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CanisBorealis
@canisborealis.bsky.social
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Indie Game Developer bouncing between projects

Perpetually distracted with procedural generation and ideas for zelda-likes
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A lot to do to make the game "playable", but I can walk around the little dungeons I'm generating now which is super cool!

Door collision coming soon (tm)

#godot #gamedev #indiedev #zeldalike
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Little jellyfish-squid looking creature! 🪼🐙
Jellyfish squid type creature from heytibo's site generated for each of their followers
September 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Another year, another #KenneyJam! This year I made Distress Call which is a spaceship control panel simulator 🚀🖥️

To send an SOS, you need to repair your damaged ship, but things get pretty hectic in the process!

Big thanks to Kay and Kenney for hosting!

#gamedev #indiedev #godot
July 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Fighting main project burnout by working on an update to my randomizer for the PC/PSX game Frogger 1997 (He's Back).

Been a couple years since I've touched it, but now it can export to PS1 images and run on an emulator which is really exciting!

More updates soon! 🐸
Cover art for the PC/PSX game Frogger 1997 (He's Back).
May 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Playing with a more aggressive mode to my "wander around" AI pattern that tougher enemies can employ.

#godot #gamedev #indiedev
March 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Rats, rats, we are the rats

#godot #gamedev #indiedev
March 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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A bit of a lull in motivation lately, but I'm finally pretty happy with how pushing and pulling are working.

#gamedev #indiedev #godot
March 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Wow :)
Result of Baba Is Quiz: Dog Is You - Extremely friendly and kind. Slightly afraid of conflict. Platformers won: 3
February 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Working as intended 😎

#godot #gamedev
February 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Me with my zeldalike right now
How do I code a block? The quote is displayed above a motivational image of a silhouette on a mountain.
February 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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As promised, a player character is in progress! He's currently stuck in this room with not much to do, but he'll get some toys and friends to play with in due time 🗡️🛡️

#godot #gamedev
February 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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After a bit of a break, I've added some helpful debug features and fixed a handful of bugs with the dungeon tile substitution.

Also added palette swaps! So the dungeon will choose a tileset based on its theme (ex: water).

Player character first draft soon?

#gamedev #indiedev #procgen
A procedurally generated top-down dungeon. The dungeon is water themed, so many of the rooms feature water elements, and the palette is a greenish color to match.
January 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Been a bit without a proper update, so here's a WIP attempt to generate dungeon rooms based on what happens inside them.

Notably, all 3 rooms with the "Torch" puzzle pick a room format with Torch tiles inside (there is only 1 room for this so far, so it looks like it's working!)
#godot #gamedev
A 2D top-down procedurally generated dungeon. The rooms are annotated based on whether they contain an item like the map or whether they have some puzzle element like torch tiles that need to be lit. This is still very work-in-progress.
January 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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While planning dungeon generation, I've remade a recognizable dungeon in a couple sizes.

Currently, I've been using 11x9 (left), but I haven't been happy with how my template rooms have been turning out. Considering 9x7 (right) instead. Thoughts? Cozy or cramped?

#gamedev #indiedev #zeldalike
A remake of Zelda 1's first dungeon with rooms 11 floor tiles wide and 9 floor tiles tall. For comparison, Zelda 1 rooms were 13 wide by 7 tall, and A Link to the Past rooms were 10 wide by 9 tall. A remake of Zelda 1's first dungeon with rooms 9 floor tiles wide and 7 floor tiles tall. For comparison, Zelda 1 rooms were 13 wide by 7 tall, and A Link to the Past rooms were 10 wide by 9 tall.
January 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Freedom lasted long enough
December 20, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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About to travel for the holidays, so progress will be slow for a while...

But before I go, here's a peek at procedural rooms so far. Currently, each room is just picking from a list of templates, but there's a lot more I have planned to make these more varied!

#gamedev #procgen #godot
A procedurally generated top-down 2D dungeon floor plan. Each room in the dungeon has been assigned one of various room templates as a first go at generating room interiors.
December 17, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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Yes, I know it exists. Now delete it pls 🌠
December 12, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Room template exporter accidentally exported 172k files and crashed the Godot editor lol

Whoopsie-daisy
December 12, 2024 at 3:10 AM
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Here's a bunch of dungeons way faster than you can reasonably process them!

#godot #gamedev
December 11, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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In case the compression makes it hard to see, here's one of them on its own.
December 10, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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Since the dungeon generator is its own scene, there's nothing stopping me from instancing a bunch at once!

Now featuring keys, map, compass, and big chest.
As well as logic to add a few cycles into the layout where appropriate.

#gamedev #indiedev #godot #procgen
Six procedural dungeons aligned in a grid. The top-down dungeons are a series of rooms, some of which contain items like keys, a map, a compass, and a big chest reminiscent of A Link to the Past. Six procedural dungeons aligned in a grid. The top-down dungeons are a series of rooms, some of which contain items like keys, a map, a compass, and a big chest reminiscent of A Link to the Past. The rooms are color coded blue if they are before the big key door and red if after that door.
December 10, 2024 at 1:49 AM
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If you were curious what improvements were needed, the generator likes to flood the entry regions with keys. Sometimes even 2 keys in the entrance room 😆🥲
A procedurally generated dungeon suffering from some poor randomness where the entry area has all of the keys A procedurally generated dungeon suffering from some poor randomness where the entry area has most of the keys A procedurally generated dungeon suffering from some poor randomness where the entrance room contains 2 keys
December 8, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Key generation looks to be working! And I even added a handy-dandy visual layer to see how many keys are needed to reach each room 🚀

Still some improvements to be made, but I'm proud of the progress so far!

#godot #gamedev #procgen
A procedural top-down room-based dungeon akin to classic Zelda with icons indicating which rooms contain keys and the boss. The rooms are color-coded based on how many keys are needed to reach a given room. A procedural top-down room-based dungeon akin to classic Zelda with icons indicating which rooms contain keys and the boss. The rooms are color-coded based on how many keys are needed to reach a given room. A procedural top-down room-based dungeon akin to classic Zelda with icons indicating which rooms contain keys and the boss. The rooms are color-coded based on how many keys are needed to reach a given room. A procedural top-down room-based dungeon akin to classic Zelda with icons indicating which rooms contain keys and the boss. The rooms are color-coded based on how many keys are needed to reach a given room.
December 6, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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Keys are cooking...
A snippet of a procedural dungeon with 3 keys needed to reach the boss room
December 6, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Working on more data layers to influence later steps of the generation (ex: locked doors)

So the same dungeon with multiple visualizations:
1. room depth
2. regions
3. before/after big key (boss key) door
4. dead-end rooms (i.e. only 1 entrance) <- good for chest spawns!

#godot #gamedev
A procedurally generated top-down dungeon with rooms color-coded based on how deep they are in the dungeon A procedurally generated top-down dungeon with rooms color-coded based on which region of the dungeon they have been assigned to A procedurally generated top-down dungeon with rooms color-coded based on whether they're before (blue) or after (red) the big key door. The big key will always spawn in the blue section. A procedurally generated top-down dungeon with rooms color-coded based on whether a room is a dead-end and how deep in the dungeon it is (darker coloring)
December 5, 2024 at 11:06 PM