u/Additional_Name_706

I felt like a goofball copying these so I stopped...

Devs, post your 'atta boys, I wanna see em!

What's your favorite review?

Pleased to offer you a free slice.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4385580/Primordio/

just showing off a bit of my recent engine work

Forgive the poor recording. It looks and feels super smooth native.

My dear friends and distinguished guests,

We first opened our doors almost three months ago.

Tomorrow, the Primordio opens anew. Life advances, the spark of creation must adapt.

• A dozen or so new Words of Power.
• Leaderboards with weight classes for fair competition.
• Mastery breaks the limits of the meta board.
• New prestige system allows you to distill your essence into Qualia to break even further.
• Nearly 800 Compendium pages giving verbose explanations of the game.

We're a real incremental game now with limitless vertical progression.

Season One launches August 17th, along with a fresh sale, and a free demo.

Thank you to all of those who've been with me throughout. Looking forward to many more seasons with you.

edit: how silly of me to forget: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4385580/Primordio/

coaxing it to eat its food...

Is a living slime a compelling protagonist?

Shocking, I know.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4385580/Primordio/

Or is this what you like to see in late game incremental extraction roguelite bullet hecks?

(quarter speed)

My game launched on Friday. It's now monday.

I bucked most of the conventional marketing advice. I did very little marketing, had my steam page live for only 21 days. Still somehow amassed 400 wishlists before launch.

I feel like these are really good numbers, way better than I expected.

I'm tired, boss

This footage is old but it does showcase the basic game loop. I think this was me playing, and I'm bad.

If you want to play primordio, it launches on steam in like 20 hours.

AMA

booted into windows to build tauri stuff, opened notepad, and got a spam of all sorts of old documents (yeah windows fucking sucks). This was from that time that I wrote primordio in C# for unity.

I did a couple-two-or-three prototypes of this same game in unity (I could write many more blog posts about my various iterations of primordio.) I used fat visual studio for this particular piece.

It reveals a technique I use for writing code...

those declarative comments for simple things. I would write those out first. Pseudocode, and then write the code, or spend time with the LSP, docs, copilot, and/or whatever to work out each piece.

This might have been 2-5 years ago... I still use this same strategy a lot of the time, where I scaffold out the logic with comments.

I think it's a beginner's technique but I've been doing it for decades... So, I thought I'd just share it here.

What are some beginner's techniques that you still use?

And, if you are a beginner, what do you think of the idea to scaffold with comments first. I've been doing it so long that I don't have any idea where I learned to do it and I have no idea if it's a common tactic.

If you play my game, I hope it's obvious that I love roguelites and vampire survivors-like games. I could not bring myself to make one without some sort of innovation. I think I came up with something that's entirely novel and unique yet familiar and intuitive!

I thought a lot about the most satisfying parts of a survivorslike game. Those moments that really tickle the dopamine out. Then I leaned into those things.

The result is a simple and clean palate cleanser game, everything I love about the roguelite genre compressed into bitesized sessions. Simple vertical metaprogressions set the expectation to be subverted by a deep and esoteric endgame.

edit: forgot this 😫 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4385580/Primordio/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4385580/Primordio/

Does anyone have any easy/cheap ideas on esoteric effects I could use to improve the overall aesthetic?