Vitaly Gambala

🕹️ Solo Indie Game Dev (The Legend of Incremental Islands, soon on Steam)

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

It took me smth about 1 hour to make this prototype.

Planned for it to be a Balatro-like game.

Is it worth it? Should I finish and release it?

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #godotengine

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

@halfmage You're awesome! I really enjoy seeing how effects and visual language migrate from one tech stack to a completely different one.

I'll be glad to follow your progress 👍

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

@psychopumpgames Oh yeah, glad to hear 😌

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

One of my unfinished projects, a jam game about a brave little frog protecting its offspring from snakes 🐍

Sounds on 🎵🔊

What do you think, should I finish it? 🤔

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

Here it is, btw, a brave little frog ️^__^

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

@galaxy_xeon You're almost there, the trick is to use .set_parallel() and set different durations for properties

For example, on_pressed has this reactions (pseudocode):
- rotation.from(±7deg).to(0).for(1.0s)
- scale.from(1.2, 0.8).to(1, 1).for(0.7s)
- position.from(0, 10).to(0, 0).for(1.5s)

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

Your buttons don't need to feel dead.

Just spend a couple of minutes on ELASTIC tweens, and pick sounds for hover and click 🎵

With these tiny UI changes, your games will feel much more polished ✨

#gamedev #indiedev #godot #godotengine

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

@EthanLac13 Glad to help 👍 Cool game btw!

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

Stop overengineering your backgrounds.

You don't need a shader or any code to make a stunning bg scroll in #Godot

Just use:
Parallax2D: repeat_size + autoscroll
└ Sprite2D: texture + region_rect = repeat_size

That's it✨
Have you used Parallax2D like this?
#gamedev #indiedev

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

@XscoGames Why this game exists you mean? 😬

It was a quick side hustle. I thought, what if I have only one hour to make a game from the ground up to Itch release, what game would it be.

And I ended up with this.

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

One of my players counted EVERY hay piece in my new game🤯 and filed a report: 998,276 instead of 1,000,000

So I fixed it – and checked performance.

It's amazing how game renders 1,000,000 hay pieces in just 1 draw call! True power of MultiMesh in #godot

#gamedev #indiedev

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

Don't call me lucky

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

@astrohound For sure I will 🥂

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

I just made the same thing, but in 2D 😄

1,000,000 pieces of hay and only one needle🪡

What do you think?
Should I upload it on Itch?

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #godotengine

[Nas @NasNakarus]

i made a game where you literally have to find a needle in a haystack

the catch is there are 5,000,000 pieces of hay and only 1 needle

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

UPD: The game is mobile friendly now 📱

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

You can play it here by the way: https://t.co/SfE08dbcJd

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

A new beginning

#spoilers #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

@Mrbiggs You can use the RichTextLabel technique in 4.6 for sure 🥂

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

Your buttons deserve more than boring static text

Let it be bold, rainbow, wavy, shaky… whatever your UI needs ✨

Remember: Standard UI is optional and default controls are not a design system. Stop letting them design your UI for you.

#gamedev #indiedev #godot #godotengine

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

And buttons are just the beginning.

You can add juice to almost any object through almost any property.

Check this out: https://t.co/xQpdTXrJ7W

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

The entire recipe for a click that feels alive is just two things: springs & shakes

No complex physics. No expensive assets. Just a few properties reacting at once. The asteroid barely moves, but the world sells the hit.

Would you call this overkill?

#gamedev #indiedev #godot

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

The entire recipe for a click that feels alive is just two things: springs & shakes

No complex physics. No expensive assets. Just a few properties reacting at once. The asteroid barely moves, but the world sells the hit.

Would you call this overkill?

#gamedev #indiedev #godot

[Vitaly Gambala @gambala_pro]

@shlummi Yep!