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Build 1.0.1 MAP 8 and the fire tree up to TIER IV are done. Game is going to enter a pretty serious stage after demo maps. (sound on, share your feedback pls) #gaming #indiedev #indiegames #nextfest

And now it looks like a gravity net! Harneesss the power of a black hole inside a tiny tower! #pixelart #gamedev #steam

I could not resit! Still looting every chest at Lantern Landing for the Pirate Token? Any chest counts, they said. 1 in 700,000, they said. I made a golden bug instead. It wears a tiny pirate hat and found a loophole in the Pirate Shop's terms and conditions. The shopkeeper is crying. The bug is on fire. #Fortnite #PirateToken #steam

I do use coding agents, and I use them most for testing. So I have all 3 of my subscriptions play on a single server with one goal: survive and finish all the missions. No other instructions, just a bot framework. Sometimes I had trouble finding what went wrong and why, so I added a replay system that logs everything and lets me see what happened around a bug.

Lesson fo others: Always plan a release for 20 business days. Assume 1 failure, then you are safe :) #steam

Due to the lack of a second developer, multiplayer was tested with AI. ;) Yes, Claude was operating a mining ship. So... if you don't have any friends, you can always play with your LLM. ;)

People said I didn't put enough love into the game... Well, here you go! Some love scenes ;) #indiedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

When you create a game, you stare at it so much that eventually you become numb to it. To the point where it almost makes you sick. Along the way, you learn about #pixelart topology, game colour theory, lighting, readability, and so much more. I think the majority of time is spent iterating what reads and what does not. I tested adaptive bug colours. I tested different art styles and map skins. I experimented with different texel sizes, breaking certain rules just to make things pop. Then I experimented with lighting. I even tested hand-drawn paths to make them look like actual, natural paths which i gave pathy colours. I tested 10000 versions of shadows. I also used generative AI, asking things like: "Here's my map, here are my units. Show me the way..." And after all that, I have nothing but respect for level designers who did all of this without AI. Because even with AI, it's still hard as hell. #solodev #steam #gamedev

And there goes the SQARAB QUEEN BUG! And yet, SHE'S NOT even the biggest one! And there are only a FEW ways to kill the SQARAB QUEEN! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #steam

Okay... I asked Claude Code to design an excavator that would work on the Moon, just for fun. I forgot I had opened it in my Unreal Engine experiments folder. F*k me. I now have a fully functional lunar excavator simulator with all the controls.

Last day of #nextfest and all the feedback will make its way - somehow - into the final game! Huge thanks to all 250 players, and to Mikatron, who discovered that shaders can be compiled in 3 seconds instead of 30! How? Switching from FXC to DXC cut the first-launch shader compilation time from ~47s to ~4s. That's the curse of developing on an RTX 50XX, you don't always notice what everyone else has to deal with! ;) I'm really sorry for making you all wait those 30-50 seconds! Fully ugpraded tree vs final map in demo.

#screenshotsaturaday Nerfing Edition / Balancing Edition For endless modes, nerfing means shorter, less boring gameplay loops. Sometimes, being too powerful means spending 1,000 hours doing practically nothing.

Can we call this spawn camping? The new endless mode lets you play for as long as you can handle the enemies' increasing HP! A little tuning still needs to be done, along with a few more wave modifiers based on time, but... yeah... #gamedev #solodev #nextfest