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• 20 / Gender-Evil {They/Them} • Game dev uni student {Unity} • Indie gamedev and educator {Godot} • Occasional composer • 100% human work only • Professional Idiot Tier VIII • Funny sometimes https://patreon.com/PixelGameDev

Excerpt from the localisation Excel sheet: DIALOGUE_test0 -> Hello! DIALOGUE_test1 -> Neutral {REDACTED}: [color=red]… DIALOGUE_test2 -> Angry {REDACTED}: [speed=100]I am [color=red]RED[/color] because I'm[wait=0.5][speed=2][color=red][shake] angry… DIALOGUE_test3 -> Neutral {REDACTED}: [sound=PLACEHOLDER_family_guy.wav,0.5,2]I am expositioning
Main menu of the game project "Kryos", by Kryos Krew. 2 buttons are labelled "PLAY" and "QUIT", with a Tarot card collage in the background, surrounded by fog and particles.
Screenshot from the Unity Editor showing a messy, dirty bedroom with pizza boxes, pizza slices, and trash everywhere.
"Chopped up Sr Pelo" PxlHeartDev committed now
Short video showing a test scene in the Godot game engine. The placeholder Godot icon walks up to a square and interacts with it. A dialogue box reminiscent of Undertale/Deltarune pops up with a portrait of "The Bus" from ENA: Dream BBQ and the text "I'M THE BUS!" gradually types across it. The text clears and "I'M THE BUS! I'M THE BUS! I'M THE BUS!" gradually types across it. The whole box then disappears.
Wilson from House M.D. drawn in the style of that one Alastor render from Hazbin Hotel. It has the text "I too seek redemption"
Cloudy sunset over the mountains
Screenshot of my last.fm profile showing that I listened to the entire Breach album (bottom to top, City Walls to Intentions)
A wplace screenshot of an incomplete image of the Lumity kiss scene in S2E20 of The Owl House "Clouds on the Horizon"
A showcase of the inventory system. A T tetronimo is visible as the inventory item being focussed, it is hovered, clicked then moved around with the mouse, and rotated clockwise a few times using the r key. On the left is an inventory area with a pouch, it as a 2x2 grid representing its slots. When a grid square is hovered, it highlights light grey.
A screenshot of a barebones inventory UI with some grid boxes. There is a 3x3 grid, a 4x2 grid, and a 5x2 grid, stacked on top of each other vertically.
A Git commit message, it reads: PxlHeartDev committed now More multiplayer set up Made it so packets aren't read if not in a lobby Fixed lobby member not being appended to list Fixed a size check on lobby_members list Added some error checks to read_p2p_packet() Made packet types an enum/int instead of string Removed unnecessary "steam_id" key from packets, they are already sent in the packet header Did some additional code cleanup in steam.gd Connected player join signal to the spawner Fixed player camera active check Fixed player packet receiving (added matching id check) Fixed player mesh instance uniqueness Added a function to clear the player list when the player leaves the game in game_menu.gd 8 files changed. +73, -37 lines changed
Some GDScript, it reads: # It's at this point I realise how stupidly convoluted I made this func quit_game() -> void: for i in range(1, len(ids)): destroy_id(ids.keys()[i])
Bubble from TADC going "blehhhh"
A Git commit, it reads: PxlHeartDev committed 2 minutes ago Various changes and additions Updated settings Button focus theme Added a kick button icon Added a muted mic button icon Added a Steam button icon Added Global "online.tscn" and added class "ID" for managing online IDs in a generalised fashion Added empty child node "Steam" to online.tscn for later user Updated a number of functions to use the new generalised ID instead of just an int Removed some references to "Steam" Added global "voice_manager.tscn" for managing player voice communcation, currently not complete Made advanded_audio_3d.tscn reach target faster Added some exported node references across various scripts Went through many scene files and scripts and fixed and added appropriate focus neighbours Added default focussed nodes to menus when they open Added localisation strings for: GENERIC.volume 31 fles changed. +480, -43 lines changed
Some Godot function declarations, they read: func set_top_neighbour(node: Node) -> void: slider.focus_neighbor_top = node.get_path() func set_bottom_neighbour(node: Node) -> void: mute_button.focus_neighbor_bottom = node.get_path() kick_button.focus_neighbor_bottom = node.get_path() steam_button.focus_neighbor_bottom = node.get_path() steam_button.focus_neighbor_right = node.get_path() steam_button.focus_next = node.get_path()
A Godot class declaration, it reads: class ID: enum Platform { STEAM, XBOX, PS, } var platform: Platform var id: Variant var username: String func _init( _plat: Platform = Platform.STEAM, _id: Variant = 0, ) -> void: platform = _plat id = _id match platform: Platform.STEAM: # TODO Query Steam for name pass Platform.XBOX: # TODO Query Xbox for name pass Platform.PS: # TODO Query PSN for name pass username = "Test Name"
Player control panel with player name "Test Name 0", a volume slider, mute button, kick button, and a steam button.
