Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith

Game Designer: working on Sun Smith and Corner Quest.

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Announcing Sun Smith, our space incremental.

Wake an ancient derelict around a dark star and help it rebuild: harvest Power, open new Orbits, and grow an industry all the way to a megastructure.

Wishlist on Steam, and try the free playtest now:
https://t.co/1qJP9jXIlb

#indiedev #incremental

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@TheGamerHotspot Sun Smith has a free playtest on Steam: wake an ancient derelict around a dark star. https://t.co/AhCNF9NOuD

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Announcing Sun Smith, our space incremental.

Wake an ancient derelict around a dark star and help it rebuild: harvest Power, open new Orbits, and grow an industry all the way to a megastructure.

Wishlist on Steam, and try the free playtest now:
https://t.co/1qJP9jXIlb

#indiedev #incremental

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@Round_Knights_2 Sun Smith is a space incremental where you wake a dead star and build an industry around it. https://t.co/AhCNF9NOuD

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Announcing Sun Smith, our space incremental.

Wake an ancient derelict around a dark star and help it rebuild: harvest Power, open new Orbits, and grow an industry all the way to a megastructure.

Wishlist on Steam, and try the free playtest now:
https://t.co/1qJP9jXIlb

#indiedev #incremental

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@GamewithDave Sun Smith is our space incremental, wake an ancient derelict around a dark star. https://t.co/AhCNF9NOuD

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Announcing Sun Smith, our space incremental.

Wake an ancient derelict around a dark star and help it rebuild: harvest Power, open new Orbits, and grow an industry all the way to a megastructure.

Wishlist on Steam, and try the free playtest now:
https://t.co/1qJP9jXIlb

#indiedev #incremental

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@E2aGames Sun Smith, a space incremental: wake an ancient derelict and rebuild its industry around a dark star. https://t.co/AhCNF9NOuD

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Announcing Sun Smith, our space incremental.

Wake an ancient derelict around a dark star and help it rebuild: harvest Power, open new Orbits, and grow an industry all the way to a megastructure.

Wishlist on Steam, and try the free playtest now:
https://t.co/1qJP9jXIlb

#indiedev #incremental

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@TheGamerSection Sun Smith is a space incremental where you wake an ancient derelict around a dark star. https://t.co/AhCNF9NOuD

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Announcing Sun Smith, our space incremental.

Wake an ancient derelict around a dark star and help it rebuild: harvest Power, open new Orbits, and grow an industry all the way to a megastructure.

Wishlist on Steam, and try the free playtest now:
https://t.co/1qJP9jXIlb

#indiedev #incremental

[James To @jamesto]

Glassvow Devlog #2

Every foe in Glassvow is made of glass, so HP isn't the only thing you can break.

Each foe also has a facet gauge. Most have four facets; elites and bosses have more. Every unblocked hit chips one. Fill the gauge and the glass shatters: the foe skips its next action and spills two Embers.

The catch is that each break adds one facet to the gauge, so the second shatter costs more than the first.

That makes timing the real decision. Break it now, or save the break for the turn its intent really hurts.

More of how it's built soon. Follow along if you like seeing the rules behind a deckbuilder.

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@jamesto Indeed, its been very fun! The concepts just flowed together. Appreciate your comments.

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Announcing Sun Smith, our space incremental.

Wake an ancient derelict around a dark star and help it rebuild: harvest Power, open new Orbits, and grow an industry all the way to a megastructure.

Wishlist on Steam, and try the free playtest now:
https://t.co/1qJP9jXIlb

#indiedev #incremental

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@TheGamerSection Sun Smith is a space incremental. Wake an ancient derelict around a dark star.

Wishlist + free playtest on Steam: https://t.co/jBmeitpMD3

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@jamesto Thanks so much ;-). I started working on this as a break from my main game and it just flowed so nicely, I ended up concentrating on it as my primary game. Appreciate your comment.

[TheGamersHotspot @TheGamerHotspot]

📢SHOUT OUT - INDIE GAME/THE DEVELOPER..

StoneSpace..

As the lone survivor of an ill-fated starship, embark on the ultimate crafting project: build a vessel from scratch and return to Earth. Explore, gather resources, erect a base, and master hundreds of recipes – from flint tools to nuclear reactors - on a voyage through the entire history of science.

