The craziest thing happened, and our first Steam release reached over 100k players!

Back to playing with grass

My first Steam game just reached Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam! A lot of crazy things happened in the last two weeks, but this one takes the spot 🙈

🎉Ropuka's Idle Island is out 🎉 Together with extremely talented @littlechmura.bsky.social we've made an idle game that sits on your screen like a small, playable sticker. Watch little frog tend to his garden (and take frequent naps) while you work or relax! 🐸

Releasing my first small project on Steam tomorrow, it was a crazy ride to get it done on time, but I'm happy we've stuck with the initial deadline. I hope people will enjoy our little playable sticker 🐸 store.steampowered.com/app/3416070/... #gamedev #cozygames #indiegame

Ropuka's Idle Island is a "playable sticker" for your desktop. "Focus on work or fun while the little frog tends to his garden."

I will be releasing Ropuka's Idle Island, a small idle game in the form of a desktop sticker, on Steam on January 29th! store.steampowered.com/app/3416070/... #gamedev #indiegame

Happy New Year, let's release two 🐸 games this year! #gamedev

This little buddy has been keeping me company while I work on his 'main' game

Work on the main frog game is going well, but I got a bit distracted by a small, Ropuka-related side game... #gamedev #indiedev

Show me four games that influenced YOUR current game project. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

~15h until launch let's goooooo 🐉🔥🔥🔥 store.steampowered.com/app/2207230/... #indiegame #steamgame #newreleases #gaming #pcgaming #steamdeck #roguelite #bullethell #bulletheaven #fantasy #dwarves #dragons

UI with sounds is better than UI without sounds

For the past 2 days, I've been working on some UIs, as always it's a bit of a pain to support different input methods and avoid all the edge-case bugs, but it's also extremely satisfying and makes your game feel more like a game #gamedev #indiedev

9th Dawn Remake is on a 20% discount as part of the Steam Autumn Sale! This is the first sale since Launch :D store.steampowered.com/app/1550180/... #indierpg #openworldrpg

The player character from my indie game.

Figured out that the first instinct everyone will have playing as a frog is to jump into the water, so I've added swimming to Ropuka today. Placeholder animation but hey, isn't swimming just underwater flying anyway? #gamedev #indiedev

Barely started posting and already matched my first 'x followers' post from the old site 😅

Calling Polish game devs! 🇵🇱 As more of us arrive here on Bluesky it would be great to re-create the network we've had. Here's a Polish Game Dev starter pack to make it easier. Please let me know if I should add you or someone, and consider reposting for reach! #StarterPack #GameDev #PolskiGamedev

Just submitted my first steam page for review 🐸

Sooner or later every game needs a UI, always pain in the ass to implement, but at least it starts to feel like a real video game now #gamedev #indiedev

Sooner or later every game needs a UI, always pain in the ass to implement, but at least it starts to feel like a real video game now #gamedev #indiedev

Need an excuse to show off that in Ropuka the grass is always growing, what can a lonely, small frog do against the forces of nature? #gamedev #indiedev

Repost with a banger photo of your cat

frog video games

Scythe from last month with proper model and texture, new grass variant. #gamedev #indiedev

Anybody know how to handle bsky's video compression for #gamedev ? The 'other' site just accepts whatever I throw at it, but here the compression is always harsh and I often get upload errors :(

Added some visual fluff, new shears texture, tweaked grass particle colors; all small, almost insignificant stuff, but it builds over time and makes the game look better #indiedev #gamedev

Post a creature from your game, and its inspiration. #indiedev #gamedev

Played with some 'fake' stencil lights today, had to double fake it for the grass since all the foliage is unlit. #gamedev #indiedev

Got some custom tools for authoring my grass up and running today, making new levels should be much faster now. #indiedev #gamedev

Started working on a new tool for Ropuka, turns out adding a two-handed one is more complicated than I thought, but the first draft is already pretty fun to use. #indiedev #gamedev

Heard this works now, so a random clip from frog game 🐸