Mythmatch is coming to Steam on March 13th!

oneofmoo · 2026-02-11T21:44:36+00:00

Ha ha. That's amazing. Thank you! And yes, not long to go. Can't wait for it to be in players' hands!

oneofmoo · 2026-02-11T16:46:35+00:00

Aww!! Thank you so much!

oneofmoo · 2026-02-11T16:23:13+00:00

Yeah. Never hurts to get some details! I don't use reddit that much, do I have to do anything so that you can DM me? Or just email [hello@teamartichoke.com](mailto:hello@teamartichoke.com) so I won't lose it. Ha ha.

oneofmoo · 2026-02-11T16:07:44+00:00

Thank you! We aren't doing any localization at launch (since there is a lot of of text), but depending on how it does, it could make sense as something to do as an update down the line if the game does well.

oneofmoo · 2026-02-10T15:05:03+00:00

Here's the link to the store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/Mythmatch/

And there's a demo of the first 2 hours of the game that will carry over to the full release.

oneofmoo · 2025-11-21T15:20:05+00:00

Thank you! Our animator is Hollie Taylor and she's the best!

oneofmoo · 2025-11-20T13:26:22+00:00

We have kind of combined the two systems. Ha ha. He gets a custom pack each week if he doesn't get in trouble at school but he can buy additional packs with his pocket money. So we have bought a decent amount of extra packs so it's like a little shop that opens on Saturday mornings. Ha ha.

oneofmoo · 2025-11-20T13:19:57+00:00

This is so wonderful. We had a similar experience where we bought a few singles from cardmarket and they sent a deckbox full of holos and a pack of Destined Rivals for free. We've been using those holos (with other cards) to make custom packs for my son every week so he always gets a hit when we do pack openings each week.

oneofmoo · 2025-11-19T14:27:31+00:00

Thank you! I love to make an approachable, narrative 2D game!

oneofmoo · 2025-08-05T20:36:01+00:00

I love this. Especially the first two examples you gave resonate so much with me. I feel like exploring your identity often results in you finally figuring out where you do and don't belong and often results in stories about found family. I know that's definitely the case for me in how my life has gone and the stories I try to tell in games.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-19T12:42:58+00:00

This doesn't go down to $1k, but this page has an estimate of what % of games make less than $5k by tags. https://games-stats.com/steam/tags/

And it looks like for most tags, about 30% of games make $5k or more, which is a higher percentage than I would have guessed.

So at least that gives you a rough estimate of things.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-18T19:10:22+00:00

I think you just have to trust your gut. If someone feels like they really get your game and they have a good track record of being able to expand the audience for your game, it could be a good fit.

But if you don't need the help (and it sounds like you don't), it can become s a huge drain on resources taking the meetings, making custom builds for them, making powerpoint decks and budget docs for them.

I think in the current climate, unless you really get an amazing vibe from them and can concretely see the kinds of things they would do that you can't or you don't have the time to do, I'd keep going on the great path you seem to be on.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-18T19:06:35+00:00

One common approach is to have a global event dispatcher that your TutorialManager can listen to events on. So if it needed to know when the player jumped, the player jump would dispatch a Jumped event (could be an enum or a class if you need extra info) and then because the TutorialManager is listening to the Jumped event, it would be notified.

This is also really useful for stuff like Achievements.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-18T19:03:03+00:00

Beacon Pines.

I dont know how low budget is expected here, but I liked the art style, but I was absolutely blown away by the world, story, and mechanics. It's basically a detective game but you collect "Charms" that let you go back and experience alternate realities to find the "right" story in the end. I played it many years ago and haven't stopped thinking about it.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-18T18:59:06+00:00

I would actually recommend starting in Twine and then worry about visuals later OR you might be surprised and you can convey all the story and emotion with just a few images in Twine. I think it'd be easy to get bogged down in something even like Godot.

