Gemezl
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Making indie horror games for fun. Creator of games like Missing Hiker and Entity Room
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So, I flagged this review on my game a few months ago.
Valve unflagged it, which means it's valid criticism to them.
If you're making an indie game in 2024, you NEED to add sex.
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Missing Hiker just reached 1500 reviews on Steam.
It has been played by ~176.000 people.
Crazy to think how many people experienced something that just started out as a neat idea in my brain.
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Learning a new engine is hard.
Before: "I can make a horror game in 3 weeks."
Now: "I can't add collision to my cube"
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You know what's funny?
A lot of Godot and Unreal games will now happily show their splash screen.
So people know it's not made with Unity.
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What do you think about 4:3 for retro games?
Should I go for it or nah?
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Do you think an isometric horror game could work well?
There aren't that many out there, it seems.
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Difference between bad lighting vs. good lighting (+post processing).
Pretty crazy, huh?
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Game dev is fun, but boy is it slow 😅
For example Westwich Castle took me around 180 hours to make. The average playtime is just 25 minutes.
But the game turned out well, so worth it 👀
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Sometimes I put my game into isometric mode.
I don't know what it is, but it looks really cool.
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What I've learned using twitter for a year: People like shiny things.
If you want your game to get more traction, add volumetric lighting, bloom, fog etc.
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I launched Missing Hiker back then with just 350 wishlists. That's basically nothing.
But it still got 280k downloads and 2280 reviews.
How tf did that happen? Still can't wrap my head around it.
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Have game idea.
Refine it in your brain.
Craft game design document.
Start coding, design levels.
Make UI, fix bugs.
Playtest, market.
Polish. Release.
Guy on Steam review:
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Remember when I posted this to show the difference that lighting makes?
Didn't expect it, but a lot of people preferred the 1st one
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Nothing feels more dirty than opening Un*ty right now.
Anyone can relate? 🥲
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Bad ending:
You go to prison because people install-bombed your Unity game
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@FreyaHolmer
I can't believe that it's legal. Especially because there's so many ways to abuse it and also edge cases. Like what will happen with betas, demos, refunds or just groups of people that want to shit on a developer by reinstalling constantly
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You know what's really hard in game dev?
Knowing if your game is good.
Your own perspective is tainted by looking at it for hours and hours.
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Mimic Search is now released on Steam.
It's a game set in an alternate universe, in which entities exist that mimic humans.
Thanks to everyone for the support ❤️
Steam page is below ⬇️
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@josemwarrior
Games are always better in your imagination vs. when you see how it actually turned out. Gotta manage your expectations
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Development on my next horror game is going well.
The game is called Entity Room. It's about working in an underground lab and your job is to make sure 'the entity' is being fed.
Easily my creepiest game so far 👀
#indiegames
#gamedev
#indiedev
#horrorgame
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Took me ~3 hours to get that blood particle effect right.
How does it look? 👉👈
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Plan's changed. No more horror games.
I'm now making cozy games.
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When you import something and forgot to scale it down, but it looks cool:
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Things in game dev that are a lot more complicated than they seem. I start:
Inventories
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@stephentotilo
This is crazy. Imagine paying out of your pocket for a user reinstalling your game 🤡
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GAMERS HATE HIM.
Game dev uses this one simple trick to make his game look good.
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I released Missing Hiker exactly one year ago.
It has been played by 297k people on Steam (+60k on ItchIO).
Weird to think how many people got scared by something that started out in the depths of my brain.
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So, I released Mimic Search exactly 2 weeks ago.
It has 186 reviews and was downloaded 37k times so far (+10k on Itch).
Crazy to think how many people that actually is. That's like a small city 😵💫
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I really like Unreal so far:
- Easy real-time global illumination (Lumen)
- First-person controller out of the box
- Terrain tool doesn't suck ass
- Don't have to pay 0.20$ per install
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How the heck are these isometric screenshots getting so many likes?
If I knew that earlier I would've made the game isometric 😅
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Added something to my game that's way better than sex.
Reflections.
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Mimic Search is releasing tomorrow on Steam.
I feel pretty relaxed about it. The beta went pretty well and people enjoyed the game.
Also this has like 20x more wishlists than Missing Hiker, so it has to do well I think 😅
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@TKsMantis
I mean Valve says you can flag reviews if they're "Off-Topic" so I did that to see if they take it down. I don't really care about it though. It's just funny to me
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I really need to make a space horror game some time.
That would be cool. I like planets and stuff.
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So, my Steam page is up for around 2 months and it already got ~4000 wishlists.
This is way more than I anticipated.
My last game Missing Hiker only had like 350 wishlists at launch.
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Silent Hill fog
versus
standard horror game darkness
versus
Firewatch coziness
Who wins?
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This is what happens if you shoot the moon too often.