A simple game menu GUI. A left band has a title "Game Menu", and three buttons "Resume", "Settings", and "Quit". The "Settings" button is highlighted in blue along with a long blue horizontal bar to indicate it is hovered. The right side of the menu has a label that says "The game is NOT paused" in the top corner. Below that is a title reading "Players" and a number of control panels that read "Test Name 0", "Test Name 1", etc. with horizontal sliders beneath each of them.
A settings menu Contents: Title label reading "Control Bindings". Button labelled "Reset to defaults". Note reading "If you use a different keyboard layout other than QWERTY (UK), these keys may be inaccurate". Section label reading "Movement Keys". A number of pairs of labels and buttons (respectively) reading; "Forward", "W". "Backward", "S". "Left", "A". "Right", "D". "Jump", "Space". "Crouch", "Shift". "Sprint", "Ctrl". Section label "Action Keys". Label/Button pair "Interact", "E". Section label "Miscellaneous Controls". Label/Button pair "Pause/Back", "Escape". This one is tinted red, as it can not be rebound.
A video demo showing off the First Person Template I am making, soon to become the game "Dead Air". It starts with a main menu titled "First Person Template", and 3 buttons "Play", "Settings", and "Quit". I click "Settings" and a menu opens up with 6 buttons "Settings", "Audio", "Video", "Controls", "Accessibility" and "Back". I change the language, move the volume sliders, show the custom tooltip, LPF setting, Gamma, VSync, Max FPS, etc. I click "Back" and the main menu appears again with the settings menu closing. I click "Play". I show off the boombox, the speakers move along with the music. I open setting and adjust the "World Music" volume slider. I show off the sprinting and stamina mechanic. I go to the side to show off that when the boombox is behind a wall, the music becomes muffled. Going back to the boombox, I use some testing buttons to show off the health mechanic, and the vignette effects. While badly injured, a red vignette is visible, and the player is less agile.
A simple 3D scene showing a boombox. 6 debug spheres are visible spaced around it, indicating a sound has played there.
A GitHub commit message, it reads: PxlHeartDev committed now Input/Output device & LPF & Oher minor changes Updated custom tooltip panel alpha and increased its horizontal size for better readability Updated config.gd to use 2 different functions for initial setting and then updating Added output and input device selectors to Audio Settings Added Reduce High (low pass filter) to Audio Settings Added localisation strings for: GENERIC.on GENERIC.off SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.off.desc SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.weak SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.weak.desc SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.medium SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.medium.desc SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.strong SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.strong.desc SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.vstrong SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.vstrong.desc SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.tooltip Updated localisation strings for: SETTINGS.audio.reduce_high.desc SETTINGS.video.display (was pasted incorrectly) 12 files changed, +320 -101 lines changed
A GitHub commit message, it reads: PxlHeartDev committed now More settings menu chicanery Added "bip.wav" sound to the volume sliders Added custom tooltip scene for settings tooltips Added gamma to config Added working gamma slider to Video Settings Fixed a bug with settings menu scroll buttons not storing the right position when the list was previously scrolled Made volume sliders fade towards target rather than stepping Updated localisation strings for: SETTINGS.video.vsync.tooltip SETTINGS.video.gamma.desc 16 files changed, +181 -21 lines changed
A GitHub commit message, it reads: PxlHeartDeb committed now Language selector & VSync Made settings tab animate towards target scroll position of clicked tab, rather than instant switching Fixed scroll positions sometimes not setting on first opening of settings Made scroll wheel no longer work on volume sliders and fps slider Added Language tab Added language switcher dropdown Added VSync to Video Settings tab - Enabling VSync uncaps FPS - VSync preference saves to config - Added tooltip Added fps and current locale to Debug Removed localisation string for: SETTINGS.video.vsync.desc Added localisation strings for: GENERIC.disabled GENERIC.enabled SETTINGS.video.fps.vsync SETTINGS.video.vsync.disabled.desc SETTINGS.video.vsync.enabled.desc SETTINGS.video.vsync.adaptive SETTINGS.video.vsync.adaptive.desc SETTINGS.video.vsync.tooltip 15 files changed, +238 -26 lines changed
A section of the settings menu. Some title text that says "Video Settings". A button that reads "Reset to defaults". A dropdown box labelled "Screen Size", with option "Fullscreen Borderless" selected. A dropdown box labelled "Display", with option "Display" selected. A HSlider labelled "Max FPS", set to "Unlimited".
