r/hobbygamedev

🚐 “Home Sweet Home” isn’t a place — it’s your motorhome on wheels.

🗺️ Nowhere Island spans 10 regions (40 km²), with 3 already in Early Access and the 4th on the way.

🛠️ Upgrade your truck.

⚙️ Process materials into powerful items.

🕶️ Stealth or loud, every choice has consequences.

⚔️ Upgrade your character in Mastery—enhance your stats, survival skills, and exploration abilities.

🗺️ Follow the clues and uncover one-of-a-kind mythical weapons.

📦 Stock up: every region has its own needs

⭐ Available on Steam — Wishlist now.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3511360/ZombUs/

I built it as a pure skill-based arcade game — no complex controls, just timing, physics, and those “one more try” moments.

• Free to play.
• Optional IAP: Revive, which lets you continue your current run.
• App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6764475676

Game Title: CUBEHEAD
Playable Link: https://cubehead.online
Platform: Browser / Web
Description: CUBEHEAD is a free browser-based zombie survival shooter. Mobile and PC friendly, can play anytime, anywhere! For all players, noobs and sweats!
Free to Play Status: Free to play
Involvement: Solo developer / Creator of the game.

Everyone is familiar with gamified productivity & focus tracker tools. I downloaded most, experimented with different methods, studied the science behind motivation/goals, and developed a new system. It's not complex, visual, yet lightweight. Most importantly, it's effective & helps you make real progress.

Why this method works:

• It simplifies thinking about "what should I do today" & helps beat procrastination. You clearly see your goal, and the main work/play activities you defined. Just get started on one...
• Each board is you custom "go-to" plan for that Goal (aka "Core"). You pick "time contributions" that work for you. No guilt tripping. If you like to focus for 30m, and then lounge for 1h, then that's what you pick. No need to overcommit. Stats will improve as you get better.
• Tracking how much Up vs Down time, towards defined Goals, is the simplest measure of success, over time. The 10,000 hour rule exists for a reason. Not 10,000 to-do items.
• Seeing "break/rest" activity timers next to your productive timers, at a glance, makes you more relaxed during focus sessions & gives you "guilt free" breaks. You can pause one timer and start another, then come back. You can also "finish early" any timer, and deposit time already earned, no penalties.
• You can adjust all Timers/Goals on the fly, change their length, emoji labels, etc. The app makes it easy.
• You can track a Goal on 1 board, or across multiple boards. You could have a board for each day of the week if you want, all towards that 1 goal. On Monday you can have only 1 focus activity, and on Saturday you can have 6, with different focus + break sessions.
• You can work on Goals and contribute time whenever you have it. No pressure with streaks. If you have 1 hour per day for a goal, or 3 hours per week. You simply time your activity, you bank time Up or Down, and you move on.
• You progress easily visualized in a cool Sci-Fi interface, with time particles and orbits and black holes.

Check out Flowton on the App Store or if you're on Android, sign up on flowton.com to get notified.

Happy to hear your feedback on the method, or if you try the app, on what you think of it. There are cool new features in the pipeline, along with leaderboards, passive "multiplayer", and other.

Made a simple browser game: Pac-Man stripped down to a single line.

Inspired by ABA Games' "1d Pacman" — run, chase, devour in one dimension.

Built on BEEP-8, an MIT-licensed fantasy console for C/C++ development.

Play free (no install, works on mobile):

https://beep8.org/b8/beep8.html?b8rom=5883dac775883187f1aea16b134b39a5.b8&

SDK source: https://github.com/beep8/beep8-sdk

I’ve been polishing the checkout experience in Big Market Simulator.

I’m trying to make scanning products and serving customers feel enjoyable.

Any feedback is welcome!

Hey guys just wanted to show off some little gameplay from my project game I have been working on. The only way to move is by using your ass to shoot exploding eggs. A magpie has stolen your golden egg and it’s time to go get it back. Any feedback is massively appreciated and if it seems interesting I also have a steam page setup for it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4806270/What\_The\_Cluck/

Finally! I am so happy to show the full-fledged game from the inside, or rather its gameplay! I am also glad to announce that the game is fully ready! In honor of this, I rolled out a video announcement of the release date. If you're interested, watch it to the end. And if not - July 14th.

