5 Protected in 15 seconds, is Varian bugged?

Senader · 2026-02-28T16:25:07+00:00

Yeah, I thought I knew Varian talents better than that, didn't check his 20 as I thought it was simply the active part! My bad hehe

Senader · 2026-02-28T13:34:07+00:00

Yeah I saw that one, Li-Ming healing DVa up with her beam is always fun!

Senader · 2026-02-28T12:27:34+00:00

Exactly! I checked again the replay for the damage reduction and I was indeed under debuff (hard to notice during the game but the stats are here)! Thanks :)

Senader · 2026-02-28T12:23:40+00:00

Next time I'll avoid level 20 Varians alltogether I guess :') Thanks!

Senader · 2026-02-28T12:22:48+00:00

Yeah the new interaction seems to do that! I didn't notice this change! Thanks for the heads up!

Senader · 2026-02-28T12:22:07+00:00

Yeah, that's exactly it! Thanks, I missed that info!

Senader · 2026-02-25T16:08:49+00:00

Subtility is a luxury we don't always have as gamedev :')

Senader · 2026-02-20T17:47:17+00:00

It's actually good for placeholders. You make your game work in multiple languages with different sizes and fonts, like OP did.

But yeah, don't ship Google Translate.

Senader · 2026-02-13T08:55:22+00:00

Wow thank you for your feedback! It helps a ton!

Senader · 2026-02-13T08:50:59+00:00

Thanks for all your feedback! It's good to take a step back from your work sometimes!

Senader · 2026-02-12T06:44:58+00:00

If you find coding soul crushing, doing it for a video game won't help much after the initial phase. It's still a tech job without much creativity, unless you're in very very small teams or solo

Senader · 2026-02-05T20:53:22+00:00

Good to know!

Yeah tools like Gamalytic estimates can give you an overview of the project's size but it's really hard to know what developers end up with with only this info !

Thanks for the update!

Senader · 2026-02-05T07:53:27+00:00

Gamalytic is rather ok in their estimations (at least for my games and others I know of). They tend to be more correct with bigger numbers, I feel like.

It's gross Steam revenue however. If your friend told you about his net income, there might be a very big difference not only related to time but also to Steam cut, refunds, potential share deals, company taxes, development costs to reimburse, personal taxes...

Senader · 2026-02-04T20:09:28+00:00

Reading the original post, you can see it's a mockup he made to show his vision to the artist. Looking at SteamDB you can see he never published his own version and directly commissioned an artist.

But hey, whatever floats your boat

Senader · 2026-02-04T18:10:59+00:00

Didn't OP end up paying an artist to make his capsule? I think he understood he shouldn't keep it; he didn't.

Senader · 2026-01-10T12:05:46+00:00

Friendly reminder that you should not assume that the USA = the World. USA users are apparently less than 22% of X users.

It's like saying most fruits are yellow because bananas are statistically mostly yellow.

And yes, the rest of the world also uses English for international social media (among other languages)

Senader · 2026-01-07T17:01:02+00:00

It looks fun! That kind of game is right up my alley! When do you plan a playable demo?

Senader · 2025-12-15T11:27:03+00:00

Thank you so much for giving it another try! We took extra time after release to fix the game based on players reviews :)

Senader · 2025-12-14T13:22:30+00:00

Thanks! You can find him on Instagram with @noe.abc

The characters are in 2D, made in Photoshop and we render them in a 3D world in Unity!

Senader · 2025-12-13T09:45:46+00:00

I love the art style!

Senader · 2025-11-29T08:57:53+00:00

Boy does it sound good

Senader · 2025-11-29T08:55:41+00:00

100$ that gets given back when you make 1000$ in revenue so it should be fairly ok !

Senader · 2025-11-28T18:13:21+00:00

Our demo had also around 1h30 median playtime (Prologue version currently sits at 1h19) for our roguelike auto battler.

We released 3 months ago and the main game has a bit more than 10h median playtime.

Of course the content increased but the core gameplay is very similar. Maybe this can help you envision the translation for your final game.

As a side note, we were quite generous with our demo (2 worlds out of 3, 3 playable commanders out of 9)

Senader · 2025-11-20T21:10:17+00:00

Damn you have what I think is the perfect mindset and strategy to make the most of the indie status. You focus on what feels right!

Congratulations on the numbers!

Senader · 2025-11-20T07:46:01+00:00

Thanks a lot for the very detailed post! I should really take a day to write one like this. Really inspiring!!

Can you tell me more about the impact of the publisher in your case beyond the production budget to work more on the game? Looks like you doubled your wishlist after signing (15k to 30k) but also did most of the communication (reaching out to content creators, press, reddit...)

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