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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I have not seen it put like this before, but man do this autistic creator agree whole heartedly, louder for the people in the back 💪

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Time for a little terrain update, now we are running Terrain2D in stead of the true 3D voxel terrain i had over the weekend, this means 1/5th the memory usage with out many any optimizations. and still the same visual. #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I wanna Share some cool stuff, after the first playtest it was painfully obvious that the original placeholder terrain had run it course. so i am currently cooking up a new one. with the help of the amazing @makertech.bsky.social's tutorials on youtube. 😍🚂🚃🚃🚃 #IndieGameDev #Godot #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

next work on the board is updating the stations. Now the first building of the game is in, and able to be dynamically resized. placeholder still but it is a big mile stone i think. #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Now that the refactor is released i would like to share the numbers : * Contemplating giving up : 3 * Mental breakdowns : 2 (math) * Files changed : 795. * Lines added : 6794. * Lines removed : 4006. * 125 hours over 80 days. #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Friends of the Night Raven, 2 Nerdy Nerds are building a awesome Zombie Horde survivor, with the Unique 2.5 D hand drawn style, if that is your type of game, go give them a Wishlist! we for sure did. 💪 🚂🚃🚃 All aboard the hype train !

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hey trying that live thing. Hop over to twitch and see a game get build www.twitch.tv/stephanienight

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StephanieNight - Twitch

Dev time | Empire Of Steam | Track system

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

As part of the mega refactor i am also in the middle of a rebuild the track building system, inplimenting a a* algorithm. Took a while but finnally seeing progress. #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I think i need to take a page from the jook of streaming, excellent explanation GMTK!

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Friend of the Raven, @professionalpanda.bsky.social has gone Freelance, so if you need help with game design, production or just a kind soul on your team, i would give them a chat.

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Friend of the Ravens, Rat pack Digital, is going to Animecon in Rijswijk, with a playable demo, Bugboy looks like a great throwback to the great gameboy days!

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Rat Pack Digital | Pixel Nomad 🐝 @ratpackdigital.com · 13/04/2026

Playable demo will be shown off at the Rat Pack Digital booth on Animecon in The Netherlands next weekend! Wishlist Bugboy here store.steampowered.com/app/3095130/... #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It is for times like the great code refactor i am really happy for stable Git version control software. Let's COOK 💪 #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This really is sad, to a point i dont jet know how to describe. But looking forward to steam powered tycoon getting similar reviews i guess 😅

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Our Friend of Nigth raven, Jake Has started building a incremental game about spells, kindly go check it out, if you can and share your feedback

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Working on getting settings working on the game, and now we have a quality slider, save and load system is coming tomorrow #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Testing some webm files. Added in a sound file to test the chuffs of the engine, provided by the amazing @kenney.nl Impact sounds, as a stand in. amazing what a little sound can do to a game. #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A lot has happened since the last update here, Cargo can now be moved, there is a notion of economy, some use ability from the early feedback, and now a basic main menu scene is taking shape. #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Sometimes a little extra can go a long way, like a label rising and shopwing how much what you build just cost you. soon the economy update is here #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

After routing and pathfinding got implimented it was time to move on to the next milestone, trains stats : this invulved redoing all inital calculations for power to SI and then added acceleration. Catch me if you can! #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame #RailroadTycoon

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Double Update time. After the basic design of the engines was running we movced on with setting up a actual train and its routes. The idea is to have routes like Transport Fewer 2 and a list of trains per route, and how many of each. #IndieGameDev #TycoonGame #Godot #GameDev #TrainGame

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Update time, After the research tree got implimented and all the data moved out of the game in spreadsheets for easy edits. we continued to one main feature of the game, Engine spec manipulations, by adjusting wheel size, engine size. #indiegame #tycoon #railroadtycoon #godot #gamedev #indie

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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Happy 2nd anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet 🥂 LMK if any info is out of date! Good luck with your game 🎮 #indiegamedev

STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET
Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas:

STEAM CAPSULE
(Your Game)
The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most
Clear
Readable
Game name
Genre
Hook(s)
Hire on artist!

THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM
Get 7,000+ wishlists before launch
Get 10+ reviews ASAP (positive or negative, just need 10)
The only punishing review status is OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE (the rest are neutral for traffic)

WISHLISTS
About 15% of wishlists convert in the first week.
ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch.
Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch.

SALES ESTIMATES FROM REVIEWS
One review represents about 20-55 soles.
It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good
So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold.

TRAILER
(Viewers skip through trailers)
Start strong
Omit intro logos
Direct to gameplay
60 seconds or less
End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it

Made in October 2023

From the author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

It has been a while, but there is some progress, I got to create my first game dev tool today, a sprite generator, for generating all the thumbnail for the rollingstock making the tech tree 10x better but still hideous 😄 #indiegame #tycoongame #railroadtycoon #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indie

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Alright progress is starting to pick up and i have made the bones for the tech tree for Steam powered Tycoon. Data driven, progressive visibility and multi path for more specialized style of play. #indiegame #tycoongame #railtycoon #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indie

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Godot Barn @thegodotbarn.com · 04/07/2025

✨ Want to be part of making the biggest open repository of Godot recipes, tutorials and resources? Check out thegodotbarn.com or join our Discord server where hundreds of other Godot devs are ready to help! ⬇️ discord.gg/fJqsyBktbN #godot #gamedev #indiegamedev #godotengine #gaming #development

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The Godot Barn

The Godot Barn is an open community of Godot resources for any game developer or creator. Give or get help, learn about new topics or share interesting code snippets, shaders or updates

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

performance testing. never to early to see how your game is doing. so just for fun i decided to see how the game was running, so i placed some track and started spawning in trains. got to 269 before the fps started dropping. #indiegame #tycoongame #tycoon #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indie

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Okay now we are getting somewhere, a train that follows a piece of track, also starting to see some of the voxel models make its way in the game, that is a joy. #indiegame #tycoongame #tycoon #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indie

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Time for a little project update. Adding in stations (blue) and workshops (red) and got the tracks to a point where i like it enough to continue. soon trains will run 🏨🚂🚃 #indiegame #tycoongame #tycoon #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indie

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is for sure us this pride. Happy pride everyone! And keep coding!

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Okay - i used to say math was not important for developing a piece of software. Until I tried to lay a path and calculate in and out vectors, then i realized the importance and that i had to relearn it all. Trigonometry is a pain. 😂 #indiegame #tycoongame #tycoon #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indie

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This artstyle is awesome! Hope the release goes well ♥️

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

now there is starting to go somewhere, the Railroad Tycoon game actually have a track placement feature #indiegame #tycoongame #tycoon #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indie

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

check out my friend Kitty's awesome projects !

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

i havent had much time to work today but i do have a little thing to show, i learned how to put custom icons on nodes in Godot So now there is a track icon in the Track scene instead of the default circle. Nice! sometimes the job well done is just learning to get more organized 🙂

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Bernie Wick | BUY FADING SERENADES NOW! @partnano.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

TRAILER ONE OUT NOW. There will be a demo out soon! I can't wait to show you. Go wishlist it right now, right here: store.steampowered.com/app/3644970?... #indiegames #gamedev #gaming #pixelart

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

sometimes it is the little things, like having a good UI to quickly visualize where your stuff is, so Colored folders is now part of my workflow. cant believe i didn't try this in Unreal #indiegame #game #godot #gamedev #indiedev #indie

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

To get started with #Godot I follow this ARPG tutorial series www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAbG... i can highly recommend it, it helped a lot getting started in understanding how Godot works, even though it was made for 3.2 the top comments helps with translation. 10/10 would code again.

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Night Raven Games @night-raven-games.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Currently playing about in #Godot, trying to workshop if I can make my game in that engine instead of UE5, firts piece of track is layed and the result looks promissing so far.

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