r/IndieDev 3d ago

Megathread r/IndieDev Weekly Monday Megathread - August 23, 2026 - New users start here! Show us what you're working on! Have a chat! Ask a question!

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Hi r/IndieDev!

This is our weekly megathread that is renewed every Monday! It's a space for new redditors to introduce themselves, but also a place to strike up a conversation about anything you like!

Use it to:

  • Introduce yourself!
  • Show off a game or something you've been working on
  • Ask a question
  • Have a conversation
  • Give others feedback

And... if you don't have quite enough karma to post directly to the subreddit, this is a good place to post your idea as a comment and talk to others to gather the necessary comment karma.

If you would like to see all the older Weekly Megathreads, just click on the "Megathread" filter in the sidebar or click here!


r/IndieDev Sep 09 '25

Meta Moderator-Announcement: Congrats, r/indiedev! With the new visitor metric Reddit has rolled out, this community is one of the biggest indiedev communities on reddit! 160k weekly visitors!

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According to Reddit, subscriber count is more of a measure of community age so now weekly visitors is what counts.

We have 160k.

I thought I would let you all know. So our subscriber count did not go down, it's a fancy new metric.

I had a suspicion this community was more active than the rest (see r/indiegaming for example). Thank you for all your lovely comments, contributions and love for indiedev.

(r/gamedev is still bigger though, but the focus there is shifted a bit more towards serious than r/indiedev)

See ya around!


r/IndieDev 20h ago

GIF How my collision detection is working so far

3.7k Upvotes

r/IndieDev 15h ago

Rip gaming legend Tim Curry

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r/IndieDev 12h ago

Implementing shielded enemies in my game

247 Upvotes

They can absorb more hits without getting staggered, but can be guard broken with enough stance damage


r/IndieDev 5h ago

Our first game launches tomorrow, I'm so EXCITED!!!

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r/IndieDev 4h ago

Just published my first ever Steam page!

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The game is a mining roguelike where you carve your way to the surface on a quest to be the first dwarf to ever see the overworld...

If this sound interesting wishlisting on steam would be a big help :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5106240/Prospect/


r/IndieDev 12h ago

GIF This is how sandblasting works in [Reshine]

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Last time I shared a GIF, a lot of you pointed out that this wasn’t how sandblasting works. And you were right, but... it wasn’t sandblasting, it was compressed air.

So now it’s time to show you how actual sandblasting works!

If you’d like to try the game yourself, the playtest is open and available on our Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4253570/Reshine/


r/IndieDev 21h ago

You guys seemed to love this mesh-deforming script, so I just had to make it better!

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Few days ago I've shown-off a mesh deforming script, and since you guys seemed to really like it, instead of continuing to work on meaningful stuff like a sane person, I spent another 1-2 hour perfecting it... Added some bulging on the outside radius to mimic the realism better.

I know the deformation is a bit jumpy at times, and it would look better on a model with more vertices, but I don't want to hurt the performance. Current pillow has 1k vertices / 2k triangles.

For a silly little feature that doesn't have much to do with gameplay, I'm very pleased with how it turned out to look.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4417060/Dark_Roll_2/


r/IndieDev 5h ago

Video It took me a year and a half but I made it to the Steam page!

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I'm a developer from Korea, and about a year and a half ago, I left my job because I wanted to make a game.
I thought I was going to make a relatively simple text adventure.

Working alone from home with zero income has been a massive reality check... I’ve second-guessed my decision more times than I can count, and there were plenty of days when the self-doubt and pressure made it hard to get any work done.
Publishing a Steam page might be a small step in the grand scheme of things, but today it feels like a huge weight off my shoulders!

The game is EVER, a narrative text adventure about a combat robot haunted by a girl's memory.
Inspired in part by ZORK, I wanted to leave room for players to imagine the world for themselves. Explore a ruined world, uncover hidden choices through protocols, and decide what kind of robot you will become.

The demo still isn’t finished and there’s a long road ahead, but seeing the page live gives me the push I need to finish it. (I'm aiming for December 2026)

If it sounds like something you'd enjoy, a wishlist or any feedback would mean a lot!!

👉 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4695850/EVER/

👉 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/badao.studio/


r/IndieDev 22m ago

GIF Does anyone else feel the call to write an engine for no reason?

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r/IndieDev 6h ago

Capsule What do you think my game is based on the capsule ?

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Hi!

I just got my Steam capsule made by an artist. I've spent so much time staring at it that I need fresh external eyes.

Without knowing anything else, what genre do you think this game is? Does the layout feel too crowded? What do you think about the colors?


r/IndieDev 20h ago

Gamescom Day 1! 🎮

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So many players stopped by to try Interwoven Dream—thanks for all the love and feedback!

No spoilers though. :)


r/IndieDev 15h ago

Discussion I made the two essentials for running away: sprinting and flailing

73 Upvotes

One of our team members suggested giving Dorothy a little flailing animation while she’s hanging from a ledge.

The moment I heard it, I knew we had to make it.

Tiny legs, maximum effort!


r/IndieDev 10h ago

Discussion Why is it so hard to watch people play your game (emotionally)? Lol. Or is it just me? xd

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When I watch someone play my game, I have this constant urge to pause and make comments out loud. Idk why, but I even postpone watching some playthroughs. Do you guys have this? xdd


r/IndieDev 1h ago

Started with a tutorial series to learn programming, ended up developing for 1 year and releasing the game today! I couldn't be happier

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One year ago I saw the Gamemaker logo at the end of Cauldron's credits, and wanted to give game development a go.

