MazeStalker

I guess it's chibi, gameboy, pixelart metroid time again.
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I'd love to play this, but I suppose that's why I'm making an isometric game like that...

While I agree, that's the business. You need a strong stomach for all this.

I'm fascinated how none of this ever made it into my personal space of perception, how irrelevant can all this content be? My first game was a Second Life game, after all...

Working on my old box again for now. I have a very long line of complexities waiting with all the jelly-block stuff, so I'm building out the rooms that slowly teach it to the player step by step. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday

A full week wasted on trying to get the new PC to work. I did everything conceivable myself, friends, AI, the hardware support, sometimes things jsut cannot be fixed, so it's going back. Very bummed out over this.

This week my new PC arrived and I am trying to move over. For me, moving form one PC to the next is like moving a whole house... Going to take me a while to be productive again, especially since we have a new rentee! #gamedev #indiegame #kittycat

I've started development of a new hub-area. The first step is always developing a visual language that uses the same assets as the surrounding areas, yet still feels unique. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #screenshotsaturday

Put together this poison effect to go along with the new bat! For reasons that become obvious to anyone who sees this, this enemy will NOT appear at the start of the game... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker #zelda #ys #landstalker

I'm working on a new palette swap enemy! Despite having access to endless amounts of assets, I still think restrain is essential and palette swaps are part of a clean design language. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

Those were some nice talks, thank you!

Added a little more polish to this creepy sequence as I'm trying to polish this part of the game up for the demo. #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #horrorgame

Well more importantly: Young talent basically gets taught how to cook fries and that's it. I don't need more people to cook fries, we have fries in abundance, thanks.

I often wonder why I find so many parts of the #gamedev scene repulsive. Today I thought of a metaphor: If you liken game development to cooking, it feels like gamedevs often forget that we possess the incredible ability to simply invent all the flavors.

Another thing that should have taken ten minutes tops, instead a whole day wasted. But this time I got noone else to blame but myself and my spaghetti code... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker #unity3d

It seems that whenever I interacted with a completely unrelated collider on the same object, the engine decided to cull the PS for a moment and it reset completely. My unity version doesn't have a culling setting yet, so the fix is a combination of random settings that should have no bearing but do.

This is so Pokemon... Let's spend a year building these parcours, but spending 2 hours getting the platforming mechanics to feel good? hell no.

This was supposed to be working fine, but I had to go kneedeep into "particle-science" to make this not reset all the time. Meh... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #retrogaming

Worked on the visual look, there's still a lot of finetuning needed for this to feel good! #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #mazestalker #puzzlegame

I'm working on a multi-step mechanic for enabling an entire class of puzzles. I posted earlier steps before but only now started working on the second step! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

After I watch people play the game an entire weekend, the list of issues is long. Among the bugfixes there are also #uxoptimization topics that I cannot ignore. For example this shop purchase feedback. Lots of pain, but oh so worth it! #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #mazestalker

Today I lost my chance to participate in @OTKGamesExpo because of a timezome mixup. Pretty brutal, considering I only got rejections from every other event this year. I WILL tell people about my game one day. If only they knew the kind of trailer I had lined up!

YouTube video by Pixelkabinett [AT] Devlog #10: Groundhog day at #GameCityVienna

If you want to know what it's like to present you rgame at a large event I got you covered: youtube.com/watch?v=npjT... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #indiegames #videogames #gamecityvienna

"Fun" and Games Podcast: Side Quests Episode 408: Landstalker with Florian Kraner Side Quests is back and this episode's host is game developer and treasure hunter, Florian Kraner! The game he is talking about today is Landstalker by Climax Entertainment and Sega! You can also find...

I recorded this podcast about #Landstalker a while ago! HAppy to share it now that it's out! funandgames.libsyn.com/side-quests-...

Two days into #gamecityvienna watching dozens of players it takes ONE pedantic guy who points out the input delay... I built in a .2 second input delay a long time ago to better sync with animations, but only lately i realized HOW MUCH .2 seconds is in an action game...

Today I realized a mistake so bad they should take my #gamedev license... #solodev #indiegame

Österreichische Spiele-Entwickler im Porträt - Special - Teil 3 - Florian-Silvester Kraner aus Wien: Hommage an die 16-Bit-Ära Eine Schatzjägerin, die von touristisch gestalteten Dungeons genervt ist - und dann doch echte Abenteuer in einem abgeschotteten Königreich erlebt Das ist das Setting des Spiels "Mazestalker The Veil ...

An interview with Austrian #gamedeveloper Florian Kraner, currently working on @mazestalker.bsky.social (paywall). #MazestalkerTheVeilofSilenos #Mazestalker #actionrpg #indiegames #gamedev #solodev #games www.games.ch/austria-game... @karlbmusic.bsky.social @subotron.bsky.social @pgda.at

Congrats, it's been a long road!

Oops, misclicked a slider... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #mazestalker

I prepared some deco for my stand this weekend at #GameCityVienna . I had a lot of helpers for that, thanks so much to everyone! #gamedev #indiegame #solodev