Stein at GodotFest
@steinmakesgames.bsky.social
Game developer working on mining roguelike Dig Dig Boom. #indiedev Stein Makes Games - using #godot!
⭐Wishlist my game: s.team/a/2026040
🥇"Game of the Year" 2023 at StartNTNU Norwegian Game Awards
🔗Links: https://linktr.ee/steinmakesgames
⭐Wishlist my game: s.team/a/2026040
🥇"Game of the Year" 2023 at StartNTNU Norwegian Game Awards
🔗Links: https://linktr.ee/steinmakesgames
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I'm making a puzzly mining game! In Dig Dig Boom you dig and blast your way through procedurally generated caves in search of treasure - but time only moves when you do! Wishlist on Steam!
#indiegames #gaming #gamedev #godot
#indiegames #gaming #gamedev #godot
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The first auduence laugh at #GodotFest:
*Mention of thr Unity runtime incident*
"We are very sorry for them... but it was very good for Godot"
*Mention of thr Unity runtime incident*
"We are very sorry for them... but it was very good for Godot"
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The first auduence laugh at #GodotFest:
*Mention of thr Unity runtime incident*
"We are very sorry for them... but it was very good for Godot"
*Mention of thr Unity runtime incident*
"We are very sorry for them... but it was very good for Godot"
For years I have heard people saying "You need an elevator pitch". At #GodotFest, the hypothetical scenario finally actually happened: A game dev in the hotel elevator actually asked me what sort of game I was working on and I managed to explain it before they left the elevator at the next floor.
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For years I have heard people saying "You need an elevator pitch". At #GodotFest, the hypothetical scenario finally actually happened: A game dev in the hotel elevator actually asked me what sort of game I was working on and I managed to explain it before they left the elevator at the next floor.
Reposted by Stein at GodotFest
I made my own #Godot merch to give to people I meet at #GodotFest
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I made my own #Godot merch to give to people I meet at #GodotFest
Going through airport security with roughly 115 grams of Godot.
November 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Going through airport security with roughly 115 grams of Godot.
I made my own #Godot merch to give to people I meet at #GodotFest
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I made my own #Godot merch to give to people I meet at #GodotFest
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
📰 Nintendo's patent on "games where you summon characters to fight for you" is being reexamined by the US patent office, evaluating its validity. #gamedev #gaming #nintendo
gamesfray.com/huge-blow-fo...
gamesfray.com/huge-blow-fo...
HUGE blow to Nintendo: head of U.S. patent office takes RARE step to order reexamination of “summon subcharacter and let it fight in 1 of 2 modes” patent – games fray
gamesfray.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
📰 Nintendo's patent on "games where you summon characters to fight for you" is being reexamined by the US patent office, evaluating its validity. #gamedev #gaming #nintendo
gamesfray.com/huge-blow-fo...
gamesfray.com/huge-blow-fo...
Found some notes from #playtesting 2 years ago, one of the first instances I had observing strangers play my game for the first time. Was interesting insight, still much applicable!
November 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Found some notes from #playtesting 2 years ago, one of the first instances I had observing strangers play my game for the first time. Was interesting insight, still much applicable!
#gamedev PSA: #Steam recently changed how review score is calculated. Previously it was a global average. Since this August, the score a user sees is based off the reviews in the user's language. So there's less risk to localise to languages with lower than average rating habits:
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Gaming Market Analyst Chris Zukowski argues indie games are currently in a new golden era, considering a large portion of Steam's best sellers atm are easy-to-make genres for small teams with short development cycles and low budgets. #indiedev
howtomarketagame.com/2025/11/04/t...
Hot genres atm:
howtomarketagame.com/2025/11/04/t...
Hot genres atm:
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Gaming Market Analyst Chris Zukowski argues indie games are currently in a new golden era, considering a large portion of Steam's best sellers atm are easy-to-make genres for small teams with short development cycles and low budgets. #indiedev
howtomarketagame.com/2025/11/04/t...
