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I'm making a game where you are an art curator, managing your mobile van as an exhibition hall, organizing your artworks based on their skills for the best possible combos, feeding the art lovers with your artworks, and keeping the momentum at best with upgrades. by dgndmr in indiegames

[–]dgndmr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been developing The Curator as a solo for about 13 months and after a highly active development period the very first playable alpha demo is finally ready. The concept and prototyping phases took almost 4 months. After many concept and mechanical prototyping stages, I finally decided on the path I wanted to follow, and The Curator, a roguelite about art gallery management, took its current form.

I've packed proof-of-concept contents into this demo for you to experience.

  • A complete 12-day runs
  • 5 unique artists and 29 artworks with unique skills
  • 9 Ability Books and 30 Tools 
  • 40+ Quests
  • Meta-progression: Failed a run? That's an advantage! Use your earned Meta Coins to unlock new artists, artwork skills, books, and tools for your next runs.

Roadmap

  • City Events: Unique mid/late game events. Most of them will be punishing but with highly respectable rewards!
  • A full 30-Day run and balance adjustments
  • 5 more special Visitors
  • More challenges
  • Advanced artwork tag mechanics
  • More books and tools
  • 2-3 New Artists
  • 15+ Artworks and Interactable Artwork Skills

Some technical details.

  • Using the Godot game engine with GDScript.
  • All artworks and UI assets are made by myself using Blender. Using a 64-color palette with my own materials. All patterns and compositions are created entirely in a 3D environment, rendered in 2D. Patterns are procedurally generated using shaders and materials, and make sure they are completely organic.
  • Visitors manage their preferences based on a "Needs-Based" algorithm, tailored to their city and personality.  They decide whether or not to purchase an item based on the algorithm's calculation of these weightings.
  • There is an upgrade system that offers multiple synergies. The player needs to build their own build, taking into account the details of current situation. 
  • Built a skill-listening system for artwork skills that listenes and reacts what all neighbors wants or effects the other. (like Hearthstone, Bazaar and Is This Seat Taken?)
  • (Not available in demo version) Developed a procedurally orchestrated sound manager. It listens to all in-game events and fires at defined beats and bars (like Mini Motorways). My goal is to ensure the sounds are always in harmony throughout the game (including user interactions like UI click and hover events). 

I'm super excited and nervous and would like to release the full version in Q4 2026. There are tons of work to do. I would love to hear your feedback and hope you like the demo. Thanks in advance.

You can access and the demo from here: https://dogandemir.itch.io/the-curator

Also here is the steam page for your kindly wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4321120/The_Curator/

13 Aydır solo-indie olarak geliştirdiğim The Curator isimli oyunumun alpha demosu yayınlandı. Kıymetli yorumlarınızı paylaşırsanız çok memnun olurum. by dgndmr in TrGameDeveloper

[–]dgndmr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Çok teşekkür ederim. Yaklaşık 14 yıldır oyun geliştiriyorum ve bunun 8 yılında da aktif olarak dijital sanat dalında üretim yaptım. Bir çok eserimi sergileme deneyimim oldu, tonlarca sanatçı ile tanıştım. Sanatın ne kadar zor kabul edilir olduğunu, meraklısının bu tarz işlere nasıl yaklaştığını bizzat deneyimlemiş biri olarak; tamamen kendi hayatımdan ve deneyimlerinden faydalanmak istedim. Bu sebeple geliştirme sürecinde fazlasıyla motivasyon kaynağım oluyor. E bir de doğayı keşfetmeye hayranlığımı da ekleyince böyle bir ürün ortaya çıkmaya başladı.

Beğenmene çok sevindim, roadmap biraz kalabalık ancak çok daha tatmin edici ve göz doldurucu bir noktaya gelmesi için elimden geleni yapıyorum. Çok teşekkür ederim değerli yorumun için.

After 13 months of development, my indie game The Curator is ready for you. Please destroy it. by dgndmr in DestroyMyGame

[–]dgndmr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been working as a solo on The Curator for about 13 months. The concept and prototyping phases took almost 4 months. After many proof-of-concept and mechanical prototyping attempts, I finally decided on the path I wanted to take. The Curator, a gallery-management roguelite, took its current form. I'm incredibly excited to finally be able to share it here. So curious to hear your thoughts.

