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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 22h

✨Let's make an actual game with #Godot and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - Part 2: L-BLOCK!!✨

youtu.be/Z1g47_HfuZk

Follow the code on codeberg!
codeberg.org/renevanderar...

#2D #vectorart #gamedev #solodev #indiegames #opensource #foss

PART 2: L-BLOCK!!! - Let's make an actual game with Godot and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 22h

✨Let's make an actual game with #Godot and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - Part 2: L-BLOCK!!✨

youtu.be/Z1g47_HfuZk

Follow the code on codeberg!
codeberg.org/renevanderar...

#2D #vectorart #gamedev #solodev #indiegames #opensource #foss

PART 2: L-BLOCK!!! - Let's make an actual game with Godot and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D

YouTube video by René van der Ark

youtu.be

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 1d

Not nearly as expensive as what an LLM needs to do to suggest this expensive method. 😉

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Jorrit Rouwe @jrouwe.bsky.social · 19d

Jolt Physics v5.4.0 is out! Check out the release notes here: github.com/jrouwe/JoltP...

Release 5.4.0 · jrouwe/JoltPhysics

There are a few minor breaking changes, see this document. New Functionality Added Cosserat rods to soft bodies. This is a stick constraint with an orientation that can be used to attach geometry....

github.com

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 2d

As promised, I'm now making this silly game with #godotengine and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D.

✨ Join me in this journey of short videos so I won't veer off track!✨

Part 1 (The Responsive Viewport):
youtu.be/rGWdkxsr8SA

#2D #vectorart #gamedev #solodev #indiegames #opensource #foss

PART 1: The Responsive Viewport - Let's make an actual game with Godot and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 2d

As promised, I'm now making this silly game with #godotengine and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D.

✨ Join me in this journey of short videos so I won't veer off track!✨

Part 1 (The Responsive Viewport):
youtu.be/rGWdkxsr8SA

#2D #vectorart #gamedev #solodev #indiegames #opensource #foss

PART 1: The Responsive Viewport - Let's make an actual game with Godot and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D

YouTube video by René van der Ark

youtu.be

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 2d

As promised, I'm now making this silly game with #godotengine and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D.

✨ Join me in this journey of short videos so I won't veer off track!✨

Prologue (the concept roadmap):
youtu.be/JnMAHXXGJOE

#2D #vectorart #gamedev #solodev #indiegames #opensource #foss

Prologue - Let's make an actual game with Godot and Scalable Vector Shapes 2D

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 2d

Any receive dm's like this recently, by any chance?

Are they legit or a scam?

Someone asking me to join a discord server to look at screenshots of emails supposedly by bluesky team about misreporting me but then I respond that they would've mailed me in such an event, right?

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 2d

the codeberg icon looks like the paramount icon and the sierra games icon. I can't unsee it

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 4d

So, apparently, I wasn't actually kidding.

I will be making this using Scalable Vector Shapes 2D for #Godot

I will be pushing my commits to codeberg: codeberg.org/renevanderar...

I will be held to account in a new youtube vlog! 😅

The sketch was made with excalidraw.com.

#gamedev #solodev #foss

Let's make an actual game!
The plan: "Celeste, but you climb tetris blocks that you control"

RESPONSIVE DESIGN

Controls:
jump/rotate: Keyboard: Up/W Controller: Button TextureButton
run left/move left: Keyboard: Left/A Controller: L-Stick Touch: Virtual Joystick
run right/move right: Keyboard: Right/D Controller: L-Stick Touch: Virtual Joystick

ROADMAP (concept)
- make tetris (keyboard / controller)
- add protagonist
- use animated curves to grow rose-vines on the bricks
- rose-vines to damage (3 hearts)
- rose-vines without roots wither away
- roses are hearts
- get trapped or lose health (die)
- level progression (just like tetris)
- deterministic mode (blocks are always the same)
- random mode (blocks are random)

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 8d

My son is a big world box fan, actually! Cool to be connected now!

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Hugo Vaz 💠 Worldbox @hgvaz.bsky.social · Aug 30

🐧Hello Bluesky community! Finally some fresh air! Making my debut here, my name is Hugo, I make art for games, from UI to characters, logos to capsule illustrations. Working in Worldbox and Behold Studios. Would appreciate a repost. 💕 www.artstation.com/hgvaz
#gameart #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 9d

So, I never have a creative thought in my life, but in a father/son banter-session a thought suddenly came to me:
"Celeste, but you climb Tetris blocks _you_ control!" 🤔☺️
...and that my friend, is why I won't quit my day job.

