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Quimbley

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Middle age white dude, father of three, starting game development... totally not a midlife crisis lover of pixel art, cozy games, romcoms, and King of the Hill. Using this to log my game dev journey.

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Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 1

I have an idea for a video game. I have no experience developing games. I am bad at social media.

I am going to wing it and use this as a log of my Game Development as a middle aged man with 3 kids clearly going threw a midlife crisis

Picture of pixel art I drew last night because I am proud of it

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · 1d

This image as well

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · 1d

Work has been fairly demanding lately. I decided to make a twitch account and streaming while I work on Wonderspark. I have really enjoyed making panel art.

twitch.tv/quimbleyquibbles

#pixel #pixelart #gamedev #streaming #twitch #indiegame

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 23

Oh boy. The last two weeks were intense with work and then I got strep throat. Had to put a pause on #wonderspark but planing on picking back up after health and work are caught up.

#devlog #indiegame #gamedev

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 11

#womderspark - #devlog - Day 9 Standup

Extremely busy traveling for work but still in the process of trying to draw the general head shape. I think I'll have to cut it down to 16x16 and include hair options

32x32 introduces the issue of multiple face types.

#indiegame #videogame #gamedev

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 9

#wonderspark - #devlog - Standup

I won't lie last night was the first slump I have had and first time I thought about quiting.

Goal is to work on the people outline and style since everything else should be built around the player.

16x16 is rough 32x32 is too much

#indiegame #gamedev #videogame

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 8

#Wonderspark - #devlog - Day 7 - Update

Completed GDScript Lesson

Created a weekly update devlog on Medium which I will move forward as my weekly updates:
medium.com/@quimbleyqui...

#indiegame #gamedevelopmet

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Read writing from Quimbley on Medium. Sales Engineer Moonlighting as a gamedev

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 8

#Wonderspark - #devlog - Day 7

After sleeping for almost a whole day, emails at 100+ it might be ambitious to try to get game dev goals accomplished before I pack for NY.

Dev:
Complete GDScript class

Art:
Play with animation

Project:
❌

#indiegamedev #indiegame #gamedev #videogame

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 7

#womderspark - #devlog - Day 6

No goals today as me and the family are sick.

I will probably add ideas to the list though.

#gamedev #indiegame #videogame

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 6

Bah! Too kind and I appreciate it!

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 6

Art Goal 👌

Wife wanted me to wait for her to catch up to do the isometric lesson so I doodled a... logo?

#pixel #pixelart #art #digitalart #logo

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 6

I keep finding myself day dreaming about things I want to add to the demo. I am placing these ideas in their own ticketing project called Wonderspark Polish.

When I get the MVP done I am going to go threw these and add the ones that actually seem worth it.

#gamedesign #indiegame #gamedev

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 6

#wonderspark - #devlog - Day 5 - Dev Update

Dev Goal ✅
Finished lesson 20/27 on #GDQuest GDScript training.

Will try to finish the rest tomorrow and save moving to Module 4 the week after next since I will be traveling for work.

#gamedev #indiegame #videogame

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 6

#wonderspark - #devlog - Day 5 - project update

Project Goal ✅
Brainstormed two romance characters one the fire works expert another the grounds keeper.

🥳 Extra credit:
Built the ticket and brainstormed park goers MVP for demo

#indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #cozygame

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 6

#Wonderspark - #devlog - Day 5 - Standup

Dev Goal:
Get to Lesson 20/27 in GDScript lessons

Art Goal:
Isometric Lesson 1

Project Goal:
Brainstorm 2 MVP of NPCs for demo

#Indiegame #Indiedev #gamedev

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 6

#wonderspark - #devlog - Day 4 - Project Update

Project Goal ✅

Organized Youtrack for a Project Wonderspark Demo project and added a few things that needed to be add to have the starting portions of the game. Came up with a crafting idea to test as well.

#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 6

#Wonderspark - #devlog - Day 4 - Dev Recap

Dev Goal ✅

15/27 GDScript lessons now complete for from GDquest. I would like to get them all done before Sunday as I will be traveling for work next week and will not have my personal computer with me.

#gamedev #indiegamedev

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 5

#wonderspark - #devlog - Day 4 - Update

Art Goal ✅
Tomorrow I start isometric. Followed a tutorial took creative liberties but not my own work. Just logging my daily progressions.

#pixelart #pixel #art

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 5

#Wonderspark - #devlog - Day 4

GOALS

Dev:
Get 3-5 more lessons on GD Script.

Art:
One video on pixel art.

Project:
Start thinking of the fundamentals I'll need to test the game and create a few tickets in youtrack.

#gamedev #indiegame #videogame #cozygame

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 5

#Wonderspark Log - Day 3 - Art

Art Goal ✅

Completed the second part of the tutorial with some additions.

#gamedev #pixelart #indiegame #pixel #art

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 4

#wonderspark - Day 3 - Dev Recap

Dev Goal ✅
Completed 5 lessons on GDScript

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 4

#Wonderspark Log - Day 3 - Project Update

Project Goal ✅
Decided to make a Google doc for mood board.

Also settled on @youtrack.cloud as product management and added a few tasks to it

#gamedev #indiegame #devlog

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 4

Wonderspark Log - Day 3 - Standup

Dev:
Complete 3 - 5 lessons from Module 3 of GDquest 2D Game Dev

Art Goal:
Complete Top Down Scene Part 2 from Udemy course 🌟

Project Goal:
Setup Project Wonderspark mood board 🌟

🌟= priority since past due

#gamedev #indiegame #videogame #create

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 4

Wonderspark Log - Day 2 - Recap

Dev Goal: ✅

Art Goal: ❌

Project Goal: ❌

Last night I fell asleep putting the kids to bed so I missed my time window to do the art work. Moving those goals to today.

#indiegame #gamedev

Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 3

Wonderspark Log - Day 2 - Dev Update

Completed the first 5 lessons of the GDScript course at gdquest.github.io/learn-gdscri... for my hour of development work a day. I would say doing 3 - 5 a day is a reasonable amount to set as a goal for my 1 hour dev windows a day.

#indiegame #gamedev #godot

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Make your family and friends proud. Learn skills in high demand by creating fun toys and games. Finally become a game developer!

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Quimbley @quimbley.bsky.social · Aug 3

Wonderspark Log - Day 2 - Standup

Dev Goal:
Two lessons of Module 2 of GDquest class.

Art Goal:
One Video of Mastering Pixel Art

Project Goal:
Set up a mood board to start grabbing things with the ambiance I want the game to have. Add ideas to GDD

#gamedev #indiegame #dev #videogame