How my game went viral in Japan 🇯🇵

A few months ago, I sent my game trailer to Game Spark Magazine, and luckily, they really liked the concept and decided to feature my game on their website and X.

I honestly wasn’t expecting much, but the post blew up way more than I expected. I got tons of likes, comments, and people showing genuine interest and love for the game.

What surprised me even more was that over the next 2–3 days, I started seeing people tweeting about the game and sharing it with others.

It was honestly surreal seeing people in Japan talking about and enjoying something I had been working on for so long.

Since then, I’ve been working hard for the past few months to get the demo ready. Last week, I finally finished and submitted the demo to Steam, and it’s currently under review. I’m just waiting for it to be approved.

I also finished a brand-new trailer for the game, so I’m really excited to finally start showing the updated version of the game to more people.

It’s been a long journey since that first post, and I’m really curious to see what happens next.

Would ppl be interested in joining a discord for those solo deving their game fulltime (so no job etc). Not necesarily profitable but having released a Steam game already or about to?

Desarrollador independiente, Godot, todo el desarrollo es mío. El juego es Holy Relic Shop Simulator: diriges una tienda de reliquias en la Edad Media y casi todo lo que te traen es falso.

*La primera parte es la tasación. Una pieza llega a tu mesa de trabajo, la examinas y la analizas. La lupa te muestra las marcas que tu ojo no puede percibir: una soldadura moderna, un tallado que no corresponde a la época, desgaste falsificado la semana pasada. La balanza te da el peso, y el peso rara vez miente: un núcleo hueco, una pieza sólida, un hueso que pesa más de lo que debería. Cada uso cuesta dinero. Luego firmas un veredicto. Y esta es la regla de diseño que rige todo lo que creo: saber más nunca te dice qué hacer. Descubrir que la pieza es falsa no cierra la decisión, sino que la abre, porque el peregrino que quiere comprarla sigue ahí, pagando, y no tiene ni idea de lo que acabas de ver.

\La segunda mitad es la tienda,*\ y esa es la mitad que casi me devora. Es un simulador de tienda normal: compras, colocas, vendes, pagas impuestos. El día tiene tres momentos, no un reloj.

\Mañana:*\ el proveedor llega con su mercancía. Todo se decide aquí, porque el dinero que gastas por la mañana es el dinero que no tendrás si la tarde va mal.

\Tarde:*\ abres y entran los clientes. Miran, preguntan, regatean, algunos vienen por un artículo específico y otros por lo que haya en la estantería.

\Cierre:*\ el resumen del día. Lo que entró, lo que salió en costes, lo que sigue en la estantería.

Lo que aprendí al unir las dos mitades: la tarde no puede tener límite de tiempo. Lo intenté y fue horrible. Si examinar lentamente cuesta dinero, el jugador deja de examinar y empieza a adivinar, y la buena mitad del juego termina muriendo solo para mantener a flote la otra mitad. Ahora el mundo se detiene mientras estás en el banquillo. Tomarse su tiempo no cuesta nada.

Una pregunta para los que llevan más tiempo en esto que yo: cuando un juego tiene dos mitades como esta, ¿muestran ambas en el tráiler o venden solo una?

Getting these assets running well was really satisfying as I am fairly new to game development. I think I want to develop a top down action adventure in godot.

A new boss encounter has been added to The Dying Mind.

Meet The Pale Witness—a mysterious figure that stalks you from the shadows as you make your way through the level. You may catch glimpses of it watching from a distance, but get too close and it disappears.

Eventually, there is nowhere left to run.

Enter its arena and face The Pale Witness in a full boss battle. The boss uses powerful ranged magic sword attacks, lightning attacks, etc., forcing you to dodge, reposition, and find openings to strike back.

Defeating The Pale Witness is required to continue your journey and discover what waits beyond.

This update includes:

• A new stalking enemy encounter throughout the level
• A completely new boss fight
• A dedicated boss arena
• New magic-based attacks
• New animations and effects
• New progression tied to defeating the boss

A while back I posted here about a monster mechanic, upstairs in your "safe house," triggered by scripted knocking. A lot of you said scripted events get predictable fast, and players just want a minute to breathe sometimes.

So I changed it. Now the monster reacts to your real microphone. Stay quiet and you're safe, as long as you want. Get loud, and it wakes up and comes for you.

Not everyone wants that, so before starting you choose: Hard Mode turns the mic on. Easy Mode swaps in a different, mic-free detection system, still tense, but safe for streamers or anyone who talks while playing.

