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Hi, would you mind trying out either The Tower Master's Treasure Hoard or Tiny Dungeon? Both are playable on Windows, browser or Android.

Thanks

Trap to avoid: Scope Creep.
Think of a project that might take a week to make, throw away half the features plus one, then try to make it in two weeks

Hi there!

I build my project with either Windows or mobile in mind.  However, and for example, this one was made for PC but I added a mobile version of it to expand the user base. This one is primarily a mobile game, but I built it for PC as well.

Browser is a must-have on itch.io. I personally wouldn't download anything from here but if a game has a browser build then I would go for it. Take the second example in which I built for Windows, Android, and HTML5 (web). In the browser version I also have an option to choose between mobile and PC. Another plus of browser is that iOS and Mac devices can also play on it.

Speaking of iOS and Mac, Apple charges a $25 USD (this is an estimate, don't quote me (I also think it's per-year but not sure)) fee for being an "Apple Developer." If you're planning to release a high-budget game, go for it, but when I'm making games for game jams I don't feel the need to pay that.

About console I have no idea. I have a general sense that someone who buys a switch is more likely to play AAA games rather than hobby/indie games.

Keep in mind that this is my personal preference. I use a Windows PC (which actually means I wouldn't be able to build the game even if I wanted to) and Unity (which has basically every option of platform - really easy to build for browser or Android).

Hope this helps

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Hi there.

I spotted this topic, and I was surprised, because apparently I am a user of your 2D minifantasy pack on the Unity assetstore!
It's not currently in any of my games, but in an upcoming update of a game of mine on itch.

Recommended for any other dungeon rpg creators out there!

Hello there,

I have a few games which would qualify, but here's one of them:

The Tower Master's Treasure Hoard, a retro roguelike deckbuilding dungeon crawler!

Would appreciate a review.
Thanks

Just making sure, do I have to have a Mac build for my game, or is Windows + Browser enough?

Hey there!

Here are my three games:

The Tower Master's Treasure Hoard

Tiny Dungeon

Final Boss Fight

Thanks for arranging all this!

The Sa-Matra from Star Control II

My easy-fix solution is have a list of strings or enums or whatever you have in Godot, and have one of each random item in the list, with a permutable value to each item with a count of how likely. Then, just draw from the list.

Is this what you're looking for?

Back again with an updated version of a Brackeys jam entry: 

The Tower Master's Treasure Hoard, a retro roguelike deckbuilding dungeon crawler where you optimise your deck to steal the treasure!

Screenshots:





Thanks for reading, and I'd appreciate a review or stream!

If you're still learning and growing your game dev skills, I would recommend lots of small games. Then, you don't find that you need to rework some stuff that you did a few months ago. Also, it's good practice for releasing games

If you've uploaded your image to itch.io, right click the image and press "Copy Image Link" (it should be a img.itch.zone link). Then, paste the link

That sounds bad. Hope you recovered from that!

Superb post, incredibly informative and thorough. Just check your gamasutra links as they seem to lead to gamedeveloper (and the wrong page) instead

Bump because I'm interested

Great that you finally settled on a name!

I was making two different games at once, spent a few months on both. Then, my drive figured out it was a good time to corrupt and went ahead and did so. Couldn't access the drive, so lost both games. Luckily, I found a software that decompiles built Unity games into a project folder so I got back one of them (it was shared on itch, so I could get the built version). The other one I did have a built version but it was on the drive as well.

Lesson for life: back up your stuff!

Pretty sure they want to code games on a website, I might be wrong though

Scratch is a good place to start for beginners

Hello there

I have a few games that might interest you, I'll just put the top 3 and you can look in my page for more.
Also, I'll only put the overall genre and you can look in the game page for more info.

The Tower Master's Treasure Hoard, a retro roguelike deckbuilding turn-based dungeon crawler. | 10-30 minutes | Web, Windows, Linux, Android |

Final Boss Fight, a short retro local-multiplayer (play with a buddy on the same keyboard) boss fight (one of you is the boss). | ~5 minutes | Web, Windows |

Tiny Dungeon, a difficult low-poly 3d action platformer. | 10-15 minutes | Web, Windows, Android |


Would appreciate a review / feedback / playthrough of any one you would like.
Thanks!

Sample template:

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Unity is also a good, powerful all-rounder, but it might be slightly difficult if you're starting out. If you're not then Unreal is even better for 3D real-time (anything else and you might as well use a different engine). It has a quite steep learning curve though. Both of them are free

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Major Post-Jam Update!

Major changes:

- Linux, Android and Web builds now available!

- New art for all aspects of the game.

- Animations
for every enemy & character!

- Settings option with various functions (plus credits).

- Interactive tutorial
with a small, cute creature to bring you through the start.

- And many many more!

Major updates coming soon so stay tuned!

(Oh and staff, could you bump me up on the most recents since this is practically a new game (same genre and basic mechanics but different most everything else)

Screenshots:





More devlogs coming soon!

The Tower Master's Treasure Hoard is a strategy deckbuilding roguelike card game, where you balance offense and defense to steal the Tower Master's treasure hoard

Upgrade your cards!
Add new cards to your deck!
Defeat the defenders of the tower to claim the treasure as your own!


Updated post Brackeys jam with many new features!

Now with Windows, Linux, Android, and WebGL support!

Play here


Screenshots:





Thanks for checking out this game!

1) Not if I'm an indie game dev publishing my jam games on itch.io. Yes if it's a steam release. Not sure which, but I'd probably pick the top five and go with that.

2) Not currently. Mostly same as two posts above me.

3) Not really.

Hope this helps

Once, there wasn't a fence. Try it out!

Lol I probably over-explained it

In the downloads section of the game, there is a list of files. If it lists Android (the symbol) as one of them, then you can use Android. If there is a Windows logo, you can use Windows and so on for Mac (Apple logo) and Linux.

When you download it (assumming it's for Android), you should get a .apk file. Navigate to it in your file explorer (or equivalent) and press on it (and then follow all "are you sure" prompts). Then it will be added to your applications.

Windows: same but you probably get a bunch of files in a compressed format (.zip usually). Put the folder anywhere you'd like and right click -> extract all (select your destination). Navigate to the chosen destination and double-click the .exe file (Important! Keep all the files together in one folder!).

I'm the wrong person to ask for Mac and Linux, but it's probably roughly the same process as Windows (with different file extensions: Mac is .app and Linux is .86x_64 or .bin or .elf or something else which you have to look up).

Hope this answers your question

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/itch-io very helpful in this regard

The game automatically saves itself

Both this and its "sequel" are very well made. Recommended!

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Here a few options from my portfolio:

Tiny Dungeon, a 3D RPG action third person game with enemies to defeat and coins to collect!  (About 5-10 minutes).

Final Boss Fight, a retro, local-multiplayer platforming game where one of you is the final boss in the other's game! (About 5 minutes)

The Tower Master's Treasure Hoard, a strategy deckbuilding roguelike card game, where you balance offense and defense to steal the Tower Master's biscuit hoard! (About 10-20 minutes) (Currently in a demo state, but if you come back in a bit more than a week, it will receive a major update and be much more engaging).

(EDIT: Tower Master's Treasure Hoard has been updated and is now a great game)

It would be amazing if you could check out one of them!

Thanks

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Rated, and here's my jam submission - a deckbuilding roguelike pixel-art card game where you balance offense and defense to defeat your enemies!

Screenshots:








Thanks!

Rated! Nice idea and implementation

If you could rate my submission, that would be great

If you could rate my submission, that would be great