William Davis
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Founder Hawkward Studios. Making a indie mermaid fashion rpg. Wishlist our game here:
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Three years ago, I sat down to learn Unreal.
Age of the Deep has always been the goal.
If an ocean exploration rpg sounds awesome to you, please wishlist, and let's see how awesome this gets together.
RT's appreciated!
#PitchYaGame
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The comments "this isn't effective"
I dunno man I think getting a Mach 2 whack on the side of the head 42 times a second is pretty fatal.
If you run into her in the forest, I pity the man AND the bear.
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@GangstHannah
@Sakofalltrades
This was my thought as it happened. The social media person HAD to have gone up the chain with what was going on. Must have made their day when that reply was greenlit. 👊
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@ErebethThariel
🤣 I didn't know what I was waking up to when I thought I was posting how cool that was. That's for sure.
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Took me forever but after great struggle I have fixed the crashing shark AI. Game now runs with 0 errors. A big sigh of relief now that I can get back to making the game.
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Anyway this is doing numbers for some reason. 👋 I apologize for making y'all think I was gauging her black belt combat effectiveness against grizzly bears.
Let's avoid making this a hit tweet for me unless y'all want to follow for the indie game.
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@TheBadoe
Everyone "I can take her"
Me "can we have some tea and sit down and talk about mocap?"
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OK. Dev break to help kiddo with homework. Texas homework. What. In. The. Hell.
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@thoughtrise
Must be weird being a guy that hates women and won't let them have their own space and is upset by that.
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@samyam_youtube
Oh wow that's a hefty price for an indie to have to pay. I didn't know that was a thing.
And imagine thinking you of all people would willfully put out some bad MOJO game.
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Indie devs tip of the day.
Don't go to discord to tell other indies you are better than them because you have higher unit activations. That's pretty unprofessional. Congrats, though, I guess.
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@SCPRedMage
😆 best case it's hollow and stings, worst case it's weighted and she has great aim and it would for sure suck to get hit by it.
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I like how after 3 years and an epic amount of mistakes I've got a small section actually playable.
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Thank you all for sticking around to watch us make our indie game!
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@Kaek_art
Agreed on the bear part. I meant more like "if she lands that across a dudes temple, that's gunna hurt."
Everyone rating her tkd and wanting to fight her but I'm in camp "wouldn't piss her off to find out."
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@VancityReynolds
@stevenspohn
If it's any consolation I enjoyed your rendition of Wade before he was amalgamated into a robot with laser eyes. I like to think this rough start was what made you give maximum effort during your 2nd chance at Deadpool. Cuz you nailed it.
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Indiedev day 5! Not the best of days. Gamepad works for all the UI now, but it's not removing the materials when clicked. Small progress is still progress.
#indiegames
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#Pitchyagame
Age of the Deep: a new single player action adventure rpg. Choose 1 of 3 playable Mer to travel to the depths of a hostile ocean full of pirates and abyssal horrors. Inspired by
#abzu
and
#subnautica
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She's gone.
RiP grandma. You were a positive influence on everyone.
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Survived year 3 as an indie dev without giving up. Despite the many set backs this year has had.
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@Ash_l337_
Right?? Even a modern broom stick can leave a welt and if it's weighted at all that's gunna hurt. Imagine wanting to piss her off to find out though. 😆
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If you've seen the steam page, and love ocean games, but didn't wishlist, why not?
What would get you to change your mind?
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I can't believe the difference from January to Now! So much hard work and pushing past my quit. I can see the difference now. 😭
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Indiedev day 75! The whales can swim around now and I improved the hand IK to give better whale hugs. Good progress today 🐋 🧜♀️
#indiegame
#UnrealEngine5
#ocean
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Indiedev day 7! Crafting weapon upgrades is a GO! Have to work on the widget updates, but the feature works. How badass is that???
#indiegames
#UnrealEngine5
#RPG
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Indiedev day 43! We have 9 layers!!! Procedural array set up, a little denser probably than what it should be but looking good! We'll do some red grass for this zone I think. Might also be a good zone to add a little marine snow to? 🤔
#indiegames
#ocean
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Bruh 6300 likes. Y'all made it viral anyway. Seriously, any more of you interested in a mermaid fashion rpg indie game?
