OMG GUYS MY STEAM PAGE JUST DROPPED 😭🔥 Kolchanovo: The Manor is now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4… Add to wishlists if you love atmospheric, story-heavy games... #WishlistWednesday #gamedev #indiedev

I made an HTML form for game developers – a World Bible template. It asks the questions that help you and your team actually understand the world of your game: cosmology, geography, technology, history, politics, economy, society, culture. 60 questions across 8 chapters. The questions aren't mine – I gathered them from different sources across the internet and pulled them all together in one place. Don't need a question? Collapse it. It just dims gray and drops out of the PDF – nothing is lost, and you can bring it back anytime. Answers are saved automatically in your browser; export/import the whole bible as JSON to move it between devices, or print it to PDF (A4). It's called the World Bible, and it's a fairly universal version – it fits games of pretty much any genre. Later I'll publish a similar one for character development. 🔗 Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1kI6… The HTML file preview on Google Drive will probably just show you the HTML code, but once you download it, you’ll be able to open it in any browser without any problems.

Miro as a Game Dev Tool @MiroHQ This is my first time using Miro as a planning board. It turned out to be an excellent tool for this kind of work. It’s incredibly convenient to keep all the photos, plans, and my notes in one place. Recently, I got floor plans for two of the manor’s three floors. They were drawn for me by someone who knew the building very well back in the day. I made a few adjustments because there were some details he hadn’t accounted for, since he was drawing them from memory. I’ll still need to work on the scale, but that’s not particularly important at this stage. And then came my favorite part. I had around 300 photos downloaded from the sanatorium’s VK groups, and I literally went room by room, trying to reconstruct the interiors based on those photos. And it turned out to be much harder than it might seem. The photos were taken in different years, the rooms changed, and so did the interiors. Sometimes this confused the hell out of me. You think you’ve finally found photos of another room, start putting its interior together, and then notice some familiar stucco decoration on the ceiling and realize that it’s actually the same room, just after a renovation. And those renovations were ALWAYS awful, completely stripping away the character of rooms that had looked genuinely beautiful before. Unfortunately, I still can’t fully reconstruct the interiors. The second floor is currently about 70% done, while the first floor is nowhere near that. I haven’t even gotten to the third floor yet. I’m waiting for the floor plan. Do you use Miro in your own game dev workflow? I’d love to hear how!

Still getting a small (but steady) stream of new wishlists, so I cropped out the numbers. Not that I’m hiding anything, but let’s not pay too much attention to the numbers haha Instead, let’s look at what actually happened: updating the screenshots on my Steam page and launching my own website both gave my wishlist growth a pretty noticeable little boost, as you can clearly see in the screenshot. Taking notes... 👀 #indiedev #gamedev #Steam #wishlist #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

Got a freaking cool domain! Can't wait for you all to see the site! Very excited! 🥳

Vibecoding the site for my company and game this #MarketingMonday. Probably the best time for us indie devs to do something like this. I suggest you do the same! This is just a screenshot of the rough version for now. Still a work in progress. The English version will also be available! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Finally forced myself to update the screenshots on my Steam page! Paradoxically, this is always something I struggle to get around to. Maybe it’s just laziness, even though screenshots are probably one of the most important things on a Steam page, especially the first one, which creates the first impression of the game for potential players. And I know I’m definitely not the only indie dev with this problem! So go take a look at the updated screenshots 👀 store.steampowered.com/app/4… #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

333 wishlists for my game so far! The link is in the bio if you want to check it out. I haven't updated the Steam page for a long while though. #WishlistWednesday

For this #MarketingMonday, I wanted to share an interesting way to promote your game. Try posting a free listing on classified websites or marketplaces like eBay, Avito (for the Russian audience), or similar platforms. People can message you, save the listing to their favorites, and you can send them your Steam link directly. Here are the stats from one of my listings since January this year: • 3,200+ views in 9 full months; • 60 people messaged me directly; • 250 people added the listing to their favorites, which I consider potential wishlists. Of course, a lot of people don't read the listing until the end and still ask me to mail them the physical game disc 😄 The disc on the cover was actually AI-generated just to make the listing more eye-catching. Anyway, I feel like this is still a relatively untapped niche, so I thought it might be interesting to share! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

It was an awesome gamedev week! Thank you all for sharing your beautiful projects! ❤️ Btw, those are actual portable gaming consoles. I like to do these events with style :)