Nhat Tran ✨ Making Ursid

Just remembered how I used to love magic but can’t do it since my hands are clumsy but now I’m making games doing smoke and mirror stuff and realize they’re very much the same (in theory)

Hi fellow #sea #gamedev, anyone joining #gamescomasiaxThailandGameShow ? If so, let's meet up! I'd love to meet other devs from SEA!

#meetatGCAxTGS

Go get it on #itchio! Or #steam idk wherever you want.

(🤫 there's a launch discount on Steam that will end in 24hrs)

#indiegames #indiedev

spent a few hours debugging why the looper in #feel works in Unity but not in build
turns out I haven't initialize the feedback properly

remember, if FEEL complains about something not initialized, solve it before building

If someone asks me, “what’s the tedious part of game development?” I’d never thought of manually adding achievements to Steam 😵‍💫
#gamedev

YouTube video by meowballz meow mix

best 5 mins of my life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiaD...

anyone wants to play a cozy lil puzzle game?
#indiegamedev

Where's The Cat? by Oggzie, gamesnhalam, nzennhi A short game about finding the cat, and possibly catch it

Here's the link if you want to check it out: oggzie.itch.io/wheres-the-cat

Couldn't join this year #globalgamejam but here's the game made for last year's jam

This joke is still my favorite

not right now, but I'm planning to make something for it when holiday starts 🎆
and my playdate has been collecting dust, feeling very sorry for it haha

spent the whole day working on the dang doorbell sound
does it sound like a real thing? perhaps
is it a better time investment to just use the real thing? definitely
is it worth it? idk anymore is it just all sunk cost fallacy

Ohhh that’s cool! Thanks

Is there a #playdate community on here yet?

bsky.app/profile/oggz...

For Ursid, since I had to save the data from (my own) level editor anyway, I realized: Why not just use Figma? Everyone on the team knows how to use it. So I dug around Figma’s extension doc, and it happens to store the vector in the exact format I was planning. List of vertices and shapes!

So I made a quick extension that let me draw boxes over the image, and export the coordinates to tsv. Life was so much better!

In one of the past project, I experimented with making Figma extension since the tool the dev gave me was so bad. I had to draw bounding boxes on objects, and the dev just gave me a spreadsheet and tell me to input the coordinates of the boxes 🫠

Being a game designer, I suffered many pain from tools in the past projects (or the non-exsistence of tools at all). I often said a game designer without good tools is like an artist draws by Paint. Doable, but painful.

The requirements at first is very simple: Place some stars, connecting them together. Simple. It’s exactly what we had in the game at that time.
And then I thought about how do we make shapes? Do I need to make a new color picker? WHAT ABOUT UNDO/REDO?

Hi the guy making the tool here!
Read more if you want to dig deeper into the creation of this workflow 🧵

100% this. Not to mention all of the “happy accidents” during the creation that makes the work so much better. Most of the time the idea you had in your mind turned out to be horrible. By working on it, you refine your idea, and have a better understanding of the work itself.

I was the one making this mess 🥹
This is the neatest I think?

The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia.

Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

We created a level about a charming polaroid camera📸and its colorful photograph! 🌌

Don’t miss out! Make sure to add us to your wishlist buff.ly/49MajjG ✨

#indiegamedev #cozygame #puzzlegame #gamedev #steam

Merry Christmas and #wishlistwednesday🎅🥳
Here's a (half-way done) cozy fireplace to keep you warm 🔥. Hope you have a wonderful time with friends and family.
Don't forget to wishlist Ursid, coming soon 👉 https://buff.ly/49MajjG
#indiegamedev #cozygame #puzzlegame #gamedev

Bugged

been bugging our technical artist to make the shader moah sparkle and textured and he finally delivered
3 months too late tho

On one hand, players deserve a finished product when they’re buying non EA games.
On the other hand, having negative reviews is like dead spiral that keeps the dev from ever updating it. Even if they have the mean to, why would they continue working on a badly reviewed game instead of a fresh start?

First post introduction👋
We are Umer Gameworks, and we are working on a #cozy puzzle game called Ursid. Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/app/2925290/...

#indiegame #puzzlegame #cozygame #gamedev #indiedev