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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 4h

Just sent my final invoice to the consulting gig, which means I now know exactly how much budget Decaying Games will have to make our games. It's not nothing! But it is definitely also not a whole lot, in the grand scheme of things. 1½ years of runway, give or take.😄 Starving indie mode is a go!

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 5h

It's already been a week, but I still catch myself at least once every evening thinking "I need to go to bed soon so I don't miss tomorrow's meetings...", after which I remember that I don't have them anymore.. 😆 I can just continue making indie games tomorrow!!

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 12h

Today is another day of just "Make Stuff". It's crude and not final, but more about filling out the visible environment in the trailer. Yet somehow able to utilize some Swedish architecture philosophies in amongst this lol (I'll try to remember to point out how after the trailer goes live)

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 30/09/2026

Getting it down to just 9 games is hard, but today this is the list I end up with. Out of these, Vending Machine game definitely picks up on a few things from Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, as well as The Neverhood and Starship Titanic, surprisingly enough.

A three by three grid of nine games that defined me. The games are Riven, The Neverhood, Whiplash, Pokemon Red, Zelda The Wind Waker, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, Atlantis the Lost Tales, Starship Titanic, and Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 30/09/2026

Ooo, it appears I've hopped over from the waitlist and into the reservation queue for the Steam Frame! Now let's see how long it takes for it to actually become available.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 25/09/2026

Consultant work: Done. ✅ Now it's just all indie games all the time. For as long as I can. Proper full announcement of the Vending Machine game incoming... soon? Exact date TBD.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 24/09/2026

Just saw the announcement of the new VR glasses from Meta. This might shock some people, but I'm going to be staying clear of those. The integrated Ai assistant is a dealbreaker for me, on top of everything else Meta has done over the years to push me away.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 24/09/2026

A shame it's Meta-exclusive, but certainly an unexpected VR game!

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 23/09/2026

Showed off parts of the game to some more fellow devs today, and the same feedback keeps coming up; "This is a great idea!" I really want to turn that into "This seems like a fun game!"

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 19/09/2026

Been having a very productive day on the game. Some updated background assets, a few NPC emotion visuals, and a new resource bar. Feels good, as I won't have time to do much of anything on it the coming calendar week. 😅

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 19/09/2026

Goddamnit. "National Vending Machine Day" was two days ago, completely slipped my mind. I knew I should have added an actual calendar reminder for it, instead of just adding it to the faux calendar planning thing we have on our Miro board. 😆 I guess my intended teaser wasn't ready anyway, oh well.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 18/09/2026

Added a small visual thing to the game today that I've wanted to put in for months but never got around to until now. It's yet another small something that to me is very distinctly Japan, even though I know other countries has it as well. It's also just a background asset. But it makes me happy.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 18/09/2026

We had a pretty solid candidate track for a while already, but I think we just ended up with the final tweaked version of it for the announcement trailer. We're still not done with the visuals though, so it'll be at least a little while longer yet before we want to share it.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 17/09/2026

Aw, ended up on the waitlist for Steam Frame. Bummer.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 17/09/2026

They took their sweet time, but they finally fixed it. Now I actually have the banking features I thought I already had. 😂

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 15/09/2026

Since it's almost time for a new headset, it felt like a good opportunity to update my steam VR library. Sadly there wasn't as much new nor as interesting games I didn't have as I'd hoped. It's not wholly unsurprising given how relatively little love SteamVR has gotten the past 7 years, but still.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 14/09/2026

I'll belive it when I see it, but there sure are a lot of murmurs suggesting Steam Frame will become available later today. My wallet is readied.

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm pleased to announce that around 200 pages' worth of tutorial resources are coming to the Game UI Database for FREE via a brand new blog. No ads. No paywalls. No email signups. Here's a preview of the first piece dropping next week, all about crafting cross-platform control schemes and layouts!

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 13/09/2026

A peek behind the curtain: Today was going to be the (self-imposed) deadline for being ready to record and edit the announcement trailer for the Vending Machine game. Visuals aren't yet on par enough compared to what we want, so we're going to take some more time to make a better first impression.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 12/09/2026

2030 is wild. That's another two full lifetimes of Decaying Games so far haha I don't even know what my life will look like by then. � www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eQU...

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STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion

YouTube video by StarCraft

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 12/09/2026

Just glancing through since I'm not hopping into my Godot adventures for a while still, but the whole everything about this tutorial looks really well-made and very informative. Saving for future reference!

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 12/09/2026

Been using a very scuffed video recording setup for a while, but now that I'm actually doing a proper trailer I decided to give my workflow an update. Nothing groundbreaking; just OBS for recording, and Resolve for editing. Proper 4K 60fps videos, without going wild on file size!

