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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 28, 2026

Had a brain wave about an obscure way I should let players interact with buttons.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 23, 2026

Fans of games like Deus Ex, Thief, System Shock, Dishonored should check out the videos BawssSawss makes over on the youtube channel 2HeadedHero. Where he regularly covers news from the latest indie Immersive Sims. A scene that is *much* more active than most would realize and so having someone chronicling it is really valuable.

In the most recent one he gives a breakdown on the demo for my game Noirmancer. Spoilers ahead if you've been meaning to hit that demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIOo-z2h1AM

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 08, 2026

I'm watching the ANZ Indie Showcase showing off some Aus+NZ indie games in 15 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IihLc4hUboY

(Disclaimer: my game is in the attached steam event, but not the showcase stream)

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 06, 2026

Some Noirmancer coverage on RPS! https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/thief-dishonored-and-philip-marlowe-combine-in-noirmancer-a-stealth-sim-that-lets-you-wipe-minds-with-a-snap-of-your-fingers

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026

Replying to @imp3tuz@mastodon.gamedev.place

@imp3tuz Congrats! It looks great.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026

My sneaky document-stealing memory-erasing game Noirmancer is taking part in The ANZ Indie Fest, a virtual event celebrating indie games from Australia and New Zealand (Kiwi self-reporting).

It starts with a showcase stream on Friday at 7:30pm AEST over on this youtube channel: @theindiebrew@www.youtube.com but Noirmancer is just taking part in the broader event, not the showcase. But tune in to see some Oceaniac indies!

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026

Replying to @eviltrout@carpdiem.online

@eviltrout@carpdiem.online Oh shit that was you! That's a fun connection to discover.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 05, 2026

Replying to @YoSoyFreeman@mastodon.gamedev.place

@YoSoyFreeman@mastodon.gamedev.place Yeah the milking is getting very annoying. I guess people keep clicking the damn vids. In that specific example: many talented game devs make great games with mediocre programming ability. Good programming can be a huge advantage, but it should not be used in a "so clearly this guy is bad at game dev" way.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place

@YoSoyFreeman I am gonna love the shader previews too.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @YoSoyFreeman@mastodon.gamedev.place

@YoSoyFreeman Yeah I pogged out of my mind when I saw this merged recently.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 21, 2026

Random #GodotEngine tip: if you, like me, have perhaps too many Area3D's in your scenes, consider turning off monitorable. Chances are you have areas as triggers to sense stuff, and not be sensed themselves. I found that turning off monitorable saved quite a bit of time in the "Find Collisions" step (You'll see that listed in the Profiler).
I'm sure there'll be circumstances where this won't help. Not having many areas being the obvious one. But perhaps give it go!

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 17, 2026

Doing some experiments with what I'll call "interior outlines" in shadows. I already outline geometry edges (changes in depth, normal) in darkness, but there are times where it'd be useful to make out certain texture details in darkness too. Particularly relevant for my game is allowing you to better get a sense of character orientation in darkness.

An interesting thing, that I should probably benchmark, is a random little supersampling trick I did (cont).

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place

@irgndsondepp@gts.da-miez.de I think that should be everything? But yeah there's enough Deck gamers out there that I should probably accommodate them a little.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 15, 2026

Replying to @irgndsondepp@gts.da-miez.de

@irgndsondepp@gts.da-miez.de Ahh apologies. I haven't taken the dive to put any gamepad controls on it. Although I am pretty sure via the power of Steam Input it'd be be doable. Here's the keys you'd want binds for: -Escape, Space, WASD, MOUSE1, Ctrl, and Shift (for run) (the stuff you'd kind of expect) -R (Ability Menu) -F (Interact) and G (Secondary Interact, mostly used for closing rather than opening doors.) -Q and E are for leaning left and right to look around corners and are entirely optional.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 15, 2026

Some Noirmancer coverage on french gaming news website @NoFrag@piaille.fr!

https://nofrag.com/noirmancer-un-concept-dinfiltration-prometteur-mais-encore-loin-detre-abouti/

If you're a french-speaker who'd appreciate a regular source of FPS-centric game news, check them out :)

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 04, 2026

Replying to @wake@peoplemaking.games

@wake@peoplemaking.games Thanks for the interest! And yeah that's fair enough. There's a decent chance the tutorial will get a big revamp towards the end of the project (after-all, it's hard to know what you need to teach before you've finished the entire thing), and thinking of how to remove the strict conditions in the tutorial would definitely be a nice revision to achieve.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 04, 2026

Replying to @Kaution@mastodon.gamedev.place

@Kaution@mastodon.gamedev.place Thanks for telling me. This is a strange one so not entirely sure how to investigate it. I think my main hope will simply be that the first extraction failed for some strange reason :) For reference I believe this error is generally what happens when you run Godot and it can't match a exe/bin with a pck file.

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @Cheeseness@mastodon.social

@Cheeseness@mastodon.social Yeah fair. Like basically any statement I read into it the obvious subtext that every sentence is worded from the perspective of it's speaker: I'm not gonna be like "Well actually I need you to state that it's backwards IN YOUR VIEW" (it's your statement, of course it's in your view)

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DistractedMOSFET @distractedmosfet@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @Cheeseness@mastodon.social

@Cheeseness@mastodon.social @Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place Which one is "normal" and which is "inverted" is one of those things where people have different intuition about it and it's been a funny little dispute forever. But the key detail is: I understood what Cheese meant and which one he calls normal and which he calls inverted is very literally semantics. There's no need to interrogate it.

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