Clomper by Rob Lang

Chill Tuesday game dev 🤗

Polishing Clomper 🐞- playtest feedback, come say hi!

On Twitch and YouTube
www.youtube.com/roblang

www.twitch.tv/roblangdev

It's a feature, mate! Ship it!

Drink tea while you're crossing the wasteland in your mechanical ladybird. #tea #steampunk #gamedev #wishlist #streamwishlist #clomper TikTok video by Clomper

💥 New! Pour and drink tea! 🫖☕

🔥 Byrnie the fire sprite is not impressed, though. 🤔
www.tiktok.com/@theclomper/...

A cat.

YouTube video by Rob Lang My son found bugs that I didn't even know were possible! | Indie dev log | Clomper #74

If the comments aren't giving you what you need, then change up the style of video and encourage people to help.

The easier the choice (A or B), the better!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z8P...

#gamedev devlogs aren't pointless!

➡️ Know *why* you're making them ⬅️

💰 For marketing? Make them super fun!
🗨️ For feedback? Give viewers detail
🫂 Community building? Interact in the comments
📋 Accountability? Share your plans and progress

I ❤️ the commenters, the latest devlog is no exception.

YouTube video by Rob Lang My son found bugs that I didn't even know were possible! | Indie dev log | Clomper #74

You can find out how I got a special play button with only 2900 subs in my devlog below... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z8P...

💡What steps do you take after a game devlog goes live?

Here's mine:

🔊 Discord announcement
💙 Bsky post, Threads 🧵 post
🫂 Post on other Discord communities in #promotion sections
💬 Reply to YT comments ASAP
💨 Steam page news story
🌅 Day after - YT story linking the video

#gamedev

How was I not folloiwng your already, Tudvari? All these missing friends after the exodus from the bird platform. Hello there!

While I am happy with that thumbnail, I really like the face on the one that YouTube automaticallly selected. I look like I'm about to devour your gran.

YouTube video by Rob Lang My son found bugs that I didn't even know were possible! | Indie dev log | Clomper #74

💥 My son found bugs that I didn't even know were possible!

🚀 I'm trying to get a demo together but summoned chaos by accident.

🐞 Clomper Devlog #74.

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z8P...

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #steampunk

🔴 LIVE - tea drinking animations 🍵

🐞 Ladybirds 💨 steam 🔧 pipe making 🍵 chill stream

Come and say hello!

Twitch and YouTube #gamedev #indiegames #steam

www.twitch.tv/roblangdev
youtube.com/roblang

It's form and function perfectly together. It's for squirting up under the rim of the toilet. We have them in the UK too.

Scrolling down the awesome NEXTFest games, it's important to not get dispondant. So many cool games, so easy to disappear in it all.

And so much left to do! 😵‍💫

🔴 LIVE - core mechanic 💥DESTRUCTION💥 testing!

🐞 Ladybirds 💨 steam 🔧 pipe making 🍵 chill stream

Come and say hello!

Twitch and YouTube #gamedev #indiegames #steam

www.twitch.tv/roblangdev
youtube.com/live/lNX4BxX...

Really looking forward to this! The others have been fab.

Dude at the back in the middle makes me think I should trim the face bush down to a tache.

Love Kenney's work!

Have you had much playtesting yet? (I'm fishing for info if you have!)

That's fully adorable, Ben! Great job. Do you have a sense of minimum viable game yet?

🔴 LIVE - core mechanic 💥DESTRUCTION💥 testing!

🐞 Ladybirds 💨 steam 🔧 pipe making 🍵 chill stream

Come and say hello!

Twitch and YouTube #gamedev #indiegames #steam

www.twitch.tv/roblangdev
youtube.com/live/tXKPd9f...

What was your favourite pack of crisps as a child?

For me it would be expectation management. Particularly so I know what you need from me, when you need it; and what the review steps and associated deliverables were.

If I had doubts then we wouldn't be having that conversation in the first place!

Great question, I wonder how others will answer. 🤔

😂😂 wonderful! Thank you for all the hard work you do - jump starting so many young game devs. ❤️

Cool! Are you in the Netherlands? (guessing from the .nl domain). If so, does being bicycleless make you a kind of a rebel? 😉

What kind of bicycle do you ride?

YouTube video by Unity The Falconeer Tech Talk: Creating with textureless art | Unite Now 2020

In gray, the block out has an awesome Flash Gordon vibe to it.

I love how you do gradients. I keep coming back to this video from 2020 for inspiration.

youtu.be/Bu5mxNyR8uA

John is awesome and there's a lot to learn here for aspiring and new game devs here!
#gamedev

Ten Bells on Steam You're trapped in an old English pub. Unravel a chilling tale by identifying anomalies while trying to escape. Confront the horror as you survive the endless loop of Ten Bells.

I'm too much of a coward to enjoy horror games. That spine tingling you get isn't comfortable and they leave an impression on me.

Ten Bells is an anomaly horror game and it's really really good. store.steampowered.com/app/3044030/...

My favourite #computing silly facts are:

🍴 A nibble is half a byte (4 bits)
🫖 HTTP status code 418 is "I'm a teapot"
🕊️ RFC1149 is a standard for internet using birds
⚙️ Turboencabulator is an entirely fictious machine ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G...

A list of tasks called Steam algorithm behaves oddly with unused pressure. The text inside is in a list: Need to rework the steam algorithm so that it makes more sense when connecting machines and Unused on boiler is sensible. Steam UI is broken Steam UIs should be easier to read (independent on parent rotation) Don't print the Distance as float.max, call it Max instead Steam algo must take into account unused/remaining boiler steam Audit all steam pressure max values for all machines to make balancing easier Add Available to station UI Replace registration with a static list of consumers and order in order of importance Balance steam pressure max values Steam ball needs to use consumer Remove old steam stuff off the Station class.

💡 Stay motivated by making a list of "next things" at the end of each coding session.

I like to use GitHub projects with ✅ lists.

😴 You're tired at the end of a long day, work and family stuff done; it's late. Open up your list and do the first thing. And then see how you feel. #gamedev