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Building Soup in public. Competitive multiplayer RTS with autonomous swarm units. Posting wins and broken builds alike.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/436480/eventcomments/684113723162461050
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Dual contouring on GPU for the wriggly innards. Testing how much the fake refraction sells the glass on its own.
#bevy #indiedev #devlog
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letttier.bsky.social
#b3d
September 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Borrowed from Pax Britannica. Hold to select unit, cooldown shown on the same circle. All the info in one spot.

#soup #gamedev #indiedev #bevy
January 15, 2026 at 12:19 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Trying the obvious: spawn cooldowns. Like almost every other RTS.

Open question—what happens when you're holding "emit" but the cooldown isn't ready yet? Queue it? Ignore it? Visual feedback?

#gamedev #indiedev #bevy
January 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Weekly Steam update:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/436...

#soup #indiedev
Soup: the Game - Week [4]: Dev Branch Goes Live - Steam News
New build goes live on main depot. Retro skin system for fast iteration. Hunter prowl and dash working. Skins now react to game events.
store.steampowered.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:47 AM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Dash visuals. Elastic stretch + afterimage trail.

One of the procedural skins. Aiming for that PixelJunk sidescroller vibe—retro-futuristic, clean lines.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev
January 10, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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lize.bsky.social
Bustling city of creatures with bright red staring eyes

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev
January 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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bycob.bsky.social
I'm adding mushroom culture, it still needs some tuning.

#ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev
January 10, 2026 at 6:12 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Broke something. Now it just stares.

#soup #bevy #gamedev #indiedev
January 10, 2026 at 1:50 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Scout mode draft. Harvesters pushing outward, exploring.

Still figuring out the right levers. Hunters can be clever—harvesters are jelly blobs. Keep them dumb.

#soup #gamedev #indiedev #gameai
January 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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blood-orange-games.bsky.social
👁️Loop of Command is a cute automation puzzle.
Program obedient robots to survive your next performance review.

Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4180270?...

#indiedev #gamedev #puzzlegames #indiegame #WishlistWednesday
January 7, 2026 at 4:04 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Prowl behavior. Hunters drift in loose spirals until something crosses their path.

#soup #gameai #gamedev #indiedev
January 8, 2026 at 4:42 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Getting better. Hunters now predict where targets will be.

Still struggle when speeds are close and paths aren't straight. But they're trying.

#soup #bevy #indiedev #gameai
January 6, 2026 at 3:22 AM
chainhacker.bsky.social
First battle effect: mines pulse on attack.

Game sends event, skin library handles the visual. Simple for now—the glass membranes will make this look way better.

#soup #devlog #gamedev #indiedev
January 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Easy to get carried away designing abstractions for problems you don't have yet.

Moved procedural skins to a separate repo. Started planning shared trait crates, plugin registries, DLC boundaries. For two skin types.

Caught myself. Back to building.

#soup #gamedev #indiedev
January 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Back to basics. Contour placeholders—outlines and pattern fills.

New mechanics need instant visuals, not polished art. Pretty comes later.

#soup #gamedev #indiedev
January 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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oscail.bsky.social
Terminal Menu
#indiedev #gamedevelopment #GodotEngine
January 3, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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voidgazerbon.bsky.social
The boss fight is added, and you can finally escape from the hole, but only if you can beat him. Can you? www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=144...
#pico8 #gamedev #pixelart #indiegame #
December 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Hunters were supposed to surround prey. They just drop the ball instead.
#soup #gamedev #bevy
December 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Claude's /stats command
December 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Weekly #devlog update
store.steampowered.com/news/app/436...
#gamedev #indiedev
Soup: the Game - Week [3]: Levels, Faction Skins, Platform Update - Steam News
Tutorial levels for hunter mode cycling—guard vs prowl. Faction skins moving to separate libraries. Old build may get replaced with the dev version soon.
store.steampowered.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Simplest unit—just a ball in a membrane. Pretty sure the big thing spawns them by pinching off its tentacles. Little blobby offspring.
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
December 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
chainhacker.bsky.social
They hunt in packs now. Target selection, formation keeping, disbanding when idle. More to come.
#gamedev #indiedev #bevy
December 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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goodnews.computer
I tried to change the refraction method I was going for to a cubemap instead of layered front and back faces and somehow ended up here so that's fine. The shit looks like a portal through time and space now and I'm okay with that all dice should look like that anyway.
December 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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amitsheen.bsky.social
I was inspired by another amazing animation from Jon Kantner, so I made a pure CSS version. 400 squares, using sibling-index() and sibling-count(), a bunch of trig functions, and some typed arithmetic. (Currently works in Chrome 140+ only)

Live demo on @codepen.io: codepen.io/amit_sheen/f...
September 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
chainhacker.bsky.social
Dual contouring on GPU for the wriggly innards. Testing how much the fake refraction sells the glass on its own.
#bevy #indiedev #devlog
December 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM