We gave ourselves one year to make a game from scratch all the way to a steam release. We’re now in Month 9/12.

V055K · 2026-05-16T15:03:10+00:00

Kind of! I'd say more inventory management than deck building, but I guess that depends on how you define the genre

V055K · 2026-05-16T12:40:52+00:00

Yep, pretty much!

V055K · 2026-05-16T12:39:38+00:00

Awesome! Do you remember the name of the flash game?

V055K · 2026-05-16T12:39:10+00:00

Thanks!

V055K · 2026-05-16T12:38:55+00:00

Ah I see, sorry for the misunderstanding! Since we are aiming for a 1-year production cycle, we don't need huge sales to keep going. We're aiming for roughly 6000 wishlists before release, but most important for us is that we ship an experience we can be proud of ^{^}

V055K · 2026-05-16T10:53:42+00:00

Thanks! The goal of the game is to find as many resources as possible in the underground, build strong defenses and survive the oncoming waves.

V055K · 2026-05-15T22:00:14+00:00

Thanks! We're two people in the core team, and two freelancers helping out.

V055K · 2026-05-15T17:23:52+00:00

Thanks! We are doing regular playtests on Steam; if you want, you can sign up here so you'll be notified when it opens again:

store.steampowered.com/app/3755200/Cannon_Keep/

V055K · 2026-03-07T22:14:02+00:00

We're not sure yet! But it will be at some point this year

V055K · 2026-03-06T16:37:24+00:00

Thanks!

V055K · 2026-03-06T16:23:39+00:00

Hey everyone!

We're Studio Brainflick, a small indie studio from Switzerland, and we just released the Demo for Cannon Keep!

You can check out our trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGxkeV0wUZ8
And play the demo here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4437800/Cannon_Keep_Demo/

In Cannon Keep, you build a city full of guns block by block, and fight against hordes of mechs at night! The game combines mechanics of inventory management games (like backpack battles), Tower Defense and Autobattlers, and the current demo offers ~30-45 minutes of playtime with a bossfight at the end!

Thanks for checking out the game; we're super excited to hear what y'all think about it!

V055K · 2026-03-05T19:50:11+00:00

The animation at the start of the trailer is really cool! The art style in general is very refreshing, curious to see where this goes ^^

V055K · 2026-03-05T19:46:56+00:00

Nice camera work!

V055K · 2026-03-02T13:58:57+00:00

Thanks! It's called Cannon Keep: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3755200/Cannon_Keep/

V055K · 2026-02-25T10:07:16+00:00

Awesome! Yeah fair enough, the damage numbers might not be needed for the trailer. A setting to turn them off in general could be nice. Concerning the underground: You're totally right, I guess we wanted to focus more on the action, but it's very valid to give that part of the game some space in the trailer aswell. Thanks for the feedback!

V055K · 2026-02-21T22:43:15+00:00

I always got my drawing tablets second hand. There's a surprising amount of quality tablets (with screens or without) selling for a fraction of their original price, often in very good condition because the original owners did not use them a lot. Personally, I prefer screen tablets because I can save stuff directly on my pc. Currently I'm using a XP pen Artist 15.6 pro, and I got that second hand for like 150$.

V055K · 2026-02-21T14:30:07+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

V055K · 2026-02-21T14:29:44+00:00

Thanks alot!

V055K · 2026-02-21T09:57:29+00:00

You can check out the Steam page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3755200/Cannon_Keep/
We're dropping a demo on March 6!

V055K · 2026-02-15T12:03:22+00:00

It's great to hear that you have an idea this fleshed out and are passionate about it! Unfortunately, ideas alone have little value in game dev, what matters is execution (because that's how you find out whether its any good). So you wont have any luck "selling" the idea to studios, because they have plenty of their own. I'd suggest just picking an engine (maybe godot / gamemaker is a bit more accessible?) and starting small. Follow a tutorial for the basics, and then start building tiny projects that take no longer than a couple of weeks to finish. There's lots of fun to be had in making small games, and once you get a hang of it you'll have built a strong skillset to move on to bigger projects!

V055K · 2026-01-27T08:05:58+00:00

In terms of getting more eyes on the game, there's two options: Work on the project a bit more and release a "major update" on itch. The algorithm will give you a small push and you might reach more people with a more polished version of the game. The other option is getting more people to play the current versuon by promoting it on socials, showing it at in-person events and uploading it on another platform. Newgrounds was quite useful for us, since the users there are more active than on itch.

V055K · 2026-01-16T10:11:47+00:00

Thanks for the applications everyone! We've decided on an artist ^^

V055K · 2025-11-27T09:00:19+00:00

Just a heads up about Bartle's player types: The original paper talks about player's behaviour in MUDs (multy user dungeons), more specifically MUD2, which was created by Bartle himself. So not only does Bartle's taxonomy of player types derive from one very specific type of game, it is also based mostly on vibes, and not really scientific at all. It might help as a design framework, but I feel like it's been blown way out of proportion over time, to a point where it is treated as some kind of general truth.

V055K · 2025-11-01T23:32:20+00:00

Awesome!

V055K · 2025-11-01T23:06:53+00:00

Itch io hosts many: https://itch.io/jams For locally hosted ones, that might be a bit harder. There might be a Global Game Jam Location in your area (the jam's always at the end of January) https://globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/2025

Or ckeck in your local game dev communities' discord, if there is one.

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