Released my first game on Steam yesterday. Sold a few copies as well. Actually so cool!! really excited to keep releasing games on Steam with all the experience I've gained.

figuring out the optimal discount for my game

controller support continues to be the most vexing part of Godot gamedev in my opinion. My solution involves recursively going through the whole scene tree to disable/enable focus on any buttons when a controller is disconnected/connected.

Was looking through the No Im not a Human wiki and the amount of dialogue is intense ~50 pages + 50 character sprites + environments. I have to really think carefully if I’m capable of making a game in this genre in ~3 months.

Lucky Break demo is small, small. It's a one room game with 3d assets, so pretty happy with this.

We've been working on replacing the Asset Library with something built for the present and future. Here's what's coming. #godotengine godotengine.org/article/intr...

www.gamespress.com/Lucky-Break-... Put out a press release for my slot machine roguelike's Steam page announcement! #gamedev #indiedev #godot

there's been vampires sighted in the area. And she keeps asking to be let in. Think she's human? #gamedev

there's been vampire sightings in the area. You letting her in the club or not? #gamedev

No Vampires in the Club. Pivoting from Zombies to Vampires. vampires need to permission to be let in so just makes more sense. Also vampires look like goth club goers so it adds to the confusion.

Now it's finally starting to look like a game #theshining #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #godot #wip #screenshotsaturday

went to an indie playtesting event, and played a bunch of games by professionals. #1 thing I noticed was the games were laser focused on the fun. No pre-amble, no distractions, just immediately place the player in a fun core loop.

I did the thing where when you hover over a line of text it pulls up a resource. A fun bit of sorcery involving bbcode, rich text labels, url tags.

I have 3d meshes with collision that need to spawn 2d user interfaces. Resulting in the most convoluted shop select/unselect logic. Will not be mixing 2d/3d like this ever again.

I've been really enjoying drawing in Krita

Went to in person gamedev meetup. Very sick, big recommend devs do that if it’s available to you.

In Lucky Break you can talk to Sally who runs the bar. She's sells Drinks to help your high scores, Rings to improve your luck, and Pills to heal your wounds. Just don't try to underbid her, as she doesn't tolerate any nonsense. #gamedev #indiedev #godot #roguelike

me right now

Candidate release build approved for game #1. A long list of bugs to fix but in theory could release it whenever

one more spin on the money machine #godot #gamedev #indiedev

submitted candidate release build for Zero Warning. Beginning of the end! Going from the codebase of first game (complete mess) to second is night and day. Biggest level up was organization of assets and scripts.

yeesh. My mom really outdid herself on the hand paintings. Really sells the effect imo #indiedev #godot #gamedev

In response to the US Supreme Court decision: It wasn't until having a kid myself did I come to understand how medically necessary abortions are. Abortions save Mom's life in the event something goes wrong. Restricting abortions kills people, there is no reason to limit access.

joined my local gamedev meetup group (Glitch City LA). Excited to meet some other people who like making games.

I put this gif together for the Steam page, and it's cool to see several mechanics in a single clip. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

paraphrasing Friedemann but one reason to post content on social media about game, is to just figure out what resonates with people. Basically A/B testing snippets of the game and prepping for a trailer down the line.

Lucky Break Steam page is live! Wishlist the game on Steam: s.team/a/4155880

No Zombies in the Club. a game about being a bouncer in a post-apocalyptic world

if I were to make another anomaly game, I would set in as simple/low poly an environment as possible. Like an infinite staircase, or a forest. Designing horror you always want to direct the player's focus to build tension, and if there's too much stuff on screen it's distracting.

11 anomalies done today. 13 left, probably another three days on Zero Warning, and I can call it done (like for good)

Lucky Break Steam page submitted for review, now I return to finish Zero Warning (please god let me stop working on this game)

wait... where in Steam do you localize a game's title?

Becoming convinced that Steam playerbase just want games about dwarves mining gold.

an incremental game about a dragon hording gold.

getting really silly with it #godot

I love making roguelikes but the genre expectations of 100+ items is a real killer and makes the back half of development miserable.

I’m concerned about trying to develop an incremental game because it’s saturated genre, and quality bar is higher now. However the ridiculously short dev times is really appealing.

Took a break last night and just for fun tried cloning Dodecadragons in Godot. Got the first panel working and everything incrementing in a few hours. crazy how fast different game genres can be

Most compelling reason I’ve heard to “genre chase” is there’s way more bundle opportunities available on Steam. Like incremental mega bundles are numerous compared to other genres right now

Execute demo is very good. I see why that game popped off

Getting the Steam page ready for Lucky Break... really happy with how it all is turning out. Excited to finish Zero Warning and get cracking on Lucky Break demo in May. #godot

Payne Robinson bar really hitting about 'building above your skill level'. My first two games are overscoped, and I've spent wayy to much time just getting systems working, with zero time spent "finding the fun". Third game I'm keeping the systems severly limited so I can spend time designing/QA.

getting the steam page ready to announce #screenshotsaturday

now that I'm planning out a sci-fi game, it's so much easier to develop conceptual stuff. I think this might be my preferred setting going forward. All those hours of Star Trek/Babylon 5 are paying off

Rating how my games are going: Zero Warning: :( final stretch Lucky Break: :| production Slots vs. Aliens: :) pre-production

work smarter not harder. Gonna draw all the enemies as little hats on celestial bodies. So moon toad, moon jellyfish etc.., but only have to draw the underlying element once. Also let's them sway separately in the engine

I like this one a bit better in that I feel I could actually make 50 of these. Free-handed dark outlines, and then just three-ish passes for shadows, mediums, highlights. #art #krita

first attempt at Moon Toad in Krita. Way too complicated considering I need to do ~50 of these. Might drop color palette to monocromatic, and consider a more loose "sketchy" style.

drawing some space stuff in krita

planetary zen garden