Aurimas

Over 10 years ago I had this idea for a quirky arcade fighting game and today it is still my best earning game that keeps me afloat financially & let's me #gamedev unsuccessfully (sadly) full time 🐷 Free to play on web: poki.com/en/g/iron-sn... #indiedev #indiegame

Don't worry guys, it will be fine. #indiedev

I love how other platforms constantly improve ease of use while expanding their dashboards and in Google Play Console it takes 20 clicks to upload a new screenshot #indiedev #gamedev

Since a dev shared his game concept last month, Steam has been flooded with vibe-coded slop clones. This is what "democratising creativity" actually looks like. Even with AI, your ideas are worthless as long as they can be plagiarised at scale. Gen AI was designed for plagiarism, NOT creativity.

We're in the "your precious little indie game was vibe-cloned in a day because it was bad, you should've made a better game" phase now #indiedev

I think I was pretty respectful 🤔

10. Card Hog - part broughlike, part dungeon crawler, part brain burner. @snoutup.com's best game (which is saying something). i love how the swords flop around, and things poof into and out of view. i play fast and loose cuz i can get too sucked in if i slow down.

Morbidly curious to see what the endgame of "every creative and technical field is cooked by AI" will look like. In a world where anyone can easily and quickly make apps, games, music, videos and anything else... who will be buying any of that? Mines will collapse on everyone.

Making some good progress with one of my #robloxdev games. Not monetarily (I don't add agressive monetization), but maybe... one day. #gamedev #indiedev

Posted this in July. Didn't expect things to go this bad this fast. Projects (especially web) are getting copied 1:1 (levels, title, everything) and republished everywhere, multiple clones hitting the stores ahead of announced original... Welp. Future is sure exciting. #gamedev #indiedev

I got bored while waiting for algo to pick my games and wrote a bunch of #robloxdev tips from my own experience that may be helpful to beginner/mid devs... Yes, I'm trying that cursed platform again. It's not going well, but I'm getting a hang on it. www.reddit.com/r/ROBLOXStud...

Is anyone still here? How's your #indiedev going?

I'm rebuilding Chef Bacon to be more eatventure-like, but struggling to onboard casual web players. 20% drop off without upgrading their apples! What the heck? Give it a go an let me know where my onboarding is lacking: poki.com/en/preview/4... #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

I'm rebuilding Chef Bacon to be more eatventure-like, but struggling to onboard casual web players. 20% drop off without upgrading their apples! What the heck? Give it a go an let me know where my onboarding is lacking: poki.com/en/preview/4... #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

If you want a chill & casual restaurant management game where you control a tiny pigly chef serving (vegetarian) meals to forest customers - check out Chef Bacon on Google Play & Poki! #gamedev #indedev

This little pig wants you to help him run a forest restaurant! 👨‍🍳 Answer the call if you have an Android phone: play.google.com/store/apps/d... #gamedev #indiedev

Yay, Chef Bacon is live on Poki! Nay, it's having some kind of weird technical issues (a lot of people fail to launch it and engage with the game). If you have an older phone or some weird browser (that still runs web games), could you try it out? poki.com/en/g/chef-ba... #gamedev #indiedev

it's very easy to succeed as an indie gamedev all you gotta do is get tens of thousands of followers, significant numbers of true fans, and then ship at least one game a year (preferably more)

My reaction to 99% of AI "tool" annoucements

During a moment of weakness I full released Chef Bacon on Google Play yesterday. That means you can now REVIEW it which I'd be super thankful for! #gamedev #indiedev play.google.com/store/apps/d...

I'm slowly getting back to toying with Roblox too. Have a bunch of failed & audience-mismatched projects on the platform, which still might start earning something with a couple of adjustments. Like this Match 3 game. Will it be popular? No way in hell, but... #gamedev #indiedev

During a moment of weakness I full released Chef Bacon on Google Play yesterday. That means you can now REVIEW it which I'd be super thankful for! #gamedev #indiedev play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Shout out to @yellowafterlife.bsky.social for making my GameMaker dev life 1000x more seamless with GMLive. yellowafterlife.itch.io/gamemaker-live

I'm still keeping it in Open Testing since I'm too scared to fully release it for some reason. Not like full launch matters on Google Play these days. Would be nice to see some reviews tho

If this continues Chef Bacon will soon be my TOP EARNING MOBILE release 😅 #gamedev #indiedev play.google.com/store/apps/d...

I have put my little casual restaurant management game on Steam Playtesting, so you can just... play it for free! If you promise to give me some feedback. store.steampowered.com/app/1878120/... #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

I have put my little casual restaurant management game on Steam Playtesting, so you can just... play it for free! If you promise to give me some feedback. store.steampowered.com/app/1878120/... #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

Over 70 people joined the Steam Playtest already! I didn't know what to expect, so this sounds pretty darn good for me. Will update the game today. #gamedev #indiedev

Which icon would you choose for a casual restaurant management game? #gamedev #indiedev Gameplay: poki.com/en/g/chef-ba...

It's my first time trying to do Playtest on Steam. Can anyone confirm it works? I assume you should click something and just... get to play the game! #gamedev #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/1878120/...

Button to click! #gamedev #indiedev

Of course I messed up and Playtest option was not visible in the store page? But I think now it should be good and new testers should be approved automatically.

Which icon would you choose for a casual restaurant management game? #gamedev #indiedev Gameplay: poki.com/en/g/chef-ba...

We've been cooking! 👀 Watch the new trailer for ZKW [REDACTED] and get your popcorn ready! youtu.be/vwQmgveZLdI?... #indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker #indiegame #pixelart