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@blunderjack.bsky.social
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Wishlist my game! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3314190/Oh_No_UFO/

Game dev on Mondays and fundraising tech for Wikimedia Deutschland the rest of the time. He/Him.

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Hello, lil Ghost Turnip!
A 3D print of a ghost turnip, which is the OG Jack-o-lantern
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Framerate isn't the best with 100 houses, but I think with some optimisations I can finagle this into the game.

#GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
A game screenshot showing a UFO hovering in the middle of 100 houses. A lot of them are demolished and there is debris everywhere.
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
blunderjack.bsky.social
House destruction is now pretty much where I want it to be. Gotta spawn 100 of them next and see how the game runs.

#GameDev
October 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
They're deactivating their forums, this is not gonna be good news for creatives.
We want to share an important update about the Affinity Forums. On October 6 2025, we'll be transitioning the forums to read-only mode. This forum will remain available as a searchable archive so you can continue to access the wealth of information shared here, but new replies will not be allowed. These Affinity Forums have been an incredible part of our journey — a space where you've supported each other, reported bugs, shared inspiration, and shaped our products with honest feedback and thoughtful discussion. To everyone who's contributed, thank you. Your time, energy, and passion have been invaluable, and we're deeply grateful for this community. We will continue providing fast, high-quality support. If you need help or have a question, the best way to reach us is through our Support Form — it gets your request to the right team quickly so we can help you more efficiently.
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Burn, baby, burn!

#GameDev
September 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Penguins can't fly... PENGUINS CAN'T FLYY!!!
September 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
I also really like that I can adjust the density of trees and grass and things now. I'll probably make that part of the quality settings.

#GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
September 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Spent the last week swapping my hand placed props with spline procgen stuff. I'd say 80% of my game is now reticulated.

#GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
A game screenshot showing a wireframe view of an island. It's covered in blue lines, each line is a spline that's being used for procgen. A game screenshot showing the same view as the wireframe one, except the scenery and props are visible.
September 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score

One of my favourite movies. When I was like 8 or 9 I was allowed a TV in my room, and I used to stay up late on Wednesdays to watch the RTE midweek horror movie. They scared the shit out of me but also gave me a very weird taste in films
September 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
And the quests and dialogue all tie together real nice now. A long day with nothing I can really show off, but I got a shit load done behind the scenes.

#GameDev
Work on a main narrative thread that co guides the player through the quests, helps them to find new ones, and ties the existing ones together "IMHO this is the weakest part of the game, there isn't anything consistently guiding me through the experience or taking me from area-to- area, instead I have to sort of stumble across the quests and can get a bit confused holding multiple quests at once."
September 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Fixed some things based on this feedback this morning and pinning quests is now more intuitive. Next up, improving the dialogue flow for the main quest line.

#GameDev
When quest is not pinned put a message -- there to let the player know about the info screen (I think this player missed that the screen exists) If I don't pin a quest, how can I find my active quests and pin it again? Having a control prompt for this displayed on screen would be great. It would he great to see a count of my currently "active" quests too, It would be nice to have my next quest ™ in the queue auto-pin after I complete the current pinned quest,
September 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Did a nice little bit of work today and I managed to improve some things based on this feedback.

#GameDev
I was a little confused about the release the specimens thing. Since arriving at the home hase says "deliver specimens" - I assumed that meant they'd leave my inventory. So then I just went back and tried it a second time after getting the "how to drop things" prompt. Maybe "scan specimens" would be clearer? That or Just take them out of my inventory
September 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Just had a quick look at how my game would handle sicko 32:9 aspect ratio and it's actually not too bad. It could just do with some UI squishing.

#GameDev
A screenshot from my game Oh No! UFO! showing a cute UFO overlooking a landscape in a very wide 32:9 aspect ratio. A screenshot from my game Oh No! UFO! showing a squished UI quest menu in a very wide 32:9 aspect ratio. A screenshot from my game Oh No! UFO! showing a slightly squished pause menu in a very wide 32:9 aspect ratio. A screenshot from my game Oh No! UFO! showing a dialogue box with a Cute UFO and a Game Boy looking character talking to each other in a very wide 32:9 aspect ratio. The focus for the camera is obscured by the dialogue box.
September 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Basically the result of my entire last 2 weeks of work is to have these UI prompts show when a player doesn't have a pinned quest. I shaved an entire field of yaks to get here, just naked yaks lazing around all over the place now.

#GameDev
A video game screenshot of cute UFO hovering over some fields. There is a red arrow pointing to some new GUI text in the top left corner. The text title says "Find some new things to do" and a second smaller prompt says "Press select to pin a quest"
September 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
I'm making a tiny open world game where you play as a lil' UFO exploring the Earth and getting up to shenanigans in order to write a travel guide

store.steampowered.com/app/3314190/...
August 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
blunderjack.bsky.social
What if every building in my game was knockdownable? (Yes that's a real word and I didn't make it up)

#GameDev #IndieGame
July 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Wait, gifs don't work!? More like a soshite network! Here's a video..

#GameDev #IndieGame
July 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Beef!

Also today I discovered that the thing where a cartoon character gets their butt lit on fire and jumps in the air holding it is called a Rump Roast!

#GameDev #IndieGame
A load of red barrels in the shape of the cursive word beef with a cow at the end. They explode and the beef gets a rump roast.
July 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
People want to be able to cause more mischief in my game, so fuck it, lets blow the shit out of some cars.

#GameDev #IndieGame
July 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
I did it! It was only a 7/10 though, it needs tomato sauce or something salty like capers to counteract the bitterness of the kohlrabi
A bianco pizza with kohlrabi and bacon
July 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
I hooked up my area map!

#ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #IndieGame #SoloDev
July 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
I finally have my island finished so I'm finally doing the map screen. And I'm pretty happy with my progress so far.

#GameDev #IndieGame #SoloDev
A WIP of a tourist style map of a fictional place called Windbreak Island. There are roads, beaches, cliffs, trees and a town so far.
July 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Actually, now I look at it while not juggling putting the kid to bed I realise that screenshot wasn't great. These ones are better
A game screenshot of a cute UFO hovering beside a lighthouse A game screenshot of a cute UFO abducting a cow A game screenshot of a cute UFO making crop circles A game screenshot of a cute UFO embiggening some seals
June 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
blunderjack.bsky.social
Here's a screenshot from my WIP game Oh No! UFO! You play as a cute UFO visiting the Earth for the first time and trying to understand all the weird things that happen here, and try help out when you find beings in trouble. store.steampowered.com/app/3314190/...

#ScreenshotSaturday
A video game screenshot of a cute UFO creating crop circles
June 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
blunderjack.bsky.social
You like splashing stuff? Because now Cosmo can splash stuff!

#GameDev #IndieGame #SoloDev
June 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM