LuBu

@lubu.bsky.social

🔽Lukas Büffel 💥VFX and other stuff at Tiny Roar 💾Unity & Playdate GameDev 🎮Working on Lou's Lagoon, Verdant & Gloom Gate 🗣️DE/EN 🚹He/Him https://linktr.ee/Lu_Bu

I'm currently visiting my parents. They live in a super small village with almost no mobile reception and very slow internet. Do you know how hard it is to upload some files to a cloud space when your data infrastructure is from the 80s? It's impossible 😩

Just a big shout-out to @kenney.nl. The early prototype arena background for Gloom Gate was made with models from the Kenney Asset Pack. This allowed me to throw something together quickly and see if this actually works before I spend a lot of time and/or money 😊✨

LuBu@lubu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I've collected some GIFs from the beginning of the project, where I experimented a lot. Here I used sprites I grabbed from the internet (sorry) as placeholder graphics. The background is rendered in blender

Die Psychotherapie wird gerade kaputtgespart. Kassen und Politik halten Psychotherapeuten für teuer und überflüssig - sie würden ja nur „leichte Fälle“ behandeln. Vielfach herrscht die Meinung, Menschen mit Depressionen müssten sich nur „zusammenreißen“. ⬇️

This is your LAST CHANCE to play Big Walk early! We've just opened up 4 FINAL weeks of our Big Walk Preview!! Come to the Panic office, bring some friends, and play an hour of Big Walk. It's very fun. Book now: forms.panic.com/big-walk-pre... Here's a special behind-the-scenes peek at the room:

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

Austin Wood@woodwould.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

It's #PitchYaGame Time! My name is Lukas and I'm currently developing 🛡️G l o o m G a t e⚔️ It's a pocket-sized action RPG with reaction-based fights, a node-based overworld and Souls-Like & Infinity Blade elements. Exclusive for Playdate 💛