@gamingonlinux The art style reminds me of Fran Bow

The demo wasn't bad - I may pick this up.

I remember when this was little more than a meme on Imgur. Cool that they made it!

@gamingonlinux uhh, I'm a sucker for incrementals. Looks squishy.

"I cried when i finished this game actually. it'll be living rent free in my head 24/7, 365." One of the highest complements I've received for Neofeud. Makes 3 years of blood, sweat, & tears as a solo-dev worth it! store.steampowered.com/app/461 #indiedev #indiegames #SteamDeck

It reminds me of MerchantRPG, but with just one character?

Graphically and mechanically, this game looks really cool. It kind of reminds me of Strike Vector a little bit [RIP].

I just wish it wasn't a roguelike though. Who knows, maybe this will be the one that breaks me. 🤷

Grimshire on Steam Deck.

basically Stardew Valley but furry with real stakes if you don't keep your community supplied, while the world outside gets worse and worse so you gotta provide more and more.

Still early access and controls aren't exactly perfect but it's really compelling so far.

I just experienced

Yeah sure. Just mean that it doesn't seem to have a goal. Collecting XP for the sake of collecting XP.

Many interesting games, some of them I already know but also games I didn't know of. I will try a few out.

I think the point is that you can easily play between doing other stuff without getting lost in the gameplay

Both your izzysoft links give a "not found" for me (andor & aaaaxy)

Edit: but they link through to fdroid so it doesn't really matter.

Just breakout with some cool ideas. Breakout 71

Factorio light. Wish it were a little less stressful at times. Mindustry

Open universe trader, fighter, etc. Endless Sky

For the mathematically gifted (or challenged...) Mental Math

2048. Because you know you like this. 2048 Open Fun Game

Amazing puzzler. Wish one could save. Tessel

Crosswords. Forkyz

40 puzzle games in one. Simon Tatham's Puzzles

Tricky, unique, polished puzzler. Zoysii

The amount of content and love that went into this RPG rivals commercial games. Andor's Trail

The forever classic. Shattered Pixel Dungeon

Because weird is cool. AAAAXY

There's more (Unciv!), but this should keep you busy for a long while.

IdleFantasy has a lot of potential. I hope they keep developing it. Don't know what the point of the game is, but I play. 😄

Tiny Folks! I could not put it down for weeks.

Having fun so far

Art style reminds me of Jet Set Radio

Been looking forward to this one for a while and I'm obsessed with it! The movement feels unprecedentedly fluid and the levels and soundtrack are a lot of fun, it's like a dreamcast-esque fever dream.

You can! It's great

Easily but that won't actually solve the problem. The issue occurs when trying to market and promote the game; if your announcement of your indie game and it's features gains any traction then some POS will whip together a crappy ai vomit stain. Since you probably released some images to drum up interest they can regurgitate something that looks passible like your game in a day by feeding those images to an ai. This means there is an absolutely terrible clone that will come out before your game that will confuse the customers and spoil the market. Honestly the fact that they don't steal code makes them sort of worse. If they did steal code then the quality of the clone would be way better. It would still be bad but it would be better then what the gen ai would come up with based on the description of your game mechanics. And since your game is going to get confused for the clone (since that's their goal) the worse the clone is the harder it will be to market the real game.

A train that hops, kickflips, 360s and rides a ferris wheel, but no mention of whether you can do multi-track drifting leaves me on the fence

@gamingonlinuxOh yeah, i played this at pax east a few years back, then forgot to look out for its release. It's good!

I mean, you could do that, but that's not really where the problem lies

Usually the nefarious party doesn't outright steal your code. It's more about stealing your idea and rushing it to market before you can yourself. AI driven development can speed this process, and it lowers the barrier to entry because you don't have to have a deep understanding of code to hack something together.

Before AI, people would still do this. The pipeline would be that you'd contract out overseas where skilled labour is cheap. A team of people can typically work faster than a single developer, so this really hurt indies. However, it was also really rare because there was considerable expense and it still took a fairly long time to develop.

So in these cases, it's not actually your work that's being stolen, but the idea. Now, that feels bad, but I also don't think you can copyright an idea (many courts agree). But it feels scummy, especially when it's a major player doing it to the little guy.

As far as actually stealing the code though, it does happen and you don't need AI to do it. I've spoken with a couple of fellow devs in game jams where this happened to them. We were participating in the Ludum Dare game jam, and they have a requirement that your source code is available so that others can learn from you. However, some developers don't have an understanding of exactly what kind of licensing that entails - indeed many of them didn't even include a license.

In one example, a developer had included all of their assets with their source code - art, music, the works. Some company took their game and ported it to the Google Play store where it was briefly a hit. The developer didn't benefit from this at all, never saw a penny, and had no legal recourse because the terms of their license did technically allow it.

Yes. However, that's not the problem.

The problem isn't leaks, the problem is people stealing ideas or using the regurgitation machines in order to regurgitate/copy (badly) the ideas someone or somemany has in their game, or other types of media.