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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 4h

This has come together so well! Watching Des go from a pile of salvaged wood bits to what you see here has been such a joy to follow.

Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 6h

To celebrate finally finishing my new table set I got some little touches to make it feel more useable in them encroaching long nights. The overground tube fabric cushion was more silly a idea but now feels incredibly fitting. Now to make the rest of the space as nice. #woodworking

Now completed workshop table set with standing and rolling table

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 7h

Great success!

Made it @sharpiepls.com! TY for your help earlier.

One note for the docs, maybe. Everything went bonkers from cookies/localstorage in my browser. Clearing that, then starting a fresh login/session cleared all the errors and cached ickyness.

Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 7h

Okay, migrating. BRB 🤞

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 7h

Okay, migrating. BRB 🤞

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 7h

I'll write up all these (gitea setup, object storage + LFS, asset library management, plus eventually Unity on it as well) as three parts of this journey since there's a lot to each. Hope those posts will help folks along if they choose to try this route.

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 7h

I've been reading up on how to store assets as a library with git + LFS + object storage, but I don't have that up and running yet. I'll probably have enough time to test an initial setup next week, but it seems like that will keep workflow from conflicting too badly.

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 7h

TBH, I didn't think of it at first, then added LFS to the Gitea install pretty easily. The harder part was getting it installed correctly on Windows, but once I had it on both machines, everything went smoothly.

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 9h

Back at it after a day "lost" yesterday to setting up Gitea. Trying to set a little mood with quick lighting + tricks so I can think about positioning of details inside, day/night cycle, and eventual texturing. Hope to round out a complete rough draft by Friday afternoon.

#B3D #IndieDev #SoloDev

Same interior, but with a little more structure in place, some colors on objects, and a few lights + emissive tricks to give some idea of the feel I'll be going for at different times of day.

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 10h

Perfect, thanks!

Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 10h

Finally going to make the jump today. I know you mentioned setting up custom domain after the jump, but should I use my custom domain (current) or original bsky handle (previous/reserved) as the “old handle” value?

And thanks for being both Blacksky hype and tech support rockstar! 🙏

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Friedemann Allmenröder @friedemanna.bsky.social · 12h

Loads of new faces on here these days!

I'm Friedemann, I made Summerhouse and a couple of other games and am working on Sots & Daggers, a tactical slot machine game where you spin to fight weird creatures!

What are you working on?

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 11h

Strong “it’s Christmas week so let’s haul out the projector for family memories time before opening gifts and getting a slot track set” vibes.

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Floorium @floorium.bsky.social · 23h

Adding foreground elements - depth is still vital for 2D games!

#indiegame #solodev

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 23h

Those things are really, reeealllly good, fwiw, if you haven’t tried them.

Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 23h

You’ll be at a million installs in no time!

Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

The aesthetic on this is so fun. I love stuff that’s outside the everyday and that hangs together so well.

Infinicity @infinicity.bsky.social · 1d

All systems go (almost) - sound on #indiegames #indiegame #gamedev #videogames #proceduralart #voxel

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

Hey, if Perforce gets the job done, then it’s the right tool for you!

Happy to share post when it’s up; hopefully useful in some way to someone.

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Cupcake @capitancupcake.bsky.social · 1d

OK, I know it may sound like the most basic shit somebody can say but... I really feel like im getting better and more efficient with every sprite...
#Gamedev #Pixelart #Godot #indiedev

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

"This game is a delectable morsel, best savored, and a rare treat in a year already full of great games."

@qdork.bsky.social you know you got this great piece written about the game too, right? www.rogue.site/editorials/c...

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

If anyone wants to learn more about this journey, hit me up. Happy to share process, tips, initial experiences, etc. I'll probably write the whole thing up on the blog later this week.

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

Success!?!?

Pro: So, Gitea is running, and after some meddling with ssh keys it's all good, yayyyy! Now I can migrate away from github, etc.

Con: It is 3:30 and I all I wanted to do was move a Blender file to my PC to work on it. That was at 9am 🤦

#Gitea #SelfHosted #IndieDev

An actual commit has been made to a self-hosted repo. YAYYYYY!!!!

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 1d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .

Alt: Why tf are we all devops now?!?!?!

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

My day so far:

- Wish I could move a Blender file between computers
- Wish I could use something other than thieving Github
- Oh, Gitea looks promising

... four hours later ...

- So Cloudron needs Cloudflare's DNS config + a LetsEncrypt cert to point to DO to package manage the Gitea install ...

Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

Can't remember who it was that I am following that had an open question/thought about getting off github (or anywhere that reads your code) but I am starting a journey of deploying my own Gitea instance today and will report back as I go.

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Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

Can't remember who it was that I am following that had an open question/thought about getting off github (or anywhere that reads your code) but I am starting a journey of deploying my own Gitea instance today and will report back as I go.

Benjamin ... has named his game! @benjaminlistwon.com · 1d

From the same wikipedia entry ...