Went to see Scarlet today, on a whim after seeing the trailer. Wrote a little about what I though on it here: jonathan.carter.games/2026/03/19/s...

New art & a new update to the Save Manager!

3.x will also be live on the Unity Asset Store soon!

A cart library update is also coming in March if all goes to plan. Then some game news hopefully!

🔗 Link: carter.games?p=4846

#gamesave #unity3d #gamedev #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment

A big Save Manager update with loads of new features and improvements. Read more to see what has changed!

🟡 Save Manager: 3.0.0 Update Released
🔹 January 10, 2026
🔗 Link: carter.games?p=4773

#savemanager #update #unityasset #gamesave #gameload #unity3d

Hold Up & More! - Jonathan Carter An update on the Persona 5 Combat Project. With Hold-Up, All Out Attack & A shadow of myself!

Still working away at the Persona 5 combat portfolio project. An attempt to remake the turn-based combat of P5 for fun. A little update on the Hold Up! implementation & more.

jonathan.carter.games/2025/08/20/h...

#devlog #gamedev #persona #gamedevsky

Having only started reading properly about this time last year, I'm pretty proud of myself reaching this goal early. May seem small, but for me it means a-lot xD

#booksky

Making a custom Traveler’s Notebook diary insert - Jonathan Carter Recently I got myself my first regular sized Traveler’s Notebook. The new red Love & Trip edition. I wanted to move all my stuff to this notebook. But I ran…

I recently made a custom insert for my Travelers notebook that I got back in April. I needed a diary that would be a single insert, with a weekly view per side of a page. I though I'd share the design and how it went: jonathan.carter.games/2025/06/29/m...

#travelersnotebook #notebook #diary #diy

Sorry to hear that. Hope it gets sorted soon.

Going full-time indie is the dream for sure xD

New blog post now live!

🟡 Audio Manager: Update 3.1.0 Released
🔹 April 26, 2025
🔗 Link: carter.games?p=4494

#audiomanager #codeasset #gamedevelopment #soundmanager #unity #unityassetstore

My New Traveler's Notebook - Jonathan Carter A short post about my recent purchase of a new red Traveler's Notebook, from the Love & Trip 2025 collection.

I've had a Traveler's Notebook on pre-order for 3 weeks. It's turned up today and is amazing! It's going to get a lot of use over the years for journaling, sketching, designing /planning etc.

I wrote a little blog post about it all, which you can read here: jonathan.carter.games/2025/04/24/m...

New blog post now live!

🟡 Yukute Progress & Asset Updates
🔹 March 31, 2025
🔗 Link: carter.games?p=4481

#gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #indiegames #keyboard #lockpicking #noise #projectyukute #rouge #sneak #stealth

The Cart: Update 0.11.x Released - Carter Games A summary of the 0.11.x update to The Cart code library. Including a load of fixes and improvements.

New blog post now live!

🟡 The Cart: Update 0.11.x Released
🔹 March 26, 2025
🔗 Link: carter.games?p=4468

#datavalues #devlog #gamedevelopment #heirarchy #indiegames #localization #notiondata #notiondatabasetounity #scriptableobject #thecart #unity

Lots of updates - Carter Games Lots of small updates recently. Here is all of them in a single post!

It's been a busy couple of weeks. Lots of small updates.

Had some good gameplay progress on both prototypes which is good as well as fixes to assets I'm using in these projects that had a few issues.

Read more here: carter.games/4447/lots-of...

#gamedevsky #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev

Save Manager: Update 2.3.1 Released - Carter Games A bug-fixing update for the Save Manager has just been released. Fixing issues around save object deletion with the save editor open and save defaults not working as intended.

Save Manager Update!

A bug-fix update for the Save Manager is now live. I was working on a project and went "Oh Fudge" as the editor threw loads of errors when deleting a save object. So I had to fix that quickly xD

Full post: carter.games/4438/save-ma...

#SaveManager #GameDevelopment #GameDev

🔥 Project: Yukute!

Some work on the player controller & detection cones. Still a bit rough, but getting there.

#gamedevsky #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev

The Cart: 0.10.0 Release

New modules, lots of QOL improvements & a few fixes.

Read more: carter.games/4279/the-car...

More on Yukute on the weekend or next week, I've been busy with some player & enemy behaviours.

#unity #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment

Notion To Unity: Update 0.4.1 Released - Carter Games A bug fixing update to Notion Data to fix some issues around the filtering of data when downloading it along with for minor GUI changes.

Notion To Unity Bug Fix!

I was working on Project: Yukute and found this issue. It was bad enough to hop off and fix it. So 0.4.1, is a small update to fix some filtering issues with the Notion Data system.

More details: carter.games/4402/notion-...

#unity #notion #gamedev #indiegamedev

🔥 Project: Yukute!

A little progress. I have been trying to get vision cones working. It's being a pain. I did however get this player target indicator working, so you can see where you're going xD

#gamedevsky #gamedev #gamedevelopment

Yukute announced! The keyboard based game I teased a week or so ago now. Progress has been good, so looking to make a protoype level or two out of it xD

Just shared the 2024 year in review for my side hustle. Just a summary of how the year went, the general stats & whats to come in 2025. Got some games coming to 2025 finally! xD

Just released the update for filters to be supported in Notion data downloading as shown earlier this week in an earlier post I shared xD

Ignore the date in the video, forgot the update the UI xD

A little prototype I've been starting to work on. The idea is stealth game with a keyboard interacting with the environment.

Early days but looking slick so far, still gotta sort a player try a level etc.

#gamedev #indiegamedev #sologamedev #gamedevsky

Been working on this for the last week or so. The GUI was certainly a pain, but its almost done now xD

(5/5) I won't be posting often, I usually lurk. Though I'll be sharing stuff from my side hustle and any progress on other projects I wanna share. I'll also follow back accounts with similar interests.

Thanks for reading and I hope y'all have a nice day.

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #introduction

A grouping of 4 plants in a white scene. There is an elevated grey box with a tree and a selection outline over a section of the grey area.

(4/5) Sakura, A new game based around plants, though only just started. Not much to show yet. The early promo image is below.

My full personal work/blog can be found on my portfolio: jonathan.carter.games

I also work on some development tools and have a few older prototypes here: carter.games

(3/5)
- I'm currently working on multiple side projects. The most notable being:

Persona 5 Combat Project
- A test of my skills to try and mechanically remake Persona 5's turn-based combat system.
- Been in the works on/off for a year or so now.

A small clip of it working:

(2/5)

- I like running, board/video games, music, and a little arts & crafts.
- I run a little side hustle called Carter Games (@carter.games)
- I've been taking a picture of a rubber duck every day since Jan 1st 2020 (www.instagram.com/everydayrubb...)

(1/5) I've officially left Twitter as of today. I thought I'd give an introduction to myself, what I do etc. Thread below:

- I go by J online, just the shortest version of my actual name.
- I work as a game dev full-time, and do some additional bits out of hours.

Slowly finding followers I followed on Twitter and following new peeps here. Will do a proper introduction of myself on here next weekend when I get the time xD I'll mostly be posting game related posts, sharing my side hustle posts and anything I find interesting or can relate to xD

A little tool I've just updated. Been sitting on the update for a while, but managed to finish it up this week. It downloads notion databases into scriptable objects in unity. Handy for like any project.

Follow Carter Games for my game dev bits: @cartergames.bsky.social

#Gamedev #unity #indiedev