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I have not shared this much but for those who did not know, I am starting a new part of life around end of October! My Fiancée and I are expecting a baby daughter ☺️

I posted a small blog on my portfolio about Acorn 2D, a custom C++ game engine made by myself and @deadmonstor.bsky.social

bennilsson.github.io/Blog/blog-ac...

Go give otterhands a follow. I loved Refarm and I am excited to see the next project!

Looking good!

I still have some updates planned for this but I am also now developing my next small title. I had big plans, but other plans turned them into smaller ones :D Can't wait to share my next project. It shouldn't be long!

This means that Idle Fields, my silly little idle game that started as a side project, now has 500k total views on YouTube. That is insane! This game has achieved so much, even getting a bundle with the Plantera which is what inspired me to make this in the first place

Idle Fields has recently seen a massive spike in players, breaking its highest player record from 66 last year to 74. This all happened because of the spring sale and a youtuber who uploaded a video at the same time. That video now sits at 100k views 🤯

#gamedev #indiedev

If I throw the chicken, can it lay eggs mid air?

Save 50% on Idle Fields on Steam Idle Fields is an Idle Skilling Game. Grow crops, cut trees, fish, cook, purchase animals, mine, smith, and decorate your homes! Automate tasks with workers. Unlock all the achievements, level up to b...

Hey! I hope you all are doing well. I just wanted to mention that my indie game is 50% off for the winter sales 😅 If you haven't checked it out, now would be the best time to do so

store.steampowered.com/app/1807570/...

Mine has already surpassed. I really like this platform too. I don't have random ads or promoted content that I never asked to see

Personally I prefer none. You could always make it a setting just like Webfishing did?

Thank you :D It's been a long time coming and a lot of re-working input/UI

Not jealous at all 😅

Thank you for including me in this :D

I feel that

What have you been working on recently? I'd love to hear about more indie projects!

I am nearly done with this which is exciting. Just a few more icons to display and somewhere to display gamepad controls. Then it's up to testers to decide my faith

I just realised that the indentation here is all messed up. Oh well 😅

#gamedev
I never did an introduction so here it is!
Hello, my name is Ben. I work as a programmer in AAA and I do a lot of indie work in my spare time. I am excited to share my indie journey with you all here. I have 1 released title so far and I am planning what's next

Thank you! I want to share things here but not until I have made a choice hahah

Possibly. I'm just trying to avoid scope creep as well since I spent a year on my previous game hahah

Definitely! Glad you found yours. I have a few games I really like but choosing which I feel will do best is the hard part. One features a lot of balancing which I suck at, the other is quite similar to other titles

I have been prototyping a lot recently. Deciding on what to make my next project is the hardest part

I also stupidly announced it in more than 1 place so I can't even just drop it at this point. It would make me look terrible publicly. Lesson learned

When I released Idle Fields it was marked as partially playable on controllers. I let someone's negative review get to me and decided to add full support. Now I'm almost done with it but I still don't think the game is fit for controllers at all 🙃

Yesterday I got scroll rects working flawlessly on controllers in Unity. I wish things like this were supported by default but oh well, I'm just happy to see it in the game!

That sounds like a pretty good goal :D We're also close to 2025 :o

Goals for the end of 2024
- Release 1 or 2 Idle Fields updates (my indie game)
- Prototype the next game
- Start learning how to drive
- Start back up my YouTube channel

What has everyone else got in mind?

I never saw your @ on Twitter. On here I browsed through mutuals and found you :D