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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 3d

Steam Scream IV is on, and you can grab Snooze: A Choice for 33% off! Happy Halloween! 👻🎃🍬

store.steampowered.com/app/3729830/...

#horrorgame #steamscreamfest #indiegame #gamedev

A promo for Steam's Scream Fest IV showcasing a sale for the game Snooze: A Choice discounted from $2.99 to $2.00.

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 4d

Game dev is wild because it's like ten jobs in one, and if you don't do them all perfectly, someone will complain. And the industry is all sorts of awful right now. Just making an attempt is admirable, IMO. It does suck though. I'm trying to make it my primary, and it's frustrating as hell. =(

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 6d

@trollymog.bsky.social on taking a blood shower. Thanks for playing!

#horrorgame #gamedev #indiedev #twitch

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 7d

Here's a great video showing the process. Epic defaults all the features on, but Unreal is more than happy to let you scale things back to "old school" DX11 and SM5.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSIb...

UE5 - Rendering Path Performance Overview (Targeting 8th gen and Older Platforms)

YouTube video by Wild Ox Studios

www.youtube.com

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 7d

Borderlands 4 is using all the buzzy features, and that's exactly my point. They aren't needed, but studios (i.e., managers looking for shortcuts to save money) have fallen for Epic's marketing thinking they will magically make development easier. But they can also be turned off easily in UE5.

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 7d

UE5 gets a lot of hate, but it can scale surprisingly well. Epic is pushing buzzy features for pretty graphics, but they can all be turned off. And unless you target only the most powerful machines, the virtualization pipeline is, ironically, a LOT more work.

#unrealengine #gamedev #indiedev

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 14d

Not to rain on your parade, but I would strongly consider making those drop-down boxes. Unless you have some kind of "Apply" button, it would be annoying having the resolution change with every click. Also, easier to see all available options with a drop-down. Style is cool though!

Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 15d

I've spent the past few weeks writing out the story and locking down art direction and gameplay mechanics for my next game. I haven't touched my dev machine, and it's killing me not having "worked on anything". But I know now from my last game how important this part is.

#indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 19d

Thorlar has concerns about the clothing situation. Oh, and the TP was intentional. 😉🧻

Thank you for playing, @thorlar.bsky.social! Check them out on Twitch, and find Snooze on Steam. Happy Hour Update out now!

www.twitch.tv/thorlar
store.steampowered.com/app/3729830/...

#horrorgame #twitchclips

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 22d

After years of working (struggling) with #UE5, I am FINALLY feeling comfortable with it. Being able to understand the in-depth tutorials now feels amazing. Unreal is a beast, but it can be tamed. Keep at it, y'all! You'll get there! 👨‍💻🎮

#indiedev #gamedev #unrealengine

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 22d

My pleasure! I just added the Happy Hour Update a few days ago, so there's a bit more content. Hope you enjoy!

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 26d

Nice job on the lighting!

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 26d

Here's something for #screenshotsaturday from the Happy Hour update to my game, Snooze: A Choice! Check it out on Steam!

store.steampowered.com/app/3729830/...

#indiedev #gamedev #horrorgame

A screenshot of a game. The setting is a dark room with a single light in the distance. The room appears to be a sparsely-decorated bar with mannequins drinking at tables and a bar and bartender farther away. A sign on the far wall reads "HAPPY HOUR" in digital clock font. Another mannequin with glowing red eyes is standing just in front of you partially obscuring the sign. The atmosphere is eerie, creepy, spooky.

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 27d

Ohh, shoulda tried that! And yeah, it felt like the mouse and keyboard were fighting the controller or something. Controller worked fine.

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 27d

Played. Good start! Is it controller only? My mouse was giving weird inputs. Also, I knocked the camera over, so I couldn't take a photo to progress. 😬 But I like all the different mechanics, and I think you can really flesh something out here. Great job!

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 27d

Yes, that would be neat! Or maybe a mechanic that has to be activated to trigger the recovery faster? But anyway, looks fun. Hope the release goes smoothly!

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 27d

This is really cool! (Pardon the pun.) Maybe there could be something you can do while stamina recovers? I feel like waiting for the bar to fill could get boring. Unless the point is to take moments to observe?

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · 29d

Feel like I'ma get haunted just touching that thing.

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · Sep 30

And even graphics are becoming more accessible to indie devs. There's so much you can do now with modern engines, and the creativity and drive of the indie community is awesome to see. There's really no reason to keep paying for the big-budget microtransaction live service online-only slop.

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · Sep 30

Now that Snooze is past the release sales spike, I'm debating on how much I should put into drawing back interest. NGL, I got addicted to watching the sales count go up and am bummed since it stopped. But hey, I'm happy it did well at all. And an update is still coming!

#indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · Sep 25

Helpful #gamedev tip -- When saving your game, if you're overwriting a previous save DON'T open that file for write access. Depending on OS and your library and moon phases, this may set up for corruption if the program is interrupted. Instead, save a new file and rename it to overwrite.

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · Sep 24

Seems to be a security issue with that version of the package. Can you update the Magick.NET NuGet package in Visual Studio?

You can also change the setting that treats warnings as errors, but that might not be a good idea.

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · Sep 23

Honeytootz‬ shares the preferred method for defeating a demon.

Check out ‪Honeytootz‬ on Twitch and Snooze: A Choice on Steam! #indiedev #solodev #horrorgame

www.twitch.tv/honeytootz
store.steampowered.com/app/3729830/...

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · Sep 19

Happy Friday! I'm working on a small Halloween update for Snooze. Here's a preview!

#horror #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Hungry Meat @hungrymeat.com · Sep 18

Every time.

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