Shadow64

Working on design patterns and clean code. A test project, but all my own Writing/UI/Sound/Music/Code. (BGs from Unsplash with some light Photoshop.)

The nice part is all of this work can directly flow into my Steam project. Including saving/loading!

#gamedev #indiedev #cleancode #uiux #godot

Been busy, but SO excited! Writing clean(er) code is so helpful and eye opening!

The dialogue is for me to chuckle at. The sounds are obviously...borrowed. 🤫

BG is from Unsplash and then run through a cutout filter.

Made in Godot.

#GameDev #IndieDev #Godot #ScreenshotSaturday #VN #CleanCode

I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning - Next Fest Demo and Results! news Recently I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning participated in Next Fest with a short demo. Was there a spike in visibility? Did it increase wishlists? Did those boosts sustain? And what do the number...

So yesterday I decided to post an article detailing how Steam's Next Fest affected my horror visual novel's numbers and it quickly propelled my game to 33rd on IndieDB out of 72000+ games.

Give it a read! More soon!

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #visualnovel #indiegamer #gamenews #gamemarketing

YouTube video by Silhouette Games I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning - Steam Next Fest Demo Trailer

The haunting month is over, but uncanny office culture and AI takeover dread remain.

If you want a quick free demo that lets you explore both in a safe(?) environment, check it out:

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#indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #horrogame #visualnovel #wishlistwednesday

Continuing to develop my solo indie game and the demo is still live on Steam! Next steps are implementing feedback, refactoring code, and squashing bugs.

If you love uncomfortable horror, give it a play and let me know what you think!

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #godot #icky

Happy #Halloween!

If you need some spooky low poly graveyard assets for your games, I have just the thing for you. Available on Fab for Unreal and Unity on the Asset Store #lowpoly

Fab: www.fab.com/listings/656...
UAS: assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/...

#indiedev #gamedev #UnrealEngine #Unity3D

My solo indie horror visual novel demo grabbed a decent amount of wishlists and claims from this week's Steam Next Fest.

Would love more feedback, so if you're a horror gamer or streamer who loves the creepy, give it a shot!

#indiegames #indiedev #nextfest #horrorgames #vn #uncanny #gamedev #weird

I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning on Steam Congratulations! You've been selected for reassignment to The Isola - a remote facility supporting vital intelligence operations at WE Inc. Your profile suggests an ideal fit for this unique position....

It's Next Fest week! 🎮

My demo is waiting in the Steam queue but I'm hoping it’ll go live soon! You only get one Next Fest, so every view and share helps a ton! ❤️

Thank you!

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#NextFest #gamedev #indiedev #visualnovel #godot #horrorgame #scifigame #creepy #vn

Got this trailer done last night for my dystopian indie horror game's demo.

Hoping that everything gets approved by Steam so it can still participate in Next Fest.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #horrorgames #horrorvn #sundayscaries #severancefans #scifigames #visualnovels

Fauxnal Fantasy - 8-bit RPG Music Pack (SAMPLER) This music pack, inspired by the great 8-Bit JRPGs of the past, contains 10 diverse tracks that will give your game a feel that is a sword slash above and launch it beyond the ordinary freeware/jam ga

Very strange. I'm waiting to hear back from SoundCloud but in the meantime I have set the old watermarked version back to public. I'll be switching it to that on the page as well, but you can find it here:

soundcloud.com/iamshadow64/...

Sorry about the confusion/issues.

Thank you for letting me know. I'll take a look. Usually there should be a playlist that has a digital watermark but I just checked and it's not there. Let me get back to you today. 👍

It's Thing Thursday! 🛠️🎮 (I'm making this up. But why not?)

Got most of the UI in and working for the Options menu. Just a couple more elements to do...but hey! I did The Thing!

Did you do The Thing today? What's your Thing? Whatcha do?

#gamedev #indiedev #gameui #uiartist #uidesign #thingthurs

Success! :D At least we both were blind to it! That does make me feel better.

@legonenen.bsky.social my sincerest apologies. 😬🙏

Uh I'm mortified to see that what I thought I posted as an exclamation was a question mark. I'm so sorry. I was actually very grateful and I hope it didn't seem like I was mocking you. Extremely sorry.

Thanks? 👍 I am thinking I may also add a toggle option to disable the animation another if people would rather the menus just appear/disappear but I may also have that for a QoL update after release.

Working on the pause menu for my horror game. I hate when you open a menu by mistake and have to wait for the animation to finish, so here you can reverse it instantly. Godot helped make that easy.

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#indiegames #horrordev #horrorvn #ui #gamedev #godotengine

You can't hang VHS tapes up in the air like this and not expect me to want to kickflip through it for an achievement.

Ah yes. The legend of the heavenly VHS. I remember this.

TFW your game about manipulation and passive aggression mirrors that messaging in its menu system.

But at least the music is meditative. 🎧

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#gamedev #indiedev #creepy #severancefans #portal #scifigames #scifihorror #horror #horrorgames #blackandwhite #vngames

I'm pretty vocal in my skepticism of wishlists or relying on their conversion. But today marks 1 month of my game being on Steam to wishlist and I just crossed my first 100!

I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning
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#gamedev #indiedev #horrorgame #vn #visualnovel

For #ScreenshotSaturday here's how I'm using music and sound design to play with anxiety:

I Would Love to Wish You Good Morning
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This little game is starting to find its audience!

#gamedev #indiedev #horrorgame #visualnovel #severancefans #creepygame #anxiety

It is incredibly helpful. Have you dipped into the joy of how easily you can display text and make it animate with no add-ons/extensions?

Maybe, but I'm pretty sure taurune is just the same thing as pirune, but twice as bad. 🤷‍♂️

Just don't play pirune. I hear it goes on forever in a big dumb circle.

A screenshot from a black-and-white visual novel video game. The image shows a close-up of a smiling man in a suit, surrounded by unnervingly cheerful coworkers in patterned office clothing. The characters’ exaggerated expressions and tight framing create a surreal, claustrophobic tone. A dialogue box at the bottom reads: “COWORKER 5: Did you have any cake yet?”

I know gamers were sooo mad at Portal for not getting any cake.

So my scifi corporate office horror VN solves that in the first five minutes.

If you're hungry, come eat.

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Available for Wishlist

#gamedev #horrordev #visualnovel #severancefans #portal

My game's chaotic intro is "dev heavy" on purpose.

Starting with the most complicated scene forced me to refactor early so I dodge pain later.

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#horrorgaming #gamedev #godot4 #screenshotsaturday #portalfans #severancefans #scifi #visualnovel #godot #indiedev

I heard BlueSky is all about post timing so I'm just going to throw this out there again to see if I can find an audience of weirdos for my sci-fi corporate office horror game.

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Thanks!

#gamedev #indiedev #horrorgame #horrorvn #dystopia #severancefans #portal

Yay! It feels gross to look at this! 🥳

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Just another creepy day at the office.

I'm sure it's fine.

(Why can I smell his breath? 😬)

#horrorgames #gamedev #visualnovel #godot4 #gamedev #psychologicalhorror #freakyfriday #horrordev #horrorstreamers #scifigames

Thank you! It was a bizarre kind of fun to try to find the rigging that would make me the least happy while I looked at it.

If I was unconsciously frowning I knew I was hitting the mark.