Sandor Szigeti (SandorHQ)

store.steampowered.com/news/app/357... And not even a week later, the v0.8 update is released.

Hey, #gamedevs and #IndieDevs, what's your experience with publishing games on the Epic Games Store? Any thoughts? Would you recommend it to a small indie developer? Why or why not?

TIL: "Hobbit" is a valid Scrabble word, and as such, a valid word in Dragon Riddler too. #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine

Some coding gurus say that with AI, the spec (including automated tests) *is* the program. Makes sense. We don't expect programmers to write machine code (except Casey Muratori ;), so it's just another layer of abstraction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkH_...

Opinion: #steam Next Fest needs a rethink. Too many demos feel undercooked, attention goes to the same 5–10 games covered by streamers and press. #Indiedevs need more effective guidance and a fairer shot at genuine visibility. If you participated, did it actually boost your wishlists? #gamedev

Very informative video: Tim Ruswick tests 3 techniques for using AI to clone a Steam game demo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Le... #gamedev #ai #endtimes #Unity3D #GodotEngine Online stores really need to figure out how to handle the coming flood of AI games of biblical proportions.

The onslaught of slop in #SteamNextFest is something terrible. But a reminder: on Wednesday Valve will enable personalized feeds! Make sure to wishlist games that you enjoy to help the algo give you solid suggestions, and also mark games the kind you don't want to ever see with "Ignore"!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/357... The v0.7 update for my upcoming game on Steam has been published. Check out the demo!

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Hey, #Godot Android devs! During development, how do you access files (e.g. save) in user://? I needed to use cmd.exe and `adb exec-out "run-as com.x.y cat files/backup.tar" > saves_backup.tar` just to get my stuff. There has to be an easier way.

Testing out Time trial racing, but forgot to limit the amount of "enemy car" spawns 😁 This is Ashworld 2 btw, coming along nicely! Post apocalyptic open world with a story line, survival, and now racing! #indiegames #gaming

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What area of Godot do you think it needs the biggest improvement?

In Dragon Riddler each unlocked Gate reveals a prophecy that's vague in early regions, but becomes more specific as the hero progresses. Knowing the breed of the final dragon lets you choose equipment and skills to your advantage.

One of my favorite opponents in Dragon Riddler is the Greedling. I'm very proud of this wretched creature. Also very happy with how the game now allows and rewards very long words. store.steampowered.com/app/3576600/...

This `AGENTS.md` is quite interesting and informative: github.com/storytold/ph...

"[Mike] Singleton designed [The Lords of Midnight] the game, wrote the novella/manual, and developed 'landscaping' in the last three months of 1983. He wrote the code in the first three months of 1984..." It only took him 6 months to create that masterpiece.

Hello! Do you like building stuff from plastic bricks? Well, maybe you'll also like to know that... 🧩 FOLLOW THESE STEPS demo is now available! 🧩 It's a chill, relaxing puzzle game with no stakes, just putting things together. Available on Windows, Linux, macOS. #indiegame #gamedev #puzzle

I managed to optimize the binary word db of Dragon Riddler from 17Mb to 6Mb. Also drastically optimized its memory handling, and now the game can run on my weak Lenovo tablet too. This was hard!

Dragon Riddler touchscreen tooltip use cases: * user configurable: longpress or double tap * longpress, while held, allows hovering over other tooltip areas to activate them: tooltip surfing * toggle button highlights tooltip areas #GodotEngine #mobiledev #gamedev

I'm *really* curious if Dragon Riddler proves to be viable on mobile as a commercial product. I've spent the last couple of days porting, and mobile is a super challenging platform that requires a *lot* of alternative solutions and extra considerations.

While Dragon Riddler was running fine on a phone, it crashed on a tablet. Turns out DR is a memory hog, and the tablet is weak. I need to optimize DR's word database for better memory handling. This is most unexpected. I didn't think I'd ever stumble into a memory issue. #GodotEngine

In my experience, there are about 1 million edge cases when implementing tooltip support for mobile, not counting device peculiarities. I'm now handling about 90% of them in Dragon Riddler. #gamedev #GodotEngine

It looks like, in addition to the "feed my poor children" beggar-bot spam, the online whore-bot invasion has also started here. Blocked, reported. I wonder if it makes any difference.

Just saw an old video of Jonathan Blow quoting John Carmack, and I disagree. :) Their point: write long functions instead of splitting them up. Good points are made, but I prefer C#-style local functions, even if I have to fake them in GDScript with fugly function names.

I'm quoting from "The Coming Race" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton: "The city was large in proportion to the territory round it, which was of no greater extent than many an English or Hungarian nobleman's estate;" I was surprised reading this.

Hey, #GodotEngine users: how do you handle tooltips when porting from desktop to mobile? Long press?

On a whim (of madness), I started porting Dragon Riddler to mobile. Handling safe display area (including screen corners) is tricky. But I might succeed. Many people said Dragon Riddler is for mobile. It only took me 2 years to try.

When running a Steam playtest, every release asks me to write a public announcement. But where are those supposed to appear? #SteamUX 🤡 Anyhow, I hope I just fixed a tooltip positioning bug in Bane of Antagon.

Does anyone find the Steam Sales Report usable? This is the most confusing heap of random numbers that doesn't tell me how much money I'd actually receive. I showed the latest report to an LLM, but it had to guesstimate the amount. Why is there no "balance held" number shown?

One week left until The Blessed Fool is released. I'm so glad I finally finished this project — it took me 2 years. Two feelings are boiling inside me: joy and shame. Below is a short story of how these two years went, and why shame outweighs joy in me🧵 #pixelart #gamedev #gaming #indiegame

Today is #HobbitDay because Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway it's a good day to come and boromir #Tolkien books. 📚

Isn't Steam supposed to provide some player info during a playtest? I see empty reports everywhere. Did I forget to configure something, or is Bane of Antagon this uninteresting?

A clandestine way to radicalize a population is using the pendulum effect. Push them far in one direction, and watch with glee as they furiously yank it to the opposite extreme, believing they're sovereign. All is well. Tremble and obey. You'll own nothing, as you are nothing.

It's surprisingly hard to express seemingly simple concepts as timed status effect durations in a turn-based game. The cognitive load this could put on a player's mind is ridiculous. Maybe if I phrase it something like "active until end of turn X" instead of "duration: 1/2"?

The first public playtest of Bane of Antagon is about a week away. Having multiple games/demos on Steam (each with modest or missing successes) I wonder if it'll be easier to cope with whatever reception my new offering is going to get. #gamedev

TIL: Using a Chinese font in a Godot game (to support zh_CN) almost doubles the default font line height. Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but it's very annoying. Tried multiple approaches, nothing helped. So I'm dynamically swapping the fonts now, and it feels dirty.

I had to disable MSDF for all fonts in Bane of Antagon. While in theory MSDF produces superior, crisp text, in practice, many visual artifacts pollute many characters. I hope this gets fixed eventually. #GodotEngine