Debug lines everywhere — but beneath the chaos, the town is thinking. Tracking homes, workplaces, paths, and occupation markers as people move through the settlement. Messy, but it’s the good kind of messy. #GameDev #CityBuilder #StrategyGame #SimulationGame #IndieDev #Unity3D #ScreenshotSaturday

First rough version of Bronze Age tech tree. Early choices are basic but foundational: water control, brickery, and ranged weapons. It’s a WIP, but these are the first techs I'm wiring into the game. (I made up brickery, sounded fun) #GameDev #IndieDev #StrategyGame #BronzeAge #TurnBasedThursday

Working on tracking "I go you go" turn-based tactics combat. Gets trickier when you weave in world events and blocking decisions. #turnbasedtactics #strategygame #indiedev #gamedev #4x

The sheep were, in fact, only the beginning. I just posted a new Steam update covering route movement, fishing, upgraded herds, smarter rival units, new Events/Encounters, terrain polish, and clearer interactions across the map. store.steampowered.com/news/app/344... #IndieGameDev #CityBuilder #4X

Honored to host #TurnBasedThursday! 🛠 #GameDev folks, show your #turnbased games below, and use the hashtag above 🎮 #Gamer folks have a look, as there are a lot of TBS gems in here, out or in the making Spam our favorite buttons 🔁/❤️ to show your support, and comments are very much appreciated!

First there is a fire. Then a path. Then a town. Then a people. Working on my turn-based city builder. #TurnBasedThursday #indiedev #citybuilder #strategygame

A few towns made by players during last play-test! Best part of showing the game in person is watching people make choices I didn’t expect — then going home with a notebook full of fixes, ideas, and “oh, that actually worked” moments. #indiedev #gamedev #citybuilder #ScreenshotSaturday

A village growing over 20 turns, now with more pleasant dirt and grass. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #wip

Build the Routes. Move the units. Defend the towns. Question the sheep. #StrategyGame #TurnBased #GameDev #Unity #CityBuilder

Forts, towers, units, and NPCs can overlap. Tiny hover/selection details matter a lot here — because the moment the interface feels frustrating, the world stops feeling real. Still fine-tuning this in Tenants of the Shade. #GameDev #IndieGameDev #Unity #4X #StrategyGame

Got the first version of fishing working. People can go to nearby rivers, lakes, or ocean and fish from the shore. Determined by settlement priorities. Still rough, but it’s nice seeing another little survival system come alive. #GameDev #IndieDev #Unity #CityBuilder #Simulation

Debugging in scene view hits different. Suddenly every NPC remembers they have free will. #gamedev #Unity #AI #Simulation #WIP #GameDevLife

A little more life on the map. Kids in the village, sheep in the grass, guard towers at the forts… and a ship that clearly had a bad day. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #strategygame

Starting from just a few footsteps, a settlement slowly organizes itself. Paths emerge naturally—shaped by resources, neighboring towns, and the daily routines of its people. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #4x #strategygame

All hands to battle stations, this is not a drill! It's the official #TurnBasedThursday on Bsky! Calling all #GameDev aces: tell us about your #IndieGame; post your project below! Tag your friends! Tag your enemies! ❤️ Players, share the love and help spread the word about your favorite games! 🔁

Started as a small coastal town… and slowly grew into something much bigger. Expanding plazas, new cities, and people living their own lives inside it all. #TurnBasedThursday #gamedev #indiedev

You found a city on a hill, battle in the ravine, and turn survival into prosperity. Been doing work on military unit tactics, hover behavior, and UX. Small changes individually, but together they’ve made the game feel much more engaging. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #4x #strategygame

Combat’s feeling better. The warriors used to be chess pieces. Now they’re rigged models using my "people shader", so they feel like a part of the world, just ready for a fight. I also passed a turn to make the clip last longer and immediately got punished for it. #gamedev #TurnBasedTactics #wip

It's an honor to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday! 📢 Calling all #IndieDev and #GameDev folks to show off their turn-based games below! Love #turnbased games? ♥ / 🔁 great games in the replies and @ who should be in this thread!

New town hover/select effect coming along. Needed something that didn't get in the way of other elements, while still making the highlight clear. #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder

Thanks for hosting this #TurnBasedThursday! Sharing a few moments with the people in my city-builder: camera follow, daily routines, inspect menus, and some more expressive hover feedback for towns and characters. Plus, naturally, capes and brooches. #gamedev #indiedev #TurnBasedThursday

HA! YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS IT? NO! It's #TurnBasedThursday again! Devs! Share your turn-based games in the replies! Gifs, videos, screenshots ahoy! Turn-based fans! Support your favorite turn-based games and SHARE THE LOVE! GO! GO! GO! #gamedev #indiedev

Early river dev clips—simulating flow with water “pucks” carrying volume downstream. I’m dangerously close to calling them Wahxels 🌊 #gamedev #indiedev #unity

Gave the town NPCs robe layers for more color and motion, and now the close-up ones have way more presence than I expected. Built on top of my instanced billboard setup, so it still stays efficient. Turns out capes help. #gamedev #indiedev #unity #screenshotsaturday

Working on layering billboard clothing over NPCs for super-efficient crowds. Mostly for performance. Partly for capes. #gamedev #indiedev #unity #Shaders

One of my favorite things in development is breaking LOD settings just enough to reveal a whole second society. Near people: work the farms Far people: visit the well, saunter through the plaza, phase through walls #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #simulation

Putting it together 🧩 From an Old Master’s maps → into a living title screen. This is a "collage animation" of how I made the current title screen. #gamedev #indiedev #GameArt #ArtHistory

