I wish I was joking. we showed a tiny clip of our game and people immediately started investigating the contents of the fridge. someone found the milk. then the fridge became the protagonist. now it’s apparently the final boss. we’ve accepted our fate.

What would you put in it?

Hey everyone,

I am feeling excited to have my first teaser video release today, but I'm also a bit scared.

About a year ago, I made the huge decision to quit my job to be a full time solo indie developer. Since then, it has been a hard, but awesome journey. I started with zero budget, but I invested a part of my savings to pay for sound packs, music among other things, and I will probably have to invest more to hire an artist for the Steam cover art.

Right now, I only have around 500 Steam wishlists. I think this is normal because I had nothing real to show until now, but the future still feels a bit scary. I really hope that with this teaser and the upcoming demo, that number will grow. No matter what, I will finish this game.

I actually tried to post this video directly on Reddit last month as a special early look, but the file size was way too big and would not upload, so sorry for the delay!

Here is the link to the official YouTube teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlvJ3UIYQWA

A quick note about the video: what you see here is early gameplay showing the general vibe, the combat, and the atmosphere that will be included in the demo. The final game will have a lot more monsters, more enemy variety, and different types of levels.

I would love to get your honest feedback on the atmosphere, the combat, and the visuals. Any advice or critique means a lot to me as I keep working on the project. It helps me going in the right direction.

Thank you so much for reading this and checking out my work. Making this game is a wild ride, but seeing people interested in it makes all the stress worth it!

Hey everyone!

We’ve been working on Momotaro and the Oni Island, a Match-3 RPG game, and we’ve just released the playable demo on Steam, here is a super quick look at it!

The full trailer is HERE

The game mixes classic Match-3 puzzle mechanics with some tactical combat, and path selection in every map. We’d love for you to check it out! (link in comments)

You can play the demo of The Glorious Colony for free on Steam

Hi! I'm MaxCJ, and wanted to do something different for the trailer of our second game, Caps & Spoons - so we decided to interview our main character about what one can expect!

It's a cooking and restaurant management game where you decorate your foodery, discover and unlock new recipes and ways to cook.

Upgrades and advertisements for your shop are available from the computer; the radio has daily shows where one can learn new recipes (among other things) and the calendar shows upcoming events and happenings.

Set in the same universe as our first game, Fungerellia is a sporepunk fantasy world, where steampunk meets mushrooms in a whimsical way!

137 is published on steam!!! 137 is a resource management rogue-like survival where you have to manage a facility while being attacked by numerous threats. It has a really cool aesthetic and blends 2d and 3d art. Absolutely no generative AI was used while making the game. All assets, models, and text were made by real people. Check it out on steam!!

After about 4 months of development, I finally finished the intro for my game. Any feedback is welcome :)

Steinvar is a story-driven PC adventure set on a forgotten island. At first, this place feels strangely familiar, but the deeper you explore, the more questions it raises.

Hey everyone! We just released our game, and I’m here to show you a game that some friends and I have been working on over the past few months.

It’s a card game where each card has a position on the board and a specific role, such as Warrior, Archer, or Healer. There are also Tarot cards that you can use to help you during battles.

We’d love to hear what you think about it!

Hey indies!

Yet Another Zombie Survivors sold 100K copies across all platforms in just one week after leaving Early Access.

We also had almost 10,000 players playing at the same time on our best day after launch.

After 3 years in Early Access!

Regular major updates, quality-of-life patches, and listening to every bit of player feedback were absolutely worth it. We're incredibly grateful, because now we can confidently say that we'll be able to keep supporting the game for a long time to come.

Hi everyone.

I wanna talk about the biggest problem building games have. There's a lot I could name here, but let's take Valheim and Raft, where you really do put your house together log by log, and people go pretty crazy with it, dream halls with carved beams in Valheim, multi story rafts in Raft.

Honestly I've put dozens of hours into Raft and I love that game, but it's got the same illness all of them have. You keep playing while there's still something left to build, while you still need resources, while some key material is still locked, while there's still some kind of limit standing in your way. And then the base finally looks the way you wanted it to, and you're just standing there looking at it, and it hits you. That's it. Nothing left to do in there.

Then you've got games where building isn't the core at all, it's just a side system, like Fallout 4, The Forest, Sons of the Forest. I love all of them tbh and I sank a stupid amount of time into them. In Fallout 4 I really liked rebuilding the settlements after the war, they genuinely felt like my settlements and my settlers, like a place where I get to bring civilization back. In The Forest I was building the cabin in the woods that I'd actually wanna live in myself.

But here's where it all falls apart. In Fallout 4 the raiders and the mutants still come at you, sure, except once your defense is maxed they just can't break through it anymore, so what's left is assigning settlers to crops and repairing stuff, and that's not playing, that's maintenance. In The Forest the traps are one time use and the cannibals climb over the wall anyway, so you're resetting traps and patching walls over and over, same maintenance thing. In Valheim your hall kinda turns into a warehouse with a portal in it, you come back for a comfort buff, grab your stuff and leave, and nothing ever actually happens in the house itself. And in Raft, once you wrap the foundation in metal the shark can't do anything to you at all, and yeah you can finish the story, but the raft is still floating there and you just don't wanna log in anymore. You did everything you wanted to do.

And you know what, I'm a dev myself and I'm working on a building game where finishing the house won't be the end of it, that's only gonna be the beginning.

What always got to us was this. You build a good looking house somewhere, and then you realize you actually wanna live in it, like log in every evening and go back there, have your friends over, just be in it and play board games together. We looked for a game like that for ages and never really found one. House finished, game over.

So in Homespace the house is the starting point, not the finish line. The building part matters obviously, but what it really solves is kinda psychological, you're making yourself a home you can come back to. If you can't afford your dream house in real life yet, well, you can at least build it here first, and when things aren't going great this is somewhere you'll actually want to return to.

And then you have people over and you actually live in the place. Board games are the obvious one, chess and mahjong already work in there, an actual table you sit down at with other players, and a D&D table is the one we're doing next.

Most other stuff you can just pick up and mess around with, pretty much anything you'd do in real life. Someone might just wanna read, and since it's all photorealistic you can sit out on the balcony with a book and look at the mountains.

So now I wanna ask you guys. Which building game did you stay in the longest after everything was already built, and what was it that kept you there. I'd really like to read the answers.

Travellers, merchants, hunters, abandoned camps and faction fights can appear as you explore. No event popup announces them. They are simply part of a world that keeps moving whether the player is there or not.

I've been working on Before I Sleep, a fast-paced single-player FPS built around maintaining momentum through wall-running, sliding, dashing, gunplay and katana combat.

A lot of the footage in my old trailer simply didn't represent the game anymore, so I rebuilt it using the current gameplay.

o que acham desses gráficos ? ainda tem muito a melhorar, e já consigo ter 120 FPS estáveis nessa cena

I've always been a big fan of diegetic games with no or not much UI, so I'm trying to make everything in-world make sense and feel immersive. The controls are heavily inspired by Iron Nest, mixed with the gameplay of Papers, Please / Contraband Police, but set in space.

Game name: Void Inspector

I made some improvements to the Weeping Angel mechanics in my game Martha's Dolls 2! The doll is no longer glitchy, you can no longer catch her running, and her movement is much smoother.