Alexander Schmidt 🐘

Game designer & important job at @gameswelldone. #gamestudies. @godotengine is love! Bit of a #Dune nerd! + urban planning!
@[email protected]

[Alexander Schmidt 🐘 @Lexusinator]

Hey, if this site goes to heck, we can meet up over here:
https://t.co/F64HV7iHfY

Didn't post much there yet, as I am generally more weary of social 'media' recently, but it would be a shame to lose contact with y'all. 🐘

[Nordcurrent Labs 🎮 @NordcurrentLabs]

What could be better than camping?🏕️🤔 Camping with friends, of course!🤗

🎉We're excited to announce:🎉

Nordcurrent Labs teamed up with Emergo Entertainment @EmergoE to bring you the most #wholesome and cozy adventure about the breaks on a journey – FIRESIDE.

Explore a beautiful hand-drawn world, meet quirky & cute travelers, learn their stories, trade & talk at the campfire, and immerse yourself in the calm and relaxing atmosphere of Fireside.🔥🌲

🧡Wishlist the coziest game of 2024 today ➡️https://t.co/aTNPGmrCsc🧡

#indiegame #Fireside #cozygame #wholesomegames #pcgaming

[Pixel Maniacs 🔜 ChromaGun 2 Release 12.2 @pixel_maniacs]

(German) Article with thoughts about green gaming and, generally speaking, how companies can improve their environmental footprint. Thanks to Nora Beyer for interviewing my colleague @Lexusinator from @gameswelldone and us! 🌳

[passivestar @passivestar_]

So I've been using Godot for a month now and it looks very capable of 3D!

Let's do a quick recap. Right now it has these things out of the box:

- Indirect light (VoxelGI, SDFGI, SSIL)
- Volumetric light
- Screen-space reflections
- Depth of Field
- Auto-exposure
- SSAO
- Decals
- Light cookies
- FSR upscaling
- Realistic physical sky shader
- A cool built-in surface shader that does all sorts of things including refraction, proximity fade, billboarding, etc
- Occlusion culling
- Auto LOD generation!

Things that are missing for now, as of Godot 4.2 are:

- Motion blur
- Texture streaming
- Color grading and curves (only LUTs for now)
- Custom post-processing
- VFX graph (like UE Niagara or Unity's vfx graph)
- Lens flares?

When these things find their way into Godot (especially motion blur and custom post-processing) it's gonna be quite something!

Relevant proposals:

Motion blur: https://t.co/WEBlt8JfXg
Texture streaming: https://t.co/Y8hDfs9SiD
Material-based post-processing: https://t.co/FfCoyBPOC9

[passivestar @passivestar_]

Checking out if Godot can render me something pretty. Volumetric fog goes brrrrrrrr

[passivestar @passivestar_]

SDFGI lighting looks pretty good. And you don't need to bake anything unlike with the voxel approach. So you can do open world and procgen 🤌

[Alexander Schmidt 🐘 @Lexusinator]

@StrayFawnStudio @Khllffsh @unity Nice 🎉 Hit me up if you need help or infos 🙂

[Daniel Helbig @DannyHellfish]

So this means no demos, no charity keys, no prologues, no gamepass, no ps+, no indie f2p. What a sh*t show #Unity #Unity3D How can a game company be so out of touch with the current market situation!?
https://t.co/7RGMcGuIRJ

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

Turns out John was right, we were the fucking idiots after all. 🥲

[Senad @gamedevsenad]

🥳Our #indiegame and detective visual novel Hauma is released!

🧐Please help us by checking it out and consider buying it.

👮‍♀️Hauma is about Judith, a former police woman who starts investigating a mysterious case and uncovers an ancient conspiracy.

🛠️Made with #GodotEngine

[Alexander Schmidt 🐘 @Lexusinator]

🚨 Hauma, a true labor of love from @SenAm_Games, released today!!🙂

Buy the game and leave a review if you want, I'm sure that helps them a lot!

#adventure #indiegame #visualnovel #graphicnovel

[Hauma - Out now! @SenamGames]

Calling all Detectives out there! It's done and Hauma
is available now! 🌃🕵️

We're super excited and overwhelmed that we finally achieved this milestone. 🚔🎩We hope you'll enjoy playing Hauma as much as we did developing it.

Get your 20 % discount now: https://t.co/zfom9nyWfm

[Lior Steinberg @LiorSteinberg]

"Dutch civil planners built a canal here, robbing their citizens of an 18-lane super highway."

Brilliant video by @uniquespirit889

[Alexander Schmidt 🐘 @Lexusinator]

@reduzio https://t.co/F64HV7i9qq

[Ben@Pixel Maniacs @BLochmann]

Visited University of Bayreuth today: Lots of awesome teams presented the projects they are working on to Bavarian Digital Minister @gerlach_judith 🤘Notably, Media Studies in Bayreuth has a very entrepreneurship-friendly environment - many fantastic entrepreneurs there! 😍

[Trisha Lee ✨ @trishalee94]

What's up Bavaria✨️💕🍻🥨

Having an absolute blast on the first day with the most amazing people!

Shoutout to @BLochmann for organizing this!!

[Well Done Games 🌳 Wishlist IndusTree on Steam! @gameswelldone]

Creating economies for games is hard. That's why our systems designer @DerELM0 decided to model the economy of our game IndusTree in @machinationsio, a tool to visualize resource flows in games.

Read more here:
🔖 https://t.co/i3kZLmGr7f

#gamedev #gamedesign #gamestudies

[Luisa Neubauer @Luisamneubauer]

Vier #Hitzerekorde in einer Woche. Wir leben in einer Welt, vor der früher als ‚Klima-Dystopie’ gewarnt wurde. Was man nicht ahnen konnte: Dass sich Wärmepumpen-Fake-News, Parkplatz-Populismus & gekränkte Gaslobbies als valide Einwände gegen schnelles Handeln durchsetzen würden.

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

Behold my favorite traffic calming device.

[Alexander Schmidt 🐘 @Lexusinator]

You can put the @godotengine Script Editor in a separate window on a separate screen now, my life is complete.

#godot #GodotEngine #indiedev

[Alexander Schmidt 🐘 @Lexusinator]

@marcel_zurawka Oh man. All the best to you going forward ❤️