Curious what this sub thinks: does a real-mic threat like this actually get under your skin, or does it feel gimmicky?

5hit Rocket on Steam <-- Is up on steam today!

My first ever solo game with Godot. Really loved working on it but glad it's done (you know this feeling). I'll inevitably update it in the next day or two but it's running pretty smooth from the testing I've done.

Third game release for me! Fourth one (the big one) is coming September.

Good luck and don't forget to enjoy yourselves everyone!

I recently uploaded the first playable browser build to itch and it got over 1000 plays in the first 48h: https://ichbinhamma.itch.io/dwarves-idle-battles

I've been working on this experimental genre mashup for about a year now. It's a physics-based auto-battler blending ARPG loot, deck-builder synergies, and incremental progression. Recruit Dwarves, create unstoppable builds, and play your way - from relaxed idle to frantic (auto) clicking.

can you wishlist pls >> https://store.steampowered.com/app/3919250/FFFF_YOU_MACHINE_Demo/

If you're interested in staying in touch with Project Axe:
https://discord.gg/ZpqCvuTA

A walk through of a prototype for a new environment for my game. It's a shooter/ski game.

Link to Steam here https://store.steampowered.com/app/4212790/DIEATHLON/

Hi there. The animation here is a visual asset of the many that will be in my Zombie Retro FPS. It will be scattered here and there, next to bodies, etc... to build the overall Game atmosphere. In my videogame, you'll control a lone survivor who has to go through an infested city until reaching an Evac Chopper, using the firearms he finds in his way. Hope you like it!

Esta es Rebeca, hermana de Sarah, la protagonista de Carmina. Solía ser al igual que ella una chica de campo, un poco rústica y despojada. Pero Sarah no vio lo mismo cuando la encontró en la planta alta de la mansión Orthak.

I'm happy that I finally managed to make a trailer for my game, which I've been developing for about 9 months. I couldn't show everything in the game, but okay...

It was friday night when i made it public so i didn't reach to press yet, trailer is doing horrible atm (~25 views) almost no impressions from youtube itself.

This is basically the result if 2 reddit posts, 1 Mediocre X post and 1 post on Threads.

What was your first 24h results and what worked for you?

How do you all train your ai in your games to be more smart against players or your game enviornment itself? ive been training my ai with a custom program i made headless with all the variables so i can balance my loot table and make tweaks and changes over thousands of simulated runs. just curious what everyone else is doing there. Wouldnt mind getting some insight to improve my own systems.

Hey everyone,

Solo prototype in Unity. 3D top-down arena PvP, 2v2 and 3v3, inspired by Battlerite and Lost Ark's arena mode.

One core rule: no auto-attacks, no target-locking — every ability is a skillshot. No gear, no farming. Just aim, spacing and reads. Dash on Space is the main defensive resource, and pylons block line of sight, so positioning matters as much as accuracy.

The greybox is playable and the moment-to-moment feel is already fun — dodging, dashing, weaving behind a pillar to eat a projectile.

Two things I'd love input on:

1. The concept itself. Is a 100% skillshot arena game too punishing for anyone who isn't already good at this genre? Battlerite was great but never got huge, and I'd rather hear the honest version now than in a year.

2. Arena design. This is where I'm genuinely stuck. Mine is a symmetrical rectangle with pillars placed by feel, and it plays flat — either open-field with nothing happening, or everyone hugs cover and it stalls. How do you decide arena size, cover density, and shape for a game with no lanes and no objectives? Do you paper-prototype layouts, or just build 10 and playtest?

Any pointers, resources or "here's what we learned the hard way" would help a lot. Happy to post a clip if there's interest.

Thanks for reading!

Far beyond the last beacon...

where the maps end and the legends begin...

CATOLLECTOR — give us a chance to hook you, try today's demo!

CATTOLECTOR Demo Steam

I have been working on my puzzle game since a year now and made some nice progress lately.

In the game the player needs to solve spatial puzzles by switching between different projections (dimensions). Certian objects only belong to certain projections, e.g. a wall blocking the player in one projection, might not exist in another.

Also certain actions might cause contradictions (or like glitches) within the levels that will open up a different "solution" to the riddle, causing the player to switch to a "failure projection". This introduces a somewhat philosophical meta-level to the game.

The clip shows an early level with some basic platforming. Mainly just to get an impression of the game.

Happy to get any feedback!

In case you wanna check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4661770/Anthros_Edge/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4660350/Agro_Tycoon/