The use of font / handwriting in #Pentiment by @obsidianent.bsky.social is so, so brilliant.

I didn't finish the game on my first playthrough and starting over again on #Steamdeck has been such a treat.

The holidays gave me some time to gather my thoughts and realize that halting my entire project over not being able to achieve the shadows I want is quite silly.

We're moving forward without 'em and treating them as a stretch goal!

I've been on a bit of crunch this past week and current week for a release at my day job.

Haven't been able to work on Atu much, but hoping to get back into the swing of things this next week.

Mostly posting to keep myself accountable 🙂

#gamedev

After working on GI-esque 2D Projection Shadows for 20 hours a week / 3 weeks, the solution still seems very distant.

I've decided to temporarily axe this feature and shift focus as most of the game takes place at night anyway, where Godot's 2D light system already looks great.

JMP's Scavenger (#AtariST, 1989, unreleased)

The implementation of shadows here is insane for 1989. Admirable and motivating in my (surprisingly difficult) 2024 journey to make similar shadows in true 2D 😂

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #godot #2d #pixelart

So this implementation was a bit hamfisted; just a sprite with modified origins, index and skew.

I've spent the last couple weeks learning about shaders and the overall rendering pipeline. I'm now working on something more like multi-pass post processing with #godot viewports and depth maps

Working on 2D Orthographic View "Cast Shadows"

#godot #gamedev #shaders #pixelart