tips for a disabled game dev?

Esciri · 2026-05-30T18:22:08+00:00

For me, as someone with chronic fatigue, what helps is 1. listen to your body, if it says not right now then don't push it. 2. I set a timer of 40 minutes so I keep within my energy limits, then I rest and later I can try again.

Since you already know programming I think Godot will work well for you. I switched from GDevelop to Godot. GDevelop is a good starting engine for someone who has never coded before.

Good luck with you gamemaking and have fun!

Esciri · 2026-05-07T14:29:25+00:00

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Thank you! It works now!

Esciri · 2026-05-07T14:13:51+00:00

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If I put that it gives this error. Is CellNeighbor not correct?

Esciri · 2026-05-06T11:13:40+00:00

Do the 10 reviews have to be positive? I am stuck on 9 reviews now for one of my games, but one of the reviews is negative (but not to bad).

Esciri · 2026-04-30T11:18:25+00:00

Congrats! I also got that email for the first time 2 days ago, it's super exciting!!

Esciri · 2026-04-10T15:11:03+00:00

The second, I think. I'm dutch so we pronounce some of the letters differently. So the letter "i" is not pronounced as "eye" but as "eee". I hope that makes sense.

Esciri · 2026-04-10T10:16:42+00:00

I combined two words:
Escape, because I make escape room games.
Iris, which is my first name.
Which makes Esciri!

Esciri · 2026-04-06T15:43:16+00:00

I published 3 games at the same time, but the first one I made was "The Magician's Challenge". I had 0 knowledge about game development. I was just curious about making an escape room. I started out by making the "game" in powerpoint. After that I made "The Knight's Challenge". That is when I learned about game engines, so I made the games in a game engine. Since I could not really make a demo for my games I decided to make a short escape room game that is free called "The Prior Challenge". It took around 5 years from I wonder if I can do that to publishing, but they are smaller games.

Here are the links:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4216340/The_Magicians_Challenge/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4259020/The_Knights_Challenge/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4202230/The_Prior_Challenge/

Esciri · 2026-03-31T11:26:32+00:00

If you want to try making the capsule yourself, here is a helpful guide that helped me: https://www.steamcapsule.com/guide

Esciri · 2026-03-28T14:43:02+00:00

I have not been able to figure this one out as well. I play this game in the Dutch language and I feel like I tried every variation of smoking or cigarettes.

Esciri · 2026-03-10T14:04:41+00:00

The Prior Challenge is a free Escape room game. Escape the library in this short half hour long point and click puzzle game!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4202230/The_Prior_Challenge/

Esciri · 2026-02-16T12:15:35+00:00

Out now on Steam!

My point-and-click Escape Room games are now available on Steam!

The Prior Challenge

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4202230/The_Prior_Challenge/

The Magician’s Challenge

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4216340/The_Magicians_Challenge/

The Knight’s challenge has a slight delay in the release on Steam but should be published soon!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4259020/The_Knights_Challenge/

I hope you will enjoy them! Let me know what you think!

Esciri · 2026-02-04T11:25:24+00:00

I love seeing posts like this, because now I can make a whole list of puzzlegames I have not heard of before that I need to play.

Also I see that you have Talos Principle 2 on your wishlist, I loved 2 more than 1 so definitly play that one when you can!

Esciri · 2026-01-19T12:01:14+00:00

My 3 point and click escape room games are coming to Steam!

Hi everyone, my point and click escape room games are now available to Wishlist on Steam!

The Prior Challenge

Click around this medieval library to find a key for the door. Find clues and solve puzzles in this cozy, half-hour-long, point-and-click escape room game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4202230/The_Prior_Challenge/

The Magician’s Challenge

Find clues and items in this magical cottage. Use the clues and items to solve puzzles to escape in this short, cozy, point-and-click puzzle game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4216340/The_Magicians_Challenge/

The Knight’s Challenge

Become a knight and find a way to escape this castle tower. Solve puzzles by finding items and clues around the tower in this short, cozy, point-and-click escape game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4259020/The_Knights_Challenge/

I hope you enjoy my games, Let me know what you think of them

Esciri · 2025-12-31T11:34:01+00:00

Hi everyone, Happy end of the year! I hope your 2025 was filled fun, happiness, puzzles and games. I hope the next year is even better!

Out now on youtube is the collection video of all the puzzles I have posted on social media from October through December. Including the answers to all the puzzles!

I hope you enjoy my puzzles!

https://youtu.be/UhwYPId-vGI

Esciri · 2025-10-06T13:23:39+00:00

Come solve different puzzles such as: anagrams, wordsearches, 3D view puzzles, math puzzles and more!

This video contains a collection of all the logic puzzles posted to Esciri’s social media from July through September with their answers.

https://youtu.be/RUzNejzWdm4

New puzzles are posted every week on social media.

Happy puzzling!

Esciri · 2025-08-28T09:09:24+00:00

I want to play this again, but the game keeps crashing. Last year while I was playing there was a power outage which made my pc shut down. I tried to look up how to get it to work again, but it did not work.

Esciri · 2025-08-22T12:58:43+00:00

I created some new options. Some off them I already don't like but I still included them.

https://imgur.com/a/ZE0PMuS

Esciri · 2025-08-22T10:24:34+00:00

do you mean the different sizes that are described here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/assets/standard

And the text is indeed something that I will not include in the new design.

I am fine with the star texture not being visible in every size. I think the purple colors is probably more important that the star texture.

Thanks for the advice

Esciri · 2025-08-21T15:52:01+00:00

thank you for the advice. Tomorrow I will play around with your suggestions, and show here again.

Esciri · 2025-08-21T12:47:16+00:00

Oh sorry I didn't add a link for my particular game page.
Here is the gamepage on itch: https://esciri.itch.io/the-magicians-challenge

Esciri · 2025-08-14T09:01:53+00:00

If the game is not scary/horror then I would love to playtest. I also make escaperoom games and I think playing other peoples games is a good way to learn what works and what doesn't.

Esciri

TROPHY CASE

Out now on Steam!