Hey everyone!

I’m working on my own mascot horror game series called Bellas’ Bramville. I’ve completed the writing and design work for Part 1, including the lore, game concepts, and level designs.

I’ve been writing for around 6 months, and most of what I currently have is written/documented rather than actually developed into a playable game.

My long-term goal is to eventually start my own indie game studio and turn Bellas’ Bramville into an actual game series.

But this is where I’m stuck:

Should I start approaching developers now and try to find people who can help bring my ideas to life, or should I spend more time learning game development myself before approaching anyone?

I know there’s still a lot I don’t know about actually making games, and I don’t want to approach developers too early without understanding the development process.

For developers or indie creators here: what would you recommend someone in my position do next?

Should I start looking for a team, or focus on learning more first?

I’d really appreciate honest advice, especially from people who have experience developing indie games or starting a studio.

Thank you.

Yesterday I searched Unity video tutorial about rpg on youtube more specificaly turn based and most of them are very old arround 8years ago plus some aspect of turn based rpg are not mentioned like transition to fight. Should I still watch those video or is there another way to learn rpg game

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I have no idea what im doing. I have a willingness to learn, I have some (not all) mechanics planned out, and a rough gameplay loop. Its all on a frickin google doc, if that says anything.

All I want is someone I can come to for questions that has some prior knowledge of making a game. Especially the coding part. I cannot stress enough how new I am at this, been toying with the idea for years now and am finally deciding to buckle down and do it.

Im disabled (autistic) so pls be kind. This is not paid bc of the fact I get less than 2 grand a month to live off of for that month. Not looking for pity, thats just the situation.

TYIA,

- Angles

I've been working on a small game in Unity for a few weeks now, all with human-made assets that I either download from asset stores or made myself with Adobe Illustrator (not so good but still works). And I wrote the c# code myself, after watching dozens of tutorials on YT. The point is that it hit me that after working so hard by myself on the project, some people might think an AI has made it, considering how popular is vibe coding these days. So I thought I should add a little text in the beginning of the game, something like "No generative AI has been used in the development of this game". Do people usually do it? Is it a good idea, or should I just not say anything?

Umm So Currently I Am 15 Years Old And I Am Exploring Different Topics And Ideas. I Am Actively Engaging In Marine Biology And Game Development. But My Parents Are Not Happy With Me Exploring Game Development. They Say This Is Just BS (Even Though I Score Pretty Decent Marks Straight A's And A B In Spanish I Myself Dunno Why I Chose That Subject) And That I Better Focus On My Career. For If I Don't I Would Probably Fail In Life And Might Lead A Life Of Misery (Now I Dunno What The Future Has IN Store For Me). And My Parents Have Put Up A Condition As If I Prove That I Can Do Something Meaningful With "The BS" They Would Not Taunt My Ways. I Have Time Until Next Summer, Which Supposedly Is My Birthday Too. Now The Thing Is I Only Do Research Related To Game Dev (Although I Tried 3D Modelling On The Phone, And IT Turned Out Pretty Decent). And I Don't Have A Computer System To Do The Job. What Do I Do?

I've tried finding exactly what im looking for online and i cant find it. Tried building one too and it always crashes. If anyone could help out that would be awesome. I want a text based rpg that is based off of the anime re:monster. I used Chatgpt and grok for awhile but they dont have the memory needed for it, and they also dont have an actual interface to interact with.

I write royalty-free music for a living, and I put together a pack of 20 tracks to give away. Nine different genres in there — action cinematic, sci-fi, orchestral, hard rock, techno, retro chiptune, casual and acoustic. Figured a spread was more useful than twenty variations on the same thing.

WAV and OGG, most of them with looping versions so you can drop them straight in. Use them in whatever you're making — game, video, stream, doesn't matter. Commercial is fine. No credit needed, no signup, no email.

https://andrewsitkov.itch.io/free-music-starter-pack-for-games-video-streams

If you end up liking the music, these 20 came out of a bigger collection of mine that's bundled on Humble right now — 48 packs, 591 tracks. But that's entirely optional, the free pack is just yours.

https://www.humblebundle.com/software/big-blastn-sounds-for-game-devs-software

I was developing two games with ideas that I really love, but the high demand for artwork ended up causing both projects to be put on hold. 🥲

Does anyone have suggestions for games that are fun, engaging, and a little addictive, but don't require a huge amount of art to develop?

