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Lex
@snoozingrat.bsky.social
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Game dev, pixel artist, TTRPG writer. Rat parent.🐀

In progress:
- 2.5D party-based roguelike
- action-platformer metroidvania
- games re: mental health

AuDHD, queer 🏳️‍⚧️ (they/them)

Mastodon: @[email protected]
Itch: snoozingrat.itch.io
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Lex @snoozingrat.bsky.social · 28d
It's about time I did this more officially, I think.

Explore the ancient Megastructure and salvage anything that might help your home station survive another day. Be ready when the time comes. We're all in this together.

#gamedev #roguelike #rpg #megastructure

snoozingrat.itch.io/the-megastru...
DevLog #1-1: First devlog! What is The Megastructure?
I've been working on The Megastructure for several months now, so I figured it was time I started some kind of dev log. Hi! I'm Lex, a queer, disabled, neurodivergent artist, and the game I'm working....
snoozingrat.itch.io
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luizzakky.bsky.social
Messing around more with my spider legged little rig, this time I got a web/grappling hook thing to work, and I'm so proud of this little guy! #gamedev #godot #indiedev
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
Is this font too small for handhelds? (and also just in general)

I don't want to make decisions I'll regret if I need to scale it up later.

#godot #indiegame #accessibility
February 7, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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archangelsoftworks.co.uk
I'm on a #podcast, a good one, and I'm really excited about it :D

We'll be covering indie dev in general, working with collaborators and the upcoming #HighwayNoir

10am Pacific Time is 6pm GMT for my fellow Brits. And I'll be taking audience questions #JustSaying :)
questmarkers.bsky.social Quest Markers Podcast @questmarkers.bsky.social · 5d
Come be a part of our live audience Q&A :)

NEXT TUESDAY, @archangelsoftworks.co.uk will be joining us to chat about the development of their upcoming game, Highway Noir!

🕰 Tuesday, Feb. 10th at 10am Pacific Time
🔗 twitch.tv/marinahascoffee
YouTube thumbnail for the game dev podcast Quest Markers. It features a screenshot from the upcoming video game Highway Noir, showing a green car under the spotlight of a helicopter, driving through a black-and-white city. The title "How indie game are made" is featured in bright yellow. Quest Markers' podcast logo is featured on the top-left.
February 6, 2026 at 10:40 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
Getting excited over Events for my dialog system, and then I catch myself thinking, "With Parallel I could run WaitInput and WaitTimer and return when either completes and..."

I felt a sudden chill as the spectre of QTEs loomed heavy over my shoulder.

Not today, Satan.

#godot #indiedev #rpg
February 6, 2026 at 6:14 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
I love having these two as company while I work.

#rats #petrats #ratsky
A photo of an adult male hooded fancy rat, Gus, hanging out in a drawer next to me. A photo of an adult male hooded fancy rat, Flea, chilling on a pile of fresh laundry (one of his favourite things). A photo of two adult male hooded fancy rats, Flea (left) and Gus (right). They're stretched out next to each other on a hoodie, beside one of their cardboard huts.
February 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
I started idly sketching enemy concept ideas, with a vague theme of "triangles" in my head, and it sure went places.

My art tends to go two very different ways.

#art #weird #scifi #indiedev
A pencil sketch of a pair of robots. The smaller one, upper right, is a hovering orb with a triangular screen for a "face." The larger robot's head is a truncated rectangular prism. It's largest visible faces have markings that resemble angry and happy faces. The robot's head is hovering over its body, which is a similarly-shaped plate, and an orb that connects the two. It has three legs - each one is broad, and marked with a downward-pointing triangle on the top, and an upward-pointing triangle on the bottom. A pencil sketch of a large entity that has a vaguely human-like upper torso, but three arms and an alien, triangular "head." The entity's body seems to be fused to its surroundings. The face is the most visually detailed element, with three eyes arranged at each point on the entity's triangular head. Softer lines and creases connect the eyes together, and a sharp-edged tetrahedron protrudes from the centre.
February 3, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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malicedafirenze.bsky.social
Figured I'd share a bit of steam review insight on the horse game server inspired by this 🫡
discord screenshot showing a post from Alice, half an hour ago: I just saw a related post on bsky and was reminded that probably not everyone is aware of this, so here we go: General PSA for video game enjoyers: leave reviews on Steam Steam reviews (both the overall number as well as the review ratio) have an immense impact on a game's visibility if you're the 10th or 50th or 100th person to leave a review on a game, you can genuinely change that game's trajectory towards failure/success you don't need to write a whole essay, just a sentence or two and deciding on a 👍 / 👎 is enough to make a meaningful difference if a game has a Free Demo and the Demo has a separate page where you can leave reviews for the Demo, the same applies The overall number of reviews defines which label the game gets. For example, I believe >50 reviews AND 80% positive reviews are needed for Very Positive, while >500 reviews and 95% positive gets you Overwhelmingly Positive When a new game comes out, you're doing the developer a gigantic favor if you leave a preliminary positive review after the first 10min of playing, even if you might revisit it later to edit your review once you've played more a game needs at least 10 reviews to even get a "Positive" label - for a newly released game, it makes a huge difference if they achieve this within the first few hours of launching or not, because it determines whether the Steam algorithm will show the game to more people early visibility and moderate commercial success can determine whether a game can even afford to invest in further updates and improvements. If you're generous with your reviews in the first few days of a release, you increase the game's overall chances of becoming a better product in time. In short: Leave reviews quickly, often and generously if you want to help developers succeed and get visibility. You can still switch your 👍 to a 👎 later if you feel like feedback is being ignored or improvements aren't being made.
January 31, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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balderdragonslayer.bsky.social
Made some upgrades to Cinder's model and now she can move her eyes! 👁️👁️
Sorry for good quality editor capture.
#CRUST #gamedev #indiegame #indie
February 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
Getting started on my localization CSV now, because it would be hell to implement later. Thankfully Godot seems to make localization relatively painless (said the person who has never tried to implement it before).

