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🐤 Joanna
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chickensoft girl 🐤 building games and tools in c# for the 🤖 #godot game engine

https://chickensoft.games — 20+ open source #gamedev tools

thoughts are my own (i hope)
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smash-that-like.bsky.social
Just want to share a funny #godot gotcha: when using C#, and you do ShaderMaterial.SetParameter("param". This is a major performance issue because the string "param" gets converted to StringName every time. Have to use "static StringName shaderParam = "param"", and SetParameter(shaderParam instead
September 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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bdero.bsky.social
Everything in this video is real-time 3D rendered in Flutter.

No forks, no platform views!

Rendering, physics, gaussian splats, DICOM volumes, accessible scenes, embedded widgets, hot reload for every asset, instanced prefabs with arbitrary overrides, and much more.

Get started at fscene.dev
August 12, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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gamemakerstoolkit.com
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions.

🤖 Godot - 47%
🎮 Unity - 34%
🛠️GameMaker - 5%
🚀 Unreal Engine - 3%
✨ Other - 11%
Pie chart showing game engines used to create 10,511 GMTK Game Jam games in 2026. Godot has the largest slice with 47%. Then Unity with 34%. Other with 11%. Game Maker with 5%. And Unreal Engine with 3%.
July 27, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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demilunedev.bsky.social
For #screenshotsaturday let me show you Benighted! A forest-defense game where you build a network of plants and fungi to defend your home against settlers.
#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #darkfantasy #godotengine
June 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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feathertrail.net
Made sunrise prettier. Also the game is now widescreen
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev
June 14, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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robertfrostiii.bsky.social
🚀 LAUNCH DAY! Just dropped 4 massive (700+ Royalty Free Samples!), Adventure themed, Foley packs on itch.io - plus a completely FREE 100 samples to test right now. Over 10 hours of footage hand-recorded, meticulously edited, and 100% game-ready. robertfrostiii.itch.io/robs-adventu...
Rob's Adventure Foley - FREE DEMO by Robert Frost III
100 free foley samples covering gear, glass, metals, and organics
robertfrostiii.itch.io
June 12, 2026 at 9:29 AM
jolexxa.bsky.social
🚨🔊 my friend is a gifted audio engineer, and he’s made an incredible, high-quality pack of over 700 sound fx you can buy for a crazy good deal 🥳

and it includes multiple variations of every sample!! 🎧

#godot #gamedev #indiedev

robertfrostiii.itch.io/robs-adventu...
Rob's Adventure Foley - FREE DEMO by Robert Frost III
100 free foley samples covering gear, glass, metals, and organics
robertfrostiii.itch.io
June 12, 2026 at 2:58 AM
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mattparker.dev
Time from Build+Debug → hitting a breakpoint, SharpIDE is 3.7x faster than Visual Studio, and 26x faster than Rider.

SharpIDE + SharpDbg: 350ms
Visual Studio: 1280ms
Rider: 9220ms
June 3, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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sourencho.com
Mimic Meadows was made fully with open source software! We live in an incredible era of gamedev tools 👾

@godotengine.org C#
@deepnight.net’s LDtK
+ @gleeson.dev’s importer
@jolexxa.bsky.social’s chickensoft libraries

store.steampowered.com/app/4136640/...

#godot #indiegame
Mimic Meadows on Steam
A puzzle game about transforming into animals by mimicking their movement. Discover creative ways to wield this power while solving mind-bending puzzles. And attempt to unearth the many secrets of the...
store.steampowered.com
May 30, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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theduckcow.com
Working on another Road Generator demo scene - physics vehicle lane following (aka NPC car)!

It's hard to find a balance of "make demo look good" but also having the code simple enough to be *just* a demo, I'm used to adding all sorts of extra mechanisms just to make driving look... okish
May 17, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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veridian-expanse.bsky.social
Veridian Expanse, a sci-fi exploration game that can *REALLY* grab you. Wishlist or try the demo now! :D

store.steampowered.com/app/2137670?...

#wishlistwednesdays #indiegame
May 13, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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kerberjg.bsky.social
New #FlutterDev / @dart.dev package alert! 🩵✨
logic_blocks 1.0.0 is out! The human-friendly hierarchical state machine library for Dart, based on the C# package from @jolexxa.bsky.social's Chickensoft! 🐤

Use it in your apps/backends/games! Tell a friend ☺️🫶

pub.dev/packages/log...
logic_blocks | Dart package
Human-friendly hierarchical state machines - ported to Dart from Chickensoft's C# LogicBlocks library.
pub.dev
May 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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jettelly.bsky.social
Check out Sprite Stacker v0.2 by SagittariusAStar, a tool for working with stacked sprites, adding normal maps, heightmaps, and better isometric setup tools. 🧱

See more: www.reddit.com/r/godot/comm...

