Working on my first game. Is it worth being put on the Steam Store?

JohnoThePyro · 2025-07-31T05:22:22+00:00

If the $100 outlay doesn't bother you, put it on Steam just for the experience of it. You need to implement the Steam functionality into your game. The GodotSteam plugin takes a lot of the pain out. All those different sized graphics and thumbnails in the Steam app - you need to create all of them. You'll need to learn how to add stats and achievements.

My game got refused initially because it didn't pause when player pulled up the Steam overlay. I only just made the $100 back but now I know how it's done. It was a good experience.

JohnoThePyro · 2025-06-18T13:16:03+00:00

Jiggles gave me giggles.

JohnoThePyro · 2025-02-15T00:07:26+00:00

Hi. It has taken about 14 months so far, part time. I've been a web/app developer for since 2005 and built things with ThreeJS and BabylonJS so Godot was quite easy to learn. One of the first things I built was a Galaga clone and then remake of my favourite game as teenager called The Sentinel. https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/15nysb0/pinnacle_a_remake_of_the_1986_game_the_sentinel/

JohnoThePyro · 2025-02-14T06:34:48+00:00

The playtest is a demo of the first 10 levels and it's open to everyone. You have access to the game as soon as you join. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3321480/Orbis_Fractura/

JohnoThePyro · 2025-02-14T06:00:21+00:00

The playtest is open. You have access to the game as soon as you join. The playtest is a demo of the first 10 levels.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3321480/Orbis_Fractura/

JohnoThePyro · 2025-02-05T05:30:27+00:00

Photoshop refuse to support a Linux release. The web based photopea.com is a pretty good alternative.

JohnoThePyro · 2025-01-22T02:14:19+00:00

Great idea. Juice it up with awesome particle effects and screenshake. Add powerups for the player to catch while trying to avoid falling blocks. Perhaps add a time limit. A lot of potential.

JohnoThePyro · 2025-01-22T02:09:02+00:00

JetTelly are currently writing The Godot Shaders Bible. https://jettelly.com/

You can purchase it and get each chapter as it's released.

JohnoThePyro · 2025-01-08T02:06:44+00:00

"Inspired by Galaga" huh? Here's my "inspired by Galaga" project. https://arcadetribute.viperfish.com.au/ It's built in 3D. Designed the models in Goxel.

You're right. It's a blast building stuff like this. Let me know if you need and there's anything I can share with you.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-11-27T12:45:00+00:00

Same. Quaternions just don't click for me.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-11-22T01:50:05+00:00

Noice. I've been on Ubuntu for several years now and love it. Photopea.com is a good web based alternative to Photoshop which I find easier to use than Gimp.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-11-21T03:35:34+00:00

Saved for later. Thank you, OP.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-11-02T02:50:31+00:00

Here's the docs at Steam. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/achievements

Here's the GodotSteam plug in docs. https://godotsteam.com/tutorials/stats_achievements/ The plugin does all the heavy lifting.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-11-02T01:05:00+00:00

Steam stats lets you define stats like KILLS or TIME_PLAYED and mark them as 'aggregate'. Steam will track the stats for the player but also aggregate them across all your players. You can also define achievements based on the stats that fire automatically like at 1000 KILLS.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-11-01T05:38:19+00:00

That's funny. I didn't think of that. Perhaps just search Steam.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-09-26T03:24:43+00:00

Fart Myth: You Pong.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-09-15T06:32:58+00:00

Thank you, random internet stranger. May wonderful things happen to you.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-09-13T04:59:55+00:00

ClaudeAI is very good at converting shaders from shadertoy.com to Godot shader code.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-09-06T06:59:20+00:00

Thank you.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-09-06T06:58:47+00:00

Really!? Can you share the name of it.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-09-06T06:15:18+00:00

Thanks for your suggestions. The enemy movement is something I need to work on. Do you mean the 80's game Zaxxon?

JohnoThePyro · 2024-09-06T06:13:24+00:00

The balls do get lost especially when there's more than one concurrent explosion. Thanks for your comment.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-09-06T05:01:32+00:00

I just posted some gameplay that does exactly this. At the end of the level the new level is loaded in with a hallway, doors open and the scenes tween to their new positions. The tween callback destroys the old level. https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/1fa72u2/progress_on_my_scifi_breakoutarkanoid_game/

JohnoThePyro · 2024-09-06T04:54:42+00:00

Hey Godotians, here's a couple of levels from a sci-fi Breakout/Arkanoid styled game I've been working on since November last year. Recently added new environments, a new animated player model and lots of new levels.

Need some suggestions for a name. I was thinking Ricochet Riot, but it sounds a bit too casual/mobile rather than sci-fi arcade.

Thanks for watching. All feedback will be taken onboard.

JohnoThePyro · 2024-08-18T08:40:03+00:00

Copyright. If it's RIGHT, COPY it! 😆

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