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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · 10d

Title drop

REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · 11d

Two solo PICO-8 projects and one older team project!

A Droid's Farming Adventure
renderscott.itch.io/droids-farmi...

Operation: Retrieval
renderscott.itch.io/operation-re...

Another Chance
store.steampowered.com/app/2404700/...

A Droid's Farming Adventure by REnder Scott

A minimalistic farming game about becoming filthy rich!

renderscott.itch.io

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · 11d

Turns out the issues were on my end 😔 finally fixed them and can now (hopefully) continue working in peace. Halloween release window should be doable 🙏

REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · 12d

"The bloody business of interstellar warfare is never concluded" is the most "we have Warhammer at home" thing I've ever read. Absolutely hilarious.

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · 13d

That's so true! The few times I tried finding some assets (mostly audio) left me impressed. Best case you find a new artist to follow.
A roadblock I keep bumping against is finding sources of cc0 assets which have enough variety to dive into. What are your go-to websites for browsing?

REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · 17d

Me waking up to a patch of the engine Operation Retrieval runs on: we are so barack
1h later, realizing only half of the issues were fixed: it's so joever

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Sep 11

AND IT EATS

REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Sep 11

On another note, assuming the engine I'm using gets patched, I plan on releasing Operation Retrieval during the spooky season as well!

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Sep 11

Do you dare enter...?

#pixelart I made for the cover image of a horror short story I wanna post on itch.io for the spooky season. Had a blast making it from beginning to end, #aseprite is absolutely amazing, even for total noobs like me!

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Sep 11

Sounds fun! Could you send it over? :D

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Aug 13

Game dev during summer is literal hell. Fans blasting at full power as my laptop struggles to run an Unreal sample project turns my room into an oven ☠️

REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Aug 7

I really just spent 2 days trying to fix an issue in Unreal Engine where I couldn't create any project due to faulty MSVC versioning. Turns out I just had to reset my configs in AppData 🤭

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Jul 19

Laser league......

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Jul 3

Just finished Squid Game S3E2. This show is going to fucking kill me before the end of it.

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Jun 30

Operation Retrieval is pretty much done, however, the engine I'm working with will receive a major overhaul sometime down the line, so I'll have to rework some API calls. I'll see when the game is in a proper state to be launched, I expect latter half of this year.

REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Jun 22

When the math gets so abstract you start using graphs for visual debugging

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Jun 18

Performance ain't really looking good though 💀. I hope I can figure out some tricks to improve it.

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Jun 18

Implemented a rudimentary map generator to stress test performance, proud that I managed to in like 15 minutes. However, the map will 99% be handcrafted (just like the prototype), since I want the player to learn the map via landmarks.

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Jun 14

Starting to shape up to something

REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Jun 11

All good things start with a simple plane

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · Jun 3

‪Operator, we have a priority assignment for you. Infiltrate the entity's domain and collect data across the map so we can begin analysis.
Operation: Retrieval is a short #PICO8 horror game where what you can't see can't hurt you. Play now on itch: renderscott.itch.io/operation-re...
#gamedev #indie

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · May 31

currently working on a prototype for an upcoming uni semester project. of course pico8 is the perfect engine for it

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REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · May 29

getting trolled by my own spritework...

REnder Scott @renderscott4045.bsky.social · May 21

Telling me an event is only fun if you drink alcohol has the same energy as saying a game is only fun if you play with mods. If the base thing I'm there for isn't fun on its own, I'm not interested.

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