It's time to get working on the next menu. As I said before, UI work is the worst work. The functionality is already fully implemented, but making the UI look and feel like this will be a nightmare! #uidesign #gamedev #indiegame #mazestalker #solodev

When playing #TrailsInTheSky remake I realized I wanted area names. It's just a little touch that adds a lot of worldbuilding. Was a pain to get working, but what's done is done! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

I added a lot of new dialogues to the second day in Pucktown! Everything works nicely now and that means we can move on with the adventure! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker #isometric

Right now I'm making all the things that I added to the game fully functional. Eventually I think I will add the second dungeon to the demo too, so you can really play this when it's done! #gamedev #mazestalker #indiegame #solodev #retrogaming

The thing I'm worst with is just putting in the puzzle pieces. It's all written and set up, I just need to copy paste around the text and script-tags and it is eating up my brain... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #retrogaming #landstalker

I keep forgetting to talk about the games I play. Just finished this old gem. I adore the simplicity and focus at display. In the whole game: One missable ability. One sword upgrade. A couple optional health upgrades. That's it. #gamedev #RETROGAMING #indiegame

The league of fortune... It was a strange feeling to work with these characters. On my side, I have been writing stories for them for years now. On the other side, noone who gives a damn about my game ever heard of them! #mazestalker #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

Could someone help me out? My Youtube-content needs a little love! Devlog #8: From Childhood Memories to Epic Battle Systems in Gamedev youtu.be/6vag12ZkSt8?... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #DevlogGame #devlog #gamedevelopment

The more I analyze this biz, the more the priorities become clear. Where and when you hit with your trailer is critical to determining the success of a project. Well, I'm on it, piece by piece. #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #mazestalker

Today is one of those days... Full of doubts about what I'm even doing here. 30K wishlists? Yeah right... Nothing I haven't felt before, but I want to say it because it's just part of being a #solodev. Progress: Setting up dialogues for day 2. #gamedev #indiegame

I rarely post anything about my story. People don't seem to care yet and I get it. But the story is secretly the main reason I'm doing this. It's going to be a ride! #gamedev #indiegame #mazestalker #solodev

The culimnation of my "tour" happens at Game City Vienna! fm4.orf.at/stories/3049...

I finally updated the Demo of my game with some long-requested features! A lot of the stuff I've been sharing you can check out yourself: store.steampowered.com/news/app/321... #gamedev #gamenews #indiegame #solodev #landstalker

Right now I'm busting bugs with a record pace. For example, the problems with this room were manyfold. From bugs, to shader issues, to battle issues. I also rebuilt the lighting and geometry to guide the player better. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

Yes I wrote about how games can be art in a newsletter because this here space is not nuanced enough to have a meaningful discussion. Instead of shouting opinions, I recommend to engage with all forms of art and blow your own mind. open.substack.com/pub/spacedog...

As I prepare everything to update my demo one more time, I did all the musts: Battle system overworked, keyboard controls... But what I really WANTED to work on is these little details! #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

I'm working on some details based on players I observed this summer. I discovered this bug, i have no idea what could cause this, but it looks fun! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

Keyboard support needs to get into my demo pronto. I've been wrecking my head over how to do it. Today I had an idea, what do you guys think? #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #isometric

Third complete rewrite of this feature. In order to make this look right I had to rip open the entire inside of the state machine of my character controller. What a waste of time, but as they say, what doesn't kill you... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

Today I feel extremly humbled and gratefull to all of you. 1000 wishlists is nothing from a business perspective, but as someone who is looking to stake a claim in the world with their art it means everything! Thank you! #mazestalker #gamdev #indiegame #solodev

Every time I go to LinkedIn someone is posting AI videos of knives cutting weirdly bizarre objects with a knife. I think this is endstage entertainment industry. A year from now my girlfriend will watch nothing but this all day, every day, on tiktok. #gamedev competes with this

I take my demo out to see if people like my shader-tech, to see if the battle system flows right, or if the characters I wrote resonate with the audience, but all anyone really asks for is poultry-based assault mechanics. That's the job, I guess... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

Now that I have a handfull of new features at play I have to go back and implement them into the Demo of course! I need to update this some time soon to reflect the currentz product! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

I adjusted the hitstop a bit. Instead of TimeScale set to 0, it is now set to 0.2. I think it looks super smooth and especially aerial combat is now finally off my list of "What am I even doing?". #gamedev #solodev #indiegame #landstalker #mazestalker