Steam: (DEMO and Wishlist time)
https://t.co/14W3MJoYsA

Follow the developer:
X: https://t.co/sbv7GCRYAh
Youtube: (Trailer)
https://t.co/2HPPWKG6a1

@DrBenPW

#indiegame #indiedev #GamingNews #gaming #indiegames #cozygames #craftinggame

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@IndieGameJoe Hi Joe,

I'm building CornerQuest, a humble little game where a mage automatically quests on your desktop:

https://t.co/NfHPFFG5Id

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

CornerQuest Demo is LIVE! 🚀

After months of hard work, user feedback, and countless changes, the CornerQuest Demo is finally live!

CornerQuest is an incremental flavoured auto-battler that runs in a smaller window. Your mage auto-fights waves of enemies while you do other things (or enage more fully with the game if desired)

It includes incremental progression of spell upgrades, unlocking of new spells and forms, standard incremental loop but with actual combat. And a prestige (awakening system). Runes can be spent for permanent upgrades that persist between runs.

What's in the demo:
- 15 waves (~30-45 min)
- 6 spells with branching upgrades (ice that slows vs fire that burns enemies over time, that kind of thing)
- Permanent meta-upgrades that carry between runs
- Unlimited upgrade level for most upgrades
- NG+ mode for repeated runs with increasing difficulty

Steam page: https://t.co/bNDnBsKaJe

#indiegame #gamedev #IdleGame #AutoBattler #IncrementalGame

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

@DevLand95213410 A humble little game I've been working on as my first game:

https://t.co/NfHPFFG5Id

Launched the demo not too long ago.

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

CornerQuest Demo is LIVE! 🚀

After months of hard work, user feedback, and countless changes, the CornerQuest Demo is finally live!

CornerQuest is an incremental flavoured auto-battler that runs in a smaller window. Your mage auto-fights waves of enemies while you do other things (or enage more fully with the game if desired)

It includes incremental progression of spell upgrades, unlocking of new spells and forms, standard incremental loop but with actual combat. And a prestige (awakening system). Runes can be spent for permanent upgrades that persist between runs.

What's in the demo:
- 15 waves (~30-45 min)
- 6 spells with branching upgrades (ice that slows vs fire that burns enemies over time, that kind of thing)
- Permanent meta-upgrades that carry between runs
- Unlimited upgrade level for most upgrades
- NG+ mode for repeated runs with increasing difficulty

Steam page: https://t.co/bNDnBsKaJe

#indiegame #gamedev #IdleGame #AutoBattler #IncrementalGame

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Just found out about VitalShell

PS1-style mech roguelite. 97% positive on Steam.

• Nails the PS1 era like a long-lost gem
• Breakcore soundtrack that punches above $7
• Upgrades feel earned

Made by MarvinWizard.

Great work @VitalShellGame!

Full breakdown: https://t.co/EAW8ATvb4v

#indiegame #PSX #roguelite

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Just launched a Substack: SteamPulse.

What Steam players say after 50 hours of play.

What landed, what frustrated, where the genre whitespace is.

For indie devs, small publishers, and marketing folks making build decisions.

https://t.co/Kiz0Sea7lM

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

I'm taking a break from making my own game, so I built a tool that reads thousands of Steam reviews and tells you what players actually think.

First run: 5,393 reviews of Vampire Crawlers.

98% positive. Viral launch. The kind of release most devs would kill for.

The single loudest complaint, even inside the positive reviews, is the quit button.

Not balance. Not bugs. The exit flow ;-)

243 UI/UX mentions.

The top funny review on the whole page is a joke about how hard it is to quit the game.

Five thousand reviews, a 98% rating, and the thing players keep bringing up is a hidden button ;-)

https://t.co/6syqA8KSlK

#gamedev #indiedev #VampireCrawlers #deckbuilder

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

When classic RPGs still had a place in this world: Icewind Dale (Black Isle Studios, 2000).

Beautiful box art, a 155-page manual packed with game mechanics, character creation, combat rules, spells, and rich lore, plus a cloth map of the Icewind Dale region.

I miss that era.

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

🐧 Corner Quest demo now available on Linux!

After much work, docker containers, and updates of my old linux box, the linux demo is finally available.

Download free on Steam.

🔗 https://t.co/gEp9VYNCAz

#indiegame #gamedev #Linux #godotengine

[Ivan Ganza | Sun Smith @EbonForgeGames]

Synergies and Ground effects are fun!
Really happy with the way the synergies and ground effects turned out.
#indiegame #GodotEngine #pixelart