Volgaï

working on a cozy little city exploration game and just finished a playable vertical slice 🐾

if you’re into games like Little Kitty, Big City or A Short Hike, I’m looking for a few folks to try it out and fill out a short feedback form. it would help a ton! 🙏

DM me if you're interested!

#playtest

It’s only on Windows for now and might be a bit demanding since I haven’t optimized it yet but if I’d still love to know your thoughts either way; I’ll send you the details :)

For now it’s a mix of both, but the accent is still on exploring; I mostly tried to make the movement entertaining too !

Actually I’m looking for people to playtest an early vertical slice; if you’re interested I could send you the details so you see where it’s at for yourself :)

It’s crazy, I just made a short trailer for a vertical slice of my game, and I cannot stress how much his articles helped

I feel like making some low impact trailers, just to practice a bit, will help a ton in becoming an amateur trailer editor 👍

Making progress on my little city exploration game and started adding side activities.
The latest one is like squash but the ball goes blublub instead of swoosh

#solodev

If anyone’s interested in additional cute bugs, I also recommend @dodoot.bsky.social ‘s kabuto park 💚
I’ve been following the development for some time and their bugs are also very cute 👍

Making a demo for my small city exploration game and scope creep is too real:

Player takes item A to Ms. S and gets a new path
But now they need a reward for this other quest with Ms. S
Oh, a hat could be cute
I now need more hats, can't have just one
And a menu to manage the ha-

🙃

Ms. S says hi

It's my first #ScreenshotSaturday and for this I chose the least exciting part I could think of: Dialogues 💬 !

Joking apart I'm just so happy of how they turned out that I couldn't not share !

And thanks to the #Godot community for making it mostly easy 💚

I'm just starting my solodev journey but I'd love to be added!

So if someone really wanted to make some Art nouveau-inspired buildings in Blender but they were also quite bad at modeling in general and could only use basic shapes; where should they start ?
Totally asking for a friend obviously I'm not getting distracted off my game I promise but please

#b3d

So apart from my little bots I've also tried adding some animations to my trees in order to make scenes look a bit livelier.
They look more alive than windy which was my goal but I think I'm okay with it 🙂

#gamedev

Here's a post that’s more of a question / call for help

When and mostly how do you get playtesters ?

I’ve heard “early as possible” for the former and “friends and family” for the latter but I'm not sure how I feel about those (answers, obviously)

I’m just pretty lost about all of it 😅

#gamedev

So I’m being very responsible and the bots definitely needed that little cleaning animation when they see one of the duckling gang’s graffiti.
I hope the players won't use this to mess with them 🙃
Also the graffiti is an expression of my true art skills so don’t make fun of it 🥲

#gamedev #godot

I genuinely think the nicest hyper specific interactions that most players won’t see were made solely because the devs had no idea how much time it’d take them beforehand

On a completely unrelated note, anyone’s got a technique to better evaluate how much time interactions take to dev ? 🥲

Haha thanks a lot ! (from them obviously)

Hey Steven, thanks so much for this collection!
Do you have any idea how one might find themselves on it ?
It's definitely for a friend 👀

Well now I have to make some fishbots at least

Being a responsible game dev means spending time on useful things, and it can be quite hard.
For example, I made those little bots to liven up some of my scenes and now I have to fight the urge to spend 4 days giving them cute interactions with each other and the player 🥲

#gamedev #solodev #godot

3 years ago I got in a solo Game Jam and two people commented on my game saying it was super fun

I’ve been chasing that high ever since and am now a good 4 month in my first full game’s dev because of it, so clearly game jams should give you some sort of warning

#gamedev #gamejam #indiedev

From the start of my game dev, I’ve been sharing ~30s clips of the game with my brother just to keep him updated, and looking back at them has been a great way to see my progress.

It’s also a great way to pinpoint the exact launch of the last WoW expac, right when the progress stops for a month 🙃

It’s funny being a hobbyist game dev because on the one hand I don’t feel like an actual game dev because it’s not what I do for a living but on the other hand it occupies so much of my mind that it sometimes feel like I am.
I’m in game dev limbo and I think I love it.🤷

They look super nice, you did great ! I'm not very artistically skilled myself and I love those moments when I get to create something I'm genuinely happy with in spite of it, it's the best !