What sounded like a great idea on paper, but turned into a complete disaster once you actually implemented it in your game?
Did that change how you treat ideas now?
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Who wants chaos?
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How do you approach difficulty when making games?
Do you tune it around your own skill first and adjust from there, add multiple difficulty settings early, or intentionally make things easier to reach more players?
When you play games yourself, which difficulty do you pick?
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Finished mining and building, now working on combat part.
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Fair point, but I’m more curious about the boring spreadsheet version of it :)
Be honest: how would you split 100% budget on an indie game?
Engineering ...%
Art ...%
Design ...%
Audio ...%
Marketing ...%
QA ...%
I feel most people get this wrong.
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Swarm Me is a top-down survival game where positioning, routing, and timing decide everything.
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Still working on classic weapons mode, playtest is available now on steam.
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After adding different modes to Swarm Me, I realized something interesting.
Same swarm. Same arena.
But small rule changes completely shift how you survive.
What works in one mode can actually get you killed in another.
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Do they actively help with visibility/creators, or is it mostly on the dev side?
Congrats on the deal.
I’ve been looking into them as well.
How has your experience been so far in terms of support vs expectations?
Still working on classic weapons mode, should be live this week on steam :)
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Same swarm. 4 completely different ways to play it.
Weapons with ammo drops. Ammo = health. No-weapons. Hardcore pressure.
Same tools. Completely different decisions.
Demo available.
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I thought about features and the best way for me is to ignore all until I finish core game - then I am in a better position to make such decisions. Of course there are exceptions, like if something doesn't work as planned or has to be changed/added, but in general I try to not add anything unplanned
Planning a game is mostly guessing.
The real design only starts once you build it.
How much your designs change during development?
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Thanks! Need to finish my current game 'Swarm Me' steam playtest, and then full steam ahead to implement combat in Rogue Drone.
Players asked for a classic weapons mode in 'Swarm Me', so we’re building it.
Playtest with the new mode is live on Steam if you want to try it right now.
First iteration had… a bit too much ammo 😄
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Released my first game.
Apparently now I have to make another one or I permanently join the “one-game dev” club on Steam.
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Oh yeah, mix of so many different emotions when something good, bad or completely unexpected happens, sometimes it is very stressful, but if player has fun then it is an ultimate entertainment for me :)
And often they will break things or find new ways to play that I never even thought possible.
When something is painfully obvious to me and painfully foreign to player :)
Sometimes I feel like I need to put big 3D signs on turrets for players to start using them and don't waste their health shooting (in one game mode player's health=ammo, so shooting non stop is not a good idea).
What I love most about gamedev?
Watching someone play my game.
Seeing where they struggle, what they get, what they love… or hate. It’s weirdly addictive.
If you try a small indie game, please share your thoughts with the dev. We really need that more than you think.
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I just love pushing enemies around in Swarm Me :)
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After a full weekend of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, I went outside, saw flowers…walked straight at them expecting a “collect” prompt. Nothing.
Took a moment before my brain rebooted from Tamriel back to reality.
What’s your most "I’ve been gaming too much" moment?
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Swarm Me is a top-down horde survival game where every wave matters. Bank your points, survive special waves and bosses, and outmaneuver enemies that punish hesitation.
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Really miss when games came in boxes.
You’d open them, smell the paper, flip through the art, feel like you owned something real.
Now it’s just… a download.
Doesn’t hit the same.
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Build by day, survive by night.
Expand your base, manage power, and defend against endless drone swarms.
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If you have time try Playtest on steam - just released a test build where ammo is a drop and not your health, so now you can shoot and regen at the same time, just need to figure out ammo drop balance, so would appreciate any feedback :)
Laser turret should be clear where it points before firing now
I will be brutally honest. That first turret was on me and that was funny. The second one was a bit more brutal. Here's a time stamp to jump to the second turret death.
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Build by day, survive by night.
Expand your base, manage power, and defend against endless drone swarms.
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We did fix Laser Turret direction - when you approach laser turret now you will see a line pointing where it will fire, let me know if that feels better :)
Is there any way to see your stream VOD?
I am always up to watch others play my game, it helps to understand where my designs failed :)