Survive 100 days on the island! But it's not as simple as it might seem... Every mistake you make prolongs and increases your suffering... Live, eat, sleep - do everything so that none of the characteristics fall to zero, otherwise something very bad will happen...

Its coming on Gamejolt and Itch

This is my first game I'm still working on it I am making it in godot , it's a rpg fantasy game hope u guys will like it when it's completed, as it's my first project I'll make a a very small game with a small village and a beach that's all

Fully releasing my first game on Steam and have made a proper trailer for the full release. Did I manage to convey the intensity of the combat in my game?

Hi all! I'm a solo hobby dev. My project, PC Kaiser, is a remake of an obscure German DOS strategy game from 1991, set in the Holy Roman Empire from the year 1001. You lead one of 30 dynasties through the centuries — building, marriage, succession, war and intrigue, all the way to the imperial crown.

The thing I kept chasing was emergent storytelling: I wanted every ruler's story to write itself instead of feeling scripted. So deaths, marriages, inheritance and assassinations all feed into each other. The payoff is moments I didn't plan — an heir dies young, a daughter married into another house suddenly inherits a foreign realm, the emperor gets assassinated mid-election and the whole game tilts. When playtesters started telling ME stories from their games, that's when it clicked.

A few things that were harder than expected:

- Succession/inheritance edge cases. Bloodlines, captured rulers, multi-realm dynasties... I've written more tests for "who inherits what when X dies" than for anything else.

- Balancing AI difficulty across a 0–10 scale without the AI either going bankrupt or steamrolling the player.

- Getting a desktop pygame game to run in the browser (via pygbag/WebAssembly) — lots of small gotchas with fonts, file paths and audio.

It's not 1.0 yet and I develop it continuously. There's a free browser demo if you want to poke at it (desktop, mouse + keyboard; it's in German but has an English wiki via F1).

Trailer: https://youtu.be/hQ9ZGeKXck8

Demo: https://grobi85.itch.io/pc-kaiser-demo

Curious how others here handle emergent-systems balance — do you lean on heavy playtesting, or try to model it up front? Happy to answer anything about the project.

I have 4 difrerent banners, and I am not sure which is good enough to use, if any.

What do you think? Which is good? What would you change?

I’ve been working on a game as a hobby for a few months now called Tetramania. You can check out the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCH-eTLjVf8

I decided to publish it on the Play Store, but to do that, I need to run a closed test for 14 days with at least 12 consistent testers.

If you want to help me test the game, I’ll reward you with a free pass to remove ads! If you decide to join, all you'd need to do is open the game at least once a day for at least a little bit. Leave me some feedback, and sending screenshots also helps me a lot too!

If you really want to help out, please fill out this form and I’ll get in touch with you! https://forms.gle/BdVi395H1Khn5xDQ7

I’m also planning to create a Discord server where I’ll explain the next steps, share game announcements, and where you can leave your feedback!

Hi everyone,

My game has just entered Open Testing on Google Play, and I'm looking for honest feedback from players and indie developers.

Pixel Spin! Color Flow is a hybrid-casual game where you rotate a ring of shooters around a pixel-art image. Your goal is to clear the image before the escaping pixels reach the edge.

Google Play link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dorigames.pixelspin

I'm especially interested in feedback on:

• First impressions
• Gameplay clarity
• Difficulty progression
• Fun factor
• What would make you keep playing

I'm also trying to learn more about user acquisition and retention. My long-term goal is to approach publishers, but I've read that strong retention metrics are often required.

I have a very limited budget (around €100) and would appreciate advice on:

• Whether it's worth running paid ads at this stage
• Which platforms are best for testing a mobile game (Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, etc.)
• How much data I can realistically gather with such a small budget
• Any other ways to measure retention before contacting publishers

Any feedback, criticism, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!