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tippinggoat.bsky.social
Tipping Goat
@tippinggoat.bsky.social
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Creator of Super Slam Dunk Touchdown
and All Your Muffins
Currently developing?
Journey Space Game 2: The Journeying
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Hardcore reworking of the #procedural crater system. Craters are more complex than they seem.

#indiedev #gamedev
Planet Jayehtenor Minor, a Jupiter-colored, sub-Neptune sized gas planet hangs waxing behind a dark grey cratered moon. The moon's craters tell their age by the amount of erosion from the millennia.
September 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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#Procedural planet tech upgrades continue
#indiedev #gamedev
A cratered, smoggy planet with a thick carbon dioxide haze, but holding water in the numerous craters lurking below the atmosphere. Comp: Silicate, Hydro: Water, Primary Atmosphere: Carbon Dioxide, Albedo: 0.10, Pressure: 0.07 bar, Temp: 304K, Planetoid, Moonless, Mass 1.53E+23kg, Radius: 2.12E+003km, a: 7.08E+006 km, Gravity 0.23 Gs
September 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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September 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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It's all connected now. Space is officially "Very, Very Big".
A rough cockpit view with a sector map and some nearby stars plotted on it, a Star System Map with the sun as a yellow dot in the center, a Galaxy Map made of a rainbow of cubes, and above the cockpit is a view of a Jupiter-like gas giant labelled: "Outside"
August 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Doing #procedural space at scale is kind of mind blowing
#indiedev #spacegame
far zoom showing a map of a sun and 3 gas giants zoomed to the next view of the inner system, 3 close terrestrial planets, a gas giant, a small planetoid and an outer terrestrial planet, zoomed to the next view of the 3 inner terrestrial planets tight orbits and a gas giant system map with many moons in another view up close on a procedural planet's coastline with the rest of the star system visible in the sky far, far away
August 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I went back to the drawing board for these gas giants...
7 gas giants with varying color combinations and swirling atmospheric bands
July 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Adding procedurally generated gas giants to the mix

#indiedev #proceduralgeneration
A mix of procedurally generated gas giants and rocky planets with atmospheres and clouds
July 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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New procedural planet gen tech for Journey Space 2
#indiedev
July 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Putting new planet generation tech in Journey Space 2 #indiedev
An iron rich planet with blue oceans and partly cloudy skies hangs in space, seen through the viewscreen of a janky ship's cockpit. The screen resolution is low, but you can make out the planet, stars and an unknown ship ahead.
July 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Playing with procedural planets #indiedev
July 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Coming soon to Steam... ALL YOUR MUFFINS
All Your Muffins -- 3 cool muffin hexes pop out of the board suggesting a match 3 puzzle game for 3 players. COMING 2025 it says, hey, that's this year..!
May 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I love it when the game crashes while the ship is exploding, this should be the default error capturing behavior
The janky ship explodes during a game crash. It's totally FUBAR as heck.
May 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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NO NPCs

Can LLMs drive "living", non-scripted characters in an emergent, story-driven RPG? Tipping Goat set out to learn the hard way... tippinggoat.itch.io/journey-spac... #IndieGame #AIGameDev #LLM #AICharacters #EmergentStorytelling #ProceduralNarrative #NarrativeDesign #ArtificialIntelligence
A screenshot of a sci-fi AI-driven narrative game featuring a GUI interface. The top text box displays Grub’s internal monologue about exhaustion, followed by a self-awareness revelation about how her fatigue is affecting her ability to engage in meaningful conversation. Below, a character speech box shows her asking, "Certain Death Nebula... gonna need special tools? Radiation shields?" The interface allows for rerolling AI-generated dialogue, adjusting models and temperature, and reviewing responses. On the right, a character portrait of Grub, a deck mechanic, is visible, along with a list of crew members including Jack Clapton, Chudwick Persopolis, Kathryn Van Lawyer, Bork, OTTO, Ricardo Nemesis, and Gus Gassy. The text box displays Grub’s internal monologue about exhaustion, followed by a self-awareness revelation about how her fatigue is affecting her ability to engage in meaningful conversation. Below, a character speech box shows her asking, "Certain Death Nebula... gonna need special tools? Radiation shields?" The interface allows for rerolling AI-generated dialogue, adjusting models and temperature, and reviewing responses. A character speech box shows her asking, "Certain Death Nebula... gonna need special tools? Radiation shields?" The interface allows for rerolling AI-generated dialogue, adjusting models and temperature, and reviewing responses.
March 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Couch Co-Op Steam Sale Starts Soon... Super Slam Dunk Touchdown will be 55% off! Wish list now and don't miss out 🎮🎮🎮😎🎮🎮🎮
#indiegame #couchcoop #localmultiplayer #sports #steam
store.steampowered.com/app/388260/S...
Steam Couch Co-Op Fest - Feb 10 - 17 at 10am PT! Super Slam Dunk Touchdown on sale 55% off! SPORTS! People be chillin' on a couch playing SSDT for great sports victory!
February 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The one and only Super Slam Dunk Touchdown: Arcade Edition is at its new home at Arcade Monsters in San Diego <3 #indiegames #indiearcade

