One thing I try to do is to continually work on my game. Even though I'm not making daily posts anymore - I do work on the game daily! I use GitHub to track my progress, and I strive for 1 commit / day (i.e. at the least one change to the codebase). How do you track your work? #indiedev #gamedev

See some gameplay of the Knight in the Endless Dungeon of Lone Survivors! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

I'm pretty happy with my newest ability's look so far, Purifying Light (unlocked through progression with the Knight class) This ability deals damage in an area, and will have some unique upgrades such as Dazzle - which draws enemies in! #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

In Lone Survivors, you'll be able to charge through your enemies as the Knight! Check out the prototype of the Charge! active ability for the knight! (it was VERY fun to make and test) #indiedev #gamedev #survivorslike

Mining comes to Lone Survivors! Take on the enemies as the new Miner class, where you can mine rocks! Or mine enemies! Or both! Also check out a sneak peek of two new abilities, the Minecart and Rockfall! #gamedev #indiedev #bulletheaven

I'm happy to announce that ._. won the leaderboard, with a ridiculous score of 387k! It was an absolute blast doing the playtest and getting to see all the different builds (maybe too many necromancers)! Check out an example of what the winning synergy looked like, #gamedev #indiedev

Hey everyone! This is your final reminder about the Lone Survivors playtest - it ends at 1PM EST! Want to take your shot at rank 1? Head on over to store.steampowered.com/app/3629280/... to sign up! Competition is fierce, take a look at the current leaderboard below: #indiegames #steam #gamedev

The Lone Survivors playtest is now live! Head on over to Steam to play, and compete for rank one - and a reward! #gamedev #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/3629280/... Haven't signed up yet? Request access and I'll try to be diligent and let people in!

This is your friendly reminder that the Lone Survivors playtest goes live in less than 24 hours! 🎉 Read up some more info here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/362... Sign-up is easy, just request access on the Steam page, and you'll automatically be invited at 1PM EST tomorrow! #playtest #steam

Nothing too crazy to post about as of late, just refinements and adjustments as I move towards the playtest this weekend! I added Steam RichPresence, so your friends can see how high level you are in the Endless mode! #godot #indiegames #steam

Getting coins from chests used to just be them just spawning around the chest and the player having to pick them up like a scrub. Now, it's a whole lot juicier! Take a look at the satisfying result of opening a coin-filled loot chest in Lone Survivors! (ty Godot for tweens!) #gamedev #indiegames

Less than a week until the Lone Survivors playtest goes live! Compete for the top score in an Endless leaderboard, where the highest placing player will get a Steam reward! Sign up now by requesting access on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3629280/... #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

Lone Survivors Daily! The newest feature of the Endless mode is Shrines. Shrines currently offer a random event, intended on adding variety to the endless mode. They range from spawning elites, bosses, or providing health! What kind of cool blessing/curses can you think of? #gamedev #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily Today, we let the Warrior hide behind statues... or something. 🥸 See below for before and after! (note: hiding does not help against the monsters) #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily The Planter - new boss for endless! Fight against the thorny beast that is the Planter in the endless mode! The Planter has three abilities: 1. Vines -- shoots out vines from her body 2. Summon Potheads (these little guys aren't friendly!) 3. Grow flowers #indiedev #godot

Lone Survivors Daily - Featuring the Final New Ability for the Playtest: The Cursed Candles These candles damage nearby enemies, and can be upgraded to slow enemies, shoot flames, and harvest enemy souls! Check out some GHASTLY gameplay below: #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Check out Lone Survivors' newly updated trailer here on YouTube: youtu.be/9UKHmfKX-_w Prepare to fight against hordes of enemies as one of six unique classes! #indiegaming

