Adriaan

@adriaan.games

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Director at Hidden Folks (https://hiddenfolks.com). Game designer of many games (https://adriaan.games). Usability contributor for the Godot Engine. Organizer & investor at https://midgame.fund.

graphs comparing the steam machine performance compared to the steam deck, where on average the steam machine performs about 250% better than the steam deck
Screenshot of a work-in-progress Sprite Offset Tools plugin on the Godot Asset Store.
a panel with a grid of animals where all individual elements can animate and return back to their original transform
Hidden Folks 2 announcement trailer.
screenshot of sprite2d nodes with invalid textures
My question is, do you know how excited i am? I adored hidden folks and am so curious what the announcement will be. Props for continuing to create :D . All the time and care you put into it is amazing and very inspiring to me. Thanks for it all and i truly hope you have a wonderful life (you and any team involved)
My dad and I bond by playing games together - anything from Lemmings or Myst on PC to Zelda and Wii Sports - and Hidden Folks is one of our core games! He showed it to me years ago, put it up on the TV, and we searched and giggled for hours. That was around the time I was graduating and moving out of my childhood home. Now I live states away from my dad, but every email I get about a new level or area is an exciting excuse to give my dad the good news and connect over your game. In a world where games and apps seem to hit the market every day, Hidden Folks will be a game that transcends time and fad for me. I will always be a fan!
Screenshot of email: "My kids were 10 and 12 when Hidden Folks was released. We spent many hours playing, marveling and laughing all the way. It’s the one game we all agree never got boring and never let us down. Over the years each of us has often commented that we wish there was another one. Now my adult children are just as excited as I am to read this announcement (of an announcement)"
screenshot of email list activity, showing activity by a few dozen entries in just the last minute
illustration in hidden folks style of an astronaut folk in space holding a little heart balloon. (yeah yeah, unrealistic who cares, it's a heart!!!)
image showing the pivot point as well as the "danger zone" of a y-sorted wall
video of a folk walking around a wall, but he clips through the wall when he's near the ends of it – because of y-sorting.
mockup of Audio panel, third iteration
Godot's audio panel layout button redesign, before and after
before and after of a redesign of the file system panel
me, under a blanket, screaming into a microphone
custom cursor clicking and dragging and whatnot
third version design mockups of a new run bar for Godot
improved mockup with shortcuts
diagram of before and after the changes my proposal proposes, with dumb comments about what users might be thinking looking at this new design
before and after image of the Godot engine's editor inspector
before and after image of the game embed toolbar in Godot
Godot 2D coordinate systems overview chart
Screenshot of the artifacts dropdown on a PR on github.
screenshot of GitHub PR approval by yours truly
screenshot of rift riff website where the buttons are replaced by platform badges
screenshot of the Rift Riff website displaying 3 custom made buttons that lead to stores where you can buy Rift Riff
sprite sheet with lotsa' holes
simple, decently packed atlas with placeholder sprites from Hidden Folks
Screenshot of rift riff crashes since our main issues were fixed. there's only 1, and that one was our own fault – not Godot's :P
screenshot of the export window, with custom template fields highlighted
video of rift riff on an android device where the bug that would crash other devices appears (because the bushes don't appear)
video of rift riff being autoplayed; a level is loaded, the wave is started, and after a little while another level is loaded, etc.
screenshot of the godot 4.5.1-stable release page on GitHub, highlighting the android native debug symbols for the export template that you can upload to google play for automatic symbolication of crash reports.
an overview of Rift Riff crashes, diminishing over time, even flatlining over the last week or so.
GDScript with a lookout of calls to `RenderingServer.canvas_item_set_transform(…)`
lots of moving / overlapping folks from Hidden Folks
fuzzy trees
trees moving in sync
screen capture showing the profiler tool 'tracy', browsing a few frames of running Rift Riff, zooming into various parts of the timeline and GDScript functions
Game in which you’re building a tower with a 2 year old and even when you do as he wants he becomes mad at you anyway, starts crying, shouting, etc
Game Human look devotee Devotee look god God look at instrument Preacher talk to human
screenshot of an app update rejection email by Google Play with the given reason being 'first level links'
edge to edge in android export setting is turned off
screenshot of code of settings manager showing a bunch of platform defines
screenshot of two translation keys with context fields of types controller, keyboard, and touch, each having a different translation
screenshot of the shop interface of Rift Riff in the editor, where, as you can see, the localization keys are not translated by default
mobile screenshot of rift riff showing where safe areas were accommodated
landscape screenshot of the tower select interface of Rift Riff
video showing the mobile action button of Rift Riff in action