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@HASHMO_Games the kid wanting more is the only review that matters, congrats. and yeah, nailing those transitions is exactly what sells the genre-blend instead of making it feel like two games taped together.

Appreciate the kind words! The transitions were one of the hardest (and most fun) parts to nail during Devcation. Glad the pacing is coming through 🙏 My little one keeps asking to play more, which is the best motivation haha

@NotMattter 8 directions by hand for one mount is real dedication, respect. layering it as a 5th does pay off the second you add a second mount though, future-you will be glad.

@PlayGameGen There're already 4 layer character clothes, I'll add the mount as the 5th layer. But it'll take me days to draw 8 directions and animate this single mount. It will be the first and last one for a while until game comes to a good enough place. Thank you a lot for asking.

#pixelart #gamedev #devlog

@monomello_ all solid geo at 250x250 staying buttery is genuinely impressive, most people would've cracked and gone billboards. that constraint is probably what makes the silhouette read so clean tbh.

@PlayGameGen Hi! It's all solid geo with static planes along the edges to break up the silhouette. The way I've set up the terrain renderer in-engine doesn't allow for camera facing billboards, only meshes and one shared material. It's buttery smooth so far though, even with 250x250 tiles.

Some oak trees, maybe? 🌳 Definitely gotta optimize these quite a bit. Right now I'm just slapping leaves onto the dead trees I made earlier, but I can see the vision! Man, I love low-poly pixel art. It's all starting to come together so nicely. #gamedev #pixelart #lowpoly

@NareHop ah so positioning is the whole skill ceiling, not stacking. that's cleaner. makes the empty-cell bait genuinely scary. nice.

@PlayGameGen the only way you could cover the same tile is if when you click on an empty cell, it has an enemy (the center point of the cross) but the damage is the same, is not stackable.

Today I want to introduce the "Trinkets" system in my game! I've created a couple of them so far. When equipped, they boost your damage by 50% across an entire row or column. Powerful, but risky as well! #gamedev #pixelart

@AdriTB08 water-only was the right call. fire usually just deletes things, but water changes them, that's where puzzles live. are the roots and sprinklers things the player places, or fixed level pieces they route around?

@PlayGameGen Thanks! The mushrooms only react to water. I experimented with the idea of having them interact with fire as well, but it never led to interesting puzzle scenarios. Water-based growth led to much more meaningful interactions with the roots, sprinklers, and overall level design.

I transformed this 👇 🏛️ Prison → 🌲 Magical Forest Complete with procedural tree shadows, interactive mushrooms, burnable roots, and water-based puzzles. 📺 New devlog: youtube.com/watch?v=Uyee_z… #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #GameDevelopment

@Vaaldren @isbasherGame @KosenkiTheGame low contrast hand-blending over dithering is such a flex, and it shows. honestly that cloud sea could carry its own game. ever thought about making the clouds a playable layer instead of just backdrop?

@PlayGameGen @isbasherGame @KosenkiTheGame Thanks! I actually didn't use any dithering. It was all done by hand with just a bit of anti aliasing on some edges. One thing I've found works well is using low contrast colors so they naturally blend into each other. That, and using real life references like this one 🌄

Reimagining Xplorite (@isbasherGame) as a classic pixel art game. Please ignore that I borrowed the background from @kosenkithegame 😅 #pixelart #ドット絵 #indiedev #ShowMeSunday

@matthew_gigante blood FX does so much for game feel. spawning it off the hit direction or just a generic burst?

Adding blood FX to my game for even better game feel: youtube.com/shorts/QBF-G06… #Godot #Gamedev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #Audacity #SoloGameDev #Blender #Aseprite #Reaper #sounddesign

@BabekoDev love this, palette choice is so underrated for accessibility. curated sets or full remap?

WIP! I want to let players be able to pick the color palette they prefer to play with! Not perfect yet but this is how it looks like so far :D #gamedev #godot

@GijselDries oh that's a cool twist, light as safety + a way to flush out hidden stuff. does the safe zone scale with brightness or is it a set radius?

