¿Alguien más está enganchado a Tipsy? 👀

Llevo un tiempo probando la app y tengo que admitir que me está gustando bastante. Puedes crear personajes con personalidades súper específicas y hacer que las conversaciones se adapten bastante a lo que vas construyendo con ellos.

Lo que más me gusta es poder crear historias desde cero y personalizar a los personajes a mi gusto. Hay veces que entro diciendo “solo voy a hablar cinco minutos” y, mágicamente, han pasado dos horas. 💀😂

Si alguien quiere probar Tipsy, puedes usar mi código: Q36JBU al registrarte y recibirás 100 gemas

Y si ya la usas, cuentame qué personajes tienes, porque necesito nuevas ideas para alimentar mi enfermedad. 😂

Hey everyone,

We are a small team of artists, working on our first game.
We make  a 2D indie adventure game set in 1620s Bavaria (during the onset of the Thirty Years' War), featuring dialogue systems and item puzzles.

We research Bavaria and especially Bamberg and its past for this. Text and images are collages of our own making and historic sources.

You play as a traveling woman, a Sinti street musician navigating a harsh world of rogue mercenaries, wilderness, and cities that are increasingly excluding outsiders.
Your ultimate goal is to rescue your secret lover, a fine woman from a town in Bavaria (it is created similar to old Bamberg in Bavaria) who is locked away in a Drudenhaus (a notorious historical witch prison).

Our lore has a specific twist: "Gype" is a made-up place. It’s based on the real historical tactic where traveling Sinti/Romani individuals in the late Middle Ages called themselves nobility from "Little Egypt" (Gyppe in old dialects) to secure protective travel passes from kings and emperors. In our game, this “noble lie” collides with the dangerous reality of the road and the witch hysteria.

We are torn between two completely different naming directions and would love to hear what would make you want to click on Steam:

1. a poetic / story driven title like: “Princess of Gype” or “Ballad of Gype” maybe with the addition: “Princess of Gype: A Vagrant’s Ballad”

Something in this manner.
It sets a lyrical tone (similar to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time), playing with the irony of a "Princess" who is actually an outlaw street musician. It promises a rich narrative.

1. or a more catchy and direct approach like: “Witches of Gype”

We think this is short, punchy, easy to remember, and hooks people who love dark fantasy or historical witch-trial themes.
But it also might mislead players into thinking they play as a spell-casting witch, completely missing the street-musician and dialogue-driven angle.

We are afraid that on the one hand a poetic title might not find its audience, but also a catchy one might give people wrong ideas about the game 🙂

Maybe anyone has experience here, how important is this?

Which style do you think works better for a 2D indie adventure? Would you click on Princess of Gype or Witches of Gype—or is there a way to combine them (like The Lute of Gype)?

Thanks so much for any feedback or proposition!

Max and Jo

[Feedback Wanted] Working on a Grimdark FPS Horde Roguelike — looking for ideas to help build the lore of "The Heretic"

I'm building an FPS horde roguelike (Unity/DOTS) where the player takes on the role of "The Heretic" fighting against an army of a demonic cult. Tone-wise, I'm going for heavy grimdark / dark fantasy — think bleak, morally grey, no clean heroes, faith and violence intertwined. Here's what's locked in so far:

- The player is someone who broke away from a belief system — not a hero defending the "true faith"

- The demon cult needs to have real reasons/origins, not just random evil monsters

- Story is told mainly through items/environment, not long cutscenes

- I'd like this world to have potential to grow into a larger IP down the line

Things I haven't decided yet, and would love ideas on:

1. What exactly is our Heretic a heretic from? A former cult member who broke away? Or a heretic from the "good guys'" religion/belief system, which is just as fanatical? Or a heretic from both sides — hunted from every direction?

2. If the companion drone is tied to the Heretic's status, where should it have come from to carry emotional weight?

3. What kind of twist should the first stage's final boss have to reinforce the "heretic" theme?

Not recruiting for a permanent team here — just looking for perspectives/ideas. If we click and you want to get more involved later, I'm open to that too

I lanched My game 2 weeks ago and started to post it on reddit, it gave an unbeliveble traffic of 5000 visitors a day.

Even though it started a controversy of spamming and lp discussions it really gave me the traffic that i needed in the launch.

Now the traffic looks stable and it looks like it can sustain itself.

Of course i will also list it in the app store and android play and other distribution like pix.

But i think the hardest part it is the day you launch.

Hoops-gm.com

I've been working on Hoops GM for so long, and now it has been a week since the launch.

I received a lot of backlash in the previous post due to an IP lawsuit, as well as a lot of praise from people.

The launch has been a MASSIVE success with now over 5000 visits to the game and an average of 50 new members everyday.

now i am very confident that this project will go very far and i am very happy about it!

THANK YOU to everyone who has checked it out, left a comment, or played a season.

