Luke Muscat is making Feed the Deep 🤿
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I designed Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride, and now I'm making Feed the Deep... solo! Check it out:
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After designing Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, I’m super proud to announce that my first solo game dev project Feed the Deep is out... NOW!
Feed an eldritch horror before it feeds on you as you explore deep-sea caves and manage limited resources in this underwater roguelite.
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Figured out how to feel better about my awful code. I just put all of my bad hacks at the bottom of a file, and give it a cute little house to live in, forever.
Now I feel great.
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It's official! My first solo project since quitting my job is launching later this year. I designed Fruit Ninja & Jetpack Joyride, but solo dev is new to me.
Feed the Deep is a lovecraftian deep sea roguelike. Feed the eldritch horrors that dwell below, before they feed on you.
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This is why I have been investing energy into YouTube for the last 2 years. It can (sometimes) massively move the needle for a small indie developer like me.
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Trailer for my (mostly) solo indie game! Feed the Deep is a dark, underwater cave diving game. Check it out on Steam!
RTs appreciated 🙏
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My Jetpack Joyride making of video is finally out. This was an EPIC for me... So much edited out, and it's still over 40 mins long.
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I am very excited to reveal the release date for my first solo project, a Lovecraftian underwater roguelike, which features eldritch horrors, procedural generation, and one big, sinister monster at the bottom of it all.
Feed the Deep releases on August 16th!
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Hello Twitter. I quit my job, going indie-solo, and attempting to document it!
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Feed the Deep is just shy of 200 reviews, with a 95% positive rating. I am just... overwhelmed with gratitude.
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New video about how I designed Fruit Ninja 13 years ago is up!
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Feed the Deep is in Popular Upcoming, releases tomorrow, and oh crap oh crap oh crap
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Shinkansen V6 ✅
3 years ago I saw a someone climb this and thought "I will never be able to do that"
1 year ago I decided "that's a shitty attitude, let's make this a long term project"
14 sessions and hundreds of tries later, it went. Stoked.
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I always liked seeing the little fireworks animation in Youtube Studio when a video had a good start. I guess I won't be seeing that again for atleast a little while after this one:
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Hey everyone I came up with a completely new and unique game idea that no one has ever thought of before
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I made a multiplayer game, and recorded the entire process for your viewing pleasure. Come watch my friends beat me at my own game.
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First tweet in over a year. As a minor update; I work at Snapchat now and we made a thing:
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If you were curious about some YouTube analytics, like ad revenue and where does the traffic come from, here you go:
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YouTube reliably picks the worst possible frame as the thumbnail for my shorts. I swear my face is normal the other 54 seconds.
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Oh hi.
@playcrashclub
is soft launched in Australia and NZ! Jump in a destroy me while I drive around doing work
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You know that feeling in your chest when you realise you left your phone on the table at the cafe? Or you look over the edge of a big cliff?
I've had that for (checks watch) all day 😅
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Underwater cave diving is an absolute nightmare… so I made a game about it.
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Jump scared myself while testing a new enemy that teleports things. First self teleport was expected... but everything after was not.
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This is what my game trailer looked like after 1 hour of work - barely any shots and mostly just blocking titles. Was seriously tempted to just make THIS the real trailer, haha. Helps that the music is an original by Cedar Jones!
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🎃 Halloween is almost upon us. So here is 3 spooky game dev tales. 🎃
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To conceal the fact that I am only active again to promote my game, please accept puppy photos to space out the content.
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The whole Crash Club city, but with only the things you can drive into and smash visible (over 1,600 objects)
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Tad late, but I'm going to
#pitchyagame
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Feed the Deep is a dark, underwater cave diving game. Think Dome Keeper meets Dave the Diver meets... spooky tentacle monsters?
Check out the demo out now!
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New video about how games get worse as you move past the prototyping phase (basically)
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Nate is making this *solo*.
As a solo developer myself, this makes me feel a lot of things.
Here it is! The new trailer for The Axis Unseen!🤘
Brand new dagger stabbing action!🔪
Tons of new creatures!💀
Loads of new locations!🏕️
Also lots and lots of blood!🩸
Check it out and wishlist it on Steam!🏹
#screenshotsaturday
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Get it now! Will you Feed the Deep?
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I get a bunch of comments on my videos saying I look like (blank), but this one gave me and my partner a good laugh this morning.