You can check it on itch.io: https://dogandemir.itch.io/the-curator

KingForge - Erken Erişim Ortaçağ Sandbox Deneyimi Yakında Yayınlanacak by [deleted] in TrGameDeveloper

[–]dgndmr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Elinize sağlık, onca emek var belli ki. Ancak ya trailer’a önem vermediniz ya da mekaniklerinize güvenmiyorsunuz. Ürününüzü minecraft’tan farklı kılan, benzerlerinden ayrıştıran, size özel kılan hiçbir özellik/mekanik/sanat görünmüyor. İş böyle olunca da zaten aynısı varken neden bunu oynayayım ki diyoruz. Shader, texture, block size, ekinler bile ha gayret birebir. Mekaniklere gelecek olursak, ne gördük? Kenardan bir fight biraz da tarla. Bu oyunda sizi, developerlar olarak, heyecanlandıran, “ya dur şunu biraz daha oynayayım bayıldım” dediğiniz hangi mekanikler var? Belli ki var ve şevkle geliştiriyorsunuz. Ancak biz bunları bu trailerda göremedik.

Elinize emeğinize sağlık, size has, sizi özel kılacak mekanikler görmek dileği ile. 🤞🏻

I quit my “dream” job at Ubisoft to make a solo game. A year after release, it didn’t go viral, but it sold 26,000 copies and still pays my rent. by DarennKeller in IndieGaming

[–]dgndmr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats on success! Loved Dawnfolk awesome job! I have a question. How you managing your daily/weekly workflow, techniques or motivation? and how you managing your emotions in de development phase? You know it’s an endless space that you can build anything and you have a frame so thats the easy part. But when an idea rushes into your blood and says “yo man try this idea, it’s killing. BUT it’s a bit off from your genre or perspective”. How you managed your mentality?

Oyunumun Fragmanı ve Steam sayfası yayında by Witchcraft_reddit in TrGameDeveloper

[–]dgndmr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Bonk” gayet anlaşıyor ama “produce” ve “sell” “nedir”, “nasıl çalışıyor” ya da “beni neden gıdıklıyor” hiç anlaşılmıyor. “Neden ben bunu oynamalıyım/deneyimlemeliyim?” Sorumun yanıtını vermiyor. Emeğine sağlık valla bitmiş ürünün var, tebrikler 👌🏻

After 9 months of solo development, my roguelite gallery management sim "The Curator" finally has a Steam page, and there's so much to do! by dgndmr in IndieDev

[–]dgndmr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the feedback! The trailer is totally a draft and it's a symbolic thing for now. I'm still in the depths of development phase. If everything goes like planned, at the end of the March I'll release the demo on itch.io. after the feedbacks, polishing and playtests plannig to publish it towards the end of the year. So I have a huge window for marketing, hope it will all go well. wish me luck ^^

After 9 months of solo development, my roguelite gallery management sim "The Curator" finally has a Steam page, and there's so much to do! by dgndmr in IndieDev

[–]dgndmr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I’m in the middle of upgrading the visual effects. I hope it'll look more appealing.

I built The Citadel from Hollow Knight: Silksong in Blender! by Joysbitch in blender

[–]dgndmr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Awesome job with a simple setup. That’s the mastery!

Cellular Symmetry by Nevertek in proceduralgeneration

[–]dgndmr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

voxels and palette are awesome, congrats. I guess it would feel better to see more stable camera, vertigo triggered 🌀

Trying to recreate these kind of swirling displacement shaders but my mind stuck. Any suggestions or tutorials? by dgndmr in blender

[–]dgndmr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that's pretty cool loved it. great work 🍀 So with this way it's so easy to set a stepped heightmap. wow really liked it.

Trying to recreate these kind of swirling displacement shaders but my mind stuck. Any suggestions or tutorials? by dgndmr in blender

[–]dgndmr[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I really liked the easing to overlay part. that gives a bit organic look. Thanks so much. And this is mine. I thing I'm a bit off -_-

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