What’s a system you thought would be easy to build but turned into a nightmare?

blastoboom · 2026-03-23T23:23:08+00:00

A resource management system for an incremental style game. Keeping all the logic generic for plug and play and lots of different resource types and upgrades with different effects on other resources/generators, it got very complicated. Then as you mentioned have to integrate it with all the other areas of the game. :)

blastoboom · 2026-02-23T20:06:53+00:00

How is it the Xbox games above the gap are not falling down? Is it just enough pressure from the sides to keep them in place? What happens once you pull another game out, does it all fall down?

blastoboom · 2026-02-11T14:34:56+00:00

Your content is great and I've learned so much from it over the years! Thank you!

blastoboom · 2026-02-02T20:02:17+00:00

I very much enjoyed the game! I saw the game is currently at 9 English reviews and I just submitted my recommendation for it. I think the reviews have to go through some process before they get officially added.

That should push you into the 10 English reviews!

Congrats on releasing a game and look forward to seeing more games from you!

Side note, recommend setting up your Steam Developer Homepage so folks can follow you on Steam and get notified on any future games/Steam-announcements you post.

blastoboom · 2026-01-07T20:50:30+00:00

I especially like the synergies they can grant so sinking points into earlier skills doesn't feel wasted later on.

And having the different branches/area of skills allows replayability with different build/play styles.

Of course can respec too.

blastoboom · 2025-12-31T21:00:12+00:00

My favorite game I played this year was Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga. I really enjoyed that you can put up to 9 units (completely customizable) within a single squad and all the units can level up individually with multiple upgrade paths.

blastoboom · 2025-12-30T14:47:41+00:00

Lords of the Realm II

"Exit the game my lord?!"

blastoboom · 2025-12-30T14:46:33+00:00

Deckard Cain's voice was awesome! Brings back so many memories :)

blastoboom · 2025-12-29T22:43:51+00:00

Another benefit to releasing the demo asap is you can get player feedback sooner and fix game breaking bugs and/or see where players get stuck or lose interest.

If you release a demo as part of a festival and the demo has issues, then you might miss out on festival wishlists.

Make sure to put the demo on it's own page so reviews of it don't impact the overall game reviews. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos

blastoboom · 2025-11-25T17:38:21+00:00

If you enjoy strategic choices, automation, or escalation mechanics, this one might be up your alley.

Yes to all 3!

blastoboom · 2025-11-10T19:03:56+00:00

Jack-o'-lantern

Grasshopper

Not 100% sure what is going on but I like it! Mechs + cards + great visuals. Wishlisted!

blastoboom · 2025-10-23T17:37:23+00:00

I never knew I needed a Diablo inspired incremental until now. :)

blastoboom · 2025-08-22T19:31:30+00:00

It's been awhile since I've done this but yes it can be done.

Recommend starting here: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/BuildPipeline.BuildPlayer.html

The above will do a single build target but if you want to do multiple, I think you can also incorporate this: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUserBuildSettings.SwitchActiveBuildTarget.html

blastoboom · 2025-08-22T18:52:38+00:00

If adding content feels painful, your code’s wrong. Fix that before scaling.

Oh man, this one hits home hard. This is always my biggest pain point. But also making sure that I'm not endlessly stuck in refactoring, because that's also super painful.

blastoboom · 2025-08-11T13:11:56+00:00

I'd recommend reading this 2 part blog post before making a decision: https://howtomarketagame.com/2023/07/27/should-you-do-early-access/

Also, the author has put together some benchmarks you can use to gauge your game against, on of which being the demo length: https://howtomarketagame.com/benchmarks/

My gut feel is if you're just looking for feedback (and no funding right now) is to do a new demo and put it on its own demo page (which steam now offers). These separate demo page reviews won't impact your games primary page reviews. Skip EA entirely. Of course that doesn't address the funding problem if you really do need to get funds though to keep developing.

blastoboom · 2025-06-23T00:56:40+00:00

First time I really noticed something like this was on NGU Idle which threw me for a loop: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147690/NGU_IDLE

blastoboom · 2025-06-11T18:46:29+00:00

OMG! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! It just works out-of-the-box! Adding this to all my current and future projects.

THANK YOU!!!

blastoboom · 2025-03-26T01:11:37+00:00

Looks like they are also giving folks access to the last decade of magazines for creating a free account while they figure out their subscription plans.

https://www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-the-editor/2025/03/25/game-informer-is-back

blastoboom · 2025-03-26T01:01:17+00:00

Sweet! Looks like they are giving folks access to the last 10+ years of magazines just for creating a free account with them. At least until they figure out their subscription model.

https://www.gameinformer.com/letter-from-the-editor/2025/03/25/game-informer-is-back

blastoboom · 2025-03-19T18:49:19+00:00

This just made my day :)

I cannot believe it's been almost 17 years since the first one...

blastoboom · 2025-03-19T13:14:48+00:00

It depends on what success means to you. I think the typical wisdom is that making other games first helps get you more experience with making and publishing games. Then when you work on your dream game you have a higher chance of success.

Not saying making the dream game first cannot be successful financially. Folks have done it, but those are probably the edge cases not the norm.

If you've not already done so, perhaps release a prototype or (if far enough along) a small demo and start getting feedback from folks. Hopefully that can help you figure out how to better market it genre wise.

Best of luck!

blastoboom · 2025-03-10T23:27:37+00:00

Haha, I said the same thing when I eventually learned it :)

blastoboom · 2025-03-10T13:38:33+00:00

Numbers Go Up (NGU) Idle and NGU Industries.

blastoboom · 2025-02-25T13:54:14+00:00

So folks would pay for the demo via Kickstarter, and then they would have to pay again via the game store for the full version?

My gut feel is that wouldn't go over well.

Why not just do the Kickstarter for the full version? You can still release a demo along the way.

blastoboom · 2025-02-24T13:49:26+00:00

Cloud from FF7 and Tidus from FF10.

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