#godot #indiedev #rpg #roguelike
A .CSV file open in LibreOffice. The three columns show the string IDs, the English translation, and a French translation for a test dialogue.
January 29, 2026 at 5:40 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
#godot 4.6 has been an absolute godsend in my extremely resource-heavy project. I know it has plenty of great going for it, but this single QoL feature is so, so good.

#gamedev #indiedev #rpg
A screenshot of the Inspector dock from Godot 4.6, showing how nested resources take up the full width of the inspector dock now, making reading and editing them much simpler. This screenshot shows a hierarchy of nested Resources for the equipment loadouts for player-controlled characteres: the Loadout resource contains Equipment resources, which themselves contain StatModifier resources (not shown: CombatAction resources, defining the actions the equipment grants in combat). A screenshot of the Inspector dock from Godot 4.6, showing how nested resources take up the full width of the inspector dock now, making reading and editing them much simpler. This particular screenshot shows the hierarchy of resources and nodes handled by the DialogPlayer. Transcripts hold Arrays of DialogEvents, which the DialogPlayer processes each sequentially; never moving on until the previous one sends its completed signal. When it reaches the end of the transcript, it closes the window and resets. This test transcript holds four events: two DialogEventDisplayTexts (with different text and parameters), each immediately followed by a DialogEventWaitInput, which simply puts the box in focus and waits on its _gui_input() for a cancel/affirm button press, before the DialogPlayer moves to the next line/Event. DialogEventDisplayText handles fast-forward/skipping pretty great, which is such a relief (and took a bit to work the kinks out).
January 28, 2026 at 4:34 AM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
Coding my own dialog system! Pretty basic - DialogPlayers process DialogEvents, from a Transcript resource, on a text box. "DisplayText" and "WaitInput" are it atm, but it's very extensible (e.g. "Choice", "Branch," etc)

If I could code a text editor for Transcripts though...

#godot #indiedev #rpg
January 28, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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stellarmantis.bsky.social
I've been playing a lot of Dark Souls 3 and its got me feeling architecturally ambitious in #Crocotile3D

#gamedev #IndieGame #IndieDev #PixelArt #Horror #godot
January 19, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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shidonski.bsky.social
Today worked on technical debt I had for some time.
Before light was just 2 sprites on the character plus radial shadow sprite it was good enough for prototyping the look. Now I can have as many lights as I want.

#indiedev #gamedev #oloo
January 16, 2026 at 10:04 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
Having fun playing around with custom BBCode while I set up the dialogue box.

#godot #gamedev #rpg #roguelike
January 16, 2026 at 9:22 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
It's about time I did this more officially, I think.

Explore the ancient Megastructure and salvage anything that might help your home station survive another day. Be ready when the time comes. We're all in this together.

#gamedev #roguelike #rpg #megastructure

snoozingrat.itch.io/the-megastru...
DevLog #1-1: First devlog! What is The Megastructure?
I've been working on The Megastructure for several months now, so I figured it was time I started some kind of dev log. Hi! I'm Lex, a queer, disabled, neurodivergent artist, and the game I'm working....
snoozingrat.itch.io
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
I love when they just nap out in the open like this.

#rats #petrats #ratsky
A close up photo of an adult male hooded fancy rat with his eyes closed, relaxing on a hoodie.
January 14, 2026 at 12:38 AM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
Looking for recommendations, for team-based roguelikes that have an ongoing narrative.

Thinking of possible methods for how to tell a meaningful story, despite a potentially ever-changing roster of characters. So I'm really curious how it's been approached by others.

#gamedev #roguelike #indiegame
January 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
This hitch is driving me insane.

My scene constructor nodes are loading and instancing all the components in threads as they should, and the profiler is giving me no insight into why that one frame lasts 1675 ms.

Surely, that isn't lag from adding just one empty room to the tree.

#godot #gamedev
January 8, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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ilisvela.bsky.social
Progress on my isometric tactics game #Ilisia. Refining spell casting - individual spell AoEs can now require their own LoS checks from spell_target (center of AoE to each AoE cell).

Placeholder castle mesh.

#GameDev #Gaming #Godot #GodotEngine #PixelArt #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieGaming #IndieGame
January 5, 2026 at 4:44 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
Cognitive symptoms post-concussion have lessened. I can focus and organize more complex thoughts, like planning code. Too much still exacerbates the endless headaches.

Still way overstimulated by light and sound, and my left hand is what I can only describe as "glitchy". But at least I'm healing.
January 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
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ubadler.bsky.social
That's it! I've quit my job. I'm again fully committed to #Archrebel, resuming my full-time gamedev career.

For all those who have supported the project, even if just with a like or retweet, my heartfelt gratitude; have a fantastic new year! 🍻

#gamedev #gamedevelopment
January 2, 2026 at 11:49 AM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
Every year, my partner and I watch The Muppet Christmas Carol. And this year we found the uncut version with all the songs.

Michael Caine is stellar. The composure required to graciously and solemnly accept a child-sized scarf from Beaker without breaking into uncontrollable giggles is admirable.
December 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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verbante.bsky.social
making tiny star systems in pico8

#pico8 #procgen #gamedev
December 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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hedgeknightgd.bsky.social
Been messing around with a godray shader for the Idyllia backdrop. Adds some extra spice to the environment I think!

#gamedev #indiedev #godot
December 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
snoozingrat.bsky.social
Since my concussion, coding (and other mentally intensive tasks) makes me dizzy and my head hurt. This is fun.
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM