#7 Zoom on important parts A mistake I did initially was to record 1080p fullscreen GIFs or screenshots and put them in the long description. Zoom on the important stuff or reduce the window size, it's easier to see detail when the image is 700ish px wide! :) #indiegamedev #solodev #steam #tips

Response from a friend when he saw that:

That's another fun bug I just encountered 😅 Good thing I'm just about to rewrite of the train draw functions! Trust me I'm a pro ahah

What a nice way to start the day, an Alchemistry player just opened a Pull Request on my public translations repository to translate the **whole game** in Romanian. I love when the community gives some nice surprises like that 😍 If that doesn't motivate me to do more gamedev, nothing will !

Got 22 wishlists in the last 30 days on Logistik while doing absolutely nothing marketing-wise. Well, I guess, that better than nothing 😄 Once I get back enough of my motivation, I'll spam you with tons of cool trains screenshots and GIF! c: In the meantime, a fun bug: #solodev #indiegamedev

Just stop wrecking my fucking privacy, ffs www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

I'm done working with preparing new items and achievements for the next Alchemistry update! I may add some additional QoL before the release next month. Speaking of achievements ... 😄 #indiegamdev #solodev #gamedev #solodev

#6 Create your IGDB game page It will help lots of websites to know about your game, including but not limited to automatically created Twitch and YouTube categories! I wrote a devblog about that if you want to know how to do it: blog.dysnomia.studio/blog/en/2023... #indiegamedev #solodev #tips

The Steam Machine has been delayed because stupid little babies can't stop using AI to write their emails: aftermath.site/steam-machine-...

Really, do not underestimate rest/sleep. Yesterday I had to take my afternoon off because I was too tired/unable to focus. That was my best decision in weeks. I spent a full afternoon +evening resting, slept early, had a full night. I feel more energetic (and able to think) than I have in weeks 😄

#5 Be Human You are creating this game alone or in a small group, so share your anecdotes, your thoughts, moments of joy, silliness and fun bugs! Embrace it, don't being rigid like big companies. Make the player see and understand the humans behind the game :) #indiegamedev #solodev #steam #tips

#4 Don't do like AAA games Related to last week post: don't copy how AAA create teasers or store pages. Take inspiration from mid-sized developers and publishers instead! AAA don't have to fight for visibility like us, so they're not a good example to follow :) #indiegamedev #solodev #steam #tips

Small victory I'm proud of. I just reached my lowest amount of video on my Youtube Watchlist, lowest in 5 freaking years. I'm still a bit (51h 🙈) than my previous duration minimum, but hey, that's still something! One day I may empty this list ahah Let's empty those backlogs!!

I know that's mainly thanks to the 2023/2024 gamedev starter packs ... but damn that's crazy to have thousands people following me on Bluesky!

I was wondering why my latest post didn't get lots of reactions. Again, bsky put it in french not English and I didn't see it for a full hour. So I just reposted it 😅 I keep having this issue when posting since I sometimes reply in french, sometimes in English

#3 Show gameplay In trailers, screenshots, GIF, show your gameplay. Zoom or reduce resolution if needed, cut slower parts, ... Focus on how to get the attention of (future) players! Also, yes, our menu, our company logo are cool (we all love ours), but don't show them #indiegamedev #steam #tips

Les gens habitant en France qui me suivent, n'oubliez pas de mettre à jour votre situation electorale si vous avez déménagé (vous pouvez même verifier ici www.elections.interieur.gouv.fr/mes-demarche... si vous n'êtes pas sûr que c'est bon). Ca se fait en ligne, et vous avez jusqu'au 6 février :)

#2 Wishlists deletions are okay and normal (especially during big sales such as Winter Sale!). Yes, it kinda hurts, but it's always better to have a small number of interested people than a big number of people who'll just ignore your game at release. 🧵 1/2 #indiegamedev #solodev #steam #tips

If you want me to play your game more, definitely add some (interesting) achievements. I love to do them and discover what kind of hidden things the dev put in a game. My personal goal is to have 100 games at 100% ... and I'm not that far, I'm at 93 😅 (took me from 1h to 85+) Here are the games:

End of the year celebrations makes it so it's been almost 1 month I haven't written a single line of code in my gamedev projects. Frustrating, but I still had some time to start my new writing challenge for the year (one short text per week on a given theme), it's cool to be back at this c:

This is the kind of weekly summary I like! 😁 It motivates to do some additional gamedev :)

Alright letssss start! Common mistake #1 Make your release date public on your Steam page at least a few weeks in advance. Otherwise, you won't benefit much from the help of the Steam algorithms, you won't be shown on any (1st/3rd party) release calendar, nor in "popular upcoming". #indiegamedev

If you didn't see this, I've shared lots of stats (spent time, revenues, wishlists) and my future projects in my most recent devblog!

It's been a few weeks I'm thinking of posting regular small advices about common mistakes in gamedev (especially on Steam Pages), would you be interested ? 👀

I'm done with writing 2025 summary and 2026 plans devblog! You can read it here: blog.dysnomia.studio/blog/en/2025... I talk about how I spent my times, revenues, wishlists, my projects, and more! (French translation available too!) #indiegamedev #solodev #hobbydev #devblog

That's crazy, I have these settings, but it still wants me to write in French by default ...

