Well I’ll join in so long as this thread exists (I am expecting self promo to be less aggressively harassed on Lemmy compared to Reddit)

Sorry to make it so long, I wanna try to share what I’m making as well as who I am and what I do.

I’m a primary hobby dev, trying to make a couple bucks from my games but not really living off them. I’ve primarily been making little horror games since they are really fun for me and horror is a very comforting genre.

Now I’m letting myself be “basic” and making a cutesy Magical Farming/Ranching game in the style of Slime Rancher, but with some various farm sim and RPG influences. I’m making it in Godot with C#.

I do all of my games as open source projects under the GPL 3 license (copy-alike license). I see it as a way to give back to the internet which is largely responsible for teaching me how to code and also letting people smart enough to compile it themselves to have my games for free if they so choose. I’ve also had some pull requests for different improvements on some of my stuff which was unexpected but super cool.

One of the intentional design features of the farm game is being very data driven. I’m setting the game up for translation keys and many of the features are using custom resources (Godot’s Scriptable Object equivalent). I’m using Godot’s patch loading feature to allow loading mods fairly easily. So all one needs to do to make a mod is write a few files, which in Godot is super easy to do.

I don’t really have any pics yet since the game is way super alpha stages. I’m still getting some features working properly and there’s a lot to do before it’ll be done. Hoping I can publish on steam but otherwise all my games usually go on Itch.io.

I have been messing around with some of C#'s more recent features (like ref structs) to try and make a high performance gamedev library based on relational database concepts.

For ages I’ve felt like that ECS feels like a more restrictive version of a relational database, so it feels like a natural avenue to explore.

But really I’m just another person procrastinating from real game design by doing pointless engine development instead.

My current project is a spiritual successor to Zelda a Link to the Past. I first intend to recreate that game to a certain extent and then change everything necessary to be unique enough while still retaining enough to give people a good feeling or familiarity.

This is what I have for my character style so far https://i.imgur.com/mX7C3AP.mp4

Here is the starting area outside with all the assets I’ve completed so far https://i.imgur.com/89zbSFk.png

and this is an old screenshot of the interior https://i.imgur.com/MKaRtHt.jpg

I am not maintaining a website but I am likely to post any videos to my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-g5U2q8sv6F9sxNfXlkjZg

I’m working on developing my portfolio, so I’m making week-long game projects alternating with month-long game projects.

Thanks for making the thread!

I’ve been working on a story-driven game inspired by stuff like Naissancee and Event[0]. The idea is that instead of reading stuff like log entries and emails directly, you have to talk to characters that interpret them for you. They might add their interpretation, or twist the truth a bit.

I don’t want to spoil anything but the plot involves the sort of end point for humanity. There are themes of existentialism and what the ultimate end goal for humanity is.

I made a couple devlogs about it. (And a discord server)

I’m terrible about staying on projects. My last game was a Pokemon-type game in Bevy, but I fell off after 1-2 months. I’m starting to get ideas again, but it’s hard to avoid burning out when my full time job is programming as well.

I have been working on a 2d platform shooter game. It uses raylib and clipmunk2d physics. I am a mad man so I am making a lot of in house shit and my adhd brain is slowing it down ):

My current project is a bartender management game. You have to manage tending bar and giving people the right drinks with handling people getting too drunk and puking/fighting/etc… Still trying to figure out if/how I want to integrate making cocktails rather than just serving 1/4 beers.

My current project is on the backburner (again) for the time being. It’s a space noir detective game. Instead I’m working on my (first ever) community driven World of Warcraft (Classic) Addon with a narrative focus which I will hopefully release in the next few weeks.

I’m working on a traditional (Wizardry / The Bard’s Tale-style) dungeon crawler with magical girl and horror themes. This is only my second RPG, building on the groundwork from the first, so it is still relatively simple. It’s decently far along, but it is my biggest project so far by a wide margin, so there is still a lot left to do. I realize that it’s a niche game that probably won’t appeal to most people.

I mostly post bits and pieces on Mastodon. Occasionally I post a bigger devlog on Itch, but I’m not very good at those and I don’t know if anyone really reads them anyway, so I don’t do it that often.

https://midnightspiregames.itch.io/minerva-labyrinth

Thread is totally fine! Thanks! :D

I’m currently writing my own semi-engineless game (I don’t want to say that I’m building my own engine, but I do have some reusability for my own sake) while figuring out SDL2. Not enough defined of the game yet since I’m still learning where to go while working on the tech stack, but I have some ideas inspired by various games to create an unique mix. Will absolutely show it off when I have something to share.

tl;dr: I’m working on a falling sand physics-powered, 2d block-based open-world survival crafting game with spells instead of weapons and tools.

Working on a game that takes elements from Terraria, Noita and Wizard of Legend.

The falling sand physics of Noita intrigued me, but I always wondered what it would be like in a game like Terraria.

I watched the Noita dev talks about their engine (Games Now! Talk and GDC Talk), and they were nice to get started, but they definitely omitted some of the hard details (due to time restrictions I imagine), and for some reason, I found it real hard to find a good lighting algorithm online that worked for block-based games (I ended up finding a simple one that was easily parallelizable, works for day/night cycles and moving light sources that are grid aligned).

Like Terraria, the world is made up of blocks, but for my game blocks can become part of the falling sand physics when they crumble in some way, and they can be interacted with through the falling sand physics too.

So I’ve got the interactions of things like fire burning wood blocks one pixel at a time, acid melting through dirt and stone, flammable gas, water. Example of fire interacting with wood here And a full image of what the game looks like with its basic UI here

Now I’m working on implementing a bunch of spells as well as enemies. Spells have cooldowns unless they’re basic spells. What I really wanted to do with non-basic spells is to have them be cast by taking the element from the world itself and then casting the spell with it, much like bending in Avatar. For now though, I just want to implement something so testing it isn’t boring (falling sand physics alone took a bunch of time).

I really want to see multiplayer in this, too, so I’ve been careful not to make it completely impossible to do later (I did abuse RNG a bit, but I’m hoping I can fix that later ;))

I also decided to make it in Rust, using bevy_ecs (not bevy itself) and Vulkano (Vulkan rust library) with SDL for windowing and fmod for audio.

Since I don’t actually have a dev log or anything, I mostly use my existing (Terraria server) community so at least some people are around to help me test things or give feedback, so I post it all here: https://forum.dark-gaming.com/c/game-testers/54.

If anyone needs details for any of the systems I mentioned, let me know, some of that stuff was difficult to implement (I’m still refining them) and a lot of information is scattered around the web that makes it hard to implement this stuff (seriously with the lighting, did I just miss some obvious post somewhere?).

I have been making a tactical deck building rogue like in Godot. It’s come pretty far and it’s playable and somewhat fun for maybe one hour. Struggling a bit now with more level design, card design, enemy design, etc to make it fun for a longer time.