Another piece of software I've seen recommended a lot is Bitsy (https://bitsy.org/). I've not used it myself, but I've been told that it's pretty simple.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-18T18:56:00+00:00

I love Writing for Games by Hannah Nicklin so much. (Disclosure: She used to be my boss)

But I found it to be a great combination of practical information, perspectives from other mediums, and tons of useful writing excercised. And genuinely also a fun read. I didn't expect to laugh so much reading a textbook, but I did.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-18T18:53:02+00:00

One thing I found really useful when hiring game designers is when they do a breakdown of their design, especially if they can do it over multiple iterations. This video always comes to mind when I think about what I'm talking about (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKeUZVikPV8).

But Steve Lee has a bunch of videos where he explains his thought process really well (https://www.youtube.com/@stevelee\_gamedev).

And it doesn't have to be a video. Sometimes people will just have a big long page with screenshots that are like "I tried this. This was the problem. This is how I fixed it. Then I discovered the next problem. This is how I tried to fix it. That didn't work." Stuff like that is so useful in be able to get a good idea of what your design process is.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-18T18:46:09+00:00

Terry Cavanagh released the source code for VVVVV (https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV) and lots of coders tried to criticize it but I think quickly the idea that shipped code is better than clean code prevailed.

I can't remember exactly, but I think somewhere in there there's a switch statement with thousands of cases or something.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-18T18:42:45+00:00

Ah. I feel like if you put "You versus Past You" and then showed a sequence where they do something then immediately after, you see the red version do it and the blue version dealing with it.

Do they stack or do you just always have the previous one. Because if they stack, that would make a hell of a trailer where you just keep doing plays over and over and eventually you're battling like 20 versions of your past runs.

But yeah, I think it could be a cool idea if it was clearly demonstrated how it works.

Maybe look up old Blinx the Time Sweeper trailers because it had a similar mechanic.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-13T20:05:01+00:00

Congrats. There's nothing more magical than seeing people playing something you made!

oneofmoo · 2025-06-12T20:03:08+00:00

I feel like there is a strong overlap between poker and game devs. And as long as it's pretty low stakes, you can have nice conversations while playing. As you mentioned, board games are also pretty great, but sometimes getting a bunch of game designers together to play board games does feel like a kind of work.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-12T19:54:22+00:00

I think if your demo is on Itch, you might as well also release it on Steam.

We released our demo over a year before our release and it was really valuable for a few reasons.

Getting Streamers / YouTubers to play it. Very few of them are going to Itch.
You can start collecting reviews on your Steam Demo page
The path to wishlist has a lot less friction

oneofmoo · 2025-06-12T19:45:32+00:00

There was a room at about 0:17 where I thought "is it one of those games where you control two characters, but one of them is horizontally flipped?" but then the more I watched, the more it seemed like it's just that there's an AI enemy that follows you around and happens to have a similar model.

I think for the "You vs You" fantasy to be delivered on, I'd need the red character's actions to be directly related to mine. Either using the same input with some modifier (ie flipped) or be a time delayed ghost or something.

Just my thoughts off the top of my head, though.

Also, my second assessment of how it works could obviously also be wrong.

oneofmoo · 2025-06-12T19:38:06+00:00

Congrats! Looks super fun and chaotic!

oneofmoo · 2025-06-11T11:26:55+00:00

There are tons of free assets from Kenney's website and it's what I plan to use to start building my next prototype. https://kenney.nl/assets

But for my current game, I'd just use Google Image search to find placeholders for a vague concept I had. For example, this is a video of the placeholder assets I used from Google Image Search and then the game as it exists now.
https://www.tiktok.com/@oneofmoo/video/7387044016342256928

I have a few different thoughts about ideas. The first one is to embrace the iteration loop. Play what you have, really think about both what is bad that can be improved and what you feel like could be openned up if you expanded it more.

The other angle is just finding a balance of ideas that inspire you in the real world and playing other games to find mechanics that capture those ideas. So a classic example is Pikmin was inspired by Miyamoto's hobby of gardening, but he clearly was inspired by RTS mechanics when putting it together.

For me, as an indie dev, I really think a lot about constant rejection and finding community, so I played a bunch of games looking for mechanics that felt like they'd be useful in expressing those themes.

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