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[kendev]

Making it in Indie Games: Starter Guide

Every now and then someone will ask me for advice on making it as a professional indie game developer. First, it’s a huge honor to be asked that. So I want to say “Thank you!“ Second… damn, if I really want to help out it’s a serious endeavor. Of course, I could always say "Give it your best! Work hard! Be true to yourself!” and it wouldn’t be a terrible reply… just not a terribly useful one, either.

So here it is. Here is what I’m going to link when that rare situation arises again, because it’s too much work to write it up more than once! This is advice that I feel may actually be practical to someone who is just starting out as an indie game developer. Hope it helps!

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Hi Cheea! Just played Mushroom Oasis demo recently and loved it! I love Mychael the silly lil goober and I can't wait to spend more time with him! I apologize if this is too direct, but I'm hoping you'll consider clarifying the trigger warnings on the itch page into "pet death" rather than just "animal death" ;; I thought it was gonna be a random animal... My pardon for such a forward request but I think it'll be more helpful for folks in the future. Thank you for reading, keep up the good work!

Oh, thank you for the clarification!! The game page has been updated.

That reminds me I also wanna implement a trigger warning list into the main menu of Mushroom Oasis; if anyone has tips on how to code that into Ren'Py please let me know!!

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wont even lie tho i been slacking partly in between writing occasionally, and the occasional character design tweak/fix and gathering refs for what i want here in there. i gotta pretty backtracked from losing my previous laptop. everything was saved to the cloud of course but all that time without drawing then having to get a new laptop... man

i kinda wanna stream my current progress to keep me motivated and accountable, and ideally i can since the twitch i remade only has 6 followers currently

but im still in the boat of 'i probably shouldnt be sharing Too much' idk

u-u i do have a piczel account with less traction. idk whats happening on picarto these days but i guess i could scope the scene again in modern day

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ok fine

semi- active here again. id be more active if this was a sideblog attached to the main one, but its a completely new separate account so i gotta actually log in yknow

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ooooh i have not been active here in awhile

majority of my progress has been kept to myself cuz i got shy about sharing and then just. eventually forgot i had this account ngl

i'll try to utilize it more tho honestly -w- its nice since theres less people here... easier to geek out and keep stuff away from my regular art stuff.

the part of me that wants ppl to be excited abt the story and ocs that struggles with 'not spoiling' stuff is more or less soothed when i can ramble here. so i'll try again instead of silently working! (tho i will still be majorly silently working still)

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speed-draw of this silly little drawing!

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just throwing this here

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theyll be out of date by the time as this post gets some more eyes on it anyways so i might as well share now

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haha ❤️ hilarious post my friend! *eyes narrow and my face goes stone serious* but it does not resonate with my own ideological schema, so i shall not be reblogging it

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she let me hit cause. because I'm uh. it's cause I asked real nicey.

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Boass can I go hoame I lack the human spirit

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GOT A BONER IN THE BREAK ROOM THEY SAY IM HARD AT WORK!!!

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been thinkin about how much i love boss again suddenly... i dont know how well ive done with his design but he's supposed to be a shapeshifter, thus the reason the hair and body all blend into each other

hes supposed to be hard to see in some aspects

so i was just thinkin like, when he's not smilling, or completely shocked, or doesnt want to make a comment on something he goes from }:/ -> }:

like literally no mouth

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I'm on it, boss (the spectrum)

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*after you confess your love for me* .....oooohkay lol *looks up at the night sky* Moon looks like shit today

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was worried for awhile the characters colors were too similar but putting them side by side im very happy with the variety