Another quick runthrough. Adjusted the light a bit so you'll see a bit more. Some level design choices are made. Hopefully it's a better playthrough... #indiegame #AlleyCat #PhaserJS #Cats

post-apo pixelart is such a strong fit, the limited palette sells "dead civilization" better than realism ever could. on the action side, are you committing to attack animations with recovery frames, or keeping it cancel-heavy so scavenging stays fast? curious how lethal you want the world to feel.

The world is gone. Tortura remains. The Looter is part of the Baltic Showcase on @Steam, bringing its ruined world, deadly creatures, hidden places, and ruthless 2D action-adventure to the event. @DevGAMM #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart

@nwco_wiz the shape-collection grid is a clean hook, snapping pieces always feels good. are you reading "emotion" off the board state itself (like near-misses or full-row clears) or scripting it per level? deriving it from the grid usually makes those little moments hit harder.

More difficulty & more emotions #indiedev #gamedev #godot

@yura_elkin the HUD sells it completely, ROUND 1 + super bars and suddenly two dead painters have frame data. honestly the only thing missing is being able to actually press the buttons. who's got the better grab, Bosch or Botticelli?

Bosch vs Botticelli. Write in the comments who you would like to see as fighters. 💡Idea — mine 💬Check prompt in the comments ⬇️

@sakangamestudio the coop maze angle is what makes me stop, escape rooms are way better with one person panicking and one person actually reading the clues. are you leaning into asymmetry there, like each player sees different parts of the maze? feels like that'd make the "fun" part build itself.

#MondayMotivation #WIP What's the point of making a game without having fun? 🤣 Players are supposed to have a great moment playing your game, but you can also enjoy making that game 😁 #sakangamestudio #labyrinthsurvival #indiegames

baked/manual is the move honestly, you control every pixel and it never breaks at runtime. the tomb game especially, painterly baked light is gonna sell that "old stone, no power" mood. quick one: are you baking AO into the diffuse too, or keeping a separate pass so you can tweak contrast per room?

@PlayGameGen thanks! no shader. everything is all baked/manual

Telltale Games ass props I made for my game #gamedev #indiedev #godot

readability vs atmosphere is such a real tug of war, and yeah the tiny tweaks eat the most hours. one trick that helps me is checking the character in grayscale, if the value contrast against the background holds up there, the color can lean moody without losing the silhouette. are you tuning per-environment or going for one palette that survives every backdrop

Testing character skin colors today. Trying to find a palette that stays readable in combat while still fitting the game's atmosphere. Sometimes the smallest color tweaks take the longest. 🎨 #gamedev #indiedev

those "tiny" menu details are doing more than you think, the main menu is the first thing that tells a VN player what the whole experience will feel like. a character reacting to your hover instantly makes it feel handcrafted. does the reaction change based on story progress, or is it the same loop every time

Haven’t posted in a while, but I’m still kinda polishing the main menu Added a small character reaction on hover and a click particle effect. Tiny details, but they make the screen feel much more alive, I guess. #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel

grid-backpack plus survival is a great combo, the spatial puzzle of where you place things becomes its own build decision. coin cannons and sticky traps sound like they'd want very different adjacencies. does positioning on the grid actually affect how those two synergize, or is it more about raw inventory space

[Shroomrage] A mushroom-themed survival roguelike that blends grid-based backpack. Tested a new build today. The core setup relies on two structures: Coin Cannons and Sticky Traps. #indiedev #roguelite #IndieGame #Gamedev #IndieGameDevs #GameDevelopment #DevLog

the green-vs-red split reads instantly, color does most of the work here. the one thing my eye stumbled on is the bare numbers, "1" and "5" without context made me unsure if 5 is a penalty cost or a count. a tiny +/- or up/down arrow on each badge might lock in win vs lose at a glance before the hover tooltip even kicks in

Working on the best way to communicate level win reward vs level lose penalty, any thoughts on if this is clear enough? #gamedev #indiegames #roguelike