DAY 228: 36 bugs open in my list. Working to reduce that number and at the same time I create new features that reponens previously closed bugs and introduces new ones... I need a beer! Good weekend you all! #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Stardew Valley 10th Annyversary, holly cow! As an #indiedev I can't be more jeallous about the success of this game. For me Eric Barone is a reference of perseverance, refined work and self-trust, the epitome of #solodev. Congrats! #StardewValley

DAY 227: I'm soo happy to have my garage persistence working 🚗 , now I need to plug into the save/load system and I will focus all my efforts into bug hunting and creating a couple of event to disclose the DEMO 1 #gamedev #indedev #godotengine

DAY 226: I'm just one step ahead of garage management completion 💪 (except bugs). The only step remaining will be persistence on disk. Now I realize I need to add good looking decals... more work... This is solodev! #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Sonic The Hedgehog looks awesome in lopoly style and I would love to create a character with such personality and success. High five if you love this character! #sonic #sonicthehedgehog #gaming

DAY 225: I'm really close to finish my garage management. I still have the shared UV coordinates shown yesterday but I'm really happy. I can handle different cars with differnt colors and stats. Two steps remaining: handle decals and persistence #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

#Steam Next Fest has started! this is always nice because playing games becames part of my #gamedev work. I will play a lot of demos for the sole reason of market reseach 😂 The hard part of being a #solodev Btw, gimme a wishlist... please 🙄

DAY 224: BUG FOUND... AGAIN... Not even a single time is going to be easy? 😭 Today I realized that for some reason all the car models are sharing the same uv coordinates... Only the car in the paint station should change color. Ideas? #godot #gamedev

I still don't know if generating short videos with AI could be useful to test game-feelings so I can validate the idea previous to implementation. Just tested with #trex vs #cybertruck. What do you feel? #gamedev

Why should I add a Cybertruck to my game? (wrong answers only)

DAY 223: Baby steps but the backend needed to have a garage starts to be in place, I think I've detected a visual bug, now it has been written down in my bug list and I will solve it in the future when the garage feature is done. Generally speakin... I'm happy 😘 #godot #gamedev #driving

It will cost you $0.0 to support the dedication of a solodev... It will cost you $0.0 to support the dedication of a solodev... It will cost you $0.0 to support the dedication of a solodev... It will cost you $0.0 to support the dedication of a solodev...

DAY 222: Marketing oriented day. I've been preparing an itch project page for my future first demo. The idea is to upload the first demo (like first approach) then refine and upload a second demo to itch and steam (a polished one). Any dev tested that strategy? #gamedev

Voice chat is comming to LOL. Seriously, I don't think voice chat is always necessary. What do yo think?

DAY 221: All menus and buy/upgrade process needs juicines... 🤔 But I'm one step closer to finish the core mechanics and the economy loops of my game. I prefer get something rough and playable and polish in the next phase. What's your approach? I'm excited! #godot #gamedev #ux

Antigravity was my first experience with IA vibe coding... whatever. Just for testing purposes in my #gamedev journey. I tried to create a game for #godotengine ... Today I've uninstalled it. After a long session my resuts were the followin: it creates code really fast, it seemed to work but.. 1/3

DAY 220: Everything seems to do fine with Godot 4.6... and I continue with my nemesis... UI design! 😭 I want to finish my core game loop. Race -> earn money -> buy upgrades -> more cool races against dinosaurs. #gamedev #godot #ui

Godot 4.6.1 is out! Ok, I can't be as fast as you guys! But is good to know I'm using an engine with a great support! Thank you guys! #godotengine #indiedev

DAY 219: Last days bug was about scene tabs opened and the order those scenes were loading... Just closing the tab with the "broken" file solved everything. 🥰 The unpredictable bugs are the bugs that scares me the most... so today was for chill. Just embraced Godot 4.6! #godot #gamedev

Good enough jump to go to the #Olimpics? I'm an exhausted #indiedev

DAY 218: I'm still puzzled with the "broken but not broken" dependencies error. It only happens when loading the project. I've removed and recreated the nodes... I tried every idea. But at the end... everything seems to work seamlessly (even exporting). Any idea? #godot #gamedev

I am so pissed off by the "broken dependencies" error that I did a short/vertical video today. Hope you enjoy ;) #gamedev #godot #driving

DAY 217: I'm freaking out! Today my projecte stated complaining about broken dependencies... How the hell happened? I'm reviewing the files and everything seems to be ok, and the project runs ok... I'm exporting the project to check. Anybody knows how to solve it? #godot #gamedev

DAY 216: This is huge to me. I'm a step closer to have a fully functional game loop. Now the stats upgrade system is functional, sure it needs some fine tunning (overal economy). I'm fully focused on DEMO 1 🚗 💨 🦖 #gamedev #godot #driving

DAY 215: All the inner work to manage upgrades is done (...mostly 😂) Now it's time to face the biggest fear for a developer... UI & art design. Here is my approach. Ideas are welcome. 😘 #gamedev #godot #ux

DAY 214: BUG AHEAD! Do not mess with game parameters that interacts among them... 😡 Everything was fine till I wanted to make steering smoother... 🚗 🌪️ SPOILER ALERT: It went really wrong! #godot #gamedev #bug

