Indie game developer; Shipped 4 games, 4/4 featured on the App Store on launch: https://xitter.cf/t.co/kpQLkFQFIK Try my latest game Phantom Words👇
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Joined May 2009
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#shipaton may have ended but #buildinpublic and #gamedev doesn’t.
Happy to share that Phantom Words is renewed for a second week of banner feature (US) and New Games We Love in 155 countries.
Also just shipped a new update, that should fix some bugs people reported. Link in bio.
Himanshu retweeted
So excited to release our new app: Zen Garden
A relaxing puzzle trying to rake over 1000 different gardens in a single path.
Every pixel, sound, graphic, animation made using Opus 5.5. All code. This model is insane. Will do another post diving deep into the building process.
AI was supposed to automate the manual, boring and repetitive work for us, but instead we can now use it to make a game about that manual work and all of us can do that manual repetitive work digitally too with an added stress of time. Wonderful!
Leaf Blower now has 7 levels to play including Halloween Yard. Made with @rive_app
Try it here: leaf-blower-i475um.rive.to/?…
less than a day in and I already made more revenue from sales than from the tip jar in the entire last week 💀☠️
My last #shipaton #buildinpublic update:
- Switched up the monetisation model for Phantom Words to Paid at $2.99
- Created a bundle with all 4 of my games at $5.99
- Removed all tip jar in-app purchases, the paywall and RevenueCat integration. The tip jar didn’t work.
I will be back in a few months when my next game is ready to be released!
My last #shipaton #buildinpublic update:
- Switched up the monetisation model for Phantom Words to Paid at $2.99
- Created a bundle with all 4 of my games at $5.99
- Removed all tip jar in-app purchases, the paywall and RevenueCat integration. The tip jar didn’t work.
I will be back in a few months when my next game is ready to be released!
Did not win #shipaton but I did achieve some big milestones for my game Phantom Words:
- 40 ratings with 4.9⭐️
- 4300 players in the leaderboard, ~100 daily active users
- featured on the App Store for two weeks across 155 countries
so I would say I did win, even though it wasn’t shipaton
#buildinpublic
Himanshu retweeted
It's always "without writing a line of code" but then the prompt is "move the transform of the object in a sine wave of delta time along the local X axis and trigger an event in case there's a hit detection with the bullet object mesh detected by the bullet radius"
I’m in! I just said I make games and I don’t even use claude at all and use codex all the time. Instantly approved! 😆
so ironic to call it “playground” and also make it 18+
🚨NEW EXPERIMENT 🚨
Playground is an experimental gaming platform that lets you create your own games with zero coding experience. If you can think it, you can play it.
Go to labs.google/playground to learn more! Available to users 18+ in the US.
my proudest achievement yet: 4.9 ⭐️ with 31 ratings worldwide on Phantom Words (4.8 ⭐️, 15 ratings in the US) after two weeks of launch
#shipaton #buildinpublic #gamedev
The one thing vibe coded games cannot do is make them FUN and replayable
Finally got Fable 5.5 access, so I made a game based on the worst pun I could think of: POKERMON
Pokémon x Balatro. One-shot in 1 hour.
pokermon.anshu.dev
Game mechanics, visuals, music, demo video, everything one-shot by Fable. This model is NUTS
Himanshu retweeted
A lot of people should read this aeon.co/essays/your-brain-do…
