Lone Dragon Dev

A confession after 15 years shipping games: I'm exhausted from thinking about money. Every idea now starts with "how do we monetize this" instead of "is this actually fun?" So I'm doing something stupid on purpose — releasing a game that's fully free. No catch. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart

I see thousands of games being released every week, good ones. Now we have Palworld too competing for the attention and winning. Also GTA coming very soon too. How is anyone hyped about releasing a game on this competitive market?

@MrLazyGaming69 it's a pixel-art idle RPG, similar logic to Task Bar Hero but made to be for my liking. Waiting for steam QAs to play it so i can push it.

@LoneDragonDev Whats your game about?

A confession after 15 years shipping games: I'm exhausted from thinking about money. Every idea now starts with "how do we monetize this" instead of "is this actually fun?" So I'm doing something stupid on purpose — releasing a game that's fully free. No catch. #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart

@mindinpanic It's a game that I want to play myself. I got tired of buildings games that are trending. Overall it's a pixel-art idle RPG, similar logic to Task Bar Hero but made to be for my liking.

@LoneDragonDev 15 years and still choosing fun over money is rare. fully free with no catch is a bold move, what game is it?

@majidmanzarpour @threejs Why don't you try crazygames or poki? They can give you a lot more organic traffic than fighting with the x and reddit algos.

Launched my co-op ARPG web game a few weeks ago, built 100% with AI development workflows in @threejs 2000+ players, 200k+ enemies defeated, 5500+ waves Today a 2-player group spent 2 hours clearing dungeon mode! All the traffic is organic from X and Reddit.

@antonsimd Absolute disaster, the first 5 of them

#IndieGameDev how did your first game release go?

@IndieGameJoe Looks very fun

These students made a free first-person brawler where robots bought Earth to turn it into a parking lot - Punch capitalist corpos in their stupid robot faces - Play stylishly and your fists grow stronger - Made over two academic years It's called HYPERFIST. Would you play this?

@stphantomscript Awesome progress, keep it up

Dice Carnival just reached 1,000 wishlists, 4 days before launch. It may not sound huge compared to bigger indie games, but for us it means a lot. We made this game without a publisher or marketing budget, just the two of us trying to build something we care about. The game launches on July 17. Thank you to everyone who helped us reach this point. #DiceCarnival #IndieGame #Roguelike #IndieDev

@Mortdog I have been building games for my whole life now and I probably spend over 20k on assets, tooling and freelance work. But recently it's getting a lot cheaper than before for a lot higher quality due to AI and competetion.

One of the most daunting parts of making my own little side project so far, as been my inexperience with budgets/costs, especially on the indie side of things. What's a reasonable price to pay for localization help? What would it cost to hire an artist to make a bunch of 2D pictures? What if I wanted to make a 30 second animation? How much to edit trailers? etc. It's just a blind spot for me right now since I haven't had to think about that too much before. But it is also exciting learning new aspects of the industry and expanding my experience beyond my typical "Make game good" expertise. Learning new things is fun!

Just waiting on Steam's build review, then it's out.

Stack: FABLE (@AnthropicAI's new model) via @claudeai Code + three.js + Blender + ffmpeg. Cost: a few dollars in API credits. The original cost 5 years and my sanity. Yeah it's still far off from the original but what happens when 2 -3 more new version come after fable?

5 years building my MMO, solo. As an experiment, FABLE rebuilt it in under 3 hours — my own Blender animations, its own engine, playable in a browser. It even nailed flying. My old engine never could. 5 years vs 3 hours:

The flying that took it minutes and me years

Here is the steam page - store.steampowered.com/app/4750140/Dr…

Years of solo work. It's finally real. MMORPG where you play AS the dragon — is live on Steam for wishlists. #indiedev #MMORPG #SoloDev #WishlistWednesday

@mr_eliston Hey lets talk. I just send you a friend request.

@c4c4c4iii Hey this is some AMAZING stats wow damn. 6000 playtime with 8.45% CTR and 90k Plays with only 80$. This is awesome! Which is your game?

My experience w the new 500 highly-engaged players requirement: 4.5 day. Beta mode ON. Visits, CCU, Ads in ss. 500 HEP. I don't have a complete grasp on metrics, still new. But so far this req seems btr than the one a month ago (vague bar with no numbers) #Roblox #RobloxDev

@CodeRed_dev MMORPG where you are the DRAGON!

I need more gamedevs on my timeline

@IndieGameJoe Hardcore MMORPG being build for 5 years, what do you think?

Indie devs! It's #TrailerTuesday and I want to see what your indie games - You deserve way more eyes on your work - You're doing amazing, keep going - If you're having a bad day just remember I once walked into a lamppost Would you share your trailer below?

Sharing a pic from in-game and nothing else. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame | #gamedev | #indiedev