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Stu
@stuwallinger.bsky.social
💾 Indie Game Dev, Designer, Programmer.
🕒 Working on Bound in Time.
📃 Wish list here : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1959040
✨ Game Designer @ Magic Potion Games
🍁 Vaguely Vancouver BC Canada
Unity, Godot, Unreal
Finally finished my playthrough of Final Fantasy 3! The job system was pretty cool, would love to replay sometime with a different team makeup. Probably my favourite of the first 3.

But now it’s time to start FF4! Been looking forward to this! First of the SNES ones!

#gaming #jrpg #snes
October 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
September 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Make sure to talk to the people important to you while you still can, you never know when they'll be gone. Advice you hear often but don't think much about till it's too late

Welp, after a little hiatus, I'll be back to posting some game dev related stuff

Till then here's a cool album I inherited
September 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Finished reading Jurassic Park for the first time. Great book,
Ian Malcolm's rants near the end feels super relevant today in its messaging. With the rise of vibe coding, gen-AI, etc, untrained skills and power sold like a Saturday night special.

Sadly, we don't at least get dinosaurs.

#booksky
August 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Final Fantasy III is absolute cinema.

#gamesky #games #finalfantasy
August 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It has begun! On to starting my Final Fantasy III journey.

Not really sure what to expect, this one I’ve heard nothing about (other than sharing the name Final Fantasy III NA version aka VI) lol

Was able to track down the retconned names, I think?

#gamesky #rpg #games #finalfantasy
August 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Finished my playthrough of Final Fantasy II. I actually enjoyed it, even though it was a little rough at times lol.

So many dungeon dead ends, and while the password system was a nice add, it was sort of under utilized. Wish they added more to it lol still a fun play

#games #rpgs #finalfantasy
August 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
My favourite flower! I have a potted one I’ve been keeping alive on my deck 😊
August 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Happy #ScreenshotSaturday !

I’ve been updating which assets to use for my game’s environment. I think it’s beginning to actually look pretty good!

Next up to work on adding something to attack, be attacked by lol

#UnrealEngine #Gamedev #IndieDev #Games #IndieGames
August 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🔥Hot take: Final Fantasy II isn't a bad game. ❗

I've been playing the Pixel Remaster version (which has a few QOL improvements) and I've been having a great time!

It suffers from trying to do too many new things at once (progression, password system) but think it's cool they tried new things 😀
August 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just beat Final Fantasy I for the first time ever!

I’ve played it a bunch on and off in the past but never actually to completion. (And to platinum trophy as well lol)

Was really fun for what it was and now into Final Fantasy II, a game I’ve never touched! 😅

#gamesky #rpg #games
August 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What got you started on the path towards making games my game dev friends?

For me it was StarEdit / StarCraft Campaign Editor. The Trigger system was just complex enough to do whatever I needed without it becoming overwhelming for my 10 year old mind. 😅
July 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Poutine!
July 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Spore
July 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Working on a crafting system in my Unreal Project and looking for some inspiration / examples ...

What game has your favorite Crafting system? 😀

Do you have a preference for knowing the recipe, learning them, or it all being a mystery until you attempt it??

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
July 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
🥵It's super hot outside so another game dev day working on my Unreal Project

Added Ragdolling on death! (or debug key pressed)

Now my character at least can enjoy the nice blue waters on this scorcher

JUMP ON IN! 😅

#indiegame #gamedev #UnrealEngine
July 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
How many of you remember the Tonka PC games? My brother and I used to played the hell out of them when we were kids. Specially Tonka construction.

I’ve been looking for abandonware games from my childhood to pass onto my son, they seem to still have all their charm!
July 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Working on my weird little survivor game in Unreal today. It's been fun getting more experience using the tools that more or less come out of the box.

My den / office with zero air flow is too warm and the water is way too inviting, it's not fair lol

#indiegames #gamedev #indiedevs #unrealengine
July 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Only got 3 hours of sleep last night but surprisingly I have a bit of energy to work on one of my Godot projects... not going to question it lol

Looking into some shader work and GridMaps! First time fiddling with 3D in Godot land.
June 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Some turn-based games I love ❤️
June 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Also joined the major distraction that is Mario Kart World lol

The super close calls make up for getting Mario karted all the time

Alright back to some game dev work.
June 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Question for my Godot game devs ⁉️

What are your must have plugins / assets? The ones you tend to add to your projects always.

I’m still new to Godot land and looking for a few recommendations. At the moment the dialogue manager 3 is one of mine 😅

#gamedev #godot
June 9, 2025 at 4:14 AM
June 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Started my own 30 day game jam

Rules are to just work on whenever I can this month,
when I’m not on baby duty or taking hundreds of pictures of him while he sleeps

I’ll get about the same total hours in as a weekend long jam lol

Let the sleep deprived new parent game jam begin

Current mood board
June 2, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Question for yall.

When starting a game with the option to choose the names for your characters (and other things) do you leave them as the defaults?

Does it change if it’s the first play thru? Or different genres? (Stardew vs final fantasy)
May 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM