Cleaning up your desk requires a miniature wheelie bin. Its a fact #indiegame #cozygame #steam

Hey Aussies - I'm gonna be on your island for around 12 days next month. Any game studios or indies in the Sydney / Melbourne area I should be chatting to while out there? PS anyone have Team Cherry's email? ;D

When you finish cleaning the game in our cozy cleaning sim, you get a score! This was not a good score :( #cozygame #unity #gamedev

WTF I never knew Master System carts in Japan were so different and cool looking!

Seed based randomisation is in and working based on the game's hidden hash. Nice end to a sunday session :D #unity3d #indiegame #solodev

Spending ages being a nerd and studying stickers from different game stores across the world so we can get authentic looking old stickers you can peel off your games #indiegame #steam #gamecollecting

#blender to #unity export and import setup ticking along nicely. Its a bundle of under-optimised json but lets keep that between ourselves #gamedev #indiedev

Overengineering ++ I decided it'd be more valuable to have sticker shapes driven by png silhouette so now it does that. #blender #gamedev

behold! An over engineered rounded sticker mesh generator! #blender #indiegame #overengineered

First peel test on the cart feeling pretty good! It's still missing a bunch of sticker residue and some quality of life but we'll get there :) #indiegame #cozygames #physics #steam

Its super satisfying removing stickers and seeing a cleaner surface underneath, so I spend this morning figuring out how to get that working with our stickers #cozygame #indiegame #gamedev #satisfying

Genesis (style) carts are in! #steam #solodev #indiegame #gamedev #cozygame #gamecollecting

Using Blenders magnets to setup stickers in our cozy game about restoring old video games. Looking forward to peeling these suckers off in game! #cozygames #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #blender

Cart stickers are almost working *Heavy Breathing*

More tweaks and gameplay for the microfibre cloth in our Cozy Game Restoration Game! I'm looking forward to making a bunch of different designs, and making it fluffier looking. #cozygames #indiegame #solodev #gamedev

Our cozy game restoration game needed a wider, less accurate cloth to wipe away the top layer of dirt. It also needed to be a cloth simulation #cozygames #indiegames #solodev #gamecollecting #steam

Yes! New tape system is in game and working with randomly placed shipping stickers. Pull off the tape in key areas and you can open the package to see whats inside. #indiegame #unity3d #cozygames

Faking cardboard tape residue by adding a simple mesh clone which lightens the cardboard underneath Also pretty happy with current state of gameplay for pulling tape now. Transparent tape picks up the light beautifully ✨ #indiegame #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #cozygames

Added more tape and tweezers to add a more grounded crafty feel. This is feeling really good! #cozygames #indiegames #unity3d

This is actually fun with more tape! they're super sticky so they get everywhere. #cozygame #indiegame #steam #gamedev

Moving to GPU optimised simulation for tape and stuff! And its working! Yes tape is going to be everywhere now 📦📦📦 #unity #gamedev #indiegame #cozygames

Now our cleaning tools can get too dirty and will leave dirt stains if not cleaned in time. And yes i have been playing more Crime Scene Cleaner #gamedev #indiegame #cozygames

Play as Chunk in this 3rd person action adventure game. Mould your form, gain abilities, conquer dungeons, defeat bosses and restore the world. Wishlist Now on Steam! #pitchyagame We are looking for a publisher! #gamedev #indiedev

I really liked the mop cleaning loop on Crime Scene Cleaner, so I thought i'd see how it feels to have more of a limited capacity on cleaning tools in our cozy cleaning game. I quite like it! 📦 #gamedev #indiegame #cozygame

I am finally making the collection menu for my cozy video game restoration game, and then i learned all about runtime Global Volume control because I just wanted to blur the background #unity3d #solodev #gamedev #gozygame #game

Anyone having issues with URP decals in #Unity3d not showing on Steam Deck, this worked for me after a few hours of testing other suggestions: In your Renderer, set the Decal Renderer Feature's technique from 'Automatic' to 'Screen Space'

Loads of progress on the collection room. This is what happens after you complete your clean and get to place your prized cart on display :D #indiegame #cozygame #gamecollecting

