why i spent 7 months making a silly desktop game

[@samyam]

Wishlist Desktop Cat Cafe on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2978180/Desktop_Cat_Cafe/

[@SubatomicPlanets]

I hope it gets to 7000 wishlists!

[@samyam]

Thank you! 🤞🤞

[@CreativeSteve69]

This game is looking great Sam. i have been loving these type of cozy desktop era living wall paper style games making a comeback in te past few years ago. So taking me back to my childhood. Def gonna be adding this into my wallpaper gameage stash.

[@samyam]

Thank you so much!

[@tripletero]

This is a lot of motivation. I’m working on a typing practice mini game with cats. Called typing kitties. As a solo dev it’s been an infernal code experience but a rewarding one

[@teawa_]

I feel like this game is gonna be huge, what a genius idea

[@samyam]

Thank you!

[@stecki5362]

very cool concept, added to my wish list. cheers!

[@samyam]

Thank you!

[@nobodycares9579]

The game was made because you are silly.

[@noobwasnttaken]

Hey, good job! Nice knowing the behind the scenes.. best of luck for the release.

[@samyam]

Thank you!

[@psychotic4560]

Nice job, Sam and Walter!

[@samyam]

Thank you!!

[@lockyaw]

Thanks!

[@priorpriority]

Can you talk more about the technical aspect of how you created a windowless game in Unity that appears to sit on the desktop with a transparent background that can be interacted through?

[@robertoferreira4896]

Love this!

[@samyam]

Thank you so much!

[@kenan-nynor]

Is this gonna be like rainmeter, where I can just choose the monitor and have the setting that every other application is above it?

[@samyam]

You'll be able to choose the monitor, and you can also choose if you want it in the background or the top of other applications.

[@kenan-nynor]

@samyam thats awesome!

[@IKyzoStudio]

It looks so cute !

[@samyam]

Thanks 😄

[@eveon6571]

Cool work!

[@samyam]

Thank you!

[@KIRA-kz8pn]

Amazing game! (also finally I saw you clearly!!😂)

[@samyam]

Haha thank you, I finally figured out the camera xD

[@1x5x7]

Just a cool tip: instead of .gif-files, you could try using animated .png (.apng). They share the same file type, but consist of frames which play out. You don't have the color limitations, transparency supported and the size doesn't explode as much.

[@samyam]

Good to know, thank you!

[@ThatDumbKitty]

Great job, this looks awesome! Please please please please release a Linux build of this xXx

[@samyam]

Thank you! At the moment it's not planned since we'd have to dive into native Linux APIs to make it work and we're a small team, but it hopefully it might be able to work with Proton!

[@Dekotale]

@@samyam I wishlisted! but I use linux too, hopefully it will work with some proton version. the game looks so good 😍

[@ThatDumbKitty]

@@samyam I understand, thanks for the info. Similar to most desktop games it likely wont work in proton as it wont support the window transparency. A nice workaround for this could be to have an option in there for a skybox or background so it does not appear as a black rectangle xXx

[@thesleepykoala]

Algorithm-chan!~~~

[@samyam]

[@BinaryLunar]

I wish the best for the Barcelona gang 😎

[@samyam]

🤘🤘🤘

[@mudithasanka189]

Looks cool ♥

[@samyam]

Thanks!

[@pedropc5824]

Looks funny! Would be cool a video about desktop games teachings. Right now i a have a problem when my game is on "desktop mode" and the game overlaps half of task bar even when a use .workarea screen values on unity

[@dakhanesarvesh2102]

Hello Samyam, Great Work! I would like to know how the game runs on the desktop. Could you please make the small tutorial ? or Suggest any resource to learn? Thanks :)

[@tuckerkunkle9137]

IMGONNAWISHLISTTT

[@samyam]

THANKYOU

[@handoanbrother2125]

it is okay to make each cat nod in different ways? I think it would add personality

[@samyam]

Do you mean while eating?

[@OriginRow]

Same same but mine is not silly

[@endgamedevs]

Nice! Yes 4 months to test the build is the reason I made my free skool community. I actually replaced a full team of devs on Sail VR because they did not have a deliverable for months! I help devs finish their games and avoid pitfalls. I stress build often to the platform in my youtube channel. I help for free, but is weird that people are skeptical about accepting free help.

[@perdoist3627]

Will it be adaptable to Mac?

[@samyam]

Yes we plan on adding Mac support 😄

[@TurboMakesGames]

Plz port to Samsung refrigerator thx

[@samyam]

😩

[@lukewilliams6083]

Yay! When San uploads, I click.

[@lukewilliams6083]

And yes... I've already wishlisted it. My kids will love this.

[@roccoera2705]

Hello sam, I am from india, I am aspiring game designer but I realised that game designer alone is not enough, so can you like guide me to become a game developer as well. I am okay with anything like unity or unreal whatever, but need your guidance either any course that you will recommend on udemy or Coursera either paid or free, or any KZbin tutorial, because I am really scared because every job is asking for developer, there are not any single one that says that we can join without the experience of a developer, please reply if you can.

[@psadicodes]

Hey, it's nice to see an Indian Game designer. I'm also from India and also, facing similar problem as yours. I'm a game developer and I want to become a game designer😅

[@roccoera2705]

@psadicodes oh that's sad, it's like i am finding hard what to do unity or unreal or godot, because I find coding hard, so need to have some tutor or something like that who can teach me the coding from very scratch and basics of both c++ for unreal and c# for unity. But need to learn both of these coding languages and both of these gaming engines from scratch, can you help me brother, if you can give me your Instagram I'd or whatsapp number, that will be helpful.

[@ReltihFlodaThePainter]

just search it up in youtube dude, knowledge is free all over the internet

[@akj3344]

Man Indians always ask for "complete tutorial". Just read what the job requirements are. Find out whats commonly demanded. Youll find it on youtube Im sure. If you need a structure, you will find everything on Udemy.