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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New trailer is up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zolw... (Also wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2137670) #indiedev #gamedev

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Veridian Expanse Trailer Fall 2026

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Oh! I almost forgot. @robertfrostiii.bsky.social, my sound designer for Veridian Expanse, made an asset pack of adventure game foley sounds that he released on itch. He even has a free pack. Get 'em while they're hot! robertfrostiii.itch.io/robs-adventu...

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Rob's Adventure Foley - FREE DEMO by Robert Frost III

100 free foley samples covering gear, glass, metals, and organics

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

“That, and the sound design along with the lighting together makes the action feel really good.” Shout out to @robertfrostiii.bsky.social for his sound design work. :D

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

In Veridian Expanse to light my scenes I use light fields. A low res, screen space texture full of fourier encoded light probes basically. I mix all the lights and shadows together into it each frame. Demo on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2137670?... #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Veridian Expanse, a sci-fi exploration game that can *REALLY* grab you. Wishlist or try the demo now! :D store.steampowered.com/app/2137670?... #wishlistwednesdays #indiegame

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I wasn't originally going to support GL ES 3 rendering in Veridian Expanse, but I caved when playing with a WASM demo. I tried on one of those cheap-o handhelds. So close... The $5 10 year old chip in this one brings me back 10 years ago to dealing with awful Android GL drivers. >_< Oh well...

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I missed out on #screenshotsaturday due to yard work. D: You should check out the Veridian Expanse demo on Steam though. I think you'll have a blast! store.steampowered.com/app/2137670?... #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

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Sronmar @sronmar.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I played Veridian Expanse's demo today for an hour and it is so good. I'm uploading that right now. I tend to almost always just do one video per demo I try, but I might do more for this one if time allows it. It can basically run on any of our potato computers too. It is less than 30 MB's.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My load screen loads full game states and draws them as you browse. (I was too lazy to implement save slot screenshots...) The "load" button actually just starts the game loop running. Heh... I modified it so that some elements slowly animate in preview, then time smoothly speeds up when you start.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I am up and running at Midwest Gaming Classic! Come check out Veridian Expanse if you are into space/crafting/mining games. :) #indiegame #midwestgamingclassic

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Last week I demoed Veridian Expanse at VGM Con in Minneapolis. Tomorrow I head out to Milwaukee for Midwest Gaming Classic! Hoping to run into some fellow NES devs there too. :D #indiegame #indiedev #mwgc

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Todd Oxtra @toddoxtra.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

MakerCast has been a joyful project for me and talking with local Minnesota developer Howling Moon Software about their project history was so enlightening. I'm so excited for them to launch their new project @veridian-expanse.bsky.social on Steam, Please Wishlist it and check out our interview

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I'll be giving a "Transforms 101" presentation at my local gamedev meetup in about 2 hours, but you can tune in online too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnGZ... My goal is to convince everyone that has seen a transform gizmo before that they already know how transform matrices work. #gamedev

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Gamedev Meeting (January 2026) - Scott Lembcke (Transforms 101)

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Ruben Tipparach @rubentee.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

oh my gosh, palette shifted cascading shadow maps look phenomenal #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #customgameengine #love2d #screenshotsaturday

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

My presentation "Audio Math 101 for Gamedevs" is starting soon! You can stream/watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/hDdqucY...

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Game.wav Meeting 10-9-25

YouTube video by Robert Frost III - Game Audio

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I'll be streaming a "Audio Math 101" presentation in a few hours focusing on things every gamedev will want to know! How digital audio works, and simple math to fix common mistakes. It will be streaming from here: www.youtube.com/@robertfrost... (no placeholder stream yet... sorry)

Title slide for my presentation "Audio Math 101 for Gamedevs"

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A local gamedev friend of mine has been making some neat voxel rendering tech. Basically it lets you make super detailed voxel scenes using more traditional mesh based level tooling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN9n...

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Leveling up my small-voxel renderer

YouTube video by Daniel Schroeder

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

My audio guy gave a talk: "Indie Game Sound On-boarding". Basically what to do as a sound designer at the start of a new project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZqv... #indiedev #gamedev #audio

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Game.wav Meetup 8/14/25

YouTube video by Robert Frost III - Game Audio

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

So my sound designer, @robertfrostiii.bsky.social, is looking for more projects. He's really quite good and I can highly recommend him. He does the whole shebang from design, to effects, to music. FMOD is his usual jam, but he even puts up with my homemade audio shenanigans. robertfrostiii.com

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Robert Frost III

Sound Designer and Audio Professional

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Well the website/forums for Chipmunk Physics is offline due to "a DDoS attack", but looking at the logs its all just frickin' AI crawlers. Make that another part of the open source web knocked offline by AI BS.

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ZachSCARY Johnson @zachstronaut.com · 04/08/2025

More people should hire Rob tbh

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

robertfrostiii.com

Robert Frost III

Sound Designer and Audio Professional

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Final tallies for Open Sauce, 200+ players, 23+ hours of playtime. 49 people compiled it from source before playing. Need to recheck Steam, but I think it was ~70 the first day. #opensource #gamedev

Demo table for Veridian Expanse with two computers running the game, and a sign that says it open source and players can compile it before they play if they want.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I’m demoing Veridian Expanse at @opensaucelive.bsky.social with instructions to compile the game before you play it. I wasn’t sure if the gimmick would work, but so far it’s almost half of the players. Hah! Love it. #opensource #indiedev

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Veridian Expanse will be at Open Sauce this weekend! I have a suitcase full of Raspberry Pis to run it on packed and ready to play it on. 😀 Given the maker-faire-esque vibes, I'm hoping someone will take up the offer to compile it before they play. Heh. #opensource #indiedev #gamedev opensauce.com

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I got new title screen art. There's still a couple effects I'd like to add, but so far I think it turned out awesome! 😁 #indiedev #gamedev

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I could never find a good way to deal with importing loop audio so I just made a quick and dirty loop editor in my audio inspector... Includes wave and spectrum view modes Actually works kinda ok? Another 200 lines of code I could have avoided by just using FMOD perhaps. >_< #indiedev #gamedev

My custom loop editor. It lets you set a range for looping sounds, and has buttons for previewing and quick checking the seam. The lower half is a wave view centered on the loop point that lets you fine tune the range.

