Dragon Dropper

Toward The Ice on Steam Toward The Ice is a classic first-person party-based dungeon crawler RPG with grid-based movement and turn-based combat. Venture into the frozen north and help a fair princess rescue her idiot brother...

I'm planning to release the first demo for Toward The Ice on December 5th. It's full speed ahead on development until then! store.steampowered.com/app/2878110/... #gamedev #rpg #drpg #dungeoncrawler

I tend to use ridiculous placeholder data to amuse myself while designing new screens, like this bestiary screen I'm working on. #gamedev #gui #ui

Nobody told me that game development would be about 90% working on user interfaces. That came as a surprise. #gamedev #indiegamedev

In Toward The Ice, you'll be able to start the game with a pre-generated party if you don't want to go through the process of rolling dice to create new characters. #drpg #dungenoncrawler #rpg

For people who hate aliens so much, it's a surprising blunder.

Save 20% on Navigating The Labyrinth on Steam Navigating the Labyrinth is a classic first-person party-based dungeon crawler RPG with grid-based movement and turn-based combat. Discover the secrets and riches of the labyrinths, and save your dyin...

Navigating The Labyrinth has been my most popular game so far, and it's discounted right now! I'm also working on a sequel called Toward The Ice. store.steampowered.com/app/2642110/... #drpg #rpg #dungeoncrawler

Steam Developer: Dragon Dropper An indie game developer specializing in RPGs.

The Dragon Dropper games are now discounted for the Steam sale! store.steampowered.com/developer/dr... #steam #rpg #indiegames

Having the certificates didn't actually benefit me directly in any way, but at the time I had a job that paid for tests, so getting them was a fun game. :)

I don't still have any books or CDs, but I do still have my Microsoft MCSE certificate. :D

I'm making great progress on building out the grid-based combat mechanics for Necromaster. #gamedev #rpg #turnbasedstrategy

Doing some prototyping and here's a fun state transition glitch. A happy accident. #gamedev #unity

Importing assets into Unity really needs to be a background task. Making it impossible to do any work for more than an hour with a modal dialog box (that can't even be paused!) is just not enjoyable. #unity #gamedev #waitingfordirttoimport

For all my learning, tinkering, and time spent I'm still not ready to use Unreal as my primary game engine. The next few things I release will be made with Unity, but I'll keep studying Unreal. Might be insanity wanting to master two game engines, but here I am. #unreal #unity #gamedev

Good thoughts. I'm pretty sure I can end up with something good, just need to spend the time on it. :)

I'm working on some of the basic mechanics for Solward, one of which is stopping character movement when an enemy initiates combat. Before they were stopping wherever, and now they stop at the intersection of a grid square (which I'll later adjust to the center). #gamedev #rpg

Eridani Survivors - More Coins - Steam News Increases the amount of coins gained during a mission.

I released an update to Eridani Survivors that increases coin drops. store.steampowered.com/news/app/339... #survivorslike #roguelite

I agree. I'd like to redesign choosing a spell to cast, but it needs to be easy to select among the 25-30 spells a character would have at high level. Can you recommend any games that did it well to look at for design inspiration?

YouTube video by Dragon Dropper Toward The Ice - Pre-Release Combat Demo August 2025

I just posted the first gameplay demo from Toward The Ice. It'll be a dungeon crawler similar to Navigating The Labyrinth, but with a different setting, monsters, character classes, and story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4X0... #drpg #indiegamedev #rpg

Eridani Survivors (Game Soundtrack) Bloodless Mushroom · Álbum · 2025 · 13 canciones

The Eridani Survivors game soundtrack is now live on all the streaming services. This is the most video-gamey music I've written yet. Spotify: open.spotify.com/intl-es/albu... #soundtrack #music #gamesoundtrack

I'm doing design work for Toward The Ice right now, and WOW. It's going to be a really good game. #drpg #dungeoncrawler #rpg

Navigating The Labyrinth - Navigating The Labyrinth Updated - Steam News Includes bug fixes, UI improvements, and some new content.

I released an update to Navigating The Labyrinth with some bug fixes and new content. store.steampowered.com/news/app/264... #drpg #rpg #dungeoncrawler

Why does my Unity project take so long to load? Oh. Well. That's why. #gamedev #unity #indiegamedev

I just bought a 4k monitor, and working has become noticeably easier. Game development environments sure do have a lot of stuff to show on the screen all at once and 1920x1080 is not enough pixels. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

YouTube video by Dragon Dropper Eridani Survivors Gameplay Demo - Purple Nebula

I posted a new gameplay demo video for Eridani Survivors. Launches in three days! www.youtube.com/watch?v=byUR... #survivorslike #roguelite

I'm one of those people incapable of understanding the appeal of regurgitating average shit. It will never make sense.

I don't know that I'll ever be able to make PRETTY blueprints, but at least now I'm at a point where writing them is almost as comfortable as writing code. An example from the settings screen in Solward. #unreal #unrealengine #gamedev

Error packaging my UE5.6 project that uses metahuman I had the same issue and for me it helped to make the following change in the file UE_5.6\Engine\Plugins\Animation\DNACalib\DNACalib.uplugin. Original: { “Name”: “DNACalibModule”, “Type”: “Runtim...

I ran into an issue building an Unreal 5.6 project with a MessageLog dependency error. It's a bug in Unreal with one of the internal modules and this fixed it. forums.unrealengine.com/t/error-pack... #unrealengine #ue56

Do you have a gamedev hill you want to die on? For me it's the turn-based RPG Solward, which will be my main project after Eridani Survivors. It's not a huge game, but figuring out the structure, mechanics, and level design is a prerequisite to all of the larger games I have planned. #gamedev #rpg

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The three dungeon crawlers I've released are now available as a bundle on Steam. store.steampowered.com/bundle/57366... #rpg #dungeoncrawler #drpg