Stein Makes Games

I'm making a puzzly mining game! In Dig Dig Boom you dig and blast your way through procedurally generated caves in search of treasure - but time only moves when you do! Wishlist on Steam! #indiegames #gaming #gamedev #godot

Added a fishing rod to pull things. Accidentally made it tear apart terrain #godot #indiedev

You know it's a change of season when all grocery stores of the country has entered the phase of selling the same 300g boxes of gingerbread cookies for under 50 cent.

> Phone buzz > Reddit notification > Opens it >

Reminder: If you wanna see #gamedev stuff on Bsky, I made this feed. Includes all posts with relevant keywords like "game dev", or #gamedev, filters out certain spam-related keywords, then shows any posts above 3+ likes sorted by a combination of age and like count: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Tickets for GodotFest 2026 are still 30% off until 1 October. After Wednesday, only Late Bird tickets are available. Two days in Munich, 3 and 4 November. Talks and panels, time to meet other developers, food and drinks included. Secure yours today: godotfest.com #godotengine #conference #munich

Also #indiedev

Playtesting is going well (discord.com/invite/YKbyZ...)

It takes me about a week to put together a boss fight but I love the spectacle when it all comes together #gamedev #godotengine

So this is the state of game development today: Solodev posts about their game on social media, post goes viral, dozens of copycats immediately spawn

this is peak User Centered Design

Gamedevs listening to players: Togglable optional bugs

Been setting up Sentry.io to log errors that playtesters encounter. Actually super neat.

It baffles me how in this day and age, nobody has yet managed to make some document writing software that doesn't implode when you try to move an in-text image.

Internet was more fun when it was being "surfed" instead of "scrolled"

After asking for my game for 4 years, this poor guy fell for a discord phishing scam and got account stolen😢

yes

Found an old business card from 2023, when I thought my game would be finished 2024🥲 #indiedev

Wish Godot tweens had auto-complete instead of being string-based, so I could avoid going several months without noticing this bug:

What if a turn based game let you do 60 turns per second?

On the way to GamesCom, walked past someone fully dressed up as a Minecraft villager, said "Hmm!" and got a "Hmm!" in return. 10/10 conversation.

Development of Godot 4.8 is firing on all cylinders! 🏎️ #GodotEngine 4.8 dev 4 brings Trail3D, VisualShader node groups, main screen dock support, multi-bounce ambient occlusion approximation, directional lightmap specular light… Too many features to count! godotengine.org/article/dev-...

For anyone at GamesCom, there's a Godot Meetup tomorrow! luma.com/s4s0hjke?tk=...

PSA: Common Scam for Steam devs to be contacted by someone who wants to buy your game. It's their entrypoint to using your Steam approved game to further distribute the scam/malware, since Steam only validates a build by humans once, making it possible to later patch in something malicious.

My debugger console keeps throwing exceptions because my code is exceptional

We are delighted to announce that @w4games.com raised a $18m Series B led by Tencent, alongside a strategic partnership to grow our business and the worldwide adoption of #GodotEngine. www.w4games.com/blog/w4-game...

Headed to GamesCom btw ✈️

My @godotengine.org kits are now available on the Godot Asset Store, completely free. Use these templates as a starter for your next game, or to learn from! 🎁 store.godotengine.org/publisher/ke...

There's a metaphor in here

Who up chamfering their corners #gamedev #indiedev

Finish the sentence to make a bad take: "That's not a real game because ... "

My code had no visible bugs until I opened the debugger console output. Why would they make a feature with the only purpose to cause bugs? >:c

Godot adoption is rising: what are devs getting out of the engine?

Miner voice acting test youtu.be/sq3qUf_z6BE Ended up using some vocalizations but toned it down from not being as frequent as here 😅

I just un-privated dozens of old Dig Dig Boom testing footage and playtest recordings on my Youtube, from 2023-2025. Might as well put them public if anyone is curious to browse. www.youtube.com/@SteinMakesG... Sorry if anyone got notification spam of like 50 "new uploads" 😅

Inspired by old text based dungeon crawlers "You hit rat for 1 HP", I added a combat log, but minimalist symbols-based

Pegfinity is OUT NOW on Steam for $5! This is my first commercial Steam release as a solo developer, and it feels pretty surreal to finally share it. Hope you like ❤️ #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Incredible view of today's Eclipse

MrBeast voice: Remember to Roguelike and Roguesubscribe

"RPG" is a kinda bad term for a game genre. Any game can be a "role playing game" if you try hard enough. "Let's roleplay as an italian plumber in a kart race"