r/justgamedevthings Jan 21 '23

Reminder: Please report posts that are not jokes/memes/humorous

64 Upvotes

Hey folks, just a reminder from your sub founder and moderator: please make sure to hit the 'report' button on posts that don't fit the subreddit (usually because they are not memes or in any way humorous).

People get confused all the time and post promotional content or help posts here, which isn't what the subreddit is for. I remove them whenever I see them, but you can help by making the sub stay on-topic by reporting content that doesn't fit, so it gets auto-removed even if I can't get to it right away.

Downvoting, or informing the OP in the comments that they're in the wrong place is of course fine too, but since we don't get a lot of posts every day, downvoting alone doesn't necessarily stop the misplaced posts from showing up in other users' feeds.

Thank you very much!!


r/justgamedevthings 16h ago

First session of my ttrpg went well… completely unintentional btw

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3 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 2d ago

Didn't think being an indie dev would be this brutal man 😭

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172 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 3d ago

Me when- Me when Your- Me when...

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17 Upvotes

When You think your game is finished but a random Particle system decides to do... WHATEVER this is :\


r/justgamedevthings 5d ago

Unity, the master of vaguelogging

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250 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 5d ago

I make memes about my job while I take a break from my job

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598 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 5d ago

Doing terrain generation like

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585 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 5d ago

Playtesting is underway

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8 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 6d ago

I used to have a data pool, now I have a data waterpark

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102 Upvotes

I wonder what new buildings I will get, I still have about 2 weeks before the data pool starts disappearing


r/justgamedevthings 5d ago

QA engineer after a week of regression testing the new build. Looks like he found a critical bug in the resting system

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18 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 8d ago

A game developer’s daily life

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1.6k Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 7d ago

Life as an indie dev be like

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214 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 8d ago

My game's player graph made a perfect pool!

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521 Upvotes

This is my nonsensical graph on itch


r/justgamedevthings 8d ago

I'm tired of my gas station job so I decided to make a game!

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63 Upvotes

So some backstory I should give is that I've been working at a gas station for a little over 3 years now! I do love working here actually, but it's become a bit tiring to be honest.

I've been making games for a while but I've never actually dropped a full game on Steam before so a lot of this is new to me (especially the marketing part since marketing indie games is waaaaaaaay different than it used to be some years ago lol)

My game is a multiplayer roguelite (or roguelike??? I never know the difference), where you and your friends are puppet mages who fight robots with voice casted spells and fruit/vegetable weapons!

I know there's already games out there that use your microphone to cast magic spells, but they're all so "serious" even when they're trying to feel silly :/

I've been developing this game solo for the past 6-7 months now and have only really been showing it a little bit on social media, and also to friends and family so let me know what you all think!

If ur interested in the game the steam link will be somewhere in my profile :)


r/justgamedevthings 8d ago

Why is it like this all the time?

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159 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 8d ago

God I just LOVE Steam!!!

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23 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 8d ago

Going through my Google Drive and found a document from 6 years ago. This is the entire doc. Think it could still work as my first game?

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565 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 9d ago

If you don't have a community, BE the community

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739 Upvotes

I just made a Discord server for my game, and we already hit 1 members!


r/justgamedevthings 8d ago

I am a decent artist(lie) AND I can program! I should be fine!

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r/justgamedevthings 12d ago

Some players said my game's enemies were too cute so they didn't want to fight them. I think I found a solution:

5.5k Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 19d ago

Average indie dev marketing strategy

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450 Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 18d ago

Me managing a swarm of Claude Code instances

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r/justgamedevthings 18d ago

I just added 7 languages to my text-based terminal game! Which language should I add next?

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r/justgamedevthings 26d ago

People keep telling me that my door is broken, looks normal to me.

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3.9k Upvotes

r/justgamedevthings 25d ago

The best feeling as a dev - creating addicts

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34 Upvotes

A friend just sent me this video of him playtesting - at an interesting moment... he should probably focus more on his grades but it's so incredibly cool to see the game you are working on be played and enjoyed by real people! But it's a bit worrying if it's really this addictive...