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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 1d

First two days of next fest is loaded with slop. Give it a bit and the algorithm starts dropping them.

FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 1d

I always admire the little touches you add to your levels. Really makes it come alive!

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 1d

Woah! 1k followers!! 🥳🎉 As promised, I put together a small montage of before/afters I was able to make thanks to duplicating levels during the design process. I'm still working on lighting/polishing but plan on following up with an even better version soon.

Thank you so much!

#IndieGameDev #UE5

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit man, I hope you can land on your feet soon.

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 1d

If there's room I'd love to be added! I'm getting close to launching my humor/horror game

bsky.app/profile/fros...

FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 5d

THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VACUUM CLEANER now has a Steam page!

Pls wishlist :)

#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegaming #gaming #horrorgame #indiehorror #indiehorrorgame #unrealengine #ue5 #unrealengine5 #horror #game #wishlist #steam

store.steampowered.com/app/4073730/...

THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VACUUM CLEANER on Steam

A short humor/horror game where you play as an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner trying to clean a haunted house.

store.steampowered.com

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 3d

We love gray blender

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 4d

The all powerful omega door

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 5d

Same to you! Good luck with the next fest!

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AttaKat @attakat.bsky.social · 5d

The lovely @frosthound.bsky.social got his Steam page up for the longest named Steam game you've see this year! Don't let the cute eyes fool you though; this fits right in with the other spooky games coming out this month. <3

#He'sProbablyHarmless #Probably #Indie #Spooky #Halloween #SpookyGame

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 5d

It's nice to imagine that yes :)

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 5d

THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VACUUM CLEANER now has a Steam page!

Pls wishlist :)

#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegaming #gaming #horrorgame #indiehorror #indiehorrorgame #unrealengine #ue5 #unrealengine5 #horror #game #wishlist #steam

store.steampowered.com/app/4073730/...

THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VACUUM CLEANER on Steam

A short humor/horror game where you play as an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner trying to clean a haunted house.

store.steampowered.com

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations! We're in the same boat right now from the sounds of things lol

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, there's a lot of plugins in there that bounce off other critical aspects of the engine, but the denoise plugin isn't one of them and should be fine to remove.

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 8d

Also, when building the project, make sure it's set to "Shipping" instead of "Development" if you aren't already. This cuts out a lot of things not needed to make the game work and can drastically reduce file sizes

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 8d

In the engine itself, go to Edit -> Plugins and disable it there

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 8d

Wanna cut back on an extra 47mb? Disable the plugin "Open Image De-Noise"

Very unlikely you are using it, but if it causes issues it can be re-enabled no problem.

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 9d

I could sit here and refute this all day but all I'm going to say is this is a bad look for you in the creative space. AI generated things like this have no place in creative fields.

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 9d

Indies never had the budget, we make due with what we have and learn the rest. There's plenty of free and open source art programs out there that don't rely on the plagiarism machine.

This generated image doesn't even look like your game, so functionally, it does more harm than good.

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 10d

Internally I've been calling the game "ARC" for Autonomous Robotic Cleaner, but "TTIGRAAARVC* is very funny lol

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 10d

CALL NOW

#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #gaming #horror #indiehorror #indiehorrorgame #horrorgame

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 10d

This looks AI generated.

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 11d

HEH.

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 11d

It's time to finally show the stupid name I gave my game!

What do we think, chat?

(Steam page and trailer coming soon™)

#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #indiehorror #horrorgame #horror #unrealengine5 #unrealengine #ue5 #gaming

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 16d

Made a simple arrow to point you in the direction of the nearest objective to help with navigation.

#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegaming #horrorgame #horror #indiehorror #indiehorrorgame #unrealengine5 #unrealengine #unreal #ue5

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FrostHound @frosthound.bsky.social · 16d

Been awhile. Here, take this.

#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegaming #horrorgame #horror #indiehorror #unrealengine5 #unrealengine #ue5 #gaming

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