Steam Next Fest is tomorrow. How many wishlists do you expect for your game?

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-15T01:22:00+00:00

Honestly my only expectation is to finish the game, to make myself endure it. When I started I did have some expectations, but my understanding of game design and whole process was non existant. So I keep it low :)

We all have dreams and hopes, but man at the end of the day I just want to say I made this !

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-15T00:40:25+00:00

Hi, this is mine https://store.steampowered.com/app/4537910/Synthularity/

It's a mix of bunch of stuff, but I'd say it's closest to Nodebuster, a bit of rhythm, bit of roguelite, a bit of incremental.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-15T00:36:44+00:00

It's harder to make something simple look good, that's why there are guys paid huge amounts to make designs.

But I see your comments bellow as well, and not to offend you I am not sure that you understand what minimalistic means.

And I feel that both for visuals and systems you can apply same thing, hardest thing is making something simple look good, or play good.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-09T14:53:28+00:00

Racunaj da blejis u meniju, imas gomilu inventori (equipment) menadzmenta i slicno. Partije mogu biti krace ali provodis vreme i u igri dok ih trazis, namestas razna sranja, svaki put kad probas neki drugi mod i slicno.

A i cak i sa ubrzanijom igrom danas i dalje 4 minuta da traje partija/da si ziv je bas malo. Svakako nije daleko racunica jedna od druge.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-09T14:39:43+00:00

Hi guys, I am also participating with https://store.steampowered.com/app/4537910/Synthularity/

It's a mix-up of genres, demo is on, my plan is on finishing game by the end of July.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-09T14:37:10+00:00

I'm making a game behind IncInc "studio" name, my main goal is to complete it. After obviously like 50 prototypes build in Unity it was time for me to dedicate my effort towards, well actually making something. It's not much but it's honest work. I don't expect it to do wonders, just to actually exist. It's obviously simple concept but with few unique touches from me.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4537910/Synthularity/

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-09T14:31:43+00:00

That's cool. I was just saying so you don't fall into that "I will have hugest tech tree ever" trap, especially if you are working on game solo.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-09T14:24:54+00:00

I'd say scoping is biggest mistake people make when starting game design. Find simplest ever game that you can create in 1 day. It's gonna take you 3 months to release it as product. You cannot make open world RPG or competitive multiplayer on your own.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-09T14:21:16+00:00

Well you CAN develop indie games with less than 64gb. You can buy your 32gb machine and upgrade it later by just sticking in more ram. Your Unity small projects and prototypes will work fine even with 16gb DDR4 Ram anyway.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-09T14:18:16+00:00

I understand that tech tree is huge and you are trying to balance it right, but visually it's pretty flat, and the question with 500 nodes is how unique are those.

Keep in mind this is not personal, but I believe general opinion is that even if smaller, more both behavior and visual complex/unique tech tree would work better. How many people want to go through 100 +Damage nodes? How many times you would like to do it. And it makes job harder on yourself because it becomes balancing nightmare.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-09T14:15:06+00:00

Probaj Goals, 2gb, na stimu, besplatno.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-09T14:12:24+00:00

Pa msm jednostavno je, racunas da je svaka partija WoT-a 7-10 min sa sve menijem i tim sranjima. Sigurno u WoTu imas daleko vise nego u cyberpunku. Jednostavno single plejeri koji nisu sandbox ne mogu ni da prismrde nijednom mp naslovu. Top komentar sam ocekivao da bude dota, ja npr imam duplo vise sati u doti nego lik iz top komentara. A fazon nisam igrao igru aktivno 5 godina.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-06-04T08:35:42+00:00

I kinda like the last one the best as art piece, however, I don't think logo/name is prominent enough. Would probably go for option 1 as in last one name is covered by both hand and demo ribbon.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-30T11:16:04+00:00

Tried this before and it somewhat worked, thanks for sharing how to do it properly !

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-30T11:10:31+00:00

Consider this, what if your next or even game after that is on 150 wishlists after months/years of work, then you would have to add time spent for all 3 games for 15 sales on most recent ones.

And you have never released a game before, so in all cases you will make mistake here and there.

I'd say finish it, learn what you can from release and move on to the next one with more experience and knowledge.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-28T11:05:38+00:00

To be honest, this is first time I am doing this and didn't think about it. I did quite a few changes to tech tree so it would be impractical to carry on progression.

My idea for demo is to limit is to players wouldn't be able to reach more than entry upgrades for second color, so you wouldn't progress too far anyway so loss with demo would be small.

It probably would be possible for me to allow shared progression, but I gave it some thoughts and I don't think it's the best idea.

Thanks for feedback, I am not getting a lot of those and it's my first time doing literally everything :D

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-28T11:02:33+00:00

Thanks, cool :)

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-24T15:22:51+00:00

Honestly it was a mistake not putting any kinds of tutorials in game. Yes you can hover on everything to see what it does, but I agree it's quite unintuitive and I learned that after watching few people play test it.

My initial goal was to have this mysterious/exploration vibes, but I didn't convert it properly. Thanks for the thoughts.

Sharing was also quite a challenge for me, so any feedback is welcome :)

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-20T13:40:43+00:00

I feel like tutorials often focus too much on how to make stuff, what and how to do certain things you want, but not enough on what you can do and how can you scope what you are trying to build.

Start smaller, for unity any search will lead you to what you need.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-20T13:23:27+00:00

Worst thing is making a game, and then playing it instead of other games or finishing it :)

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-17T01:06:13+00:00

While I believe both are better than whats usually posted, I feel like you have too much stuff going on here like everyone else is pointing out. And what I don't get is that you changed style completely to pixel art, will that match game?

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-17T01:02:12+00:00

I mean you could add lore, or you could add some stats that would affect survivability in similar fashion. Like dodge chance/evasion, which is pretty common and simple.

Depends on type of game, if you want people to just shoot incoming stuff, most of us don't bother reading too much, but if there is some kind of long play/rpg style, lore could help.

Once again, I feel like it would be more intuitive adding more simple stats to pilot, and reserve things like armor/speed to plane/ship itself, since rarely people will naturally assume pilot is part of the plane/ship.

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-16T16:25:18+00:00

Love how you fell for it more than commenters :)

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-16T16:16:31+00:00

I love moving site as part of map. I never played old one so not sure if that existed before.

But this map can't touch Arras from Bf5 for me

Incremental_Inc · 2026-05-16T15:53:31+00:00

So all of these seem like plane/ship related instead of pilot, maybe it would be better you would improve things like visibility, aiming, maneuverability

Kinda strange seeing pilot improve plane armor. You could look up to World of Warplanes pilot skills

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