ManaBrent 🔮 Final Profit 🧹 +Wishlist: Oil Town
banner
finalprofit.bsky.social
ManaBrent 🔮 Final Profit 🧹 +Wishlist: Oil Town
@finalprofit.bsky.social
Melbourne based queer indie dev. Anti-capitalist. Mask wearer.
Made Final Profit, and making Oil Town 🏳️‍🌈🎮

Freeplay award winner | AGDA nominee | IGF finalist.

Final Profit: https://tinyurl.com/finalprofit
Oil Town: tinyurl.com/oiltwn
Biz is feelin' it today.

But you can cheer her up! By playing Final Profit!

On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Been deep in the UI mines upgrading the Witch Words interface. 💬

I realised that a long list was going to be too clunky for constructing Phrases. So now we have this radial business, any Word is always 1 to 3 clicks away. Much snappier, for the working Witch. 🧹

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
sure is!
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Finally got around to migrating all the DevBlogs from cohost (rip).

Added a new section dedicated to them on the Final Profit website. Lots of juicy insights to digest, such as Mrs. Five's origins as a Nintendo Mii.

www.finalprofit.com.au/devblogs/the...
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Been sprucin' up the title screen.
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
hmm, there is a bit of a dropoff just after one megalitre, but apart from that the math checks out.
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I think the weakest element of Final Profit is its at-a-glance visual appeal. I've been trying to improve on that for Oil Town in a bunch of ways.

The latest are these text-background graphics. Trying to blend both Witchy and Oily vibes.
October 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Working on a song for Oil Town but I accidentally made Clown Music...
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Oil Town isn't in Next Fest yet. But you can still Wishlist it!

store.steampowered.com/app/3696730/...

#IndieGames #GameDemos #OilTown
October 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Turns out promoting two games is twice the work...

Oil Town is also taking part in Melbourne International Games Week ☕✨

Catch the demo of this Final Profit spinoff!

store.steampowered.com/app/3696730/...

#MIGW25 #indiegames #gamedemo
October 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
the shining star of winter releases '98 demo disk
October 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Steam Autumn Sale is cool and all...

But i'm much more jazzed to be a part of Melbourne International Games Week! ☕✨

Which you may have trouble finding while Steam is busy blasting their own event all over the front page.

store.steampowered.com/sale/melbour...

#MIGW25 #steamsale #shopsim
October 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
WIP (sneaky peak) 👀

This is where we learn our first Witch Word in Oil Town. Since we have only one at this stage, we can't string it together with other Words yet. 🧹

But by itself, it can be used to Return a thrown Witch Orb back a short distance in it's spacetime.

#GameDev #OilTown 🎮
September 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Steam's Autumn and Winter sales had a falling out this year, so Autumn is coming over early while it figures some things out. 🍂

Final Profit is on sale! 🍎

Here's some timely discussion about it being a hidden gem 💎 www.reddit.com/r/CozyGamers...

#indiegames #steamsale #shopsim
September 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Now that you've pointed it out I can see the three values, missed the middle at first. I do still like the idea of restricting the overlaid lighting. But it may not align with your goals. Disregard at your leisure

With 3 base, and 3 overlaid, you could mix them to make a neat restricted palette.
September 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
When I look at the style guide, the light only has 3 sharp steps rather than using gradients. I'd be curious to see how that method would look. It would lose the pure darkness of caves, a way to cheat that effect back in would be using dark fog underground.
September 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
adrienne's generous shoutout yesterday generated the biggest wishlist spike in 3 months. big thanks!
September 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A fest just started that I thought for sure would be a slam dunk for Final Profit. But didn't even get a response. This industry really irks me sometimes. Everything is so gated and esoteric.
September 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Oil Town is in the ANZ Indie Showcase, premiering now! Come watch along.
September 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The timing could not be better. 🤗
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Finished Discounty today. I came out the other end with some critiques, but overall had a very enjoyable time. If the game sees expansion, I'll be there!
August 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
oh yes, it's time
August 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Didn't realise X-Com was my first Steam game. I still play it!

---
Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases

Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down
August 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Oil Town wishlists not found.
July 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I quietly set the Oil Town Playtest build live yesterday so I'd have an accessible way for patrons to poke at the game.

But it somehow has 100+ people signed up already. Didn't expect that, I'll have to think about running some public test weekends.
June 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM