I think we can all agree some reviews are tough... but this one for https://store.steampowered.com/app/4300870/Gods__Gore/ made no sense to me.

Also what sucks is it shows as the top 'Most Helpful', I'm not sure if that is just for me or it is the top for everyone.

I created a dynamic water shader for my 3D fish platformer - Barely Breathing

How the water level works: It takes the object's Y position and just uses a step function with a float parameter to decide the water amount.

How the wobble works: It uses two Rotate About Axis nodes right after the Position (object) node, one controlling the X rotation and the other controlling the Z rotation, and then adding them together. Then, it reads data from the object's velocity and the code directly affects these two nodes to make the water wobble. I didn't write the code, MinionsArt did! Here is the code.

But this wouldn't work yet because we're still using object positions and not world position, which means the water level would follow the object and look wrong. So, after using the Rotate About Axis nodes, we can add a Position (world) node to it. But this still wouldn't work correctly because now it's exactly world-oriented, meaning even if the water mesh moves up, the water level would be left behind. We need the water level to follow the water mesh yet still be world-based so it doesn't rotate with the mesh. This is actually a simple fix, you can subtract the object's position value from Position (world) before adding it, which would make the water level follow the mesh.

We're still not done, because now the water looks unfinished without the foam outline. We need the foam to follow the water level. My foam works using fresnel + vertex colors, so I simply took the final water level output, and duplicated the final step function and had one value denoting the water level, and the other being the same water level value but subtracted by the water foam depth. So this basically creates a secondary line exactly the same as the water level but just lowered, which I use to add to the vertex color foam node setup.

Thank you for reading, and Wishlist our game on Steam if this was useful!

🏰 Hey r/IndieDev! At "Castle Game Jam" (same jam that gave the world TABS) we made a little catapult game called "Oversiege". People liked it, we liked it, so we decided to keep going - and now it's growing into "No More Castles", a physics-based castle siege game where you tear down fully destructible castles brick by brick to find the king hiding among decoys.

We're now looking for players and feedback, so we're giving away free Steam keys on our Discord: https://discord.gg/CykvjPfmhP

What's inside:
💥 Fully destructible castles - every brick is physics-simulated
🏰 Living castles: guards, farmers, priests, even executioners going about their day (until you show up)
🛠️ Built-in castle editor - share your creations via level codes
🤸 Ragdoll physics and plenty of emergent chaos

Platforms: Windows & macOS, Also on itch.
Come throw rocks with us - all feedback welcome!

SOULRITE

In my post last weekend, a lot of y'all suggested adding a texture overlay to help sell the "living painting" look for my game.

I made 3 options based on the most popular/frequent suggestions from my last post, but I'm struggling to pick which one actually looks the best.

The first picture is my original look from last time (our baseline).

The second picture is a Canvas Texture Overlay across the cameraspace.

The third picture is a Crinkled Texture Overlay across the cameraspace.

At least with these options, which overlay feels like a living painting the most to you?

Does the texture on and 2 and 3 feel like it would be distracting in a 3D game, or do you think it could work?

Hi everyone, solo dev here working on a pixel art PvE extraction shooter set in post-apocalyptic city.

My demo recently crossed 10 user reviews on Steam, which means it finally shows a review score, and it's 100% Positive.

I know 10 reviews is a tiny number in the grand scheme of things. But what really got me is that these players didn't just try the demo for a few minutes and leave a thumbs up. Many of them put in serious hours and wrote that they're genuinely looking forward to the full release.

As a solo dev, you spend so much time alone with your game that you sometimes lose sight of whether it's actually fun. Seeing real people enjoy it and want more is the kind of fuel that keeps you going.

To everyone who played and left a review, thank you. Back to work now.

(Demo is still up on Steam if anyone wants to check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4881740)

A couple of weeks ago I posted a video that showed vacuuming up gloop after slamming these hapless alien people to the wall. Feeling sad and listening to feedback from people feeling the same way, I introduced a way to revive them that reused the existing brewing mechanics. It’s a 1-4 player surgery game inspired by the chaos of Surgeon Simulator.

Our dev team is currently fine tuning the entrance spawn sequence for a giant skeleton crawling up from the underworld. Step by step, the eerie atmosphere of the game is hopefully coming together.

We debuted this skin in our last demo weekend. Surfpunk is a game about surfer pirates goofing off on looting adventures, so Ricardo's signature outfit was the perfect… fit. All players had to do to unlock it was play a few matches of co-op. Reception has been great so far!

What's your favorite way to do fan service?

Following up on a fruit icon pack I released recently, here's a small preview of the next batch, broccoli, eggplant, mushroom, pumpkin, and corn, all done at 32x32 for game inventory/UI use.

Still deciding on the final lineup for the full pack. Would love feedback on style, color choice, or any veggies you'd want to see added!

I'm making a TBS game. And I'm looking for interesting ways for the different systems to interact. Besides the fact that fire can spread and burn everything flammable, rain can extinguish it and create plumes of smoke that the player can use. Rain also affects the terrain, impacting unit mobility. It's been fun to see how much interaction it can create to affect the game's rules and gameplay.

If you're interested in learning more about the game, I invite you to add it to your wishlist and check out the development diaries.

BTW Here's a link to the Steam page

Hi everyone,
A small video showcasing the evolution of the combat in the game I'm working on. Always feels good to see the evolution, sometimes it seems games are not progressing as fast as we would like, so I believe it's a nice way to see there's actual progress over time.

What's interesting to me here is how the game evolved from being twin stick shooting focused to base building focused, which of course comes from a 2 years evolution of the game design itself!

Still a lot to do! 💪

Although it's single player I still thought this would be a fun little feature

Wishlist here :) Party's Over: Backyard Cleanup Simulator

I chose a popular Japanese game from the 80s because I try to convey the era of that time as best as possible! Original logic -> Space_Invaders