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ManaBrent 🔮 Final Profit 🧹 +Wishlist: Oil Town
@finalprofit.bsky.social
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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
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Biz is feelin' it today.

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

On sale now!
store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/...
A drawing in a sketchbook of Biz, the main character from the PC indie game Final Profit: A Shop RPG. She looks slumped and sad.
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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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
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sure is!
a screenshot of a section of the steam store for indie PC game Final Profit, highlighting the change of size to the Steam store, using a sad faced rectangle.
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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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...
A website screenshot from finalprofit.com.au highlighting the new DevBlogs section. Pictured is the page dedicated to the origins of Mrs. Five, a character from the indie PC game Final Profit.
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Been sprucin' up the title screen.
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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hmm, there is a bit of a dropoff just after one megalitre, but apart from that the math checks out.
a highly accurate graph demonstrating the sales to wetness ratio.
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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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
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Working on a song for Oil Town but I accidentally made Clown Music...
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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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
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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
Key art from the upcoming PC indie game Oil Town. With a graphic for Melbourne International Games Week overlaid.
October 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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the shining star of winter releases '98 demo disk
a ps1 demo disk, winter releases '98
October 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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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
Key art from the PC indie game Final Profit: A Shop RPG, featuring a bald fae woman holding a coin. With a graphic representing Melbourne International Games Week overlaid.
October 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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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
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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
Art for the Steam Autumn Sale, with the capsule image for the indie PC game Final Profit: A Shop RPG. -50% off
September 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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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.
various shapes combining at different tonal values. all greyscale.
September 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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.
an isometric blocky terrain, there are two images, one has basic shapes overlaid in 3 colours indicating light levels.
September 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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adrienne's generous shoutout yesterday generated the biggest wishlist spike in 3 months. big thanks!
a screenshot of steam wishlist activity for the indie PC game Final Profit: A Shop RPG.
September 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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.
a screenshot from a steam fest, with text: MODERN CAPITALISM, run your business like it's 2025! Overlaid is the silhoette of Madama Biz, Queen Mab of the Fae, from the indie PC game Final Profit. She's looking down at her hand morosely, with the ends of her scarf billowing behind her.
September 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Oil Town is in the ANZ Indie Showcase, premiering now! Come watch along.
A graphic with the words STOP! My game is showing in the ANZ Indie Showcase, wrapped around art for the game Oil Town.
September 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The timing could not be better. 🤗
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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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!
A screenshot from the game Discounty, a 2d pixel art top down view of a supermarket.
August 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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oh yes, it's time
A Steam notification that says download complete, discounty, your game is ready to play.
August 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Didn't realise X-Com was my first Steam game. I still play it!

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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
A screenshot of early Steam purchases. 13th July 2009 Team Fortress 2, 2 July 2009 Left 5 Dead, Garry's Mod, The Orange Box, 9th May 2009 X-Com: UFO Defense.
August 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Oil Town wishlists not found.
A small screenshot snippet with text reading Wishlist Additions 404.
July 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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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.
A screenshot from the Steam page for the PC indie game Oil Town. Centered in the image is text 'Join the Oil Town Playtest' with a Request Access button below.
June 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM