Subject: We are interested in purchasing the rights for your STEAM game: Yet Another Rage Game. Body: Hello, We are interested in purchasing the rights for your game: Yet Another Rage Game. [Link to Steam page] We are looking for games that performed poorly on STEAM and you want to make some money back. We can offer you at least $100 right away, to transfer us the rights for your game(s) We aim to put together a larger catalogue and take the risks of promoting such games. If you are interested, please reply to this email Robert

Tempted to reply to this scam with something stupid like "the game's $4 on Steam you don't need the other $96"

I wonder what the goal here genuinely is tho. Do they just buy the game and fill it with cryptominers? What's even the play here
#gamedev #indiedev

Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...

fuck it, i had more thoughts about this, so i wrote them down
mors.games/blog/do-we-e...

Speedrun clock: relógio de virada rápida Perished: pareceram Themself: com sigo mesmo Messed up head of yours: nesse seu corpo bagunçado You got this: deixa comigo You've got this: pode deixar comigo Challenge me: me mude Call it quits: ficar quite Coming from me: vindo atrás de mim I didn't mean actually laugh: não queria rir de verdade If you want me to go away: Se você quiser ir embora Hunting: machucando

Vendo um monte de gente aqui falando como se Toby Fox não soubesse da existência de "empresas profissionais de localização" e gostaria de lembrar que ISSO AQUI quase foi a loc oficial de Celeste, feita por empresa muito bem recomendada:

when developing any user-facing software, make localisation something you think about fairly early on in the development process. it gets a lot easier to work on in the future, even if you dont currently intend on it, if you already have groundwork laid out for it

I'd be interested in seeing it. I've been planning on using Toki Pona on some projects (some potentially commercial) and, even though obviously the language exists independently of its creator, I'd like to know what I'm potentially getting myself into...

devs know pain when this happens to you

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

The deadly serious part-time unofficial hobby of videogame fan-translation The very serious part-time unofficial hobby of videogame fan-translation Hi. A couple of things have happened in the “scene” that prompted me to make this writeup, and I’m probably overdue in …

Hi everyone. Things have been happening in the fan-translation scene and I've been overdue in talking about them. For the first time ever I've made a long writeup. Please read it and feel free to reach out to me with comments.

i hope one day i will be able to make a post on this damn site with the word "gamedev" in it without this stupid bot account liking the post

A big draw of the game-design-by-A/B-testing type thinking is that it absolves you from having to form your own opinions & taste. It allows you to outsource the most difficult part of any creative endeavour: actually believing in your vision.

Moonlit Dreams on Steam A sokoban game with overlapping levels, inside a dreamscape you'll never want to leave. Push blocks, open doors, traverse mazes, and then do it again across and between three layers of psyche.

And of course, if you wanna see this art in context, don't mind if I drop this lil' link here...
store.steampowered.com/app/4482070/...

Spent some time today redoing all the Steam assets for my game. Previously I just used some sketches I'd made, but now I sat down and actually made some bespoke art.

I'm quite happy with the result, but what do you think gang? :)
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday (<- bit of a stretch but...)

Setting up a Steam page for my puzzle game | Moonlit Dreams #5 YouTube video by Santum

...and I made a devlog to talk about it! Check it out if you wanna :)

Moonlit Dreams on Steam A sokoban game with overlapping levels, inside a dreamscape you'll never want to leave. Push blocks, open doors, traverse mazes, and then do it again across and between three layers of psyche.

Hello, everyone!!

So, SO proud, so, SO happy to announce that my block-pushing puzzle game with overlapping levels now has a Steam page up!

Feel free to check it out, wishlist if you wanna, I think it's pretty neat :)

store.steampowered.com/app/4482070/...
#gamedev #indiedev #madewithgodot

The Steam Curator widget showing a "not recommended" review from user Unprejudice. The contents read "dev Santum donated YARG to support 'No ICE in Minnesota' itch.io bundle Feb 2026 which alleged 'reckless murder of an innocent people by ICE agents' to fundraise for ILCM."

