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Patrick Grant

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Artist, tinkerer, a third thing, lasagne and Mondays. Making a game over at @slumps.net

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · May 12

I've started showing bits of my game for the first time, so please go follow @slumps.net to get that cool epic content (I want to keep it separate from whatever slop I put on this account).
Chur

SLUMPS @slumps.net · May 12

Here's what the first area in our game looks like! Hope you liked games from the late 90s, because that's what you're getting.
What do you think this game is about?🤔
#indiegames #gamedev #godot

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 24d

Every time there's a new Godot release I think that's cool, but I don't need to upgrade - I've got everything I could need.
Then I look through the new features and very quickly think ooh yes I could use that.
It's a dangerous game.
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine

From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are ...

godotengine.org

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 27d

I just looked for it and within 5 seconds of skimming through gameplay I heard the noise haha

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 27d

haha it's iconic! And since revisiting a lot of games from 90s/00s I'm hearing that sound everywhere

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · 27d

Recently been working on some screen and particle effects! Does anyone recognise that swoosh sound?
#indiegames #VFX #screenshotsaturday

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SLUMPS @slumps.net · Aug 16

Let me show you a very special prop from our game, and walk you through how it was made (please don't tell others my secret technique)
#indiegame #gamedev #b3d #3dart #shadowwizardmoneygang

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Aug 12

I've been doing some baking in Blender

SLUMPS @slumps.net · Aug 12

Presenting today a render of a very important Battenberg cake

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Picster (Raffaele Picca) @picster.bsky.social · Jul 29

I am currently looking for more playtesters for the next playtest round of the Engraving Demo!

If you like Horror Adventure games, check out the link below!

And if not I would really appreciate sharing this post ✌

steamcommunity.com/games/261665...

#indiegames #GodotEngine #horrorgame

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SLUMPS @slumps.net · Jul 21

What's a point & click game without cursors for pointing and clicking?
Figured these should be pre-rendered sprites to fit with the crunchy 90s aesthetic - what do you think?
#indiegame #b3d #retro

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 17

Music for this boring-ass N64 game has no right to be this funky fresh.
youtu.be/iZ4M_0_p9Io?...

Bonus Stage | Lode Runner 3D OST

YouTube video by Keiki Ch. 🍭パンケーキ🍬

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Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 14

Which for me is about once a week when I fat finger the file explorer and move a folder into another folder and have no idea where it went

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 10

I searched for "frog with gun" on Temu and discovered this cool new character. When is he coming to Fortnite??

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 10

GDQuest is great, that's what I got started with. The paid classes are well worth it.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 9

If you want the TLDR, I had memories of playing fun games from this CD as a kid, but now I've revisited I don't know what I was on about. Out of the 748 games there is only one worth playing.
Indie's Desktop Adventures.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 9

I've played so many 90s shareware indie games now, my mind has been truly warped and I don't know what is "good" or "bad" any more.
At some point I'll probably write something longer about this arduous and pointless journey.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 9

#775GamesForWindows 748: "Volutare 3D" - Bela Von Hoffman
I've got an important update. The game? It's about flipping cubes, it's not good, who cares. All this time I've been saying I was reviewing 775 games, but somehow I miscalculated and there's only 748. This is how it ends.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 7

#775GamesForWindows 747: "Stellar Explorer" - TCI Corporation
I've played so many of these 90s spaceship OS simulators now, and they're almost all the same. The difference with this one is they take away weapons in the shareware version so it's unwinnable.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 2

#775GamesForWindows 746: "TC Space Fighter" - Anthony Carin
I'll never know what this is because opening it immediately locks up the system. Another thumbnail-sized game, I'm sure it was great.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 2

#775GamesForWindows 745: "Sky Maze" - AxySoft
Play as a little yellow guy collecting all the little yellow bits on a level and avoid the various bad guys running aimlessly around. There are powerups that let you kill the baddies for a short time. So it's Russian 3D Pac-Man.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 1

#775GamesForWindows 744: "Shuffle Board 3D" - Walter A. Kuhn
Never tried shuffle board in real life, but I'm not good at this at all. Is it normal rules that if your puck is in a scoring zone but has one pixel over the boundary, it's worth 0 points??

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jul 1

#775GamesForWindows 743: "Pong 3D" - Jesse Johnson
Yep it's pong. You could argue it's 3D. Love the MS Paint art. The computer isn't very good at its own game, but I still think it's pretty fun.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jun 30

#775GamesForWindows 742: "TC Virtual Ping Pong" - Anthony Carin
The worst case of "game for ants" yet. Had to blow up the screenshot because it plays at 256x256, of course resizing windows is a feature only for registered players. It's too small to even know if it's fun.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jun 30

#775GamesForWindows 741: "NanoCore" - Paul Keet
Hey, this game is actually delivers on being 3D. It's basically a themed BreakOut in 3D space, which is cool and all but honestly it's hard to judge depth, making it worse play.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jun 29

#775GamesForWindows 740: "Master of the Maze" - Spice Software
I think this was meant to be a very funny joke. That's the map under the compass. That layout means that every direction you face looks identical. There are no exits to this maze, this is shareware purgatory.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jun 29

#775GamesForWindows 739: "Magic Balls" - Agentix Software
It's a match 3 game. One with a design flaw. You can only make moves on highlighted balls, and there is nothing that ever shuffles or moves the board down. This means you just go through the moves and then it's game over.

Patrick Grant @patgrant.bsky.social · Jun 26

#775GamesForWindows 738: "Lunar Basketball" - P.S. Neeley
A game about shooting hoops on different planets with different gravities. Kind of a fun idea but it actually sucks and plays horribly.