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HagermanHour

@hagermanhour.bsky.social

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Independent Developer | Building Mods since 2001 | Twitch Affiliate | Streams Game Development (Top 10% 2023, 2024) | Plantbased (-200 lb/-91kg). https://linktr.ee/hagermanhour #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Mar 23

A new clip showing this off, as well as a new level (WIP).

#leveldesign #environmentart #unity #gamedev

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · 11d

One would think news of CalCompute would be making much larger waves than it has so far.

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · 15d

One of the most rewarding aspects of making games?

Getting letters about how your games got them through tough times, or brought their friends and family together when they were apart.

Making things that can do that?

Magical.

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · 17d

Gamedev stream went well but it was completely derailed from the initial goal - critical bugs appeared that needed tidying up, and some unusual code issues happened in the areas I was play testing - unfortunately not the kinds of bugs I was looking for - the 😭 kinds that require immediate work.

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · 17d

Streaming gamedev on Twitch - now!
(does promotion ever not feel weird?)

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · 18d

Streamed over 7 hours of #gamedev =) such good progress, and made some new friends!

It always warms my heart that people do in fact get excited about what I'm making enough to subscribe!

Got some good chatter feedback today too, some things to work on and others that confirm the vision! 🔥

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · 23d

Should have announced before going live, but did a gamedev stream today!
+new OBS scripting working really well, shows off different angles of the scenes I'm working in automatically
+got some good additional level details done
+ lot of rough QA that needed validating
#gamedev #indiegames #twitch

A before and after screenshot of a level of Rogue Melee, depicting more rocks at sea level and an expanded dock area.

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · 28d

Part Two Update!
#gamedev #solodev #indiedev #indiegames #soulslike #roguelike #screenshotsaturday #buildinpublic

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy little moment this morning, finding a giant optimization (flag wasn't on) on some very old tech art used in a few places.

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Sep 7

Just had to format and write a new partition table to a drive. Data - lost. It was an external HDD for an Xbox, so it wasn't exactly regular stuff. Upside, the games can all just be downloaded again. Thought the drive was gone entirely, but you know, I have a certain set of skills...

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Sep 7

Take a break?

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #unity #indiegames

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Sep 6

Made a couple more songs between yesterday and today :)

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you very much!

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Sep 1

Secretly streamed on Twitch today doing level polish :) Here's a screenshot - hope you'll give me a follow!

#gamedev #indiegame #sologame #soulslike #unity

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Aug 21

"...to precompile this data and distribute it at download time for key titles via the Xbox PC app This approach not only gets you into your games faster, but it also prevents most instances of stutter that cause performance issues." devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/intr...

Introducing Advanced Shader Delivery - DirectX Developer Blog

This year at gamescom, Microsoft is highlighting new gaming features coming for Windows, particularly for handheld devices. We want to highlight one of the DirectX team’s most exciting new contributio...

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Aug 21

It isn't every day a technology blog really excites me, when you've been around the block for awhile, like seeing old tools dressed in new clothing, it can be sometimes eye-rolling. But seeing the announcement of Advanced Shader Delivery does excite me because it genuinely brings value. Link below.

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Aug 19

Went live briefly on twitch today - was testing some new hardware triggers, most of them worked as expected.

One did not and put me in a blank category, how odd.

The dev machine eventually crashed though.

On the brighter side, very happy with the new look 😁

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Aug 12

So I got this asset a couple years ago for Unity, and found out today the developer had discontinued development.

They had made a better asset, and gave a free upgrade to everyone who used the former asset they discontinued. Nice!

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Aug 9

🛎 Slideshow of screencaps collected over the past few months

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #lowpoly #soulslike #roguelike #videogames #gamedevelopment

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Aug 8

🎨 just some art

A digital artwork blending a synthetic sundown at the ocean with otherworldly splashes of color with the phrase "Every Hour Is A Gift" written in white text on a portion of the upper black background

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Aug 6

humbly excited seeing my last youtube upload have the highest views ever for my tiny channel, five times the previous best (100 to 500)

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Aug 4

Somehow I made it past the first neovim lesson

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Aug 2

A short story update on what I'd been building recently. I'd love if you subscribed, too. Maybe I'll make it to 25! 💙

www.youtube.com/shorts/YYCoG...

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #solodev #buildinpublic

I Made My Own Game Build Tool for Free!

YouTube video by HagermanHour

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Jul 30

Nice! Using a note is clever I really like that!

HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Jul 29

Do you ever customize icons for shortcuts, desktop folders?

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HagermanHour @hagermanhour.bsky.social · Jul 29

In today's adventure of gamedev project build pipeline, I restarted a task that took 5 hours this morning to run through. Currently around hour 3 of it doing it again! oops