DAY 213: The last two days has been very productive. The upgrade system is almost done, also are the sets of configurations. And, as a side efect, the widget (button) creation on the console system. Im' really happy 😄 It still lacke a nice UI for upgrades. #gamedev #godot

DAY 212: I've been thinking about cutting features and content... Expectation and effort are really unbalanced. Eventhough I'm creating the best product I can It seems I can't create expectation via socials. Never mind, if expectation grows I will reevaluate. #godot #gamedev

DAY 211: Have you ever been embarrased about the solution you implemented? Ok, I've been in that position thousand times, but never like this one. godot seems to have an issue to change wheel positions on a VehicleBody3D so I did nasty stuff. ...I need to have a shower! #godot #gamedev

How amazing would be to see my game in a Nintendo Direct! 🥰 Every solodev feels the same? #nintendodirect #NintendoDirectJP

I'VE BEATEN THE 400H MARK! And I did'n even realized about it. I'm still miles away from my goal. But I'm decided to finish the best racing game with dinos 🚗💨🦖Thanks to all the nice people out there that wants to support me with a wishlist on Steam! #gamedev #godot #dinosaur

DAY 210: Catching up with the project is hard after a long time, because I need to refresh too much stuff. I'm still creating the building blocks for the car stats and upgrades. BUT I RUN INTO A BUG! 🤦 Why the hell the wheels are at the desired spot ?!?! #gamedev #bug #godot

DAY 209: Life is life and shit happens 💩 , althought the project is not cancelled I had almost no time to dedicate. To be back on track again I've started with a small console update to start adding different stats to the cars. 🧵 (1/2) #gamedev #driging #games

Godot 4.6 is out! I think it's a great event to be back on track. Stay tuned for new updates about my game. And... remember you can always wishlist DRIVE TO EXTINCTION on steam if you are a really kind human being 😘 #gamedev #godot

DAY 208: Close to 400h invested and still far away from the goal 😕 . Thank you all the beautiful people reading this log. But all the bad mood, concerns and burnout will stay away from me for the next 7 days. I'm on vacation! 🥳. Here you ha... (1/4) #gamedev #IndieDevHour #JurassicWorld

DAY 207: Waiting for the vacation period to start, but... finishing some stuff although I'm very tired. I finished my red barred, added a coin bag. But the main dedication during this week was... I got obsessed with mastering the promotion. (1/3) #gamedev

I *almost* did it! Some bugs need to be solved for my soft_reset to be fully functional... At least half a victory for today 🥳 #gamedev #godot

DAY 206: Too much time spent restarting the game while testing to improve driving. I decided to add a soft reset mechanism in my console... but something is not going ok... 😡 why it does not work for every node??? #gamedev #godot

My game described with emojis 1. 🚗💨 🚓💨 🦖 🌪️ 🌋 2. 💰🚗 🛠️ ⬆️🚕⬆️ 3. 🦕🦖 💥🚗 🏆 #indiegame #gamedev

insanely tiredv after my daily work, I'm considering to go to de doctor... I barely could update my game, just started to create explosions... Hopefully, next week I will get some vacation... and everything will be back on track. 💪

DAY 205: Tired 😔 . I've started to refresh the Godot muliplayer features... got the idea to port a multiplayer game I made on version 3.5... lot of changes, not worked 😥 So, I moved to create some barrels. but had no stamina to make it explode #gamedev #godot

DAY 204: Today my game journey splits into two milestones: 1. Learn (refresh), design and implement the first multiplayer layer 👪 2. Improve the driving feeling and overall fun (sometimes the car gets too hard to handle) 🚗 💨 Uncertainity ahead! 👀 #gamedev #godot

DAY 203: Second attempt to migrate to Godot 4.5.1... It seems it works pretty well 🤔 Good navigating dinos, no stutter with obs... I will keep a close eye in the project performance during the next days. #gamedev #godot

DAY 202: Today I wanted to make something new and cool. So, I mixed a problem I had: the rocks deletion strategy to not overwhelm the physics. With something cool: destructible stuff. So here we have destructible rock (timeout and impact based) 😊 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 201: As the interactions grows so the bugs appears... But it's great to see the world interact. Like in this clip... Don't mess with the T-Rex food 🌭 🦖 😂 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 200: Whoa! 200 days of work!! 🥳 And 100 days of daily updates! Thanks to all of you reading this. Today I'm super happy not only for the 200 days but also for the coleophysis and t-rex interaction... check it out! #indiegame #gamedev #indedev

DAY 199: Good news... The coleophysis IA got fixed! 🥳 And the environment start to interact... Althought my workload is still really hight. It feels really good see small improvements like this first state machine working 🚗 🦖 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 198: Still overloaded but dedicating time to my project. 💪 My best wishes to all gamedevs out there... becouse I need yours, a minute ago the small dino detected the t-rex. Now he does not... I changed something and don't know what! 😭 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

DAY 197: A ton of work in my job this days, so I have little time to invest in Drive to Extinction 😭 Additionally, the las YT video flopped huge! 😭 I have the feeling of fighting uphill, but... shit happens. Hope to have coleophysis AI ready this week. #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Uh-oh! Maybe I did something wrong for my game progress... What are your gaming sins? Mine it's the SILENT HILL IP. I resisted for a couple of weeks but... #gaming #gamedev