Dragon Dropper
@dragondropper.bsky.social
A solo indie game developer (Unreal + Unity), musician, and cat dad from the USA now based in Uruguay. I understand English, entiendo Español, Deutsch verstehe, capisco l'italiano, e eu entendo Português. I don't use generative AI.
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It's not obvious how much work this was from a random screenshot - but in a game based on a 2D grid map it was surprisingly difficult to get the camera to change Y position (height) based on terrain height and move smoothly as the player moves in increments of 10 units per square. #gamedev #drpg
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
October 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
In Toward The Ice, you'll be able to start the game with a pre-generated party if you don't want to go through the process of rolling dice to create new characters. #drpg #dungenoncrawler #rpg
October 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In Toward The Ice, you'll be able to start the game with a pre-generated party if you don't want to go through the process of rolling dice to create new characters. #drpg #dungenoncrawler #rpg
For people who hate aliens so much, it's a surprising blunder.
October 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
For people who hate aliens so much, it's a surprising blunder.
I'm making great progress on building out the grid-based combat mechanics for Necromaster. #gamedev #rpg #turnbasedstrategy
September 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I'm making great progress on building out the grid-based combat mechanics for Necromaster. #gamedev #rpg #turnbasedstrategy
September 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Importing assets into Unity really needs to be a background task. Making it impossible to do any work for more than an hour with a modal dialog box (that can't even be paused!) is just not enjoyable. #unity #gamedev #waitingfordirttoimport
September 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Importing assets into Unity really needs to be a background task. Making it impossible to do any work for more than an hour with a modal dialog box (that can't even be paused!) is just not enjoyable. #unity #gamedev #waitingfordirttoimport
I'm working on some of the basic mechanics for Solward, one of which is stopping character movement when an enemy initiates combat. Before they were stopping wherever, and now they stop at the intersection of a grid square (which I'll later adjust to the center). #gamedev #rpg
August 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
August 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I don't know that I'll ever be able to make PRETTY blueprints, but at least now I'm at a point where writing them is almost as comfortable as writing code. An example from the settings screen in Solward. #unreal #unrealengine #gamedev
August 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I don't know that I'll ever be able to make PRETTY blueprints, but at least now I'm at a point where writing them is almost as comfortable as writing code. An example from the settings screen in Solward. #unreal #unrealengine #gamedev
I created portraits for the last 3 unlockable pilots in Eridani Survivors today - Miguel, Sebastian, and Toby. #gamedev #survivorslike
July 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I created portraits for the last 3 unlockable pilots in Eridani Survivors today - Miguel, Sebastian, and Toby. #gamedev #survivorslike
I finally have a face shape that I like for Kali Kovalenko. Still need to get better hair, though. #metahuman #gamedev
July 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I finally have a face shape that I like for Kali Kovalenko. Still need to get better hair, though. #metahuman #gamedev
This gigantic MetaHuman underwear is just silly. I can't dress a character in shorts and a tank top without having their (non-hideable as far as I know) underwear sticking out from under their clothing. #metahuman #ue5 #unrealengine
July 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
This gigantic MetaHuman underwear is just silly. I can't dress a character in shorts and a tank top without having their (non-hideable as far as I know) underwear sticking out from under their clothing. #metahuman #ue5 #unrealengine
I added lifetime kill and coin totals to the game over screen in Eridani Survivors. Always enjoy seeing more stats. :) #gamedev #survivorslike
July 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I added lifetime kill and coin totals to the game over screen in Eridani Survivors. Always enjoy seeing more stats. :) #gamedev #survivorslike
Nope. Here's one of my doodle sheets. :)
July 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Nope. Here's one of my doodle sheets. :)
I'm getting the hang of adjusting MetaHumans. This is the current working version of Heather Darcy (in Solward). #unreal #metahuman #gamedev
July 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I'm getting the hang of adjusting MetaHumans. This is the current working version of Heather Darcy (in Solward). #unreal #metahuman #gamedev
Working a bit on Metahuman face customization. This is what I have for Jenna Petralia (in Solward) so far. #unreal #metahuman #gamedev
July 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Working a bit on Metahuman face customization. This is what I have for Jenna Petralia (in Solward) so far. #unreal #metahuman #gamedev
MetaHuman starting point for creatng Kali Kovalenko in the Solward tactical RPG. I'm still at the beginning of learning the tools and hopefully I can do enough customization to get the look I'm going for. #gamedev #unreal #metahuman
July 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
MetaHuman starting point for creatng Kali Kovalenko in the Solward tactical RPG. I'm still at the beginning of learning the tools and hopefully I can do enough customization to get the look I'm going for. #gamedev #unreal #metahuman
I'm currently running the gauntlet of figuring out how to get MetaHumans to animate properly in Unreal Engine. Looking forward to learning how to fully customize them after this. #gamedev #unrealengine #metahuman
June 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'm currently running the gauntlet of figuring out how to get MetaHumans to animate properly in Unreal Engine. Looking forward to learning how to fully customize them after this. #gamedev #unrealengine #metahuman
An important bit of progress on Solward today - I have characters and enemies loading their meshes and portraits from a data table now, so they're not using the default mannequin anymore and it's a whole lot easier to create a configure them. #gamedev #unreal #tacticalrpg
June 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
An important bit of progress on Solward today - I have characters and enemies loading their meshes and portraits from a data table now, so they're not using the default mannequin anymore and it's a whole lot easier to create a configure them. #gamedev #unreal #tacticalrpg