I'm a DIY hobbyist game developer making traditional experiences, with a focus on RPGs. My new dungeon crawler, Minerva Labyrinth, is coming in 2025.
I'm just doing my best to create more old-school games. All of my games are built by hand, not by AI.
| Minerva Labyrinth (Steam) | https://store.steampowered.com/app/3520970/Minerva_Labyrinth/ |
| Minerva Labyrinth (Itch) | https://midnightspiregames.itch.io/minerva-labyrinth |
| My Games | https://midnightspiregames.itch.io |
| Pronouns | they/them |
Just submitted Minerva Labyrinth for Steam release approval. 🤞
It's not 100% ready for release JUST yet (playtesting and balancing in particular are still in progress), but it should be ready enough for Valve. My target release date is coming pretty soon and I have no idea how this is going to go, so I want to leave plenty of time to get it cleared away.
Another thing I wasn't satisfied with was the epilogue, which felt like a pretty abrupt end (I know, games used to just say "Congratulations" at the end, but I know I can do better than that). I was never going to do a fancy ending cutscene or anything, but I'm writing an extended version to give the ending a bit more substance. I'm still not sure if this is what it needs, but I'm leaning towards keeping the longer version.
I wasn't satisfied with one of the late-game levels, since it felt like too much of a blind fumble, so I made some adjustments to the flow and focus. I think I improved the clarity of what you're supposed to be doing while also better encouraging the thought process to get there. In other words, it's more fun now.
This is one of the levels with more complicated geometry, so changing things around is a bit of a hassle, but I think it was worth it.
I managed to get #GodotSteam half working. I deleted the C# binding addon and called the GD methods directly from my own C# code, but that somehow caused even worse errors. I had to just rewrite the Steam layer in GDScript. Now it works on Windows without a problem. On Linux, it doesn't work at all.
Need help with #GodotSteam. I am using the C# bindings addon. It seems that I have to call Free() on the Steam GodotObject when I quit the game, or else I get a memory leak warning. This would be fine, but doing so adds a full second or more to my shutdown time. Trying to run it in parallel as a Task doesn't seem to help (though I might be doing it wrong). Is there a better practice I can use to speed this up?
So submissions are just about to close for this bundle. Trying to decide if I should join or not.
Haven't hawked our game on Mastodon for a while, and there might be new users to reach, so: If you grew up with and/or love classic JRPGs, don't have time to sink a hundred hours into a game, enjoy exploring and investigating, like reading dialogue and piecing clues together, and don't mind a bit of grinding, our game will be right up your alley. If you're interested, go to https://entangledpear.itch.io/fairy-tales and download it for free.
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