Indiedev day 91! Fiddled with weather settings some more and discovered fog intensity. All I'm missing now is a Far Harbor town where villagers make pacts with the one below. Maybe some VA going "gurglemurgleblargle." But that's for another day.
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Just in time for
#SharkWeek
I've got mercuna running smoothly and the shark is hungry for some mermaid.
#UnrealEngine
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Lol I was thinking about making an underwater current system and threw this together. Unexpected result.
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Reached a stage in development where both the kiddos are asking to play the game. Recently they discovered the 40 sharks swimming around the island.
#sharks
#indiegames
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Daughter: are the rays supposed to be crashing into each other?
Me: no I'm struggling to fix it
Her: looks like a bunch of bugs
Me: 😭
Her: that's OK. A lot of games i play have bugs and I still love them. You're doing good.
Me: 😭 😭 😭 😭
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Indiedev day 25! Tied status effect into player stats and verified damage tick. Booyah. *runs off like a goblin to download fluid ninja*
#indiegames
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Spent several hours redoing the loot log. The widget finally did what I wanted it to do.
#indiegames
#UnrealEngine
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Indiedev day 4! Back to crafting. Had some delays since I forgot my naming conventions and couldn't find stuff. A little rusty. 🙃 But gamepad now works with -some- of the crafting menu.
#indiegames
#crafting
#rpg
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My co-worker is watching a show on his phone.
I didn't pay it any mind at first. Then I heard the theme song.
He's watching the 90's X-men cartoon.
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#wipwednesday
recovery efforts failed for the majority of stuff that was lost, so I spent all day yesterday starting over. That kind of sucks but I can try to do it better as I go.
The best part is this footage is from a packaged build. 🧜♀️
#UnrealEngine
#indiegames
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A special treat for 500 followers. Something fun. Had to work on this well in advance so it was a learning moment also. VA:
@EliseMeggie
and
@JacenWileyVA
provided the voices of The Greeter and
@MicRezAudio
did the editing.
#indiegames
#screenshotsaturday
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Hi I'm an indie dev making a mermaid fashion looter rpg. Think if Abzu, Subnautica, and Aquaman were thrown into a blender. We've worked hard for a few years, made huge strides over 93 days this year alone, and have so much more to share when we're ready.
Twitter's algorithm is responding really well to QRT RN. So, QRT this and get seen.
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Indiedev day 88! Let the combo flow! Hell yes. Now I need to figure out how to make vfx. 🤔
#indiegame
#Mermaid
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In indie dev we say, "we love you. You matter. Thanks for hanging out with us and giving us the follows."
Did I sub tweet correctly?
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Felt cute. Added a few caustic lights underwater to look at and expanded my little reef a little. Most of the corals came from the marketplace and look great.
But I'm quite fond of the tall plants and the spiky flower the artist made for me. Got a whole custom coral pack made.
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As for how it looks when swimming around, I'd say pretty dang good. 8.6 x 8.6 might be a decent size to stay at. Sprinkle in some islands and figure out how long it takes to swim across that. 😭
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Sometimes I still open the older games just to be wowed by the stuff.
@RelativRyan
I swear if I ever ship my own game with a physical release there’s gonna be something in that friggin box.
This makes me so sad… character profiles, hints, credits, maps. A poster!?! Jesus put something in for us to get excited about :(
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Did some more work these past two days on the warrior and rogue player characters. Slowly but surely I'm getting there.
#arpg
#gamers
#indiegames
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Made my own thalassophobia give me anxiety with this one. That's just a lot of sharks.
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It finally happened. Youtube has recommended my own channel to me.
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Indiedev day 42! Now I have 8 layers. Can paint wherever I need the epipelagic layer to be and let the procedural grass do its thing.
#ocean
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@LinusTech
Socks with sandals. Still. Not fine. Seek medical attention asap. Construct additional pylons.
