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New mutable enemy
Game Design
A foe that changes color after each hit. Not dangerous on its own, almost funny, but in combinations it's a real pain...
LEVEL 65
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Game Design
A game where your goal is to find a door to get to the next level! What could be scary?
Level 56
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Game Design
A game where your goal is to find a door to get to the next level! What could be scary?
v1.30 Development Log: Chunky Changes
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Game Design
Last time I talked about some of the gameplay changes and teased some mechanics so this time it's going a bit more meta. Story It’s nice if every major patch...
v1.30 Development Log: New Content
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Hello, I am working away on the next update. Things probably won’t line up for a release until late February but I will try to do another experimental branch...
Major update coming soon!
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We are pleased to announce that a significant update is forthcoming. We are pleased to announce that new levels are coming soon. We are also committed to revisi...
Finally! An app update!
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Game Design
Two updates have been combined which became version 1.5. Info on issues 5 & 6 have been updated along with adding a section for the Playdate Atelier, new launch...
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Self-doubt: Opinion Needed
Game Design
Being solo developer with only 2 short games in my portfolio. The second game, TornaDuck is for BossFight game jam, which took 3 weeks to complete. I did everyt...
Gameplay of Anoxia Station
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Game Design
During development, I mentioned many games that inspired me in one way or another. But if I shorten the list, the closest analogs are Into The Breach, Polytopia...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 42: Looking Forwards
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Game Design
Hello detectives! It’s been a couple of months since the launch of 1.0 and I wanted to share a general update to talk about what you can expect next year. Fir...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 41: 1.0!
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Game Design
It’s launch day detectives! Today marks our official transition out of early access and into, 1.0. I’m immensely pleased with what the team has put together...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 40: Writing Claw of the Fathoms
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Game Design
For this blog post we have a few words from our talented writer, Stark Holborn , in which they explore the process behind one of the more unique parts of the pr...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 39: Content & Consoles
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Game Design
Hello detectives! It’s time for a new dev blog as it’s an exciting point in the year. As you may have seen from the Triple-i Initiative showcase; Shadow of...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 38: 2023 Wrap-up
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Game Design
What a year huh detectives? This year we launched into early access, back in April, which simultaneously feels like aeons ago but also about a fortnight ago; I...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 37: The Road to New Content
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Game Design
I’ve got some exciting news to share in this one, it’s probably about time we talked about the changes to our roadmap. Due to a couple of factors (including...
Control Updates
Game Design
Now the game is more engaging and enjoyable to play. The difficulty at the beginning has been adjusted to be more accessible, and new arrow skins have been adde...
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Progress Checkup! (Jan. 2025) | Scratchin' Melodii Devlog
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Hey guys! Time for another progress checkup; This is actually the first one of the new year! I hope you were all able to enjoy the holidays. I took a bit of a b...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 36: A Roadmap Update
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Game Design
Hello detectives! Welcome to the latest instalment of the dev blog. I’m writing an update today to talk about progress and what you can expect from the projec...
User Interface and save system for Anoxia Station
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Game Design
Unfortunately, in Game Maker, at least currently, there is no visual UI editor. This means that I have to manually place each button at specific coordinates. Th...
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Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 35: Post-Launch Progress
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Game Design
Hello detectives! Wow, what a crazy few weeks! The early access release has gone a lot better than I think any one of us was expecting, which is of course fanta...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 34: Shadows of Doubt Launches on Early Access!
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Game Design
Happy launch day detectives!! It’s really fantastic to see all the enthusiasm around the project (and it’s been there since I’ve started sharing stuff abo...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 33: Launch Hype and What to Expect
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Game Design
Hello detectives! There’s just under a week left to go until we launch on Steam Early Access on April 24th! Things on the dev side have been what you would pr...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 32: Release Date Announce and Early Access Thinking
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Game Design
Hello everyone! Thank you to all of you who played the demo over the course of Steam NextFest. It was a massive success, with more people playing, wishlisting...
Shadows of Doubt DevBlog 31: An October Update
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Game Design
Hello folks, it’s been a while so for this update I thought I’d keep it simple this time and just write a general update for how things are progressing with...
