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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame!

@tsunscreen.bsky.social

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Gamedev, composer - he/him 🇨🇦 Currently working on Ephemeral Frame, a weird game about going inside photos. Wishlist it on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3605360/Ephemeral_Frame/

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 8d

Finished up a new trailer for Ephemeral Frame just in time to submit for the Godot 2025 Showreel #godot #gamedev

Captures a lot more than the original teaser I feel!

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 2d

Given the whole "going into different mediums" thing I really want to lean into worlds with drastically different styles.

Old games, black & white movies, oil paintings (like how Oblivion does it), etc. Just fun playing around with it

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 2d

Experimenting with an old-school castle kind of vibe, complete with runescape-esque music #godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 4d

Does she know? #godot

Cat in front of monitor with in-game cat

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 8d

Finally updated the Steam page to make use of the latest features from Valve.

I spent so long on those old gifs and they still looked super crusty but now you can just upload mp4s which is really nice

(I maybe should've done this before posting the trailer earlier but oh well lol) #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 8d

bsky compression is unkind but the Steam page has a much higher quality video.
You can even consider wishlisting while you're watching!

store.steampowered.com/app/3605360/...

Ephemeral Frame on Steam

Step inside picture frames, films, and other imagery that connect a variety of dreamscapes in this surreal first-person exploration game.

store.steampowered.com

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 8d

Finished up a new trailer for Ephemeral Frame just in time to submit for the Godot 2025 Showreel #godot #gamedev

Captures a lot more than the original teaser I feel!

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 13d

I always feel a little weird considering late 2020/early 2021 a highlight but I think it's for a lot of the same reasons you mentioned. I was still in university but with some pretty light semesters so I got to spend a lot of time on gamedev and music. Good times

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 22d

This is the kind of thing I'll probably notice more than anyone lol, but I think it's a pretty significant improvement still.

Also lets me speed things up slightly as I don't have to spend as much time crossfading

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 22d

Finally made the transitions pixel perfect!
This was an issue from day one...

I'm now effectively rendering the frame's quad a second time on top which lets me bypass all lighting + post processing for that specific quad. Works exactly as I wanted it to!
#godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 29d

It was only a matter of time before I added VHS tapes #godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Sep 7

I actually did pick up one of the cheaper Ibanez 7-strings! I've just divided my time between too many projects at the moment to git gud lol

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thanks! Hoping to play for real some day but for now Shreddage + Archetype Petrucci is enough for my needs haha

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Sep 6

Felt inspired to write something cartoonishly evil sounding this morning. Will probably sneak this into the game somewhere...

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Sep 5

get rotated #godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Super barebones shader but it's easy to make designs for which is nice.

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Working on some spookier environments now that it's September which is almost October 🎃 #godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Working on a new trailer and my video editing software hasn't crashed once yet so I must be doing SOMETHING right.

The first was pretty thrown together but I've got a whole plan and everything now. Here's one of the first frames 🐈‍⬛
#godot #gamedev

city scene with two cats walking along the sidewalk. "Explore the dreamscape" text is overlaid.

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Aug 24

In a similar boat myself, so good luck!

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Made a rudimentary moving platform with branching paths based off Path3D and PathFollow3D nodes.

Also a new kind of frame transition which is essentially just Portal (I'm trying not to make this sound as dry as possible lol) #godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Jul 31

Incredible coincidence with the file size of a song for the game lol (it's a metal track) 😈

A song called "Nightmare Remnant" with a file size of 6.66 MB

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Jul 16

A pretty dry topic but since I'm adding a bunch more worlds to the game I thought it'd be handy to graph out how they're all connected.

Thankfully yEd seems to do the job and handles the layout automatically #gamedev

A directional graph showing how different game worlds link between eachother

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Jul 14

The UI is still a trainwreck (ha) but I wrote a shader for assembling photo fragments. Pretty simple but adds some needed pizazz.

Everything about it is adjustable which is night and day compared to the manually stitched together images I used before lol #godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Jul 10

Working on weird new ways to transition between areas #godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Blade Runner-esque world was a last minute addition to the jam version so it didn't have much going on, but I'm working on fleshing it out.

Getting in the mood with some new music first #gamedev #godot

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Jul 7

Gathering references for a garden area.

Shot with the same digital camera featured in-game funnily enough (it's not that funny)

A rose garden with a sun dial and an arch

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