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@NementicGames Love the parallax! Creates a great sense of space!

The atmosphere of my game ☁️

I got a new intro scene for levels in Summon the Commoners. I'm keeping up the theme of "No Theme".

Underrated Game Dev Superpower: Put a feedback survey inside your game. This kind of info is absolutely invaluable. Not only can I track how the game improves over time but it's giving me access to the hard reality of how players experience it. Here's the questions I include and why:

@OvidiuTepes Okay that's sick!

I've created a few color sets that apply the colors I want to specific components. Super useful!

@RelicAbyss I absolutely love the hand-drawn style! Also sick creature design.

Hi I'm Relic Abyss and I can't stop adding drills to our game. 🪛🔩 Also look we made a funny. 😂

@OvidiuTepes Oh wow, is this color change done through a shader? Or are you manually editing the sprites in an external program? If it's a shader, then I'd say let the player choose! If not, then I seriously respect the work you have put in for the post!

Testing color palettes for my cozy game, Eco Power Towns. Which one would you pick? #gamedev #indiegame

@here7799 Looks like a banger!

思わず...時間が吸われたインクリメンタル バウンドしまくり、どっぷりハマり、ゴールドがガンガン増えていく感覚が楽しい！悩みが歯車ならなあ！そうしたら全部ぶっ壊すのにｗｗｗ😅 【3/26 リリース予定】 ピンボールとインクリメンタル『Idle Gumball Machine』、気になる方はぜひ！

@Taikwy Looks like a great challenge mode to me!

somehow the enemies have turned invisible... #gamedev #indiedev

@GappyGame Love the speed! Gonna have to give this a wishlist

You! (Yes you! 🫵) Gappy’s adventure is a 2D platformer built from the ground up with fun movement at the forefront backdropped in beautiful locales A playtest will go public on March 31st on steam! Opt-in now if you are interested! 🎉

It's taken 3 years of hard work, but I've finally gotten a Daily Deal!

@JuhaKiili @SamuraiPhonk Thank you, this is very helpful. It seems like a lot of people post videos where they say, "Make a video game", and it pops out a mediocre project. Hearing how you frame it makes so much more sense. Thanks for educating me!

The current tools give agents access to your entire project. After you prompt a task, they look for the relevant parts of the code. You can also point out which parts are important. They also tend to copy the style and structure of the existing codebase. In my project, for example, I implemented an entity-component system (similar to Unity’s) with a specific memory layout. Because that pattern already exists, the agents now follow the same approach when adding new systems or components with little guidance. The more explicit and opinionated you are, the more accurate and cheaper the results will be. If you ask for a large task with no instructions, the agents will burn many tokens for a somewhat random outcome. Sometimes you still get lucky and strike gold, but often the result is noisy and unreliable.

Day #30 of making a game It now has the full gameplay loop: building the city, feeding the villagers, arming them, and finally dying heroically against growing enemy swarms. If you want to try it out, join the Discord server. Link in the comments.

Very interesting- thanks for the thorough reply. I am super ignorant on this side of things- you said they can copy your style and structure, does that mean you go ahead and feed them your code base as a foundation for them? Like, for my project, I can give it a 100k line project and it will be able to emulate my coding style? My big problem in the past is that generative code doesn't match my coding style, but I assume that's just because I didn't give it all of my code?

For me, trust in LLMs came from early tinkering. I manually copy-pasted small chunks of code into LLMs and asked for simple refactors. Over time, I developed an intuition for prompts, context, and limitations. Modern agents are better at building context automatically, but I still feel that doing it manually at first helped me use them more effectively. I tend to ask less of them than they are capable of because I want to avoid risks. Agents are also good at copying the style and structure of your codebase. That is why it helps to set the foundations right so you can relax later. For this game, rendering and input are handled by Love2D, but I compile a custom multithreaded C library that handles all simulation and logic. I want to support a massive city, and I was worried that single-threaded Lua would not be able to handle it.

@_theMatteBlack Hey! Just ran into your game- it looks beautiful. Do you have any tips for marketing your game? I have so much respect for people who create games THEY want to make, and it makes me happy you have gotten 2k followers on Steam!

LUCID was made in a complete vacuum. Nothing I ever experienced made an impression on me. Because of this, please WISHLIST LUCID 🌸💜

@MegaCrit Congrats! I can only dream of these kinds of numbers! You guys deserve it!

our team is TOTALLY blown away by the amount of people who have been playing & sharing their love for the game we've been working on for the past half decade. we're excited to continue to make StS2 the best that it can be!! 💪 also obligatory joke: we'll getcha one day Silksong

@Sindruid_ Something about the graphics here are SICK- is this the magic of shaders? Or is this just the skilled hand of an artist?

Can't even beat my own game man #gamedev #indiegame

@JuhaKiili @SamuraiPhonk That's wild! Do you have any tips for a long time developer who is naturally skeptical of LLM generated code? What's the best way to use LLMs? Another side question- what engine/libraries are you using?

@SamuraiPhonk Yeah mostly LLM generated code

@Chronoscript_PR I'll have to check that out!

@Human_yo_yo Thank youuu! Yes everything is hand drawn! We actually explained the full method on interview from Game informer and other articles! 👀🖤🖤

The grasshopper you left alone in your backyard a thousand winters ago.🦗 #Chronoscript

To avoid burnout, I am working on a side project where anything goes. This has led to dynamic frog smacking.

@Taikwy Love the artstyle! Why do you think it's so laggy? Cpu or Gpu issue?

25 seconds of (laggy) gameplay! #gamedev #indiedev

@RosuneStudios I absolutely love it when 2d and 3d art are put together like this- are there any unique challenges with doing this?

How many sprites make up the player character?🧐 #indiegame #TrailerThursday #gamedev