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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 01/10/2026

My goal is that by this time next week, we've started to wait for Steam to review the store page.

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 01/10/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

It was just two long projects (~2 years each) and a year of job hunting where I didn't get anything done. Before that I had 9 in 8 years 😄

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Dee-Kej | Vending Machine game in progress @decaying.games · 29/09/2026

Need to up my game a bit to get back to the 1 game/year-as-a-gamedev ratio that I used to have. 😄

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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

As always, hardware looks good specs-wise. And in the past that has been enough to keep me on board despite my reservations with Meta as a company. No more.

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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

There is however a similar event happening in Spring. Not going to forget that one! *adds to calendar, along with next year's Vending Machine Day*

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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 · 19/09/2026

The "clean" 3D makes it feel like they removed the patina.

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

In a few weeks I'll be able to show these things instead of just talking about it. Soon.

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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

One more week remains until I can go full-time on it!

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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

..and two more... You know, I'm at least happy that this means that there are headsets getting out there. I got worried for a bit.

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

Haha, another one as well! Valve should have chosen a better wording for this, it seems like 😆

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

Turns out one of my friends DID in fact end up in the reservation queue; they just thought it meant waitlist!

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

A fair few number of people did, it looks like steamframeout.com

a poll result showing the amount of waitlists versus reservations that exist for the Steam Frame. It reads 6991 waitlists and 5646 reservations. The poll is entirely community-driven, and still updating.

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

Currently at eight people I know that I've been able to check with - everyone is on the waiting list. Who DID get to buy the Frame?

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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

Apparently the requested materials I supplied had a small discrepancy; I hadn't realized the company I'm trying to pay for their services was headquartered in one EU country, but had their bank in another EU country. Only found out because I called them up to ask what's taking so long...

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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

Just the fact that both Dave and I are still doing this part-time for now has proven even more taxing than we steeled ourselves for. We have an intended store page reveal date, one we're not abandoning yet. But unfortunately it's going to be a bit longer until we can properly show off the game!

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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

Ofc these days it's apparently filled with "AI tools" like everything else, so going to see if I can find an alternative...

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

Since I never really did anything important with the videos, it "worked" enough to get me by. But obviously not the best setup. 😂 This new one is so much better and faster. Would've gone over to Resolve sooner, but it was crashing a lot last time I tried it.

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

I used to do a weird process with: 1. NVIDIA recording, into 2. After Effects CS6 for edits (but it doesn't really cut clips up properly) and export, but the files were so bloated and the wrong format, so into 3. VLC for video conversion, but it often didn't render properly so had to rerun it...

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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 · 08/09/2026

I kid, of course. Looking foward to see what they've been able to do to the game, almost 30 years later.

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