Same as the other screenshot, but showing the spectrum mode that lets you line up the texture of the sound at the loop point also.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Does this count for #screenshotsaturday? :D Demoing Veridian Expanse at the Mall of America. (We can just randomly rename things now and call it the Mall of Minnesota right?) A very different crowd from what I’m used to demoing for, but lots of people told me how much they liked it! #indiedev

A shot from high above showing a table people are playing a video game at.

A rotunda at a large mall, the ground floor has island of tables with people playing video games at them.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Can anyone think of any immersive games that story to the player separately from their character? Specifically, I have an open world game with story progression triggers for the character, but want to allow the player to find easter eggs that reveal more than the character should know.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Today was a very work-from-hammock and disconnect from the internet sort of day. Great for working on narrative. Now time to break for dinner and bike to the taco place…

Laying in a hammock with a laptop. Pine trees and a sunny sky in the background.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A bit late for #screenshotsaturday, but last week I got the cargo teleporters to a decent level of polish. Just place them like a power node, and they give you a connection to your fabricator. Drones can use them to shorten their delivery routes too. #indiegame #gamedev

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Tune in to the Veridian Expanse devstream! Today I'll be working on making the terrain decorations destructible so you can chew through them with the laser drill. Starts in a little over an hour. #gamedev #indiegame www.youtube.com/@VeridianExp...

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Devstream: destructible decals

Drill, craft, and blast your way through winding caverns. Upgrade your utility pod with plasma cannons, missiles, and laser drills. Build an army of tireless drones to do your bidding. You are going t...

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I haven't been posting about Veridian Expanse lately... So here's the newly reworked digging mechanic! I changed it from a laser to this plasma drill sort of thing. It arguably looks even cooler and gives the player more input. I might need to tone down the spalling though. >_< #gamedev #indiegame

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Streaming last week was fun *and* productive. :D I'm going to try it again tomorrow @ 6 PM UTC on Wednesday. Come watch we flail around in my C code as I make the map decorations destructible. #games #streaming www.youtube.com/live/FSAP-Xs...

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Devstream: destructible decals

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I'll be livestreaming in just a moment to work on the laser drill visuals and mechanics. I've never written C code in public before, come watch me make bugs in realtime! www.youtube.com/live/Fjpl29k...

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I'm going to try out doing a devstream! I'll be working on mechanics and visual changes for the laser drill in Veridian Expanse. Come and call me crazy for writing a game in C! 1:00 PM Central Time (6 PM GMT) www.youtube.com/live/Fjpl29k...

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〽️ɪɢᴜᴇʟ 🔜 GodotFest @bitbra.in · 23/04/2025

Remember #Godot Ocean Waves? Someone forked it and added buoyancy. github.com/ManickYoj/go...

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Hey! Veridian Expanse will be at @opensaucelive.bsky.social in July! :D I think I can get my "Oops, all @raspberrypi.com" game demo setup there, and this feels like the right convention to put out a little sign with instructions on how to spend a few seconds compiling the game before playing it. :DD

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Hushed Dreamware @husheddreamware.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is the Story Of The Future #gamedev #indiegamedev #gaming

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

@husheddreamware.bsky.social Don't mind me pumping the IGDATC playtest event again. :D Even if you can't make it in person, they'll play your game on the stream. It's pretty relaxed too. Like you can show up last minute with your laptop and find an empty desk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfOd...

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Twin Cities Playtest (March 2025)

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Demoing at @vgmcon.bsky.social has been going great. Forgot to grab a picture before the indie room opened, but the booth upgrades have been nice! Also it’s 100% @raspberrypi.com powered now with both demo stations running Pi 5s and the TV rocking a 4!

My Veridian Expanse demo booth with a banner hanging from the ceiling, a TV on a stand, and a pair of computer monitors on a purple table cloth.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So if you are demoing your game at a convention, use Playstation gamepads. Why? I used to demo with Xbox gamepads, but ~25% of players were constantly pressing the wrong buttons. They were Nintendo players, and so the button layout wasn't what they were used to.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The Verge had an interview where Unity's CEO discussed ending their war on their customers. It's all just feelgood nonsense and jargon. I call BS, and so I wrote about how I lost my day job after Unity stuck us with tens of thousands in "industry" license fees. www.slembcke.net/blog/UnityVs...

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Unity Wants a Truce With Their Customers

Unity CEO claims they 'ended the war' on their customers, but it seems like it's all just feel good damage control.

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Robert Frost III @robertfrostiii.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Made two new sfx for Veridian Expanse today! Check out the stream for how I did it.

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Veridian Expanse @veridian-expanse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

@robertfrostiii.bsky.social working on audio for Veridian Expanse. He's streaming it if you want to check it out. :D www.youtube.com/live/nlINcnz...

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WIP Sound Design - Veridian Expanse PART 2

YouTube video by Robert Frost III

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