My friend Martin was a long time armchair enthusiast for searching for lost ruins via Google Earth maps and a custom process he developed in Photoshop. Many folks thought he was kooky, but I know he was often right.

"Archaeologists Discover Huge Lost Civilization in Guatemala
A new survey revealed nearly 1,000 Maya settlements, with pyramids and ballcourts, that date back more than 2,000 years."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3admdv/archaeologists-discover-huge-lost-civilization-in-guatemala

It's hard to believe that this amazing video was generated in just about 120 lines of code.

https://shadertoy.com/view/3l23Rh

"Protean clouds" is such a good example of what mastering shader coding can unlock.

#shader #shaders #gamedev #games #shadertoy

If anyone from #gamedev is interested, I'm sharing this tileset for free.

Here's the link in case you wanna try it out: https://raou.itch.io/free-isometric-tiles-v

It's pretty small atm, but I might expand every now and then based on interest

#pixelart #ドット絵 #gameart

I’m not a game developer, I haven’t used my own sprites yet, and my JS code is a mess, but look at this HTML and CSS code—isn’t it beautiful?

My next step is to understand how to implement a proper collision system, and I have absolutely no idea how to do that  

#GameDev #HTML #CSS #RPG

Reposting given so many new folks are joining #Mastodon today:

Welcome! You’re going to like the #fediverse.

- Start with an #introduction about yourself & say hello 👋

- Share content you’re passionate about to meet others with similar interests. Hashtags will help you find them faster.

- With a few exceptions (just block them) this is a pretty friendly place.

- Be patient as instance hosts adjust to the #TwitterMigration.

I’m glad you’re here.

If you convert a Unity project with post-process color grading from the builtin render pipeline with PostProcessing V2 to URP version 12.x (Unity 2021 LTS), the Lift/Gamma/Gain coefficients used in color grading may need to be transformed to get the same visuals. Here are the transforms I had to apply.

https://gist.github.com/mmechtley/e67181fa7f8050f3ab74694412aa1461

#Unity #GameDev

INDIE DEVS (or people who follow Indie Devs)

Do you have a game coming out in the next 6-9 months?

HMU!!!

We run a weekly part of our newsletter on upcoming game launches and would love to hear from some Indie Devs :)

BOOST for exposure plox :)

#indie #gamedev #dev

The head writer from Cyberpunk came over to Diablo 4 and suggested... this.

What the hell. This is just so many levels of wrong. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/12/08/diablo-iv-release-date-crunch/ #Diablo4