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 11/09/2026

This really sucks to see. Polyarc really came out swinging and went above and beyond on Moss, and I was hoping to see what they would eventually do beyond those games. Damnit.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 09/09/2026

Happy that I've been able to not necessarily do one asset per day, but I have pushed at least one commit to the project every day for the past two weeks! Still a few weeks left of needing to keep this up tho. And 19 calendar days until I'm full-time on it.

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Taconite @taconite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The only thing I hope they keep 1 to 1

That owl from LoZ:OoT where he hits you with "Did you get all that?" and it selects "No" automatically

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 08/09/2026

This is a good read for anyone developing in XR. Owlchemy are among the longest surviving studios in the space, so it's only natural they have a lot of good lessons learnt. Then they also happen to make really fun and accessible games!

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 07/09/2026

"Attaching coin skeletons to front door" is a really weird sentence out of context. I will not provide context.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 07/09/2026

Happy birthday to my dev-partner-in-crime for the Vending Machine game, @derai.bsky.social! 🥳 While he happily lets me do all the public-facing stuff, I do want to shout him out, as the game wouldn't be possible nor exist without him. 😄

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Pikachu & Togepi Happy Birthday

ALT: Pikachu & Togepi Happy Birthday

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 07/09/2026

Bank was called, "international payment service" has been requested (but will apparently take ~5 business days as it's a "high-security-risk service". But that's still well within the payment window! It once again pays off to be on top of things, who'd have thunk?

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 06/09/2026

Only 3 weeks left on the consultant gig. I am excited. Not to leave honestly - it's been a blast - but to finally be able to fully focus on the Vending Machine game, and beyond.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 05/09/2026

A reminder that Decaying Games has a profile on Steam that you can follow, which will let you be notified when the Steam Page for the Vending Machine game does go live. (and for any of our future games beyond that!) store.steampowered.com/curator/4603...

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Steam Curator: Decaying Games

Indiedev from Sweden. More to come.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 05/09/2026

Hah! Was going to pay our localizers, but apparently my bank hasn't activated the "International payments service" for my account! Good thing I'm on top of invoices pretty much as soon as I can, so there's plenty of time to fix this. Would have been a disaster otherwise. 😅

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 05/09/2026

It's a general election year in Sweden, and I have voted! ✅🗳️

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 03/09/2026

I was so absorbed in fixing stuff for the Vending Machine game that I completely missed a delivery a few hours ago. 😅 Sorry for not picking up, delivery person.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 03/09/2026

Steam page for the Vending Machine game has now been translated to eight languages ✅ And we're still more than a month out from our intended announcement. 😂

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 02/09/2026

Just saw the near-final mockups for the cover art and logo for the vending machine game. Really have to hold myself back from just immediately posting them everywhere. 😆

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 31/08/2026

A new account for a vending machine company just added me as their second followed account, with the official Bluesky account being the only earlier one. I will take this to mean that I'm doing something right here, at least? 😂

Screenshot of the "follows" section of a new account. The earliest followed account listed is Bluesky's official account, and the next one is my account (@decaying.games)

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 30/08/2026

I've been waning myself off of energy drinks for a while now, and had my last one a couple of months ago. But around that time I bought 4 small cans that have just been sitting there, waiting, in case I need the caffeine boost (I don't drink coffee). Today I cracked open one of them.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 29/08/2026

After some back-and-forth with Support (which just took a long time because of the timezone difference), they did eventually identify the problem as theirs to fix, and I was ultimately allowed to pay them a big sack of money in exchange for their fancy hardware. 😌

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 26/08/2026

Sent the Steam store page text to get translated (by human professionals)! It's a bit earlier than we need to, but would rather have it ready early and make sure the localizations get set up okay instead of doing them last minute.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 26/08/2026

- Get email that I can buy Steam Machine - Try to order Steam Machine - Purchase failed - Call bank: no problems here! - Try different card: purchase failed - Try follow steam support - End up at "yeah your purchase failed." No other way to contact or escalate the problem. 😑

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 25/08/2026

Probably going to need to do like one asset per day for the next couple of weeks in order to make sure we'll have a decent enough trailer ready in time for the Store page launch. Between that and neatly wrapping up my responsibilities at the consulting gig, it's going to be a brutal September...

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 25/08/2026

No other vending machine game announced at ONL. Looks like we'll still be able to corner the market with this.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 24/08/2026

Reminder that if you want more frequent Vending Machine game updates, and/or be in the Decaying Games discord server before it becomes all popular and THE cool place to hang out, you can go here: discord.gg/jAZzcs9yDd

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 22/08/2026

My mom is texting me in-progress photos of her building a Lego R2D2. "It's going to be able to blink and make some sounds, I think" ...there are no doubts of why I am the massive nerd that I am.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 22/08/2026

Today's Vending Machine dev included getting the first character head 3D model to the point where I can get back to finishing touches later, and locked in the Steam store page descriptions so it can be sent over for translations during next week! Next up: more props!

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