Sorry for the silence, development is a bit intense right now. I've created a new devlog looking at the pretty severe crunch, the demo, gambling your way out of debt, and more. store.steampowered.com/news/app/3168670/view/659357611098899150 #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #mecha

A closer look at the directional shield I added to my game yesterday. Not final, still have a bit of sound design and VFX to do. This will probably be the last piece of new equipment until the demo is completed. #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart

Testing shield thing for my game

Continuing work on the game today. Working hard towards finishing the NextFest demo build. It's gonna be a LOT of crunch over these next few weeks. Going to try to have a development recap / new dev log up soon too. #indiedev #gamedev #mecha #pixelart

We hit 421 wishlists today; this is more than I thought the game would receive going into it. Thank you to everyone who has wishlisted, and for those who haven't: a reminder that there will be a playable demo on June 15th for Steam Nextfest. #indiedev #gamedev #mecha #pixelart

My game will be at NextFest in June. I've made a trailer for the demo here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJun... #mecha #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

Wasn't able to post this here yesterday morning due to Bluesky being down, so here it is now instead! I've been working on improving the atmosphere in the hub world recently. There are now NPCs that walk in the foreground. I'll be refining this over the next few days. #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart

Watched a playtester play my game yesterday and witnessed the most cursed run ever. He died a bunch and ended up going into thousands of dollars of medical debt, which he tried to combat by gambling and pawning off his belongings. AND IT WORKED!! #indiedev #gamedev

Playtester feedback: The shoulder-mounted rocket launcher is DOGSHIT And I agree! So I updated it and it now fires four cluster rockets that shoot out a ton of mini bombs #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #mecha

Proud to announce that I did the new 1.0 art for SCAVENGER ZERO @scavengerzero.bsky.social This was a welcome challenge and I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to draw something for such a cool game. Looking forward to release! 👀👀👀

A large update today; here's the brand new cover art for SCAVENGER ZERO made by @eb-game-design.bsky.social ! We updated it to better reflect the game and how it's changed throughout development. The change should be live on Steam now! #gamedev #mecha #indiedev #indiegame

Yesterday marked the end of daily social posts for my game after about 108 days. I'll make a post in the future going over the analytics, but I've decided to stop daily posts to focus a bit more on development. #indiedev #gamedev

Today's progress: I finished the boss fight for internal version 0.4.0. I am NEVER going to do a mission this ambitious again. I ended up having to rework multiple core systems due to the scale of it. Fun stuff #gamedev #indiegame #mecha

Still working on 0.4.0. Confirming we'll be at Steam's June NextFest too. We've got enough funding to make it to release, but we'll be running a Kickstarter during NextFest to fund additional voice acting and features for the game we couldn't do otherwise. #indiegame #gamedev

Preparing for April. We'll be revealing the new key art, plans for launch/demo stuff, a press kit, and a casting call for voice actors too. Super small budget (voicing the FULL GAME would literally be impossible), but I figure we can at least do mid-mission dialogue! #indiegame #gamedev #mecha

I can't think of a good post today so here's a processor computer thing I'm working on for the next build #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart

Quick preview of a new item I added recently. It gives you a friendly ORBITER enemy to bring into combat #indiegame #roguelike #pixelart #mecha

For those who missed it; yesterday's short showed off three new mech sets I added to the internal 0.3.4 build recently. Total part count now over 150. Goal is 200, so we're almost there. #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #mecha

Going to be finishing up SCAVENGER ZERO 0.3.4 today, testing, releasing to the rest of the internal team tomorrow. I've fixed some major issues with terrain generation, added a bunch of new content, etc. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

An item I added recently, called "SURPRISE MECHANICS." It's essentially an ammo loot box; it gives your weapons a chance to fire a completely random projectile. And I mean RANDOM. It can be the projectile of a different weapon, or even an enemy's attack. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Version 0.3.4 of SCAVENGER ZERO is almost ready to release internally but there's one small issue; the player is constantly on drugs and the effect NEVER goes away... I need to fix this tomorrow lol #indiegame #indiedev

The head, torso, hands, legs, and feet are all separate so that you will be able to visually see what you have equipped. Time to make some equipment! #pixelart #rpg #indiegame #solodev #animation #isometric