A GitHub commit message, it reads: PxlHeartDev committed now Settings menu & Localisation setup Added Config singleton, allows for easily setting and getting values in the user config file Added version (indev_0.0.1) to project.godot Added Control theme for settings Fixed some mouse filters in the main menu Added the settings menu settings.tscn and settings.gd Added inheritable settings_tab.tscn and settings_tab.gd Added audio settings tab audio.tscn Added base instantiable volume_slider.tscn and volume_slider.gd Added volume sliders for the audio busses to audio.tscn Added settings.tscn to ui_manager.tscn Made ui_manager.tscn inherit from Control instead of Node Added show/hide settings menu functions to ui_manager.gd Renamed some audio busses for ease Added "Menu_SFX" audio bus Added "s_escape_pressed" signal to Player.tscn and added appropriate emittance Made game_ui.tscn hide or show as appropriate on escape pressed Added functionality to _on_settings() in main_menu.gd Added Localisation.xlsm to External Added Localisation.csv to Project Added translation strings for: - Menu buttons - Generic strings (Are you sure?, Default*, Yes, No, Confirm) - Settings reset & confirmation* - Language title and button - Audio title and button - Audio volume sliders* - Audio volume slider descriptions* - Audio in/output device* - Audio apply blanket LPF* - Video title and button - Controls title and button - Accessibility title and button^ *String is not fully localised in all 28 languages ^Translation is not 101% accurate Change bus of test_boombox.tscn's AudioStreamPlayer3D 31 files changed. +719, -12 lines changed
A low poly boombox on a blueprint-esque floor
A test game scene, a ramp and door are visible but most of the frame is a plane into the horizon, the ground has a sample "blueprinty" dimensions measurement texture. Note the light green health bar in the bottom left and the yellow stamina bar on the bottom right. A crosshair is also visible in the centre of the screen. No vignette is visible.
Steam profile overview showing "Godot Engine" at 667 hours played
An image of an early test of procedural world generation. The sky is a plain solid grey colour. The ground is made of a procedurally generated ice texture. Where there _is_ ice, a light blue is used. Where the isn't ice in the ground, i.e. where there are caves, the blue colour is dimmed and darkened. Spaghetti-like caves sprawl through the ice, connecting to each other and breaking through the surface too.
A screenshot of the Godot 2D editor. In the bottom of the screen is a dialogue box with a picture of Dr. Coomer (Half-Life) on the left, with text to the right reading: "Hellou, Guordoun! This is a second line, Gordon! Look Gordon, third line! We can use these for big paragraphs! AAAAHHHH HELP ME! I'm thirsty!" Above the dialogue box is two buttons reading "Option 1" and "Option 2".
A video game main menu, on the right 60% of the screen is an image of Neptune with Triton covering a portion of it. On the top left is a grey redacted square reading "You don't get to know the game's title yet, buffoon" Below that is three buttons, from top to bottom: PLAY, highlighted red and slightly further right than the other two buttons. SETTINGS, grey and unhighlighted. QUIT, grey and unhighlighted. In the bottom left is the credits, censored for my privacy. "GDA 2025" is still visible.
class_name ControlSettings extends MarginContainer @onready var inputButton: PackedScene = preload("res://scenes/menus/settings/input_button.tscn") @export var actionList: VBoxContainer var isRemapping: bool = false var actionToRemap: String = "" var buttonReference: Button = null var remappableActions: Dictionary = { "moveRight": "Move Right", "moveLeft": "Move Left", "interact": "Interact", } func isWeb() -> void: $Controls/ScrollContainer/Default/Pause/Input.text = "P" func loadBinds(keybindings: Dictionary) -> void: for action: String in keybindings.keys(): InputMap.action_erase_events(action) InputMap.action_add_event(action, keybindings[action]) createActionList()
An image of a low-poly elevator with 9 (only 4 and bits of 2 more visible) pads on the inside, with rings hovering over them. The elevator is textured with pixel art as if it is made of a number of metallic, bolted panels.