Another feature that has been sitting in my head for 2 years. Problem: I can't just put chests everywhere. It kills the feeling of discovery. I simply borrowed a solution out of a game that solved the issue. Thanks #Kirby ! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #screenshotsaturday

I finally had a breakthrough on my combat! It now looks and feels exactly how I wanted it all along! Very happy about this! Thanks for all the feedback over the last months! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #screenshotsaturday #mazestalker #unity3d

I've been working on this little pond area. By now there are a lot of little effects playing together and I have to say I like the direction! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d #mazestalker

I sneaked in a little change that's been on my mind for a while: I wanted to make some of Yve's outlines feel a bit warmer. So backback and hair have a slightly brighter outline now. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

Getting this to work with my hand-crafted plant-shader has been... an experience. You can never really predict which part of your development process will be the timesink! #gamedev #solodev #indiegame #unity3d #mazestalker #landstalker #alundra

One of the tricky parts of gamedeving is to know when to listen to feedback. Playing with friction is what truly defines if an interactive experience has an edge. But this is a case where I think it would be wise to listen to the mob, so here you go! #gamedev #solodev #indiegame

I want to turn this into a centipede, but that is going to take some time... #gamedev #solodev #indiegame #unity3d

I will allow myself to indulge myself in one more crazy feature: I want to work on a boss encounter for later in the game. I decided to do this a while ago, but only now do I have the right flow of mind to work on it. #gamedev #solodev #indiegame #mazestalker

It feels so refreshing to work on outside-areas again! I love it. But I also love working on the Metroidvania caves and on the Zelda dungeons. Tells me I'm working on the right project! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d #mazestalker #screenshotsaturday

After writing a set of challenges around my new mechanic I have to develop an enrivonment in which they can fit into organically. This goes through several iterations. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

Right now I'm mostly finetuning the effects. I had an important realization: The hitbox for the sword should not be instant. That will effect everything. #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #mazestalker

Still lacks a lot of visual finetuning, but that's the idea! For the first time in years I started thinking something other then the begining of the game and I wanted a unique feature for outside! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker #landstalker #screenshotsaturday

I've started to work on a new feature. Gotto put this together in a couple of steps. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

A while ago I destroyed the source file of my trailer. I'm currently rebuilding what I had shot by shot with a lot more experience under my belt! #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Ai Weiwei was invited to contribute short reflections on “What I would have liked to know about Germany earlier" for an upcoming issue of Zeit Magazin. His submission was first shortened and edited, then immediately cancelled after a review by the Executive Editor. Ai shared his reflections anyway:

The cool thing about working on the trailer is it always makes me work on parts of the game I had almost forgotten! #gamedev #indiegame #mazestalker #indiedev #zelda #solodev

Post bugs they say... people like bugs they say... #gamedev #indiegame #mazestalker

Every advice out there insists that your trailer has to be about gameplay gameplay gameplay. I think I got that. What I want to accomplish when introducing my game to a stranger is that I will make you FEEL things. I'm sorry, but that's why I'm doing this. #gamedev #indiegame

This still has a few new bugs, but at least it's starting to feel right. Working on this has been an sbolute nightmare, trapped between my character controller that was written by an amateur and the unity physics system. #unity3d #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev

I'm rewriting the pushing from scratch. The final implementation will be very complicated and it's gotten me stuck for a month ( sometimes in a #CFS phase complex problems tend to take a while ). Why all this you wonder? Well a little detail was irking me! #gamedev #indiegame

The decentralization of payment services is such a critical step for humanity. Noone actually needs these dinosaur businesses 2025, so if you wonder why your credit card company gets to dictate how you spend the evening, maybe it's time to get off your butt and look into alternatives.

Just doing some light trailer work as I gather the strength to jump back into production! #gamedev #mazestalker #indiegame #animation

Two events down. The primary reason I stepped out into the public was that after 4 years and a lot of talk, there does come a point where you have to verify if you are pursuing something worthwhile. #gamedev #mazestalker #indiegame #solodev

I've been a bit inactive due to another round of Covid, in the meantime I'm just preparing little things for another event. I think I'll get back into the groove after that. #gamedev #indiegame #mazestalker

My girlfriend got a #luigi keychain, I told her to put it on her bag with her other cute stuff. She looked at me like I'm a madman and explained Luigi can't go with the cute stuff, Luigi is a MAN! It turns out that Toad IS allowed on her bag though...