If you were a video game character, what would your health pickup be?

I hope we can head out to a bunch of cool festivals next year with the Vending Machine game, but it's definitely not within our planned budget. 😅 (this subskeet brought to you by me looking at a bunch of indies having fun and heading to Bitsummit in Japan)

Updated my profile with a discord link. Both me and Dave are using it more frequently for our mutual dev convos, and starting to post more frequent Vending Machine progress updates in there. Join to see the latest: discord.gg/jAZzcs9yDd Planning for a proper announce later this year!

Researching announce trailers. Already have a pretty firm idea of what ours will showcase, but need to see if I can find good examples to show as reference to the others involved before we have the visuals to make it myself.

Business admin, PC building, and watching the front door like a hawk half the day for a delivery. A busy day, but different kind of busy than I had planned for.

I'm thinking I maybe didn't import the animations between Blender and UE5 correctly. Just a hunch.

Now I haven't exactly been a power user of Blender for a long time, but I've dabbled in it for years and I've always been annoyed with the extra unused "Actions" that somehow I end up creating. Never known how to deal with them. Until today! Stuff like this is why I'm doing the junk character test!

Damnit. Just noticed that they'd opened reservations for the Steam Controller. I wonder how many days that's been a thing, probably very far back in line now. 😅

Started the week looking for a Composer, a Lawyer, and a Capsule Artist. It's Tuesday evening and we now have very promising conversations with people about all three. And here silly me was worried that I was about to spend weeks just looking around, finding nothing...

Like seems to be the case for many others, no Steam Controller for me yet, despite my efforts. Adding the payment step just kept failing to go through. I'll try again next time.

Had my granddad over for lunch, and he got to play a bit of the game. He's usually pretty far removed from games (my mom's parents were the gamers), but seemed to grasp the Vending Machine game mechanics fairly well! Though he was lost when it came to the theming of anime and japan haha

A cool consequence of basing page-flipping on detecting *any* relative motion is that it becomes more than a hand gesture - it's a full physical response! This means I can use *anything* to turn the pages, even by brushing the book against a stationary object. 🐧👄🐟🫗🔄️ #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Speaking of something that might be too early.. We have a Discord! We've had it since Decaying Games started almost 2 years ago, but it's mostly empty at the moment. 😆 If you join you'll find out what we'll actually name the Vending Machine game 👀 discord.gg/adBeTYExhf

Getting "tips" from people on: 1. Don't show the game too early! 2. Why aren't you showing your game more already? I think I'll stick to our current plan, thank you very much 😆 We're doing a first round of proper attempts to solidify a shared vision for a logo and key art next dev Sunday.

Eyes, eyes, eyes... Don't look too closely; still very much at the "Make it exist" part of the character process.

Eyes, eyes, eyes... Don't look too closely; still very much at the "Make it exist" part of the character process.

No one told me 3d-modeling good eyes would be hard (literally everyone will tell you this)

Planning ahead the road to proper announcement of the Vending Machine game, and we've made a schedule to be able to fill in where we're otherwise busy. Right now it has the most important stuff, like birthdays and.. *checks notes* ...Anime Nights.

I love sharing numbers so here's a video of how much we spent to make Mythmatch. I break it down by time, discipline, and funding source. youtu.be/cB5lanPUQ1o

GROUND ZERO IS OUT NOW Available on PC, XBOX and PS5! groundzero.gg A retro survival horror in post-apoc Korea -Pre-Rendered BGs -Fixed camera -Tank+modern controls -Branching paths -Extra gamemodes -Multiple endings -20+ enemy types -20+ unlockable guns/costumes -Achievements +More!

Feels like a good a time as any to make it crystal clear that the Vending Machine game won't have any Gen A I associated with it. (alliteration to keep bots away)

Fellow Stockholm devs @malformation.bsky.social is launching their game Ground Zero today, go check it out on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2340130/...

More progress on the Vending Machine game tonight. Continuing on with setting base characters up (nothing fun to see yet though), and we're also doing some rough planning with actual dates in mind, in order to prepare for an eventual proper announcement! (which is still at least a few months out!)