A badge of honour.

So I had a name for my game since 2018, I checked Google and Steam to make sure there wasn't another game called that in the past, it was all good to go.

I just paid the Steam Direct fee and thought to double check...
...a game with the exact name I was thinking of popped up.

...whoops.
#gamedev

I didn't mean to make this a whole thread but... it be like that. Many thoughts, few characters.
Anyway. This is what I've heard works. Here's, for example, another guy who goes into more detail into it and how it worked for them: www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...
Marketing sucks ass! Wishing you luck!

You'll want to make the subject line megaclear (definitely say there's a Steam key if there is one), include screenshots and GIFs, and ideally mention why you're reaching out to them so it doesn't come across as spammy.
Also important: say why you're reaching out. Call to action, etc.

I tried it back when I was making my first commercial game. I didn't get any replies back... but I did just email like 5 people. Usually you want to contact 100+, with the expectation that less than half'll care.

Most of the tips I've heard for reaching out involve going on YouTube, searching for your game's genre or for similar games (so in your case "walking sim" or... I dunno, ENA Dream BBQ), finding people who play those, finding their business email, and just cold-emailing them.

Semi-related, but I got my own video suggested to me on the home screen on an alt account. What could this mean for the "algo"...

One month of progress on my puzzle game! | Midnight Dreams #4 YouTube video by Santum

Another week, another devlog, this time recapping all the work I've done this first month of development, in presentation format!
I promise it's interesting. Maybe. You decide!

youtu.be/DM29rivIcf8
#gamedev #indiedev #devlog

and we have made back our development budget after 3 hours. Thank you all :)

Adding NPCs to my transdimensional puzzle game | Midnight Dreams #3 YouTube video by Santum

Still chipping away at my puzzle game with overlapping levels, so I figured I'd make another devlog! In this one I talk all about NPCs, dialogue, and so on and so forth.

You can check it out here if you wanna :)
youtu.be/4H9q4NBYaK4
#gamedev #indiedev #devlog

A poster announcing that YARG and CUBERUN'24 are in the No I.C.E. in Minnesota charity bundle, featuring a link and a QR code redirecting to https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota. In the middle is a simplistic, geometric illustration showing Ariel, the protagonist from YARG: Prologue (curly brown hair, white shirt, blue pants), holding onto a flagpole displaying the flag of the state of Minnesota, having climbed onto it, right hand held over the eyes as though trying to look at something in the distance. Behind the flagpole, the protagonist from YARG (blonde pompadour-esque hair, grey shirt) looks away from the camera, hands behind the back, as though keeping guard for something. In the background, a shot of the Minneapolis skyline.

Proud to share that YARG and CUBERUN'24, my two precision platformers, are part of the #NoICEinMinnesota bundle alongside 1 437 other FANTASTIC games, benefiting the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Get some cool games and support a good cause!
👉 itch.io/b/3484/no-ic... 👈
#gamedev #indiedev

it's kinda fucked up that we universally agree that if a programmer lacks art skills, them resorting to using ai is wrong...

but a lot of artists seem to be okay with using ai, just because they lack the programming skills

where do we draw the line? what makes one ethical and the other one not?

Some more work on my puzzle game with overlapping levels! Little maze, little memorization puzzle, yeeee 👍
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

How I'm making levels for my transdimensional block-pushing game | Midnight Dreams #2 YouTube video by Santum

Been working on my puzzle game with overlapping levels a bit more, and I made another devlog! This time I'm talking about what the game's progression is gonna be, and showing the current state of progress :)

youtu.be/BaHigOFf230
#gamedev #indiedev #devlog

just to provide a counterexample; I've been using linux full time for gamedev for over a year, and my experience has been:
- installation is pretty simple
- drivers, etc, everything worked out of the box
- all the software I cared about using works perfectly
- I never have to use Windows in a VM