Hot genres atm:
howtomarketagame.com/2025/11/04/t...
Hot genres atm:
Upon seeing this meme, I just finished playtesting my own mining game. Think I'm safe.
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Upon seeing this meme, I just finished playtesting my own mining game. Think I'm safe.
I've seen this statisticial pattern on other games, with Chinese speaking gamers representing a high proportion of negative reviews. As was the case in Silksong, the original translations were pretty bad. Having bad translations in your game gives a worse review score than none at all! #gamedev
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I've seen this statisticial pattern on other games, with Chinese speaking gamers representing a high proportion of negative reviews. As was the case in Silksong, the original translations were pretty bad. Having bad translations in your game gives a worse review score than none at all! #gamedev
For those of you whose venn diagram of interests has overlap between data analysis and gaming; very interesting analysis of Steam reviews on SilkSong:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EK...
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
For those of you whose venn diagram of interests has overlap between data analysis and gaming; very interesting analysis of Steam reviews on SilkSong:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EK...
Did a new round of local playtesting today. I keep seeing that players don't notice the item hotbar (top of the screen) and thus often don't change tool (number keys). Any ideas to make it more clear? (There's no tutorial atm, so I'm atm just observing what people figure out going in blind)
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Did a new round of local playtesting today. I keep seeing that players don't notice the item hotbar (top of the screen) and thus often don't change tool (number keys). Any ideas to make it more clear? (There's no tutorial atm, so I'm atm just observing what people figure out going in blind)
Some indie devs have recently reported reaching negative amounts of Steam wishlists! So if regular wishlists send an email when the game releases, what do negative wishlists do? 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Some indie devs have recently reported reaching negative amounts of Steam wishlists! So if regular wishlists send an email when the game releases, what do negative wishlists do? 🤔
Just noticed #Godot 4.6 project manager added a cute lil donate button. (fund.godotengine.org)
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Just noticed #Godot 4.6 project manager added a cute lil donate button. (fund.godotengine.org)
Following the age old video game tradition of having rooms of random wooden crates.
(Also managed to snap the screenshot the moment the character was blinking unevenly, as he some times does)
(Also managed to snap the screenshot the moment the character was blinking unevenly, as he some times does)
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Following the age old video game tradition of having rooms of random wooden crates.
(Also managed to snap the screenshot the moment the character was blinking unevenly, as he some times does)
(Also managed to snap the screenshot the moment the character was blinking unevenly, as he some times does)
I've come to realize that most level designers in video games greatly over-estimate how common it is to see this object:
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I've come to realize that most level designers in video games greatly over-estimate how common it is to see this object:
For those of you who might be interested in the new demo version of my game, when that comes, I got a discord for all the insider discussion!:
discord.com/invite/YKbyZ...
Been neglecting it a bit since after I finished the previous demo build of 2023-24 version, but more's coming! #indiedev
discord.com/invite/YKbyZ...
Been neglecting it a bit since after I finished the previous demo build of 2023-24 version, but more's coming! #indiedev
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
For those of you who might be interested in the new demo version of my game, when that comes, I got a discord for all the insider discussion!:
discord.com/invite/YKbyZ...
Been neglecting it a bit since after I finished the previous demo build of 2023-24 version, but more's coming! #indiedev
discord.com/invite/YKbyZ...
Been neglecting it a bit since after I finished the previous demo build of 2023-24 version, but more's coming! #indiedev
Okay, maybe just a small number on the bomb is better?:
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Okay, maybe just a small number on the bomb is better?:
Testing new explosives countdown visualizer.
Do the dots under the bomb make sense?
#indiedev #madewithgodot
Do the dots under the bomb make sense?
#indiedev #madewithgodot
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Testing new explosives countdown visualizer.
Do the dots under the bomb make sense?
#indiedev #madewithgodot
Do the dots under the bomb make sense?
#indiedev #madewithgodot
