Billy Bob | Developing Tales From Outer Space
@jagermannjensen.bsky.social
Unity/UE/Godot Developer, "Artist", "Human". In that order.
Currently working on Tales From Outer Space.
I teach Computer Science.
Steam-> https://store.steampowered.com/app/5146360/Tales_From_Outer_Space/
Currently working on Tales From Outer Space.
I teach Computer Science.
Steam-> https://store.steampowered.com/app/5146360/Tales_From_Outer_Space/
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Game developer, currently working on 'Tales From the Apocalypse' (Steam page coming soon, release Q4???).
This will become my own personal game dev blog whether I like it or not.
You either succeed on social media by being talented or attractive, so I intend to be funny.
This will become my own personal game dev blog whether I like it or not.
You either succeed on social media by being talented or attractive, so I intend to be funny.
Pardon the quality. This is the same planet with the hologram overlayed for improvements/resources. It's a 'simple' compute shader to calculate a byte mask to determine the height of the terrain, 'free' after calculated.
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September 13, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Pardon the quality. This is the same planet with the hologram overlayed for improvements/resources. It's a 'simple' compute shader to calculate a byte mask to determine the height of the terrain, 'free' after calculated.
#Godot #IndieGame #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
#Godot #IndieGame #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
Added rivers, deltas, polar caps, and city lights around electrical grids built by the player. I'll have one more today showing off a compute shader for determining valid locations for ocean based [oil rigs] and land based [farms, etc.] improvements
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September 13, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Added rivers, deltas, polar caps, and city lights around electrical grids built by the player. I'll have one more today showing off a compute shader for determining valid locations for ocean based [oil rigs] and land based [farms, etc.] improvements
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#Godot #GameDev #IndieGame #ScreenshotSaturday
Seeing as a axial tilt is now solidified, might as well add some rings to gas giants. The texture is a LUT for the rings of Saturn, not stylized yet... maybe have to parameterize the radii more, this planet looks like a certified chode. As always, 2D
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September 8, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Seeing as a axial tilt is now solidified, might as well add some rings to gas giants. The texture is a LUT for the rings of Saturn, not stylized yet... maybe have to parameterize the radii more, this planet looks like a certified chode. As always, 2D
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#Godot #GameDev #IndieGame
Actually it might be better to show a gas giant and it's rings so you can see what the axial tilt is bringing to the table. As always, entirely 2D
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September 1, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Actually it might be better to show a gas giant and it's rings so you can see what the axial tilt is bringing to the table. As always, entirely 2D
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A good outcome of my failed MODE7 is the axial tilt for a 3D perspective in 2D. It allows pitch instead of just roll/yaw (spinning CW or L>R). Works well for placing things on the surface. Hemispheric weather? no...
Steam Page is live, but based off months old build...
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Steam Page is live, but based off months old build...
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September 1, 2026 at 9:36 PM
A good outcome of my failed MODE7 is the axial tilt for a 3D perspective in 2D. It allows pitch instead of just roll/yaw (spinning CW or L>R). Works well for placing things on the surface. Hemispheric weather? no...
Steam Page is live, but based off months old build...
#Godot #GameDev #IndieGame
Steam Page is live, but based off months old build...
#Godot #GameDev #IndieGame
Steam Page is live tmw but I'm still adding some new features. I wasn't planning on letting players select locations for improvements. That will lead to numerous maps for (resources, efficacy, power grid, etc). but here we are... I'll frickin do it
This took too much work...
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This took too much work...
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August 31, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Steam Page is live tmw but I'm still adding some new features. I wasn't planning on letting players select locations for improvements. That will lead to numerous maps for (resources, efficacy, power grid, etc). but here we are... I'll frickin do it
This took too much work...
#GodotEngine #IndieDev
This took too much work...
#GodotEngine #IndieDev
Well, as I await Steam's approval of the store page I guess I'll post the capsule art I spent the past week designing and reveal the title.
I was aiming for crappy Saturday morning cartoon canceled after 1 season. I might've nailed it.
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I was aiming for crappy Saturday morning cartoon canceled after 1 season. I might've nailed it.
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August 22, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Well, as I await Steam's approval of the store page I guess I'll post the capsule art I spent the past week designing and reveal the title.
I was aiming for crappy Saturday morning cartoon canceled after 1 season. I might've nailed it.
#ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGame #IndieDev
I was aiming for crappy Saturday morning cartoon canceled after 1 season. I might've nailed it.
#ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGame #IndieDev
3 wood-cleaner tasting IPAs' in, I've got a vintage PPE for the story points about how Earth was destroyed. I would've more to show but spent the week on a MODE7 implementation that succeeded (it worked) but failed (doo-doo).
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August 16, 2026 at 1:45 AM
3 wood-cleaner tasting IPAs' in, I've got a vintage PPE for the story points about how Earth was destroyed. I would've more to show but spent the week on a MODE7 implementation that succeeded (it worked) but failed (doo-doo).
