Tim Conkling

#PitchYaGame "The Feast" is a horror rogue-lite sandbox. You are hunted by cannibal aristocrats at a bloody bacchanal. Use stealth, tricks - and your enemies' grisly appetites. Rescue victims to keep fighting, because if you fall, YOU WILL BE EATEN #stealth #horror #indiedev

@Blinkity Coming out of Twitter hibernation to say: Ugh, so sorry to hear this, Alex. What a silly fate: to make something wonderful, and then see it taken away so quickly.

That's all for me. So proud of this thing and the people who made it. 8 great years of my life. I got to design Ekko! And lead the champs team! Dreamy. Devastating goodbyes all around. But I want this game to go hard for the FGC, and for those who remain. YOU CAN DO IT 2XKO.

@madukes_G @nemodemos @capncleaver @reallyhardy really appreciate the enthusiasm! prototyping The Feast has been long and challenging, but the light at the end of the preproduction tunnel is in sight. excited to share more about it soon

@nemodemos @capncleaver @reallyhardy @timconkling i just stumbled on the trailer for the first time and i'm hooked like a baby in a candy store. I hope we can get an update from the team soon. I also checked the youtube channel but it seems all videos are private.

@capncleaver were you the developer for this old vampire facebook game? i've been trying to research into it and your name came up in an article about 'three rings' - could i ask you about its production, maybe who else worked on it? i was OBSESSED as a teen.

@volodXYZ Thanks! Yes, we are a very small team, but working on it full time. Planning to have more to share sometime early next year

@timconkling Are you still working on this? The concept looked great.

#PitchYaGame "The Feast" is a horror rogue-lite sandbox. You are hunted by cannibal aristocrats at a bloody bacchanal. Use stealth, tricks - and your enemies' grisly appetites. Rescue victims to keep fighting, because if you fall, YOU WILL BE EATEN #stealth #horror #indiedev

@BeRad_Ent Congrats on the launch, dude! Just grabbed my copy!

omg omg omg Demon's Mirror launches tomorrow

@mathildepignol Mathilde, this looks nuts! Those visuals!

Today we revealed our game at IGN Live. Stormforge is an open world survival crafting game where you harness the power of magical storms. youtube.com/watch?v=ve0LTG…

@kleptine I’m really loving these deep posts, John

New Blog Post! This one is answering the question: "Why are some systems composable, and others not?" "Why are Blueprints such a pain to refactor?" Also, "why doesn't Lattice have execution wires?" johnaustin.io/articles/2024/… #gamedev #programming

@kleptine Whoa, this is very cool stuff!

My visual scripting solution for Unity now compiles directly to .NET IL! It's speedy! I wrote a blog about it, and going to try to write more going forward! johnaustin.io/articles/2024/…

I've long been envious of SomaSim: a teensy indie studio making hugely complex games, never repeating themselves, and SHIPPING A NEW GAME EVERY 2 YEARS. These boys know what they're doing!

We're excited to announce what we've been working on for the past two years with our friends @KasedoGames! Rise of Industry 2 will be coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox! Announcement trailer: youtu.be/xU0mnQ-Z1zw?si… More info: somasim.com/blog/2024/02/2… @RiseOfIndustry

*taps microphone* Hello again. We announced a thing we've been working hard on for several years, and it feels very nice. If you want to tell a friend or give it a wishlist, that'd be lovely. Thanks! Goodbye again.

@LegalGamerUK During that 2-6 months without a signed deal, is the dev generally locked into an exclusive agreement with that pub, or can they continue pitching elsewhere and increase leverage (or find a pub that doesn’t drag out the process)?

When I tell indies it can take 2-6 months to get from a yes to a signed deal they think I’m crazy

@TafferKing451 @PATALOON Did you consider/try a visual scripting approach to Gloomwood’s behavior trees, or were they always built in code? (I’m slightly regretting going the visual route on a project because the generated assets are hard to review/diff/refactor/etc)

@PATALOON Sure. What are you getting stuck on? Gloomwood uses behaviour trees for all its AI. The biggest hurdle is trying to get out of the "FSM" mindset and handling each task as concurrently running. Added - the monsterous tree nodes for the AIDoorTask tree.

I say this and get immediately contradicted by AI scripting lol. Could someone help me a little with that? I'm not trying to accomplish much but the Behavior Tree remains very cryptic to me. All tutorials just circling around an "enemy AI" rushing at you and attacking. 😅

@KennyYSun - I got Mr. Sun's Hatbox last night and it is fantastic! Congratulations on releasing such a weird + ambitious + funny game

@kleptine @JibbSmart How do you handle frame timings? Do you record each Update's timedelta? (Or do you do everything in FixedUpdate?)

@JibbSmart We built this for The Last Clockwinder! The whole game can be recorded and replayed frame by frame and we fix all of our bugs this way. Nice benefit is you also don't need to put the headset on.

Any gamedevs with a workflow where you can record inputs and frame times and replay them, with the ability to pause and advance frame by frame (with the recorded time deltas)? Would be really handy for debugging game logic, and life-saving for bugs with low repro rates

@sarah_northway Congratulations - insta-purchased, can't wait to play

It's ouuuuut! I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is now available on Switch, PS4/5, PC, Mac and Linux. 🚀🍄 It has Deckbuilding! Choices that matter! Romance! Time loops! Dark humor! Teen angst! So many endings, and a beautiful planet to explore. store.steampowered.com/app/1148760/I_…

@kleptine Congrats! This looks quite lovely, and the launch trailer is *fantastic*!

We've been working on this game full time for 3 years (almost to the day!). We had an incredible team and some killer voice actors (from Firewatch?🤯)! If you can, please leave a review! The stores look heavily at early reviews to determine the fate of the game long term!♥️

@iznaut Hi @iznaut + ex-Funomena folks! I'm looking for an engineer to work on "The Feast", our stylish stealth-action game about cannibal aristocrats. feast-game.com/jobs

@samskivert This was a hugely enjoyable rant but dear god just stick the Firebase DLLs in git-lfs and take back your sanity!

I'm coming out of hibernation just long enough to complain: samskivert.com/blog/2022/03/f…

WOW! Check out this gorgeous game we discovered through a job listing. The Feast is a horror rogue-like from @timconkling and @nemodemos (and you?) where you are hunted by cannibal aristocrats! 🖥️Senior Programmer 🌎Remote ✨Full-time contract 🔗workwithindies.com/careers/the-fe…

Oh - and if you're a technical game designer with a CS background, that could work as well! DMs are open, feel free to reach out twitter.com/timconkling/st…