Been making a lot of goofy stuff in my lil dragongame. Prototyping is so much fuuuuun

Violet Drake@violetdrakegames.com · 19h ago

I designed 3 more goofy spells for my game about feeding a Dragon! Spells allow you to feed them even more... with magic! Hm. 🐉 🪄🌀🕓 Read more here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #gamedev #indiedev

I designed 3 more goofy spells for my game about feeding a Dragon! Spells allow you to feed them even more... with magic! Hm. 🐉 🪄🌀🕓 Read more here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #gamedev #indiedev

thanks to the power of magic, you can now create a mango. incredible

Violet Drake@violetdrakegames.com · last wk.

We love casting spells!! Well, specifically spells that feed dragons. 🪄🐲 Read more about the spells mechanic I've been working on here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

We love casting spells!! Well, specifically spells that feed dragons. 🪄🐲 Read more about the spells mechanic I've been working on here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

We Love Casting Spells!! (DLF) | Violet Drake

Wooo yay hello!! I've been quite the happy dragon lately, the previous week of struggles has cascaded into a lot of easy, fun devving in the

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I know I'm back to real devving when I waste hours on the stupidest stuff

I stomped through a week of spinning myself in circles as I laid the groundwork for the next big mechanic in "Dragons Like Food!" I've succeeded, but now I'm dizzy. What the heck!! 🐉💫 Read the weekly blog here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #indiedev #gamedev #blogpost

Gameplay loops are both fun to create and tend to make or break games - this week I talk about the core loop behind Dragons Like Food! It's super satisfying to land on a loop & then get knee-deep in iteration. 🐉 Read here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #gamedev #indiedev

TREES?!? 🌳🌳🌳 Behavior trees, that is. This week, I made a very hungry dragon, well... run around and be very hungry. 🐉 Check out my devlog here!! www.patreon.com/violetdraked...

Hilariously tone deaf. Pretty much expected of Unity at this point.

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social · last mo.

The video advertising Unity's ew AI-driven autocomplete game maker has 'Mari' who has a game idea they "always wanted to make" and that idea is "Space Corridor" and it looks like this, and that's the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands.

Cheers to Unions & congratulations to the workers @ Wizards!

IGN@ign.com · last mo.

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. https://bit.ly/4hMhPzG

Coding is an artform too!! Just because it's not something you can immediately look at and absorb doesn't devalue it as a work of art. Allowing generative tools for scripting marks the process as tedious and meaningless, when in reality, it is integral. I wish this was treated the same as others...

VRChat@vrchat.com · last mo.

Let's talk about AI in VRChat. Be sure to fill out the Google form at the bottom of the article. ask.vrchat.com/t/regarding-...

yall seriously gotta stop posting like this is linkedin

Handling data is one of my favorite parts of gamedev! You can listen to me yammer about how food and other related systems are set up in my upcoming game about a very hungry dragon... 🐉 Check it out here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked...

Concepts and Portals!!! This week I yap about the early phases of taking ideas and translating those to actual game mechanics. Then I yammer about the evolution of concepts so far in this game about a hungry dragon!! 📝🐉 Read it here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #gamedev #indiedev

Lifehack:

My powers grow.

Zen@beak.zone · 2mo ago

I'm incredibly delighted to report that sewing is just 3D modeling in reverse: In 3D I make an object, unwrap it to flat shapes. In sewing I make flat shapes and wrap them into an object. I have home-turf advantage with this hobby.

Oh, to Animate Anything... This week I talk about the system I've been constructing to handle timed animations in #cubed! A big ol' wrapper that I call "Instanced Animations..." Check it out hereeee: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #indiedev #gamedev

I'll be in Chicago for riot fest this weekend, so the weekly update will be a little shorter :)

AHHHHHHHHHH Sorry I have been addicted to my favorite drug: systems design then making the little silly listener scripts and wires that connect everything together cutely

I finally put together an interaction system I'm proud of... 💥💫 Also, #cubed Will be coming to #steamdeck and more! Read about it on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... (Little doodle is by Spearxwind! <3) #indiedev #gamedev

This week on my Patreon blog, I share some early development on a small game I've been working on collaboratively with @cryptidbits.bsky.social! I share some context behind how this game started alongside discussion regarding early prototyping. 🐉 Read it here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked...

Prototyping! | Dragons Like Food | Violet Drake

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Today on my Patreon blog, I talk about procedural visualization for more types of items in CUBED! Along with that, I share the direction I plan to take these items in future iterations! Read it here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #cubed #indiedev #gamedev 🐉

Procedural Item Visualization (Tiles / Shapes / Pickups) | Violet Drake

Procedural Item Visualization (Tiles / Shapes / Pickups) by Violet Drake on Patreon. Join Violet Drake's community for exclusive content and updates.

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I'm getting so excited over making a cursor feel nice. Help?

This week on my Patreon, I talk about grid generation algorithms along with some background about the grid itself! This blog is visible to anyone, you can read it below! Yay! Check it out here! Yay! www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #cubed #indiedev #gamedev

New post up on my Patreon! I yammer about the data structures & procedural visual setup behind cubes, along with what I've learned from previous design patterns. 🐉 #cubed #indiedev #gamedev

New blog post on my Patreon! I talk about my history with game development and perspectives on my current game, CUBED! www.patreon.com/violetdraked...

I'm Liz! My gamedev studio is Violet Drake. I've been making games for 8 or so years now; I primarily love systems design! 💫🐉 I'm currently making CUBED! - a cube rolling, grid building roguelite. Support me on Patreon to get exclusive yaps & game demo access! 👉 www.patreon.com/cw/violetdra...

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Have some grid generation algorithms #cubed #indiedev #gamedev

I love cubes.

Getting procedural with it [🏷️~ #cubed #indiedev #gamedev]