Lone Survivors Daily Made a bunch of minor UI adjustments: - Map markers now say LV^ to better communicate that they increase level cap - Added an indicator for where chests are if they are out of view - Made the level up screen a bit more clear with background #gamedev #godot #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily: Today I had some company over and we playtested the endless mode! It was really nice seeing people interact with the game, and seeing what things that maybe I thought were intuitive be not so intuitive... and a lot of bugs! (nobody topped my score) #gamedev #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily: Spectral Blade Another weapon to join the fray, the spectral blade pierces through enemies and marks them for death. The legendary upgrade will cause your enemies to release a ghastly pulse on death. Its... maybe too strong? Tell me your thoughts! #indiegames #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily: Leaderboards v2 I've been working on adding more content to the leaderboards, and we've attached some more metadata in a similar method to before. Now, each leaderboard entry contains: 1. Class 2. Character Level 3. Weapons Check it out below! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Lone Survivors Daily - Undying Flames The newest ability to join the roster is the Undying Flames Perhaps a staple ability type in this genre, this ability just damages nearby enemies over time! It was pretty fun to make this ability, and it's been on my backlog for a bit now. #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily: Steam Leaderboards I've been working on adding some additional metadata to my leaderboards in preparation for the playtest. The newest addition is adding the class played! When you make a score in the leaderboard, it stores your class and displays it! #gamedev #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily - Builder Time! The Builder is one of six classes available in the coming playtest! The Builder features turrets he can deploy as his active ability, and his progression tree unlocks Dynamite and the Drone abilities! Check out some gameplay below! #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Lone Survivors Daily: Talking about performance every day is very exciting (....maybe) I continued to tackle performance problems. I have done two things (that will take some tweaking) to see some late game gains. 1. Reduce nodes in enemy scenes 2. Reduce navigation calls #gamedev #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily: Today was another optimization day. I've been working on removing repeated calls to get_tree().get_first_node_in_group, so that we don't have to loop through the whole node tree repeatedly, costing performance. I am using an autoload to store references: #gamedev #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily I missed a day (yesterday) - I think my video hadn't uploaded properly. Anyways, I've been working on the Mage classes' meta upgrades, and added in the legendary for the Mage Ball ability. Take a look at the gameplay below! #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Lone Survivors Daily 44 I didn't get as much time to work today as usual, but I've been spending time working on adding more meta progression upgrades. I'm satisfied with the Warrior + General upgrades, next to come for the playtest is the Barbarian. Take a look at some below! #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily 43: This is more of a notice than update, but I am launching a playtest with a prize for the best endless record! You can check out the details here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/362... If you want to join my discord, please reach out to me personally! #indiegames #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily 42 I am still running into performance issues, so one thing I decided is replacing all of my AnimationPlayer nodes with just using a component that tweens the animations instead. This way, each entity doesn't NEED an animation player, just a couple of tweens! #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily 41: I continued working on my endless mode, and have been also working on getting the game ready for playtesting! That means: 1. Adjusting leaderboard to show in main menu 2. Deactivating hub for now 3. Disabling some features that are WIP for main game #indiegame #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily 40: I've been working on adding time of day and weather changes to one of my endless levels! I also made it so that we can tell if we are in a cave - and resultingly change if it should show rain or not! Check it out below! #gamedev #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily 39: Happy Halloween!! Laser Eye! I'm working on yet another ability to add to the roster! The Laser Eye is both all-seeing and all-violent, and it targets the nearest enemy with a beam attack. One of it's rare upgrades makes it sweep at an angle! #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily 38: Working on another new ability, Claws. Claws are a short range ability, with a unique upgrade where each consecutive hit on an enemy increases their size and damage (still to be tuned)! See the claws built, and then in action below: #gamedev #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily 37: It's everybody's favourite time - bugfixing time 🐛 I tackled resolving a few bugs - such as the Necromancer's graves (from his active ability) not appearing where they should! I also continued working on abilities - with the Meteor implementation. #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily 36: Feature: adding more affixes! Affixes appear in Ascension 1+ in the campaign (after beating the game), and after 6 minutes in endless. Affixes modify the enemy, such as: - Bloodlust: enemy heals when nearby enemies die - Gravitational: pulls player in #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily 35: Today, I worked on adding more upgrades to the Warrior class. The Warrior can upgrade his sword ability with some additional meta upgrades: 1. Sword strikes -- allows the sword to strike repeatedly 2. Sword waves - like LoZ Master Sword sending waves! #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily 34: The newest ability to join the roster: The Boomerang The boomerang launches out from the player and always returns! (Sometimes, it seeks out enemies on it's way back...) See the boomerang in action below! #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

As a small update, I now have a website live here: www.lonesurvivors.ca There's no backend, and it's probably less interesting than the Steam page, but I figured it's cool to have a website these days.. #webdev #indiegames

Lone Survivors Daily 33: In Lone Survivors' Campaign, you will encounter optional objectives based on some triggers! I've been working on implementing these! One example is finding the Blacksmith (once found, he joins you for the rest of the map as well!) - on Ascension 1. #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors 32: Drone Legendary Upgrade I made some tweaks to the Drone, and gave it a rocket launcher attachment Take a look below to see the drone go through multiple different looks (with rockets, with laser, and with buzzsaws), as it helps you defeat the enemies! #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Lone Survivors 31: Today, I worked on integrating the Defense Drone with my upgrade system. It's one thing to add a new idea, it's another thing entirely to connect it to all your systems! Check out some of the cards below! #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Lone Survivors Daily 30: It's hard to believe it's been a month of Lone Survivors updates, but here we are! I've been working on adding a new ability, the Defense Drone. This drone will make your lone survivor a little less lonely, by attacking enemies with bullets and saws! #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors Daily 29: Endless Leaderboards + Scoring! Today I changed how the endless levels will be scored. Instead of a flat rank based on time, now your performance will matter. Based on: 1. Time 2. Kills 3. Levels 4. Upgrades 5. Boss/Elite kills (UI still a bit WIP) #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors 28 - Would You Still Kill Me If I Was A Worm? Today, we explored the age-old topic of whether or not we would kill the enemy in our survivors-like if it was a worm. The answer is YES. See below the latest cute addition to the Grasslands! #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Lone Survivors 27 - Endless Continued Today, we continued our work on endless mode - specifically late(r) game We made some performance adjustments, and added some more hardcore events for if the player lasts long enough! Take a look below for some Barbarian + Beach gameplay! #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors 26 - Endless Mode Lategame: Today, I attempted to solve some of the problems with the lategame endless in Lone Survivors - it's too easy. It's still a WIP, there's some other issues that appear (such as the lag below...), but I've added bosses + extra scaling. #indiedev #gamedev

Lone Survivors 25: Continuing work on the beach endless mode, I added some environmental sprites to the beach (trees, barrels, shells), and also added in some water trail effects! Also fixed some bugs with enemy spawning and Y-sorting! Take a look below! #gamedev #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily 24: Today we switched gears to work on the Endless variant for the beach. We did some autotiling setup, and setup the level information (setting up enemies, connecting the nodes as required in the scene) Repo on tiling: github.com/dandeliondin... #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Lone Survivors Daily 23! Today, we appreciate the hermit crab! He is an elite enemy with his attack being that he sends out twisters from either (N-E-S-W or NE-SE-SW-NW) directions. He's one of several elite enemies that spawn in the Beach biome! #gamedev #indiedev #godot