Colin Karpfinger
@colin_k
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Currently building Cleared Hot, an isometric helicopter shooter. Previously: founded @PunchThrough , alum @recursecenter . For fun: bike racing, surfing. He/him.
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BREAKING📣
Our NEW TRAILER just landed!
Cleared Hot is a nostalgic helicopter shooter with satisfying physics! 🚁
RTs appreciated ♻️
Wishlist below! 👇
#pitchyagame
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Ok this is a work in progress... but it is fun even after testing it 50 times 😆 a little screenshake and hit stop goes a long way!
Adding some missions into the game... more soon.
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#screenshotsaturday
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Picking up missiles and redirecting them 😁 I still can't believe this works 😂 Game dev is fun.
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Stealth helicopter?🤫 Exploring some things that will make level design super fun 🚁
#indiegame
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Adding some explosive barrels to the map... initially for a mission but they're fun to throw at enemies😄
#screenshotsaturday
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#clearedhotgame
#gaming
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I'm stoked to announce the game I've been working on: Cleared Hot, a top-down helicopter shooter with unscripted physics and light tactical elements. Saturday morning nostalgia with modern game-feel.
Please wishlist it on Steam:
RTs much appreciated💖
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The NPCs can shoot while riding in your helicopter🤩
Can't wait to add more missions that use this!
#gaming
#indiegame
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I'm still not over how fun it is to redirect missiles 🚀↩️😄
This will probably be the first Steam Achievement I build into the game...
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#clearedhotgame
#gaming
#screenshotsaturday
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Ok ok I'm trying to stay calm... TIL you can PICK UP MISSILES and redirect them. 🤯🤯
game dev is hard but seeing a tiny example of emergent gameplay... 🤌
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#clearedhotgame
#gaming
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Ok I'm starting to get glimpses of what this game can be and it's so freaking exciting 🤯
I'm at GDC! Come find me and play it yourself 🤠 Would love to meet future collaborators and partners.
#indiedev
#RETROGAMING
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Sneak preview of our new environment 😁
Working with a small group of skilled people is so rewarding. Really enjoying the progress lately.
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Things are starting to get hectic... Being able to shoot the homing missiles out of the sky is v satisfying.
#unity3d
#indiegame
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How to tell your movement + rope mechanics are improving :) I completely changed how the rope + magnet work and it's soo much better. Still some rough edges, but things are coming along.
#gamedev
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#madewithunity
#screenshotsaturday
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New helicopter! New enemies! Jets! 🚁🚀
So many things coming, I can't wait to show you 😁
#indiegame
#screenshotsaturday
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Flying "under the radar" is finally a thing 🥰
Ps. the orange heat seeking missiles are a lot harder now
#indiegame
#gaming
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After a long stretch of revamping input and movement, I put aside a week for updating effects! Minigun and RPG effects are new, with some new sounds as well. 🚁
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#screenshotsaturday
#clearedhotgame
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Tanks! Finally! What other enemy do you want to see in the game next?
It's all physics based and has some v. satisfying recoil bounce. Can't wait to show more of what I've been working on 😎
#indiegame
#RETROGAMING
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We released our new trailer and then this happened 🤯
Our reddit post was at the top of r/gaming for over a day, with 15k upvotes and 1k comments!
Wow, I still can't really believe it. I'm so thankful. ❤️ Thanks to everyone who has supported us over the last few years!
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Protect the truck at all costs! This new mission is coming together 😍 I freaking love the chaos of these quad bikes!
#indiegames
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"Your game is too much like Desert Strike"
The game:
“Your game is too much like Micro Machines”
The game:
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New anti-aircraft missile launcher! 😍 Notice how all it's remaining missiles fly out after you kill it?
That took a couple extra hours but I really like the chaos it adds !
#screenshotsaturday
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Added some dust effects when you land! Including sound FX... this one is a combination of a shopping cart sliding, sand on glass, and a metal box being pulled along concrete 🙂 (♥️
@fmodstudio
♥️)
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
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#screenshotsaturday
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Cleared Hot is a nostalgic helicopter shooter with physics! 🚀🚁
And lots and lots of missiles 😁
#pitchyagame
#indiegames
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These new enemies use radar to track you. It's fun trying to avoid their field of view 😄
#indiegame
#indiedev
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Let me borrow this missile real quick...
This is me during every play test now. Then 5 min later "okay what was I doing?" I need to add more missiles. 😈
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#clearedhotgame
#game
#gaming
#retrogames
#RetroGaming
#screenshotsaturday
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I made the anti-aircraft turrets shoot out their missiles when they explode... sometimes they end up being quite hard to dodge. Good mechanic ?
