Coffee Maker Games

It's been a good while since I've posted, too long. Just before the holidays in December I had a back injury. It left me with persistent pain in my shoulder and numb hands for over a month.

Gladly, that's all over so regular weekly game updates will be flowing again!

I'm thinking of the meaning deeply, anyway.

Im an indie solo dev, implementing hot plug wasn't very hard at all. If I can do it in a few hours, I feel there is no excuse really. Full rebinding too. Supporting older sticks is much harder than any of that IMO.

Cosmic Destroyer - Week 5 - Bugfix Update - Steam News Corrects issues with L2-B Ship color selection, option drone mode and practice mode selection bug.

Patch Notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/371...

Ice now shatters when hit by collision, chaining, causing more sweet destruction. Player safe!

Small game release today also has bug-fixes:
- Boss missile fix
- Option Mode reset fix
- L2B Weapon focus fix

Special thanks to @muraduki.misskey.io.ap.brid.gy
for reporting!

#shmup #indiegame #STG

Right - I was thinking replace continue button with dropping into practice mode just as convenience. Still separate difficulties.

Difficulty only at most very slight ease-in (first wave or screen at most -- sure) anything slower feels pedantic.

Continues seem only problematic if we don't reset scores and prevent hiscore. Lack of continues turns a ton of people off. Could drop them into practice mode instead, but curious your thoughts on this.

Escalation will feel best as a noisy curve. Flat, linear or pandering/ez all feel boring.

To me, all dogs are pups, no matter their age. 🥰

My long doggo Hazel is a Wippet Hound mix, 10. She has an immune condition called UDS that makes her look older.

She's a sweetie pups through and through and a total ham!

#doggo #cutedog

Bowling in an #STG / #shmup ?!

I spent today bowling! I figure a good physics test is you can bowl the enemies and strike with a direct hit. 🎳

1st version - objects switch to dynamic when hit.
2nd - they stay dynamic the whole time, ball follows through more.

#indiegame #gamedev

F Zero X

This is a really neat idea!

Great game and a great cover, well done!

🤘Hell yea!

Cosmic Destroyer - Week 4 Update - Steam News Customize your ship color, two new throwable objects, and general update release plan for December 2025.

Cosmic Destroyer game update released - v0.8.4

Week 4 EA brings Ship Color Customization, two new throwables, and more throwing physics improvements.

#shmup #IndieGameDev #indiegame

store.steampowered.com/news/app/371...

Because more color is more fun - Pick a color! 🎨

More color replacement shaders at work - and a new ship color system which will allow for "skin" unlocks and customizations.

Color customization goes live in EA update tomorrow! 🙂

#shump #indiegame #indiegamedev #wishlistwednesday

Improving chain-reaction throw mechanics in my Shmup, full screen pixel art animations for intro cinematics. +moar things that go boom.

One good throw is all it takes! 🥏💥💥

I love improving these chain reactions, so fun to dev. Next, big chain score multipliers. Cha-ching! 🎰💰

#gamedev #shmup #solodev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Yes so this is using TextMeshPro, and so I made a shader based on the Bitmap Custom Atlas shader it uses, and created bitmap font atlas with the color separated gradients.

Custom Pixel Font & Gradient Effect shader. Working on the intro animation.

The font has color-channel separated gradients to allow shader to blend gradients - so you can select or animate any blend of colors you want - pretty sweet I think!

#gamedev #solodevelopment #indiegame

⛳️Hotfix Release - Update for Week 3 - Part 2 - Fixes for Stage 3 Lock-out, Hi-Score Screen staying up, Boss Explosion SFX volume correction.

Definitely coming together, character has a nice visual clarity so far. Keeping that while adding frames is a worthy challenge. Keep up the good work and have fun animating!

Messing around with Deflmask for making Genesis style music. Seems pretty decent and very close to hardware.

Should I try Milky Tracker? Any exp with either or recommendations?

Used Fast Tracker 2 and Jeskola Buzz a lot years ago. Modern DAW and VSTs just dont come close.

⛳️Hotfix Updated for Week 3 - Fixes issue with Enemy Homing Missiles not being destroyed by the player's lasers (L2-B Ship's primary weapon).

More fun knocking enemies around 🦹‍♂️💥☄️

The new Chain Reaction mechanics, Plasma Bomb and Piercing Focus Shot just went live today in Week 3 Update. Ka-boom!

Update notes + GIFs on Steam News:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/371...

#indiegame #gamedev #shmup

Strongest attack is throwing enemies with new crazy chain-reaction collisions like this. Thrown enemies bounce like pool balls, dealing multiplied combo damage + blocking bullets.

Chaos is YOUR weapon. Don't sit back and dodge - cut right through! (update live 11/21)

#indiegame #shmup #gamedev

Thanks - this means a lot to me!

Made this new Plasma special effect today. What should I call it? "Plasma Bomb"?

This special has a shorter bullet cancel time than Mega-Bomb, but does more damage near the focus point.

All Custom - Shaders, Oscillating Rings, Bolt Spawners, Screen-Space sprite Trails

#shump #indiegame #gamedev

Bionic Commando is one of my favorites!
My recent 4:
Blue Revolver
Salamander 3
Dune Awakening
Graveyard Keeper (around Halloween)

Thanks! Working on making it more epic, 😅 Killer Queen dev! IIRC Minnesota based or used to be? Did you make Deathball too?

Cosmic Destroyer - EA Update Week 2 - Training Overhaul & Enemy Armor Adjustments - Steam News Multiple game updates to gameplay, UI, enemies and bug fixes. Includes the week 2 progress report and roadmap for the next 3 weeks.

Cosmic Destroyer - week 2 EA update is Live!

This update overhauls Training mode, which allows player to play any section of any stage, retry, play prev/next sections, etc

Oh, did I mention Snails?!

More info on armor systems in notes:

store.steampowered.com/news/app/371...

#indiegame #shmup