Lazy Ben
@lazybengames.bsky.social
#SoloDev busy making an unnamed sci-fi gardening game.
#GameDev streamer Monday-Thursday @ 9:30 am (GMT) over on Twitch!
twitch.tv/lazybengames
YouTube Devlogs: https://youtube.com/@lazybengames
#GameDev streamer Monday-Thursday @ 9:30 am (GMT) over on Twitch!
twitch.tv/lazybengames
YouTube Devlogs: https://youtube.com/@lazybengames
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It feels great to finally have a character running around the world again! It’s been a few months of stripping down the game engine to build out a prefab system and piecing it back together! The bandaid is finally off and I can build levels again! 👌
#gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev
#gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I’ve spent the last few days putting shadows into the renderer. They definitely make scenes look a lot less flat and 2D. 👌 #gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev | #gameengine
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’ve spent the last few days putting shadows into the renderer. They definitely make scenes look a lot less flat and 2D. 👌 #gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev | #gameengine
I’ve spent a second day working through c++ coroutines. Once you hide away all the fluff you can actually wrap them up in to a nice little api that’s easy to use. I’m a bit stumped on use cases tho.
Question: Anyone have any experience using them in their games?
#gamedev #indiedev #solodev
Question: Anyone have any experience using them in their games?
#gamedev #indiedev #solodev
November 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’m 75% done with the level compiler in my game engine. Animated rigs, rivers, and ponds are now all supported. I’ve got triggers, colliders, and paths to do next but these don’t require any art assets to be compiled into game data, so should be quicker to do! 👌
#gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev
#gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev
November 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Here's a nice screenshot of the editor in my #gameengine.
Still work to do, but getting there now!
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev
Still work to do, but getting there now!
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Here's a nice screenshot of the editor in my #gameengine.
Still work to do, but getting there now!
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev
Still work to do, but getting there now!
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev
I’m going to have an experiment with the Twitch API today. The goal is to write an ‘ads starting soon’ overlay for my #gamedev stream. Am I going to be in for a good time? 🤷
September 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I’m going to have an experiment with the Twitch API today. The goal is to write an ‘ads starting soon’ overlay for my #gamedev stream. Am I going to be in for a good time? 🤷
I’ve been stressing out the new prefab system in my engine today. I integrated triggers and started on colliders. The system held up well overall and it should be straightforward to integrate gameplay specific content when I begin full production on the game in a few weeks! 👌
#gamedev | #solodev
#gamedev | #solodev
September 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Awesome Twitch stream today! I’ve been spending my days coding up a new iteration of the level editor in my engine. It’s nearly there! Today was the properties panel! Who’d have thought that would be my most popular stream to date!?
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev | #indiegame
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev | #indiegame
September 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Awesome Twitch stream today! I’ve been spending my days coding up a new iteration of the level editor in my engine. It’s nearly there! Today was the properties panel! Who’d have thought that would be my most popular stream to date!?
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev | #indiegame
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev | #indiegame
Finally got to the end of implementing prefabs in my game engine. Nearly time to move to full-scale production of my Sci-Fi gardening game! It’ll be nice to get back to some gameplay coding!
#gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev | #indiegame
#gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev | #indiegame
September 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Finally got to the end of implementing prefabs in my game engine. Nearly time to move to full-scale production of my Sci-Fi gardening game! It’ll be nice to get back to some gameplay coding!
#gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev | #indiegame
#gamedev | #indiedev | #solodev | #indiegame
I got prefabs working in the editor today! You can now draw in a bunch of sprite sheet tiles and add collision, particle effects, scripts etc. Save this as a prefab brush and stamp instances of it around the level. Prefabs can also contain other prefabs and it’s turtles all the way down! #gamedev
September 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I got prefabs working in the editor today! You can now draw in a bunch of sprite sheet tiles and add collision, particle effects, scripts etc. Save this as a prefab brush and stamp instances of it around the level. Prefabs can also contain other prefabs and it’s turtles all the way down! #gamedev
This week I’ll be reworking the Content Cache in the game engine. It has responsibility for loading and managing editor assets. Adding a new asset type currently requires a fair bit of boiler plate. But,I think I can eliminate almost all of it! 👌
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev | #indiegame
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev | #indiegame
August 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This week I’ll be reworking the Content Cache in the game engine. It has responsibility for loading and managing editor assets. Adding a new asset type currently requires a fair bit of boiler plate. But,I think I can eliminate almost all of it! 👌
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev | #indiegame
#gamedev | #solodev | #indiedev | #indiegame
You know when a morning’s work turns into a several day slog? I revisited the engine’s lighting system. The plan was to fix a particularly unfriendly crash bug in the lighting generation…it turns out there is quite a lot that needs improving and the bug is probably due to bad design. 🫠
#gamedev
#gamedev
August 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
You know when a morning’s work turns into a several day slog? I revisited the engine’s lighting system. The plan was to fix a particularly unfriendly crash bug in the lighting generation…it turns out there is quite a lot that needs improving and the bug is probably due to bad design. 🫠
#gamedev
#gamedev
Just my finished my longest ever #gamedev stream! 7.5 hours of none stop c++ coding. Mainly refining code and fixing bugs. The engine is heading towards a pretty stable state now! Thanks to all the chatters! It makes streaming super fun! 🥰
#solodev #indiedev #indiegame
#solodev #indiedev #indiegame
July 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Just my finished my longest ever #gamedev stream! 7.5 hours of none stop c++ coding. Mainly refining code and fixing bugs. The engine is heading towards a pretty stable state now! Thanks to all the chatters! It makes streaming super fun! 🥰
#solodev #indiedev #indiegame
#solodev #indiedev #indiegame