Vidvad | Demo out for Neo Bananas!

Game Announcement 🚨 In Neo Bananas, You're tasked to destroy 8 bananas in an open level. Use your skills and powers to find them all as fast as you can. Inspired by Target practice (Smash Bros), it's a heavy speedrun game with splits, leaderboards, and more! #godot #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

My analytics from #SteamNextFest so far 615 downloads 73 players launched the demo 58 finished Level 1 16 finished the demo It's 21.9% of players that booted up the game 20.5% of the players dropped at level 3, the level where I introduce a new powerup, so huge hint to fix something here!

It's very ironic that one of the most popular demo of #SteamNextFest is a find the needle type game. We spend the last months debating about clones and slops, and at the end of the day, a concept cloned hundreds of times is the one rising to the top. 🤷‍♂️ I haven't played it, no idea if it's good.

✨JUST GET THE FLAG REACHED 100 Wishlist !! ✨ I know this might sound silly, but hey, it’s a big step for me. So thank you to each and every one of you. ❤️🙏 I've started adding Easter 🥚 from other 🧩 games. Try to guess which ones : 🪨🚌🪱🐘🟥🔵🟠🌭💣📆 #godot #godotengine #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame

I pushed an update to the Neo Bananas demo to make it (re)playable on the Steam Deck. A fix I pushed Wednesday broke the fullscreen mode making it unplayable. Anyway, all is good now. It's the perfect format to grind for the speedrun leaderboards! 😎 #SteamNextFest #Indiedev #SteamDeck #Godot

Many recommend being active on reddit to promote gamedev. After a month, I don't think it's a platform for me 😅 I've been insulted, ignored, called a loser, miserable...I just replied on stuff trying to be objective but there's always that one dude acting like I just ruined his day.

I've really enjoyed designing Neo Bananas so far. It's 11 months of nights and weekends hand-crafting mechanics and levels, drawing every pixel and tweaking small details to make it as fun as possible. It's not my dream game, but I'm making it like it's my dream speedrun game. #Indie #Speedrun

I usually check out as many games as possible in Next Fest, but the tidal wave of AI trash has beaten me Non-AI indie devs please post your games below and I'll check em out instead Also @steampowered.com PLEASE add an option to filter out AI games in searches. It's killing discoverability #gaming

Been tweaking the game feel a lot since #SteamNextFest started based on feedback. The cherry gun was sluggish because it was activated on_button_released, so I changed it to on_button_pressed and it's much much more satisfying! Try it out in my demo: store.steampowered.com/app/3954320 #GodotEngine

My only wish for #SteamNextFest is, please, support real developers, don't support AI slop. Thank you! 🙏

You want a speedrunning challenge?! Here's Neo Bananas' demo for #SteamNextFest - 10 levels - 1 cyborg gorilla - Online leaderboard per stages - Ranking system - Extra challenges & collectibles! ▶️ store.steampowered.com/app/3954320 #Godot #Solodev #Indie #Speedrun #NoAI

New key art for Steam! I'm still in the queue to get Steam's approval for my demo. Releasing soon™️ I hope! #SteamNextFest #Godot #Indiedev

What's the point of people leaking and spoiling everything there will be in the Nintendo Direct ahead of time? It ruins the joy of watching for everyone. It's like if I go to your home on December 23rd and tell your kids exactly what they will unwrap for Christmas in 2 days. It kills the magic.

At what point did we start normalizing listening to your phone on speakers in public places with the volume bursting? What happened to headphones? Why don't people feel bad for disturbing others nearby? Nobody want to listen to your tiktoks or your phone calls, come on!

So relatable 😆 Hey, even though it feels like nobody will buy this piece of shit, at least I can say I made a fully handcrafted game with no AI slop in it, that's a win in my book!

I made a little template for use by cool small businesses! Enjoy!

My time at #Gamescom made me realize how saturated the game industry became. Seeing thousands of great games side by side and knowing that many of them won't make a profit, it's heartbreaking. That's why I want to make smaller byte-size games to lower the risk and experiment with more genres.

Indie game dev tip: Do stupid/silly stuff. Players love stupid stuff.

Don't know if it has been officially shared somewhere, but if you're going to Gamescom next week, I found out there's a Godot meetup on Thursday! I'm super excited to talk to fellow #godot developers! 💙 luma.com/s4s0hjke?tk=...

Steam page coming soon™️ ? #godot #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

I'm looking at all the #gamescom after-hour events. Lots of invite-only and bigger companies organizing stuff, what about smaller meetups, smaller network events, spontaneous get-together's? Any that I should be aware of? Anyone interested in a Godot meetup?

I'm in a perpetual state of "the game I'm making isn't good enough to show yet" So I'm sorry to the 7 people actually interested by what I'm making, my brain decided it's not ready 🤷‍♂️

Extremely proud of the work we did on the ports of @househouse.com ’s latest title: Big Walk! An incredible adventure to share with your friends. Go check it out! 🤩

On one hand, the title seems condescending. Indies shouldn't aim for GOTY status to be taken seriously. The article, on the other hand, was very interesting. I agree 100% that games should be more creative and focused instead of safe all-around. Be wild, be risky and be yourself.

If I'd run my own social media, I'd enforce a rule where you can only post once every week. You have to save your most important thought for that specific post. Nobody would want that, people are wired to share 47 useless thoughts every hour, but I think it would make a more interesting feed.

Some early entries from the #GMTKJam look like games that have been in development for years. How?!! I'm genuinely impressed by how much some developers / studios perform in 4 days. It's mind blowing.

My entry for the #GMTK gamejam! vidvadgames.itch.io/digigrader Deck-building arcade shoot 'em up where you fire a hand of bullets. When your hand is empty, you apply unique card effects to each bullets and resume fighting! A mix between a StS x Gradius!

My takeaway so far for the #GMTK jam is that 4 days is too short for me. My concept has potentiel, but I would need 2-3 extra days to add content, visuals and polish It's a deck-building shoot 'em up where you fire your 10 bullets from higher damage to lower. You upgrade / add effects between hands

I think I'm too old for 4-day gamejams 🫠 #GMTK2026

When I hear "the gaming industry sucks", 99% of the time people refer to AAA studios and multi-billion dollar companies. Meanwhile, there's a huge ecosystem of indie developers and alternative platforms to play games on. You can still directly encourage the devs & artists.