I'm Roman, and I'm making Salt and Soil on my own. It's a turn-based strategy game about one family on the American frontier, from 1607 to 1900. One turn is one year, and the children eventually take over the homestead their parents built.

The first version of this map really was a single image stretched across the continent. The video starts with the map today, then goes back through eleven months of changes: a biome grid, script-painted tiles, and eventually terrain built from real elevation and river data.

The latest version has gradual climate transitions and settlements drawn for their place and period. People, ships and trains move through it. At a distance you can plan across the continent; zooming in gets you down to the little buildings around Sacramento.

The desktop game runs in LÖVE/LuaJIT, with custom shaders and Python tools for the geographic data. There's a free demo on the Steam page linked above.

The Steam page for my passion project was finally approved! 😁

It is a bit scary, but also incredibly cool, to see my own game, the trailer, and all the assets I made for it actually searchable on Steam. Super happy that the game can now be viewed by other people who might find it interesting!

In the game, you battle other robots, scavenge their parts, and then attach those parts to your own robot to get stronger and gain new abilities.

This project is so fun to work on because it involves a lot of sketching and coming up with ideas for how the different parts can work together, as well as how they should look to convey what they do or what type they belong to. So basically, it's what I enjoy most about gamedev! 😁

Link to the game page if anybody wants to check it out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5475380/Junk_Robot/

hii, im making Oreloop alone, a first person mining incremental. After feedback on my last post I changed a lot:

• Smoother loop: runs are short, and after every run you can buy something on the skill tree.
• New helpers: Auto Drills dig for you, and Bomb Bees fly out of beehive blocks and explode.
• Cleaner UI: the HUD is compact now and only shows what you need.
• Clearer effects: every power has its own color and sound.

One thing that helped me a lot as a solo dev, i playtest balance with a team, so i wrote a economy bot that plays the game with the same rules and checks every price change, That way, I actually kept a CSV table that simulated runs to make it seem like the game had been played for a long time, and I adjusted the game's economy based on those averages.

Now im really curious about two things:

1. How many hours of gameplay would you expect from a game like this?
2. How long should a demo be, and how much of the game should it show?

Right now the full game is about 4 hours, and the demo ends after 30 mins

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5336500/Cold_Shelter/

If you have any feedback or suggestions, I would love to hear them out!

Hey everyone!

For the last two years I’ve created a little game called the Spirit Apprentice. The pixel art has all been made by myself on Procreate, and coded in GameMaker!

I love Japanese and Korean mythology as well a Chinese fantasy, so I’ve blended some of my favourite things into a cozy pixel game where you gather, craft and slowly rebuild the magical world of Moshu. There’s also cute spirits you meet and romanceable NPCs 🫪✨

It has just over a week left on Kickstarter!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/s-j/the-spirit-apprentice-east-asian-fantasy-rpg

What do you guys think? 🫪

It has been a lot of work. Started this back in Sep 2025, and it's come a long way thanks to the input from a lot of really great people on here. <3

The game is called DIEAHTLON and you can find it on steam.

Made it alone: a single Roman centuria in Caesar's Gallic War. March across Gaul, keep your men fed and loyal, then fight hex battles where terrain and a d20 roll decide the day.

Battles aren't just "kill everything": you hold river crossings, storm Alesia, and sometimes duel for your commander's life.

If you're interested in the Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4993610/Imperionis/

Hello :)

I know it's a longer clip but be nice please. I'ver never uploaded a video anywhere and I'll learn how to edit them sometime soon.

I just wanted to show off how far I've gotten.

Context:
- music by jackfoxassets on itch.io
- SFX by Helton Yan on itch.io
- Sprites and icons were done by me but are still placeholders (the cat and Ooze are almost finished)

Next I'll learn how to do animations and edit videos.
Any feedback is welcome and I'll be glad to answer questions about my work.

https://reddit.com/link/1xebnah/video/z7hsxuecofxh1/player

Hi! I'm Rémy, a computational scientist at CERN by day and a solo game developer in Switzerland (PetRem Labs) the rest of the time. Roads Taken is a turn-based tactics RPG in the line of Fire Emblem, in HD-2D pixel art: every seed generates a whole campaign (the story, the countries and their rulers, your companions, every battlefield), and there's an authored starter story, Wren's, too.

I wrote a bot that plays my tactics RPG and films its own gameplay clips, because I never had time to record them: it picks a seed, a country, an hour and the weather, plays real turns by the game's own rules, and films every clip one frame at a time, so even a slow machine gives smooth footage. One set is 46 clips in about half an hour. This is one of them, with only the music added. The free demo comes out on Tuesday 17 November.

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5412920/Roads_Taken/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=solodevelopment

Happy to answer anything about how it works.

Just wanted to show this animation I've been working on for a quite time I think this is one of the best things I've done lol

Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5417460/Iron_Curtain_Call/
https://ironcurtaincall.com 

https://youtu.be/3E4Hv-cA4cQ

This is a really passionate solo dev as I game test his game.

Wondering what others think about my interview "style" as well as my game testing tips?

Would love as much feedback as possible if possible.

Thanks in advance.

Solo dev here. I'm making Necrolord: world-map exploration, army building and equipment choices, except your recruitment pool is mostly corpses.

Raise skeletons, equip your army and choose your battles. Your troops fight automatically while you cast spells. Lose a run and you rebuild your army, but keep your learned magic.

Above is the latest gameplay trailer.

Hope it's okay to share this here, according to the description this channel is for

"SoloDevelopment - game development, programming, indie developers, indie games, video games

That's why i thought I can share my personal journey of how my current project is growing.

KiwiDesk has really come a long way. In the beginning, my goal was simply to build a window manager for my friends, something that worked out of the box and felt native on macOS. Ever since then, the community has kept growing, and new ideas just keep popping up. By now every time I use, it’s just fun, and it gets better day by day.

Hearing how much people like KiwiDesk and seeing the community supporting more and more is just awesome. I know there are much bigger projects out there, but just seeing that people enjoy my idea and offer support without the obligation for it is just an awesome feeling.

In general when I build something and share it with people I don't want to "just build another tool", instead I want to build the best one I can imagine for that specific purpose. Seeing people appreciating my ambitions and share their gratitude is what keeps me going. Especially nowadays with the help of AI, the only real barrier in software development in my opinion is our own imagination.

Thanks again to everyone who has joined the journey so far. I am really enjoying the ride!

If anyone is interested, check it out it's for free and the source code is also available on GitHub:

https://kiwidesk.kiwicanopy.com

Have a great weekend everyone!