Mack

@macksaur.bsky.social

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Solo indie gamedev making a zeldalike! ...in Godot! I love exploring dungeons, cool puzzles and rich game mechanics that allow for shenanigans. I may also be susceptible to roguelikes and procgen.

A very high-resolution cropped screenshot of a faux Game Boy LCD showing Link's Awakening
A very high-resolution screenshot of a faux Game Boy LCD showing Link's Awakening
A video of Mack's zeldalike game showcasing the new player graphics; a few new tiles; and a bunch of new material related effects, such as foot steps and foot prints.
Some GDScript code showing how to hypothetically iterate the coordinates of a rectangle.
Some rough code that tracks state changes and executes snippets on the rising/falling edges.
A gif of Mack's zeldalike game showing a wiggly floor made of ice that's bobbing up and down uneasily.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game showing the player strafing and using the bow to shoot slimes.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game showing the player strafing around the screen like a crab and attacking some slimes.
A picture of some code that uses the GDScript ternary operator to add something like Ruby's If/Unless.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game showing the player using the boomerang to pick up the entire net worth of a Hyrule-adjacent nation.
A video of Mack's zeldalike showing the boomerang being thrown to pick up some gems and return them closer to the player.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game showing the player fighting with some slime enemies using a boomerang. The boomerang can also pick up items and bounce.
Snippets of code showing how I interact with the Leaps, SFX and PFX systems. The code is a little messy (bespoke) but it remains very simple and maintainable.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game showcasing lots of different particles and kinematic effects that are visible in game. There are six displays, each showcasing a different feature of the particles. There are leaping rock particles, swishing leaves, bouncy clacking ceramics and tumbling wood. There are also weird rock particles that have a trail and a mysterious hole that shoots out gems that bounce off of walls.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game. The player is testing the new, polished destruction effects of readable sign posts and also testing their text rendering. The messages are silly and meaningless; there are lots of colours and wobbly text effects, one of the signs' messages is also substantially longer than the others and can be scrolled through as the text doesn't fit on screen all at once.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game. The player is reading a sign. The sign is telling a bad joke and the player is accused of being unable to read for not responding. The joke says: "Why didn't the sign want to play any more games??? [...] He was a bit... BOARD!".
An abstract graph representation of a randomly generated dungeon with colour-coded locked off areas that require different keys to access.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game. The player is running through two unfinished levels and experiencing the stark contrast of light/dark by playing around and weaving between the shadows.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game showing a room in a warm red dungeon. There's a chest in the centre of the room and blue droplets are falling from the ceiling. Approaching and opening the chest causes an ambush of slimes to fall from above and the player has to fight them in order to escape.
A video of Mack's zeldalike showing a complete room with traps and decoration. The traps make up a zig-zagging gauntlet that the player needs to cross through.
A video of Mack's zeldalike game showing the player picking up various items. The items are being displayed above the player's head as they are picked up.
A screenshot of the Godot editor, showing Mack's game, with a hello-world style post overlaid that reads: "Hi! I'm Mack and I'm making a zeldalike game!". There are also two labels applied to the account, 'Godot' and 'Game Dev'.
A snippet of code written in GDScript that's utilizing a common Python language feature, List Comprehensions, to quickly transform some data.
A #zeldalike game in development that shows the player encountering a puzzle with a switch that remotely triggers alternating barriers. The player must trigger the switch while they are between the barriers in order to proceed.
A Zelda-style health bar with hearts, that are filling and emptying in quarter chunks as if being hit or healed. An inactive potential mana bar is also visible.
Scratchy lines illustrating the layouts of potential dungeons, with their entrances and exits marked.