Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Things we've learned making our first game: Art may be a bigger chunk of the game than the game UI design is the worst Dictionaries are cool! #indiegamedev #indiegames #gamedev 081
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 17/06/2026In case you missed it, yesterday we launched our very first demo on Steam. We're working on video games as a passion project and this has been our stepping stone to learn all the things we didn't know. And man, have we learned some things. Check it out!store.steampowered.comDesktop Legends Demo on SteamDesktop Legends is an idle desktop action game featuring fantasy character progression, incremental resource management, and visual customization. Help your hero take their legendary stand against… 000
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Today's the day! Check out the demo for Desktop Legends, live now: store.steampowered.com/app/4736390/... We can't wait to hear what you all think. Join our Discord (discord.gg/6tAXtN2ZW ) to let us know how it's going, or leave us a message on the Steam Community page. #desktoplegendsstore.steampowered.comDesktop Legends Demo on SteamDesktop Legends is an idle desktop action game featuring fantasy character progression, incremental resource management, and visual customization. Help your hero take their legendary stand against… 000
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 13/06/2026It's been a while since we've posted, here's what we've been up to: Revamped our store page Finalized a build of our demo Getting amped to share our game with the world! Check it out on June 15th! #DesktopLegends #indiegames #desktopcompanion 050
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It's official, we have a drop date for our free demo! Come join us on June 15th to try out Desktop Legends for free! Play as the noble knight and earn coins to spend on upgrades and cosmetics. #DesktopLegends #indiegames #pixelartgames 030
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Ready for a nice cozy festival? We are! We're so excited to be a part of the Taskbar Treasures Week starting today! Check us out on Steam! buff.ly/7wqf6Tv #TaskbarTreasuresWeek #indiegames #DesktopIdleGames 021
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Don't forget, we have a steam page now! Desktop Legends is a desktop buddy game where you watch your hero fight off hordes of enemies for those sweet, sweet coins that get you upgrades and cosmetics. Wishlist now to be alerted when our demo drops! buff.ly/0pQwHKb #indiegames #desktopbuddybuff.lyDesktop Legends on SteamDesktop Legends is an idle desktop action game featuring fantasy character progression, incremental resource management, and visual customization. Help your hero take their legendary stand against… 040
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Yeah, thinking about it early is a great call! It definitely can help drive a lot of decisions if you know how to shape your architecture early on. 000
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Yep! We had done something that worked pretty quick, but broke as soon as we tried to implement changes. So then we had to backtrack for a week to fix it all. 010
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 15/09/2025It's rough too since saving/loading isn't some new feature, content, or even impactful to gameplay like balance tweaks so it feels like there's nothing to show for all the time spent on it. Guess that's encouragement to design it well the first time! 110
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Yep, feel you. Been head down for the past week after realizing that some balance changes break the loading function! 000
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Yeah… this is our first time with saving and loading, so we totally broke the game when we updated something. I think we’ve spent the past week revamping our saving structure so it’s far less brittle! But that was a painful lesson. 010
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Before we got started in game dev, we both thought save games were just... like... some sort of snapshot of the game state? Like maybe there was a standard way to do this? Apparently, for every game you kinda just make up the save/load structure as you go. #gamedev #indiedev 8325
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 13/09/2025New hero in the works! #pixelart #indiegames 0121
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I'm not quite up to Silksong levels of masochism... I never did well with platformers. But Expedition 33 has been every bit as gorgeous as I was hoping. I think my only gripe is with the lip synching. 000
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 08/09/2025A new challenger approaches! Now that our demo is up on Itch, we've been able to make some progress on further progression. Get ready for slimes to enter the fray. Check it out: buff.ly/ng8bkf8 #DesktopLegends #gamedev #indiegames 070
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 06/09/2025First week of our game being out! We passed 100 wishlists on Steam already, which is actually way more than we were expecting for our first Steam page ever. Thanks guys! Wishlist now: buff.ly/lvCq9PC #DesktopLegends #indiegames #gamedevbuff.lyDesktop Legends on SteamDesktop Legends is an idle desktop action game featuring fantasy character progression, incremental resource management, and visual customization. Help your hero take their legendary stand against… 0124
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Already working on adding some suggested features to Desktop Legends. Coming soon: clicking the hero will make him attack immediately instead of having to wait for his auto-attack cooldown. #DesktopLegends #gamedev #indiegames 082
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Phew, took the day off of a lot of stuff yesterday for Labor Day, but hitting the short week strong this morning! We've got over 100 wishlists on Steam since launching our page and our demo on itch.io! Off to a great start! #DesktopLegends #gamedev 051
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 30/08/2025We have a Steam page! Desktop Legends is an idle desktop action game featuring fantasy character progression, incremental resource management, and visual customization. Help your hero take their legendary stand against the forces of darkness right on your desktop! buff.ly/RoVfMMX #gamedev 032
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 26/08/2025All of the game assets for the itch demo are ready, time to make some progress on updates for the Steam demo! New arena packs, new enemy types, maybe even more hero upgrades and interventions. It's wild to think about how far we've come since picking up game dev in April! #indiedevs #gamedev 071
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 23/08/2025We may not have the Steam page officially launched yet (it's coming, I promise) but here's one of the screenshots that will be on the page! Customize your arena, upgrade your hero, fight off hordes of enemies, all while going about your normal day. #gamedev #indiegame 1123