I haven't been doing as much social media stuff recently because I've been extremely focused on the actual game for the last two weeks. At some point I'm just going to lock in for a night and make a month's worth of posts at once #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Yesterday's short for anyone who might've missed it #indiedev #gamedev #mecha

I was very tired from the last few days and overslept a bit (15 HOURS OF SLEEP) Now I will continue work on SCAVENGER ZERO #indiegame #gamedev

Some mock ups for different biomes in my prototype project. #pixelart #indiegame #solodev #isometric

Even more progress today. Development speed has basically tripled since internal playtesting began. It's definitely given me a surge of motivation. I've been making major progress on bugfixing and balancing + compiling a new build every 2 days lmao #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Added a battle log today! This gives a quick break down of what abilities are used and how much damage people are taking. It comes complete with a scroll bar, pooled log entries and reusing old entries once you're past 40 to help with memory usage! #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #godotengine #srpg

More progress since last post; I compiled internal version 0.3.1 which fixed an issue with save data and graphics pop-in. Now working on version 0.3.2 which will add some of the things that didn't quite make it into the first internal build #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

I forgot to post this morning. I stayed up for 24 hours to finish the first internal build of the game. And I am very tired :) #gamedev #indiegame #roguelike

For sure adding a day night cycles to this game at some point. The style is starting to come together. Time to make the boars actually do stuff now. #pixelart #indiegame #indiedev #solodev #rpg

I'm still working on UI today so here's the short I made yesterday #mecha #indiegame #pixelart

I'm so tired. I've been doing nothing but coding UI for the last day and a half. Please pretend like I posted something cool about my game. Thanks. #indiedev #gamedev #roguelike

Early WIP for the pawn shop. Giving the player a place to sell some of their items for money if they need to #indiegame #roguelike #pixelart

Recap of progress on my game over the last few months. Talking about the game being funded, release date trailer, press kit, and more. Stay tuned for March. store.steampowered.com/news/app/3168670/view/520865584878977796 #indiegame #roguelike #mecha #pixelart

For those who missed it; here is yesterday's short showcasing a few of the updated weapon sounds #indiegame #mecha #pixelart

Refactoring success. Its now way easier to manage the context based A-Button, and the Entity system is a lot more SOLID. Pots are now throwable and breakable. A very important feature for this style of game. #pixelart #zeldalike #indiegame

Power outage on the station #indiegame #pixelart #ドット絵 #roguelike

Working on adding in more customization options for the player in the hub world. It's not as fleshed out as the mech customization, but I'm hoping it will be soon #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #ドット絵

🐝 New item: Honeycomb 🐝 It unleashes swarms of mechanical bees on the enemy #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #ドット絵

more joe #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #ドット絵

Back to work on Twilight Obscura #pixelart #indiedev #solodev

More hub world work #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #ドット絵

Katana Zero is a big inspiration for my game. I spent time making a custom lighting shader for these rim lights! It's all automatic, no normal maps or sprite masks. Might post a tutorial in the future if there's a demand for it. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #ドット絵

THE STEAM PAGE IS LIVE!!!! Add to wishlists! store.steampowered.com/app/4418640/... #indiedev #solodev #steam

Working on finishing the Star Map today. It lets you move freely around the star system and highlight planets to see a preview of them, as well as a bit of lore / info! #gamedev #indiedev #mecha #roguelike

Follow up on Joe, the invincible robot who handles environmental damage... Well, I think Joe has to be locked away for now. If he is enabled in the scene, for some reason, he uses 100% CPU and tanks the performance of the game. This is not a joke. #indiedev #gamedev #mecha #joe

This is Joe. Due to how damage calculations work in SCAVENGER ZERO, the game will not function if Joe is not loaded in the scene. You will never see Joe in normal gameplay. Say hi to Joe #gamedev #indiedev #joe #mecha

Working more on the "lore bible" for my game today. It's a HUGE document that contains the entire history of SCAVENGER ZERO's world. It's mainly for reference & to ensure consistency when I'm writing, but maybe I'll share it some day #indiedev #mecha #gamedev

more water and stuff #indiedev #pixelart #ドット絵 #mecha #メカ