That won't be in the 2025 summary devblog ... But this still look cool 😂

I've started writing it in the train this morning ... There's lots of stuff to talk about when I think about it 😅

During Steam Winter Sale, you can get both my games for less than the full price of one! Take a look at this bundle if you're interested: store.steampowered.com/bundle/26012/ #solodev #indiegamedev

Alright. I stopped working monthly summaries. However... I may still write a special devblog that acts as yearly summary and to dump my ideas of what 2026 could be for my projects (gamedev or not). In the yearly summary, you'll probably see this pic (but updated), with some explanation:

Je dois vraiment calmer mon emploi du temps sur 2026. J'ai réalisé que je n'ai pris que 2 semaines de vrais congés sur 2025... (et encore, c'était en partie passé sur mes projets quand même). Comment dire que le corps va pas suivre si je continue 😅 Objectif, 5 vraies semaines de congés en 2026!

Reminder that my polish zloty prices have been updated and you should too (once the winter sale is done, since you can't participate in a sale for 30d after the change!). So that also means my game should reach their lowest price in Zloty tonight with the Steam Winter Sale! #solodev #indiegamedev

Steam Replay 2025 is out! :)

Some cool visual I've been able to have yesterday on Logistik is this one. I liked it enough that it became the GIF of the long description on Steam 😁 Still some work to do, of course, but hey, that's progress! #indiegamedev #TeaseYaGame #solodev #hobbydev #trains

Few weeks ago I was talking about marketing, and after some of your advices, decided to improve Logistik store page (a lot!). I applied most of these new ideas tonight! Still a new teaser and some other updates to do, but it's better! (Pics: Before x2 then After x2) #solodev #indiegamedev #trains

Alright, I'll need to read some short books (maybe comics ?) to succeed that 2025 reading challenge haha But hey, not bad, I'm already past 5000 pages! (Book list in the alt of the second image, from the most recent read to the oldest!)

That moment when I'm working and I get the random idea of a new game (like I didn't have enough project already). I must listen to the rational part of my brain "Take notes, don't start anything asap". #solodev

This weekend has been calmer, I didn't do much on the gamedev topic ... or the personal projects topic at all. (Well, didn't do much, is still something like 3 or 4 hours in 3 days 😆) It was nostalgia time, playing some Minecraft modpack while having Stargate running on my left screen. I love it c:

What's cool, now that I have a proper map editor... is I can re-do the game logo using real game assets :p That will be my flex. My steam capsule will be an in-game screenshot (with some added text, of course)😁 #indiegamedev #solodev

First time I'm being interviewed about my story as a gamedev, and that was by @weloveeverygame.bsky.social! (Thank you! ♥) Here's a small peak in what a decade of (hobby/semi-pro) gamedev look like for me ;) www.weloveeverygame.com/articles/spo... #solodev #indiegamedev #indiedev #hobbydev

That's not because I'm not writing monthly summaries anymore that I can't take a fast look at my Grafana dashboards and see that I worked almost every day on my projects in the last month! c:It's been a while I haven't see that! (And it wasn't done on purpose!) #solodev #indiedev #hobbydev

The looks are okay when we think I've made this game from scratch in 14 hours, including 2 hours of narration voice. And that I didn't know how to use Godot in 3D when I started.

Reminder that from December, I stopped writing monthly summary. But I post more often with more various stuff! You've got photography, stats and of course gamedev more often along the month now c: #solodev #hobbydev

Recording narrative audio is damn hard. Kudos to people who do that. I've tried doing a few sentences (15 audios) for my small gamejam game, it's not easy at all 😅 (Spent 2h on this) But at least, one more thing I've tried as a gamedev! (Also I've made a Portal reference!) #solodev #indiegamedev

Hey, gamedevs! It's time for a reminder to check your Steam Tags! They change with time when players add them too, be sure the top 20 are still okay. It's important for your discoverability! Check through private browsing or the store page admin, otherwise you may see the ones chosen by/for you!

Last month I deployed a new version of my Personal Assistant module used to tag activities I focus on my computer (so I can make cool calendar with activities along the day: games, work, ...) One big new feature of this version is the ability to tag and clean-up data using RegExp... that's so cool!

One day, I'll have this YouTube watchlist to 0 video, and I'll be so happy 😂 I have 178 videos left to watch including ... 173 Stargate-related interviews on @dialthegate.bsky.social channel 😅 (2 down today, listening while I was working, but I'm still in early 2023!)

Currently participating in a chill gamejam (Honest Jam) like every year in december, 9 days in my free time, and I always try to experiment new things even if I don't always get a game. This year experiments are: 3D in godot and audio narrative :p I started the 3D part yesterday :) #solodev

So. Remember when Valve announced a VR headset that also plays Windows games? Remember when I played a Windows copy of Silksong on my Android phone? Valve planted the seeds for *all* of that. It's the same technology. Valve is behind Fex. www.theverge.com/report/82065...

Can you make a website for my mother's side gig? or worse Can you fix my printer?