www.arcademonsters.com/san-diego
A row of plain and simple arcade games, one is quite elaborate and intimidating, but one, one right in the middle looks fascinating: Four players, all the sports, could this be the retro all-sports mashup Super Slam Dunk Touchdown: Arcade Edition? It can, and it is. Also, the carpet is really fun and has colorful stars all on it.
November 3, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Yo #indiegame fans: There's a sale at Madder Games, and #indiegames can be played #localmultiplayer #couchcoop using a computer's web browser and your phones as the game controllers. There's even free games to try out the brave new platform at www.maddergames.com
New Game Sale! Super Slam Dunk Touchdown: Madder Edition and Beak Blades have launched on Madder Games. There's the game cover for both the games: Super Slam Dunk Touchdown: Madder Edition has an American football player holding a basketball, while images of other sports float around him, haunting him -- a hockey player and a roller derby player threaten to collide in a personal war over an errant soccer ball while a lonesome baseball player pitches an American football into destiny. Beak Blades features a colorful idyllic scene of a field, a blue sky decorated with clouds, trees bursting with green leaves, and two angry, cartoonish 3D birds, engaging in mortal combat with a samurai sword in one's beak and the butt of a gun in the other's. It is not clear how the bird will pull the trigger, which makes it somehow all the more intimidating.
October 25, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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#indiegame Super Slam Dunk Touchdown has launched on Madder Games. Play all the sports on your computer's web browser and up to 6 can play using mobile phones as game controllers with the Madder App.
maddergames.com/store/Super%...
Super Slam Dunk Touchdown: Madder Edition box art. All the sports are mixed up! It's okay, we have determination and teamwork.
October 3, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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Floor it, Spock!
You floor it, using 10 units of fuel. The stars smear into lines of blueshifted light as the janky little craft breaks the laws of physics and probably parts of the life support system.
August 28, 2024 at 5:55 AM
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Sneaky peaky at a new title we're working on...
A janky space cockpit with a main viewscreen and a monitor for user choices and text feedback that reads: Crazy Eddit is broadcasting a sale! Wait, who? "ONLY $85!" someone yells over the radio. Choices: 1. Buy somethin'! 2. Pretend the radio is broken
August 22, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Thanks to everyone who stopped by the #GDC #IndieDev booth to play the unfinished (Untitled) Project Zogar! Now work resumes, for many worlds and adventures await.
Zogar, the cube like caveman stands before the mystical portal. Untold energies are barely contained as this gateway connects to an unknown world. A trusty looking marmot stands by, ready to help? It's not clear. Oh! There's also a bunch of glowy stuff flying around a sort of equipment stand or something It looks mystical! Hard to say what's going on from the image, but it's really the overall sense of awaiting adventure this unfinished game's screen shot is about. That caveman lookin' fool is surely gonna step through that mystical portal. That's just the sort of thing a guy like that would do. Probably too because there's no other exits in the room really. Oh! Maybe the image doesn't share all that, I can't tell because of the framing, but I will here and now: That portal is the only escape. But what happens next? Where does Zogar end up? Look, I am sorry, but I can't say. Like, literally. Hey! That's the point of the image though: Spark your imagination, and all that. Cheers.
March 25, 2024 at 6:20 PM