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LunarFinch

@lunarfinch.bsky.social

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Game developer who loves weird interactive experiences, the occult, and birds! ✨ (he/him) Find my games at lunar-finch.itch.io!

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · Oct 20

New introduction post I guess! 🦋

Hi! I'm a tech artist doing some hobby dev in my spare time. I like to work on lo-fi graphics, proc gen, and horror-adjacent stuff.

Here's a selection of cool projects I've done in the last few years. You can play some of them at lunar-finch.itch.io!

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 1d

Oooh I love the small pipes being literal worms!

LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 1d

Node-based dialogue editors were an error. A node interface is good for planning branching dialogue, prototyping and such. You can use Twine for that, keep it as a reference, whatever.
But the actual words that go into your game should be written as God intended: on a plaintext file.

LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats!! The game looks amazing!

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Warkus @warkus.bsky.social · 2d

House of Necrosis is OUT NOW on Steam!

House of Necrosis features turnbased dungeon-crawling as well as a tank-controlled hubworld, complete with pre-rendered backgrounds! This is SURVIVAL HORROR MYSTERY DUNGEON

💀Buy the game now, 10% launch discount!💀

store.steampowered.com/app/2005870/...

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 4d

So good!

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

bsp 003

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 6d

Love these!!

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 8d

streamer

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Zalmon ザモン @zalmon.bsky.social · Nov 15

#animation #art #mecha

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 14d

Finally a good fucking videogame

Schera Wyss 💀 FERAL BLOOD DOLL @scherawyss.bsky.social · 14d

My next rpg is FERAL BLOOD DOLL.
Play as a dual-personality sexworker fighting cops and feds in an underground city beneath the present-day US.

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 14d

Love how it looks! I'm eager to see how you adapt the Citizen Sleeper formula to such a cool setting.

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garin 🌿 comms open @garin.bsky.social · 15d

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itamu : Mama's Sleeping Angels dev @itamu.bsky.social · 16d

bug girl wearing a dress

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 17d

I'm glad I put in the effort to make a modular clothing system. It's always amazing to see how much you can get out of a few building blocks! 😤

#GodotEngine #gamedev

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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 19d

"At midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out and round up everyone that knows more than they do"

- Bob Dylan, Desolation Row

An illustration inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen graphic novel.

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 19d

I love Overland! The visuals are striking. Replayed it this summer on my Deck. It's the perfect game for a roadtrip.

LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 19d

Went to the hairdresser's in real life and somehow came back home with the solution. Turns out my importer plugin was assigning the wrong layer to the meshes.

Now I can work on actual hairstyles! No more debug cubes for these guys.

LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 19d

OK time to find out why all my characters are bald exclusively in exported builds

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 20d

Just backed Blanksword. I just know it's going to be a hit. Play the demo, get it while it's hot!

Blanksword ⚔️ Kickstarter live NOW!! @blanksword.bsky.social · 21d

⚔️TIME ⚔️ TO ⚔️ RECLAIM ⚔️ YOUR ⚔️ BRAIN⚔️

Blanksword's Steam Demo & Kickstarter Campaign just launched as of RIGHT NOW!

Play the Demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/...

Preorder the game on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/283...

Join the Discord: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 22d

wow the cover art is so beautiful!

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Matheus Graef 🔜 BIRCON @omiosures.bsky.social · Sep 3

OMIOS URES IS OUT!

My classless, level-less RPG set in a weird fantasy world is available as Early Access, pay-what-you-like!

Get it HERE: matheusgraef.itch.io/omios-ures

Full overview of the system + extra images in the replies! Shares & reposts are super appreciated!

A black robed wizard, embroided with stars, stands on top of a stone peak. Behind him, the vastness of the world. The early morning creeps amidst the ravines, painting the world in coy lilacs and deep purples. A city of horned spires jolts from the stony wastes, illuminated in bright cosmopolitan oranges. An alien zeppelin flares out its floodlights at the rooftops and beyond.

The wizard stares at the viewer, though we do not see within his cloak and hood. Blackness. From the void creeps out two marble-white hands, old as time, covered in rings, gesturing in unknown signs.

OMIOS URES

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 22d

Looks beautiful! I love the lineages, especially the metal dwarves!

LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 22d

Congrats!!
Did you feel that making a demo took a lot of resources from making the actual game?

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Rutherford @craze.co.uk · 22d

with apologies/gratitude to @lorenschmidt.bsky.social, I had to try this idea for tiling patches of trees (each tile is 2 colours + background)

#gamedev #roguelike

16x16 tilemap. Two forest ‘blocks’ (one deciduous, one coniferous) are made from repeating tiles, a small number of variants (6 total for each type) softening the square grid & repeating texture somewhat.

The forests are surrounded by a scattering of shrubs, rocks and mushroom tiles, as well as various ‘empty’ tiles with different textures of scattered stones, grasses and leaves.

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LunarFinch @lunarfinch.bsky.social · 23d

Let's go!
I skipped 4.4 basically because I was too lazy to update all my plugins, but I'm diving head first into this new release!

Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 23d

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉

With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!

godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine

From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are ...

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