thanks!

Yeah, I hated the theme. The "and" just makes it so constrained. Near impossible to come up with a central idea that matches both well. I like a lot about the game our team made, but it's a game where shadows play a central role, and references to alchemy are shoehorned in as "lore". Also on sunk cost fallacy: I don't think you were falling prey to that. Wanting your future activities to be fruitful is entirely rational. The fallacy is when you make your decisions by looking backward and wanting old investments to be "worth it" even if you have better options ahead. You seem to be avoiding that quite well!

Don't rely too heavy on sfx, I think it's important that the game feels good and is easily understandable with no sound

The dinner bell?

contrary to popular belief, alchemy has 'inner alchemy'. alchemy is the study of substances and methods of transmuting base materials to gold. inner alchemy is transforming your own body into "gold", to a perfect vehicle for divine realization/enlightenment through by meditation practices. in eastern culture you see this as activating chakras (you can see this reference in AOTL as well). in several buddha's story of enlightenment, you see him battling "shadows" to conquer himself. that's how i got our game to be the theme. but being a 1st time coder 1st time making a game, the playability was 1/10. haha as you said, thanks to thor for being an inspiration and pushing this thought of "you can make games."

Play the Demo now : store.steampowered.com/app/3059390/Hexagod/

Please don't rush into a decision, I hope you can find advice from other devs. I couls imagine publishers may want to take advantage of new devs

I had a fun idea for it, and it would have been my first jam, but I just had no time to work on it between work and personal life. Instead I figured I’d develop it outside of the context and constraints of that game jam.

This video showed up when searching for "Stop Killing Games".

Nice

Should have a $10 micro transaction to beat the whole game instantly

Isn't Thor the guy that's against the preservation of gaming and the campaign against stop killing games.. Quite ironic.

First I'll say, awesome job learning more things that can help you in your dev journey :D There are always things to learn and I hope you learn more things to help you along the way :D You could create groups back in 3.x, but it was a hassle and pain in the arse. Made much easier by just having that tag in 4.x The onready and unique names can be names for sure, but personally i prefer just using the export and assigning them in the inspector. It removes any chance of error from typing names out, and like unique names you can move them around in your tree and not need to update your code.

Looks good, bud! Wishlisted.

You just gave me an idea for a game: a roguelike restaurant sim, but in a fantasy setting, in which you have to buy the remains of creatures to use as ingredients, inventing new recipes, and trying not accidentally poisoning your clients. Yes, it's Delicious in Dungeon sim.

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Fuck corpo games spoken like a true indie gl on the game brother

Three Notches huh

You’re doing awesome and totally right! It takes so much effort to start a new job and new direction before you hit your stride, no matter your background or qualifications. What matters is you’ve put in the work and are seeing results as you grow and adapt on your path to what you want to achieve! I felt a strong conviction when I caught your first video about going full time and it’s great to see the fire still burning 5 months on. Great stuff

I was always wondering how to use Enums better, so thank you!!

I’m doing something wrong, it takes my project like an hour to load when godot boots up and then like 10 minutes to run from the editor. I have a very good computer too.

No microtransactions 🤘

Did they pay you for saying this?

Play the Demo now : store.steampowered.com/app/3059390/Hexagod/

How did you make the juicy star collecting animation?

You weak freak!

I gave the demo a go, and really enjoyed it. Immediate wishlist 👍 I put a game out a few years ago that's also 'hexagon islands in the sky with villagers' called Volantia ... what an unexpected coincidence 😄

Wishlisted it, looks great so far and I'll be trying the demo. I'm on my first tentative steps on the godot indie dev journey, so I'm finding following your own journey very inspiring - enjoying the scope creep podcast too. Keep it up man, you're doing amazing! :)

Love your last advice :D I am making my first game and because of lack of skill in coding it is really just barely working :D Sort of :D

Great video!! These are really useful tips. Would love to see more on how you actually figure stuff out for example how you actually use those enums.

Rock on bro! Good luck on your solo journey. Hexagod looks super fun! Getting the demo and wishlisting right now.

Finally another boardgame mechanic (worker placement) makes it into roguelikes, I wonder what's next. I Cut You Choose? Auctions?

I like your strategy of making short games in a short amount of time, it's what I'm trying as well. Hope it works out!

Please keep the content & streaming. This is one of the few things I look forward to these days.

Dude your timing is perfect on this as I just started up a platformer as my first game 2 days ago. I really hope you do more of this cause it all goes such a long way.

I was just watching Orange Pixel's vid as a working indie dev. He made a good point about working quickly and having short turnaround times. Worth watching.

Great advice, and keep up the good work with Hexagod. I played the demo and really enjoyed it

I'm about 1 year into a new job and am just starting to feel like I'm productive and understanding the codebase. It takes a long time, so you got to be patient! Great update and excited to see how the game evolves every week 🙌

Amazing job scoping this game man! I knew the dangers of scoping too large but for my own game's initial design, it sorta required larger and larger pieces to realize the potential because of various reasons. How I wish I had a nice tight scope like your game, definitely a better way to go. To put out a great demo in 6 months, nicely done!

I've never made a game on my own before, but I've gone through two tutorials. I have no coding experience and no digital art experience. I just have an idea for a game. I only need a team of 10 people and 5 years to pull it off.

I'm not sure if I will play the game but I wish listed it. I know getting eyes on it is super important.

I feel like scope creep is 100X harder to deal with as a solo dev. Without the positive peer pressure keeping you grounded it can be easy to get off track of what will practically work in a reasonable amount of time.

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Thanks for watching! You can play my demo for Hexagod now over on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3059390/Hexagod/

A few weeks ago, I competed in a game jam using Godot for the first time in years. It took a while to get used to all the changes, but I was really impressed by how much easier a lot of things are to do now!

I've been using Godot for years and I've watched a lot of videos to help me be a better creator of games. You sir are one of the best. Not sure how long you've been doing this but I'm very happy to have found you. This video feels like getting advice from a better version of me. It's super clear and relatable. Thanks!

The main benefit of a publisher is marketing - managing all your own Google and Meta campaigns etc. is time-consuming. Although you also have a successful KZfaq channel, which is more than a lot of small publishers already 😂

Variable exports been there for a while its not new to godot4

Thanks!

Chess Survivors: purchased; Hexagod demo: installed. Cheers!