Trying to make the world push back a bit 🌍 Not just building—but reacting: droughts ☀️ floods 🌧️ wandering groups 🎪 Some of this is still literally “Option A / Option B” right now #gamedev #indiedev

🐘 Took down the Steam page for Roundfoot today 🐘 Not gone—just walking a longer road. It shaped how I think about worldbuilding and systems— and it still echoes in what I’m building now. #gamedev #indiedev #unity #worldbuilding #TrailerTuesday

Working on the “Route” system — a core mechanic for linking towns, resources, and territory. Early playtests: confusion 😅 Now: starting to click. A lot of it comes down to better signifiers. #indiedev #gamedev #citybuilder #4X #GameDesign

Smarter combat AI. Enemies now push for high ground — and it shows. But smarter AI is exposing new problems: when both sides are jockeying for position, things can turn into awkward “leapfrog” situations. Now it’s a design question. #gamedev #indiedev #CombatDesign #TurnBasedTactics #GameDesign

Playtested the game this weekend — such a welcoming, creative space. The most valuable thing for me at this stage: feedback, feedback, feedback. I think it’s time to integrate a tutorial — or at least some subtle “nudge” tips to help steer player actions. #indiedev #citybuilder #screenshotsunday

The artist behind my title screen was born in 1480 — Matrakçı Nasuh. Trying out a parallax collage built from his work. #gamedev #ArtHistory #citybuilder #indiedev

*my wife saying literally anything about the graphics in my game* "..." *me, every time* I’M NOT TRYING TO MAKE TINY GLADE …it wouldn’t scale anyway 😤 #gamedevlife #solodev #indiedev

Working on menus. Gold & Food use drill-downs. Others come from diegetic world elements. Trying to visually connect the UI to the source object. Will start with simple lines and iterate from there. If it's janky, iterate! #indiedev #gamedev #4X #Unity #simulationgame #uiux #gamedesign

Just posted a major development update. 🌾 Farming inspired by ancient field layouts 👣 Villager occupations and economy ⚔️ Combat improvements 🎮 Playtest feedback Devlog on Steam ↓ store.steampowered.com/news/app/344... #indiedev #gamedev #citybuilder #simulation #4X #indiegame #madewithunity

From empty coastline to a bustling town. Zoning districts in blueprint mode in my upcoming 4X city-builder. 🌴🛖🌐🛖🌴 Wishlist on Steam if you'd like to see more! #WishlistWednesday #indiedev #citybuilder #4X #gamedev #simulation #Unity

Blueprint mode for my seaside tropical town. First step: bananas. Next step: conquer the world. #gamedev #citybuilder #simulationgame #worldbuilding #unity3d #indiegame #strategygame

Another "turns go by" post. There is a lot more to the gameplay, but sometimes I just like to watch the people grow their village! 🛖⚒️🌿🛖 #CityBuilder #4XGame #Simulation #BronzeAge #HistoricalFiction #WorldBuilding #StrategyGames #GameDev

I've been playing around with the climate slider some more. Last climate post for now I swear. Next we teach our people to fish. #indiegame #strategygames #simulator #unitydev #proceduralgeneration #worldbuildinggame #turnbasedstrategy #devlog #gamedev

Another climate/terrain post, kinda like these settings better. #ProceduralGeneration #gamedev #Simulation #WorldBuilding #unity3d #indiedev

Working on a whole wet season / dry season thing. The goal: weather that actually matters for farming... and war. 🌧️☀️🌾🏹 #indiedev #gamedev #citybuilder #4X #simulationgame #Unity #madewithunity #worldbuilding

There is beauty in chaos -- a living village. Debug mode reveals: 🏠 arcs to homes ⚒️ arcs to work 🟡 path plans 🎨 occupation markers Under the hood, hundreds of people are planning where to go, what to do, and how to get there. #Unity #GameDev #Simulation #CityBuilder #IndieDev

🌿I'm still working a lot on how the farming economy works, which ultimately means a menu for each field. A lot of this data will be hidden or rephrased. 🙈 How did ancient peoples manage without farming popups?! #ScreenshotSaturday #Farming #Simulation #GameDev #IndieGames

Four more city-states from last night’s playtest. 🏛️ The most valuable moment in game development is watching someone play your game. You see the blind spots. You see what they notice. You see the story they create without you. That’s the magic. ✨ #gamedev #4X #procgen #citybuilder #indiegames

We are honored to be this week's official #TurnBasedThursday host on Bsky! 🖥️Are you an #IndieDev? Reply with your stellar turn-based game! 🎸Are you a turn-based game fan? Then 💬comment, ❤️like and 🔁share all the great games inside this thread! Don't forget to add the hashtag & tag other devs!

Do you want to learn how to come up with, design, flesh out, and populate cities for video games? Interested in a #gamedev focused game urbanism course? Join me then next Wednesday (Mar. 4) in my *Designing Cities for Video Games* course. Here: www.d6learning.com/course/gamec...

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday ! We are knee deep in project documentation this week, so I'm posting some older screenshots, here is some of the scenery from our upcoming prehistoric strategic simulation. #gemedev Wishlist to support the project! store.steampowered.com/app/2447370/...

#TurnBasedThursday 👣🌾🏛️ This fast-forward shows a new settlement growing organically in Tenants of the Shade — townspeople routines, crops, city growth, and roads all emerging from simulation systems. The 4X builder I’ve dreamt of making for years ✨ #indiedev #simulation #Unity3D #citybuilder