Camping Keeper

Camping Keeper

@campingkeeper.bsky.social

Solo dev making Camping Keeper: a campground tycoon game. ๐Ÿ•๏ธ Build your campground, hire your staff, grow your business. Wishlist on Steam ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ”— store.steampowered.com/app/4920900/Camping_Keeper/

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Put the campground's money into a fountain and some flowerbeds instead of, you know ... showers ๐Ÿšฟ No regrets so far ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ #ScreenshotSaturday #CampingKeeper #tycoon #simgame #cozygame #indiedev #indiegame #gaming

Alpha day!!! Ten people are opening Camping Keeper for the first time today, with one instruction: play the first half hour alone and tell me where you got lost. Closed alpha, demo early 2027. Wish me luck ๐Ÿ•๏ธ #indiegame #tycoon #simgame #indiedev #devgame

Tomorrow, a handful of testers get Camping Keeper! โ›บ First time the game runs on a machine that isn't mine ๐Ÿ˜ Closed alpha, so no keys to hand out here, but wishlisting is how you'll hear about the demo in early 2027 ๐Ÿ•๏ธ #WishlistWednesday #tycoon #indiegame #indiedev #simgame #steam

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#TrailerTuesday Camping Keeper: you lay out the tent sites, the paths, the water and the power lines, then a few hundred campers show up and each of them decides for themselves what to do with the place. Alpha coming this month. Demo early 2027! Wishlist on Steam now :) #tycoon #simgame #indiegame

Campfire hour๐Ÿ”ฅ Four campers, two benches, one log, and nobody sitting. The river right there. Alpha testers get the game next week, so these are the last quiet evenings before everything's broken ๐Ÿ˜‚ Camping Keeper, a campground tycoon. #screenshotsaturday #tycoon #simgame #indiegame

#TrailerTuesday Camping Keeper: you lay out the tent sites, the paths, the water and the power lines, then a few hundred campers show up and each of them decides for themselves what to do with the place. Alpha coming this month. Demo early 2027! Wishlist on Steam now :) #tycoon #simgame #indiegame

Today I'm showing you profile creation. You give your manager a name and a look. Do you like this kind of detail? Does it help you make a game your own? #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #IndieGame #steamgame

Setting the alpa Playtest today. First time I hit Play on Camping Keeper from my own Steam library instead of from my IDE!!! Same build, same game, but it boots like a real game now ๐Ÿ˜ Solo dev, still a lot to fix before the playtest opens. #indiedev #gamedev #tycoon #campingkeeper

Tutorial 2 in Camping Keeper is the one about water and power. Pipes and cables are buried, which is realistic and completely unhelpful when you are learning. So the lesson teachs how works electricity and water layers. #ScreenshotSaturday #tycoon #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Before / after: my ponds were just blue rectangles sitting on the grass, and my rocks were marbles ๐Ÿ˜… Now the ponds are dug into the ground and the rocks got actual facets. And... I love the new fountain (editable by player). Camping Keeper #ScreenshotSaturday #tycoon #simgame #indiedev #devgame

Solo devs: how do you teach a network system, pipes, power, coverage, etc., without a wall of tooltips? Rebuilding the Camping Keeper tutorial this week, and every solution I like starts with letting the player break something first. #gamedev #gamedesign #indiedev

My sister playtested Camping Keeper this weekend. She stayed way longer than planned, which I'm choosing to read as a good sign. Closed alpha in September ๐Ÿ•๏ธ #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #tycoon #managementgame

#ScreenshotSaturday ๐Ÿ•๏ธ Stress testing the reception: a few hundred campers all show up at the same time. Nobody falls through the floor, they all queue properly. The last one in line is in for a long wait. Camping Keeper, every camper simulated one by one. #tycoon #simgame #indiedev #gamedev

Spent the last few days on the barbecue. ๐Ÿซ• Every group of campers has its own way of eating: grilling, snack stand or shopping at the grocery store. If the one they like isn't in the camp, they don't starve, they just fall back on something else. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #tycoon #simgame

