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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · 17d

Hi fellow #sea #gamedev, anyone joining #gamescomasiaxThailandGameShow ? If so, let's meet up! I'd love to meet other devs from SEA!

#meetatGCAxTGS

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Mar 18

Go get it on #itchio! Or #steam idk wherever you want.

(🤫 there's a launch discount on Steam that will end in 24hrs)

#indiegames #indiedev

Umer Gameworks ➡️ Ursid 💫 OUT NOW ✨ @umergames.com · Mar 18

Ursid is available on Itch! - Ursid
oggzie.itch.io/ursid/devlog...

Ursid is available on Itch!

Hi Itch! Ursid is a game our team at Umer Gameworks has been working on for about 2 years, and we launched on Steam recently. As a long time Itch user, I thought:

oggzie.itch.io

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Feb 11

spent a few hours debugging why the looper in #feel works in Unity but not in build
turns out I haven't initialize the feedback properly

remember, if FEEL complains about something not initialized, solve it before building

Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Feb 8

If someone asks me, “what’s the tedious part of game development?” I’d never thought of manually adding achievements to Steam 😵‍💫
#gamedev

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Feb 7

Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Feb 6

best 5 mins of my life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiaD...

meow mix

YouTube video by meowballz

www.youtube.com

Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Feb 5

anyone wants to play a cozy lil puzzle game?
#indiegamedev

Umer Gameworks ➡️ Ursid 💫 OUT NOW ✨ @umergames.com · Feb 4

Latest trailer for our game, Ursid for this #TrailerTuesday

Puzzle through a star-connecting tale about father and son, with over 50 hand-crafted levels. Join Aster as he explores the sky. What secret will he explore?

#indiegame #cozygame #wholesomegame

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 26

Here's the link if you want to check it out: oggzie.itch.io/wheres-the-cat

Where's The Cat? by Oggzie, gamesnhalam, nzennhi

A short game about finding the cat, and possibly catch it

oggzie.itch.io

Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 26

Couldn't join this year #globalgamejam but here's the game made for last year's jam

This joke is still my favorite

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 15

not right now, but I'm planning to make something for it when holiday starts 🎆
and my playdate has been collecting dust, feeling very sorry for it haha

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 15

spent the whole day working on the dang doorbell sound
does it sound like a real thing? perhaps
is it a better time investment to just use the real thing? definitely
is it worth it? idk anymore is it just all sunk cost fallacy

Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 15

Ohhh that’s cool! Thanks

Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 15

Is there a #playdate community on here yet?

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 14

bsky.app/profile/oggz...

Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi the guy making the tool here!
Read more if you want to dig deeper into the creation of this workflow 🧵

Umer Gameworks ➡️ Ursid 💫 OUT NOW ✨ @umergames.com · Jan 14

It's #ToolTuesday (It's about power tools, but whatev)

Hi #gamedev, tools are important, and due to their nature will almost never be seen public🥲

In Ursid, we use Figma with a custom plugin to export the vector into json for importing into Unity.

What about you? 🛠️
#indiedev #indiegamedev

Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 14

For Ursid, since I had to save the data from (my own) level editor anyway, I realized: Why not just use Figma? Everyone on the team knows how to use it. So I dug around Figma’s extension doc, and it happens to store the vector in the exact format I was planning. List of vertices and shapes!

Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 14

So I made a quick extension that let me draw boxes over the image, and export the coordinates to tsv. Life was so much better!

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 14

In one of the past project, I experimented with making Figma extension since the tool the dev gave me was so bad. I had to draw bounding boxes on objects, and the dev just gave me a spreadsheet and tell me to input the coordinates of the boxes 🫠

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 14

Being a game designer, I suffered many pain from tools in the past projects (or the non-exsistence of tools at all). I often said a game designer without good tools is like an artist draws by Paint. Doable, but painful.

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 14

The requirements at first is very simple: Place some stars, connecting them together. Simple. It’s exactly what we had in the game at that time.
And then I thought about how do we make shapes? Do I need to make a new color picker? WHAT ABOUT UNDO/REDO?

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi the guy making the tool here!
Read more if you want to dig deeper into the creation of this workflow 🧵

Umer Gameworks ➡️ Ursid 💫 OUT NOW ✨ @umergames.com · Jan 14

It's #ToolTuesday (It's about power tools, but whatev)

Hi #gamedev, tools are important, and due to their nature will almost never be seen public🥲

In Ursid, we use Figma with a custom plugin to export the vector into json for importing into Unity.

What about you? 🛠️
#indiedev #indiegamedev

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 14

100% this. Not to mention all of the “happy accidents” during the creation that makes the work so much better. Most of the time the idea you had in your mind turned out to be horrible. By working on it, you refine your idea, and have a better understanding of the work itself.

Steven 🎃umpkin @silent0siris.bsky.social · Jan 13

I think AI enthusiasts like this think of the creation as the value of the work

It’s not.

The CREATING is the value of the work.

Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · Jan 12

These people are your enemies

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Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid @oggzie.bsky.social · Jan 10

I was the one making this mess 🥹
This is the neatest I think?

Umer Gameworks ➡️ Ursid 💫 OUT NOW ✨ @umergames.com · Jan 10

Here's how it made:

Reposted by Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid

Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · Jan 7

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia.

Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

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Umer Gameworks ➡️ Ursid 💫 OUT NOW ✨ @umergames.com · Dec 29

We created a level about a charming polaroid camera📸and its colorful photograph! 🌌

Don’t miss out! Make sure to add us to your wishlist buff.ly/49MajjG ✨

#indiegamedev #cozygame #puzzlegame #gamedev #steam

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Umer Gameworks ➡️ Ursid 💫 OUT NOW ✨ @umergames.com · Dec 25

Merry Christmas and #wishlistwednesday🎅🥳
Here's a (half-way done) cozy fireplace to keep you warm 🔥. Hope you have a wonderful time with friends and family.
Don't forget to wishlist Ursid, coming soon 👉 https://buff.ly/49MajjG
#indiegamedev #cozygame #puzzlegame #gamedev

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