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James - After Image - Tales for the Long Nights
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Solo Developer of Tales for the Long Nights.

Check out my baby:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3608730/Tales_for_the_Long_Nights
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afterimagestudios.bsky.social
When you lose a mercenary on an expedition, you'll now keep some of their gear. So next time you meet a new merc, you can re-gear quicker.

🔗 Store Page: tinyurl.com/yc2ccx82

#IndieDev #Roguelike #GameDev #TurnBased
November 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Nothing better than some good crafting UI updates...

store.steampowered.com/app/4118820/...

#indiedev #gamedev
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Loving the new Steam WEBM support for store page videos!

Building up the new Demo page for Tales for the Long Nights!

store.steampowered.com/app/4118820/...

#indiedev #gamedev
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Gearing up for a tussle with some new UI!

#indiedev #gamedev
November 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
New UI makes a game smell like a new car

#indiedev #gamedev
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
It's #WishlistWednesday and I'm super excited to unveil the first few seconds of my newest intro cutscene!

Check it out!

🔗 Store Page: tinyurl.com/yc2ccx82

#indiedev #solodev
October 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
After hitting a wall with my game not looking any "better" for a few months, it's amazing what a new UI does!

Good graphics are so easily let down by awful UI...

#indiedev #gamedev
October 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
From my last playtest I got this from a friend... Very few things motivate me more than little things like this.

Theres still time to jump into the current playtest round if you're keen.

🔗 Store Page: tinyurl.com/yc2ccx82

#IndieDev #Roguelike #GameDev #TurnBased
October 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Sir... a 2nd Playtest has hit the Steam Page.

#indiedev #gamedev
October 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Time for the final playtest of Tales for the Long Nights, before a full demo launch at the end of this month! Exciting times

#indiedev #gamedev
October 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Im sure that you can make an interesting and nuanced RPG based around interesting and unique fantasy themes, but I'm a simple man.

My game has people in armour with swords, killing goblins...

Sometimes they're classics for a reason.

#indiedev #solodev
October 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Indie devs, is it worth having a trailer for my demo specifically or just settling with an older announcement trailer?

#indiedev #gamedev
October 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Finally got round to building the hub town for my roguelike's meta progression.

#gamedev #indiedev
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
‪I spent ages wondering what was missing from my new expedition map that I painstakingly developed...

After a few weeks I realised that I had sprite shadows off...

Boy does gamedev sometimes make me feel like a moron.

#gamedev #indiedev
October 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Back from a week away, and I forgot everything i was halfway through developing... Week-ago me is an idiot and today me hates him.

#gamedev #indiedev
September 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
I've escaped from my computer screen to get all grimy in the wilderness instead of my office for a while...

#gamedev #indiedev
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
My least favourite part of solo development is going away for a holiday and feeling guilty for taking time away from my game...

#gamedev #indiedev
September 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes...

#gamedev #indiedev
September 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
I'm finally getting round to implementing the meta progression of my Roguelike because I wanted the core loop to be able to hold its own without it.

Question: What Roguelike do you think had the best meta progression that didn't trivialize the game over time...

#gamedev #indiedev
September 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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crazybeargames.bsky.social
Before we got started in game dev, we both thought save games were just... like... some sort of snapshot of the game state? Like maybe there was a standard way to do this? Apparently, for every game you kinda just make up the save/load structure as you go.

#gamedev #indiedev
September 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
I've been writing a script about Developer Blindness and why we NEED players to see our games and point out the things we miss.

Any devs out there with good observations on the simple things that they missed that they needed a player to point out like it was obvious?

#gamedev #indiedev
September 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
My favourite part of solo development is adding some ridiculous scope creep to my list and hoping that someone else does it for me...

#gamedev
September 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Nintendo has patented yet another game function. Groundbreaking stuff.

Someone please, for the love of god, patent “Being a complete cunt and gatekeeping game ideas that should belong to everyone”.

#gamedev #nintendo
September 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
The catch 22 of enjoying game dev is that there are games I WANT to play but it feels like a waste of my time when I could be developing instead of playing...

Not sure my brain can compute this

#gamedev
September 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
afterimagestudios.bsky.social
Sundays exist for game dev and ignoring my household responsibilities...

#gamedev
September 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM