my gamedev journey and I’m grateful for having y’all here! Hopefully we’ll grow into a bigger bean-unity here on BlueSky and I’ll try my best to post amazing #godot content for ya 🤠

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Is there anyone here who’d be willing to help us out and stream BEANDEJO in the nearest future? You’ll like it if you’re into challenging roguelite games, pinky promise 👉👈 #godot #indiedev #roguelite #vtuber #twitch

A person playing BEANDEJO on a small laptop using a gamepad during Alberta Games Series 2024.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Currently working on a co-op mode in BEANDEJO, and it looks uniquely chaotic (stay tuned, I’ll have a really cool announcement regarding that this week)

Screenshot from a game called “BEANDEJO” previewing a co-op mode. Two Mexican jumping beans are idling and holding their weapons, while waiting for veggie enemies to come.

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

The CEO of the game dev studio I worked for owes me 3k euros and he posted this. Does that mean that I’ll get my money back? 🤪 (it was a web3 startup and I was desperate enough to join that crap)

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

how it started how it's going Wishlist BEANDEJO on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3207200/ #beandejo #godot #gamedev #indiedev

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

just checking if there’re any Melee players here if so, who’s your main?

A person playing Smash Bros. Melee as Dr. Mario using a Gamecube Controller

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Turtle Holder 🐀 @turtleholder.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

hi everyone, my name is Illia and I'm a certified (lol) game developer 👋 i'm also a godot enthusiast, creator of BEANDEJO and huge hater of elon ma, crypto, boring aaa games and other unnecessary human creations follow me if you'd like to receive your daily portion of brainrot #gamedev #godot

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