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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 4d

Today I learned that Godot and I have the exact same IPD (interpupillary distance), so now I feel less bad for making them wear my PICO.

#GodotEngine

A Godot plushie with a ruler held in front of its face, measuring the distance between its pupils.

The Godot plushie wearing a PICO VR headset.

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 4d

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 10d

Now did hear a rumour Apples fixing this on some iPhone 12s due to a recall, so might get lucky..

Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 10d

Dangit, speaker on my phone died, i’m not having much luck these past days with hardware. Though it’s nearly 5yrs old so guess it held up well.

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 15d

Well, its not my camera, I got that back alive.. Too weird this one..

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 15d

Wow.. Looks like I managed to somehow overload (part of) my USB chip on my motherboard. I have a feeling my webcam had something to do with it as it seems to be toast as well. Guess I'll be installing a better USB PCIe card or something...

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 23d

Doing an adhoc stream trying out drawable textures in a few minutes, probably going to be a short one.

youtube.com/live/O1gwSoX...

Dev stream 74 - Trying out drawable textures

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 24d

Put a little announcement video together with some gameplay of the winning entry!

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

Godot XR Game Jam IV Winner

YouTube video by Bastiaan Olij

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 24d

We had a great turn out this time around, some of my favourites aren't even in the top 5. Thanks everyone for joining!

Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 24d

Results for the 4th Godot XR Community Game Jam are in!

Congratulations to @andyman404.bsky.social for taking the top spot.

itch.io/jam/godot-xr...

Top ranked games in the Godot XR Game Jam - Sep 2025

itch.io

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 24d

Managed to play through all but one of our gamejam entries, I'm blown away by the quality of submissions. Some really well executed games.

Deadline for voting is in half a day, can't wait to see who wins :)

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 25d

So after some googling someone pointed to Armoury Crate (tool to setup RGB effects), seems a version had a memory leak. I'm back down to a cozy 10Gb of memory usage.. :)

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 25d

So finally figured out why my computer is running badly lately. After a fresh boot Windows is using all of my 32Gb of memory, and task manager is showing me nothing useful for what is eating it all up... Sigh

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 26d

No, there are several there already, for instance assemble and dday museum

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 26d

Doing a stream to play some of the game jam games in a few minutes:
youtube.com/live/hxtGcCW...

Trying out some Godot XR game jam IV entries

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · 26d

I got to check this out later today, seems interesting:)

Cozy Cube Games | Wishlist Penguin Festival on Steam! 🐧 @cozycubegames.bsky.social · 26d

🥽 Looking for a more immersive weekend plan?

The FIRST EVER @vr-forever.com Festival is going strong over on Steam!

A huge range of games from classics to soon-to-be classics~

➡ Check out all-around faves, new releases, demos, and lots of upcoming VR games: store.steampowered.com/sale/VRForev...

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Good Game Stuff @goodgamestuff.bsky.social · 27d

Hey Godot devs, it’s skin care time! Don’t miss these free skin and eye shaders on GitHub.

github.com/matmadness/H...

#gamedev #indiedev #godot #shader

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · Sep 15

#GodotEngine 4.5 has finally arrived! 🎉

With this new release, we made meticulous efforts in order to amplify what is possible to do with our engine, guided by our goal of making gaming and game development for everyone!

godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine

From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are ...

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Cularo Games @cularogames.bsky.social · Sep 15

We just finished our 7th game jam in 7 months. This is our first VR game, and we used @audiokinetic.bsky.social 's Wwise for sound (works very well with @godotengine.org ).
cularo-games.itch.io/memories

Memories by Cularo Games, Tilca, Mesh_Manticore, ChooChooRayk, RodZilla

A game made for Godot XR Game Jam - Sep 2025

cularo-games.itch.io

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · Sep 15

The suspense is killing me!!!! :)

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · Sep 15

I may do something on stream later this week and play a few of these games for the first time live.

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · Sep 15

And the voting has started. This Godot XR gamejam has seen 21 entries submitted at the deadline. We may have 1 or 2 latecomers who has issues submitting being added in the next day or so. Thanks everyone for joining in, I'm looking forward to playing your games!

itch.io/jam/godot-xr...

Submissions to Godot XR Game Jam - Sep 2025

itch.io

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · Sep 14

Less than 1 hour to go before the Godot XR Community Game Jam deadline passes. A few itch.io issues not withstanding, submissions are slowly rolling in. Looks like we have some interesting games, looking forward to playing them!

itch.io/jam/godot-xr...

Submissions to Godot XR Game Jam - Sep 2025

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · Sep 13

This looks like it's becoming an exciting entry, very cute!

Andrew C. Wang @andyman404.bsky.social · Sep 12

WIP: stretchy soft-belly physics for the finger controlled wiener dog in #XR for the Sep 2025 #GodotXRGameJam.

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #Godot

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Bastiaan Olij @mux213.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'll add one more I believe in.

VR has become an untapped resource for indie developers as the number of headsets has grown to a sustainable size, devices are now powerful enough to no longer require you to be an industry guru, and AAA are unwilling to touch it as for them the ROI isn't there yet.

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · Sep 12

Godot has become a viable game engine

Blender has become a viable 3D modelling AND animation tool

SteamDeck is now a fantastic "mobile" Desktop platform

AAA is shrinking / abandoning territory, ceding more genres to indie

Basically, (funding sitch aside) indie gamedev is seriously looking up!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 11

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

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