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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

> Phone buzz > Reddit notification > Opens it >

Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Any ideas for solution? #gamedesign In my mining roguelike, falling blocks (left) may trap the player without them dying, which isn't fun. The stone around can be broken by explosives, but in this case no space to escape. I can't make them breakable by hand without trivializing the difficulty.

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Playtesting is going well (discord.com/invite/YKbyZ...)

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So this is the state of game development today: Solodev posts about their game on social media, post goes viral, dozens of copycats immediately spawn

Needle in a Haystack simulator
#gamedev #steam #gaming

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Gamedevs listening to players: Togglable optional bugs

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Been setting up Sentry.io to log errors that playtesters encounter. Actually super neat.

sentry.io dashboard
#gamedev #sentry #sentrio #indiedev #playtesting

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One of these stone blocks are able to fall and one is stationary. (I just paused time) Could you guess which is which? Any suggestions to better visually distinguish the two types?

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After asking for my game for 4 years, this poor guy fell for a discord phishing scam and got account stolen😢

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Found an old business card from 2023, when I thought my game would be finished 2024🥲 #indiedev

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wish Godot tweens had auto-complete instead of being string-based, so I could avoid going several months without noticing this bug:

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On the way to GamesCom, walked past someone fully dressed up as a Minecraft villager, said "Hmm!" and got a "Hmm!" in return. 10/10 conversation.

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Inspired by old text based dungeon crawlers "You hit rat for 1 HP", I added a combat log, but minimalist symbols-based

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Interesting observation from running reddit ads for my game for a week's time: The system can compare different assets to see what performs the best. The uncontested greatest click-through-rate, beating other media and images, comes from the use of the headline literally just being the game genre

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Idk why the reddit ad system keeps generating new images of a giant spotlight lamp. How is this gonna help advertisers, reddit?

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It keeps updating with new AI generated suggestions for the ads each time I visit the page, somehow gradually becoming worse and worse:

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Trying out reddit ads for the first time. I learned that whenever you upload images for advertising (used real ingame screenshots), reddit will automatically AI-generate a bunch of fake images for you to use instead.

reddit ad campaign editor making ai generations fo the media you upload

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Looked at top free mobile apps in category "art / design": At least 13/20 are AI, by description / marketed features. Maybe even more if one was to test them all, which I didn't. Just wanted to see as an overview how drawing apps are doing nowadays.

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I like to follow the bot account that regarly screams, as a commentary to any events I read about.

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Eyebrows once again makes the big difference of whether something looks like enemy or friend

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Cool design! Looks very similar to the style I use in the game I'm making. Mind if I add something closely resembling it, like so?

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I found inspiration from an unusual source, to add another enemy to my game!

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

First ever fan art of Dig Dig Boom creatures <3

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Okay, Toki Pona has the best monster names. So glad I found some volunteers to translate my game into this perfect language

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The people at #Godot want to know how you are using the engine, to better support your needs! 📝 godotengine.org/article/godo...

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My favorite part of game translation is seeing the names people come up with for the monsters

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Simplified and made alphabetical, as feedback indicated the language groups did not seem to be particularily useful to finding the right button😅 Moral of story: Don't get carried away categorizing everything when you can keep it simple.

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When you're neighbours with a sound designer

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Gamedev: Finally programmed the character to rotate in run direction. Let's check if it works:

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Language menu probably has some potential to offend someone if a language is deemed as more or less important than the other. But it's inevetible either way, even if English-bias-alphabetical. Tried grouping them by geographical region and sorting by size. Idk, is this layout gonna upset someone?

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Satisfying to see the entire localization settings menu working! Dig Dig Boom's demo will be available in 16 languages: #godot #gamedev #indiegames #DigDigBoom

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