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Working on an SDF renderer for Godot using raymarching with a mix between hard surfaces and a soft, painterly look, heavily inspired by Dreams.

More updates will probably follow

A couple of days ago, I shared a post here showing some pixel art generated by opus 5.5. The response was awesome, and it inspired me to dive headfirst into actually making something with it!

About three days ago, I started developing a full HD 2D pixel art action game, and I wanted to show you all how it's turning out so far.

Here’s the trailer for the demo! I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any cool ideas you have. What do you think of the vibe and visuals so far? 🎮

Hey everyone, this is my first game and I’d appreciate any and all feedback please. And maybe a review too :)
Please check it out here:

https://pogpogworld.com/game.html

Candlewise launched today on Google Play after about a year of solo development in Godot 4. First commercial title, first mobile game, first time taking anything through to production.

It's a cosy Akari (Light-Up) logic puzzle. Place candles to illuminate every dark corner of a room. Light shines along each candle's row and column until it meets a wall. No two candles may face each other. 145 hand-crafted rooms across five chapters.

Why Godot 4

Hobbyist background, no budget, needed something I could learn end-to-end. GDScript let me stop fighting the tooling and focus on the game. The signal/node pattern suits puzzle UI really well: grid cells, candles, hint overlays all compose as independent nodes talking via signals.

Android export was straightforward once the SDK and build template settings were dialled in. First AAB upload to Play Console took longer than the engine export itself.

What Godot handled brilliantly

UI responsiveness with Container nodes across varying phone aspect ratios

Save/load through FileAccess, no third-party plugin needed

Tween for every animation: candle placement, light sweep, chapter transitions, menu fades

Audio buses for a clean SFX / music / ambient split with persisted volumes

Where I had to roll my own

Save migration system with version-stamped files and migration scripts, since the save format kept changing during alpha

Puzzle solver as a Python backtracking tool outside the game that validates every puzzle has exactly one solution before it ships. Not Godot-related but part of the toolchain.

Candle flame flicker and warm glow, hand-animated in GDScript after a few rounds of fighting AnimationPlayer

Numbers

About a year of solo dev

145 hand-crafted rooms

50 MB install

19 testers through closed alpha

30 bugs reported, all fixed

0 bytes of personal data collected or transmitted

Free to download. £2.49 one-time unlock for the full game. No ads, no subscription, no accounts, no analytics. The entire game runs on-device.

Happy to answer anything about shipping with Godot, Play Console flow, solo dev workflow, or the puzzle generation side.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.karlsmith.candlewise

Trailer: https://youtube.com/shorts/d9l73CuEHbo

Think warm.