ShadeDawn
@shadedawn.bsky.social
Shadedawn Mini MMO Devlogs Alpha : shadedawn.com Discord : discord.gg/VRYmQmEDVA
ShadeDawn has no map border 🌍 The world is an infinite grid: one island per 900m cell, generated as you reach it. Four climates - meadow, snow, desert, volcano - and every island gets its own relief. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev
31 pieces of gear in ShadeDawn ⚔️ 6 weapons, 9 tools and 3 full armour sets - metal, obsidian, diamond. Every one is craftable, and each set is a journey to a different climate. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
Every climate has its own ore ⛏️ Metal at home, obsidian only in the desert (24%), the only diamonds under the snow (6%). The volcano has none on purpose: it was in at 14%, taken out so the desert keeps its reward. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev
Two sliders, same world 🎚️ FOV runs 40 to 75 in third person, 105 in first. Quality low to high: 516 blades of grass and no shadows, against 3314 and all of them. Same spot, same second. Counted in engine. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev
Same game, alone or together 🌍 No watered-down solo mode, no separate multiplayer mode. A server holds 100, ticking 30 times a second. Every piece remembers who built it. Nobody breaks your house. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
One house, and what it cost 🪓 50 pieces = 219 wood = 50 trees = 99 axe swings. The wood isn't what fills your bag: 215 leaves came with it. That's what chests are for. The forest grew back in 90 seconds. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
I dug a hole next to the sea 🌊 Five metres below sea level, and dry - until one shovel too far. No fluid simulation: the game asks if the hole reaches open water, and answers once, when you break through. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
Nature is alive in ShadeDawn 🐇 Pigs in the meadow, rabbits in the snow, camels in the sand, goats on a volcano. Look closely at the snow shot - there is a wolf watching the rabbit. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
Fifty pieces, four seconds, one fixed shot 🏠 Foundations, walls, a door, two windows, pillars, the roof, then the chest and the fire. By hand it takes about twenty minutes. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
One hostile per biome, and each one wants a different weapon ⚔️ Pighounds in the grass, wolves in the snow, snakes in the sand, and lava salamanders at 95 HP on the volcano. Free in your browser: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
Five NPCs, one per biome, and every one wants a hunt done. Five pighounds, five wolves, five snakes... and four salamanders 🌋 Not a typo: they have 95 HP each. Difficulty sets the count. shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
My lava used to be a wall. A wall blocks both ways, so I kept trapping myself in my own volcano. The fix wasn't a door. Lava is a liquid now: it had a floor, it was just missing a surface level. You float on it, it kills in 8s, and you come out on fire. shadedawn.com #indiedev #gamedev
My sea turtle was untouchable in 50 cm of water, and nothing said why. Hiding was a state - is she diving? The dive clamps to the seabed, so she stayed at the surface while every hit was refused. It is a depth now. shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
My game had three tree shapes, scattered evenly. Now there are twelve and they grow in clumps. The orchard is 15 apple trees in rows - a shape the generator never plants. shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
Every island in my game used to be a circle. The one you start on still is - I measured it, 3.5% off a true disc. The 16 others are 18 to 42% off. Some grew bays, one broke off into its own islet. shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
A stranger on a snow island asked me for five wolves. I fought them in the dark, came back, and he actually opened his chest for me - frost sword inside. NPCs that keep their word. shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
I stopped fighting in my survival MMO. Wolf traps around the base, baited cages in the middle - the animals walk in on their own and stay there. Play free: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
My survival MMO runs on a phone. Same world, same servers, no app to install - touch controls, just a browser tab. Play free: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
My tutorial never takes the controls away from you. 15 steps, none required, and they tick off in any order - play how you like and it just follows you. Play free: shadedawn.com #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev #survivalgame
Night fell, I had no walls, and the wildlife came out. I did not make it to sunrise. Lesson learned - build before dark. Play free: shadedawn.com Discord: discord.gg/VRYmQmEDVA #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #survivalgame
I built a ship, raised the sail and left my island behind. No loading screen between the shore and the open sea - it all runs in your browser. Play free: shadedawn.com Discord: discord.gg/VRYmQmEDVA #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #survivalgame
How far does the map go? 🌊 I left my island and kept going - ocean, snow islands, desert, a pyramid on the horizon. It never ends. Free browser survival MMO, no download → shadedawn.com Discord → discord.gg/VRYmQmEDVA #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #survivalgame
The first multiplayer island view from the top ! #sky #island #game #indiegame #gamedev #survivalgame #survival #survie
My loot room 📦 Place the chests where you want them, fill them with everything you drag home. Your base, your vault. Free browser survival MMO, no download → shadedawn.com Discord → discord.gg/VRYmQmEDVA #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly #survivalgame
