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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Finished a new scene - As Night Falls. 🌘 Behind the scenes infos are on Artsation www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag3H... #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #hdrp

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Sundown Valley @sundownvalley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🌄Dev Update 4: One of the peaceful spots you can discover while wandering through the valley. A good spot to pause for a moment. #indiegame #gamedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity

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Sundown Valley @sundownvalley.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

📸 Photo-mode is slowly coming together. More features are coming soon! #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #cozygames #madewithunity

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Sundown Valley @sundownvalley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

📸 Photo-mode is now officially underway. You'll be able to tweak the look of the scene to your liking and take in-game screenshots, with more features as development continues! What features would you like to see added to the photo-mode? ✨ #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #cozygames #madewithunity

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Sundown Valley @sundownvalley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

First Development Update of Sundown Valley. In these posts you will see details about how the development is going. This is a work in progress version but I hope to make this a regular, maybe weekly thing in the future. #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #cozygames #madewithunity

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Looks super helpful! Thanks for you work Kenney!

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

It's time to share the Announcement Trailer for the game I've been working on for a good while now! Check it out! #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Just finished an atmospheric autumn sunset scene in Unity 6 🍂! Teamed up with Asset Store creator @londonjamesgames.bsky.social for this one! #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev #unity3d #leveldesign #URP

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Working on a new, autumn design. More coming soon! 🍂 Also on a technical sidenote I love how nice global illumination looks, and also how fast it is to bake with APVs. #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Quick question: Would you rather have AI voices in an indie game or no voice acting? #indiedev #gamedev #gaming #indiegames

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

An in-editor screenshot for #screenshotsaturday. Birds and dynamic cloud shadows really enhances the liveliness of the game. #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #solodev

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I think I had a bit too much fun playing around with real time gi in Unity 6 #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #hdrp

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

How important is photo mode to you in a game, especially where exploration is key (like in Firewatch)? Is it worth the time developing it? Do you use it? #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Yes, the main idea is to create a cozy valley environment where you want to explore and get lost in. A bit like how Eastshade did it (amazing game, I can only recommend it). It will be a mix Eastshade, Firewatch, a bit of Life is Strange in terms of overall vibey although much smaller in scope.

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Thank you! It's an exploration game where you control a ball with fun abilities, explore the valley, engage with side activities like mini-games, treasure hunt, and a puzzle, and also discover your own story about nostalgia and lost dreams. The game lets you reflect and hopefully inspire you!

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Yeah, that makes sense. I'm really looking forward to seeing your progress. Also I know you probably heard it quite a few times already but you are one of the reasons I make games and environemnt designs as a hobby, you're a big inspiration to me and many others :)

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Btw I'm also making an open world game in Unity 6.0 URP, and dived deep for optimizations, because it ran pretty poorly, but with custom heavily customized lods, GPU Resident Drawer and GPU Occlusion Culling and other tweaks it runs with ~110fps on Ultra on a 1660ti.

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Hey David! Can I ask why you decided to port it to URP? And how do you plan to recreate the visual fidelity there?

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Hey! The new demo looks great, any news if it will go public and if yes, when? The game looks great btw, it really shows you put much love into őt!

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

On a more technical note, I'm currently seriously considering rewriting the movement script and other scripts to support the "new" input system in Unity. I just tried it out in a new project and it is amazing. Bit harder to set up but so much more flexible later.

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

New screenshot of my game. Things have slowed a bit down but I'm still working on the game and preparing some big things. #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

These look amazing, thanks for the recommendations!

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

How did I not hear about this tool sooner? This seems incredible, have you guys tried it, how is it? (The video is not mine) youtu.be/Oylx_SWnlgE?... #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I did a deep dive in optimizing games. The first screenshot is from my build from November, second is my most recent build. In the meantime I almost finished building my open world map while getting these massive performance improvements. #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Nice! I really look forward to this game, looks super cozy!

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I recently continued playing The Witcher 3 and it looks mind blowingly good, especially considering that it came out in 2015. I'm honestly amazed that even a random spot in a forest looks this amazing! #gaming #games #witcher

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

One of my favorite games of my childhood, I cannot wait for the reveal!!

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The first image is without, the second is with APVs, what do you think, which do you like better?

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I've been working on lighting recently. I figured that I like the contrasty look of the open parts of the map, but the indoors could use some Global Illumination. I decided to use Unity's APVs and set them to local so only the indoors are affected. #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Btw she'll be working on my game's UI and 2D part in general. Check her out, she's amazing! #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I mainly focused on my game and other social media this year, but I'll try to focus more on designs again aswell. Thank you all so much for supporting me on any platform, it means a lot! More exciting projects and updates are coming this and next year!! #indiedev #gamedev #artstation #madewithunity

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

It's amazing to see how Godot evolves year after year! I especially love the amazing quality of 3D games shown here. Hoping all the best for this engine! #indiedev #godot

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Can't wait to create more cinematics like this around the reserve! Insipred by Life is Strange Moment of Calm videos. #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #cinematic

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This looks absolutely amazing, what engine are you using?

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

With Christmas coming up it might be time to work on some winter themed designs again. I still haven't finished my winter design from last year where I wanted to create a really film-like look (the first 3 pics are from that project). #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #christmas

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

While optimizing my game I decided to try out the new GPU Resident Drawer. That's a nice performance boost without any visual downgrade or further optimizations. #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity

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Ákos Kovács - Making Sundown Valley @kovacsakos02.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Winter is coming to the reserve. Still very much work in progress but I'm getting there. - I'm testing the possibility of a semi-snowy environment in the mountains for my game. What do you think? #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #madewithunity

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