Midge Makes Games

Thinking about my equipment screen. I remember FF6 had an optimal or best equipment option. Something like that. I was wondering how that worked, since you could probably have a debate about which equipment is best. Turns out it's super simple, just based on raw physical attack and def values.

This is actually the funniest idea of all time

Bluesky has three kinds of users

If you'd like to support me (for free) you could help out by wishlisting All-in-1 on Steam. It's at 2,000 wishlists now but hoping to reach 5,000 or (even better) 10,000 before release! store.steampowered.com/app/4059160/...

I'm pretty happy with the cadence of writing an update post every 3 weeks. Long enough that I always have something to show, but short enough that I feel like I need to keep it moving. Last one got more eyeballs than even the initial one. And a little post is far less effort than a yt vid.

Free on Steam: The Onion Voting Simulator 3D. Enjoy a superior American election experience today. https://store.steampowered.com/app/5372440/The_Onion_Voting_Simulator_3D/

Someone ran a poll on X, asking players if they would prefer "all games on Steam made by humans" or "all games on Epic made by AI". 139,568 people voted, with just 1.6% voting for AI and Epic. Faith in humanity restored!

Finally bought my ticket in advance and managed to see you can see everything. I loved it. Excellent pacing for a 3 hour movie. Unpredictable enough to stay engaging the whole way through. I think I'm still sorta processing it.

Made a small experiment. My daughter always wanted to draw things for any of my games. So, let's do it. Sketch, scan, rework ( #Krita), integration into the game ( #Godot). #familygamedev #art #humanmade

NEW DLC OUT NOW! Forbidden Solitaire: The Discarded DLC is out now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5238350/... We hope that you enjoy it :-) Please share, thanks!

project update on generation and simulation in the game i'm working on, tentatively titled [the coiled sun], and the new save system. a short thread:

Do you use spreadsheets when you make games? Or do you just kinda... wing it. I'm sure this is highly dependent on the kind of game you're making. I tend to wing it.

Current look at my night time city environment, been working on this for a very very long time. So far I'm very proud of how its looking.

Oooh unity has editor support for flag based enums, I didn't know if it would have that.

I'm a little relieved to hear that the Wicker movie is a comedy. Not my cup of tea, but before I knew that...

The thing about game development is they want you to think it's like movies: even working on the base-line of a micro-budget you need hundreds of thousands of dollars for cast, crew, equipment, etc... Game dev can be like novels: the only budget you need is your own time and effort and a computer

I was googling offhand items that are not shields. Pretty cool, a lot of discussion and creative options there.

In the darkness ... he watches you. #TurnBasedThursday #Retrogaming #CRPG

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

The invincible airplane

I tried to see you can see everything. I could not see everything (sold out)

Pushed out a new web build, realized I hadn't actually done that in a while. The partially completed status screen now shows up. All the stats are zero and the equipment are just placeholder names, but I'll get to those shortly. midgemakesgames.itch.io/rpg-wip

One of my personal favorite monsters from Even Goblins Fall In Love, our upcoming indie NES JRPG, is Stabby. Almost everyone who's played the game let's out a chuckle the first time they run into this unhinged mimic with a knife. #nesdev #gamedev #indiedev #retro

Hey for people who have shipped, or are close to shipping, a retro rpg as solo dev or very small team, what do you think took waaay longer than you expected?

Made a few icons, I've done worse.

They need to give Nathan Fielder a billion dollars and just let the little fucker rip.

Asteroids breach the grid while your drones hold the line. Targeting reticles lock onto wreckage as you switch to mortar strikes and repair units in real-time. Give this wave defense RTS a wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/5193460/ #Indiegame #Indiedev