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Indie gamedev working on a railshooter amongst other things. http://steampowered.com/app/2086800 Itch: http://magellanicgames.itch.io

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Oct 26

If you don't know me, I'm Liam and I (time allowing) make games.
This is some gameplay of my lightgun shooter, Point Rescue: Arcade. Worked hard to get that camera interpolation nice and smooth!
#indiedev #gamedev

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Aug 8

Slowly but surely making progress with the levels. This subway level was massively sprawling so took some time to cut it down. Maybe I'll finish it sometime this year 😅
#indiedev #lowpoly #gamedev

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Aug 5

Another pain point, stairs. I mean, its fine but the extra work to get the camera to look "okay" puts me off having them in levels. They do "feel" pretty good gameplay-wise though

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Aug 3

Pew pew in the subway. I thought that making these corridor-type levels would be easier than wide open areas, but keeping it interesting is definitely more work.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Jul 28

I had about 6 unused levels from the first version of Point Rescue. 2 of them were intended to be boss levels, but never got around to it. So after years at this point, I'm prototyping out the second boss.
Biggest challenge has been fitting in the events/AI into the existing wave spawn system

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Jul 23

Been experimenting with the camera focus timings. Found it actually more fun to vary the camera speed. Provides a nice challenge.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Jul 18

Holy crap it has been a while. It'll be interesting to see how easy it is for me to get going making a new level.

Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 27

Blender and Gimp

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 25

I love #lowpoly crts. Flat screens never seem as appealing. Perhaps I'll have to model one and see.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 25

Just a mix of lighting and texture variations.

Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 24

A different view of the #lowpoly living room.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 22

The final room of my #lowpoly flat for #screenshotsaturday

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 21

Thanks, spent a long time finding references to try and achieve that

Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 20

Almost there. Just need one more room then gonna call this one done. #lowpoly

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 18

A bathroom to go with the #lowpoly living room. Garish but hopefully not eye gougingly ugly.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 16

Pictures on cubes can take you a loonng way :D

Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 15

So good, the animation is so damn charming.

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 15

A #lowpoly living room for #screenshotsaturday

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 15

I don't know of any formal courses, but the sickly wizard's videos are supremely well done. Lots of tips and techniques
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmW_...

Summer85 doesn't have tutorials, but you can still learn alot from their time lapses: www.youtube.com/@Summmer85

How to make PS1-esque graphics with Blender 2.8 (Introduction)

YouTube video by TheSicklyWizard

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 14

I really need to share more of the process. Been on quite a long hiatus art wise, so very much re-learning stuff.
Definitely give it a go, tis fun. The limitation of only using diffuse textures is also kinda liberating. Less to think about (stops me getting distracted).

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Liam @magellanicgames.bsky.social · Feb 14

Trying out some higher resolution textures than I usually do; that and some lighting. Typically keep to unlit and some vertex colours, but quite liking this.
#lowpoly