most barrels have 3 tiers, here's the lightning payload tiers #gamedev #retrofps #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #gamefeel

The wait is finally over !🚀 Wild Blue Skies is out today! We can’t wait for you to be in the air with the other members of the Blue Bombers taking on Grimclaw’s evil forces!

Balor Games@balorgames.com · 3w ago

💥 Wild Blue Skies is OUT NOW! 💥 Featuring iconic pilots, intense dog fights, branching mission paths, and a score system that rewards mastery, this retro-inspired rails shooter makes every flight an adventure worth repeating. 🛩️ balor.gg/WildBlueSkies

more biome testing and some (dark, lighting WIP) arena combat, kinda had some unintentional horror vibes for a while there #gamedev #indiegame #retrofps #indiedev

doing some art tests for a new biome, interiors are a bit too dark atm, but the concept is there?? #gamedev #retrofps #indiegame #indiedev

the combat arena is exposed to the outside #gamedev #retrofps #indiedev #indiegame

Announcing our first public 🫧DEMO🫧 You'll be able to try it out during 🌊Ocean Fest🌊 (18-25 May) Visit our Steam Store Page for more details! #indiegame #gaming #videogame #indiedev #gamedev #oceanfest

been working a bit with these cool people for the past few months doing some game design & designing fishy enemies veeery neat (and beautiful) project, check it out! :D #gamedesign #gamedev

The Edge of Water / Wishlist now!@bigmoodgames.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We have a new trailer!! 🙌 Just in time for #trailertuesday 😉 Could this be a teaser for something else we're preparing? 👀 Stay tuned! #indiegame #gaming #videogame #indiedev #gamedev

health dispenser #gamedev #indiegame #retrofps #indiedev

the fire payload... burns? also custom death fx if enemies are killed by fire! ✨ #gamedev #retrofps #games #screenshotsaturday

new level hazard: oversized hydraulic press pros: dangerous cons: dangerous #gamedev #indiegame #retrofps #games #fps

added a "throw" feature the player can now throw lethal cinnamon buns in a happy coincidence the usually land right-side up as well #gamedev #indiegame #retrofps

everyone dislikes genai in games, but kids and story-focused players the most. sounds like we'll be ok. just have to stay the course here and the "inevitable" new technology nobody likes will die. again. quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...

Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.

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increasing the knockback on enemies was a good idea ⬆ #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #retrofps

been playing around with different explosion types and made a "fall from the sky" type explosion #gamedev #indiegame #retrofps

working on an inventory thing, you can store all your barrels and turn your multi-barreled shotgun into a single-barreled shotgun (wow!) #gamedev #indiegame

sneaking a peek at the artificial sunset #gamedev #indiegame

added signs to the shops that ominously rotate towards the player, for clarity, of course #gamedev #indiegame

made a little sequence to get the player to look downwards when entering the room #gamedev #indiegame #leveldesign #retrofps #gaming

some payloads fire in a sustained mode and we had the obvious idea of adding a "beer barrel" to our shotgun(haha) - as a payload also doubles as a jetpack! #gamedev #indiegame #retrofps

the sidearm does a funky animation when loading it with new payloads #gamedev #indiegame #retrofps

double laser double_laser #gamedev #indiegame #fps

before/after did some lighting adjustments to our levels for our steam release turns out just cranking up your ambient lighting isn't a good way to light your levels #gamedev #indiegame #leveldesign

we just released our demo for CHAIN SHOTGUN for Steam Next Fest a game about adding an absurd amount of barrels to your shotgun, among other things check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3970990/... #retrofps #indiegame #gamedev #FPS #indiedev

beam weapon revamped my shooting code to allow for beam-like payloads so now I can do things like this, still not sure what it should do outside of combat though 🤔 (also did some sound design 🔊) #gamedev #indiedev #gamefeel #retrofps #indiegame #boomershooter

I will never forget the immense disappointment I felt when I noticed I couldn't jump on the harpoons from HL2 anyway, this is the harpoon payload, it sticks to walls and you can jump on it! I generally try to make payloads do more than just "kill enemy better" #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #games

the interact payload can do fascinating things! such as pressing a button or booping enemies #gamedev #indiegame #retrofps #gaming

the cutter payload can cut through things like fences, and now enemies as well #gamedev #retrofps #games #indiedev #gaming #gamefeel

just released chapter 1 of Chain Shotgun on Itch a movement shootery FPS where you can add a whole bunch of barrels that do a bunch of wild stuff to your Chain Shotgun bigcitywizard.itch.io/chain-shotgun #gamedev #indiedev #retrofps #gaming #games

decided to have each barrel type come with their own attachments and now the weapon looks absolutely ridiculous, in a good way! this is just at 11 barrels, current max is around 20 barrels, so far #indiegame #retrofps #gaming #indiedev #gamedev

i am of the opinion that all games should have jump pads #retrofps #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #gamedev