Crow in a Crown Games

Indie developer with years of experience in industry, but new to solo-dev.
Working on The Final Mainframe and a few other unannounced games.

[Crow in a Crown Games @crowinacrowndev]

I thought that “Crow in a Crown” was a fairly unique name, but it seems that it's already taken on some platforms.

Just to note: my official username is CrowInACrownDev. I’m not connected to other accounts with similar names.

For my other pages, see https://t.co/tK9qrL9rjS

[Crow in a Crown Games @crowinacrowndev]

@mazestalker I guess, in a year or so the market will be filled with slop that lost all the individuality because of AI.
So to stand off in that, companies will be forced to return to human workers, leaving AI as supplemental tool to boost quality and optimize routine, not replace our effort.

[Crow in a Crown Games @crowinacrowndev]

Fellow game developers!

Have you ever been in situation where you found perfect public domain font, but it's only has latin, and you want to localize your game for non-latin languages? Which tools you use to add missing charsets to these fonts?
#gamedev #fonts

[Crow in a Crown Games @crowinacrowndev]

Not much for this #screenshotsaturday as I spent most of the week tidying the code.
But here is a flying numbers background effect for menu windows I made yesterday.
#gamedev #indiedev

[Crow in a Crown Games @crowinacrowndev]

@creativetomred *to end of summer

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@creativetomred Planning to do the same.
I'm already late for June Next Fest, so I'll better post the demo on itch, then improve it based on first feedback, and then go to some other fest in steam closer to summer.

[Crow in a Crown Games @crowinacrowndev]

@sensational965 The concept.
My game is a Tower Defence, but you play for the opposite site.
I never saw any game with the same idea.

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@TraitoreanGames Are the beams just instant hitscan? Maybe add some charging animation so players might see they were targeted and dodge?

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This week I finished the library window from previous post and then worked on updated map generation and visuals.
Almost surprised how much life I can add to game field just in a few days.
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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@neerajjj6785 The task of finding the shortest path is plynomial and not benefit much from QC.
A good example for QC task will be the Travelling Salesman Problem, where both start and end points are varying and you need to find the shortest path that visits the set of points, not just two.

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@neerajjj6785 It's not quantum, it's depth-first search algorithm vs breadth-first search.
Both these algorithms may be performed on normal PC.

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@ericnofsinger They won't be available to players (well, maybe for alpha playtesters they will), it's just for testing purposes.
That's the reason they not even share design of other elements and use default unity ui textures and fonts.

[Crow in a Crown Games @crowinacrowndev]

Working on improving UX for my "inverse TD" roguelite.
Added a progress window so players understand what rewards they will get.
Added a perk library view to show all unlocked and obtained perks.

And some cheat buttons to debug perks😉

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

[Crow in a Crown Games @crowinacrowndev]

Currently I have three promising prototypes: an inverse tower-defense roguelike, a 3D puzzle-platformer and an incremental-puzzle-clicker.

I plan to post more about them in the future, as well as other experiments and stuff.

#gamedev #indiedev #WIP

[Crow in a Crown Games @crowinacrowndev]

Guess I need to introduce myself.

I'm currently leaving a job where I worked almost 6 years as a programmer.
Before looking for the next one, I decided to explore some prototypes I made in my spare time and try to make some of them into full games.

#gamedev #indiedev