Denys Moz

✦ Design Lead • Product & Game UX
✦ 10y • Mobile/Web • Team lead
✦ Interactive prototypes + breakdowns
✦ Figma • Framer • Blender • Unity

[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

Built this garage UI in a timelapse.
Tried to keep focus on the car: UI pushed to the edges, one clear “Drive” CTA, spec card as the only heavy block on the right.

What would you tweak first: colors, spacing, or stats layout?
#gamedev #indiegame #UIDesign #figma

[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

Help choose the best occlusion effect!

A - Object fading (no outline)
B - Object fading (with outline)
C - Character X-Ray
#gamedev #indiegame #unity

[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

What is wrong with ChatGPT?

I recently canceled my $20 subscription to try out Gemini because I got a great 3-month offer. But today, pure habit took over. I opened the ChatGPT app on my iPhone and started a dialogue.

Just 13 prompts later, the chat freezes. Limit reached, wait 1 hour. To make things worse, an ad is popping up every third message.

Then comes the real plot twist.

I asked my wife how long she usually waits for her limit to reset. She has never subscribed and simply uses the app in free mode.

She looked at me and said, "What limits?"

As it turns out, she has never seen a single restriction or a single ad. No limits on creating new messages, nothing. I checked her phone myself and her chat history was full of dozens of complex legal queries and web searches.

[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

Starting a new project (WIP)
#pixelart #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

Saw a cool reference today, so I rebuilt it as practice in #Framer + #Spline

[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

There haven’t been any updates on our game for a while.
But during this time, a lot has changed, both in terms of UI and gameplay.
We conducted closed testing and received a large amount of feedback, based on which we decided to make a conceptual change to the visual style.
#gamedev #unity #indiegame #uidesign

[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

To summarize (from a gamedev perspective):
AI is a good tool that can reduce development time. But it cannot replace a full pipeline without manual corrections.
Services that promise otherwise are lying.

If this was interesting, I can write my thoughts about OpenClaw and other automation tools that have been making noise lately. There are questions there as well. 😉

P.S. The text, thoughts, and structure were written by me.
ChatGPT was used only to check spelling and adjust some wording.

[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

I want to share some observations about using AI in development.

For the past 3 months I've been testing AI tools in my work (mobile games).
~$85/month on subscriptions + about $100 on APIs.

Let's talk about Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, as well as 2D and 3D generators. 👇

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[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

There is no full replacement for an artist.
Artifacts appear, there are no editable layers. Each new iteration in the same chat becomes worse than the previous one.

Try it yourself: ask NanoBanano to generate an image and then keep asking for edits. After 10–15 generations everything will be full of noise and artifacts. 👇

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[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

Playtest-ready map in Unity.
Now tuning colliders so players don’t fall through rocks & logs.

How do you handle colliders
A) primitives, B) custom mesh, C) mix?
#gamedev #unity #indiegame

[Denys Moz @denys_moz]

Finally got the map prototype running end-to-end.
Used store assets to move faster and focus on UX & final tests.

Models from the store
Shaders and level design are mine :)
#gamedev #unity #indiegame