#gamedev #indiedev #sprites #pixelart #lowpoly
April 10, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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jettelly.bsky.social
Did you know we have free skyboxes? ☁️ A while ago we shared a Blue Sky pack, ready to use in Unity, Godot, Unreal, or any engine, no strings attached.

See the details about it: jettelly.com/blog/more-sk...

#godot #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev
April 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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joshanthony1990.bsky.social
We just announced our dice-driven survivors-like, Dice Gun Commando! Demo goes live on April 16th.

Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4537600/...

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #steam #godotengine
Dice Gun Commando on Steam
Guns roll dice. Dice trigger mods. Mods cause MAYHEM! Save the world from invading cosmic horrors by building crazy synergies with dice-driven weaponry.
store.steampowered.com
April 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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aarimous.com
New Scope Creepers Podcast with a local Minnesota dev Mark LaCroix!

We chat about:
- GDC went this year
- His work on Blippo+
- The value we've both found in game dev community

@marklacroix.bsky.social

#gamedev #podcast #inidedev #gdc #indie

youtu.be/YeStFW5s_W4?...
Mark LaCroix: On GDC, Indie Success, and the value of Community | Scope Creepers a Game Dev Podcast
YouTube video by Scope Creepers: A Game Dev Podcast
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April 3, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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kenney.nl
Unfortunately, @itch.io is overrun by slop. The assets are slop, the tools are 'vibecoded'. It's an endless stream of spam which takes away visibility from great human-made creations. It's honestly just a sad state, anything you can do - itch?
March 23, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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eternalskies.neocities.org
If there is one thing I miss from the past it is when search engines searched for the words you typed
March 22, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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aarimous.com
New Video with the highlights from my podcast with Chris Zukowski.

#gamedev #godot #steam #marketing #podcast

youtu.be/S3K9LtWwax8?...
He knew my game would go Viral.. so I Interviewed Him (Chris Zukowski)
YouTube video by Aarimous
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March 20, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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johanpeitz.com
On Monday , picoCAD 2 will let you:
📐 make models easily
🎨 draw pixelart textures
🍿 make simple animations
See you on Steam and itch!
#screenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev
March 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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crocotile3d.bsky.social
Version 2.6.7 is released for Crocotile 3d!
This fixes an issue with the recently added "Apply Globally" option, with was causing lag. Also added and improved a few things. 🐊

#lowpoly #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #3D
Use 2d tiles to construct 3d scenes + more!
Try it out!
March 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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mreliptik.bsky.social
OMG people are going to LOVE the new offset transform property in Godot 4.7!

It allows you to easily animate elements inside containers, even with the AnimationPlayer 😍
March 9, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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martinpi.bsky.social
And just like that, we've released our first public demo for Sparrow Warfare. From here on out we're building in the open. And you can be a part of that!
Screenshot of the best deckbuilder to ever grace this planet. In this demo, you can experience the core loop of the game. First, you can expect a tutorial. Then you can play with two different characters for the first half of the regular game, along with the “Daily Flight”: a brand new challenge every single day with a global leaderboard. Hours of playtime await you, and we hope you enjoy every single minute! Sparrow Warfare is a synergy-rich deckbuilder where you make wild combinations of tiles to free birds and battle against the fiendish Storyteller and his minions. In addition, daily flight mode offers endless replayability with different challenging modifiers and global leaderboards. Features: 🃏Deckbuilding: 150+ wildtiles to discover and infinite game-breaking combos to find ♾️ Endless Replayability: progressive difficulty, daily flights & challenging modifiers 🔥 Multiple Playstyles: suit your personal taste, whether you prefer aggression or cunning 🐦‍🔥 Big Bird Action: 100+ birds to free, each one featuring real bird sounds 🤺 Meta-Strategy: experiment with synergies & build new approaches run after run The full game of Sparrow Warfare will include all four different Ways (Fire, Song, Water, and Ghost), the full progression mode up to Level 12 for all four Ways, and Steam achievements. We plan to have full localisation for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, and Russian in the full game. Sparrow Warfare is developed by just two veteran game developers (Martin Pichlmair & Charlene Putney) who share all of the work between them, but it wouldn’t be as good without the amazing assistance of our loyal playtesters: we love you guys! We truly hope you enjoy our demo. Please wishlist and follow Sparrow Warfare to keep informed about development and help us get the word out there. Fly free little sparrows! Martin & Char
March 6, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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binbun3d.bsky.social
Portal's out! The base is free of course (including all the shaders, controller script and animations), but if you want to support me I made some presets too!

Link: binbun3d.itch.io/godot-portal...

#godot #godotengine #shader #vfx #gamedev #indiedev
March 4, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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arkaeinmatt.bsky.social
Stunted Gravity has a Shockline Trial level in a 3D Mobius strip!

The track looks 4-sided, but it's actually one continuous side! Each lap runs on the next "side".

The goal: complete as many laps as possible while dodging the trail. By lap 5 the track is crowded and the challenge really picks up!
February 23, 2026 at 3:31 PM