loren schmidt
@lorenschmidt.bsky.social
i make art, mostly with computers. currently working on an open world RPG with roguelike roots and an experimental bent. cat mom. she / her or they / them.
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loren schmidt
@lorenschmidt.bsky.social
· Nov 25
i am making an open world roguelike.
i have been imagining this world for years, and i want to make this game so people can go there and live many lives in it!
the game features whole-cloth, accessible design, deep mysteries, and a meticulous generated living world.
i have been imagining this world for years, and i want to make this game so people can go there and live many lives in it!
the game features whole-cloth, accessible design, deep mysteries, and a meticulous generated living world.
AAA will never be a worthy place until they learn to stick up for their employees instead of catering to abusive bigots in the fandom.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
AAA will never be a worthy place until they learn to stick up for their employees instead of catering to abusive bigots in the fandom.
i added a refresh hotkey to the generation testbed, and a little animation. tomorrow i'm going to generate a couple of types of ships.
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
i added a refresh hotkey to the generation testbed, and a little animation. tomorrow i'm going to generate a couple of types of ships.
i am making a screen for testing generated vector graphics for enemy ships etc.. it works! except right now the things being generated are all scribbles.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 AM
i am making a screen for testing generated vector graphics for enemy ships etc.. it works! except right now the things being generated are all scribbles.
this is still 100% vector- messing with some ways to get a little depth into it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
this is still 100% vector- messing with some ways to get a little depth into it.
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an early drawing of one of the living stone city-symbiotes of the shepherds
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
an early drawing of one of the living stone city-symbiotes of the shepherds
oh! it's actually spawning enemies from my generated data now.
November 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
oh! it's actually spawning enemies from my generated data now.
it's technically actually a scrolling shooter now
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
it's technically actually a scrolling shooter now
i have the first pass on stage data generation working! time to actually set it up so you can fly through a stage and it will spawn things according to this data.
now i have to make the weird architecture decision all scrolling shooter makers need to make: screen space relative, or world space?
now i have to make the weird architecture decision all scrolling shooter makers need to make: screen space relative, or world space?
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
i have the first pass on stage data generation working! time to actually set it up so you can fly through a stage and it will spawn things according to this data.
now i have to make the weird architecture decision all scrolling shooter makers need to make: screen space relative, or world space?
now i have to make the weird architecture decision all scrolling shooter makers need to make: screen space relative, or world space?
[food] always eat well during jams
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
[food] always eat well during jams
Reposted by loren schmidt
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
enemy health + destruction
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
enemy health + destruction
usb B is underrated
November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
usb B is underrated
next i am making enemies destructible and giving them simple movement, then getting a first pass on stage generation working. it's going to feel like an actual game pretty soon.
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
next i am making enemies destructible and giving them simple movement, then getting a first pass on stage generation working. it's going to feel like an actual game pretty soon.
while mei was playing with a string, she invented a new kind of knot. it'a a bow with three loops.
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
while mei was playing with a string, she invented a new kind of knot. it'a a bow with three loops.
mechanically, one thing i'm considering is a workhorse ranged attack + a melee, though not at all like radiant silvergun or birdcage. more like the gauntlet in quake 3or the plasma discharge in doom eternal.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
mechanically, one thing i'm considering is a workhorse ranged attack + a melee, though not at all like radiant silvergun or birdcage. more like the gauntlet in quake 3or the plasma discharge in doom eternal.
oh how fabulous. i didn't get a screenshot, but i fully chained level 2 in ikaruga for the first time since i started playing again. 67 chains.
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
oh how fabulous. i didn't get a screenshot, but i fully chained level 2 in ikaruga for the first time since i started playing again. 67 chains.
contact detection
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
contact detection
because we all get random snippets of one another's timelines: i'm making a small #procjam scrolling shooter with generated levels (and enemies (and /maybe/ weapons))
player bullets. you can focus fire or spread, and when you focus it throttles down the (linear!) player movement.
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
because we all get random snippets of one another's timelines: i'm making a small #procjam scrolling shooter with generated levels (and enemies (and /maybe/ weapons))
player movement and firing are working. next i'm doing rudimentary stage generation and a scrolling camera (with v. basic enemies which move randomly in a line)
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
player movement and firing are working. next i'm doing rudimentary stage generation and a scrolling camera (with v. basic enemies which move randomly in a line)
player bullets. you can focus fire or spread, and when you focus it throttles down the (linear!) player movement.
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
player bullets. you can focus fire or spread, and when you focus it throttles down the (linear!) player movement.
test mode which draws slightly outside the playable area
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
test mode which draws slightly outside the playable area
i am doing my procjam slightly out of sync- doing my first half day now.
i did some more systems work, and here is player movement working!
i did some more systems work, and here is player movement working!
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
i am doing my procjam slightly out of sync- doing my first half day now.
i did some more systems work, and here is player movement working!
i did some more systems work, and here is player movement working!