day 97 done, you thought i was joking about the spreadsheets? for the next 10 hours i have to keep tweaking numbers to get a good progression bruh
i have built maybe 3 different dashboards in google sheets trying to make it make sense
Total: 350.5h
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day 96 done, a bunch of function changing, for the health and star rewards, not really happy with them but i can't find better functions... i wanted something logarithmic but it's all too high of values so i'm doing some stepping stuff
Total: 348.5h
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day 95 done, did 2.5h: fixed a Shader bug, learned how to update steam builds, started another short
also i'm going to spend LESS time on the game now, starting a more college-focused timetable (gamedev, german/linguistics, beekeeping, AI/NLP, economics)
Total: 345.5h
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day 94 finished a PRETTY GOOD SHORT ngl
it sucks that i take so long doing these, it's kind of fun
Total: 343h
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Game Dev Tip ✨ Start With One Mechanic! #StarshotIdle #godot #indiedev
day 93 tested the game on JUNO my old laptop, Steam cloud works, game loads up correctly, and turns out there's some UB in my rainbow shader so it is COMPLETELY fucked there :D
Total: 341h
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day 92, ACTUALLY uploaded the game build, and it downloads! waiting for it to be reviewed
Total: 340h
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day 91, made another short (4.5 hours for a 30s short is crazy... but it looks great)
Total: 337.5h
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Sounds Every Arcade Game Had🕹️ #StarshotIdle #arcade #godot
whoops forgot to post for day 90, made a short, gonna be on the shorts train for a while waiting for my itch tax info to go through!!
Total: 333h
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POV: Starshot Idle After 20 Hours... #StarshotIdle #devlog #godot
(it gets a lot more satisfying!)
day 89 done, sorted out more video stuff i think?
i forgor, did 3.5 hours of work editing SOMEONE ELSE'S 9 youtube shorts lmao
Total: 330h
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day 88 done, sifting through video ideas and sorted out my value-profit-loss spreadsheet, gonna make EVEN LESS THAN I INITIALLY THOUGHT
Total: 327.5h
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day 87 done, made a bunch of video ideas and put 'em in a spreadsheet
Total: 325.5h
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did you know there's a process to get your game on Twitch/YouTube?
you have to submit it to IGDB (Twitch's Database)
vote for my submission please :D!
www.igdb.com/games/starsh...
(day 86, also uploaded my trailer today on YT and itch!)
Total: 323h
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day 85 done, finished the trailer but no internet all day so i can't upload...
Total: 320.75h
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day 84 done, started the final trailer
Total: 317.5h
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day 83 done, not sure what i did today ngl
doing some game balancing with UpgradeData and stats
Total: 315h
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ingesamt (total): 793,250 Stars ship cost: 527,050 Stars aliens cost: 266,200 Stars
day 82 done, got the web demo fully finished
here's how many Stars it costs to finish the game, just under a million (which is an achievement)
some minor bugfixes and niceties (client icon lol)
Total: 311.5h
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day 81 done, added 12 more aliens!
sprites, animations, statistics, achievements, easy
Total: 307.5h
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whoops day 80 was yesterday, kind of slacking.
just designed 12 more Aliens!
Total: 301.5h
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day 79 done, ACHIEVEMENTS AND STEAM CLOUD ARE DONEEEEEE
honestly getting WAY too close to the end of this project, kinda scary ngl
to-do:
- Make the itch.io version into a demo
- Upload Demo+Build to Steam
- Market push
- ???
- profit
Total: 301h (!!!)
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all 20 Steam Achievements for Starshot Idle, the 20 are coloured and each one has a greyscale version of itself next to it; these are the locked versions of each image!
day 78 (sure) done! got all the achievements done, they show in the library now!
man these small assets take ages, and i saw an @oandcogames.bsky.social video that agreed!
got GodotSteam integrated and the Indonesian ratings set up too :D
Total: 297h
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Achievement Name then Achievement Description Modest Living Earn 100 Stars total Raking In The Big Bucks! Earn 100,000 Stars total Galactic Millionaire Earn 1,000,000 Stars total Clocked In Play for 8 hours Dedicated Play for 16 hours A Day Well Spent Play for 24 hours Large Omelette Destroy 100 Eggs Starshooter Fire 1,000 Bullets Where Are We Storing All These? Fire 5,000 Autoshots Idle Time Unlock the Autoshot (Not shown here) On An Egg... Roll Destroy 1,000 Eggs I'm Eggscellent Destroy 10,000 Eggs
day 77(?) done, got most of the achievement icons done!
still need to do the Alien ones!
when everything's all set up, i'm probably going to add more Aliens for release ;)
Total: 293h
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oh whoops forgot to do the post yesterday lol
designed the achievements and did something else but can't remember ngl
Total: 291h
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WE'RE SO BACK BAYBEEEE
just went to a café with no internet, seems like i can still work if i just get my finger out
got all of the stats menu in, next is integrating the Steam achievements!
then it's cloud saving i guess🤔
Total: 288h
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in the last stretch of new additions to the game, Statistics and Steamworks!
Total: 283.5h
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Starshot Idle can now be WISHLISTED! :D
If you like retro arcade games like Space Invaders and Idle games, then this game is what you're looking for!
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store.steampowered.com/app/4408630/...
day 73 done, Steam store page is done and sent off for review, now i can get back to real coding B)
Total: 282h
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day 72 done
finished LIBRARY assets, i think i can just unveil the store page now?
it is definitely not good looking (although i've seen much worse quality pages...)
i will need to do lots of iteration but people will be able to wishlist at least!
Total: 280.5h
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