Today marks exactly the fifth anniversary of starting the “Wright Files: Egerton’s Pickle” project. What started as a tiny love letter to Sam Manthorpe’s “The Detective” on the Commodore 64 has gradually evolved into something much bigger and more ambitious. #indiegames #mystery #adventure #gamedev

Oh, the joy of observing your little world coming to life with the residents trotting around the Egertonʼs mansion, minding their own business, looking past right you. 🕵️‍♂️ #gamedev #indiedev #detective #mystery #adventure

My favorite kind of bug – when the NPC doesnʼt want to be interacted with so much that they just promptly disappear. 👻

A #Unity helper tool to simplify repositioning of multiple objects via drag handles with movement snapping, on-hover name/position display and undo/redo support? Hold my beer! 🍺 #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity

me: I should focus on finalizing demo of “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” also me: Oh, look, Iʼve found all those 10+ year old phones gathering dust at the bottom of the drawer! Letʼs see if I can make TΞNTΛKLΞS run with a decent framerate on this junk! #gamedev #indiedev

[5/5] Add literally one line of code: Input.backButtonLeavesApp = true; Re-submit. Instant approval. MFW 30 days of my life were deleted by a single line of code. #gamedev #madewithunity

[1/5] Be me, a professional Android (+15 yoe) and hobbyist Unity (+10 yoe) developer. Decide to build a “dead simple” Game & Watch remake in one week to clear the mind from a long-running main project (4 yrs). Finish the game, looks good, runs perfectly on my phone. #gamedev #indiedev

I love pixels in me games large and crunchy but man... Peach comparison from thi article makes me want to have optional CRT filter in the game. www.datagubbe.se/crt2/ CRT screens really made our imagination and visual processing work wonders! #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

The greatest compliment a musical artist could ever receive.

Hi! Iʼm Polish and Iʼm making an indie game! 🇵🇱🎮 #indiegame #indiedev

Some people prefer AAA-tier graphics. As for me, I like my visuals strictly LO-LO-LO: – lo-resolution – lo-color – lo-poly #gamedev #indiedev #vfx #shaders #madewithunity #retro #lowpoly #pixels #dithering

The engine I use & the Game Iʼm making. #unity #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

Are there any #pixelart #game #trailer experts here? I'd have few questions re: technical issue with YouTube #video compression. Image unrelated (well, kinda is). #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #madewithunity

That would be quite an unexpected life plot twist – and a huge irony – to be born in a generation that has to explain computers to its grandparents, parents, peers, children and grandchildren.

Made a tool generating JSON with all dialogues in “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle”. Right now itʼs about 4000 words (not counting interaction texts, just dialogues for characters and cutscenes). Itʼs about 1/3 of all required text... ☠️ #gamedev #indiedev

Yeah, writing lots of text is hard when you want to have at least some degree of uniqueness and humor to keep the player entertained. Demo content production is in full swing!

A very productive, although quite exhausting, weekend full of work on “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle”. Tons and tons of text written for various interactive objects. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #mystery #adventure

Lucas Lund is running a Kickstarter campaign to translate his Commodore 64-inspired novel “Murder on Park Lane” into English. If youʼre interested in retro gaming literature, consider checking out his project. www.kickstarter.com/projects/luc... #books #detective #mystery #retrogaming #c64 #8bit

Reminds me of this meme template. 😆

Important feature no player will actually notice in “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle”: Eugene and Charles can approach each other for a cutscene dialogue no matter which room they meet in (btw., not shown here but staircase was a real PITA). #gamedev #indiedev

I came across a cover of a computer magazine from 1985. At the bottom thereʼs a title that roughly translates to: “Calculators – help or encouragement to laziness?” Replace “calculator” with “AI” and it turns out 40 yrs later we discuss the same problems, only technology differs.

All this knowledge passed from senior devs down to LLMs during endless back-and-forths to get the generated code right, lost forever. As Roy Batty would have said himself:

A quick behind-the-scenes peek while I prepare the “Wright Files: Egerton's Pickle” demo. In the video you can see a system that selects the optimal position for two characters approaching each other for conversation during a cutscene. [1/2] #gamedev #indiedev

Nice! For me it's a set of scope extension methods: Run(), Apply(), Also() (which are loosely based on scope functions from Kotlin language). I have them available as a GitHub package: github.com/VigeoGames/V...

Share art lore about yourself. My first dabbing at 3D modeling was in high school when I created high-poly Karl Gerät in 3D Studio MAX 1.0 to get A+ in CS class. Then dropped 3D modeling for 30 yrs. Two yrs ago I retried, this time being wiser and doing low-poly Aston Martin DB5 in @blockbench.net.

The characters in “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle” are finally becoming alive. Not a permanent state in a whodunit murder story. 🕵️‍♂️ #indiegames #detective #mystery #game #gamedev #indiedev

Happy 40th birthday, #Amiga! I still have this Zeewolf remake waiting to be done some day... maybe for your 50th birthday...? 😅 #Amiga40 #Commodore #RetroGaming #RetroDev #RetroComputing #gamedev #in

Some fragments redacted because spoilers! Although I'm pretty sure Polish language is a good enough encryption in itself. 😅

** 🗓️ CHECKS CALENDAR 🗓️ ** Ah yes, today marks exactly the fourth anniversary of starting work on “Wright Files: Egertonʼs Pickle”. 🥳 #indiegames #detective #mystery #game #gamedev #indiedev