Agent Coffee Games

That rush when your Steam page goes live! Who can relate? Sugar Rot, our first person horror shooter, comes out later this year. Wishlist today! Lots more dev updates coming soon... store.steampowered.com/app/4838600/Su…

@MjTheHunter Tiers is a great idea. That, or a fixed percentage with some kind of minimum and maximum. Keep the refund policy for sure - but accommodate devs who make shorter projects.

I personally really like Steam's refund policy. It's a fantastic for customer reassurance. However, in an age where a lot of games become shorter and more focused I feel like we need different tiers. I think this model made sense 5-10 years ago. While it was still possible to exploit on shorter titles, I'm sure it wasn't as prevalent as now. I've seen the argument that you just need to make longer games and I think that does a disservice to developers who want to focus on shorter playtimes for whatever reason. We all have different preferences in games, genres, length etc., but having everyone be on the same refund policy does seem archaic. I think it's good to have these discussions, and I'm sure Valve takes notice as well. Eventually we will see changes to that policy, I'm sure of it.

@WillFaucherVFX Thanks, Will! Great product as always. Definitely plan on adding this to the arsenal!

After many months of work, I’m happy to (finally) announce the release of EasyWaterscape for #unrealengine! With realtime ocean/water simulation, dynamic foam & shorelines, underwater transitions, buoyancy, and one-click presets, it is what I think is the easiest water tool to use and get fantastic results with. You can get it right now on @fab Full tutorial here: youtu.be/dXuwb4PpodQ #gamedev #ue5

@IndieGameJoe While yes, in general, the policy is a good thing, abuse of it like this is sad. It's the spirit of the law vs. the letter of the law.

Steam's 2-hour refund policy protects consumers AND devs An indie dev wants it changed after 55,000 players refunded his game, many beating it in under 2 hours. I'm about to be the annoying one, because that policy is part of the reason he got 270k sales Let me explain 🧵👇

@iluminatibot Credit scores.

Name a scam that's been around so long that we don't even realize it's a scam anymore.

Testing out the Gun Doctor. What do you think?

@MrBeast 268,412

First person to reply with the exact number of pennies in this room win $10,000

@Case_Portman BioShock but candy.

Gamedevs, describe your game in 3 words.

Some new capsule artwork comin' in hot! (Psst... can you guess the name of our friend? 👇👀)

@stphantomscript @IndieGameJoe Congrats!

I couldn’t afford to spend $1,000 to get people to post about our game, and I couldn’t even catch @IndieGameJoe’s attention. But by simply showing up and posting every single day, we still managed to reach 900 wishlists. It may not sound like much to some people, but for us, it’s a milestone worth celebrating. ❤️ #IndieGame #games #new #IndieDev #Deckbuilder #Roguelite

Say hello to Popshot! This is one of the weapons in the Sugar Rot demo (which will be out later this year). The demo will contain 3 of the 6 weapons from the final game.

This is cool. I'm not a platformer guy but I am an ancient Egyptian history buff. I would play this.

@CodeRed_dev Yeah, I feel like a lot of game dev advice is to watch for trends, so everything starts to look and feel the same. I feel like trends should be a single data point as you come up with a game idea, not the north star.

Is it me or is indie dev being reduced to yearly trends. I see nextfest and all the games are the same.

Today's dev soundtrack: Switchfoot's "Forever Now" album. Absolute 🔥 What's your favorite music to dev to?

@thomasbrushdev Here’s my game, Sugar Rot! (That UE mannequin has since been swapped out for the real mesh. 😂 Not everything is fully set dressed yet!)

What does your game look like in editor vs in game? Here's mine!

#Unity vs. #Unreal? How about both! Been loving diving into C# scripting and spinning up a Unity project, even though I’m primarily an Unreal developer. Does anyone else work this way??