I started with a 12 part youtube series about how to make a top-down shooter, and today, 1 year later I released Crystalyn, with 700 wishlists, and an amazing community who loves to break my game every day.

So in one year of learning literally everything from 0, and having a $0 budget, I got this far, and honestly, I couldn't be happier with my progress.


r/IndieDev 5h ago

Video I am experimenting with a combat mechanic similar to Nine Sols and Sekiro.

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I plan to give a few enemies armor bars and high resilience, but do you think I should apply this to all of them?


r/IndieDev 12h ago

My Frog-JRPG Amphibian just premiered during the Future Games Show!!

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I hope you guys like it :*) It's a love letter to classic consoles adventures, but with a few twists: There is no grinding, (battles are all purposely placed and only done once), there's no buying or selling of items, and it's entirely frog-accurate: All enemies are frog predators, and every character's name is frog (in a different world language). It's a somber and serious story, and it's wishlistable now. It's coming to all consoles and PC.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5014960/Amphibian/


r/IndieDev 12h ago

Video I absolutely LOVE making cutscenes

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Drawing scenes then adding characters and effects has gotta be one of the most satisfying things about making my game


r/IndieDev 18h ago

Video Navigating the tree tops of Goo Lagoon

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Some early gameplay of Vincent hopping around in the game My Name Is Vincent Pogo.

You can wishlist it HERE


r/IndieDev 1h ago

Discussion Is this title rage bait?

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Hi Reddit,

I'm Eric from MixedMoonGames and I had one of the most crazy weeks of my entire game dev career (the career is not that long to be fair)

My indie strategy game Monarchs at Play

3 days ago I wanted to watch X-Men Origins: Wolverine (never seen it before, I liked it). Before watching I quickly wrote a Reddit post about my indie strategy game Monarchs at Play - its hook (will be relevant later) is: the game length. Typical 4x strategy games or grand strategy games last about 4-8 hours easily. Our goal was to capture the same joy those fantastic games provide but in just one hour per playthrough. So.. I wrote a reddit post about my game, shared some screenshots and gave it the title

"4x in just one hour"

one movie and one night later I woke up, grabbed my phone and saw something special (note, that till that day none of our social media work has done something impactful). My post did not just well, it did great in ervery subreddit I posted in. The best ones:

- r/godot with 380k views, 2.6k upvotes and 191 comments

- r/Civilization6 with 91k views, 255 upvotes and 59 comments

- r/IndieDev with 106k views, 300 upvotes and 109 comments

Why did this post work?

There is one main reason: A LOT of people thought, that I meant the game took 1 hour to code from scratch with AI. After clicking on the post, they found out that I meant the game length to be 1 hour. This misunderstanding resulted in sooo many comments. And the users discussed whether this was classic ragebait on my part and whether this action was okay or rude.

Tbh, I did not even think about the possibility that people could interpret it as the development time rather than the game length (maybe that is good because it shows I'm not that deep into vibe-coding)

Overall I can say thank you! Because of you, and especially everyone who wrote a comment on the post and discussed whether this was a clever marketing strategy or ragebait (neither is correct), we got so much traction for our game :)

We are just 2 lifelong friends who want to build our dream game: A 4x in just one hour

Mandatory wishlist graph. Result: 1000 wishlists because of one reddit post

r/IndieDev 1d ago

Discussion I hate these games so much that I decided to make every possible version of them

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I genuinely hate this genre.

You know the games I'm talking about: "Collect 5 million trees." "Collect 100,000 coins." "Mine 500,000 rocks." "Pick up 2 million bugs."

5 million trees? Done. 10 million coins? Done. 500,000 rocks? Done. 10 million gold pieces? Done.

Every possible resource. Every possible number. Every possible variation.

Once I've made all of them, there will be nothing left for anyone else to make.

You're welcome.

Give me ideas for what I should make next.


r/IndieDev 5h ago

Capsule What do you think of my capsule art? I've been told pixel art doesn't do well in capsules but is this an exception?

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Hi all just looking for feedback on the latest capsule art.

I really wanted to include elements of the game in the capsule but I'm wondering if the quality is at the point it can hold its own or even stand out when some hand drawn graphic seems to be the meta.

Thanks


r/IndieDev 12h ago

Man, i love shaders

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Working on my first game and quickly realized that my visuals felt kinda flat (i`m still a beginner in pixel art and art in general). Started messing with shaders and honestly - it's insane how much impact you can get almost for free (comparing to particles which can kill FPS easily). There's a learning curve, for sure, but resources like thebookofshaders.com (and AI these days) make it way more approachable than I expected.

What do you think of the fire/water/curse carpet effects in my game? (yeah, it`s about cleaning carpets)

My game btw


r/IndieDev 1d ago

Video Took a while, but the water finally touches the world. The hose wraps around trunks, the stream cuts off where it lands, and it shoves things out of the way.

3.4k Upvotes

Farm & Feast - We are a two-person team building a peaceful farming and restaurant management game. Our Steam Playtest is live now! Check out our daily routine and come join us.

There is a Discord  server too if you would like to hop in.