u/SilvanuZ

There’s no specific reason for the 1000.
It was just my personal goal to hit 1000 by the Steam Next Fest on October 19.

Until the release I’ll be partcipating in the Steam Next Fest and the Auto Battler Fest.

It’s not as crazy as others who have 1000 or more after just a month, but I’m proud of the grind..especially with my niche project (desktop game).

There were some small spikes but they weren’t as high as you’d see during viral moments.

There was a spike on my birthday that I still don’t understand. Is the Steam algorithm nice to you on your birthday? :D

It’s insane to me that Japan is now in 2nd place.

China is slowly catching up too. Both languages are supported in my game.

I want to say a special thank you to this subreddit for all the support.

Every time I posted here, I got kind messages and helpful feedback.
This community has been a huge source of motivation for me, and I really hope you'll enjoy the game when its out.

Thank you all!!😭❤️ It really means a lot to me!

This is a big milestone for me, and I'm giving it everything I've got to make a monster collector you'll love.

If you'd like to try Bloomies, there's already a demo available on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4075630/Bloomies/

Hey!
I'm the developer behind "Bloomies".

I love games like Pokémon, Stardew Valley, and Tiny Pasture, and I wanted to combine these genres.

In addition to hatching monsters and auto-battles, you can decorate the entire game however you like. In the full version, you can even set a decoration theme for each box.
You can also put cute hats on the Bloomies.

My wife is creating all the decorative sprites for the background and the hats for the bloomies.
And I'm doing the rest (designing and animating monsters, programming, etc.)

You can already play a demo.

We appreciate any support. ♥

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4075630/Bloomies/

This might be one of the biggest new features in my upcoming full release...

New (and expensive ) incubators that can hatch up to FOUR eggs at once!

Before (in the demo), there were only ones with a single slot.

You can find more informations on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4075630/Bloomies/

You can wishlist & play the demo from "Bloomies" on Steam! :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4075630/Bloomies/

And now it's always sleeping on my PC (I don't care if it affects the cooling system LOL)

Edit: This is getting more attention than I thought. My wife really loves your comments! You guys are so wholesome.

But what should I name them? 🤔

It was like a little private Lan party but with sauna and swimming pool in the room 😂

Edit: Ok I guess this was too random without context - small side story here: I also proposed to her while we were hiking 😆

Does it look cheap because it's pixel art?
I'm honestly not sure right now whether it's any good or appealing.
Feel free to be brutally honest.

AI Disclosure: AI is not used

Inspired by old flashgames and Nodebuster.

I'm building this solo as an indie dev. Demo will follow soon.

... and I just got the Steam page up!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4823810/Build_a_Cat_Tower_to_reach_the_Fish/

Every pixel was chosen carefully.

Edit: I should have tested the maximum cats, but then the video would have been too long. x) Maybe I will make another Video in the next days with the max number before the perfomance drops..
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I wanted to share this fact.

The tower rendering caused the most trouble for me because of perfomance issues.
Cats stacked in my tower aren't individual nodes (not anymore lol)!

They're rendered via MultiMesh, one MultiMeshInstance2D per cat type (Normal, Fat, Long, etc.).
Since each type has its own sprite atlas and MultiMesh can only batch one texture at a time. (you can see that in the video around 0:40)

A manager node holds a Dictionary mapping type its MultiMesh child, so adding a cat just means picking the right bucket and pushing an instance into it.

I've never worked with Multimesh before so that was very new to me. But it works awesome.

P.S.:
Steampage is available too :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4823810/Build_a_Cat_Tower_to_reach_the_Fish/

Edit: Ohweh Reddit hat den Trailer ja sehr stark komprimiert..Auf Steam ist die Qualität deutlich besser!

Hi!
Ich bin ein deutscher Solo Indiegamedeveloper aus Bielefeld.

Heute konnte ich endlich die Steamseite von meinem Spiel veröffentlichen.

"Build a Cat Tower to reach the Finish" wird ein relativ kurzes incremental game wo es darum geht einen Turm aus Katzen zu bauen um den Fischboss zu erreichen.
Oben angekommen "kämpft" man dann gegen den Fischboss indem man die Katzen auf ihn snappt. Dabei läuft ein Leben ab. Ist es abgelaufen startet die Runde von neuen.

Nach jeder Runde kann man Katzenstreu und Fisch gegen Skills eintauschen. Dabei schaltet man auch neue Katzen frei. Jede neue Katze hat seine eigene Farbe und Fähigkeit.
Es gibt z.B. eine Laserkatze die beim einfangen einen Laserstrahl losfeuert. Dieser Laserstrahl hilft dann dabei andere Katzen einzufangen. Oder die Gravitationskatze die ein Schwarzes Loch entstehen lässt und Katzen einsaugt..Und noch jede menge weitere Sachen.

Es gibt verschiedene Level mit verschiedenen Hintergründen und Musiktracks.
Die Level werden schwerer indem der Turm den man baut immer breiter und höher muss.

Das Spiel ist selfmade. Kein AISlop!
Selbst die Trailermusik habe ich in fruityloops gemacht (was echt eine Herausforderung war).

Über wishlists und Feedback würde ich mich sehr freuen! :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4823810/Build_a_Cat_Tower_to_reach_the_Fish/

This damage (550!!!) output from Sokka is insane.

Is there something I can do against it or is this a true combo and ggs? 🎯

https://preview.redd.it/7mmordnzl1dh1.png?width=1300&format=png&auto=webp&s=6fbad8c56a9b427137ec74952eae57d983b173ac

https://preview.redd.it/q4vvvjyzl1dh1.png?width=890&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d66603225fb918151214a48f02a9252c7ca2b4c

Man these deletions are rising!

I'm not in the mood for marketing right now, so I'm just letting my game run by itself.
Since then, the wishlists have dropped noticeably...Who would've thought?

I still found it pretty interesting though.

Have a great evening, everyone! Keep it up!!

I mean I know I can sand them but is this Level of harshness normal?

I removed them with hot water.

Nachdem wir letztes Jahr den Balkon zugehauen haben, habe ich heute endlich die freie Wand zugekleistert :)
Dach durfte ich nicht.. Längere Geschichte.

Jedenfalls habe ich eine Frage zum Anschluss.

Habe einen Hoymiles HMS-800W-2T. (Technische Details hier: klick mich)
Alle 4 Panel sind Ja Solar 445W JAM54D41 (Technische Details hier: klick mich)

Die auf Balkonseite haben meistens so ihren Peak um 13:40 mit 690Watt insgesamt. Danach geht es bis 17 Uhr Bergab. Ab da nur noch 50 Watt.

Gegen 14 Uhr geht es für die Wandpanel los. Die hab ich erst heute angebracht aber die haben so ca 500 Watt geliefert ab 16:40.

Was wäre die sinnvollere Schaltung? Beide Balkon- und Wandpanel parallel in seinen eigenen Strang oder jeweils ein Balkon- und ein Wandpanel parallel mischen?

Schönes Pfingstwochenende euch schonmal!