Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
^ that scene is just pure hype :D So another update...
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Thread: The Rareware FPS OT - Tazer Boys and Killer Laptops
What's the opposite of a speed run - I've done one of those :D
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
The AppStore is 10 years old today! Kinda crazy to think it's been that long. I've reduced the price of my (currently) only app to celebrate :) I'm still working on the Steam version. Hopefully Valve get back to me in the next day or two. I failed my first submission due to some issues with the Mac build as well as some cloud saving problems. If cloud saving causes me any more submission issues, I'll probably drop the feature :(
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
My game got rejected by Valve because my controller support was a little lacking - so I've decided to fully support controllers and reupload :)
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Thread: Your controversial gaming opinions?
I have never liked a game by Blizzard Entertainment (that is since they adopted that name in ~1995 - I actually really loved The Lost Vikings).
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Thread: Time to buy a new Monitor - UHD or Ultra wide?
Main question you have to ask yourself is how much you like to play older games. I had an ultra wide for a couple of years, it quickly became a secondary for me, I just play too many older titles that aren't supported. However, if you're only interested in bleeding edge latest releases, you should be fine. It's actually pretty damn cool when you the software supports it.
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
It's a Saturday and this is a screenshot... It loops :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
<3
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Some older stuff I forgot to share - thought I'd see if I could get some early feedback before I moved onto the next scene...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Haha, it's based on holding a phone to my face as I got up out of bed - perhaps the awkwardness of holding a phone meant that I didn't look at myself :D?
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I planned out the game, and it's looking like I could be done by this time next year (not including any platform specific work). It's a first-person adventure exploration set during WW1.
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
It's a small project that I feel will take roughly a year, purely down to the quality I'm aiming for. I'll be developing it solo and only really in evenings and some weekends... mostly because I'll be busy with this: ;)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
FYI, this is called - and it's very useful :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
As I'm wrapping up Jack B. Nimble for Steam I went into planning mode on my next game (codename: ND1). And I'll be honest, I'm not entirely happy with the timescale that I've mapped out, especially based on how long previous projects have taken. My question is, how do you all feel about committing to long development cycles? Have any of you cancelled something you're passionate about just because you feel it would take too long to make? One thing I'm beginning to consider is partnering up with somebody - probably a blueprint expert, but not sure yet. For those interested, here's a bit of media from it:
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Avoiding releasing Jack B. Nimble around E3, so working on the next thing a bit...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Thanks for watching and wishlisting :) Regarding other platforms, I'm a little limited by the engine I use. There's currently an iOS port out there, which I plan to patch with some updates that I made to the game for the Steam version. Other than that though I don't have many options that won't cost me a bunch of cash as there aren't native exporters for suitable platforms (see: Vita and Switch). So for now PC & Mac will have to do. Speaking of which - I finally added the last of the required features to the game!
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Been fiddling about with my game this evening rather than doing some boring tasks - improved Jack's sprite for the no hat skin... I really need to get those last few tasks finished and push a build to Valve :p
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Yeah, I mean I shipped the first version of the game on iOS around 4 years ago now. It's basically been 4 years of polish and revisions to get the Steam version ready. I talk more about that here: Long story short, the last 5% has been taking me forever.
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Yeah, I mean the biggest problem for me is that I don't to ship it. This is technically for fun - I'm only selling it to cover the Steam Greenlight fee. So I've just been polishing whenever I get the chance. Unfortunately because the core game code is so awful I wasn't really able to expand the game a great deal (outside of content). The iOS version? It did okay. It obviously didn't cover the time involved to build it (or Adobe bills) but it covered the yearly iOS fees, which was the goal. So that's cool. And I'll be honest, I'm hoping that the Steam version gets enough sales to cover the yearly cost of keeping the iOS version on the App Store. I'm just happy for the game to exist :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I have one real task left to do on Jack B. Nimble, but I'm out of energy again :( Shipping a game that has been "in my life" for so long is so fucking tiring... especially when I know that not a whole lot will come from it (other than achievement). In other news I have just agreed to work on something with a friend... it's exciting to finally collaborate on something, so I feel that has something to do with my dwindling interest in my own game.
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
So this happened... It's crazy, I can't believe someone remade my game. So awesome.
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Fixing up the menus for the PC/Mac version...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
That looks pretty crazy. What kinda game is it for?
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
So the Steam page is finally live: The game shouldn't take too long now...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Just putting the final touches on my Steam Store page - anyone know of anything that is best to add or avoid?
