SCAVENGER ZERO 💚 90% Funded

September devlog is out on Steam! It talks about the Kickstarter pre-launch page going live, weapon customization, part rebalancing, and some other stuff. #indiegame #pixelart #roguelike #screenshotsaturday

Pile Bunker WIP. Finishing up the 0.7.4 build tonight. Should be out relatively soon! #mecha #pixelart #indiegame

My game suddenly hit 80% funded. I looked into it, a private account with a default profile pic made an absurd pledge. I suspected they were a scam account, so I messaged them, and they quickly vanished. So, back to 63%. Incredibly demoralizing. 🥲 #kickstarter #gamedev #mecha

Quick global stats for the Kickstarter Demo so far: 🤖390,253 Automatons Killed 🚧46,160 Union Killed 🦑19,570 Blight Killed 💵1,952,648 Profit Made The Kickstarter itself is also now 64% funded. Two weeks to go. Thanks for the support so far! #indiegame #mecha #gamedev

I try to avoid talking about stuff that isn't my game, but looking at NextFest is seriously depressing. I was already struggling to get my game noticed when I attended in June, and that had a little over 4,000 demos. It's 8,000 now? It won't be like this forever, but still... What a shitshow.

Still working on the 0.7.4 Demo patch, taking a bit longer than I thought but I'm aiming for either tomorrow or Thursday! It'll be launching alongside a new devlog that recaps the Kickstarter progress so far #gamedev #indiegame #mecha

Here's one of the new melee weapons that I'll be adding to the game in 0.7.4: The Pile Bunker. Still got a bit of animation and VFX work to do on it. #indiegame #gamedev #mecha

I'm very tired, but here's some previews for 0.7.4. All melee weapons now have at least one alternate skin to expand customization a bit. I'll talk a bit more about this in the October devlog (releasing this Sunday--or Monday at the latest) #mecha #gamedev #pixelart

24 days to go on the Kickstarter, things have slowed down a bit but I'm still optimistic. I did notice a few bugs in the demo, which I'll be patching in the upcoming week.

46% funded so far on my mech-building roguelite, 26 days to go. Going to spend a bit more time on socials and less time writing emails. (Emailing press/creators over the last few weeks hasn't really worked out) #kickstarter #mecha #indiedev

Ending the day with the campaign being 45% funded. Again, thank you all for your support. I also released a small patch today (0.7.3) that fixed some known bugs and other issues. Will continue fixing any issues that pop up 🫡 #mech #pixelart #indiegame

The Kickstarter page launched last night and has reached 32% funded in less than 24 hours. Thank you for your support so far. If you're interested at all in the idea of a 2D mech piloting roguelite game, go check it out! #indiedev #mecha #pixelart

Congrats @scavengerzero.bsky.social on your Kickstarter launch! Do yourself a favour and throw money at him if you like cool games like I do: www.kickstarter.com/projects/kee...

Scratch that. I might not be able to make daily posts during the campaign because my RTX3080 just shit itself and died. Damn.

Forgot to mention here; the demo is live now. Actively updating it to fix any bugs. I've spent a few days contacting content creators to see who'd be willing to cover the game. I'll be (trying to) market a lot in October too, during the Kickstarter. #indiegame #roguelite #mecha

Quick update; The updated demo for SCAVENGER ZERO will be released a bit later tonight. Additionally; the demo that releases tonight won't be the FINAL version of the demo. As always, I'll be making fixes as any issues pop up. #indiegame #mecha #gamedev

Kickstarter trailer has been completed and uploaded. I am anxious as all hell now that the launch date is closer. The final steps are to finish the demo build, then reach out to content creators. The demo will be playable before the campaign starts. #mecha #pixelart #indiegame

Just released the third preview build to playtesters for the SCAVENGER ZERO Kickstarter Demo. It includes; - Optimization & Balancing. - Side Objectives (BIG BOB!!) - New weapon charms (Shoebill...) - Shoulder-Mounted Lightning Shotgun - More... #indiegame #mecha #gamedev

Sorry for the silence recently. There's been a lot of serious crunch as I work towards finishing the Kickstarter Demo, but I'm optimistic it'll pay off. More importantly, tonight the game has hit a milestone. Thank you for 1,000 wishlists. #mechgame #mecha #indiegame #gamedev

Shoulder-Mounted Lightning Shotgun WIP. Still need to do a sound design and additional VFX pass #mecha #pixelart #indiegame

Big Bob miniboss WIP #mecha #indiegame #gamedev

Follow up; side objectives are now working fully. I'm going to spend a bit of time expanding the types of side objectives though. #mecha #indiegame

I call this one "adding side objectives to make my game not suck." I noticed during playtesting that runs can feel a bit too same-y in the early game, so I think these will help to break up the pace a bit. #mecha #indiegame #gamedev

Working on a visual damage system (beating up the player's mech based on their health state) Right now it wears the paint and adds a bit of damage to the sprites. Next step will be having the player lose parts and having some unique hand-made damaged sprites. #mecha #indiegame #gamedev

Today is my birthday. I have also released the first version of the 0.7.0 update to internal playtesters. It's still currently unstable, but progress is being made. I'll be aiming to release the demo a couple weeks before the Kickstarter. #mecha #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev

Working on finishing the game's arena mode today. Some specific mechs/pilots are a bit stupid and get stuck on walls. I'll have to fix that before October. After this I'm going to compile the build for internal testing and see how well it works

When I have no idea what to post on shorts I just throw some random gameplay I have and call it a day #mecha #roguelike #pixelart

One of the cool things to come out of adding an arena mode is that some of the easy mech pilots in the base game are actually super tough in a 1v1. Not having items has forced me to change my build to adapt to the enemy. #mecha #pixelart

Finishing up some of the base upgrade tiers, there's a larger difference between each level now. Here's the break room from level 1 to max. I still have a bit of polish to do on the art, but I'm going to finish the other upgrade paths first. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #roguelike

Made lots of progress yesterday - 39/47 of the game's armor sets (195 parts) have been rebalanced. Fixed some serious balance oversights. - NPC mercenaries are now fully functional - Kickstarter pre launch page is up - Base upgrades are almost done - Polishing writing #indiegame #mecha #pixelart

The Kickstarter pre-launch page is now live, short link on profile! Also made a short today showing off one of the enemy units, JOE. Some animations are still WIP, gonna smooth these out at some point this month. #gamedev #indiegame #mecha #pixelart

Testing for shoulder mounted drone weapon. This will be included in the Kickstarter Demo #gamedev #indiegame #mecha #pixelart

flamethrower #indiegame #pixelart #mecha

Going through some major code refactoring, optimizing and balancing things. Not much interesting visually to show just yet from this, but I think it'll pay off in the end. So far it's a roughly 20ish FPS boost due to removing a lot of redundant/spaghetti code. #indiegame #indiedev #mecha

Got a little distracted and forgot to mention: the August devlog is now out! This devlog goes over Kickstarter plans, UI and UX polish, and new stuff coming in October. store.steampowered.com/news/app/316... #gamedev #indiegame #mecha