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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 02/09/2026

Some #gamedev progress updates: World generation is now multi-threaded and a lot smoother, even on single-thread web-builds. My UI scales off of DPI, reverses all the screen transforms, and rounds to an integer scale to keep the pixel-art crisp. This took literal months to get the math right lol.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 20/07/2026

I've been fighting with the weird quirks of #Godot 's TileMapLayer. You can see my tile placement multi-threading get interrupted and leave blank tiles lol. It's also still too laggy and stutters quite a bit. This is important to solve because my game is internally 3D voxels. #gamedev #solodev

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 21/06/2026

Been re-designing my FSM yet again... Tried to go for more of a Resource-based design, but then realized my design started to get really nested and became harder to read in the inspector. Then I realizing my nested Resources were just re-invented #Godot nodes, so I just converted my system to that!

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 28/05/2026

To get around #Godot 's limitation of TileMapLayer only holding a single TileSet, I've been working on a streaming TileSet that is dynamically created by loading/unloading other TileSets. This lets me split up TileSets and only actually worry about one global TileSet. #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 13/05/2026

Strange that in my #Godot game, my dithering shader doesn't seem to be working in browser, but it does on the downloaded version 🤔 Both are using compatibility mode, so rendering should be the same, odd... ps, if you wanna try the latest web build: polzon.itch.io/quintessence #gamedev #indiedev

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 06/05/2026

Second time this month that the tree in my front yard fell and hit my car. I have two cars, and now both have been crushed by the same tree 😤 I managed to get my car out and luckily only got some scratches, but I'm gonna take my revenge on this tree!!

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 20/04/2026

Shredding with a skateboard down to the Elden Ring. #SkateStory Just beat this game, what a psychedelic trip action packed skating game.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 08/04/2026

This isnt very pretty, but that's not what matters here. I got my 2.5D physics working which was a big hurdle! Definitely need to work on improving the editor tooling to make lining up the 3D collisions easier. Then I can port my existing character behaviors to the new 2.5D system. #gamedev #godot

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 02/04/2026

I asked #Gemini to review my portfolio personal website for an external perspective, and said I'm a "socialist web developer" 😅 I do radical socialist extremism like open-source code.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 22/03/2026

I am having way too much fun with this site wiishopchannel.net also found a secret clicker game mode in there if you click where my house is hovering in the screenshot below

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 17/03/2026

DLSS 5 off vs DLSS 5 on finally my game can have good graphics!

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 19/02/2026

When you run out of stupid commit messages to write and are trying to get GitHub actions to work:

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 10/02/2026

Truly one of the map generations of all time

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 10/02/2026

More not-so-exciting map chunking progress. I'm losing track of how my own data structures work lol. #godot #indiedev

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 05/02/2026

I've set up linting for my entire project, and it looks like I have some work to do 🙃

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 29/01/2026

Some random map generation. Not good map generation, but it is in fact randomly generated! It may look like random TileMapLayers but I've really been cooking up a more advanced tile system on top of this. I also define tiles in as resources which automatically gets loaded. #gamedev #godot

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 14/01/2026

Also this pic is hilarious lol

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 13/01/2026

Posting some random game editor nonsense since I haven't posted anything in awhile. #gamedev #godot

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 03/12/2025

I spend probably too much time on debug tools, but it's a great way to show off technical details! #gamedev #godot

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 22/11/2025

I love adding small details like this. My character now smoothly rotates instead of snapping to a direction. Do you think this adds to the "feel" of movement or does it look weird? #gamedev #godot #pixelart

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 15/11/2025

For #ScreenshotSaturday , I'm showing off a small detection tool that checks when my objects aren't sitting sitting pixel perfect (red highlights). I also modify all velocities so that my characters instead land on rounded pixel positions instead of a sub-pixel coordinate. #gamedev #godot #pixelart

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 29/10/2025

I think I know where their weak point is

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 22/10/2025

Is this a #godot bug or am I missing something here? Is Color not a valid object?

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 17/10/2025

Once again messing with shaders and playing with color remapping. Maybe I need to add some kind of color correcting since there's too many situations where the lighting goes too extreme. I want a softer saturated look, and my characters will have strong black outlines. #godot #gamedev #pixelart

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 17/10/2025

Yoink! Although I'm gonna see how intuitive it feels in a dual hand layout to support action buttons (roll, attack, etc). As much as I love portrait, I can't figure out good UX that handle action buttons well 😕 P.S: Game looks great on my Pixel Fold! (Main Menu scaled a bit weird though)

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 16/10/2025

progress?! I'm just trying to get the dither on the lighting lol

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 15/10/2025

Light shaders still make no sense to me but I'm making some visible progress??? #godot #gamedev

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 14/10/2025

While working on my debug tool, it seems to uncover some strange oddities about the #GodotEditor . My tool is essentially just a parser for Node.get_orphan_node_ids(), and when ran inside of a tool script it seems to show orphans in #godot itself. I'm assuming these are orphaned for caching?