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

Resharing, because other devs keep saying that they find this useful once they hear about it. Here's sort of what our narrative sketching page looks like for the vending machine game, for reference. (old screenshot, but you get the gist of it)

*closes Unreal (work project)* <restful, relieved sigh> *opens Unreal (side project)*

I would have loved to post more progress on the Vending Machine game, but I've been too deep in the hole with gaming lately. ~130h each on both Pokopia and Crimson Desert has eaten up all my free time outside of consultant work. 😂 It's nice to be able to go in deep, but need to shift focus soon 😄

Excited to share that I've been working with Mojang on Minecraft Dungeons II! youtu.be/fjI_Akk5z8Y

Because it maybe would've been needed for a thing (turns out it wasn't), I ordered a "Certificate of Good Standing" for the company, and it arrived late this week. Though I don't need to use it, it is kinda nice having a physical document with official gov seal saying that Decaying Games is legit.

Finally attempting to see what tags we'll eventually be able to use for the game, and think that a Top 5 is forming. Atmospheric Shop Keeper Anime Simulation Visual Novel Exact list will surely change over time, but right now those seem like the best matches of the available choices.

"Need"? Planning for 6, prepared for 5, and can find ways to survive with 4. I have the exp and tools to make this work, but the industry is what it is at the moment, and anything can happen between now and when the game ships.

Listening to the Va11-Hall-A OST while 3d modeling, and caught myself thinking that it feels like I'm back at my student days. Then I realized it's probably because that's when I last was doing proper 3d modelling 😂

For now, go follow our curator page for exciting updates!!!! store.steampowered.com/curator/4603... [Disclaimer: There will not be any updates for many months]

For now, go follow our curator page for exciting updates!!!! store.steampowered.com/curator/4603... [Disclaimer: There will not be any updates for many months]

It's still going to be A While until I have something to share on there, but Decaying Games is now officially a Steamworks partner! Been interacting with it for several projects in the past of course, but this is the first time I get to register onto it myself!

Look at our penguin's cuteness promoting Godot XR! Penguin Festival made the switch to Godot and has not looked back since~ Can't wait to see more VR games join in! 🐧🥽

Beat the main story of Pokopia earlier tonight, and been messing around with the endgame at bit. Not putting this down anytime soon, I think.

Given the game I'm making, I gotta shout out the vending machines in Pokopia.

Checked "hours played" as I put it down before work this morning. Somehow already clocked over 10 hours in it. It released yesterday. 😂

Pokopia continues to be a ton of fun, as expected. Soooo much more to do than I thought. Would share more screenshots, but it's still release day so I'll wait a few days. Found the Snorlax from the trailers tho!

1h30m has to be enough for tonight lol Good game. Lots of potential. Looking forward to many more hours to come over the coming weeks and months!

Made the mistake of starting to watch a gameplay stream of Pokopia. Had to shut it off one minute in, because the craving to play the game got too bad. I really was trying to not do this and instead wait until tomorrow evening, but I guess I'll be up until midnight to start playing it a bit...

Can't wait to run around and be a Ditto. Anyone else excited for Pokopia?

Sunday is as always Vending Machine Game (title TBA) dev day, and continuing on with sketching out the narrative and characters. This has allowed us to better visualize and connect NPCs with things like preferred items, what unlocks what, and so on. Still neat!

I'm finding I really like a canvas board in Obsidian for sketching out narrative beats and story flows. It's visually laid out neatly. It's categorized and searchable. It's easily shareable with version control. Worried that I'll hit some limit down the line, but that should still be a bit away.

Team Gecqua btw. The other two are also cute.

Obviously excited for Winds and Waves; it looks SO GOOD! A bit sad that it's not releasing this year, but honestly it's mostly because I had it in a fantasycritic draft for this year 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=38XH...

Out of all the Pokemon games, FireRed/LeafGreen are amongst the few I never actually played, so today's release on Switch is neat! Starting with Charmander in FireRed, of course (I got Red when I was a kid, my little brother got Blue).

Pokemon going all in for their 30th anniversary www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksha...

Playing more demos during Next Fest of stuff I've been excited for! Denshattack is just as awesome as I expected. It feels like Sonic Adventures meets SSX, but with Trains! Controls are a lot to take in early on, but it'll stick soon enough. store.steampowered.com/app/2524850/...