2 GDScript functions Keep in mind that the var `ray` is a RayCast3D attached to the player camera. var hoverTarget: Node3D = null: set(val): if (val == null or val != hoverTarget) and hoverTarget: if hoverTarget is Interact_Component: hoverTarget.unhovered() MainUI.intText("") hoverTarget = val func doRay() -> void: hoverTarget = ray.get_collider() if ray.is_colliding(): if hoverTarget is Interact_Component: hoverTarget.hovered()
A low-poly cylindrical room with 5 hexagonal pads on the floor, placed near the wall of each of the 9 interior faces (only 5 visible, as we are facing to the right) of the room. The pads have thin lines coming out of them, debug shapes for a collider area. In the centre of the screen is a prompt "[E] Interact". In the top centre of the room (top left of the screen) is a light-source, causing circular light bands to propagate across the ceiling and along the walls. There is a quantization and dithering post-processing effect applied to the whole screen, sans the text.
Spongebob meme, fish guy looking at toilet. Distraught. Possibly anguish.
Silly lil fella. The eyes are at *very* different heights now
The same silly lil fella from before, but the "aura" of the scene is a little darker. Also the eyes are at different heights and looking apart.
A screenshot of a robot with a faux-CRT face The eyes are wide open, and the mouth is straight, like the yippee creature
A screen capture of the Settings screen. On the left 20% of the screen is 6 buttons: Audio SETTINGS_video SETTINGS_controls SETTINGS_accessibility A large gap SETTING_language with a language icon A small gap Back On the right 80%: TItle: Languages Then some buttons: ENGLISH (GB) ENGLISH (US) FRENCH | FRANÇAIS SPANISH | ESPAÑOL GERMAN | DEUTSCH ITALIAN | ITALIANO PORTUGUESE | PORTUGUÊS (BR) PORTUGUESE | PORTUGUÊS (PT)
A GitHub repo: PxlHeartDev PxlHeartDev Recommit [censored] · Dec 14, 2024 History addons/godotsteam Recommit Dec 14, 2024 assets Recommit Dec 14, 2024 globals/client Recommit Dec 14, 2024 scenes Recommit Dec 14, 2024 shaders Recommit Dec 14, 2024 themes Recommit Dec 14, 2024 .gitattributes Initial commit Dec 14, 2024 .gitignore Initial commit Dec 14, 2024 default_bus_layout.tres Recommit Dec 14, 2024 icon.svg Recommit Dec 14, 2024 icon.svg.import Recommit Dec 14, 2024 project.godot Recommit
A flowchart describing how a Multiplayer Game is made/joined. On the left is a board separated from the chart reading "Game Storage". Title: Game Flow Column Card: Multiplayer Game with the cards "Host", "Join", and "Friends". An arrow points to it from off-screen. "Host" points to "Create a multiplayer Game" which points to "Load Game World". "Host" points to "Load existing Game" which points to "Deserialize Game Data" "Join" and "Friends" both point to "Retrieve existing Game" which points to "Deserialize Game Data". "Deserialize Game Data" points to "Load Game World"
The "Play" screen. Two columns reading in English "Singleplayer" and "Multiplayer". Below Singleplayer is 2 buttons reading "New Game" and "Load Game". Below Multiplayer is 3 buttons reading "Host", "Join", and "Friends". In the bottom right corner is a button reading "Back". All the text (except for Host, Join, and Friends) cycle through the following languages: English GB English US French Spanish German Italian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese Portugal Russian Greek Turkish Danish Norwegian Swedish Dutch Polish Finnish Japanese Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Korean Czech Hungarian Romanian Thai Bulgarian Hebrew Arabic Bosnian
A video showcasing the main menu in different languages. An indicator for the current language is seen on-screen. The three buttons read in English "Play", "Settings", and "Quit", they then cycle through the following languages: English GB English US French Spanish German Italian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese Portugal Russian Greek Turkish Danish Norwegian Swedish Dutch Polish Finnish Japanese Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Korean Czech Hungarian Romanian Thai Bulgarian Hebrew Arabic Bosnian
An error box, all in pixel font (Kubasta) Big title: Oops! Subtitle: An error occurred Body: Steam client out of date Button: OK