Today i bit the bullet and jumped into the save load system for our room customisation. AND ITS WORKING ZOMMGG 🎊#cozygame #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #wholesomegames

Special edition games have unique materials in our cozy video game ✨ #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #unity #steam

I'm working on stickers for packing boxes on Cozy Game Restoration. There will be markings and stamps which give you clues about what sort of game is inside, so there's more meaning to the selection process 📦📦📦 #cozygame #unity #indiedev #gamedev

Added a nice water effect when you use rubbing alcohol on markers in our cozy game. You can dry it off too :D #cozygame #unity3d #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

And hairdryer now has a little decal in game :D

Help i made my rotation controls passive aggressive #steam #solodev #ohno #unity3D

I don't know how to do volumetric lighting yet in Unity URP so i went back to my old hacky low powered console days and just made a plane

Placement is working on the game shelf! Now i need to make a ton of games! 🕹️ #solodev #indiegames #steam

Okay i'm super proud of how this is coming out. This is where you showcase your collection in the game. You'll be able to customise whats on the shelves, the sides etc. Basically as much as possible until i run out of time and have to ship the game :D #gamecollecting #indiegame

Carefully opening parcels and cleaning long forgotten retro video games in our upcoming game. here's what we've been doing over the last 2 weeks! It's designed for SteamDeck, and focused on chill afternoons on the couch. We can't wait to show more :D #cozygames #indiegames #steamdeck #satisfying

This makes me mad. This is the opposite of satisfying But I had friends who had N64 carts that looked like this 😡 #mildlyinfuriating #gamecollecting #unity #gamedev #indiegames

Getting Dirt to feel like it has depth! This is one of the key things we really want to nail in Cozy Game Restoration. This is a simple shader that recalculates normals at runtime as i mess with the mask. I love how its warping as i clean ✨ #unity #indiegames #gamedev #cozygames #cleaning

Time to start cleaning the cart 📦 There's a ton of stuff to do on this, like normal maps, proper dirt simulation and all the cool multilayer dirtification stuff, but this is actually connecting up to the game system correctly weee! #unity #gamedev #indiegames #satisfying #cozygames

Something about the trail the cartridge in our Cozy Game Restoration game makes in the packing peanuts is so satisfying 🥜 So much of this game is hard to quantify and design for because it's all about feelings and texture. I love it. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #satisfying #uniity

This is starting to feel a little better - I think bubble wrapping a cart will allow the user to get a hint of what the game is, and allow us to cleanly (ba bum tiss) move to the cleaning phase of the loop and just focus on the cart part #gamedesign #gamedev #unity

Some lovely people have emailed asking if it's okay to stream the game, and if a monetized stream or video is okay. This post is me giving permission and thanking you for taking the time to consider playing Cozy Game Restoration 📦 ❤️ #streaming #indiegames

Now i'm noodling with packing peanuts. Imagine a dirty game, maybe wrapped in bubblewrap or something instead of this clean cart. I think it could be quite satisfying to clear away the peanuts or pull it out like this vid #unity #indiegame #physics #cozygame #gamedev

i'm being subtle with my marketing #indiegames #gamedev #steam #cozygame

Hooray! #Steam coming soon page for Cozy Game Restoration is live right now! If you like peeling stickers, dealing with dirt and restoring old retro game carts, it'd mean a ton if you popped it on your wishlist 🎁 store.steampowered.com/app/3581230/... ✨ #indiegame #cozygames #unity #cozy #satisfying

I'm playing with scrunching mechanics as part of the peeling and it's making the peeling just a little more satisfying 📦 #cozygame #indiegame #gamedev #peel #unity #games

#blender simulations for our Cozy Game Restoration boxes are pretty much done! We're generating a ton of tape for each box, and it'll be combined randomly so each box feels unique in their own way 📦 #cozygame #indiegame #gamedev #wip

Peeling tape off our packages in our Cozy Game Restoration Game is starting to feel really nice! 📦 Today I got a nice progress system in, and figured out how to export all this correctly from #blender #unity #cozygame #indiegame #satisfying

Just about to submit the steam page for our game Cozy Game Restoration! 📦 If Valve says it looks good, the page should be live come Monday 12th May 🔥 #steam #indiegame #gamedev #unity