LoSkillDev

@yabsssai Wish I had a Steam game, even if it takes 5 years :D

@LoSkillDev that 5 year journey from a game jam to a steam game is really impressive, what was the most significant change you made to town of tinysville since its initial conception during the jam

Took quite a while but the Shield Component for my #indiegame is ready! 🎮🧑‍🚀🚀 Check out how the flashing animation shows the shield absorbed the incoming damage 🛡️! Time to figure out a Level Up scene, ability/upgrade selection and applying the upgrade to the ability.

@__rick________ You could make it optional :)

Genuine question for this build effect: still or screen-shake? #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Hello, fellow #gamedev friends! 👨‍💻👩‍💻🎮 I got the ability working. Lacks juice for now and the particle explosion is bad but that will change in time. Each upgrade should add one more missile (spawned shortly after the first one), extend the range and slightly lower the cooldown. 🚀👩‍🚀 Expect the shield in the next progress update tho!🛡️

@BeanJuiceStudio Godot as it’s free and open source. Wanted to try Unity at first but they came up with the TOS drama 🤷🏻‍♂️

Game dev question of the day What engine do you use and why?

@Zoroarts Congrats! How did you come up with the sales goal?

Here is the Hard Reality of Gamedev. Almost no big Streamer played Cool Story Bro yet Even though I Sent out 1,000+ Steamkeys. But its normal and i don’t take it too serious 👍 The Game reached my sold units Goal and made the Development cost back in the first week 🙏

I think AI models are great when you need a code explanation. As a self-taught person asking GPT for an explanation (like I’m a 5 year old) of tutorial code was a game changer and allowed me to leave the tutorial hell and start writing my own scripts. There is no AI code in my current project but I ain’t gonna lie and have to admit it wouldn’t be possible without prior LLM help.

@BeanJuiceStudio I use AI 90% of the time for learning and maybe 10% to help debugging. It's the same as Googling but a lot faster..

I'm going to lose followers for saying this, but I couldn't give a single fuck if you or anyone "lost respect for me" for using AI. Teachers, police and even doctors ALL use AI whether you like it or not because it helps us do what we love. I'm sick of these virtue signallers.

@BeanJuiceStudio She clearly missed the “I’ll never use gen-AI” part.

@AgrivarDragon Just be you, you don’t need a label 🙂

I’m struggling to find my identity. Gamer, role player, writer, nerd? I don’t fit anywhere. The things I loved twenty or thirty years ago have changed. It’s an interesting thing to have a blank slate at fifty five. What will It be before it’s time to go.

Every space ship needs a decent energy shield 🛡️. I’ve decided to start working on one before I even complete the game loop. Once it’s done I think I will tackle the level up system- players need to be able to pick passive abilities and, eventually, upgrade it. That said, my game will need some bare bones UI system soon. A solo-dev has to think about hundreds of things at once 🙂! Stay tuned for more #gamedev journey updates!

@kodingnights I honestly believe posting with videos allows reaching a greater audience. Not sure about longer posts, sounds more like an ad for X Premium.

I talked to Grok about my posting and non-existent views and basically: I'm rekt. I have to change communication style from short and witty to long winded with a question at the end and use more media and fun memes. And also not market my games as much. Chat, is Grok right?

@PixelArtJourney Not bad, I’d call it “production ready”. Alternative tiles make the game world less boring and kinda brings it to life 🙂👍🏻

Making tilesets is difficult 🫨Is it bad that I have like 200 unique tiles just for some cliffs, grass, dirt and water 😭

@denzelgamedev While this might be true, I haven’t found a better place to reach a larger audience 😳

@LoSkillDev What redditors do after I dare make a post about my game:

How do game devs find play testers? I don't think my granny is interested on what I'm working on. 😂

@SwarmMeGame Education would definitely be helpful, not just for gamedev but to get a grasp of basic programming principles: operators, conditions, loops etc.

@LoSkillDev Do you think you miss it or it is better to choose what you want to learn and build games to gain experience?

How many gamedevs here learned everything yourselves through projects, YouTube, docs, modding, etc. and how many came from an academic path?

@Lizzergas Great job, congrats! 🎉 🔥

Submitted my first game for Steam Store page review! Big milestone! It was a struggle to generate all the required assets... Now still, lots and lots of development is left, in the background of all this was working on implementing modding foundation #gamedev #indiedev #rts #raylib

@Booooooomstick I would pick the left one as it looks more toned down 👍🏻

Good morning everyone!! I couldn't decide, so I've made two lava options to download along with the 32x32 tileset 😅 #Pixelart #Tileset

@thewebpro The amount of rougelike tutorials for the most popular engines, maybe? 🤔🙂

Why is every new game on Steam a rougelike / deck builder?

@AadzeNomad It’s because of the debug collisionshapes being visible (+ the lack of movement but I’m working on in) 🙂

@LoSkillDev I thought they were mines at first. Nice progress as usual!

I've started working on a first passive ability- a homing missile 💥🚀 #gamedev A ready-to-attack missile (red hurtbox) spawns correctly after a specific cooldown. I have to make it moving now! 🚶‍♂️‍ The plan is for the missile to pick the closest enemy in a given range- at spawn. This would leave room for eventual upgrades (range, damage, cooldown, missile count).