VICTUAL WORLDS

Cloudbusters is in #NextFest because why not #indiegame #puzzle #mineweeper #logic #demo

mistakes aren't always a game over in Cloudbusters, but they are expensive. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #minesweeper #puzzle #london

now that I've finished the demo I'm getting back to experimentation. Getting weird with it. #indiegame #gamedev #wishlistwednesday

I made an X account to promote my games but my posts get buried cause I haven't engaged enough with whatever so now I've got to find random posts to reply to or something. using social media feels more like work than actually making a game

added a toggle to show completed puzzle background images #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #puzzle #minesweeper

was testing the demo, last puzzle of the last chapter when suddenly: crash! I'm 90% sure I fixed the bug but since I'm not 100% I'm going to do another playthough of the relevant puzzles before release. I also might add some kind of crash log system... so ... might be another day or 2...

working on the demo for Cloudbusters, its been approved by steam so I'm just going to do a bit more polish and probably release tomorrow (or monday at the latest ) #gamedev #indiegames #minesweeper #puzzle #puzzlegame p.s: had this happen when testing, is it a sign? who knows.

in my defense... this is a quote... #cloudbusters #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegames #puzzlegames #minesweeper #gamedev #solodev

#indiedev sure does require a lot of non-game development work. trailers, paper work, store pages, marketing, etc. On the run up to release is when you feel the absence of collaborators the most. anyway here's the first draft for the new Cloudbusters trailer #gamedev #solodev

got windows installed to test my game and I have never been more glad I switched to linux ~8 years ago. I had to unplug my router to install without making a microsoft account becasue I made the mistake of connecting thinking the installer maybe wanted to update or something.

after booting up for the first time there were all these fucking confusing popups about installing some kind of device and then I had to use Edge, and it actually tried to stop me from downloading firefox becasue it "might hurt your computer" or some shit.

what if you could defuse a mine after its already been triggered but you only have five seconds and it costs 3 giga-litres of 3D printer ink? #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #puzzle #minesweeper

I wanted to get the demo for Cloudbusters done on last Sunday, but failed, so I'm going to aim for this sunday now, not for actually releasing the demo, just a freeze in adding new features. Then I'll set another deadline, maybe oct. 1st, by which time I will stop working on it altogether.

updated the custom puzzle menu, can now enable/disable items. Also did some more visual polish. #cloudbusters almost finished with the demo, just need to do a bit of work on sound and animation #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #ebitengine #puzzle #puzzlegame

logically, it doesn't make sense to have dark nighttime clouds over an obviously daytime scene, but aesthetically... i think it works #cloudbusters #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #puzzle

going to aim to have a demo finished for Cloudbusters by the end of the week. also just decided to double the resolution of every sprite in the game to 128x128. I've been wanting to do another pass on the art anyway so I think it will be worth it. Anyway there's not that many sprites.

I think I'm going to replace the lore dumps as rewards in Cloudbusters with some kind of scoring system. At first I was going to write all the lore, but I just didn't enjoy doing it so I thought I'd write some and supplement with snippets from public domain books and Wikipedia articles.

I'm liking the feel of this chapter select... I want this game to feel a bit like a book, where you can easily flip back and forth from one chapter to another. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #puzzle