BYTECRUNCH

Campfire evenings in EXITRUN. A small moment to rest, recover, and prepare for the next day. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Quick heads-up: I am taking a 2 week pause from game dev. Work and family need my full focus right now. Still here. DMs are still open, and development will continue in 2 weeks.

The dev pipeline is finally fully moved over to the new station, tested, and all 23 migration-related bugs are fixed. Now it is time to focus on changes based on the friends and family playtest feedback. #gamedev #solodev #devlog

@LazyDevNL Understandable. I am not much of an artist either, and I usually struggle with the final visual pass too. What helps me most is staying open to iteration. Let it breathe, keep adjusting things, and trust the process. If you ever want a second opinion, feel free to DM me.

@bytecrunchdev Mostly the visuals and simple things like slicing sprites and placeholders. Almost everything works as it should. But it looks like crap.

Hit a wall recently😮‍💨 Almost all the main functions for my game are finally in, but now I’m deep in UI, layouts and making everything look decent. UI hell is real🔥🔥 Who else is currently struggling with this? I need advice.. #GameDev #SoloDev #Unity #IndieDev

Let’s follow and see where the fish leads us!

@UltraMarinGames Beautiful work! Completely enchanted by this art style.

I had to reanimate the ferris wheel on godot but it was worth it to improve the performance. Hoping to keep working on the tech art today! #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev #crttv #retroaesthetic #retro #gameart #godot #gamedev #vaporwave #signalwave #nostalgia

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@bytecrunchdev solo indie campfire cheers 🍻 🤣

Campfire evenings in EXITRUN. A small moment to rest, recover, and prepare for the next day. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

@IndieEcho Not even specifically a mentor. Sometimes it is enough to have someone genuinely interested in your project, even if they are not a gamedev. Being able to ping-pong ideas with someone can help a lot when you get stuck.

Just some advice for solo devs out there: You can do it solo. But make sure you have a mentor, friend, or someone at your back. Not to build the game for you. To help you avoid the traps that make most solo devs quit before release. You don’t have to run everything alone. There are a lot of experienced devs out there willing to help if you just ask. ⚡ #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

@DeTomPlays Thank you! Right track sounds great. Let’s hope I can keep it moving in the right direction. 🙏

@bytecrunchdev Congratulations. It's always lovely when we get to one of these little milestones. It just shows that we are on the right track with our chosen project. 🙂

100 followers! Thank you for following EXITRUN and BYTECRUNCH this early. Still a long road ahead, but I appreciate every bit of support. #gamedev #indiedev

Harsh, but there is definitely some truth to it. A lot of projects start with a strong idea and the assumption that the weak spots will sort themselves out along the way. Usually they do not. That gets even worse when you are the only one looking at the project. That is why every dev needs someone to ping-pong ideas with. Even a bad idea can lead to a better solution. People genuinely interested in your project are more valuable than gold.

@IndieCurator It’s never a great game that just needs to be competed. They get stuck because it’s mediocre and the developer can’t figure out how to fix it. Often they aren’t conscious of this and experience it as a loss of motivation.

Most indie games don’t fail because they’re bad. They die because their creators can’t finish them. Idea phase? Electric. New mechanics? Addictive. First playable build? Pure dopamine. But that last 20% — the polish, the bugs, the balancing, the endless “one more fix” loop — that’s exactly where 90% of indie projects die silently on a hard drive. Finishing isn’t a talent issue. It’s a discipline issue. If your game is stuck at 80% right now… you’re not alone. You are staring down the final boss of indie development. What’s the project that’s been stuck the longest for you? Drop the name or current % in the comments. Let’s finish what we started. #IndieDev #GameDev #インディーゲーム

Happy 3 month anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet (v3). Share it with your fellow #gamedev folks! Any requests for future versions?

@LazyDevNL Thank you! I’m getting close to the end of the current UI phase, and soon I’ll be moving into another batch of systems. They are a lot more intertwined, so they will be harder to present on X. So let’s hope the growth continues.

@bytecrunchdev Congrats on hitting the 100 milestone! Keep it up🥳🚀

Me to my X audience! 0 likes 0 comments #Gamedev #indiegamedev

@ericnofsinger Thank you! Seeing people interested in my project is very motivating.

@bytecrunchdev Congrats on hitting 100! That early support is crucial. It's not just about numbers but the community you build. Excited to see how you grow from here!

Configs, plugins, references. Always ready to throw a curveball. Moving the whole dev pipeline from one station to another is a pain. Even worse, I had to do it mid-project. It is what it is. 🫤 #gamedev #solodev #devlog

I took an approach where a lot of development time went into modular, scalable systems that would later serve as a kind of framework. Nothing genre-specific, mostly data structure, naming, reusable logic, and groundwork. The idea was to make the next project easier to kickstart, reduce workload, and keep things maintainable long term. I am testing that approach on my first commercial project, EXITRUN, right now. It is still early to judge, but so far it looks like it has already saved a lot of work.

How do you balance wrapping up one project and starting the next even before hitting release? #gamedev #indiegames #indiedevs

Some talent sections are not available from the start. They have to be unlocked by finding specific items and bringing them back to the hideout. Once unlocked, they stay on that profile permanently, even if the current survivor dies.

Character panel in EXITRUN. I cannot help myself... I keep turning my UI into strange "little" devices. #gamedev #indiedev #devlog