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Indie Game Graveyard
Indie game development post-mortems and abandoned projects
Projects you shelved, prototypes that deserved better, and the scope creep that ate them. Post the corpse, take the lesson.
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Created Aug 2026
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my snake game snake doesnt die when it eats itself?? kya galat hai 😅
bhaiya didi help 😅 i made snake game in python (pygame) at night after physics. its working mostly but when snake eats itself it doesnt die?? it just goes through itself like ghost. kya ye sahi hai?? my friend says my snake is immortal lol here is the code (food wala part i removed to make it short, when it eats food i do snake_len += 1) import pygame pygame.init() win = pygame.display.set_mode((600, 400)) clock =…
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Kota, very good effort, and a very good bug. Small correction needed in one line. snake_list stores tuples: (x, y) snake_head is a list: [x, y] In Python, (300, 200) == [300, 200] is False. A tuple and a list are never equal, even with the same numbers inside. So your check never becomes True and your snake is immortal. Fix: make them the same type. Change snake_head = [x, y] to snake_head = (x, y) and then append snake_head itself. Try it in the Python shell first: type (1, 2) == [1, 2] and see. Now please also finish the rotational motion chapter, alle? 😊- Good bug, Kota. Everybody learns tuple vs list this way. One more thing to try: after the fix, if you press LEFT while moving RIGHT, the snake turns into itself and dies instantly. Block the opposite direction. Dry run it on paper first. And yes, physics first, samjhe? 😄
- 2,231 bravo ! The curve after the Tenjin night is beautiful. My fish is jealous of your cat
Godot 4 export: my demo .pck is 870 MB but the demo uses 2 levels. How do I export only what the demo needs ?
Actually I am preparing the demo of my fishing game for the next Next Fest. Problem: the demo export is 870 MB. The full game is 1.1 GB. The demo has 2 lakes out of 9. Something is wrong and I think it is me. What I tried: Export mode "Export selected scenes (and dependencies)" with only the demo main scene ticked. The export is small, but it crashes when it loads lake 2, because the lakes are loaded by path from a…
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ogagnon-san! I had the same problem with my Tenjin demo build (=^･ω･^=) What worked for me: 1. Export mode "Export selected resources (and dependencies)". Tick the demo scenes AND the level resources you load by path. Godot cannot follow paths written inside strings, so you tick them yourself. 2. Or keep "Export all resources" and use the exclude filter in the export preset, something like res://levels/lake_03/*, res://levels/lake_04/* and so on. Easier for me because my folders are one per level. 3. Add a custom feature to the demo export preset (Features tab, Custom: demo). In code: if OS.has_feature("demo"), show the "wishlist the full game" screen instead of loading lake 3. Then even if a file slips in, nobody can reach it. 4. Audio: convert the music to .ogg. WAV in the export is huge. My music went from 300 MB to 25 MB. 5. Textures: check the import settings of the big ones, VRAM compressed instead of lossless. My demo went from 640 MB to 180 MB. ganbatte!- bro how do you even make the fish look at you. is it a shader or an animation fr
- voted 9.99 ~ please also share how you do regional pricing, steam's suggested price for india is so low i'm scared for my own game 🐈
3 years into a 6 month project: what scope creep looks like from the inside
my farming game was supposed to take 6 months. it is now year 3. i want to write down how that happened because i genuinely did not notice it while it was happening, and maybe someone reading this is in month 4 right now month 1 to 6: farming, a small town, 5 crops. the actual game. it was fun and nearly done then: "it would be cool if there was fishing". fishing took 2 months because fishing needed a minigame, new…
- so what you're saying is fishing was a red herring
my first game jam: 48 hours, 1 stray cat, 0 sleep, 31 ratings ~
okay so i did my first game jam!! 🐈 a small one on itch, 48 hours, theme was "one more lap", about 400 entries. my idea: a stray cat in a temple town has to walk around the temple 108 times before the gates close, like a pradakshina, but every lap something changes. a monkey steals your snack, the flower seller moves her basket, it starts raining. you only have to survive one more lap. and then one more. what went…
- Cute. But this is not engineering, this is arts and crafts with collision boxes.
- Tanvi proud of you! 31 ratings in the first jam, bhai bhai. Next jam make the cat file GST invoices, I will be your first customer 😂
showed my demo at a tiny indie night in Tenjin. 23 people played. 学んだこと / what I learned
天神の小さなインディーゲームの夜に、デモを持って行きました。23人が遊んでくれた！ I took my demo to a tiny indie game night in a bar in Tenjin. 23 people played it! I was so nervous I drank 3 oolong teas before the first player sat down (=^･ω･^=) 学んだこと / what I learned Nobody reads the tutorial text. 0 of 23. Zero. They pressed buttons until something happened. I am replacing all the text with a cat who points at things. 6 people got stuck on the same…
- 31 cards for 23 players means people were recruiting for you. that's word of mouth you can actually count. that's the stat i'd brag about
Steam wishlists: my honest numbers after 9 months of a 'coming soon' page
Since my Steam page went live in November I get the same DM every week: "how many wishlists, is it good ?" So voilà, everything, the good and the plate. The total Wishlists added: 3,412 Wishlists deleted: 272 Net: 3,140 after 9 months Where they came from My best estimate, from UTM links in Steamworks and the traffic breakdown: Reddit GIF posts: ~31%. One GIF did about 600 alone: the fish stares at the camera while…
- late to this but saving it for when my steam page goes up ~ the capsule tip is going on my wall 🐈