From: blenderdumbass . org

Until yesterday I thought that street lights was impossible to make, so I was trying to find some kind of other ways to brighten up the frame at night, so at least it would be visible, but yesterday I stumbled upon something that might work.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/why_night_scenes_in_video_games_are_so_hard_to_make_right_

I don't have much experience with tool development in Python, so my Mip Explorer has become a training ground.
The latest features:
- You can plot the channels separately, averaged, or use the perceived luminance (automatically decided depending on suffix)
- Automatic dark mode based on your system settings #gamedev

Weekly Update!

We can't talk about school, girls, and parties without mentioning one of the most iconic events in every high school and college student’s life—Spring Break!

In our upcoming release, the MC will be inviting some friends to join him in a variety of contests and activities during this wild celebration. We see Spring Break as a major milestone in student life, and we want to capture that energy in the game.

We’re planning to include as many characters as possible in this event. A few of the girls are perfect fits for some of the activities, and we're sure they'll enjoy them—but it’s up to our hero to convince them to join. Will he manage to win them over? That’s for you to find out!

We're running a bit behind schedule, but we’re confident we can catch up in the coming weeks. Our goal is to release this update in mid-May, so the countdown is officially on!

Huge thanks to everyone who keeps playing the game and to all our amazing supporters—whether you're on Patreon, SubscribeStar, Itch, or Boosty. Every bit of support helps bring this project to life, and we’re incredibly grateful to have you with us on this journey!

Favorite | Reply | Boost to support the development of our game!

Progress on game#2 today:
- Animated tiles created and added to cut-scene 1 and 2
- Second cut-scene artwork and dialogue completed
- Update to enemy spawner: now shows an animated spawn point indicator for X seconds before enemy is spawned

Working in depth on the Evermist prologue. Using Manuskript is particularly suited to managing the writing of lore, quests, characters and the main plot.
I recommend it: it's free and open source.

This was a very weird and short lived joke meme.

Confieso que para el motor en C estoy usando una variable global y para el renderizado del mapa con celdas he usado un goto! D:

Soy pecador, blasfemo, lo peor de lo peor

Adding the start of the scoring system and UI. Current score stays on screen with combo, then shows result on land or bail. No trick score degradation yet. I'll track trick repetition withing combo next and reduce given score each time. Also swapped the current and landed combo colors so current is blue and landed is green (bailed stays red).

I love realtime global illumination. The display here is emissive, and it's the main light source. Lookit the soft shadows!

I wrote a 4-bit indexed image struct that I can expand to an RGB image with a 16 color palette. But I wonder if I could write it generically Gfx<8> for a 265 color palette, but the real test is if you could do Gfx<3> for an 8 color palette. #rustlang #gamedev

For this week's Freshly Squeezed Progress Report, I finally started added more color variations for Clown Alley Creator, my second Freshly Squeezed Entertainment project about creating your own fun and zany clowns.

https://www.gbgames.com/2025/04/21/freshly-squeezed-progress-report-more-color-options/

Designing Cities for Video Games, this fascinating combination of worldbuilding, urbanism and level design, is something that can actually be taught.

Intrigued? Good. Join me tomorrow (April 22) for a free mini-lecture & course presentation.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-cities-for-video-games-course-presentation-tickets-1280561366519?aff=oddtdtcreator

Are you a streamer? Wanna try #Soulblaze, a creature-collecting roguelite? It has Twitch integration AND I'll draw an exclusive Animon for your channel, like this one

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3505230/Soulblaze/

I wish people who stream would turn off all flashing light things, screen disturbances, and movie grains so people like me could watch the videos without feeling like we are being flashbanged every five seconds.

Also game devs - MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO TURN OFF ALL SCREEN DISTURBANCES AND FLASHING LIGHTS NO MATTER HOW "COOL" IT LOOKS. Accessability mean = more people will and CAN play your games!!!!

Do you have custom resources with a lot of exposed variables which are only important when certain conditions are met? You can hide variables by using tool scripts!

Find the code example from #Soulblaze here: https://gist.github.com/ideamonster/9eb06a165722b2135143809e88f49de0

I created a scene that is only available when you earn dirty money, and adds a few laundry facilities to the buy-list. All the assets are temporary, but the structure is coming together.

Stream schedule! Tomorrow's a very special one!
#vtuber #artstream #gamedev

Come watch: https://www.twitch.tv/molegato

Developer CycloneFox has just released a fan remake of the Japan-exclusive mobile game Xenosaga: Pied Piper for PC & Mac.