When you're 50 playtests deep on your game and starting to do tests with friends, do you still get that nervous anticipation while playing about if you can pull out the win or on some important die roll or is it more like setting up dominoes and just watching it play out? I'm in the ladder atm ✂️🎲

Got our first two external playtests of #Exomoon in today with some friends from my local game group! Went well. At a minimum , it was not an unmitigated disaster 😂 Thanks Michael and Fred! 🎲 ✂️

Anyone got some advice, insights, or good rule of thumbs for designing a solo mode for board games? I'm making one that acts like a player building buildings, completing missions to interact with the player, take up space, and race you in VP. It's going well, but I'd love hear your experiences 🎲✂️

Physical prototype of #Exomoon is finally done! Dextrous and screentop make it deceivingly easy to make a "prototype" 😂. Some assembly required 🎲✂️

Finished our March goal of 20 initial internal playtests for #ExomoonColony! Looking to print a physical prototype to get a feel for the size and complexity of the game on the table. Just learned screentop.gg this month and love it. Now on to dextrous. Loving it so far too. Lots of great 🎲✂️ tools

🎲✂️ Got in our first 4-player playtest of #ExomoonColony! Went a lot smoother than expected. Only need to tweak a few things to smooth it out. We've played 2, 3, and 4 players and have 17 out of our goal of 20 internal tests done for March. Hit me up if you want to playtest with us later this month

🎲✂️ made a ton of progress on our new game #ExomoonColony this year. Designed the core game, got a prototype made, and already got 14 playtests in! In the game you help establish a new colony on a barren, but resource rich, Exomoon. It is a probability farmer, a la Catan but a little heavier.

This feels a little insane, but I am really liking this design pattern so far. Im not making final assets but I'm coding the systems in order. My save/load system and main menus are almost done for #StellarHarvest #Stardust, then off to in-game menus. #gameDev #indieDev #Godot

After getting some more experience under my belt, I've started fresh on #Stardust. Still really need to lock in a name and get a slash screen together. But I'm starting at the beginning and building the game manager, menu, save/load, etc systems first. #gameDev #indieDev

The Indie Den Game Jam will be having a livestream on September 6th on Twitch to announce the winners. Check out some of the entries we thought were interesting. #theindieden #gamejam #godot #indiegames #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames #gaming #videogames #gamedevelopment

Game Jam Showcases Creative Takes on "Duck, Duck, Goose" Theme • VGMM

With the Indie Den Game Jam coming to an end with 29 entries here are four that stood out the most.

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#WeDidItReddit. #HonkPursuit is submitted to the #TheIndieDen jam. First jam and time I've uploaded or exported a game. It's got plenty of rough edges. But you can play it now in frantic or chillcore mode. behemothe-games.itch.io/honk-pursuit #gameDev #indieDev #godot #GameJam

Still so much to do. I've been trying to get as many of the systems feeling right first and I'm going to try to windmill slam some sound effects and multiple level designs in last minute tomorrow 😬Almost "done" with #HonkPursuit though. #gameDev #indieDev #godot #GameJam #TheIndieDen

me when i turn the numbers up to 1000 to try and figure out why my pickups arent working because i want to make sure its not just a numbers too small problem and i finally fix it. #HonkPursuit #gameDev #indieDev #godot #GameJam #TheIndieDen

Barely a "game" at this point. But I think I'll have something to submit for my first jam. This is definitely the most I've learned in the shortest time. Making the duck animations and flaps is probably next for #HonkPursuit. #gameDev #indieDev #godot #GameJam #TheIndieDen

Im very bad at making platformers. So now its a flyer. Infinite stuff to do still before the deadline for #HonkPursuit. Redid the splash screen, but I need to redo all the art and add enemies/obstacles/moving things/goose attacks/goose ai. Oof-da #gameDev #indieDev #godot #GameJam #TheIndieDen

Getting more work done on #HonkPursuit. Got player/goose hitboxes and the loss condition/screen in. Need to improve the goose (Officer Geese Waddlespoon) AI a lot and figure out other ways to make the platforming challenging and interesting. #gameDev #indieDev #godot #GameJam #TheIndieDen

This is largely still placeholder assets. But we've got a goose and I made the movement much more responsive. Lots of work to be done on the honkin AI. In the end you will lose if it touches you. Like a lava wall that you can juke. #gameDev #indieDev #godot #GameJam #TheIndieDen #HonkPursuit

Working on #HonkPursuit for the #TheIndieDen game jam with the theme "Duck, Duck, Goose". It's my first one, I've never made a quackformer or platformer for that matter or finished a game. So here's my first couple hours of progress on it. There's going to be a goose chasing you. #IndieDev #Godot

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Brick by brick. We've got some basic dialog between each attack and some basic attack effects! The big thing was all the infrastructure to make it a lot more stable and easy to add to. Next up will be adding animations onto each attack. #monsterTamer #creatureCollector #gameDev #indieDev #godot

Have an attack system slowly coming together now. Adding dialog in. Trying to manage the async nature of firing off attack animations and dialogs and ui updates. Up next is probably adding in a basic attack animation. #monsterTamer #creatureCollector #gameDev #indieDev #godot #TurnBasedThursday

It's coming together, piece by piece. We've got 2 stand-in monsters to test with. A monster species system, a monster/encounter generator, an encounter table so you can set the monsters/levels/% for any area, and cleaned up some menus! #monsterTamer #creatureCollector #gameDev #indieDev #godot

Small progress, but we've got a button now with different states, testing out sound effects, and about to start on the battle system. Worked on some ground textures, but still need to put them in the tilemap. Oh, and I think we've got a theme 🪄💀 #gameDev #indieDev #godot

Its been a while, but we're working on a new project to get our bearings. Not sure we're its going to go, but we're working on a vertical slice first for a creature collector. Ignore the random assets. Working on core stuff like dialog, walking, changing scenes, save/load. #gameDev #indieDev #godot

Cozying up the office space #IndieDev

Finally back to it after the holidays. Got my inventory hotbar working better and I can set the active slot! Keymapping in Godot is so easy too. Up next is probably rewriting the dictionary for your inventory so that it respects the stack limit and can contain duplicates. #gameDev #indieDev #godot

#Devmas #Stardust 25. What's the weirdest or coolest bug you've encountered? Wasn't anything crazy, just had my state machine screwed up, but here's my character sprite spinning around endlessly instead of being idle 😅 #25DaysOfDevmas #gameDev #indieDev

Prestige Interactive 🕹️@prestigeint.studio · 2y ago

Welcome to the 25 Days of Devmas! Every day, we’re unwrapping a new question to share more about us—and we’d love to hear your answers, too! Today’s question is up—join the fun and get festive! 🎁✨ #25DaysOfDevmas #Devmas #indiedev #gamedev #gaming

Just want to wish you all a Merry Christmas or a Happy Hanukah to all who celebrate. Hope everyone is having a nice week and a cozy winter.

#Devmas #Stardust 24. Do you work to music? Drop your playlists. Yup! It's either things like Marina, Sia, etc or it's medieval lofi so I feel like I'm a tavern/innkeeper of ye olden days open.spotify.com/playlist/2CY... open.spotify.com/playlist/2xR... #25DaysOfDevmas #gameDev #indieDev

Prestige Interactive 🕹️@prestigeint.studio · 2y ago

Welcome to the 25 Days of Devmas! Every day, we’re unwrapping a new question to share more about us—and we’d love to hear your answers, too! Today’s question is up—join the fun and get festive! 🎁✨ #25DaysOfDevmas #Devmas #indiedev #gamedev #gaming