#Godot #IndieDev #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
#Godot #IndieDev #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
Wanted to do more, but the day is done. I converted all full-screen menus to curved floating + context menus. There's ~100 points of data to attach now
Plus the intro to the military advisor: Heath Pegsmen.. yes, it's satire... but like Civ+Tropico #RTS
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Plus the intro to the military advisor: Heath Pegsmen.. yes, it's satire... but like Civ+Tropico #RTS
#GodotEngine #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday
August 9, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Wanted to do more, but the day is done. I converted all full-screen menus to curved floating + context menus. There's ~100 points of data to attach now
Plus the intro to the military advisor: Heath Pegsmen.. yes, it's satire... but like Civ+Tropico #RTS
#GodotEngine #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday
Plus the intro to the military advisor: Heath Pegsmen.. yes, it's satire... but like Civ+Tropico #RTS
#GodotEngine #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday
Took a month off for R&R, birthdays, and FIFA. But now I'm back with some balls... metaballs. I'll post a video when I have the UI set up for changing filters. Right now it's hard-coded for dominant government class
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July 25, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Took a month off for R&R, birthdays, and FIFA. But now I'm back with some balls... metaballs. I'll post a video when I have the UI set up for changing filters. Right now it's hard-coded for dominant government class
#Godot #GameDev #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday
#Godot #GameDev #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday
Showing off procedural UI elements today. Happy with the speech balloons - they'll be floating around, "kindly" telling the player they're doing bad.
Tmw is: Donut, Line, and Area charts, radial progress bar, and breadcrumbs. Steam page in ~2 weeks, mvp in 1.5 months.
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Tmw is: Donut, Line, and Area charts, radial progress bar, and breadcrumbs. Steam page in ~2 weeks, mvp in 1.5 months.
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May 30, 2026 at 3:44 AM
0 progress for UI this past week, BUT 7500+ lines towards the scripter. I was having flashbacks to 15+ thousand lines in xaml files like a decade ago... TY Godot for having it built in.
Rough video showing squiggly UI, but gotta stay relevant can't post nothing
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Rough video showing squiggly UI, but gotta stay relevant can't post nothing
#indiedev #gamedev #Godot
May 27, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Is #ScreenshotSaturday a thing? Everything is just indie devs advertising to indie devs.. Oh well, when in Rome
I picked out a few planets from the base game seen. I've got it limited to ~4k planets for my own sanity, but there here are some good ones, I'll omit the bad ones
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I picked out a few planets from the base game seen. I've got it limited to ~4k planets for my own sanity, but there here are some good ones, I'll omit the bad ones
#gamedev #indiedev
May 16, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Is #ScreenshotSaturday a thing? Everything is just indie devs advertising to indie devs.. Oh well, when in Rome
I picked out a few planets from the base game seen. I've got it limited to ~4k planets for my own sanity, but there here are some good ones, I'll omit the bad ones
#gamedev #indiedev
I picked out a few planets from the base game seen. I've got it limited to ~4k planets for my own sanity, but there here are some good ones, I'll omit the bad ones
#gamedev #indiedev
I think the worst part of interaction on social media (besides me despising all forms) is how empty and pointless connections feel.
Like communication is always the other person looking for what they can get. I miss making actual connections in university or working on teams
Like communication is always the other person looking for what they can get. I miss making actual connections in university or working on teams
May 16, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I think the worst part of interaction on social media (besides me despising all forms) is how empty and pointless connections feel.
Like communication is always the other person looking for what they can get. I miss making actual connections in university or working on teams
Like communication is always the other person looking for what they can get. I miss making actual connections in university or working on teams
Trying to hide scene loads with these tiny, cartoon-y transitions. Really digging the Futurama/R&M style so the whip-pan and warp drive kinda fit.
Next to finish the UI so the actual game data makes it to your retinas
#gamedev #godot #indiegame
Next to finish the UI so the actual game data makes it to your retinas
#gamedev #godot #indiegame
May 15, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Trying to hide scene loads with these tiny, cartoon-y transitions. Really digging the Futurama/R&M style so the whip-pan and warp drive kinda fit.
Next to finish the UI so the actual game data makes it to your retinas
#gamedev #godot #indiegame
Next to finish the UI so the actual game data makes it to your retinas
#gamedev #godot #indiegame
Alright one more, just an image though. Compression really doesn't do it justice.
Just uuuh... imagine the stars twinkling, fluctuating size, and rotating
Just uuuh... imagine the stars twinkling, fluctuating size, and rotating
May 5, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Alright one more, just an image though. Compression really doesn't do it justice.
Just uuuh... imagine the stars twinkling, fluctuating size, and rotating
Just uuuh... imagine the stars twinkling, fluctuating size, and rotating
Small changes -> big differences.
Kaliset out; Simplex in. 4 star layers and shader parallax using voronoi distance. Movement will be similar to Starfield instead of a grid. Maybe a poisson point process to place systems. And some Rick and Morty purple/greens are pleasing.
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Kaliset out; Simplex in. 4 star layers and shader parallax using voronoi distance. Movement will be similar to Starfield instead of a grid. Maybe a poisson point process to place systems. And some Rick and Morty purple/greens are pleasing.
#Godot #indiedev
April 28, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Wanted to show off the kaliset in motion.
24 iterations is ~400 instructions. Stars are single 3D Grad.
UVs are floored at 512. I'd hoped to be happier with it, but the cluster's backgrounds are too empty. Time to pan textures and add cotton candy colors in desperation
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24 iterations is ~400 instructions. Stars are single 3D Grad.
UVs are floored at 512. I'd hoped to be happier with it, but the cluster's backgrounds are too empty. Time to pan textures and add cotton candy colors in desperation
#Godot #indiedev
April 27, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I've been sleeping on Godot since the 3.x days! The engine has a buttery smooth 2D-Renderer.
I'm revisiting a pixel art project from a decade ago while teaching a class and forgot how god awful it is to do procedural shaders but satisfying to get results!
0 samplers...
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I'm revisiting a pixel art project from a decade ago while teaching a class and forgot how god awful it is to do procedural shaders but satisfying to get results!
0 samplers...
#godot #indiedev
April 25, 2026 at 12:38 AM