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I'm also planning to post good offers in my Steam Group, so hop-in:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/gameuniontv/announcements/detail/524247085597329670
What time is it? It's graveyard time!
(The game is free to keep)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/599140/Graveyard_Keeper/
#Free@GameDEV
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#PixelArt@GameDEV
And in a day Road to Vostok paid off for "years of development". The creator is extremely thankful for the community and promises to make the game even better.
At current rate of reviews it can be up to $500K of post tax revenue for mostly a solo developed game.
If anyone asks you about successful Godot Engine games: Buckshot Roulette, Slay the Spire 2, and Road to Vostok all made it to commercial success recently.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1963610/Road_to_Vostok/
#IndieGames@GameDEV
#FPS@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV
Someone made Dust 2 in World of Warcraft (replies from WoW and CS2 in the comments)
#CounterStrike@GameDEV
#LevelDesign@GameDEV
#Blizzard@GameDEV
For some reason I have never played Torchlight II long enough, but since some other diabloids clicked, I gave it another chance and oh boi — good stuff. A 2012 game that feels perfect even now.
Yes, there are two newer games but they are both mediocre at best and made by completely different teams, so.
Get Torchlight II on sale (or maybe you have it for ages the same as I did) and give it a go.
If you're waiting for Pragmata, go watch The Creator: a mysterious AI creature emerged in Asia after years of war. But they send the wrong person to kill it.
A visual masterpiece with dumb writing. Still an absolute marvel to watch as a movie.
To make it look real and immersive the director of Rogue One decided to film the whole movie on a consumer grade Sony Camera. And oh, it worked out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6117bR0-MJg
#Movies@GameDEV
It's possible to make it somewhat good. First, the original image has to be sharp and clean. Lower the filmic grain to the very minimum too.
Then apply the filter mostly to the corners with gradient falloff. Then also set it lower on dark areas. It will leave the effect on bright peripheral areas, which is exactly where it appears on real lenses. With this approach even fairly big values will cause no discomfort for players.
For example, No Man's Sky uses this pattern and people often miss that it has the highest aberration value in history of gaming.
Road to Vostok is finally out!
It's early access and so you may experience some issues. But overall based on my demo experience, the performance is solid and for extraction survival it's easy to start.
The initial discussions notice that the game has the vibe but very limited set of features.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1963610/Road_to_Vostok/
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#GodotEngine@GameDEV
Noice animation!
(SLUMLORDZ ~ SANDWICH)
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#NPR@GameDEV
With daily peak at less than 30K and dips to less than 10K, Marathon retain a noticeable audience but it's obviously going down.
They will not shut it down, I guess. But it will get a small but passionate team to support the game further. It stays at about 50-70 spot of Steam Top Sellers, so the cash flow is fairly sustainable. The math will work if the team will be much smaller than now.
#Bungie@GameDEV
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And now Blizzard fixed their new character. But users feel "they are the same picture". If you need to point changes with arrows, your changes are too subtle.
#Blizzard@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV
Sorry, I have to bookmark this shitpost somewhere
#meme@GameDEV
What a shit
I totally love it 🤩
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zva2PQ-ud5Y
#Movies@GameDEV
#Fighting@GameDEV
Wait, what? Apparently, Borderlands Mobile is being silently tested!
#Borderlands@GameDEV
#MobileGames@GameDEV
Hard times, folks: apparently Free Public Domain music project is down now...
You can get what's left of it from Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20251208013136/https://freepd.com/downloads/
#SoundDesign@GameDEV
#Music@GameDEV
#Free@GameDEV
First they are like: The cube, Save us! The cube then like: nope, ain't gonna save ya!
The game has been released just a few weeks ago in March. And it will be down by May 8 including Discord server. For example, the discord of Highguard is still up and running.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/3810880/announcements/detail/508484486901530657
#Fail@GameDEV
#Multiplayer@GameDEV
It's such a rare occasion when media and gamers agreed on something: Samson is 50% positive game that looks and feels like DLSS5!
- The performance is horrible
- MindsEye 2.0 (slightly better)
At least it's cheap, IDK
They left Avalanche (Just Cause, Mad Max, RAGE 2) in 2020, made a new studio in 2021, but had to shrink down in 2023 due to industry changes. They've had a bigger game in mind but lost too much to make it. So, we are playing in what's left of it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3634520/Samson/#app_reviews_hash
This is Forza Horizon 6 map and IMO: it's tiny! We're living in 2026 when maps can be much bigger and it's beneficial for driving and sightseeing.
Lego City Undercover has bigger map, folks. This has to be a joke...
- Roads are not long enough to drive anything even remotely fast
- The only big "city" is ridiculously small, so no city racing either
- Only one biome, so no desert and barely any icy terrain
This will be a problem since the game will not be able to bring unique experience.
#Racing@GameDEV
#SimRace@GameDEV
#LevelDesing@GameDEV
Sony FX3 to be more specific and they were still approved for IMAX with $4000 camera.
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Road to Vostok got over 500 reviews in a few hours and landed at 82% positive reviews on Steam. The number of reviews suggests that he already sold over 15000 copies, probably up to 20000.
Which after all taxes and fees is over $70K in his pocket (most likely more, up to ~$120K).
Not bad for a solo developer but also not the highest conversion rate (he has a lot of followers on social media).
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1963610/Road_to_Vostok/
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#FPS@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV
It's only Tuesday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j602dnIo_F8
#Music@GameDEV
Do you know that Qualcomm is doing Intel-level try but in reverse: about 15 years ago Intel tried to go Android with their Atom chips and failed. Now Qualcomm tries to go PC with their Snapdragon X Elite.
And it's been like five years now of their attempts. During that time Apple created their whole M-series ecosystem, proving that ARM is worthy on a desktop.
Qualcomm managed to get somewhat good but it's not power efficient enough to compete with modern Intel and AMD. And not fast enough to fight against M4 and M5 by Apple. But overall when the price goes down, it can be a nice machine: fast, lighter than anything (even MacBooks), almost silent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaenlQ3r3tU
#Hardware@GameDEV
The most innovative way to make your AI agents faster: a whip that sends them "faster faster faster" command!
#AI@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV
A Japanese crowdfunding platform sent less than a half of the money to the game developer. So he's suing them over it while they pretend "the money were accidentally wired to a wrong client". Then failed to prove it.
#Legal@GameDEV
#Finance@GameDEV
One of the biggest decentralised NFT crypto "Steam Alternative" Robot Cache (you probably never heard of) is going down. All games (even ones that you kinda own and downloaded) are gone. Users will not be able to play or refund anything.
This is a funny end for the platform promised you true ownership and the ability to sell games you completed. Honestly, it lasted way longer than anyone expected.
Do you remember that Discord tried that crap with funky game store and failed miserably? So, not just crypto bros are doing such crap.