An excel sheet showing translation keys and values Delimiter is comma, terminator is newline. key,en_UK,en_US,fr_FR MENU_play,PLAY,,JOUER MENU_settings,SETTINGS,,OPTIONS MENU_quit,QUIT,,QUITTER MENU_host,HOST,,HÉBERGER MENU_join,JOIN,,JOINDRE MENU_back,BACK,,RETOUR ,,, STEAM_connectAttempt,Attempting to connect to Steam,, STEAM_connectSuccess,Successfully connected to Steam,, STEAM_loggedIn,"Logged in as {name}, ID {id}",, STEAM_err.unowned,User does not own the game,, STEAM_err.unknown,Unknown failure,, STEAM_err.connect,Unable to connect to Steam,, STEAM_err.clientOutdated,Steam client out of date,,
My MilaNote MEEP board. On the left reads a note with the title "MEEP", and content "Mission: Extract, Exfiltrate, Profit", the other 3 lines are redacted. In the board is 12 other boards, each with their board count and card count, if applicable. Where I've put 0, Milanote doesn't actually display them (except if both is 0, then it will say "0 cards". Example - 1 board, 2 cards To-Do List - 6, 6 Dialogue/Quests - 0, 5 Notes - 0, 8 Story - 0, 4 Gameplay - 0, 11 Art - 0, 0 Characters - 3, 4 Technical Descriptions - 0, 7 Music & Audio - 0, 0 Settings - 6, 5 Bugs - 0, 0 Other Ideas - 0, 1 Each is uniquely coloured with a unique icon. The note is a rectangular grey panel, the boards take the form of a squircle (rounded-corner square) button, with their icon in the squircle, and their title and counts underneath.
A low-poly shipping container in greyscale
A glowing "Play" button.
Grunkle Stan meme, 2 panels. Top: "Oh, this-", with him looking at the Soos from the animation reaching and walking forwards. Bottom: "This is beautiful", with Stan looking to the left of frame, and the Soos is looking lovingly at the chicken nugget.
Main menu screen. Buttons have the normal pixel font.
A grey space rock sitting inside a brown plant pot.
A big faux-CRT screen, covering ~98% of the vertical of the image, and ~70% of the horizontal. it glows green and has scan lines. A quantization and dithering post-processing effect is applied. On the screen is a list of lobbies, in the form of "Lobby Name - Players/Max Players". Each lobby is a button, stacked vertically, there fits about 7 on the screen, and there is a scroll bar on the right. On the bottom left is a checkbox reading "Exclude Full", and in the bottom right is a button reading "BACK".
Eerie music plays throughout, and a quantization and dithering post-processing effect is applied. The video starts zoomed into the Earth, it zooms out to reveal a desk and a window. The desk has old monitors and computers. 4 monitors are on and facing the screen, they are faux-CRT; glowing green with scan lines. They read Play, Settings, Quit, and PxlHeart © 2024. As the mouse hovers over them, they play a small "bing" and glow. Play. The camera pans left, showing a big screen on the wall. It has 3 buttons, Host, Join, and Back. Back. The camera pans right to the original scene. Settings. A menu opens, on the left is 5 buttons reading Audio, Video, Controls, Accessibility, and Back. On the right majority of the screen is the Audio settings tab, with 3 volume sliders. The volume is adjusted. Back. The screen is left for a bit to let the music play, then the Quit button is pressed. The camera pans down and the video ends with the music fading out and screen fading to black.
A big faux-CRT screen. Green. Glowing. Scan lines. The works. It is centered and takes up ~98% of the vertical of the image, and ~70% of the horizontal. The dark regions of the screen are either black or a dark green, black where there is no scan line present. It alternates between there being a line and no line, vertically, about 30 times all-in-all. The screen is wider than it is tall. On the screen is 2 buttons, both glow a bright vivid green. They are stacked vertically in the center of the screen, taking up about a third of the screen, both vertically and horizontally. They are equal in width and height to each other. The top one reads "HOST", the bottom one reads "JOIN", both in a pixel font (Kubasta). They are both bordered by their own thin rectangle. A quantization and dithering post-processing effect is applied to the whole image, creating about 3 distinct bands around the glowing buttons.
Godot console output reading: { "status": 0, "verbal": "" }
An early snapshot of the settings menu. On the left side is 4 buttons, reading "Audio", "Video", "Controls", and "Accessibility". On the right there is the title "Audio", with 3 volume sliders underneath, respectively labelled "Master", "Music", "SFX". On the very bottom left is REDACTED, covered with a black square, reading "Teehee lore stuff Shhhh".