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I'm happy to announce MAZY is out now on Steam! 👻 Get lost in a randomly generated maze, beat minigames and survive creepy clowns. 10% launch discount: store.steampowered.com/app/4318370/MA… #Announcement #HorrorGames #indiedev

@RinoTheBouncer Yeah, same for me 😂

Who else can relate?😝🚀

@exQUIZitely I played it on my pentium 75... awesome game 🥲

A game that truly innovated a genre? Introducing something that no other game had ever done before? You might not know it, but Descent (1995) was the very first FPS with true 3D graphics and six degrees of freedom movement. Players pilot the Pyro-GX spaceship through mineshafts on various planets, infected by a virus that has turned mining robots hostile. Movement is the game's standout innovation: full six degrees of freedom allows free flight in any direction - forward/backward, left/right (slide/strafe), up/down, and 360° rotation - creating a rather disorienting, stomach-churning zero-gravity experience. For someone like me, being claustrophobic and suffering from a fair bit of vertigo, this was both tough to play but also highly fascinating. I am sure those of you who played it know what I mean...

@TheLastFapper_X When you don't have any handles, you have to grip something... c'mon 😅

Taking 'hands-on game development' a little too literally. Where would you put your hands? Be honest. #indiedev #gaming #RPG #worldbuilding #gamedev

@Viralvid_89 I'm a biker and my first rule is to always stay in your lane, always. What do you expect if you drive like a total idiot?

Some people are too dumb to drive.

It's definitely the hardest part because we don't always know how marketing works. There are people out there who spend their entire lives studying and doing marketing... we are developers. I'm still not sure myself: some experts say you should just focus on development and let Steam do the business, and there are actually many games that did well with zero marketing.

I honestly think marketing is the hardest part of game development. There are just way too many platforms and strategies to test. The real challenge is reaching the audience that will actually want to play your game—it’s incredibly tough. Wishing the best of luck and success to everyone grinding through this process!

Interesting! The machinery looks awesome 👍

@Beyond_efps Love the aesthetics 👍

New Teaser for "The Onilith", fixed a lot of things and added weapon. #boomershooter #horrorgame #horrorgaming #indiegame

@blightSoftware2 What a blast of a game :)

from a DOOM mod to a full game its been a journey for sure. Thanks to the 6000 people who played the playtest! I'll be wrapping it up soon so play it if you haven't yet!

@RinoTheBouncer I have a keyboard with auto-R on 😅

Who else does this?😅🚀

@CodeRed_dev People keep saying that if you self-publish, you are indie. But even Valve self-publishes their games, so Valve would be indie. And Microsoft too.

I don't why AA devs pretend like they are Indie. A studio of 30 ex Ubisoft developers and 30 million in funding and a guy in his basement, they are totally the same.

@RinoTheBouncer Don't even ask, $100 per hour of course :)

Would you?😭🚀

@Sosowski So you have a better chance to avoid jail by evading taxes 🤔 Ok, don't listen to me 😅

In Poland, if you make an indie game that flops, you go to jail. Not kidding. If you have a company, you need to pay obligatory "insurance" that's 5% of income but NOT less than ~500 euros a month. You don't make enough to pay? They auction off your stuff or you go to jail.

@Dadbod_Games What??? 122 endings??? I should have 20 lives to unlock each ending :) Anyway, did you try to contact Steam support to ask for a specific solution?

I just found out Steam only allows you to register 100 achievements for your game. That's an issue since I.T. Never Ends has 122 unlockable endings as of right now. Plus easter eggs and stuff that I, ideally, would also like to give you guys achievements for. Not quite sure how what to do about that? Do any of you guys have any cool ideas? Happily taking suggestions. #steam #gamedev #indiegame #toomanyachivements #Igot99achievementsAndThen1

@Revvalution_St Trying something completely new is risky because if your mechanics are too original it might be hard to find the right audience and players don't know what to expect... but if this happens you are probably creating a new subgenre, which is good :) Anyway, don't give up.

My new game is my biggest failure. I've never had such terrible results. The worst part is that I wanted to try something new, and this game completely exhausted me. Experiments are evil! I need a big break to recover😔 #game #indie #horror

@DrGeraud Congrats! Just watched your trailer... it's crazy 😂

I still have a hard time believing this happened to our game 😳

Control panel up and running 👍 Time for the basket 🏀...wait, not that basket 😅 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #horrorgame

@GorillaRogueGam @Rargarr1 @DevLand95213410 Yes I know and I use AI myself to help me with coding. I was just saying that using AI as a tool to help is fine in my opinion, but I know people selling books completely written by AI and the point there is that those books have no value for humankind.

You do realize that human artists utilize A.I. as a tool in their very human artist workflows don’t you? Digital photography, digital art, CGI is all “generated by a machine” but human artists use these techniques in their workflow. A.I. is no different. A.I. doesn’t create finished works. Artists who utilize A.I. in their workflows leverage different programs to create various peices of their creation. A.I. empowers artists to be completely independent and not rely on other humans and not be restricted by budgets/funding and gatekeeping from studios or investors. People who assert that A.I. “does all the work” clearly have no clue how artists utilize these tools in their workflows and the tremendous work, skill, talent and effort that it takes to wield these tools to create various aspects of their creation.

If you are a game dev you should be aware of the fact that gamers are NOT embracing AI in video games. Art, dialogue, and more. I know you will say they are ok with it, but they don't. At least use it for the code, not visuals/audio.

@GorillaRogueGam @Rargarr1 @DevLand95213410 Irrelevant? So, for you, there is no difference between a work of art created by a human with sentiment and empathy and something generated by a machine?

If they don’t want to play games that utilized A.I. in the workflow then it is gonna be their loss. Because most games by big studios are already embracing it fully and many indie devs are following suite. Anti-A.I. people aren’t gonna fair well in the near future. A.I. is gonna be EVERYWHERE and in EVERY major movie and game. What matters is if the product is good or not. How it was made is irrelevant.

This solo dev made a fully open world GTA set in 1970's Istanbul and it looks incredible 🔥 ✅Inspired by GTA 3 and Vice City, you'll explore a historically accurate Istanbul set in the 1970's ✅Cars have realistic, weighty physics to accurately represent the vehicles of the 70's ✅Can perform low paying crime-based jobs for cash, or just go on a rampage with a full blown wanted system ✅Police will pursue you, attempt to arrest you or just gun you down It's called Alaturka and it's coming soon!

@BlueThunderReal Making an open world like this alone is insane... great job 👍