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Taking a breath

Pause menu is not something you imagine doing when making games, but it has to be there. Another piece of dark work

Every software developer will tell you that last 10% of any project takes up 90% of the time. Tim Ruswick from Game

Here comes one of early drafts of games establishing shot and ring exit sequences: Establishing shot is the critical one, on

I have been writing software for past 32 years. A nice round number. I have done business software, frontends, backends, games, demoscene

I spent most of the recent week debugging and fine-tuning the game. Nothing spectacular, just few touches here and there, addition of

I made new procedural materials for the K37 model. They have a quite complex model, but since I’m not rendering that model

A decided to get the K37 a complete makeover. While earlier versions had all the necessary systems, they didn’t really look like

Godot 3 has a built-in normal mapping shader for 2D sprites. It works, but doesn’t really offer anything outside standard normal mapping.

Sometimes you design a game mechanics, and sometimes, when you are lucky enough, it emerges out of nowhere and surprises you. ΔV

Both “ΔV” and “In Dead Company” use 2D sprites with normal maps to make 3D visual lighting effect. Oversimplifying, a normal map