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I like making video games! I'm a game dev salaryman by day, and a solo indie dev by night. I'm working on a personal project right now (turn-based tactics), and I post progress updates once a week. https://www.hourglasseye.com

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It's funny how much work it's taking me to set up a generic and re-usable enemy behavior script - the "we thought it was going to be easy" meme applies here. I've been seeing a fair number of edge cases showing up while playtesting. Each "aw yiss, I did it!" is never the last. #indiegamedev

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I've been trying to complete the Power Moons in Super Mario Odyssey... It's starting to feel grind-y, but I've been enjoying the Koopa Freerunning bits. Are there multiplayer games you know of that are similar to this? Like Mario Kart but it's a platformer? 🎮

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

So I'm playtesting 10 prototype/draft levels for my game, right? Trying to get a grasp of what the experience is like: Is it fun? Is the difficulty ok? What if I try this or that build? 🎮 ... Instead I go "why is my HP negative but I'm somehow I'm not dead" 🙃 Now I'm fixing a bug 😂 #indiegamedev

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Continuing from my last #screenshotsaturday post, I wanted to showcase another curse mixing reaction - DEBUFF SPREADING 💀💥! What do you think of the way debuffs are displayed in-game? Here I did both spatial and non-diagetic HUDs. #feedbackwanted #turnbased #tactics #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev🎮

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It is #TurnBasedThursday, my dudes 🐸🌟And we’re your hosts this week! Indie devs: ⬇️ Share your turn-based games below ⬇️ Explore and support other amazing projects Gamers: Discover, like ❤️, share 🔄, and follow the ones you love!

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

I updated the behavior of ranged attackers 🏹 in my game. Now they'll try to maintain a certain distance from the player - close enough to attack right away, but far enough that the player would end up wasting their action points to close the gap. #tactics #turnbased #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev 🎮

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

We still got room in my Indie Game Starter Pack! #indie #Game #dev #gamedev #indiedev

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Finally made time to fix the bug 🐛! If it's path to the player is blocked, an enemy will no longer try to melee you from afar 😂 It'll try to close the distance instead. Pls don't mind the slash VFX that happens with the spear attacks 😅 I'll fix THAT later. #indiegame #gamedev #turnbased #tactics 🎮

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

My level editor now allows me to "paint" tiles instead of having to move around one handle per "thing" in my level (see quoted old post). I used #unity Overlays + UI Toolkit for the first time (instead of Odin or IMGUI) just with C#. Didn't like it much 😵 but binding is cool. #gamedev #indiedev

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I'm working on a game where you can mix curses to produce a certain reaction 🧪. Today, I want to demonstrate how mixing PINK and PURPLE curses result in a DAMAGE SPREAD 💥 reaction! What do y'all think? #feedbackwanted #screenshotsaturday #turnbased #tactics #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #solodev 🎮

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If you ever wanted to pull data from Google Sheets into #unity, here's an excellent guide on how to do it by Playground in the Clouds on Youtube. It worked for me 😁 #indiedev #gamedev

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Had a bit of fun making this 💖. If you're reading this, I hope this lil' clip brings you a bit of joy, may the rest of your day be nice! #indiegamedev #turnbased #tactics

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

It's an honor to host this week's #TurnBasedThursday! Turn-based gamers, check out what the community has in store for you below, and don't forget to ❤️/ 🔁to show your support! 🥳 Turn-based devs, it is your turn to show off your games in the replies, using the hashtag! 👆

submitted 10 days ago • 52 comments

Okay... I know spreadsheets aren't exciting to look at, but I'm kinda happy with my progress for initial balancing and wanted to share a bit of what I have going on. There's a bunch more but they're difficult to explain this way... I'll share more fun, gameplay-related things soon! 😅 #indiegamedev

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It's done! 150/150 seats filled in this starter pack: 🦋 Solo Game Developers Features #solodev game developers out there doing hard work. Give 'em a follow and spread the word: bsky.app/starter-pack...

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

So... I said I wouldn't write code for my game while working on progression, but ended up writing custom functions for Google Sheets anyway 😅 I'm not sure what I'm doing 😖, but now I can tell how much HP a player needs to survive an encounter (without no upgrades or movement). #indiegamedev

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment