Michael Gruar

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a.k.a. Chappington He/him

Game Developer, Software Engineer, Littleton MA BPAC & TAC, Father of 3, among other things.

Lunar Chippy Gameshttps://www.lunarchippy.games
Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/mgruar.bsky.social
YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@Chappington

Still going to get around to putting this on a separate Mastodon account (seems weird to have it in the better.boston server imo), but it's past 9pm so I'm not getting around to that yet...

Here's a dev diary and a bonus screenshot: https://itch.io/blog/657757/iron-village-dev-diary-0

(Also put it up at https://www.chappington.net/dev00.html)

#gamedev #godot #IronVillage

Iron Village Dev Diary #0

Hi everyone - or at least, the few of you who ventured onto an actual website like it's still the 90s, As part of the development process of Iron Village, I've decided to start a dev diary. This is pa...

itch.io

First image of the gamedev project I've been working on, currently named "Iron Village". I'm probably going to start a separate mastodon account for this, but wanted to share the first decent-looking image.

#godot #gamedev #IronVillage

One neat little tradition my wife's side of the family has around Thanksgiving is making little paintings. So obviously I had to make a little Chirper. #CitiesSkylines #CitiesSkylines2

So with less than two weeks until Cities: Skylines 2 is out, I finally finished up my Skrælige series! https://youtu.be/6rtl_E5zY7g

Will there be more in CS2? No. Editing these videos is such a timesuck, but I really gained an appreciation for people who make these sorts of Cities: Skylines videos.

#citiesskylines #alternatehistory

Skrælige, Chapter 16: Recovery and Prosperity (1815-36)

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Ugh, I made it 3½ years.
I did. The red line delays caused me to miss my train 🙃
About to be rescued outside of Lincoln by the train I normally take anyway, woooo
Finally got my ebike conversion done - it looks cobbled together like Mad Max, but it's sooooo good. #ebike #swytch
We love to see it.
This nugget *may* have gone a little overboard with their car transport.