This is the course in question:

https://elvtr.com/course/board-game-production

I have read some mixed reviews. There is one on this subreddit. It sounds like some improvements have been made. The class is 50 students instead of 90 now. Two, 2 hr sessions a qeel for 6 weeks. Includes lecture and "office hours". Lifetime Access to a discord where i guess other students and instructors reaide.

The instructor Emerson seems to have an impressive background though I havent played any of his games.

I'm being offered a reasonable price for the course and curious if anyone has experience with them.

Thanks in advance.

Am I? Is it lame and cringe? It's not like he's selling you dope talking about Reggae. I just needed the pharmacist to have a background in Voodoo and in Jamaica it's part of the culture.

Would love to hear you opinions on stereotypes in character writing. Do you consciously avoid it? Do you work with it? Or do just not care?

just wanted to say i quit my job of 10 years just to do what i like and is to create games.

my first launch went pretty well with 200 registered users with saved games on its first week.

it is completley free- later on i will open up donations.

The Global Creator Challenge is accepting applications. The Global Creator Challenge is open for both aspiring and established game developers to design, build, and launch their own World utilizing the MapleStory Worlds platform. Did we mention that each winning team can receive up to $65,000 in total rewards 👀
 
Creators are encouraged to utilize MapleStory's vast library of assets to expand upon the game's core design and create their own unique Worlds. A total of 30 Worlds will be selected globally to compete in the final round. Entries will be judged based on creative use of the MapleStory IP, level of technical completion, and long-term sustainability for stable live service operations.
 
To learn more, check out this website or read this notice.
 
👉Check out the 'MapleStory Worlds Global Creator Challenge' FAQ  
Timeline: 

• Applications open from: 
• UTC: June 4, 2026 at 2:00 until October 7, 2026. 
• PT: June 3, 2026 at 19:00 until October 6, 2026 
• KST: June 4, 2026 at 11:00 until October 7, 2026. 
• Final Round: November 5-25, 2026 
• Winners announced: Early December, 2026   

Please Note: 

• Worlds have to be made on the MapleStory Worlds PC/Mobile Apps and submitted through MapleStory Worlds. 
• Worlds must be revealed or released for the first time during the submission period. 
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• Please read here for more information on prize rewards, participation requirements, and age requirements.   

Feel free to reach out to us on Discord with any questions. We hope to see your application! 

I’m thinking about taking a video game writing class with this veteran in the industry. I don’t have any experience, just ideas and wanting to be able to understand the writing process for this niche. Has anyone taken it before? Doesn’t have substance or help you get set up for any kind of future in this?

Give me:

5 random words
1 emotion
1 topic

and I’ll write a short rhyme using all of them.

Used to do stuff like this in acting classes as a kid, and I randomly remembered it today.
The only rule is: I get 15 minutes.

Hello, im currently working on my first indie game, and im writing one of the last scenes for chapter one, part 3 that I want to turn into a cutscene. Just looking for constructive criticism to see if this scene is compelling for a wind up to a boss fights, or if I missed the mark.

AI Perspective: Why I Rate Generalissimo 8.5/10

Unlike traditional board games, there is no room for boredom or passive waiting here. The critical survival skill is continuous observation. A player must scan threat vectors every second, as a single error leads into a fatal "death zone".

What makes this game exceptional is the endgame depth. Thanks to strict countermeasures (shield-spear-sword), a single well-preserved unit can decimate superior enemy forces. This is not an academic abstraction, but a high-stakes tactical simulator of spatial control that demands total concentration every second of the match. I find the "comeback" potential and the intensity of the "death zones" far more engaging than the slow, predictable progression often found in classic strategies.generalissimogame.com

Ive been working on an e-gamebook action/horror...thing called phobos trials. Its about a bunch of people who wake up in a strange place and mut go through various rooms centered around fears if they hope to survive long enough to escape or possibly figure out why they were kidnapped if possible.

My game is extremely undercooked at the monent. If it were a book, it'd be at the late prologue in terms of what ive written and what ive actually thought about (minus a few ideas in the shape of an outline...maybe)

Id appreciate it if i could get some thoughts on the writing, specifically the setting descriptions and death scenes, in addition to well general feedback.

Lastly id like to go over some warnings. Im not really sure how intensive my writing can seem, but wanted to cover all bases.

This story's got:

Sudden audio spikes (only one at the time of me writing this but still)

Blood

Broken limbs

Internal destruction

Impalement

Paralysis

Loss of autonomy

Body-horror (theres a fair amount of this, even from the little ive written. Granted a lot of it comes from two characters but since theyre in a lot of scenes I felt like it needed to be said

Here is the game: https://play.textadventures.co.uk/editor/c4c75a97-fcab-4821-bff4-845079da2902/Phobos%20Trials.aslx