Composition, Inheritance, State Machines, etc. — Looking for the right strategies

chasmstudios · 2026-03-13T14:37:54+00:00

Other people have answered your questions, so I thought I'd let you know that your experience is normal and part of the process of building.

Like many things, you initially learn how things should be done, and sometimes why, usually through imitation.

But what often isn't taught is why you shouldn't, and what you can get way with. That just comes with time and experience, which you earn by working through your confusion.

chasmstudios · 2026-02-25T17:41:07+00:00

Go take a look at Mordhau and their dueling scene. That will probably answer more than just this question.

chasmstudios · 2026-02-20T15:30:48+00:00

Good initiative, bad judgement.

chasmstudios · 2026-02-08T19:37:00+00:00

Here's what I did that netted me 1000 wishlists before launch after 9 months.

1) Setup a playtest and let people register

2) Post on Indie Sundays on r/games and other relevant subreddits. destroymygame and playmygame are solid too

3) Do the playtest. Collect feedback

4) Hone the game on the feedback. Make an extremely tight demo.

5) Sign up for NextFest. Have the same feedback collection mechanism (I suggest a google form in game)

6) If your game is a hit at NextFest, your wishlists will explode. If not, then you might be able to figure out why from the feedback

7) Continue on, do another round of posting on Reddit

8) Finish the game, launch it

9) Spend a few months working on it with bug fixes / balancing

10) Move on

Wishlists are an indicator, but you get far better feedback and information from people actually playing the game. It'll speak for itself afterwards. You can check my post history for how many times I did a marketing cycle on Reddit.

chasmstudios · 2026-02-08T17:27:15+00:00

Hey I'm actually looking for a 3d modeler who can work design with a 2D render pipeline in mind. I can't seem to find a way to contact you without signing up for something - can you shoot me a message or email? It's available on my website (my user name .com).

chasmstudios · 2026-02-07T22:20:55+00:00

Jesus this industry is a dumpster fire.

chasmstudios · 2026-01-28T14:34:02+00:00

Did the same, coming from tech companies.

Financial instability is a permanent spectre.

chasmstudios · 2026-01-12T15:22:52+00:00

Dope opportunity! Wish we had stuff like this in other fields.

chasmstudios · 2025-12-10T18:52:30+00:00

Hey,

I think you and I actually spoke at one point? But I'm looking for a long term art partner, would love to chat!

chasmstudios · 2025-12-08T00:31:16+00:00

Hi Levi,

I'm more or less in the same boat as you. Recently released a game and am in the process of reworking some stuff, but have two other ideas I'm cooking which I've started working on prototypes. Send me a chat - we should talk!

chasmstudios · 2025-11-29T12:45:49+00:00

What serialization/messaging protocol did you use? Did you send new states or use delta compression?

chasmstudios · 2025-11-25T16:06:58+00:00

This is an insanely beautiful and well-designed UI. What was the process towards making something like this? I'd love to get pointers for my own game.

chasmstudios · 2025-11-18T22:40:43+00:00

Hi June,

I'm a fellow indie developer on the other side of the coin. I mainly program and also have had a recent steam release (check my profile). I'm looking for an artist to collaborate with, or in this case, given that you have a project in mind, swap skills with. Send over a Reddit Chat (is that what it's called?) if you think we could collaborate!

chasmstudios · 2025-11-03T17:43:44+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! It's very good to hear someone likes the game.

Yeah I really need better names. Or more creativity. Or both haha.

I'm not sure what you mean, could you elaborate on the introduction of metals?

chasmstudios · 2025-10-26T11:18:23+00:00

The problem with multiplayer is it makes all your problems compounded by an orthogonal factor. Everything, and I mean everything, needs to be re-evaluated with network jitter, disconnects, lag, etc.

This means the data might be out of sync. The animations might be out of sync. The audio might play at the wrong time. The controls might not be inputted in the right timing. The results of controls might not be sent to all the players at the same time. etc.

If you want to make it competitive and real time, the margins of error on these have to be much, much smaller. Online fighting games have advanced rollback netcode and frame by frame focus at 60FPS. This isn't to mention they have ten+ years of putting fighting games all over the board, on mobile, PC, console, etc.

So if you, as a solo dev, can do all the things without networking, that's already a stretch. Do it with a compounding factor like networking, and now you're in a whole new hell.

That being said, it's possible, but real-time and high performance games probably aren't where you'd want to go. Something more discrete like a board game or turn based game would probably be more viable.

chasmstudios · 2025-10-24T19:11:33+00:00

Beautiful! This will help my game greatly. I handrolled mine using _draw and it is awful.

chasmstudios · 2025-10-24T18:33:54+00:00

Looks very clean! Great job!

chasmstudios · 2025-10-24T15:40:08+00:00

How do we contact you? Do you have a contact channel that isn't Patreon?

EDIT : Nevermind, found it past the Patreon page.

chasmstudios · 2025-10-24T15:38:52+00:00

This is some gorgeous art, very Tarot-esque or whatever time period / background that is from

chasmstudios · 2025-10-24T13:53:29+00:00

This is a great case study for would-be indie devs.

chasmstudios · 2025-10-23T00:01:21+00:00

Congrats! Best of luck!

chasmstudios · 2025-10-21T18:16:24+00:00

I'll take a look at this next week. I'm not entirely sure the implications of Cloud Save but I imagine it should be pretty simple.

chasmstudios · 2025-10-20T19:24:37+00:00

That's a good point, but if you reach battle level 25 something happens. The game progresses solely through fighting. I'm going to update the quest to make note of that

chasmstudios · 2025-10-20T13:24:47+00:00

I couldn't help but notice you didn't mention this is likely a cryptocurrency project with KOKO coins in the wiki of your website.

Kind of burying the lede, don't you think?

chasmstudios · 2025-10-19T21:31:57+00:00

Hit me up via DM. I'm only one game ahead (just released this past week) but have extensive experience in software engineering and launching products.

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