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Not what I was expecting at all, very cute game but I only managed to score 292 hehe

Beautiful!

These are gorgeous! I used a couple of them to make an extra life powerup for my breakout game, and I'm sure I'll use them for many more things! Thanks for the pack 😊

The button from this pack is so lovely that not only did I use it for buttons but I also extended it to make panels for my game! Here's the level select screen from a Breakout game that I made. Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I've used the ball and many of the paddle and powerup icons in my breakout game. This screenshot shows the guns in action! Thanks very much for the pack 😊

Hey I used these panels and also your Breakout set in my breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used a mouse sprite from this pack in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used a cat sprite from this pack in my breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used a spaceship sprite from this pack in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used the snowman sprite from this pack in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used the mushroom sprite from this pack in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Sorry I don't have a discord! I don't actually use pixel art very often, this project was a bit different for me! :-)

Hey I used the treasure chest sprite from this pack in my breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used the regular smiley from this pack in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used your salamander in my game - it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used some of your assets in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used some of your assets in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used some of your assets in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used some of your assets in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used the house sprite from this pack in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used some of your assets in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used the heart sprite from this pack in my game - it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used the watermelon sprite from this pack in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used the cherries sprite from this pack in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used the flame sprite from this pack in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used some of your assets in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used some of your assets in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Hey I used some of your assets in my game - probably not in the way you expected though... it's a breakout game where the levels are generated from pixel art sprites! Thanks for the pack 😊

Oh these are pretty good! I have tried to get Stable Diffusion to create game character portraits for me and I really struggled with it because every face basically looked the same!

No, I'm saving to a JSON file, I don't really like PlayerPrefs for saving game state. What you mention is a common problem that I ran into myself and I uploaded a quick video about just today actually! 

Yep it's still very much a work in progress! I still need to do audio, a save system and I'm planning on having some difficulty settings, power ups and more blocks.

I think my problem is that the games I am working on at the moment aren't passion projects but just practice projects, so I'm not really invested in them. Now that I've moved beyond the complete beginner stage I want to make a game of my own that I'm passionate about without the limitation of just "what's the smallest game I am capable of?" but before I can do that, I need to get these two finished first!

Thanks for the feedback. It was a 10 day game jam so yeah it's small. I won't be adding anything else to it though. It's complete and I have moved onto other projects now.

Yeah I bought their 2D course and I have finished most of it, though I do find their challenges to be a bit weak to be honest, even if well intentioned. On the other hand, I just joined CodeMonkey's GameDev Practice Lab and that has much more serious challenges which will certainly stretch me.

Yeah if you already have years of experience with a particular engine then switching to another would be hard. That's why I considered my choice so carefully as I knew that whichever one I picked is likely to be a very long relationship! Even just one year in, I would need an incredibly strong reason to move away from Unity now, and I can't see that happening in the foreseeable future.

No not at all, I knew from the start that MonoGame was just going to be a temporary thing, just to get me started on game development. Moving to a visual engine was just a matter of time, it just arrived a lot sooner than I expected! But I still learned a lot from my first few weeks with MonoGame and I have no regrets.

I honestly wouldn't even want to consider such questions for the two games that I mentioned, I don't want to think about them at all. For me it's an instant click away. If it were possible to block games on Steam, I would do so! 

Yeah I agree. Sometimes I find myself wanting to refactor something for no real reason other than a vague "to make it better" when there isn't really a need. That just tends to overcomplicate things with no real benefit. 

In my latest game though, which started off as a jam game, I really broke some stuff at the end of the jam and then I was absolutely forced to re-think the architecture and refactor the code to fix the problems. So yeah, I do need to avoid the temptation to just over-engineer and refactor with no good reason to do so.

I wrote that post about a year ago and what's interesting is that back then I didn't have any ideas but as I got into it, followed other people's tutorials, learned new things and started making a few little games the ideas started to flow and now I have a massive list of game I ideas I want to work on! I guess the creativity just flows when you're actually knee deep in the trenches so to speak!

It certainly looks like you've produced a lot so far, which is pretty incredible! So many people don't really ever get started. I think you're certainly a lot more creative that you give yourself credit for!

True, grinding can be... well, a grind lol! A short game with quick unlocks will be a nice flow of dopamine :-)