1 point 1?
Game Design
Can a prototype have various versions? Yeah, why not. A bunch of sound effects were added to spice things up. The bug that locks the player character in the las...
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Yet more polished version
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Game Design
In a polished version you will find 1) clearer representation of the main mechanics of the game - a people on board, and 2) how you can loose them (because of b...
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The Friday Tiding #13: Name Of The Game
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Game Design
This is a post I made to the Zinnia Games Blog: https://zinniagames.com/the-friday-tiding-13-name-of-the-game/ The Friday Tiding #13: Name Of The Game 17 Jan...
The corruption intensifies
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Game Design
thats all im sayin!...
Bizarre entitiy encounters in an infinitely large Backrooms
Devlog 8: The Lump of Circus Coal
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Game Design
New year, same mistakes! So remember a couple months ago when I was working on the Bread Ruins story climax, and said "okay, it's not good when I need to hold b...
Added Post Processing & Enviromental SFX
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Game Design
Post Processing is now enabled (you acn toggle it with "P" key for performance)...
Developing a horror strategy game
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Game Design
Hello everyone! My name is Yakov , and I'm an indie developer. You might have played my previous projects: Dom Rusalok and Loretta. Two years ago, my friend and...
Best Joker Game Update
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Game Design
Play download...
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Will you be able to save the Joker?​​
I’m working on Chapter 1
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Hi everyone, Happy new year. I feel like I should give a short introduction. I’m Aalisblue, I’m an author and I recently published my debut novel, I started...
A Backrooms Update: Entities, Portals, Confusion, Despair..
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Game Design
Greetings all! Many thanks for taking the time to experience my software! I had to take a long break but here i am, for some reason it clicked with me to try to...
Party Parkour
Game Design
Play Game...
Party Parkour Survival horror adventure game
New Art Animated
Game Design
I call this little guy the minder. They live in their minds. But this little fella has a ball and chain and a pickaxe. What could be going on in this little cri...
Party Parkour
Game Design
Party Parkour...
Party Parkour Survival horror adventure game
Fever School Dream
Game Design
After months learning about game developer i decide to publish my first game. its called Fever School Dream . its about somenone who has fever dream about his s...
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Joker Escape
Game Design
New Game Amazing...
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Will you be able to save the Joker?​​
Devlog 7: Oops, The Year Is Over
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Game Design
I'm still super drained after all the family Christmas shenanigans but I did promise to keep doing devlogs every two weeks; I'd feel terrible if I missed someth...
DEVLOG - 2024 Celebration and Recap!
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Game Design
I have never been so excited to celebrate the end of a year. 2024 was far and away the most challenging year of my life, and there is an ENORMOUS amount to show...
Making the Pretzelves come alive
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The Pretzelves On December 22, 2021, a Christmas demo of ours, " Merry Twistmas ," was shown on a Twitch demo show hosted by a guy by the nickname Mibri, who in...
Party Parkour
Game Design
Download and Play...
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Party Parkour Survival horror adventure game
Periphery Synthetic will expand with Side D
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Game Design
Greetings surveyors! I’m excited to reveal the trailer for Side D, the first free content expansion for Periphery Synthetic. The EP launched with three musica...
Everest Eskimos
Game Design
Amazing game...
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Everest Eskimos #everest #eskimos survival horror story
The Friday Tiding #12: Comedown
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Game Design
This is a post I made to the Zinnia Games website: https://zinniagames.com/the-friday-tiding-12-comedown/ The Friday Tiding #12: Comedown 27 Dec, 2024 Demo 2. D...
Chapter 3 Sneak Peek #5: More Decors!
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Hello and welcome to another update post for Alchemica - Crafting RPG . Here we are with some sneak peek before Christmas. Development is going steadily as we a...
Hyperspace Deck Command: 2024 Progress Report
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Game Design
Hey there, aspiring deck commanders. As the year comes to a close I thought I give you all a quick update on how the game is doing. The current plan is to do an...
In-Progress Art
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I have no idea how often is customary to make a devlog post, but I was posting some art I was working on for the game elsewhere and figured I'd also throw out a...
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