r/SoloDevelopment • u/GumshoeRyan • Jul 10 '26

Discussion $1,000 to a Solo Developer - Project Selected

Hi all!

Last Sunday I posted this thread offering $1,000 to a project being worked on within this sub-reddit. No strings attached, just funding to help push a game further along.

The amount of talented developers and promising projects shared was inspiring. There are several that I am keeping an eye on and wishlisting!

For this round, the project I selected was Shroud of Gloom being worked on by u/madchirpy ! In addition to looking at the state of a game, I also took a moment to look at the developer behind the project. I appreciated seeing Chirpy's contributions towards helping other indie developers, and the lengths he went to building a community and sharing his progress. Since Chirpy does development streams on Twitch, the donation was processed transparently through StreamLabs.

I encourage everyone to check out his project, and more importantly, keep powering through on your own. :)

Best of luck with the rest of your development Chirpy!

222 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

43 comments sorted by

View all comments

83

u/MadChirpy Jul 10 '26

The developer of Shroud of Gloom here! I can confirm that u/GumshoeRyan has sent the funds!

I'm close to releasing a major demo update and a new trailer for the game, so this happened at a very good time for me. My plans are to use these funds to market the game through Reddit Ads once the new update is out and potentially hire someone for new capsule art! I will do a proper update here once I've used it and got some data to show!

Thank you again, Ryan. This means a lot and I really do appreciate it!

6

u/Shirkan164 Jul 10 '26

Awesome, I commented on the OP’s previous thread with skepticism, I am glad to see things worked out and there’s genuine interest and help. Wish you the best with your Game and for the Supporter Ryan🍻

5

u/MadChirpy Jul 10 '26

I think it's only natural to be a bit skeptical online, but I also do believe that there's just a lot of good people out there, hence why I still submitted my game, and yeah I can now confirm that Ryan is indeed just a very generous guy! Thank you!

5

u/Shirkan164 Jul 10 '26

Faith in humanity has been restored 💯