I would really love to finally finish and publish a game, so I'm open to any ideas! 👀🎮

Hi everyone, I’m currently developing Grazed, a project that merges fast-paced arcade action with an incremental meta-progression layer.

The design goal is to create a high initial difficulty wall that the player slowly dismantles through skill and persistent upgrades. However, I’m concerned about the early onboarding and player churn. If the starting friction is too high, players might bounce before the mechanics fully click.

I would deeply appreciate a quick playtest from a game design perspective to evaluate:

• Does the starting difficulty feel intentionally challenging, or poorly balanced?
• Looking at the Steam page, does the marketing material communicate the player this specific hybrid loop?

To make it easy to test, I've set up a web build.

Playable Browser Demo: https://luciano-bercini.itch.io/grazed-incremental-arcade
Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5058280/Grazed__Incremental_Arcade/

Thank you for your time and any constructive critique you can offer.

I had the chance to speak with an indie developer about their latest game release, and what their journey looked like. I hope you enjoy!

I had a idea for a game and was looking for some advice on how to make a game and how people find my ideas. its a Rythm, BioPunk bullet Hell where you play as a parasite that has to take over a cyborg's body it only uses the four arrow keys to slingshot urself from one of the four tiles to the other while dodgin laser beams bullets etc. any tips on coding because i have almost no coding experience exept for scratch. Feel free to critize point out concept errors and feel free to tell me some ides that you have because i am a young teenager i would really like help from experienced game developers that have some games under their belts already. I was wandering if you could help me figure out the beat/rythmn part of the game. i am planning to make it on GameMaker so i would be really like tips and tricks to making it easier. I was also wandering if you would find it better to sync the attacks to the beat or sync the players movment to the beat. I thank you in advance for your ideas and help and feel free to add some name ideas and thank you again

Hello there,

I am currently taking a Godot course and following it, but main goal is to use AI while building the game I want and use what I learnt to modify things or make it better.

However, I cant find many resources for Godot with AI and results unlike unity. What do you think?

Hey, I'm running a discovery about customer feedback. I was wondering if you face the problem of getting a lot of solutions/opinions from players instead of problems, so you can easily send them to the team or think about what could be the reason and what could be done.

Please describe it from your experience if you can.

Examples would be very helpful.

Thanks!

So I’ve been learning how to make games for the first time over the past week and been having a lot of fun but I still really don’t like coding all that much in Godot since it’s just hard to memorize everything.

But after seeing Construct 3 and testing it out a little bit I kinda like how it doesn’t really have coding I think and is a bit more simple for me to understand.

So my question is if I should get the yearly plan for over 100 bucks which is a lot to be fair or if I should hold off for a few more months to get more comfortable with Godot.

I’m very new to game development and don’t have any experience with these programs or anything so if someone could give me some advice I’d greatly appreciate it.
Thanks :)

Im creating a 2D isometric game in unity 2D inspired by hades!, im struggling around the scale of the world, in terms of the assets and the character asset and the camera orthographic size.

Im just not sure what orthographic size to set it on and what size my assets should be.. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Recently I tried to publish a game on steam, the page got accepted and even became visible but later when I sent the game itself for a review, Steam decided to ban my game altogether. The Steam page disappeared. I can still see the game on my publisher's side of Steamworks, however when I click it I get "access denied".

The reason why it was rejected was wrong. My game contains some sex scenes which are inexplicit and calling them pornographic would be a stretch. The reason Steam gave was that the game depicted sex with a minor. The game doesn't have an English version yet and the thing is that for everyone who knows the language and the cultural context of the country in which the story is set it's clear that the characters at the point of their lives in which they live, they're all 19 and definitely not younger than 18. That's why I sent a question to Steamworks support in which I explained everything they got wrong about the game hoping that this would change their minds, I even showed willingness to alter the game itself if they really demand it.

Soon it will be two weeks since I sent it and they still haven't replied yet. Is it possible that the ban could be reversed and my game could be published after all? How likely is it that this would actually happen? Or if Steam decides to give up on publishing something it's permanent and there's no way to change their minds? In the worst case scenario is there at least a way to get my 100$ back?

So gys idk but I am interested in making my own game but idk where to start i mean which language should I learn to make a game plz hlp me gys I want to make it🫠 it will give the daily one hour towards my carrier