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I'm so excited to be releasing this!
🚀 Command Deck is OUT NOW in Early Access! 🚀
Jump into the captain's seat and get ready for intense spaceship battles!
Play it now on Steam (link in comments 👇)
#indiegame #gamedev
We built a palette system for our UI and have some fun ideas for how we can use it. But now we need to decided what colours to use by default.
Help us decide which colour scheme we should use for our UI! Vote for your favourite in the poll below!
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev
I wrote this up for reddit, but maybe people here will find it interesting or helpful. We added a ramming maneuver to our deckbuilder. But it came with a nasty bug that was particularly difficult to track down due to some Unity quirks. A thread.
1/6
Takeaways:
- Bad floating point values in a Transform or RigidBody can lead to hard crashes in Unity
- Unity prevents these values from being assigned when running in Editor, but not in builds
- Always watch out for divide by zero edge cases
5/6
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We have exciting news to share about our sci-fi deckbuilder!
🚀 Command Deck will enter Early Access on September 24, 2025!
✨ Wishlist now so you don’t miss out ✨
(link in comments)
#TurnBasedThursday #indiegame #gamedev
Hey everyone. I want to (finally!) share the project I've been working on. Command Deck is a sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder, and the demo is in Next Fest now. Please check it out!
Next Fest is here, and our demo is live! 🚀
Thank you to everyone who helped us get here 💙
If you haven’t played Command Deck yet, now’s the perfect time!
🎮 Play (or replay!) the demo
✨ Wishlist
📝 Leave a review
📣 Share with friends
Demo link 👇 #SteamNextFest #IndieGame
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I wrote a book!
Land Is A Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it.
Forward by @slatestarcodex and @Noahpinion
Coming out October 15, 2022, available for pre-order right now:
landisabigdeal.com
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Launch discounts on Steam are now displayed as
INTRODUCTORY OFFER!
Nice little flavour to differentiate them from normal discounts.
Microsoft shilling for b**coin is a new low in their ongoing campaign of using Windows Update to push unwanted crap onto my desktop
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Ever since I watched Severance, I've been obsessed with the cool, retro computers in the show. 1/4
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I want to talk a little about the danger of false positives in game development.
This isn't meant to be a downer thread, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot and noticing in terms of trends from 2021 and heading into 2022, but spans back a few years.
Apparently Steam no longer shows the Weeklong Deals banner in the Special Offers section of the front page. It used to be a standard feature on Mondays, but in July Valve shifted "Midweek Madness" promos from starting Tuesday to starting Monday, and then dropped Weeklong Deals.
I haven't asked for confirmation that this is an intentional change and not a bug. But a developer on the Steamworks forms said they had the change confirmed by Valve support staff.
It's frustrating. This is the opposite direction from what I would like to see from Steam.
For those coming to this thread from Jake's Information Roundup (thanks @GreyAlien!), the trend of the Weeklong Deals banner being missing has mostly continued:
teapawt.net/erikejohnson/status/14…
The trend of Steam not showing the Weeklong Deals banner has continued! Here's the track record since I last tweeted about it.
Nov 1:✅
Nov 8:✅
Nov 15:❌
Nov 22:❌
Nov 29:N/A - Autumn Sale
Dec 6:❌
Dec 13:❌
Dec 20:❌
Dec 27:N/A - Winter Sale
Jan 3:N/A - Winter Sale
Jan 10:???
The banner came back for two weeks but then went missing again. What's going on? Maybe it is programmed to turn off if there is something else scheduled? And now that Midweek Madness banners start on Mondays, Weeklong Deals always defaults to off? I'm just guessing here.