Designing this room is the most fun design-challenge I have faced in a while. Verticality was not a factor when working on my first chapter, but now things get more interesting! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #isometric #landstalker

have a lot of experience with design, but I can't forsee all issues. The problem here: Without perspective it is actually very hard to understand the height of this attack. I'm experimenting with a decal to simulate light, hm. #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #screenshotsaturday

Finetuning this enemy further. It was obviously way too chaotic, but it's still not quite there. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

So this is what I wanted to work on since last month! The visual effect plugin of unity was needed, so I lost a lot of time with upgrading! As you can probably tell, finetuning will be needed! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker #landstalker #ys

I've been quiet, most importantly I had to upgrade Unity to use some newer visual FX. Making backward progress always hits me in the guts, so it took me a while to figure out most issues, but now I can get back into the groove finally! #gamedev #solodev #indiegame

I posted over at LinkedIn about my mentorship experience from the last two months! I'm very gratefull for receiving help from the @pgda.at and @rattenhirn.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #gamdev #solodev #indiegame

I guess it's chibi, gameboy, pixelart metroid time again. 4 colors 160x144px

Working on my old box again for now. I have a very long line of complexities waiting with all the jelly-block stuff, so I'm building out the rooms that slowly teach it to the player step by step. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday

A full week wasted on trying to get the new PC to work. I did everything conceivable myself, friends, AI, the hardware support, sometimes things jsut cannot be fixed, so it's going back. Very bummed out over this.

This week my new PC arrived and I am trying to move over. For me, moving form one PC to the next is like moving a whole house... Going to take me a while to be productive again, especially since we have a new rentee! #gamedev #indiegame #kittycat

I've started development of a new hub-area. The first step is always developing a visual language that uses the same assets as the surrounding areas, yet still feels unique. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #screenshotsaturday

Put together this poison effect to go along with the new bat! For reasons that become obvious to anyone who sees this, this enemy will NOT appear at the start of the game... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker #zelda #ys #landstalker

I'm working on a new palette swap enemy! Despite having access to endless amounts of assets, I still think restrain is essential and palette swaps are part of a clean design language. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

Added a little more polish to this creepy sequence as I'm trying to polish this part of the game up for the demo. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #horrorgame

I often wonder why I find so many parts of the #gamedev scene repulsive. Today I thought of a metaphor: If you liken game development to cooking, it feels like gamedevs often forget that we possess the incredible ability to simply invent all the flavors.

Another thing that should have taken ten minutes tops, instead a whole day wasted. But this time I got noone else to blame but myself and my spaghetti code... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker #unity3d

This was supposed to be working fine, but I had to go kneedeep into "particle-science" to make this not reset all the time. Meh... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #retrogaming

Worked on the visual look, there's still a lot of finetuning needed for this to feel good! #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #mazestalker #puzzlegame

I'm working on a multi-step mechanic for enabling an entire class of puzzles. I posted earlier steps before but only now started working on the second step! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

After I watch people play the game an entire weekend, the list of issues is long. Among the bugfixes there are also #uxoptimization topics that I cannot ignore. For example this shop purchase feedback. Lots of pain, but oh so worth it! #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #mazestalker

Today I lost my chance to participate in @OTKGamesExpo because of a timezome mixup. Pretty brutal, considering I only got rejections from every other event this year. I WILL tell people about my game one day. If only they knew the kind of trailer I had lined up!

If you want to know what it's like to present you rgame at a large event I got you covered: youtube.com/watch?v=npjT... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #indiegames #videogames #gamecityvienna

I recorded this podcast about #Landstalker a while ago! HAppy to share it now that it's out! funandgames.libsyn.com/side-quests-...

Today I realized a mistake so bad they should take my #gamedev license... #solodev #indiegame

An interview with Austrian #gamedeveloper Florian Kraner, currently working on @mazestalker.bsky.social (paywall). #MazestalkerTheVeilofSilenos #Mazestalker #actionrpg #indiegames #gamedev #solodev #games www.games.ch/austria-game... @karlbmusic.bsky.social @subotron.bsky.social @pgda.at

Oops, misclicked a slider... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

I prepared some deco for my stand this weekend at #GameCityVienna . I had a lot of helpers for that, thanks so much to everyone! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

I put damage numbers on the player too. For whatever reason, I still observe that it's not clear to some players when they take damage. Also I made a new damage type that doesn't bump you back. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker #screenshotsaturday

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