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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame!

@tsunscreen.bsky.social

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Gamedev, composer - he/him 🇨🇦 Currently working on Ephemeral Frame, a weird game about going inside photos. Wishlist it on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3605360/Ephemeral_Frame/

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 29d

Finished up a new trailer for Ephemeral Frame just in time to submit for the Godot 2025 Showreel #godot #gamedev

Captures a lot more than the original teaser I feel!

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 2d

It's a mix of these two!
godotshaders.com/shader/kuwah...
godotshaders.com/shader/squig...

This site really is the best

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 2d

*That super pixelated world is actually being rendered at a lower resolution (its not post processing). Similarly the n64 looking one is rendered lower with additional effects on top.

I did have to add another subviewport to the mix but it ended up being pretty flexible!

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 2d

Finally got per-world post processing working so I've been playing around with a bunch of stuff from godotshaders

Took a bit of finagling to handle the transitions and cached images but I got there #godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 5d

my game will feature revolutionary mechanics such as sliding block puzzles #godot #gamedev

(there is a good reason I promise lol)

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks for the 500+ wishlists! Certainly see others post a lot more but for a first Steam game I appreciate them! #godot

Bonus cat to celebrate

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks!
The pictures really are just pictures here but as the camera lerps towards them the corresponding scene is loaded into another viewport and then I move the player there at just the right moment.
Easier said than done of course lol but the concept is straightforward enough.

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 15d

Very good question lol. Currently it's only 16:9 but I'm planning on supporting narrower aspect ratios since that's easy enough. Ultrawide on the other hand might get shafted but I haven't ruled it out yet

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 15d

I knew trying to pass mouse input to this was going to be a nightmare and it was lol, but the official "GUI in 3D" demo saved me 🙏

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 15d

Going inside a picture inside a program on a computer.
#godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 22d

Given the whole "going into different mediums" thing I really want to lean into worlds with drastically different styles.

Old games, black & white movies, oil paintings (like how Oblivion does it), etc. Just fun playing around with it

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 22d

Experimenting with an old-school castle kind of vibe, complete with runescape-esque music #godot #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 24d

Does she know? #godot

Cat in front of monitor with in-game cat

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 28d

Finally updated the Steam page to make use of the latest features from Valve.

I spent so long on those old gifs and they still looked super crusty but now you can just upload mp4s which is really nice

(I maybe should've done this before posting the trailer earlier but oh well lol) #gamedev

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 29d

bsky compression is unkind but the Steam page has a much higher quality video.
You can even consider wishlisting while you're watching!

store.steampowered.com/app/3605360/...

Ephemeral Frame on Steam

Step inside picture frames, films, and other imagery that connect a variety of dreamscapes in this surreal first-person exploration game.

store.steampowered.com

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · 29d

Finished up a new trailer for Ephemeral Frame just in time to submit for the Godot 2025 Showreel #godot #gamedev

Captures a lot more than the original teaser I feel!

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Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Sep 25

I always feel a little weird considering late 2020/early 2021 a highlight but I think it's for a lot of the same reasons you mentioned. I was still in university but with some pretty light semesters so I got to spend a lot of time on gamedev and music. Good times

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Sep 16

This is the kind of thing I'll probably notice more than anyone lol, but I think it's a pretty significant improvement still.

Also lets me speed things up slightly as I don't have to spend as much time crossfading

Tsunscreen - Wishlist Ephemeral Frame! @tsunscreen.bsky.social · Sep 16

Finally made the transitions pixel perfect!
This was an issue from day one...

I'm now effectively rendering the frame's quad a second time on top which lets me bypass all lighting + post processing for that specific quad. Works exactly as I wanted it to!
#godot #gamedev