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 07/10/2025

I had an idea about a co-op horror game (think REPO and Lethal Company), but focused around deep cave diving...

Image taken from a video covering the Nutty Putty cave incident where a man got stuck face down in a claustrophobic cave.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 07/10/2025

Discovered a nasty orphan node memory leak and still haven't quite found the source. While working on a fix, I created a neat little debugger plugin to view orphan nodes. Also added some alerts so errors are pushed as soon as orphan node leaks are introduced. #godot #solodev #gamdev

Screenshot of a work-in-progress debugger plugin for Godot Engine. It shows a new tab called "Orphan Tracker" that is selected and shows a long list of various nodes that are being leaked in the project.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 16/09/2025

Brother and sister both kicking each other in the face 😅

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 03/09/2025

Even though I haven't made anything in awhile I'm able to show off yet, my GitHub commit history makes me feel a bit better like I've actually been doing something. You can really tell when the project started and began to pickup! #gamedev #godot #solodev

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 29/08/2025

Still not sure what I want for a title screen, but this is a nice WIP one for now. It's a straight up rip-off of Balatro's title screen lol. But, the swirling essence is what I imagined "Quintessence" to look like. It's supposed to be very purple-ly! #godot #gamedev

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 21/08/2025

Tested it out and got promising results, thanks! I don't want it to zoom in my game subviewport too, but I'm thinking I can probably offset that by dividing the camera zoom by the content view scale or something.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 13/08/2025

Tracked down a really strange #Godot bug... As much as I love the idea behind Dynamic Refresh Rate, it has only caused me issues on #Windows Why is it capping my FPS to 60 despite a higher monitor refresh rate? 😞 #gamedev

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 12/08/2025

As much as I hate #OpenAI as a company, I really think their UI/UX designers are the best. That's saying a lot because I think #Google has really nice UX too. Like idk what this blue orb is supposed to represent when it's listening to voice, but I like it.

Screenshot of OpenAI as Android's AI assistant listening for microphone input. It's represented as a blue orb that looks like a flowing sky.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 11/08/2025

How the heck does this even happen lol #godot #gamedev

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 25/07/2025

Unfortunately this will be my *real* speeds, since I always keep my router connected to a Mullvad VPN. Would love to figure out how to boost these VPN speeds. Also would love to know if I could dynamically change Wireguard servers based off of speeds...

testmy.net speedtest with results of 393.2 Mbps download and 16.2 Mbps upload. This results are after being connected to Mullvad VPN Los-Angeles server.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 25/07/2025

Nice, got a WiFi 7 router and it was a massive speed boost. Finally hitting my 1Gbps advertised speeds. I picked up the Flint 3 from GL.iNet for like $180 (free shipping) and definitely recommend it. I mostly went with this specific company since their firmware is open-source and built on openWRT.

testmy.net speedtest results showing 984.6Mbps download and 343.1 Mbps upload internet speeds.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 08/07/2025

Yay it's super laggy but it *kinda* works. After several hours of wasting time on a random side project, I have my #Godot game (kinda) running on my #Anbernic #RG34XX Those are definitely some of my game's pixels... No idea where my character is lol.

Picture of my Anbernic RG34XX running my own Godot game. The character is missing but it's properly showing the tileset and shaders.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 14/06/2025

Posting a quick recording of the extremely basic procedural map generation I've been working on. Also some very basic GUI. Haven't uploaded some gameplay in a little bit so getting this out before I rush out to work! #godot #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 17/05/2025

#Gamedev Pro Tip: Bad at math like me? Just create debug tools to visualize everything so you can brute force the solution! #ScreenshotSaturday

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 05/04/2025

Showing off some #ScreenshotSaturday progress on my dither #shader effect! It correctly dithers the way I want it to. Still tweaking it, might want the effect a bit more pronounced, and having it just dither the lighting has been a bit meh. Also some music 😊 #godot #gamedev #pixelart

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 01/04/2025

Nice, had me try this game and basically got the same score! Even chose the same ending lol. Honestly was really easy to remain consistent overall, I didn't even look at the metrics the game was trying to use.

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 22/03/2025

Not a ton to showoff this #ScreenshotSaturday , so here are some random test maps I have showing off other tilesets. One more GBC old school, the other more modern. This is my in-development game called Quintessence. #gamedev #solodev #godot

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shippage @zack.polson.dev · 21/03/2025

The newest console is my Ayaneo Micro that I got yesterday, it's really sweet. Man I wish I still had my first and original N64 😭

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