Colin Macleod

@colinmacleod
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Indie Gamedev. Mediocre Bass Player. Dad to teenage kids.

Currently breathing life into "God Complex" - a multiplayer god game inspired by Populous. It's like Civilization but multiplayer, and the little people are autonomous.

I built a new website for my indie studio.
According to the website, I'm building a god game and a visual graph tool.
Today, it feels more like I'm building a website, making social content and updating store pages.
But what do you think any way?

https://bitquirky.io

Bit Quirky: Unity tools and games, with a bit of character.

Bit Quirky is a small indie studio building Unity developer tools and games. Headlined by a visual graph tool that makes game logic legible to humans and AI alike.

"Compulsive reading," wrote the eighteenth-century historian Johann Gottfried Hoche, "is a foolish and harmful abuse of an otherwise good thing, truly a great evil, as contagious as the yellow fever in Philadelphia."
- from Sid Meier's Memoir
"Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment."
- Jeff Bezos
Charlie Munger: "We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right, is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire."

Learning Shaders Day 12: After a 2 week break to learn Unreal, I'm back learning shaders!
Do you like this glowing rock? Combined with endless falling shader, tweaked from https://shaderoo.org/?shader=QnBOGm

Course: https://www.udemy.com/share/103bHH3@_Z0iTT9M4WYh3MHOh3M8nIXUTy1YTcMI2CYlWXjY9TUWsXNctwdOBMXllrHGMDc=/

#GameDev #IndieDev #Unity3D #Shaders #TechArt #LearningInPublic

Another great day of #GameDev coworking at Capital Factory downtown Austin yesterday.

This week saw Derrius, Alex, yours truly, and Walter working on everything from single-device co-op, thru competitive mobile games to a fresh Asteroids concept.

Join us next Tuesday πŸ‘‰ https://unityco.work/

Gamedev Coworking in Austin - unityco.work

Welcome to UnityCo.work, a coworking group for gamedevs in Austin.  We meet most weeks at the Capital Factory’s open day to code, collaborate, and support e...

unityco.work

🌍 God Complex: Iteration 29 COMPLETE 🌍

Followers now actually fight instead of staring awkwardly.
They can also attack houses, and little defenders come out to defend!

Progress, violence, and choreography, in that order.

#GodComplexGame #MadeWithUnity #IndieGame #Gamedev

Learning Shaders Day 11: Rounded off the section on textures with some cool blending and ripple effects. Not sure where I'll use this ripple, but it's pretty! Can see the blend coming in handy.

Course: https://www.udemy.com/share/103bHH3@_Z0iTT9M4WYh3MHOh3M8nIXUTy1YTcMI2CYlWXjY9TUWsXNctwdOBMXllrHGMDc=/

#GameDev #IndieDev #Unity3D #Shaders #TechArt #LearningInPublic

🌍 MAJOR GOD COMPLEX UPDATE 🌍 ECS combat is working! βš”οΈ
Followers are now almost fully converted to DOTS/ECS.
Just need to get house invasion back up and running - oh, and the network animation sync, and then we should be good to go.

#GameDev #IndieDev #Unity3D #ECS #GodComplexGame

Learning Shaders Day 10: Messing around with textures
Do you know about shadertoy.com? I spiced up the background with inspiration from https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3cGGRW

Course: https://www.udemy.com/share/103bHH3@_Z0iTT9M4WYh3MHOh3M8nIXUTy1YTcMI2CYlWXjY9TUWsXNctwdOBMXllrHGMDc=/

#GameDev #IndieDev #Unity3D #Shaders #TechArt #LearningInPublic