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Stomy

@stomygame.bsky.social

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Solo game developer using Linux, C, and OpenGL. Making Ctesiphon: https://s.team/a/3808730, a fine boomer shooter. Aspiring to also become a better artist. FPS, RPG, 4X, and 451 enjoyer 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 🇵🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 Say no to A.I/L.L.M. stomygame.itch.io

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello there,

I like to make games the hard way using C and OpenGL. Right now I'm trying to ship this boomer shooter before I've spent a decade rewriting it over and over.

Social media hasn't worked out all that well for me so far, maybe this time will be different?

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 20h

Bought a couple packs of marker pens, time for a new profile pic.
#markers #art #traditionalart

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 1d

A few progress snaps of the last level for #screenshotsaturday
Cutting it a bit close to release with this one, but by removing enough details from scope I should get it done on time for release.
#gamedev #indiedev #retrofps

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MELFIST - Reposting helps a lil'guy grow @lordmelfist.bsky.social · 1d

✨ Artists! Quote with long hair! ✨

A monstrous scaled spider-woman. Her limbless torso rises from where a spider's mouth would be, and all the eight limbs of the spider are elongated, white and gangly, ending in fully functional seven-fingered hands. The head of the monster has incredibly long, white straight silken hair, falling in front of her. The woman has a hybrid face between human, insect and reptilian, with six visible eyes, mandibles around the sharp-teethed mouth, and two curved horns rising to the side of the head, one horn slightly longer than the other.
Behind the spider-woman, the black starry sky, with a waning(waxing?) crescent moon above the spider-witch, framed in a hole at the centre of a massive spiderweb. The picture is completely black and white with the exception of the spiderweb, which is red, slightly fleshy, and irregular. The spider-witch raises two of her limbs to the moon behind her as if she can reach or grasp it, while two other limbs stroke her hair.

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🌜Frosted_Moontips🌛 @frostedmoontips.bsky.social · 1d

✨ Artists! Quote with long hair! ✨

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 1d

✨ Artists! Quote with long hair! ✨

A colored sketch of a sword babe leaning on a closely-held greatsword almost as tall as she is. Piercing green eyes stare out at the viewer and voluminous hair cascades down her front and back covering up more of her than her meager clothes: a thin loincloth and a slip of fabric over her chest fastened with leather loops. Behind her is a wispy watercolor-looking background in blue and grey.

The piece was sketched with pencil and colored with a mix of watered down acrylic inks and black tea, some final lines picked out with a felt-tip pen. Though little reference was used for the pose, the face is modeled off of Neri from trueref.io.

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 2d

Needed to take a break from the crunch to do some art practice. Coloring was done with watered-down acrylic inks and black tea (the latter in many layers). I sketched the pose but the face is modeled on Neri from @trueref.bsky.social
#sketch #art #draw

Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 5d

I get that it has a poor opening, but anyone who still thinks Daikatana is the "worst game ever" definitely hasn't played it. There's some really cool stuff going on in that game, and the worst parts have mostly been fixed by fan patches.

Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 5d

Really? This whole time I thought it was because it was an OpenGL port of ZDoom, and everything in OpenGL uses that gl* prefix. Maybe that's just how he managed to sneak it in!

Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 6d

I've got to try this sometime. I love making tabletop terrain and this is the same skillset!

Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 6d

I now wonder if they also did their textures from sculpted tablets just like in GC?

Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 8d

Took a detour to add some frustum culling, there was literally no occlusion checking at all before. Just culling out offscreen debris and enemy animation blending has made enough of a difference for my aging machine to still manage 144Hz for all the important encounters. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe something will come of this last map after all, I feel like it's finally coming together. Was feeling kind of down this morning but doing some greebling for a few hours tends to cheer me up. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 9d

Ever feel that burnout hit you real hard? It's been getting to me, I'm two months out from release and it's a real struggle to get the last little chunk of the game done. I really just want to be done and move on to something new. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

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FrogmanDev @frogmandev.bsky.social · 16d

big boned 🍕

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 16d

I told you WIP Casino was a bad idea. They don't even have any cards. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 19d

Ctesiphon is partly a forever-home for a handful of maps I made in Quake 3 and UT2004 many years ago. This here is my high-school masterpiece, the Fortress of Baal. I'm blocking out its new incarnation as a casino, making the final map of the game before the final boss fight on the roof. #gamedev

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 21d

I like that idea. I can't do it this year but I ought to next time.

Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 21d

I've just uploaded a new demo build to Steam and Itch containing the third level. For now I expect this to be the last update to the demo before release. Autosaves made in v1.01 will let you continue where you left off.

#gamedev #indiedev

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 22d

Now that I've given it one last pass I'll be adding the third level to the public demo soon. I'd intended to do so all along but didn't have time to review it again before the Brutal Indies event.

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 24d

"I'm not like other mechs" (WIP)

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · 29d

Did a refactor of the audio system today and added a proper association between sound clips and source entities such that staggering, killing, or gibbing an enemy can interrupt sound effects they've spawned. #gamedev #indiedev

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · Sep 19

I totally didn't design around playing this with a controller, so as a compromise there's an option for aim-assist when using one. Just done by sending out some detection rays like in classic Doom. #gamedev #indiedev

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · Sep 16

Demo is now live on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3808730/... #gamedev #indiedev

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Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · Sep 15

Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · Sep 14

I can't add any new options to the pause menu after this though or I'll have to put in a scrollbar when in 720p and that would be ridiculous.

Stomy @stomygame.bsky.social · Sep 14

I'm a bit late for Screenshot Saturday, but I've put together a much-requested feature. This screen will log any important dialog in the level so you can go back and re-read it in case it came up in the middle of a firefight. #gamedev #indiedev

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