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 19/08/2025This week in game dev: Getting our demo ready to launch on itch! Slight hiccup, we got fancy with some of our node structures and now our game runs great on desktop as one of those desktop buddy apps, but is totally not playable in a web browser. Yet. #gamedev #indiegames 072
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Totally! Finished is better than perfect! Sometimes you gotta just say “this is good enough” and maybe lie a little and say you’ll come back to it later 😅 010
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I swear, so much of game design is just reiterating the user interface... Or fixing sprites that I'd missed doing a shadow on. I feel like I never get to check things off the list, we just add more on 🥲 #gamedev #gameart #indiegames 1123
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Summoning divine interventions? Yep, we're working on a desktop idler that will be fully idle, but with the option to be more involved whenever you want to. Call down meteors, shake goblins for loose change, and more! #gamedev #indiegames 0123
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Coming up on a Steam page launch in the near future! We just need to make our trailer, a few more screenshots of gameplay, and a library hero image. (Why do we need a hero image if we don't even have a demo to add to people's libraries yet...?) #gamedev #indiegames 0112
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Our little game jam game just got featured by itch.io. Neat! youtu.be/TqJ5zsCA-ZM?... 000
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Thoughts from dev today: #gamedev #indiegames 173
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Didn’t know about #internationalcatday but now I do! Here’s a picture of our dev kitties, Charlie and Tress. Named for characters in Brandon Sanderson’s “Tress of the Emerald Sea.” #devcats #cats 040
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Hubby's playlist while he codes this week has been Studio Ghibli scores. No wonder I've been falling asleep all week! Hazbin Hotel inspired playlist while he's working his real job, check! #gamedev #indiegames #workingfromhome 094
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Yeah, that's a good point, it can only be a positive for people who do leave their sound on as long as we offer a way to turn sounds off. Amusingly, I'm not sure that cozy music is going to fit our vibe, which is why we were wondering about this to begin with. 110
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 05/08/2025I'd really like to know, how many people turn off music and sound in idle games? Like, should we even spend the energy on those if people just immediately turn them off? Or does it hurt the initial vibe if there's no sound? #indiedev #gamedev 1122
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 04/08/2025The Bestiary is shaping up for our game! Here you can see the Goblin's stats as it levels up. Goblins don't give many coins, but they're easy for the hero to kill quickly. #indiegames #pixelart 071
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Watched a video on how to market your games last week talking about capsule art. It was some great insight, but now I'm all inside my own head about how to make stuff for our game. Artist imposter syndrome, activate! #gameart #indiedev 040
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Thanks for the input! We're working on our first game as a desktop buddy, and it may have run away from us already. We're a little ways from an official announcement, but we're starting to get worried that we have too much player interaction 😫 We'll be playtesting on itch.io probably this fall. 010
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 29/07/2025What's the difference between an idle/incremental game and a desktop buddy? They have a lot of similarities, but should a desktop buddy be more or less active than a regular idle game? #gamedev #indiegames 192
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 28/07/2025We have a hero! Not done with all of his animations yet, but he's looking mighty nice on the selection page already! #pixelart #indiedev 050
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Working as a team of two on a game is wild. Actual conversation with hubby today: H: I wonder how far along we are. 60%? Me, drowning in unfinished assets: uhhhh.... 20%...? #indiedev #gameart 050
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Lesson learned: I wanted characters with 8 directions for each animation loop. But I delayed work on our Gobbo for 2 weeks because diagonals are hard. Trashed those and finished the rest of the animations in a couple of days. Don't let perfect get in the way of good, guys. #artblocks #indiedev 040
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 21/07/2025So, just gonna say, I kinda hate working on UI. Hate the art part of it, hate making it work in engine when things inevitably refuse to line up. But the finished product is so worth the struggle! Here's a tease of our menu which looks like a tome with bookmarks and wax seals. #gamedev #indiegames 0104
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Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Dev checkup! Hubby is the tinkering type, so while he waits on his lazy art department (me!) he figures out new things to add to the game. Does this add more art needs...? Yes. Yes it does. But being able to pick up and shake a goblin for loose change is totally worth it! #indiegames #gamedev 083
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Dang. We're halfway through July, already. Anyone participating in some cool summer game jams before fall crazy hits? #indiegames #gamedev 092
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Hey, it's Monday again! I've really been enjoying sharing my art progress as we go, so take a look. This week I wrapped up a second enemy, the Hobgoblin. Coming up, I'm going to be making art for the Steam store page, so keep an eye out for an announcement! #pixelart #indiedev 090
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Let's check in with dev, and not just art. We've started playing around with sound effects, and discovered that foley sound is fun! The clicking sound in our UI? Yeah, that's an ethernet cable getting plugged in. #foleysound #gamedev 073
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 08/07/2025What do we do when not making our game? Well, a lot actually, we haven't quit our day jobs yet... but also, games! This week I'm playing Wanderstop, hubby is playing some Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, and we're both testing out the early access of Runescape: Dragonwilds! 000
Crazybear Games @crazybeargames.bsky.social · 07/07/2025We're inching closer to being ready to unveil our game for real. This week we've been building out the Steam store page and I'm kinda overwhelmed by how much Steam helps developers. Here's a sneak peak of one of the arena options! #pixelart #indiegame 092
