Officially announcing my new game: GARBAGE COUNTRY. A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world. Feat. Vast wastelands, tower defence battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME

not game related

the mood: water

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hey everyone! i've been trying to be more active on other channels as well, give us a follow there if that's your thing! (also experimenting with different video formats for the game) instagram.com/noio/ tiktok.com/@noio.games

trapped!

Absolutely amazing! This plugin does everything I ever dreamed of when I built Pixel Unwrapper. "Not worrying about UVs" was exactly my goal for 3D Pixel Art, and Alfred goes wayyyyy further than I had ever imagined. So sick! I hope this ignites another wave of 3d Pixel art!

Someone just cloned my game with AI. No beef, from his profile it looks like he is just messing around and having fun with what the model can spit out and probably will not finish anything. I too sometimes use some form of ai to brainstorm and maybe test some idea before i put my time to it. Started thinking though. Posting dev progress used to feel safer because nobody was realistically catching up in a couple of days. Now any decent idea gets cloned almost immediately and the feed is so stuffed with AI slop that original stuff has a harder time even showing up. And yeah it kinda sucks. Used to feel like there was more art in making games. Even a tiny prototype gave you actual pride because you dragged it into existence yourself and you understood what you built. Now even when something small works that pride feels thinner. Views used to be bigger too a lot of the time because just having a thing like that exist was rarer. Copying with AI still will not save you if you do not know what you are doing though. You see a spider game and want to remake it but you do not know procedural animation or IK so you keep asking the bot to fix the legs and it goes nowhere. Or you want that miniature tilt shift look and you keep poking model scale and camera distance instead of just putting blur and depth of field on it. Without the actual vocab you slam into a wall pretty fast. So I will drop a few favorite pre AI tricks in the replies. Some math, graphics or another tricks that hyped me when i was younger. I hope that i was able to put my feelings through words and i just want people to feel what I felt as a kid when i used to staying up late dreaming of making something, learning everything from scratch, and feeling the genuine magic of indie games before everything started feeling like something idk dead and artificial.

sorry for the hiccups 🥹

i gave up on using Pixel art fonts in the UI for CJK.. There are GREAT fonts, @hicchicc's DenkiChip, Zpix, and many more. But finding combinations with contrasting *weights and styles*, at 12px height, is just impossible.

That moss is DELICIOUS

particles are so fun

Garbage Country is at Tokyo Game Show!! Swerve into our demo at our publisher EdCorp's booth, located below. 📍 Hall 9 - Indie Arena, 09-E53

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TOKYO GAME SHOW!! It's our next pit stop. Say hi and test drive Garbage Country's demo from September 17 to September 21 🫡

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100% this 👇

all these recent complaints about claude did it really change that much in ~3 months? or did *WE* just become completely lazy, smoothbrained, and can't even read a page of technical writing anymore? 🥹