#SPLEENWEEVIL
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pumpkingames.bsky.social
Working on the entities.
SPLEENWEEVIL contains a bunch of hacky, quickly thrown together, 'my first Godot project' code.
And I've been fighting Godot since the beginning, trying to remain out of the editor and in Visual Studio as much as possible...

#gamedev #indiegames @godotengine.org
Screenshot of the Godot game engine editor, showing a Scene tree with a bunch of components and a pixel mesh Grunt enemy from the arcade classic, Robotron.
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
#SPLEENWEEVIL title screen
#screenshotsaturday #indiegames #gamedev #godotengine
November 30, 2024 at 5:02 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
HUD redesign (mostly) complete. You can tweak some features like opacity, placement, style too

#SPLEENWEEVIL #gamedev #indiegames #godot #screenshotsaturday
Redesigned HUD for the indie FPS, SPLEENWEEVIL. HUD Accessibility settings for the indie FPS SPLEENWEEVIL
January 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Your FPS has too many buttons. Tried to play Shady Knight, too many buttons. Deadlink, too many buttons. Loved the way Hyper Demon handled this with the context based action tied to a small set of inputs. I tried to do similar with SPLEENWEEVIL
#gamedev #indiegames
July 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Writing your own 'engine' is a ton of work. I love the gameplay code but collisions, physics, rendering is such a time sink!

I'm going to pivot to @godotengine.org again for the new thing.

#ERROR_PROTOCOL is going to be an FPS, building on what I learnt writing #SPLEENWEEVIL
#indiegames #gamedev
Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts
September 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Weekend play session on #SPLEENWEEVIL 🎮
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December 14, 2024 at 11:49 AM
canluca.top
May I suggest the Game UI Database? There is no need sign up for anything and you can filter a lot. Here are the ones in the shooter category:

SPLEENWEEVIL looks awesome, by the way. I'm looking forward to seeing it in action!

www.gameuidatabase.com/index.php?&t...
Game UI Database
The ultimate tool for Game UI and Interface designers. Explore over 1,300 games and 55,000 UI screenshots. Browse and filter by category, animation, colour, material, layout, game genre, and more.
www.gameuidatabase.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Working on the player's shield effect
#SPLEENWEEVIL #godot #gamedev #indiegames
Screenshot of an indie FPS written in the Godot game engine with a wireframe aesthetic similar to the Atari classic, BattleZone. The image depicts a scene, tinited blue with a subtle noise shader indicating the player is shielded.
January 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Quite a boring #screenshotsaturday today but more UI work - blur the background when paused? - why not!
#gamedev #indiedev #godot
Screenshot of the pause menu for the FPS game SPLEENWEEVIL - shows the pause menu with the game blurred behind.
December 21, 2024 at 2:19 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
I sometimes miss the rolling hills and certain VFX but I have ideas for a V2 :-)
Indie FPS SPLEENWEEVIL - screenshot of an 80s retwo wireframe hilling landscape with some depth of field effects
March 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
#SPLEENWEEVIL is now available for free on Itch.io at pumpkingames.itch.io

Paladin also donationware too.

Thanks to all the folks who have supported me over the years. Means a lot :-)

I'll figure out how to unstitch Glitchangles from Steam at some point too.

#indiegames #gamedev #godotengine
PumpkinGames
pumpkingames.itch.io
May 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Possible new mountain style in #SPLEENWEEVIL - not sure I'll keep them though 🤔

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Screenshot of a WIP indie FPS written in C# and Godot. Image depicts a wireframe landscape with some "vaporwave", low poly mountains in the background. A few enemies approach the player.
April 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Add gamepad support he said - it'll be fun he said! Doesn't help that Godot is corrupting my scenes every 5 minutes.
#SPLEENWEEVIL #godotengine #UI #FUI #indiegames #gamedev
Screenshot of a Controls menu for the indie game, SPLEENWEEVIL. Image shows a gamepad settings tab with various controls and help images explaining the options.
February 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
#SPLEENWEEVIL Rage effect. Glow red mist, weapon sparks, infinite ammo, energy recharge
#godot #indiegames #gamedev #screenshotsaturday
Indie FPS SPLEENWEEVIL. Image depicts a glowing, 80s retro, wireframe landscape. Some enemies, some frendlies and a big energy sparking gun!
March 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Adding joypad support to #SPLEENWEEVIL. Aim assist, magnetism, input damping all that sort of stuff.
…and more UI, obviously 😃
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February 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Doing bits on #ERROR_PROTOCOL over the weekend.
*Slowly* morphing from SPLEENWEEVIL into it's own thing.

I wonder if I'll sort out all the // TODO, // HACK and // FIXME
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Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts
September 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
This Youtube video popped up the other day "Building a game as FAST as possible" - this is a full time indie dev and I believe the intention was to take 4 months?!

I think I've legit taken longer on just the HUD in #SPLEENWEEVIL 😀
#gamedev #indiedev #godot
January 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Taking a little break from #Godot / #SPLEENWEEVIL to do a bit of a 3d thing with FNA and MoonTools.ECS (both are great frameworks / libraries). Advise checking them out if you like that sort of thing.

github.com/FNA-XNA/FNA

github.com/MoonsideGame...
GitHub - FNA-XNA/FNA: FNA - Accuracy-focused XNA4 reimplementation for open platforms
FNA - Accuracy-focused XNA4 reimplementation for open platforms - FNA-XNA/FNA
github.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
HUD designs
#SPLEENWEEVIL #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames #ui #fui
Screenshot of various hud elements for a sci-fi shoot
January 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
#SPLEENWEEVIL Still working on that there HUD!
#indiegames #gamedev #godot
Screenshot of a part of the HUD in indie FPS game, #SPLEENWEEVIL
January 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
That's gonna sting!
Screenshot of a FPS shooter called SPLEENWEEVIL - the image shows an abstract wireframe landscape with the player taking damage from a firey red environmental hazard.
November 21, 2024 at 9:33 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
3D landscape with some SPLEENWEEVIL models. Written using FNA and MoonTools.ECS
Screenshot of a simple flat shaded 3D landscape with some low poly SPLEENWEEVIL models
April 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Control remapping...

✅ Saving / loading remapped controls
✅ Remapping backend
✴️ UI / UX - in progress

#screenshotsaturday #godot #gamedev #indiegames
WIP Control remapping UI for the indie FPS, SPLEENWEEVIL
December 28, 2024 at 5:58 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Trying to explaing some of the subtleties of the control system
#SPLEENWEEVIL #gamedev #indiegames #godotengine #screenshotsaturday
Screenshot of the contols menu for the indie FPS, SPLEENWEEVIL. Image shows an infographic of the various imputs and actions for the game.
November 30, 2024 at 10:20 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
A bit more progress from my #XNA / #MoonTools.ECS demo project - looking a lot more like #SPLEENWEEVIL in this one. I'll possibly go with a style similar to Lander / Zarch, maybe :-)
#gamedev #indiegames #customengine
Screenshot of an XNA game depicting rolling hills with some low poly enemies dotted about, using a wireframe aesthetic
April 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM