SCAVENGER ZERO | 2D Mech Roguelike

Recap of progress on my game over the last few months. Talking about the game being funded, upcoming release date trailer, press kit, and more. Stay tuned for March. store.steampowered.com/news/app/31686… #indiegame #roguelike #mecha #pixelart

Hopefully this doesn't get too destroyed by Twitter compression; but I've been working on improving the atmosphere in the hub world recently. There are now NPCs that walk in the foreground. I'll be refining this over the next few days. #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

Watched a playtester play my game yesterday and witnessed the most cursed run ever. He died a bunch and ended up going into thousands of dollars of medical debt, which he tried to combat by gambling and pawning off his belongings. AND IT WORKED!! #indiedev #gamedev

Playtester feedback: The shoulder-mounted rocket launcher is DOGSHIT And I agree! So I updated it and it now fires four cluster rockets that shoot out a ton of mini bombs #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #mecha

Proud to announce that I did the new 1.0 art for SCAVENGER ZERO @ScavengerDev This was a welcome challenge and I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to draw something for such a cool game. Looking forward to release! 👀👀👀 #indiegame #mecha

A large update today; here's the brand new cover art for SCAVENGER ZERO made by @EmIsDetermined We updated it to better reflect the game and how it's changed throughout development. The change should be live on Steam now! #gamedev #mecha #indiedev #indiegame

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The sales goal for SCAVENGER ZERO is to sell 3,000 copies. We're not aiming to be the next Undertale or Risk of Rain or anything on that level. End goal is that the game will sell enough to make another game after it. I'm confident we'll be able to do it, but it won't be easy.

Twitter and Bluesky saw a bump in impressions but generally low engagement / no new followers. YouTube Shorts got 103 subscribers, over 60k views, and shorts I posted aligned with wishlists on Steam. I will probably continue to make shorts in the months leading up to NextFest.

Yesterday marked the end of daily social posts for my game after about 108 days. I'll make a post in the future going over the analytics, but I've decided to stop daily posts to focus a bit more on development. #indiedev #gamedev

Today's progress: I finished the boss fight for internal version 0.4.0. I am NEVER going to do a mission this ambitious again. I ended up having to rework multiple core systems due to the scale of it. Fun stuff #gamedev #indiegame #mecha

Still working on 0.4.0. Confirming we'll be at Steam's June NextFest too. We've got enough funding to make it to release, but we'll be running a Kickstarter during NextFest to fund additional voice acting and features for the game we couldn't do otherwise. #indiegame #gamedev

@Superspooks1 Yep, there will be a bit of voice acting in the game. We've already hired someone for two major roles but there are a variety of smaller ones too. At some point in the near future I'm going to be doing a casting call for it. I'll let you know when it's happening!

@ScavengerDev Would this game need voice acting? even for a trailer?

Quick preview of a new item I added recently. It gives you a friendly ORBITER enemy to bring into combat #indiegame #roguelike #pixelart #mecha

For those who missed it; yesterday's short showed off three new mech sets I added to the internal 0.3.4 build recently. Total part count now over 150. Goal is 200, so we're almost there. #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #mecha

Going to be finishing up SCAVENGER ZERO 0.3.4 today, testing, releasing to the rest of the internal team tomorrow. I've fixed some major issues with terrain generation, added a bunch of new content, etc. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

An item I added recently, called "SURPRISE MECHANICS." It gives your weapons a chance to fire a completely random projectile. And I mean RANDOM. It can be the projectile of a different weapon, or even an enemy's attack. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

Yesterday's short for anyone who might've missed it #indiedev #gamedev #mecha

Even more progress today. Development speed has basically tripled since internal playtesting began. It's definitely given me a surge of motivation. I've been making major progress on bugfixing and balancing + compiling a new build every 2 days lmao #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

More progress since last post; I compiled internal version 0.3.1 which fixed an issue with save data and graphics pop-in. Now working on version 0.3.2 which will add some of the things that didn't quite make it into the first internal build #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

I'm still working on UI today so here's the short I made yesterday #mecha #indiegame #pixelart