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Steam and YouTube track have slightly different daily windows for wishlist / view tracking, but you can see the connection pretty clearly!
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*goes to fix edge case bug*
*reads comment*
...
*adds another if anyway*
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Back from completing the Larapinta Trail! Did a 14 day, end to end, unsupported hike with Monique. Will post some photos over the coming days.
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I love the last little bit of a project where you can tweak little details, like this randomisation to the grab sound effect
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You can mess with the cars in the
@playcrashclub
menu, and that's basically all I do all day now.
#gamedev
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Clean code doesn't ship games. New devlog is out now!
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Only about 5 months behind, but – new video about Feed the Deep!
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Went swimming in the middle of the jungle in total isolation. Amazing.
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Easily the biggest and most complex edit I have done.
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It is absolutely SURREAL to see the game being played, and particular moments happening exactly how I had hoped. Psyched you are enjoying it
@OlexaYT
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Digging through the shed at the family farm, found this relic:
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I really did not expect the "random image of gameplay with text" thumbnail to outperform the "luke is in jail" variants.
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Gold Coast Hinterland Great Walk ✅
Not usually about "ticking off" walks, but this one had eluded me for some time (3 cancelled/abandoned attempts) and seemed cursed . Got it done, but the cursed status remained, as I picked up a painful foot injury on day 2 of 3.
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I added 10 ideas from YouTube comments to my game. Was it a mistake, or are the comments legit good ideas?
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Update: Looks like the Devlog
#5
has coincided with the game getting into the Popular Upcoming Releases on Steam! That would explain some part of the outsized spike. Unsure if it is just coincidental, or if the video helped it cross some threshold?
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New build of Feed the Deep is going very well
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Got up at 5am and climbed a volcano. View made it well worth it!
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Very excited to have
@ScreenAustralia
supporting the development of Feed the Deep, as well as many other locally produced games.
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Way too hot in Australia right now. Escaping to Europe for 2 weeks instead.
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I climbed a big ass volcano and this time there was a view.
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New devlog is up! I'm way behind so enjoy 6 MONTHS worth of new work in a single video (:
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Youtube out here breaking my game. My modelling for how many comments this would get was only out by (checks notes) 1 order of magnitude.
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It's fun going through my beta folder and finding prototype names and icons for games.
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Protostar are consistently putting out some of the best stuff on mobile. Mowing Mazes is a lot more than the sum of its parts.
We are Beta Testing our latest game, Mowing Mazes!
It is available now on TestFlight (iOS only for now). We'd love for you to have a play and let us know what you think! Download it for FREE!
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Feed the Deep has a LOT of writing for a roguelite. Monique has done an incredible job adding so much life and history.
I love how this optimistic news report contrasts against the game premise.
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ITS WHISPER QUIET IN THE OFFICE TODAY
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Love seeing these reaction videos :D
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Super happy with this shot, be sure to check it out at full size.
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Snap is hiring a game designer here in Brisbane! Come help us make stuff that heaps of people will play!
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Wondering how the whole "let YouTube comments drive how many enemies are in the game" experiment is going?
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Wild 10 years
Happy 10th anniversary to Fruit Ninja, the iOS hit which has since been ported to everything from Kinect to VR
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Copying text from a Google Doc into a Google Sheet. Same document with the same text somehow has like 8 possible outcomes. Will it be bold? Will it be split across multiple cells, or one cell with line breaks? Will the font and size be different? It's a fun mystery every time.
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24 hours of travel, and my weather app still just says Brisbane.
(I'm at another Brisbane, just outside San Francisco)
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Excited to be on
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this week! Had a great time talking to Simon and generally rambling about some of my favourite games.
In 2010
@pgmuscat
's boss told him he needed to design a game that brought in $300k by the end of the year else the studio would have to close. Shortly thereafter, while watching a late night commercial for knives, the idea for Fruit Ninja came to him:
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Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooossssssssssshhhh
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Does anyone have a computer they would generally consider a potato that they still play games on? Trying to get a better idea of the min spec for Feed the Deep and would love one or two people to try a test build.
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You can wishlist Feed the Deep now right here!
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@SethTheHex
Yep working on a fix right now. Have never seen this until launch day, which is just classic :D
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Yet another
@LandSlidersGame
update is now live! You can now fulfill your lifelong fantasy of being a cactus.
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