SmashByte ☃️

We're a small indie team making games out of all the bytes that we can smash. Current game we are working on is called snow mercy

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Just ahead of #PAXAUS, we've released the Steam store page for #Snowmercy! The game itself is still a ways away, but adding the game to your steam wishlist is still a big help to us! Plus, you'll know be notified immediately once the game released!

https://t.co/WAdEajRLdc

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The lighting in the crash segment has now been fixed!
#Destructonaut #GameDev #IndieDev #screenshotsaturday

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Ssssafe! #Destructonaut #ScreenshotSaturday #MadeWithUnity

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This is by far the hardest segment that can appear in #Destructonaut I feel. Harder even than the triple fan. It only appears after you've gone a certain distance, and even then it's rare. Every time the door opens and I see it, I know I'm about to die. #ScreenshotSaturday

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These homing mines are fair, yeah? #ScreenshotSaturday #FixMe #Destructonaut #MadeWithUnity

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As part of the revamp for #Destructonaut, I wanted to add a station segment with a lot of action, particles, and screen shake. Here's the result. #ScreenshotSaturday #MadeWithUnity

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Oh for- Stupid fans! #Destructonaut #ISwearIKnowHowToPlayThisGame #ScreenshotSaturday

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And this is the new #Destructonaut intro!
#ScreenshotSaturday #After

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As part of a tune up I've been working on for the PC re-release of #Destructonaut, I've redone the intro sequence to include particles, a destructible reactor, and some shader tweaks. This is the old Intro.
#ScreenshotSaturday

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O.K. Get ready to jump. I can do this. Here it comes. Here we go!
#Destructonaut #ISwearIKnowHowToPlayThisGame #ScreenshotSaturday

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I'm working on a new trailer for #Destructonaut, and looking through some game play footage I've recorded, when I find this. I don't think I'm going to include it in the trailer.

[SmashByte ☃️ @SmashByteGames]

🎄Happy Christmas🎄 to everyone out there from Smashbyte Games!
2020's been a very challenging year for us, but a lots still been happening! We'll be talking all about it in a series of posts just as soon as I get myself organised enough to make that happen!
Stay safe everyone!

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Snow Mercy will be showing online next week at Pizza & Pixels, Canberra's game dev meetup. You'll need to be a member of the CanDev Discord to attend, so if you haven't already joined, and you're in the Canberra area (Physically or in spirit!) don't delay: https://t.co/akcDDYf8eE

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This is just a short video demoing the spline tool I've been slowly adding to over the years. It's got quite a lot of features now. #SnowMercy #MadeWithUnity #IndieDev #ItllNeverBeFinished

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We've had screen shake in the game for a while now, but It's only recently been added to the reasons why getting shot at sucks. #SnowMercy #MadeWithUnity #IndieDev #NeedsMoreScreenShake

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Added Knock-Back to most weapons now.
#SnowMercy #MadeWithUnity #IndieDev #BecauseGettingShotAtDidntSuckEnoughAlready

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I've added some weapon->ice block interaction physics, meaning that when you shoot them, they'll respond by rolling around. Now you can show those ice blocks who's in charge! #SnowMercy #IndieDev #MadeWithUnity #thatllLearnThem

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Small things like wind can go a long way to making a level feel alive. Here I've added it to some flowers. I still need to add some per-flower directional variation which I plan to make a function of the flowers rotation. #SnowMercy #MadeWithUnity #IndieDev #Whoosh

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These last few months of work are finally starting to show. Can you see the difference? It's right there in upper right corners. #IndieDev #MoarFPS #MadeWithUnity #OptimizationSucks #SnowMercy

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@devolverdigital @workatgameplus Been working on a strategic multiplayer 3rd person Snowball brawler. We're also looking for a publisher. ;)
#Snowmercy

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When you need more control over your batching over what the Static flag can provide, we have StaticBatchingUtility.Combine(), but be careful! Unlike using the static flag, this method wont work unless the mesh has read/write enabled on the model's import settings! #UnityTips