Never forget, releasing your game means you already made it farther than 90% of the other game developers.

For context the game is called [https://store.steampowered.com/app/2336120/Do_Not_Press_The_Button_To_Delete_The_Multiverse/](Do Not Press The Button) and a wishlist would be greatly appreciated. I’m currently working hard on it and I would say that it’s 99% done, but I like to joke that rest of the work (polishing and bug fixing) is another 99%

Whatever form is pulled from the ether into the material is what it shall be. Celebrate that you created something and release it anyway! People are clicking a banana on steam right now

Oh this is a simple mechanic, should take a couple hours to implement!

1 week of battling the code architecture and debugging data flow later

Do I actually enjoy game dev? I guess so…

Expecting your first indie release to be perfect is putting insane expectations on yourself. The worst things you can do at this point are to give up or fail to reflect on what you’ve learned. Think on what you would have done differently with what you know now - and then do not waste the lesson.

A few years ago I tried to get into Unreal, but after a while it’s easy to come to the conclusion why most game studios aren’t one-man companies. Unless you’d just asset flip, or go for a pretty basic kind of game, it’s just so much work that it stops being a fun hobby and just becomes something that would turn into a full-time job, without pay lol.

Used to do modding and maps for various games back in the days, like Battlefield 1942 and Jedi Knight games, even dabbled some in 3DS Max and Cinema4D, was pretty fun creating stuff. But taking on an entire game concept is so incredibly daunting.

Looks more like you’re pancaking.

This design is fixable. Just create a crust all around and that should work.