#screenshotsaturday
#retrogames
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After releasing our trailer, 40,000+ people wishlisted Cleared Hot in one month. I still can't believe it. Thank you.🙏🤯
After posting, things went crazy for 2 days, then started to go back to normal. But on the 3rd day, the numbers started to go back up?! A story...🧵 (1/7)
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Don't overshoot your landing 🚁💥
Someone left these barrels suspiciously close to the landing pad... 😛
#screenshotsaturday
#RETROGAMING
#videogames
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I think this is the first time I've destroyed 5 enemy vehicles with the same missile 🏆
#RETROGAMING
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Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president... with a HELICOPTER?!⚡️
Cleared Hot is a retro-inspired helicopter shooter with modern physics. Let's see if you still got it, pilot. 😎
#pitchyagame
#indiedev
#indiegame
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Experimenting with "come back" mechanics... if you take enough damage the autopilot turns off and you have to control the helicopter manually.
If you don't crash your health regenerates up to some level. Thoughts?
#screenshotsaturday
#indiegame
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@CultureCrave
Could it be true? I got tired of waiting for a Desert Strike remake so I made my own.
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Tank camouflage 😁 New terrain! Experimenting with some procedural generation of terrain and vegetation.
#screenshotsaturday
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Ok these night missions are going to be fun 😁How should enemies react at night? Should the spotlight blind them?
#screenshotsaturday
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We've been working on a free camera tool to take screenshots and gifs!🎥
You can pause time, move the camera around, and even run the game again in slow-mo!
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Now you can plan your strafing runs and pick the best angle to attack.💪😈 Testing out a free-look button. What do you think?
#screenshotsaturday
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The new Rope / Magnet mechanic creates a very different gameplay experience😄(Picking up ammo before/after)
The last couple weeks of dev have been so fun
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#screenshotsaturday
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Well that's a new one 😁 Somehow the dead NPC pushed the truck through the map. Ragdoll physics are the best 🤪
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Well that's a new one😅! I think he would've landed on me if I didn't move... AI vehicles + exploding barrels, great combo
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#clearedhotgame
#game
#gaming
#retrogames
#RetroGaming
#screenshotsaturday
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Whoaaa
@PirateSoftware
mentioned Cleared Hot on his stream!😍 Thank you!
Loved his double take on picking up missiles with the rope 😂
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Night Missions! 🌙 What do you think, is this too dark?
(Yes there will also be night vision available later in the progression)
#indiegame
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I guess the tank is heavy enough to crush a car 😆 Can't wait to craft some missions with these.
#indiedev
#indiegame
#RETROGAMING
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I added a Dodge / Evade action for the helicopter ! This makes dodging RPGs / missiles more fun.
Making me want to create some NPCs with heat seeking missiles...
#indiegame
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Shoot a hole in one of the yellow barrels and it'll propel itself around like a missile 😅
What other barrel types should I add? 🤠
#RETROGAMING
#indiegame
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It would mean the world to me if you Wishlist Cleared Hot on Steam! 🙏
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When picking up crates goes wrong 😂. This is from a friend play testing the game, I think I need to increase the drag on the rope...
#clearedhot
#gamedev
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#unity3d
@madewithunity
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Luring tanks into a trap😈. Should this be a game mechanic in the actual campaign?
Having fun testing all these things out in the Sandbox mode.
#screenshotsaturday
#indiegame
#gaming
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Using the rope to get kills without shooting 😜
#clearedhotgame
#screenshotsaturday
#madewithunity
#gamedev
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#unity3d
#indiegames
#gaming
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"When we will ever use this math in real life", just make a 3d physics based helicopter game and you'll never ask this question again 😅
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Check out the new Arctic level in the latest devlog!❄️⛄️ (link below)
It's nice to see some new colors in the game 😄
#unity3d
#IndieGameDev
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Working on helicopter upgrades this week! This is a WIP draft from our designer- things will change as it gets incorporated into the game. Just posted a new devlog with more info.
#indiedev
#indiegame
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Accidentally made the best worst Katamari Damacy helicopter game
#clearedhot
#indiegame
#indiedev
#gamedev
#gaming
#unity3d
@madewithunity
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Working as intended... ? 😄
Inspired by half-life 2's exploding barrels that light on fire before exploding, and add a slight variance in time to explode. This creates more interesting chain reactions. (this is a sandbox scene)
#screenshotsaturday
#gamedev
#indiegaming
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Sandbox Level... shooting a button will spawn a certain unit. Pretty fun to test interactions between vehicles and things 🤠 (and yes, you can carry a tank)
The game is called "Cleared Hot" and you can wishlist it on Steam!
#wishlistwednesday
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Homing missiles and flares! It's all physics based. The missiles look for components with a "heat source" within some angle ahead of them. If they see a flare they'll turn towards it.
#screenshotsaturday
#gamedev
#unity3d
#indiedev
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For those asking the game is called Cleared Hot, you can wishlist it on Steam: (ty!)
