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Nikita Lisitsa

@lisyarus.bsky.social

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He/him I teach C++ & computer graphics and make videogames Working on a medieval village building game: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGI94QoFYJwGaieAkqw5_qfoupdppxHN&cbrd=1 Check out my cozy road building traffic sim: https://t.ly/FfOwR

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · Aug 14

A new devlog about my medieval village building game! About 4 months of progress in this one!

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #devlog

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymx...

Stockpiles, Roofs, and Much More! - Village Builder Devlog #10

YouTube video by Nikita Lisitsa

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5h

Slug is absolutely an overkill expect if you're an AAA studio

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 19h

Life goals: met a mate in a bar to sketch a shader he needed

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 23h

Prototyping a generic extensible system for entity spawning. Each entity type declares some slope/noise/etc (later - climate also) value ranges where it can spawn. Just trees for now, and it's not wired to the distant forests mesh yet.

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 1d

On second though, probably I'm just not that famous lmao 😅

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 1d

Idk what I'm doing wrong but I get basically 0 negativity/reply guys on both platforms!

The bird site though...

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 1d

Yaaaay

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 1d

Ngl she's got a ton of charm!

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 1d

That's SO MUCH more work that I'll absolutely never do it!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 2d

The hardest part of giving lectures for years is fighting the urge to add even more info in each lecture.

(I am repeatedly losing this fight with remarkable consistency.)

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Though I have to add that I'm using a custom game engine which I know extremely well (because I made it, lol), and I've been learning to do all this stuff for many years, which of course contributes a lot to my productivity.

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much!

Oh, it differs a lot. Sometimes I don't work on it for weeks, sometimes up to 8 hours a day.

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Still kinda blown away by the scale of my game's world and all the possibilities it has. Imagine it filled with rivers, deserts, lakes, towns, mines! 🔥 Ugh, so much more work ahead.

(please ignore the weird cloud shadows 😅)

#indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Banger!

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Sebastian Lague @sebastianlague.bsky.social · 3d

My latest coding adventure — attempting to write a grid-based fluid solver and simulate some simple smoke!

youtu.be/Q78wvrQ9xsU?...

Coding Adventure: Simulating Smoke

YouTube video by Sebastian Lague

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! Yep, it's procedural!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Yes and yes!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

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Joana Almeida 🧙‍♀️ @sorcerystory.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the progress I made this week on my Colony Sim + RPG game! ⚒️🤖⚔️

Been focusing on animations lately! Created a rough mining animation, which also works surprisingly well as a makeshift planting animation! ⛏️

#pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting, why do you need the inscribed circle for a 3D mesh slice?

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 4d

added an outline to the 3d cursor so it's always visible

#EniBlockGame #GameDev 🎮

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

THank you!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

There will be, of course. I even have some code (disabled for now) that tweaks bone weights to make them appear more feminine. Not sure if I'm ok with this or I want a separate model.

Anyway, there's a ton of work before this will start to actually matter in the game

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

Village building game, The Matrix edition

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

Got tired of seeing the same human model everywhere, so I've decided to have fun and randomly colorize each villager just for some variety

#indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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