Night on the campground, and a bit of weather rolling through ๐ŸŒง๏ธ Every camper down there is simulated one by one, with their own needs and their own budget. Camping Keeper ๐Ÿ•๏ธ #tycoon #simgame #indiegame #gamedev

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Cranked the litter rate way up in Camping Keeper to see what happens. Two things are obvious now: it's far too much ๐Ÿ˜…, and my trash doesn't read as trash, it looks like confetti. So the bins stay and the models get redesigned ๐Ÿคญ #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #tycoon

Cranked the litter rate way up in Camping Keeper to see what happens. Two things are obvious now: it's far too much ๐Ÿ˜…, and my trash doesn't read as trash, it looks like confetti. So the bins stay and the models get redesigned ๐Ÿคญ #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #tycoon

7am at my campground. Two toilets for the whole site: one broken, one nobody will go near. And a queue forming. Nothing scripted here, I just managed badly. In Camping Keeper, every camper is simulated. What's your worst campground bathroom memory? #tycoon #simgame #indiegame #citybuilder

Some small glow-ups for the power transformer and the water stations ๐Ÿ”ง In Camping Keeper, your campground runs on real water and power networks. Overload them and the showers run dry. #WIPWednesday #WishlistWednesday #tycoon #simgame #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #devlog

New this week: paths! Five surfaces to build with: flagstone, gravel, packed dirt, boardwalk and (reluctantly) asphalt. Campers walk faster on them, and each one changes the mood of a corner. Which one gets the path to the showers? #indiedev #gamedev #tycoon

Campfire hour๐Ÿ”ฅ Probably my favorite moment in Camping Keeper: night falls, the lanterns come on, and campers wind down around the fire. Cozy on the surface & the management runs deep. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #tycoon

๐Ÿ•๏ธ It's #FollowFriday! I'm a solo dev building Camping Keeper, a cozy campsite management game. Build ยท Manage ยท Prosper The trailer just dropped: take a look! ๐Ÿ‘‡ #indiedev #cozygames #indiegame

Camping Keeper@campingkeeper.bsky.social

Build ยท Manage ยท Prosper ๐Ÿ•๏ธ Camping Keeper's first trailer is out! Build your campground pipe by pipe, manage prices, staff and grumpy campers, prosper from one muddy star to five. Wishlist โฌ‡๏ธ store.steampowered.com/app/4920900/... #indiedev #gamedev #cozygames #tycoon

Day 2: Three campers show up and I've got nowhere to put them ๐Ÿ˜… Two tent pitches, a path to reception, then they check in, walk over and pitch their tent themselves ๐Ÿ‘€ Camping Keeper coming soon on Steam #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #tycoon #lowpoly #simgame #WishlistWednesday

Quick build: the reception. Every campsite needs one. Someone has to check the campers in before they can grumble about anything else. Camping Keeper, a campsite tycoon I'm making solo. #indiedev #gamedev #tycoon #TuesdayTrailer

I redid the Steam capsule for Camping Keeper, my campsite management game ๐Ÿ•๏ธ Left = the old one, right = the new one. Which one would actually make you stop scrolling? #indiedev #gamedev #tycoon

Place a pitch. Run the power line. Wait for someone to actually book it. Camping Keeper: build and manage your own campsite, from three tents in a field to a full-blown holiday village. Wishlist if that's your kind of chaos๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ•๏ธ #WishlistSunday #Steam #tycoon #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #gaming

Working on rivers for Camping Keeper ๐Ÿ•๏ธ They cut the map in two, so your campers need bridges to get anywhere, and yes: you can go a bit overboard with the pontoons. Still WIP! #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev #tycoon

Day 1 of the campsite: reception built, first employee hired. Meet Yann ๐Ÿ‘‹ His job: greeting campers. Current campers: 0 ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #tycoon #lowpoly

Day 1 of the campsite: reception built, first employee hired. Meet Yann ๐Ÿ‘‹ His job: greeting campers. Current campers: 0 ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #tycoon #lowpoly

Just refreshed the Steam screenshots: this time with the UI, because a tycoon is also about the tools you manage with ๐Ÿ•๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ Night falls on the campsite, campers gather around the fire. #indiedev #gamedev #cozygames #tycoon #lowpoly