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Picking up enemies with the rope... another unintended feature :) They still try to shoot you... I'm trying to see if I get them to shoot other enemies
#clearedhotgame
#unity3d
#gamedevelopment
#screenshotsaturday
#videogames
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I made the AI a little aggressive and now the game has air to air combat :D
#screenshotsaturday
#gamedev
#unity3d
#indiedev
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To those of you who have been asking about
#SteamDeck
support… 😊 it runs pretty well out of the box. Need to tweak some UI things but wow, so cool to play it on steam deck!
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegames
#unity3d
#clearedhotgame
#game
#gaming
#RetroGaming
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And now, with an incredible team along for the ride, I get to enjoy the process with them too.
@RubenJGrijalva
@rgarat
@arielsan
@m4ndrill
@glofgren
@vitor_amado_
Thanks to everyone else who helped, and to all of our followers. Your support means the world to me! (7/7)
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Enjoy some explosions while we wait to see if Elon's Twitter will still exist next week?
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#clearedhotgame
#game
#gaming
#retrogames
#RetroGaming
Ok this is a work in progress... but it is fun even after testing it 50 times 😆 a little screenshake and hit stop goes a long way!
Adding some missions into the game... more soon.
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#screenshotsaturday
#clearedhotgame
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After all this excitement, I come back to one simple fact: I enjoy the work. I like to feel grounded in this way- succeed or fail, the work is the thing I can control.
At 0 wishlists or 48k wishlists, game dev is a f*ing awesome challenge. (6/7)
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No Rope, Best Rope? I posted my first devlog on my experience creating, deleting, and re-creating the rope + magnet system in Cleared Hot. What do you want to see in the next one?
#indiedev
#gamedev
#gaming
#indiegames
#madewithunity
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My body is ready 💪🏼😂
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PS The game is called Cleared Hot, you can wishlist it on Steam!
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Right in the (Game) Feels. Might be spending too much time on these devlogs but damn they are fun to write.
#WishlistWednesday
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We're now sitting at 48k total wishlists, with 40k added in 30 days.
I attribute about 12k to Reddit + Twitter, and the remaining 28k to YouTube + assorted other posts.
The Reddit post was a higher peak, but the YouTube video had a much longer tail.
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New mission? :)
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A couple days before, I messaged the mods of r/pcgaming, but was rejected because I wasn't active in that specific subreddit.
As a hail mary, the night before launch I messaged the mods of /r/gaming and woke up to their reply: "ok fine".
We were in!✅ (2/7)
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Happy KSP2 launch day :) I celebrated by getting Bob stranded on the mun, with no landing legs and without enough fuel to get home.
#kerbalspaceprogram2
@KerbalSpaceP
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I had uploaded the trailer to YouTube as an afterthought. I made a thumbnail in 5 minutes. Our channel had 12 subscribers.
Turns out the YT algorithm picked it up and went "watch this" 🚀 (5/7)
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Made this fun little game over the weekend with a handful of friends from
@recursecenter
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Keep the reactor stable by destabilizing particles in our
#LudumDare
entry! 🪅
You can play here in your browser:
#LD49
#ludumdare49
#IndieGameDev
#indiegames
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What happens when you mix rope particle physics with ragdolls...
Support this hot physics action by wishlisting Cleared Hot on Steam: 🙏💕
#gamedev
#indiegame
#madewithunity
#unity3d
#gaming
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Spawning 50 tanks / second at 250fps, I think that should be enough for now 😁 Reworked Object Pooling, entering play mode in unity is sooo much faster. For most scenes it's 2-4 seconds now😎
#screenshotsaturday
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I made a "forever spinning go-kart kid" game for the Kenney game jam😆
#screenshotsaturday
#unity3d
#gamedev
#indiedev
#kenneyjam
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The Reddit post took off, along w the tweet, and I answered as many comments as I could.
After 2 days the numbers started go back to normal, and we all thought that was it.
Then I woke up on the 3rd day and my jaw dropped. The wishlists were going back up?! (4/7)
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Apparently YouTube has been blowing up our trailer along side this awesome documentary on the Strike series. Also quotes
@Twitchfactor
, co-director of the series!
Great video for strike nostalgia.
On my channel I try my best to create the best content possible based on classic game franchises. Documentaries that continue to get views for years. For whatever reason a few weeks back my video on The Strike Series started getting loads of views ...
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I summoned the courage to hit the "submit" button, only to realize you can't post video or gfycat links anymore.
I quickly made a gif edit, with only the key scenes, and getting feedback from the team live on Discord.
I clicked submit... (3/7)
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For those asking, the game is called Cleared Hot, you can wishlist and follow it on Steam here!
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Pilot, co-pilot, and "the one who farted".
Just released our new devlog, announcing the new Apache helicopter (with additional passenger spots😄)
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