Slow Rush

Solo game dev making Signs of Danger, an online & couch co-op multiplayer falling-sand roguelite:

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

Super Exciting Announcement: #Steam page for my #noita-inspired multiplayer falling sand game is now LIVE at https://t.co/gcwYBji3kf

Trailer: https://t.co/u2jlVRTDHc

2 years making an engine - now the real work begins :)

#fallingsand #indiegame #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev

[Noble Steed Games✨ @ The Games Exchange @NobleSteedAU]

We've sent over:
🦇 Night Shift 1999 by @WinterSchloss
🔫Signs of Danger by @SlowRushDev
🍕@dungeon_p1zza by Growing Games
🟪 Toya by @The_RnD_Dep

[Game Quest @GameQuestGame]

If you like this game, please check out other games from my region of the world (Western Australia); Many will be in the ANZ Indifest Steam festival starting this Saturday:

https://t.co/iBl46702Y9

(I'm particularly looking forward to Frostliner and Signs of Danger, personally)

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

If you're in #Perth , come to Tokyo Alley on May 9th or 10th to playtest Signs of Danger in person!

real soldiers aren't afraid of bright pastel colours

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

Ported my #noita -like from #macroquad to #SDL and #WGPU over the last 2 months

And multi-threaded the heck out of it too.

GIF-heavy devlog: https://t.co/0DU99A21OH

#indiedev #gamedev

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

@justff777 yeah exactly. Towerfall has something like this, so you can see how the heck that arrow curved around to nail you!

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

So my #noita -like is 100% deterministic (for multiplayer netcode)

Hacked up time travel as a debug tool: so awesome being able to replay backwards w/ full debug info and explore alternative timelines!

how about a "rewind 5 secs when you die" perk

#indiedev #gamedev #roguelite

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

@justff777 Yes, now that I have played with it some more I'm thinking it would be a shame to keep it as only a debug feature - want to let players view their final seconds this way too!

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

@chris_suffern Ahaha! I would get sued for sure :)

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

@MichaelTeschne7 Yeah it's a harsh taskmaster for sure. But the good news is you learn to love the cage that constrains you.

(though that may be stockholm syndrome)

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

Reworked character controller on my #noita -like to run directly against the falling sand pixels

No kinematic bodies for movement -> 20% speed up!

Looking forward to spamming a bucket load of enemies now

#indiedev #gamedev #roguelite

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

@MichaelTeschne7 Despised or decided? I assume the latter but sometimes I definitely wish I didn't have a borrow checker breathing down my neck!

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

@MichaelTeschne7 Sure! Was macroquad for a long time, but just recently ported it over to wgpu + sdl3.

I have investigated bevy multiple different times but the netcode is based on GGPO-like rollback (my fork of ggrs) and Bevy makes that harder in various ways!

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

Added this "chaos mode" to my #noita -like roguelite for benchmarking the falling sand physics

60 times a second it spawns some material, triggers an explosive, spawns or kills an enemy, etc.

It's actually surprisingly fun? in slowmo

#gamedev #indiedev #fallingsand #roguelite

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

Graphics programming is such a weird beast

Even when you stuff it up you get cool results

Here the radiance cascades lighting for my #noita -like suddenly gained a disco mode, but only at certain screen resolutions

#gamedev #indiedev #shaders #wtf

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

Started out trying to solve a minor bug of players getting mixed up

Ended up making my own gamepad-compatible UI framework with animations and localization: https://t.co/GwjG79JjvD

Taffy-powered, iced-inspired: immediate API, retained UI under the hood

#gamedev #indiedev #rust

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

Accidentally got a parallax terrain effect for my #noita -like

Except it's in front of terrain instead of behind it

Definitely file under "shader accidents not worth keeping"

#gamedev #indiedev #shaders

[BurkelbearGames @BurkelbearGames]

Watch my new video on the spell system for Grimorium!

https://t.co/8S5UuU7CLf

[Don't Stop, Girlypop! - ✩𝓞𝓤𝓣 𝓝𝓞𝓦!✩ @girlypopgame]

It’s finally time to…

Unleash the ✦⁺₊✩GIRL POWER✩⁺₊✦

Don’t Stop, Girlypop! is officially OUT NOW!!!!

You better be ready, because this sh❤t is serious 👇

https://t.co/hOk7ut4GiV

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

New devlog exploring my equiv to #noita wandcrafting

With new playable web build - feedback welcome, hit me with your hard words!

https://t.co/36IBHBJ7rD

#indiedev #gamedev #roguelite #devlog

[Slow Rush @SlowRushDev]

When you give a #noita player access to your game's version of wandcrafting, but you haven't actually balanced it yet

#gamedev #indiedev #roguelite