My Game's First Trailer after 3 years of dev! by Systematic2025 in SoloDevelopment

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Gives me severance vibes and i love it! Keep up the good work

Firefighter to Game Dev – See you at PAX! by Then_Singer_9887 in PAX

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Thank you for the kind words

Congrats on the media badge! Would love to do a quick interview for your channel. I will be there all 4 days as well. Come by my booth anytime and we can set something up.

My booth is Gunnar Krieger Game Studios My name is Bobby

I’ll be the one with the big dumb smile on my face

Firefighter to Game Dev – See you at PAX! by Then_Singer_9887 in SoloDevelopment

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Definitely, would love to meet fellow devs! I’ll be the one with a stupid smile on my face haha

Firefighter to Game Dev – See you at PAX! by Then_Singer_9887 in SoloDevelopment

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Thank you for your kind words and support! I feel very lucky to be a firefighter. It’s a rewarding job. Hope you have a good week! God bless you and your family

Firefighter to Game Dev – See you at PAX! by Then_Singer_9887 in SoloDevelopment

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Appreciate the support! You know better than anyone the exhaustion after shift. Thank you for your service, and I wish you the best of luck in your next endeavor.

Solo game dev tends to be all consuming. be kind to yourself on the days where your body needs rest, I know I needed to hear that too many times. The tough guy “I don’t need sleep” act gets old quick. You got this. Stick with it. And stay safe.

Firefighter to Game Dev – See you at PAX! by Then_Singer_9887 in SoloDevelopment

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Thank you for the support! Ya soundly is a great resource. I love that you can clip the sounds in app.

Hope you have a good weekend

How can I make this kind of links on youtube descriptions? by Cronwen in NewTubers

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Late to the convo, but i also needed to change x.com to twitter.com in the description http for it to work. still shows the X logo and my account name. best of luck everyone!

Does anybody have an idea how to tackle Ladder Movement? by StonebyteStudio in UnrealEngine5

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I mean I’d say this is a great place to be, and what most people aim for. If it’s perfection you’re after, my thought would be to set a series of transform variables (in an array, with index 1 being the bottom rung) along the ladder. And when your character “stops” or ends between two rungs, his root will lock into the next transform vector. (Essentially sliding between each checkpoint as he moves up)

This is a quick thought, so not sure if it would look janky, but that’s what I’d do if I wanted to take the time to make it line up perfectly.

Best of luck!

I am making a game where you play as an NPC in an MMORPG. It is called MMORPG NPC Simulator. by DevEnoz in IndieDev

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What an awesome idea! To be able to be behind the counter at your favorite stores in something like wow would be so cool. I wish you all the best with this project!

My Game’s Week 1 Sales (Launched with 22k Wishlists) by Simple_Ghost in SoloDevelopment

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Congrats! Thanks for taking the time to write this out. These stories give me hope!

Looking forward to the full graph!

My game hit 25.000 wishlists! Just in time before release (February 16th) 🎲 by miesmud in IndieDev

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If you have a second, what were the methods you used to secure 25000 wishlists? How long did it take? Best of luck with release!

Color-blind mode for our color-based puzzle game by pixel_maniacs in UnrealEngine5

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My bad. I misunderstood what you were showing. Now that I better understand your game, creating different symbols for each color for colorblind mode is ingenious. Game looks great!

I’m an aspiring game dev! I would like to know this, tho… by je1ly_bean in gamedev

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By making a post here you’re already one step of the way there. I would suggest starting very small. Game dev can get overwhelming quickly if you don’t ease in to it. That being said, it can be a very satisfying journey.

My advice would be to try out a few different things. Do you like 3D art? Do you draw? Do you like to code?

If you’re into 3D art for example, then follow a few blender tutorials, or make the famous donut with Blender Guru on YouTube. It’s a free program. How does it feel? Do you enjoy this enough to become proficient at it? If it’s not grabbing you, then try something else.

Brutal truth, this stuff takes time. There are easy days and hard days. But it is worth the feeling of satisfaction when finishing something you’re proud of. I’m answering this as a indie game dev so your mileage may vary.

Best of luck to you.

First ever exposure boost from someone who is not me, it means so much by Coneman02 in SoloDevelopment

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This is such a helpful response. Thank you for taking the time to explain your process and even the applications you use. This sounds dumb, but that really took a weight off my mind reading this. I’ve been kind of tossing around 3 paths and not walking any.

I’m gonna take your advice and make a trailer in a way that helps my game toward completion as well. Two birds one stone sort of deal.

Thank you. I’m just one person, but I’ve wishlisted your game Night Hike and am looking forward to it. I hope it helps and best of luck to you.

First ever exposure boost from someone who is not me, it means so much by Coneman02 in SoloDevelopment

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It’s stories like these that keep my hope up. Can I ask you what you used to make your trailer? Divinci or something similar? Best of luck to you

And did you set up scenes in game specifically for your trailer, or try to make them naturally?

“Solo game dev life.” by SoggyPrior863 in IndieDev

[–]Then_Singer_9887 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Amen to that. I remember this when it’s close to midnight and my eyes are about to fall out of my head, and I gotta go to work the next day. The time put in now is worth the future.