Yeah, but I would say that is a symptom not the cause. Certain things started leading to this, similar thing happened with music where indie is not indie anymore and now POV music is the new indie. All I’m saying is that it ain’t so simple imo. And Marvel is not being marketed as indie movies.

But also in how many walks of life solo or indie became sort of badge of honour. I’m just wondering if putting too much value on certain labels caused this issue. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with you but I’m trying to figure out why we are having this problem.

Time to start new tag #artisanalGame or something.

But also there are solo devs doing everything alone so are we also the bad guys here? Words are always for interpretation and meanings will change. I guess best thing is to do what you are doing and ignore labels.

Yeah it gets complicated, words start to loose meaning. What I would consider indie and what is called indie also differs.
Idk naming is hard and does/should it matter in the long run?
I’m guilty of using solo dev tag, but being solo is my choice and should it really influence how game is judged?

That’s such a cool idea! I love when indies collaborate. Even small things like the Stardew Valley card skin in Balatro put a smile on my face.
What you are describing sounds like a dream scenario to me.

Did I miss some kind of solo dev brouhaha while I was sleeping, or am I just imagining things?

Okay okay, I will remind you in few years ;D

Let me put it this way, my current little dream is to post “y’all I am making MTG by myself and it works” in a few weeks ;)

But also in general as a gamedev I love post mortems and I’m wondering if there are things you would do differently, with hindsight being 20/20.

I think it’s a good idea, leads to less noise. Unless cost of the card might be used after card ends up on the table like in some tcgs.
Hard to say without knowing the game more.

I will have to do something similar soon, any wise advice?

In this case I think that camera had great artistic vision. I love how eyes pop despite being out of focus, becoming even more of a subject in a way. Also it has strong “I was enjoying summer day, woke up from a nap and this amazing creature is what I saw” vibe. I want it on my wall!

Obviously I don’t recommend it to do this as is for teams, but for solo dev it works. And it is closer to how git was meant to be used.

That was my worry also, but I quickly started using one commit per future and amending “current” commit as a checkpoint system of sorts. When I start working on a task I create a commit and go from there. I did lot of work on my engine and have 5-7 commits.

I just use git and really short text file for managing my project. 3-5 tasks in the file at a time and commits that are big enough to be easily identifiable as whole “thing I did”.

I’m a big fan of tactical fps
sneaking thru corridors and out of nowhere emptying half of your magazine in the back of teammate in front of you out of nowhere…. Let’s just say it stops being funny after 10th time

Any big rework like that isn't underwhelming, especially when the performance improvements are this significant! Improved performance and better memory efficiency are huge wins. Amazing job!

Monogame for this one. I used raylib with C in the past.