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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · 9h

The store page is live ☺️ Add to your wishlist if you like the idea of blowing up AI powered robots store.steampowered.com/app/4120110/...

Bombs vs Bots on Steam

A chaotic action game featuring physics-based destruction and light environmental puzzles. Clean up Cola Corp's disastrous attempt at replacing its workers with AI bots, one explosion at a time.

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · 9h

I wonder if any fellow Godot developers will notice the easter egg 👀 #godot

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · 9h

The store page for Bombs vs Bots is now live! If you enjoy top-down action arcade games with a lot of explosions, give it a look see ☺️ store.steampowered.com/app/4120110/... #indiegames #indiegame #gaming

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · 3d

I feel like Jeff Bezos might benefit from playing my upcoming game and seeing how it turned out for Cola Corp when they replaced their workers with bots 😬

Steam store page is coming soon 🎉

#indiegames #gamedev #protectsarahconnor

A screenshot an article discussing Amazon's intentions to replace workers with robots

The short description of an upcoming game with a plot themed around the same [bad] idea that Amazon have.

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Sep 3

Fellow Godot devs: if you're interested in adding dynamic resolution scaling to your game, feel free to claim this script as your own ☺️ This is the script I wrote for the macOS optimisations mentioned in the previous post.

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#godot #gamedev

Adding Dynamic Resolution in Godot

Resolution scaling is quite common in most games nowadays. It offers the ability for users to reduce the rendering resolution of the game without having to endure annoying resolution changes when alt-...

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Sep 1

macOS support is officially on the cards and is now running at a silky smooth 60FPS on the 2023 base model MacBook Air 🥳 blog.fiveninegames.io/adding-suppo... #indiegame

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Aug 27

YOLOing several major updates on the web server - what could go wrong?

Oh... oh no...

It took several hours but the blog is back online 🙏 new post incoming this week with some more Godot tips for the developer homies 🥳

a cartoon cat is sitting at a desk holding a keyboard and looking at a computer screen .

ALT: a cartoon cat is sitting at a desk holding a keyboard and looking at a computer screen .

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Jun 11

We may be using bombs to blow up evil robots and taking chunks of the environment out in the process, but we are responsible and put cones out to make sure no one trips and hurts themselves on the heavy materials that are lying around 🙏 #gamedev #indiegame #godot

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Jun 8

Teleporters fully implemented and almost 1/3 of the levels complete 🥳 #gamedev #indiegame

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Jun 3

That was my thinking too - in the stages, the lights and global illumination will brighten things up a lot more 🙂

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Jun 3

Thank you! You're not wrong - for some reason (still not sure why), it looks more saturated when viewing it stand alone like this. Placed in levels though it looks notably more transparent, so looks a lot more fitting in game play 🙂

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Jun 3

Thank you 🙏

Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Jun 3

Finishing up work on the teleporter system today! Very happy with how this shader came out in the end 🌀 #gamedev #indiegame

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · May 15

Development has been at a stand still for the last 2 weeks almost as I've had a real life bug to fix 🤒 😭 Trying hard to get back to pushing the game closer to the finish line and post interesting tidbits 👊

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Apr 28

Bug has been patched and has been added to the 4.5 roadmap 🥳 github.com/godotengine/...

Fix GridMap move selection crashing on invalid MeshLibrary item by smix8 · Pull Request #105664 · godotengine/godot

Fixes GridMap editor crashing when selected cells contain invalid MeshLibrary item and cells are moved with the GridMap editor clipboard tool. Fixes #105542

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Apr 18

Found a bug in Godot's GridMap last week (issue raised). In the mean time though, if anyone else is having an unexpected editor crash when bulk moving items on the GridMap, give this a read and try the work around included 🙂 blog.fiveninegames.io/evading-grid... #godot #gamedev

Evading GridMap Crashes

It's been another busy streak since the last update including a rework of all the existing levels. In the process of doing this, a not-so-obvious bug revealed itself in Godot. As mentioned in The Pre...

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Apr 6

This looks phenomenal 🤯

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Apr 5

This may be a blog post essentially just praising Kenney, but it's deserved 😅 The quality of the assets they put out freely available for people to use to learn, prototype with or to use directly in commercial products is unmatched (IMO). Their value to the dev community isn't quantifiable 💚

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Apr 5

New devlog up! It's been a little while since the last one but things are still progressing. Things took a few steps back the last week or two but got made a LOT easier to remedy thanks to the prototype texture pack from @kenney.bsky.social blog.fiveninegames.io/knocking-dow... #gamedev

Knocking Down The Walls & Retexturing

We're getting closer and closer to finally getting the store page up [for wishlists, release date is still TBC] and getting the trailer ready; but unfortunately, things have taken a few steps backward...

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Mar 17

When you have to get up early for work 😴

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Mar 11

New blog post for the fellow Godot devs out there. Godot 4.4 has added a ton of great improvements, including one that enabled this tool script to be created (which you are all welcome to take for your own projects if you need it 🙂). #gamedev #godot blog.fiveninegames.io/baking-mesh-...

Baking Mesh Skeleton Poses in Godot 4.4

We're almost done with developing the environmental hazards and this last one proved a bit more difficult than anticipated. Thankfully, Godot 4.4 released a few days prior to starting the work on this...

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Mar 2

Another week, another round of bug squashing. Progress is progress though 👊 blog.fiveninegames.io/developers-h... #gamedev #indiegames

Developers Hate It! See How This Door Caused Hours of Debugging with One Simple Trick

A notable amount of bugs have been uncovered in the last week and caused some notable set backs (thankfully all fixed now). One particularly painful bug though revolved around this block and how it my...

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Feb 20

Maybe of interest to new game devs who are struggling because things feel like they don't look like the final product should do early on. I battled with this a lot early on, and kept starting over; it can be demotivating, but as you can see here, everything starts off looking a bit weird #gamedev

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Feb 20

Small update on the blog showing how the wall mounted flame throwers came to be ^_^ blog.fiveninegames.io/we-have-flam... #indiegames

We Have Flamethrowers [Almost]

This week it's been back to creating things to give players a bit more of a chaotic experience once they've got to grips with the core mechanics of the game. This week's selection of environmental haz...

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Five Nine Games @fiveninegames.io · Feb 18

Gimmie fuel, gimmie fire, gimmie the particle effects I desire #indiegames

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