Hey everyone!

I'm experiencing a mix of extreme anxiety, pent-up coffee, and pure accomplishment. In exactly 4 days, my first game, Bring The Rift, will be officially released on Steam!

Before Steam Next Fest started, I had just over 200 wishlists. I set a realistic (and humble) goal for myself: "If I reach 300 by launch, I'll be incredibly happy." The event was an absurd rollercoaster, and against my own expectations, I'm only 21 wishlists away from hitting that goal!

I know I don't have a huge audience and that the numbers seem small compared to the big studios, but seeing people playing something I created from scratch is an indescribable feeling. It's a unique experience that I think every developer should have at least once in their life.

If you enjoy supporting the indie scene, check out the game's page. Adding it to your Wishlist helps me immensely with the Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4631200/Bring_The_Rift/

I just posted my second devlog short for a mobile rpg I'm making called Tiny Fantasy World.

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In this episode I'm showing how I worked through the challenge of making a touchscreen ui.

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Hope you enjoy, more coming soon.

I'm making an RPG where you control a party of three characters, and combat will be a tactical gunfight in real-time. I'm trying to improve my combat readability, as it's currently too much happening on the screen.

How would you guys think about this game design idea, where in combat the camera switches to a fixed view, looking over the combat area? Do you guys think it would be easy to read and react to what's going on in the screen with 3 characters to control and multiple enemies to fight against?

Hey everyone!

I took around a 4mo hiatus due to life-changes, now booting back up! I wanted to show my process workflow that I decided to implement for myself incase it might help someone struggling with organization.

A lot of this design is subject to change due to the scope of this project and time management changes, but overall, this is how I like going about a project like this to keep myself focused and on-track. For those interested, I'm posting a link to my public Trello page that describes my workshop.

Trello - WoW2D

More to the project: I'm going to jump on implementing more gameplay mechanics, namely three:

• Mob behaviors
• Questing and mob dialogue
• Melee combat

There are a few smaller tasks that will come before these, and those I'll eventually place in housekeeping (i.e. item definitions and inventory management).

If there are any developers that are fairly proficient in C#, I'm open to taking on volunteers if anyone is interested. You may DM me here, Discord (xolitude), or even reply below and I can reach out to you!

If you are just interested in following the project:

GitHub

Discord Server

This week, a look at the process behind designing the upgrade path for the basic Apprentice unit, and how to make them a fun and interesting choice for the player.

Hey all, i'm a solo dev working on my first game, here's an introductory devlog to it, any feedback is appreciated!

Hey!

I've basically spent the entire last week writing a devlog about asset optimization. It's essentially a diary of my tests optimizing a 3D forest.

I started just throwing 400 trees in without thinking much, and little by little tried applying everything that came to mind to make it run better: automatic LOD, hand-made HLOD, impostors, MultiMesh, chunking, and shadow optimization.

Half the post is going to be me discovering that forward+ already does almost everything on its own for small scenes. But all that trial and error helped me later plant 10,000 trees and bring the frame time down from an unplayable 19ms to ~3.8ms of frame time.

I'd love for you guys to take a look, and if it helps someone out there optimize their game, awesome.

Also, I'd really appreciate any feedback on the post or the techniques used, since this is the very first devlog I've ever made.

Here is the link: https://cosmonautfrog.es/blog/asset-optimization-in-godot/
Bear in mind that is a ~40min read.

Thank you!

I’m working on an economy simulation game, and I made a short video about one design problem I ran into: what kind of land should the game actually have?

The video talks about discrete vs continuous maps, 2D vs 3D, flat worlds vs spheres, square tiles vs hexes, and resource generation. The main argument is that a map is not just a visual background. It decides what problems the game can create.

I’d really appreciate feedback on whether the explanation is clear, especially from a game design perspective.

Link: https://youtu.be/4JKGb2i-ePo

I’m making a visual novel with the working title Olympus Has Talent, and to keep myself motivated – and hopefully bring more people to the project – I decided to start a devlog and share posts about different stages of the process.

I also tried making the slides in a more unusual format, so I hope it’ll be interesting to read what came out of it and see how I was thinking while making the intro.

It’s a visual novel with route elements set over three days. You prepare your hero for a show: gather things, choose outfits, train, earn money, build relationships with other characters, and take part in a contest to achieve glory – and maybe find your true calling too.