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Indie dev is hard as hell. It takes forever. There's backtracking. Iteration. Failure. But I tell you what this community is awesome, and I'm proud of what we've managed to do so far.
And we ain't even done yet.
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Bonus round 3. How much progress did I plan to make today? Crushing it.
Starting a quest now spawns the location marker. That didn't take long.
#indiegame
#UnrealEngine5
#Quests
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@Bornakang
This certainly makes finally paying off my 40k truck after 6 years feel like less of an accomplishment.
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Making the best of my sick time by getting a huge amount of work done. All of the game now works with a gamepad.
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This UI is proving challenging. On the weapon side of things, it now updates the proper icon, current damage value, and next upgrade damage value.
#indiegames
#wip
#UnrealEngine
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There is no way we hit 600 mermaid indie game loving super people before new years. But you're welcome to try twitter.
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Indiedev day 106! My first vfx. Obviously not the nice sparks. Attempted to make a parry window vfx, which you can see slowly start to appear. Making the texture in krita wasn't too bad, the material in Unreal was also easy. But goodness the particle settings. 🤪
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The player character from our indie game.
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Indiedev day 59! The npc's can now assign the quests. Distance based visibility on question mark. That part all works great. What I didn't expect was for the entire HUD to hide. 🤪other than that bug and controller support
#Quests
is done!
#indiegame
#UnrealEngine5
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Slow but steady progress. Added directional walking and expanded the attack combo to test it out.
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@AOC
@JacksonLeeTX18
@LaCongresista
This is amazing. I know a bunch of so called texans are booing you, god forbid you help anybody anymore, but thanks for coming down here and being an example of what our leaders should have been doing since the first day this started. Y'know instead of running away.
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Indiedev day 113! Played with the water shotty some more. Added cast animation and camera jiggle. These pirate scum never stood a chance.
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Abilities prototyping for the mage is done. LB and RB now have their own spells to draw from that I can easily(lol?) make unique per character. Will work on the ones for the rogue and warrior this weekend to scratch them off the list.
#indiegames
#gamers
#arpg
#UnrealEngine
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#gamers
here's some
#followfriday
for y'all. Check out these indies.
@charith_nr
@CRUMVIII
@HoobTall
@LorneDev
@Moonstone_game
@SpaceRockNZ
@SniperED007
@monad_of_eirye
@hyperprismgames
@ArkanyaGame
@StudioGanzheit
@ENENRAGame
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Surprisingly I fixed the dive trace. No more face plants into dirt. 🧜♀️
#indiegames
#unrealengine
#screenshotsaturday
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Indiedev day 97! Steam page is live! Go wishlist our game y'all. Phenomenal milestone for us to get the page done. Now I guess I have to keep going. I'm sure this will evolve over time as we get more work done. 🦈 🧜♀️
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@ComicLoverMari
I actually liked that show. Enough so that I stopped working on my indie game long enough to binge watch it. I expect season 2 would be even better.
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Bonus round. Went back to add resources to the bathypelagic layer and found some bugs that prevented being able to gather resources. So that's fixed now. Maybe.
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Run through from the other day when I worked on the reef area. Just swimming around being a mermage.
#indiegames
#UnrealEngine
#mermaids
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Someone said this wasn't looking good and I had to rewatch it to see if we're watching the same video and now you all have to see it again too!
#indiegame
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@y2kmarcus_
Teen Titans Go Death Metal Starfire from "Night Begins to Shine" my single most favorite episode.
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Almost at 500 followers wow.
That's pretty cool. 😍
Cooking something neat for everyone for around the time we get there.
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Tons of exciting things coming soon for the mermaid game. We'll hit day 100 of progress for the year before you know it. Thank you everyone for watching us build this weird little game. Likes and RT's appreciated. Let's find some more people that enjoy underwater indie games!
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Ha! 46 wishlists so far and everyone told me that screaming into the void on Twitter wouldn't be enough. Tremble before the might of The One Below and go wishlist our indie game that we are working on.
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Indiedev day 41! Pushed landscape auto material to 7 layers. Variety is the spice of life, and this is starting to look really good.
#indiegames
#UnrealEngine5
#RPG
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