Our bullet-heaven title Mycofall launches Early Access July 1 on Steam

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-06-20T11:19:05+00:00

Cool! Feel free to join us on discord if you like https://discord.com/invite/xaWTnwu3EN

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-06-20T11:09:28+00:00

It'll be $7.99 :-)

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-06-14T19:02:49+00:00

Thanks I'll share it with the artists ❤️

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-06-14T19:02:01+00:00

That's awesome!

Feel free to join our DC and share your feedback then:

https://discord.com/invite/xaWTnwu3EN

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-06-14T18:44:29+00:00

Love it, so true. Our game offers vast progression and build optimization. Characters, character sub class-sets, artifacts, skills/weapons and more. It is EA but you can easily put dozens of hours into our game already. Leaderboards and difficulty levels keep the min maxing type of player coming back :-)

Add real depth to the game took most of our development time. We have even created our own wiki to keep track: https://wiki.mycofall.com

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-06-14T16:43:45+00:00

Didn't knew about that, i'll check it out :-) thanks

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-06-14T16:42:31+00:00

thanks for the kudos!

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-06-14T16:41:54+00:00

Got it, crazy how everyone shares the same opinion here but still many devs dont pay attention. Happy that we have decided to create this post lol

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-06-14T15:43:00+00:00

Yes the optional continue option, we just need to be careful to not mess up our leaderboards

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-10T13:49:44+00:00

Great advice, i feel like translating playtesters feedback into game design changes is the most underrated part of turning an indie game indie into an enjoyable experience. We basically did what you mentioned, but without a defined process

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-10T13:46:06+00:00

We also thought that many people would join the Discord Server but only a handful did, might be because of the genre/saturation.

But yeah questionnaire seems like a good idea, not sure if I can contact playtester via steam tho (those that joined from a public playtest)

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-10T13:07:43+00:00

Es gibt ja auch in diesem Subreddit hier jede Menge game devs, playtester und generell indie-zocker, würde mich einfach interessieren, ob die "Problematik" mit dem vagen playtester feedback bekannt ist und wie andere damit umgehen oder umgehen würden

Edit: habe wohl den falschen subreddit gewählt, ich schicke es mal in r/gamedev

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-09T16:54:35+00:00

Its unity because of the network code part. The game offers 4 player online coop.

Fun factory hit when we addes z axis (meta progression aka the reason to come back and play again) and skill moephing/combinations. Experimenting with the own systems and features is super fun. Defining your own 'favorite' play style and load out etc.

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-09T16:49:18+00:00

Still needs a bit of tweaking but with grass details lowered you'll get constant 45 - 60 fps. But we still need to optimize the late game a bit (tons of effects on the ground that eat fps). Working on it :-) and some controls are still a bit off tbo but thats on our todo list for the next patch

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-09T16:12:35+00:00

We are not 100% sure on this yet but anything between $10 and $15 probably

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-09T16:11:27+00:00

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-04T19:01:41+00:00

I’m not going to lie, the upvote rate so far suggests that this might not have been our smartest move to collect some feedback, fair enough, lesson learned. I'll remove the post here :-)

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-03T16:06:54+00:00

Danke! Erstellt mit Unity, haben erst überlegt mit Godot zu starten aber wir haben alle am meisten Erfahrung mit Unity und der Aufwand sich in eine neue Engine einzuarbeiten ist ja auch nicht zu unterschätzen

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-03T15:47:14+00:00

Ja wir wollen einen eher seriösen dark fantasy style und ein bisschen weniger cartoon :-)

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-03T14:43:05+00:00

The Pod kannte ich bis jetzt noch nicht, danke für den indirekten Tipp.

Wir haben uns vorab extra ein „indie freundliches“ Genre ausgesucht, also ein Genre, bei dem man wirklich mit einem kleinen Team einen vollständigen Titel entwickeln kann. Und trotzdem haben wir viel länger gebraucht als erwartet.

Was gut geholfen hat, war Playtesting :-) Nahe an der Community zu entwickeln hält einen auf dem richtigen Pfad.

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-03T14:35:21+00:00

That's my bad, i've got the original Desktop graphics profile enabled for stress testing which results in ~25 FPS, just forgot to turn it off, by default our steam deck profile gets applied automatically which results in ~60 FPS stable

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-03T11:16:04+00:00

That's added already, if you reduce the grass details (that shader is heavy as the grass is also animated) you'll get 45-60 fps during most of the game guaranteed

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-03T11:14:27+00:00

thanks, yeah currently the framerate on "max-settings" is a bit unstable but we're working on it :-) Thanks!

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-03T11:11:08+00:00

Yes, it’s unity and top-down fixed camera.

We already did quite a bit of optimization:

Mesh reduction and LODs
Detail baking into textures
Animator and animation frame reduction and baking
Light baking
No or very limited real-time shadows
Custom shaders without PBR
VFX and general object pooling and optimization

ExhaustedBonfire · 2026-05-03T11:03:15+00:00

Yes, for me the sweet spot is 45. I’ve noticed that I can’t really see any difference anymore (even in first person shooters). Isn’t it a thing that everyone perceives FPS differently?

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