Justin 'Gryphon' Banke

I forget I have an account here.

Game development is funny because you can ask for the most ridiculous, esoteric, eldritch abomination of a feature and an engineer can implement it in a lunch period but if you ask for something like "I want this door to open both ways" it takes six months and several hundred thousand dollars.

Man.. Silksong is so damn good.

I blasted through Hollow Knight before I started it and now I can't put Silksong down.

Close to the end of Act II.

🤘

Adding scripts to cameras makes my head want to explode.

I'm learning both at the same time since they're so similar. I'm not waiting to work in Godot until I've learned Python, I've already started.

Good morning!

Been slowly chipping away at learning Python so I can use it to translate to GDScript.

Learning a lot. A lot to remember. Someday it'll click for me.

Excited to learn more.

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #Python

I'm finally removing myself from Twitter. I can't stand that cess pool anymore.

On to bluer pastures.

A sketch exploration character sheet depicting a fox knight.

Incredibly happy with these initial character exploration sketches for my game.

Can't wait to share more in the future!

#GameDev #GameArt #Sketches

Artist: @smash.bsky.social

Wash ya damn rice.

I love when I'm struck by inspiration and motivation to work on my game... At the worst possible times where I can't sit down and do it.

Really re-thinking the scope of the game I'm slowly chipping away at. It's still very much in prototype/learning phases.

Thinking I bit off more than I can chew when learning Godot.. might make something smaller and then build on top of that.

#Godot #GameDev

Pulled out all my blue & artifact cards... Time to make a mono blue artifact deck. For the lulz.... Also cause I don't have a deck with blue in it.

Time to brew!

#mtg #monoblue #artifacts #magic

Did some spreadsheet creation and organization tonight. It's really going to help in the long run having an ongoing list of tasks, bugs and milestones to keep me motivated.

#GameDev #IndieDev

Sometimes I have to remember that game development involves organizing my thoughts, spreadsheets and setting up all sorts of different things.

It cant all be art all the time.

#GameDev

I've finally settled on what my next commander deck will be... It took a while.

Gonna make a Lathril, Blade of the Elves deck. With an emphasis on making creatures get swole with tons of mana. Side theme is elf tokens.

I know it's a common commander... But I simp for elves.

#mtg #edh #lathril

Picked up Aseprite. I'm really excited to start learning how to use it.

Hooked up my MacBook Air to my big monitor this evening to do some work.

My god. Why am I trying to make games on a tiny screen? This is wild.

I started working on my own game.

For a few years I've had this story and concept in my head. It's really satisfying so far to start learning how to get these ideas implemented and set up.

I'm excited to share more when I feel I have enough to share!

#GameDev #IndieGames

Haven't been here in a minute.

What's new?

I think it's time to light a fire under my ass and start a new personal project.

Wife playing Baldur's Gate 3.

Me laughing cause I'm pulling all the characters she's meeting in the game in my box of Baldur's Gate MTG packs.

I don't post here often, but if Muskrat decided to make X full subscription, I'll happily delete that account. Then I'll be here.

Pretty sure Sea of Stars is my GOTY.

Mmm.

Getting hit with a nice fat dose of imposter syndrome.

Shattering my weight lifting records today.

I needed this win. Proud of myself.

I need, not want, more MTG cards.

For reasons.

Now that I've finished Final Fantasy 16, I've been taking a break from games.

Been focusing on other things like learning a new language, teaching myself HTML and CSS (for fun).

While I'm a 3D Artist at heart, I do it all day for work... hard to find the drive to do it in off hours.

This immediately makes me want to play Age of Empires.