Targa - Wishlist Echoes of Aromia!

THE STEAM PAGE IS LIVE! THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT, THE STEAM PAGE IS LIVE! I NEED ALL OF YOU TO GO WISHLIST IT RIGHT NOW! THIS IS NOT A DRILL store.steampowered.com/app/4734180/... #gamedev #indiedev

nearly doubled my wishlists, i'm pretty happy with how this next fest went! How did it go for everyone else? let me know! #gamedev #indiedev

I WOKE UP TODAY AND WE BROKE 2 THOUSAND WISHLISTS, THEN BEFORE I COULD THINK OF WHAT TO POST, WE BROKE 2100??? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If you don't have a yassified, a gigachad, and a looksmaxxing portrait of your main villain in his own mansion, Then are you actually making a real game? #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Playstats for echoes of Aomia so far, with all the folks trying out the demo for next fest, it looks like the median playtime fell from 44 to 33 minutes, but we're still above average! with 1 third having played over an hour, and 19% over two hours, finishing the demo!

Just because it's #SteamNextFest doesen't mean that the development stops! The little (giant) ballroom now has the newly made dancing animations, now i can start spriting up some fancy dancers. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Folks! I will be doing developer QA and livestreaming Echoes of Aromia on the steam page, come say hi! (Also on twitch) store.steampowered.com/app/4734180/... #gamedev #indiedev #nextfest

This dance template took the better part of two hours just for me to realize i was overcomplicating it, and i could just reuse my walk animations with a very slight change... #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Holy crap the good news can't stop coming today, We got the very positive tag for reviews??? i thought that only happened on 50 positive reviews! Maybe recent works differently? I'm definitely not gonna complain! #gamedev #indiedev

I had to edit this post real quick. Not even an hour after i noticed we broke 1k, we broke 1.1k, then 1.2k, then i thought to myself, i'm going to bed. And today i woke up to see it was not a dream, we really did pass a huge milestone, thank you so much! #gamedev #indiedev

I JUST REFRESHED THE PAGE????? HELLO???? WHERE'D 70 PEOPLE SHOW UP FROM??? IT WAS 850 AN HOUR AGO??? I JUST POSTED CELEBRATING 800 A COUPLE DAYS BACK??? THANK YOU???

I forgot to add lights to the scene before i tested it, and i accidentally made the coolest thing ever???? #gamedev #indiedev

Now onto polishing the visuals, the guard's detection radiuses will show up if you get close, + a small little grace range before you're fully caught. The hardest part is actually making a difficult gauntlet, i am NOT good at level design #Gamedev #indiedev

Well, it's back to greyboxing scenes (even though it's very red.) Now implementing the absolutely most basic possible system to hide in closets for stealth sections. #gamedev #indiedev

50 wishlists out of nowhere today pushed the dial past 800, Whoever you are, thank you so much! It was a pipedream going into next fest with 400, and yet the dial keeps ticking new highs i never thought possible. Thank you! #gamedev #indiedev

Do you want to learn about my game but don't have time? Here's a fast version. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

The Demo announcement trailer is now out! Just in time for next fest too. Go check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiQY... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

A crapload of unity plugins later, and i think i've finally figured out how to easily import localizations. The hardest part was re-doing all the text objects so i could have them dynamically size themselves to support languages with large fonts! #gamedev #indiedev

Indie devs, Where do you folks go for localization? I was thinking of localizing the demo to a couple of popular languages and i didn't want to rely on potential crappy translations like google translate. #gamedev #indiedev

Finaly tackling localization! This one's a pain so far, finding all my UI that needs translation has been slow. Starting with the Portuguese translation myself to test and then time to find folks to help with other languages and fonts that support special characters #gamedev #indiedev

At this point i feel like i have to make a game just in this style. The lower city map is coming along nicely!

The building, vs my minimap miniature #pixelart

By popular demand, the game's map now has little quest markers. This should reduce frustration and lost-ness #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Highland #cow for today's @pixeldailies.bsky.social #pixel_dailies #pixelart

It's the little details sometimes, you know? #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

100 total players with a nearly hour median time played! While it's not as glamorous as a number as i see some accounts boast about, i'm still quite happy with it. for a demo with about 2-3 hours of content, players enjoying it enough to play an hour average? hell yeah.

Gamedev is all smoke and mirrors. Part 3 #Gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Do you like fire, explosions and destroying crap? Do you like turn based tactics? Then go try my demo Or don't, i'm not the cops.

Folks. Which capsule art would you click on? (Would you click on it at all?) Trying to figure out readability. So take a few steps away from your screen if on PC #gamedev #indiedev

Retro-esque RPG without any battle screens, the screen you explore in is the screen you fight on. Destructible enviornment tactics with a rich lore and story. Demo out now with 28 positive reviews, check out Echoes of Aromia! store.steampowered.com/app/4734180/... #indiegame #rpg #pixelartㅤ

More content!!! The demo is already well over two hours long in terms of content, so what do i do? That's right, more content! I'm adding halberds with the next update. A new weapon type for sentinels that trades the shield's high armor for extra range. #gamedev #indiedev

I love making smear frames that will realistically never be seen in the game because it's too chaotic and too small #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Two weeks ago i posted about being at 600 wishlists, today we hit 700! Thank you so much for all your support, and thank you to all who have played the demo and left reviews! Onwards to 800! With lovely soyjacks by @DragonsnapArt, our portrait artist. #gamedev #indiedev

guys really important gamedev lesson when you add guards to the game uncheck the poledancer checkbox

Well, that works pretty damn well. Now to actually make levels with this! #gamedev #indiedev

Well that animates super well!

Hold on, i just had a great idea. I'm going to rip off the zelda oracle games for their pit fall mechanics.

I went for a walk part 3

What is Echoes of Aromia? I made a little voiceover short. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Folks missing the bounty board? Alright no problem. If the trusty exclamation mark is good enough for blizzard entertainment, it's good enough for me. #gamedev #indiedev

I heard you folks like my game's ambience. Part 5 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelartㅤ

Went out for a walk, Part 2 Can i technically even tag this as #pixelart ???

Now that the demo is out and i can stop crunching, it's nice to just be able to add random encounters and other polish and random content i think of, making the knockback on this was harder than i expected it to be. #gamedev #indiedev

Nevermind this stuff is downright horrifying holy hell

yooo i got my pixless camera from backing it on kickstarter twenty thousand years ago, and i gotta say, this is pretty dope.

Hey folks, im redoing my game's trailer and ive put together some footage on premiere pro, it has no sound or any big editing yet, i'm looking to get feedback on if you folks think it's good pacing and the footage looks interesting especially first 10 sec www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFbc...

Thank you so much folks! The demo is now at 21 reviews! I'm really glad to see folks enjoying the game. Here's hoping it gets to 50 before next fest! And for everyone who's still not tried it, please check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/5022150/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Oh how far we've come in 5 months. #gamedev #indiedev

Making maps is hard. But if it all goes well, tonight i can release a local map feature for the starting city. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart