Just released my game, Amata, into early access! The whole campaign is ready to play and there is a free demo! <33

Games@lemmy.world – 253 points – 3 months ago

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Can you share nerdy technical details about how you made it? Custom engine? Something like unity? Solo project or big team? Edit: probably Godot from the communities. I know nothing about Godot. How was it?

When I was a kid I thought a lot about making games, but now that I've worked in software and spent hours being like "why the fuck does the font get bigger when I open the date picker?" I have a greater appreciation for how hard it can be.

Absolutely!

Godot was amazing, such a perfect fit for a first game with moderate dev experience
I worked on this solo for about 3 years while working a full time job
lmao yes there many fiddly issues with the gui for sure

$10.00! That's far too much for this.

Now, something reasonable, like $9.99...

Just kidding, I just noticed you were one of the very rare people not playing the .99 game.

This looks rad and I'm about to buy it.

Edit: bought

but isn't that a bad idea? Steam has a "under 10 bucks" category. Doesn't that mean that it won't show up there?

damn you're right I hadn't considered this

I'm glad I could help. best of luck!

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sorry @ripcord I’m playin .99 the game now 🙇

I hate it but everyone does it so you have to do it. :(

Oh no!

Lmao I gotta get that penny! Thank you so much <333!

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Congratulations! I love the look of this game. When I get set back up I hope to give it a shot

thank you so much!!

Looks cool. I'll check it out :-) Congrats!

thanks!!

Congrats

thanks!

What's Amata?

Nothin what's amata with you?

🤣

Looks great! What kinda difficulty would you say it is comparable to? I’ll try to play it after I’m done with black myth.

Thanks so much! I went a bit softer than something like dark souls but still should still be a decent challenge <33

I will for sure check this out, I love games like this

Thanks I hope you enjoy! <33

This is right up my alley, so I bought it, congrats on your first release! I have to imagine it’ll play great on my steamdeck, hoping anyways.

Some icons are a bit squinty but it should play well! Thank you so much!!! <33

Wishlisted as it looks fun but I don't generally play early access games.

Thanks so much! I hope you'll like it!

Looks cool, congrats!

Thank you!

Gorgeous. Nice work.

Thank you!!

Looks cool, wishlisted.

thank you!!

Top notch work!

thank you!!

Whenever I see a word that looks like valid Japanese, I have to look it up because the results can be hilarious sometimes. Don't worry, though; its only native meaning is a variation on "many/a lot", and I've never heard it. Only other meaning is a figure from Rome. Drop the initial 'a', however, and one meaning you get crotch/groin (which is why I thought this one might be amusing). Congrats on your game!

Lmao thank you so much and very good/ amusing etymology! I chose Amata from a sort of synonym for Nirvana in Pali referencing a deathless state:

A synonym widely used for nirvana in early texts is "deathless" or "deathfree" (Pali: amata, sanskrit: amrta) and refers to a condition "where there is no death, because there is also no birth, no coming into existence, nothing made by conditioning, and therefore no time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(Buddhism)