6 Months of Indie Game Development

The last 6 months I have been working on my indie game Twin-Stick Survivors. I'm developing it using my own engine in C++ and OpenGL.
You can wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/30...
Pathfinding Algorithm: www.gameaipro.com/GameAIPro/G...
00:00 Intro
01:03 Past to Present
05:21 Future

[@Nate-bd8fg]

What would be cool (not to be THAT guy, just spitballing) is a multi-level design, like the one those 3DS Zelda's use. I feel it could add a whole layer (lol) to gameplay and player creativity

[@Whhatt]

Fire

[@qwerty86381]

Nice to see such a big update :D Can't wait for the full game!

[@winkyflex7826]

Hell yeah

[@AltamishM]

Amazing progress! Worried that unless turrets expire, players will just hover near them indefinitely

[@ykeygames]

Thx :) They do actually expire after some time.

[@FrippoFripp]

looks like fun💥

[@liamaincraft7614]

Looks really good! Really like the new upgrade system and looking forward to see the permanent ones. Also how the fuck does one make a game with decent graphisms, tons of enemies that only requires 1gRam and a 100Mb graphics card pretty sure a pc like that couldn't even run steam

[@ykeygames]

Thanks :) I'm writing the game in C++, that helps. So far the amount of memory needed is even much less than those numbers. Should this change in the future, I'll adjust them.

[@_tringle]

This looks like something i would buy. Will the dev art be changed or is that a deliberate choice?

[@ykeygames]

The general art direction (e.g. simple, readable) is a deliberate choice, but I'm not 100% set on what the final art will be.

[@DARK0717]

reminds me of Geometry Wars lol

[@windows4ever4]

Super curious as to how many enemies is the limit for performance reasons? And if you do any tricks to simplify collision detection on enemies in large groups?

[@ykeygames]

The current technical limit I set is 5000 enemies. But I could increase that, should I reach it during playtesting. I will probably not go over 10k, because so many enemies don't fit on the screen anyway. I do grid partitioning, so that every enemy only checks those in close proximity to see if they are overlapping.

[@windows4ever4]

@@ykeygames makes sense - I'm assuming that grid partitioning is to determine which enemies are in the same area? As otherwise calculating the distance each time is costly

[@ykeygames]

Yes

[@Illuminat-ve5ue]

omfg your voice is really nice TwT

[@ShaAngFox]

😎first