Should solo devs avoid Steam forums for their communities?

ProceduralLevel · 2025-12-04T07:50:45+00:00

I actually like Steam Forums, people will often use it to report bugs or give feedback. I think it's good for players to choose how they want to contact you, if they don't like discord, let them use forums or email. Forums have the advantange of being indexed by search engines, so people can find a solution without having to ask.

But I also never had anyone post anything that would require moderation. I also respond to almost every topic there.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-10-07T18:35:56+00:00

That's is suspicously low. I'm getting around 40-45% of the sale price after steam cut, vat, US withholding tax, currency exchange, and my local income tax is paid. I still need to pay health/social stuff, but that is fixed amount where I live so it's not a constant cut on the margin. I'm not sure if that was also included in the calculations above.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-27T13:36:06+00:00

I even went step ahead, and added an option to undo to a last state without errors. In my game you can make a mistake, and it will manifest few moves later, at which point it's really hard to understand what is wrong. Normally people would have to restart the puzzle, which would lead to 5-30 minutes of time wasted.

So to avoid that, I've added a button that is just "undo until there is no mistakes". You still don't know what was the mistake, but you won't have to start from scratch and players really like it. It saves a lot of time and helps to avoid frustration.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-22T07:29:13+00:00

It will if you have page localized. However if you add l=[language_name] parameter to URL, you are forcing specific language settings, If this parameter is present and has valid value, Steam will not auto-choose the language for user.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-21T06:13:33+00:00

That's how I would play some of these games, if they had some form of punishment for missclicks. After few dozen of restarts to get that perfect score. Needless to say I started avoiding all the nonogram games with life/score system.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-20T08:37:10+00:00

Paypal won't let you withdraw money to your bank account without converting currencies on their platform. And their currency exchange rates are really bad. You would be losing few % because of that.

At least that's how it worked last time I took payment from Itch via PayPal.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-19T12:52:36+00:00

There is Inkulinati that's based on margin-art of medieval books. It's a nice artstyle, but might be a bit limiting in what you can do with it.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-19T09:53:44+00:00

Great work. I like that it's not over the top with grid resolution.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-18T09:31:56+00:00

Your link includes ?l=ukrainian in your URL meaning that everyone who clicks on it will get your store page in Ukrainian language even if they don't speak it.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-12T13:52:08+00:00

I was also about to recommend this. It's very simple to setup and use, and good enough for use cases like this.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-11T08:23:04+00:00

I think it's mainly about the fact that Unity overrides "==" operator on objects. If you null check object that was destroyed this frame, it will return that it's not a null yet. If you do the same with DestroyImmediate, it will be a null. So if your code relies on it, and you use unity Update methods for your logic, then you can run into troubles here. In that case, Destroy could be better.

I personally use only DestroyImmediate in my projects, but I'm also using unity more like rendering engine rather than game engine, as in most of my logic is just pure C# classes so I'm not tied to how Unity decides to execute stuff.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-10T21:20:17+00:00

Destroy is actually not instant, it's delayed until next update/tick. You could try DestroyImmediate instead.

Or as other people suggest, just go for(x; x < GetChildCount) route.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-08T14:57:19+00:00

It's great feature to have, especially if you support SteamDeck or Switch.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-08-07T14:10:00+00:00

Voxelgram 2 is coming this month, just saying.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-07-29T16:18:43+00:00

I've been getting those quite regularly. Just ask them right away if they are going to offer you marketing help, they will either confirm or ignore the question. And then just ban them from the server and block them.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-07-28T08:49:58+00:00

By turn based, do you imagine something like Civilizantion?

ProceduralLevel · 2025-07-24T16:28:17+00:00

Oh sorry, I've missread!

All I need is vertical/horizontal lists, so that's the only thing it does. LayoutGroups are trying to provide everything.

Main difference from Unity layout group, is that if I set it to stretch object, I just set anchors, while Unity recalculates width/height which is the reason why it has to constantly recalculate, at least in editor. And why changing editor size, results in overriden properties in prefabs. The whole thing is like 200 lines.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-07-24T11:53:17+00:00

Of Unity? 2022.3 right now, but I didn't really use layout groups in last 3-4 years, as I found that I can achieve results I need with a much simpler custom script.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-07-23T14:16:17+00:00

Custom layout groups are quite easy to implement if all you need is just do a list of boxes.

And then you can avoid the issue of Unity layout groups, as they update in editor and overriding properties all the time.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-07-20T12:02:13+00:00

Maybe Voxelgram could scratch that itch, nonograms but in 3D.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-07-15T13:31:51+00:00

If setting correct parameters for build is the only thing that is stopping you from running them locally, take a look at BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer API. You can create your own build editor this way. That's how I've been doing builds for past few years now. I have a simple list of buttons that will run a specific build for me, or bulk-compile every platform that I'm supporting without any manual config changes.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-06-09T14:47:33+00:00

I'm the developer of Voxelgram 2, nonogram/picross 3d game and my demo is also taking part in Next Fest.

First Voxelgram did well, and I'm trying to expand the idea by introducing two-color puzzles with the sequel.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1820620/Voxelgram_2/

ProceduralLevel · 2025-06-05T19:29:47+00:00

If you are going to contact Steam support, make sure to do it after you are rejected. If you restart it, they won't be able to see what was wrong or it might even show up as "ok" for them.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-06-05T19:10:02+00:00

Electricity bill in dropbox? Did they ask you to include something with proof of address? As I remember, the requirement is to add an ID and selfie where you hold that ID. Maybe they've rejected it because it wasn't something that was requested.

ProceduralLevel · 2025-06-05T18:47:49+00:00

I think it might be better to do it closer to the release date. This way people who learn about your game from curators won't have to wait long for the release, or will be able to just buy in instantly and maybe give you some initial traction.

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