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
So I've spent the last couple of days porting Jack B. Nimble to Steam. It's going pretty well and I've just got a handful of tasks left to do while I wait for Valve to review the Steam page again. I say because they rejected the first attempt because my game's website () links to the game's itch.io page. This is something Valve say is classed as competition, even going as far as to call out the fact I reference that the game is available on iOS. I've looked around and found that many, many games use their itch.io page as an external website and numerous games even call out other ports within their Steam trailers. Was I just unlucky or are Valve becoming strict? Anyway, rather than just moaning, here's the capsule image for the Steam store :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
No name as of yet, but it's going by the working title of "ND1"...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Yeah pixel art with normal maps can lead to some really odd results. While possible, it's not an easy process. Currently I'd say that the character sprite and background art are completely different art styles.
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I know, I've been super quiet. Been doing some research and coming to terms with putting my projects on hold. Life, etc.
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
So we "finished" our game this weekend. Very broken and lacking progression, but most of the content is there...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I've been increasingly frustrated at this phenomenon on YouTube, so I made my own... Environment art is NOT level design. Level design is a considered process and is the framework for gameplay intent.
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Working on a game for the global game jam. Looks like this...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Love these little guys :D
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Just going to chip in on this - I'm in a similar situation (as the parts I've quoted). was never going to make money, but I didn't think it would. My only financial intentions were to cover whatever costs I could to support the . And it is a hobby. If I were to "bet the farm" and go all in on indie, there's absolutely no way I'd make a game like Jack B. Nimble, or rather I'd have made 5 or 6 of them at a lower quality with free to play model, rather than premium. But this is a hobby. I feel it's important to determine if you feel your game development endeavour is a living or a hobby. They require very different approaches and switching between the two compromises the design of your project. I realise I may have missed the original point here, but here's two cents either way. I've seen a lot of people lately sharing depressing postmortems or doom and gloom "indie is dead" articles. And it's not. It's just the bar has been raised. Good isn't good enough. If you're not making something extraordinary, leading the way or perhaps have prior success, then expect financial failure. Sorry, I wish I had a little more time to flesh this out - basically just some thoughts I've had for a Jack B. Nimble post mortem I don't currently have enough time to write :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I wrote a pretty hefty end of year post covering my various projects: :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
On what?
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Ah I see, gotta earn dem clicks! Just talk about where I am with the Jack B. Nimble Steam port, the current status of my retro FPS, I reflect a little on my work that went into the new Star Citizen release and Squadron 42 reveal... and some other stuff. Here's that all important link again:
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I wrote a few words to comment on the Ludum Dare 40 results (spoilers: my game, Rebel Call came 27th)!
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Shouldn't be too long...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I'm a big fan of Construct 2 and 3. Construct 3 is super convenient; being able to just drop in and out of projects across all of my devices is really awesome. Though I do hear that there are some limitations, especially if you want to launch on Steam. I actually have a Construct 2 game basically ready to go on Steam (I passed greenlight an' all that) I just don't really know the next step. Anyone have ideas :)?
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Yeah, that's the thing, I jump between my Mac and my PC depending on which room I am sitting in/if I am at home/travelling. So Construct 3 is super convenient. But like I said, I've been told that Steam plugins aren't available for C3 yet, so for Jack B. Nimble I'll stick to C2... if I ever work out what I need to do :p
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Should be finished with my latest Ludum Dare time lapse tonight :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Yey - it's done. Really happy with this one :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I decided to upload the post jam version of Bad Juju. I was sitting on it for months, guess I just forgot about it. I added a balance-breaking Shotgun and Uzi for fun :) Let me know what you think!
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
You probably should have linked a trailer... Fixed!
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Been working in games professionally for ~10 years now. Before that (and before indie) I was a hobbyist modder; a couple of years ago I decided to go back to those modding days. I just make time for it I suppose. I certainly play a fewer games as a result. That was the sacrifice I made, I guess. Hah! I don't work on Dirty Bomb anyway :) Working on something new and unannounced (not talking about it either)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
My compo entry is coming along okay. I don't like that I don't have a win condition by the end of the first day though...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Posting this while I still have my eyes open...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I realise that I forgot to post a link for my Ludum Dare game :p
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Still working things out in my new game - but this is the general direction it's headed...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Explained a little about my sprite process - all pretty high level, but I've been busy with level art :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Continuing my work on the new thing...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Wrote a blog post about my contributions towards the #Blocktober hashtag:
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
Well, indirectly. One of my key inspirations for this is Goldeneye 007, which is technically the precursor to Perfect Dark :)
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
I'm taking the weekend off to do some life stuff, but here's how the build looked last...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
It feels good to me so far, here's an earlier video...
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Thread: Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!
It's not a style that particularly resonates with me. However, if I was to try and be objective and offer critique, it would be that the character appears too clean in comparison to the detailed and gradient filled level art. Regarding the gradients, I feel they're not quite working. I'm struggling to understand the depth in each of the art elements, particularly the desk(?). I like the colours though - I could see these blending and popping with a little light bleed or bloom. Also, hello! First post, etc.
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