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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games

@lenjamakesgames.bsky.social

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🎮 Solo #gamedev based in Berlin 🌊 Making a tiny game about water in the desert

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · May 14

Hey bsky! 👋
I'm Lenja, a solo indie dev based in Berlin, Germany.

Here's what I'm currently working on:
My 6 month old prototype for a game about spreading water in the desert and watching things grow. 🌱✨

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 2d

C: A PEAK scout ⛰️

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 2d

B: Sam from MOONRISE KINGDOM 🦡

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 2d

Who am I?
A: Russell from UP 🎈

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 2d

Hope everyone had a very happy Halloween!🎃🦇

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 9d

The level generator is starting to create some pretty cute canyon valleys 🏜️✨

My camera controller is not a fan of those pillars though🥲

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 13d

Back working on level generation. My approach is still to make a height map by stacking a bunch of noises in a shader and saving that as a texture for my terrain generator to munch on. Its going okay, creating real variation is hard! Also what are the level borders supposed to look like?

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 28d

He's fine I swear

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 28d

3D unwrapping this little fellow feels wrong somehow 😬 🥺

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Oct 4

Thanks so much! Exactly what I'm trying to do :)

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Oct 4

Not sure if the resolution is good enough but that's the VFX graph 🔍

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Oct 4

Finally got an excuse to use Unity's VFX graphs (instead of good old particle systems out of habit) and I must say they are pretty neat. The ability to combine them with Shadergraph shaders did it for me! So I can both have flying behaviour and flapping wings in this little bee swarm VFX I made 🐝 👌

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thomas "noio" 🏔️ vandenberg @noio.games · Sep 30

drake meme:

✋😒 fix bugs and create content
😎👉 f* around with water shader

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Sep 27

Oh very cool! I especially liked that last whirlpool one. So simple but so perfectly elegant

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Sep 27

And here it is in motion

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Sep 27

Researching water mechanics I found these cool water wheels that romans used to transport water upwards! 🤩 They're called "noria" and are solely driven by the river's current. I loved them so much I needed them in my game too!

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Sep 9

My postcards made it all the way to New Zealand!! Thank you @cuddlepunk.bsky.social for those photos 🥰

demi @cuddlepunk.bsky.social · Sep 9

these cards from @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social arrived from Deutschland this morning and they’re so pretty

each postcard features a bespoke oasis you can make in their upcoming game Waterful

a postcard featuring a series of waterfalls splashing emerald green water into an oasis, adorned with palm trees and deep orange sands

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Jul 24

Made some postcards with screenshots of my watery game for a playtesting event. Of course they arrived half a day too late and now I'm stuck with 300 of them 🤦 They'll probably be outdated by the time I get to the next event too so... anyone want to get a postcard from me? 😅

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thanks!!

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank youuu! ❤️

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Jul 23

I already jumped and dove deeply into founding my company - I'm trying to get this done asap to receive the funding and get back to working on the game. Hoping for collective crossed fingers so everything goes smoothly 🤞🏽🍀

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Jul 23

I did it people, I got the funding for my watery game! 🥳 That means I can actually make this into a real thing and bring it to you on Steam 🤯 This already is a dream come true, thank you MBB for believing in me and everyone here cheering me on 🥹❤️

GamesMarket @gamesmarket.global · Jul 21

A total of ten game projects will receive funding totalling just under €1.1 million, including those from Torpor Games, Little Bat Games, Windspiel and Windmillhill Games.

www.gamesmarket.global/business/loc...

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Jul 21

Haha the video ended up being a bit short, oops 😬

Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Jul 21

So on a scale from 1 to Niagara - how many waterfalls are enough waterfalls? 🤔

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Lenja 🪨 Findling Games @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · Jul 19

Tall waterfalls! And ripples under them. Also: grass adjusts nicely to the new color variations in the terrain now.

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