Who gets the reference?
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Missing Hiker just reached 2000 reviews on Steam.
It has been played by ~243.000 people.
Scaring that many people hopefully won't negatively affect my karma.
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People still think I made a horror game.
In reality it's just a tech demo for volumetric lighting 🤷
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Since my game is open-world, I had to add a map so players wouldn't get lost.
Having some kind of artificial UI would break immersion, which is especially bad for horror games.
So I made it diegetic:
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My game reached the magic 7000 wishlists mark today.
It only took 4.5 months, which is pretty fast.
I had it kind of easy though, since a lot of traffic came from my other game.
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Melee combat in Condemned: Criminal Origins
Crazy how a game from 2005 basically nailed 1st person melee combat.
Compare this to Skyrim...
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Still blown away by how much volumetric lighting adds to the atmosphere.
Love how it's shining through the leaves
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I'm trying something that's kind of rare in indie horror.
A horror game that doesn't force the player into a certain path.
Instead the player has a goal and needs to figure it out.
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This is my setup.
Gotta be in a creepy environment to make creepy games, ya know?
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How to add sex to your game:
Step 1: Add computer
Step 2: Allow browsing the internet
Game devs, take notes!
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Game devs be like:
The player can now pick up a mop and it only took me 3 hours to code it
#indiegames
#indiedev
#horrorgames
#unity
#unity3D
#gamedev
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Most people seriously underestimate how much work goes into making a game.
My first horror game took me around 2 months to make.
Even though it's just ~10 minutes long.
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So, yeah the launch went pretty well.
Currently at 44 reviews of which 93% are positive.
I wonder if this will ever overtake Missing Hiker which has 2672 reviews and still growing (don't ask me how) 😅
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Volumetric lighting adds so much to atmosphere 😇
How does it look?
#indiegames
#indiedev
#horrorgames
#unity
#gamedev
#horror
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If you see stairs in the woods:
Don't go near them. Don't touch them. Don't go up them.
Just ignore them.
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I'm working on a small side project called ██████ Invasion.
It's a game where you have to try to fall asleep, even though you're getting harassed by ██████.
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Is the fog too much?
I want it to be authentic for a PS1 style game, but too much fog makes it harder to see things.
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Ray Tracing Off vs On
And people will still say it's just a buzzword.
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Just tried out how Entity Room would look like if it was pixelated.
Do you like it when indie horror games do that to look more retro?
#indiegames
#indiedev
#horrorgames
#unity
#gamedev
#horror
#entityroom
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Do you consider zombie games to be horror games?
I noticed a lot of people do
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This is how I make guns in Blender:
First make a blockout.
Then make the rest of the gun.
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@TafferKing451
@monad_of_eirye
Countries should make laws against reinstalling Unity games. It's literally theft
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Sleep.
Hear weird sound.
Open eyes and check.
There's no monster.
I still do this even though I'm not a kid anymore. This isn't weird, r-right?
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Volumetric lighting.
Volumetric lighting.
Volumetric lighting.
Volumetric lighting.
Volumetric lighting.
Volumetric lighting.
Volumetric lighting.
Volumetric lighting.
Volumetric lighting.
Looks good, doesn't it? 😎
#indiegames
#horrorgames
#gamedev
#westwichcastle
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Mimic Search
An alternate universe in which entities exist that mimic humans in order to eat them.
Wishlist link is below ⬇️
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The game feel is just other-worldly.
Definitely give this a try:
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No one:
People that play my games:
"Hey, what happens if I drive into this other car? Oh..."
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Corner looks a bit empty? Just put some barrels there
- Every single game dev ever 😂
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Game devs be like:
You can now pick up a stick. It only took me 4 hours to code it 😮
#horror
#gamedev
#unity
#westwichcastle
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Made this today to see how long it takes to make a decent forest scene.
Took me around 3 hours, but I think it turned out well.
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So uh, the game is done. I will release it on May 2nd.
I will run a playtesting beta in a week. Join the discord to take part in it.
Link is below ⬇️
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Not trying to flex, but my game is ranked 4th on ItchIO 😎
I think rank 1 is definitely possible, might take a few more days though
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Hey everyone,
Happy to announce that I just released my new short indie horror game Entity Room.
Let me know what you think 👀
Can be downloaded on ItchIO:
#indiegames
#indiedev
#horrorgames
#unity
#gamedev
#itchio
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Here's a list of a few indie horror games which are really well made. Most are free + on ItchIO.
Play them:
The Witch of Sherdorne Forest
Cozy
Horror Record
Jungle Dungeon
Day 178
Cave Crawler
Vessel Blue
Erobos Heaven
Incident at Grove Lake
The Lancaster Leak
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I will release Thoughtform Invasion in 2 days.
Here's the ItchIO page.
Thoughts?
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