#gamedev #solodev

godotengine.org/asset-librar...

youtu.be/z8Y1e-TehoE

A to Z Explainer Deep Dive Edition - Tutorial for Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - a plugin for Godot 4

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 9d

Glue a Node2D to a point in your ScalableVectorShape2D!

This change I was postponing for months because it seemed so hard to me, but actually in #GodotEngine this only costs you 23 lines of gdscript:

github.com/Teaching-mys...

#gamedev #opensource #indiegames #godot #plugin #svg

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 10d

Wow, bluesky still seems to struggle with svg files.

Anyway,

✨️What the alt-text says! ✨️

Watch the new A-Z explainer, deep dive edition!

youtu.be/z8Y1e-TehoE

#gamedev #opensource #indiegames #vector #svg #godot #plugin #2d #polygons #bézier #curves #animation #keyframes #hashtags #gdscript

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - release 2.17.0

Brings flippin' shape flipping!

And 2.16.3 brought uniform scaling, translating, and rotating!

The rest of the week was gobbled up by this new explainer, which features them:

Link to the explainer and some hash tags.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15d

We’re grateful to DuckDuckGo for their $25,000 gift to Internet Archive! This support helps ensure the world’s knowledge is preserved & accessible to everyone. spreadprivacy.com/2025-duckduc...

2025 DuckDuckGo Charitable Donations

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks to recording this long form explainer I spotted 3 new bugs, of which 2 are regressions of sorts.

github.com/Teaching-mys...

I'll be tackling those the coming spare hours. The joy of development after long hours of sweating on a video and hearing the icky sound of my own voice 😅

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 14d

The A-Z Explainer Deep Dive took 70 hours to edit!
youtu.be/z8Y1e-TehoE

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D is in the godot asset library:
godotengine.org/asset-librar...

And on Gadget Godot:
www.gadgetgodot.com/u/svs-2d-mkr...

Find it on Github:
github.com/Teaching-mys...

#gamedev #godot #opensource

A to Z Explainer Deep Dive Edition - Tutorial for Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - a plugin for Godot 4

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks!

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 14d

The A-Z Explainer Deep Dive took 70 hours to edit!
youtu.be/z8Y1e-TehoE

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D is in the godot asset library:
godotengine.org/asset-librar...

And on Gadget Godot:
www.gadgetgodot.com/u/svs-2d-mkr...

Find it on Github:
github.com/Teaching-mys...

#gamedev #godot #opensource

A to Z Explainer Deep Dive Edition - Tutorial for Scalable Vector Shapes 2D - a plugin for Godot 4

YouTube video by René van der Ark

youtu.be

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 15d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 16d

I have to admire these video people. It takes me a week to edit my ramblings back from 45 minutes of audio to 15 minutes (mostly cutting out seconds long uhmmmmmm silences 🫢)

Then adding screen recordings to it, painstakingly browsing my own amateur work or a cc0 logo to mess around with.

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 18d

The animation baking feature will be featured in the re-recording of the A-Z Explainer as well as the Epic about re-recording the A-Z explainer.

#gamedev #godot #plugin #opensource #svg #vector

Record A-Z explainer again (epic, in progress)

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J4mie_C4lrk. Ⓥ @jamieclark.bsky.social · Aug 2

Wow, it's Holiday Hooligan!
This is the game I've been working awhile now.
It's an X-mas themed platformer about Santa having to get past booby trapped homes to deliver gifts, wow.

I've done a bad job marketing this, so I'm going to try now and do better how over on the bluesky.
#godot #gamedev

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René van der Ark 🍠 @zucht2.bsky.social · 20d

Scalable Vector Shapes 2D Addon for Godot 4.4 - New Transform Buttons!

🤞 godotengine.org/asset-librar... 🤞

Get release 2.16.0 early!

On Github: github.com/Teaching-mys...

On Gadget: www.gadgetgodot.com/u/svs-2d-mkr...

Music by: @not-jam.itch.io

#gamedev #godot #opensource #draw #vectorshapes

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