Andrea Ghidini

Software engineer, crypto, gamedev. Co-founder @looptribe

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

@ZerkCrator I'm using my own engine, written from scratch in C++ for the n-th time (supports OpenGL, DX11, audio OpenAL and Lua scripting)! I wrote more game engine than games 😅

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

Finally fixed the building collision code!

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #gamedeveloper #screenshotsaturday

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

@Whisker_Games_ For now I'm still hoping to create one...

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

This week I worked on detecting buildable space, still bugged in some edge cases but workin' on it!

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #gamedeveloper #screenshotsaturday

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

@Squallido22 Been working for 4 months... a lot more to go, at least a year! 🙈

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

One week of debugging and random crashes without errors/warnings only on Intel Xe cards only to discover that you cannot perform casts in GLSL... at least a compilation warning would have been welcome! 😭

#opengl #indiedev #indiegame #devlife #glsl #indiegamedev

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

@AirborneVr Almost: it's a power grid builder / energy tycoon! :D It's still just a prototype:

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

Hey @CanonItaliaSpA, il vostro sito è praticamente inutilizzabile: devo scaricare i driver per la stampante ma moltissime pagine sono vuote e piene di errori in console, provato con Chrome, Edge, Firefox su Win10 e Win11... es. https://t.co/PN63CqWtZg

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

The game is becoming greener: added wind turbines! 💚💨

#indiedev #indiegame #gamedeveloper #gamedev #gamedevelopment

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

I was tired of seeing the terrain with that test texture so I implemented a simple splatmap shader and used new textures, much better now 🙂

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #gamedevelopment

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

@Rudolf_Buirma Probably, my game was only 30k but I already missed the deadline 😁

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

@Rudolf_Buirma I fear that those figures look very underpriced.

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

More gameplay features: a basic economy system! 💰 Albeit I coded it I'm not in the green yet 💸 luckily I can easily tweak the values... 😈
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #gamedevelopment

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

@KKindiegame Still not decided what kind of style I'll follow, those models will do fine for now 😁

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

I fear that my #blender skills are still too abysmal...🤦‍♂️ 😬

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #gamedeveloper #3dmodel

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

Now we are finally getting somewhere: you can build and interconnect multiple power producers to multiple consumers! 💪💡

#indiedev #gamedevelopment #gamedev #indiedevs #indiegamedev

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

This week's eye candy: the never failing particle systems! ✨Now going back to work on the gameplay!

#indiedev #gamedev #indie #indiegame #indiegamedev #dev

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

Finally some real user interaction and building logic. 🏭🏗 It's now possible to place new game buildings! 🎉

#indiedev #gamedev #gamedevelopment #IndieGameDev #indie #indiegame

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

@Link2076 @BitrichInfo I agree, and the standard insane approach is to add randomly -/+1 until it works 😬

[Andrea Ghidini @ghidosoft]

Half a day of debugging shaders to discover that I was transforming a direction vector using w=1 instead of 0 🤦‍♂️

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev