Danny Hayes

I make unique games with heart!
Got nominated for some awards.
Creator of PONCHO, CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience and the game I'm not talking about yet.

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

I've been working on "CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience" for almost 7 YEARS.
I've sacrificed everything for this.
Anyone out there interested in unique, emotional #indiegames, maybe RT? I could really use the help!

https://t.co/PbTZhxOmMp
#gaming #indiedev #pixelart

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

Just look at this travesty.

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

It's Jammin' time again, been about 10 years since my last one... Ludum Dare approaches.

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre...
It just occurred to me that only one person gets done in by the chainsaw in that movie.
Should be Texas Hammer Massacre.

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

This is a great chat about what it's like to be an indie these days

[Thomas Brush @thomasbrushdev]

Does indie game marketing matter in 2025? Me and my buddy @JasozzGames chat about this, and his latest game's launch on Steam. #indiegame #gamedev #madewithunity

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

The postmortem for CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience is almost here.
It's currently 20 pages long...
But to be fair, it's a story spanning almost a decade.

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

Atmosphere of my game.
...It's quite depressing tbh.
"CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience" has been in development for 9 YEARS as of this week, how'd that happen?

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

Another update for CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience!
It's been 9 years of development now. This may be the final update, but I hope it's not.
https://t.co/MW6K1mFtxm

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

@TastyBaldEagle Oh my, level 10! Very, very few people make it that far!

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

HAHAHAHAHA, "A FEW MONTHS", he said!
I'm still adding things to CHANGE.
Officially 9 years now...
#indiegame #gamedev

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

Almost there with the rework of the save data to allow cloud saving... and also working on console stuff!
At some point I'll have a trailer for my new game out... maybe sometime this year. God I hope it's this year...

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

IT'S DONE!
"CHANGE: A Homeless Survival Experience" now has full controller support!
Maybe one day I'll stop working on this thing. After consoles...?
#gamedev #indiegame #steamsale
https://t.co/yLOFP42XwN

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

@TastyBaldEagle Yes it is! In fact it was compatible before I added controller support, at least that's what steam deck users tell me.
We should have the official support tick from valve on that soon, but you should be fine running on there anyway.

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

It's finally ready...
Controller support for CHANGE: A Homeless survival Experience will be live in the next 24 hours, along with some new content!

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

As someone who's had their quotes cherry picked for an inflammatory article on Kotaku... I don't mind this.

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

@GreyAlien Make sure you can customise coloUrs too, that'll get 'em

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

Sorry I can't be looking at twitter much right now, gotta stay protected from FF7 spoilers.

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

@cliffski Hey... my games are emotional! Depressing, even....
Nice to see a long form rant again though :D

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

At this point...
I don't care as much about having an
ad blocker, all I want is a Hero Wars blocker.

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

@AimemeRights Shameless plug, but it could be interesting for you: as far as I know my game was the first ever to include more than 2 genders when creating your character, plus a couple members of the dev team are bi including me ^-^

[Danny Hayes @DanHayesGamer]

@SamMGreer There's nothing more expensive than being poor