Fractal Life

@ArtVand78688074 @oldyzach LSL 7: Love for Sail is still my fave. To this day I think it's the only game that's shipped with a physical scratch and sniff card.

Show me the game you love the most. I'll start.

@oldyzach Theme Hospital. Or Colonization. Or Dungeon Keeper. Or Fractal Life 🤗

Flagellum is now mostly finished as a cell type, they're dynamic, if you add them out of balance you turn and go all over the place, a balanced cell can move forward in a straight line, and stacking many cells gives you crazy speed 🤣

@Knights_Path Seeing you guys do what you love, plus an unexpected break from work, gave me the push I needed to start development of my own indie game. It's not knight related, but here's an homage in my planned style. ❤️

If you see this post a knight.

@BitrunnerDev Dev

This place is known to be a space where game developers interact mostly with other developers. I'd like to test this theory with a little "Reach Test". Please comment if you're either a Gamer or a Developer (If you're both, please reply "Dev" ;) ) #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

@MjTheHunter Assume players are going to abuse the mechanics, make sure there's checks and balances to stop this. Players will naturally game systems and then feel disappointed if they can cheat them. Playtest a lot, master your own game.

Gamdevs, what's your best piece of advice when it comes to building complex systems for your games?

@IronIntOfficial The development choice is almost certainly to avoid innocent deaths. What they did wrong was putting the civilian in the road rather than behind that barrier.

This is why I am genuinely afraid to release my games lmao.

@hilkojj I love this retro feel, I'm all aboard! Nothing like a good sim game ;)

Citizens wanted more bathrooms. They got giant toilet drive thrus. Wishlist my game: store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/Ca…

@IndieBandits As a simulation game, I have to say mechanics :) It's actually really hard to think up well balanced mechanics.

With so many great #indiegames out there, it's hard to remember them all. So, what makes an indie game memorable? #CelebrateIndies

@ElvGames Fractal Life is in early development. A simulator game where you build life from the cellular level right through to an advanced civilization. Right now working on views so each cell type displays important information, this view indicates the healing range of protein cells.

It's #screenshotsaturday, post here your game! ❤️Like and 🔁Repost to help! #indiegame | #gamedev | #indiedev

My cellular evolution game has recently started development. I now have views enabled so you can check on simulation elements like the amount of energy or in this case healing distance of healing cells. The background is dynamic, its populated with other cell blueprints you've built. #screenshotsaturday

It’s #screenshotsaturday if you are an #indiedev show me the #indiegame you are working on right now!!! 👁️👁️

My views now include healing view which allows you to see which cells are reachable for the purpose of healing by a protein cell. Next week, movement so you can swim around 😀 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday #simulationgame

@Abyssthegame If in doubt, Salami.

Un Salame no puede venir mal! Nueva Update con mejoras, DLSS 3.5 y Salame!

@BeanJuiceStudio Rapid prototyping and playing. + 30 years of gaming experience.

Game dev question of the day How do you validate your game ideas?

@KT_9_10 Got it working :) x.com/FractalLifeGam…

@FractalLifeGame That sounds pretty advanced 😄

Made a circular indicator shader for things like health or stamina ✨ Used atan() to convert UV → angle progress controls the main dial separate change_progress for delayed transitions Back to game dev after a while 🔄 #gamedev #Godot #shader

My first dev update as I work on my game. Early days, but I have the protein tile type made and it can be placed then heals neighboring tiles when they take damage❤️‍🩹 Sound on for explanation. #indiedev #GodotEngine #Devlog #SimulationGame

@UnityCodeMonkey This helps avoid spaghetti code which so many games suffered from. Notably games like New World which broke as many things as they fixed every patch. Shame because I loved that game, but bad coding essentially killed it.

One of my favorite design patterns is the Observer pattern! (C# events) It's one of my favorites because it allows me to achieve my favorite word in all of programming, decoupling! If you want to write high quality code then that word should be on your mind constantly. The more decoupled your code is the easier it is to keep working on that codebase. And the observer pattern (events) allow you to decouple your code, the main way is decoupling UI from the Logic class. For example you have some Health System script, it should NOT be tightly coupled with some kind of Health Bar UI script. The Health System should work whether or not a UI exists, it should not care about it. So in practical terms the HealthSystem script should fire off some kind of OnHealthChanged event, and the UI script hooks onto that event and updates the visual Health Bar. That way the HealthSystem is completly decoupled so when you're working on the Health System the only thing you need to keep in your brain is just the Health System and nothing else. Same thing for separating visuals from logic, they should be as decoupled as possible. If you can play your game without visuals at all then that codebase is likely very easy to work with.

@RetroCptn @IndieGameJoe I've wishlisted. The vibe looks very papers please and you've nailed the artwork, it looks visually really good. I like that the consequences in this setting can be less abstract and more impactful. 💥

@FractalLifeGame @IndieGameJoe I think you are gonna like it then. Papers, Please was partially my inspiration for this game. A lot of paperwork, a lot of stamps, signatures, checking fields, data, info. :)

This indie dev is making a Papers Please-inspired cryptography thriller set aboard a secret submarine in 1942 - Decode & encode transmissions - Classify messages as true or false for regime - Smallest mistake means a huge death toll Would you play this? It's called False Echo

@Derly_dev Make him a cute hex cell face :D

added some character customization you can change the lil guy’s face now🫨🫨 #gamedev #indiegame