Robert Varadan

I'm making “Claims & Caverns,” a co-op horror game where you play as dwarven insurance adjusters for a predatory “minecare” company.👇 Matthew 28:20

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

Announcing Claims & Caverns -- the public playtest. It's free and it's available on Steam right now!

https://t.co/PrpCKyBXMx

Play it alone or with friends, join the Discord, and leave feedback so the full release can be as great as possible. Enjoy! #godot #indiedev #gamedev

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@SunnyVStudio This is probably the most positive sign to me in years that Unity knows what they are doing

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@Agelvik bee-dle in a hive-stack?

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@GarrettPetersen Bingo

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@spectraimsim The sortslop will continue until organization improves 🗣️

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@GlvGalv Congratulations. What an awesome looking game!

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

Over a hundred people have joined the public playtest for Claims & Caverns on just the first day!

A lot of people are gonna be breaking a lot of things… oh well, that’s how the full release gets good!

https://t.co/gB8T4LRr1J

#indiedev #gamedev #godot

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

Thrilled to see so many of you are trying the playtest for Claims & Caverns even after just a few hours. So satisfying and rewarding to have reached this point in the development. Excited to hear your feedback, and don't forget to join the Discord (invite link is in-game on the main menu)!

https://t.co/PrpCKyBXMx

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

Announcing Claims & Caverns -- the public playtest. It's free and it's available on Steam right now!

https://t.co/PrpCKyBXMx

Play it alone or with friends, join the Discord, and leave feedback so the full release can be as great as possible. Enjoy! #godot #indiedev #gamedev

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

ℹ️Press kit, if you do that sort of thing: https://t.co/kuC72vSrFQ

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

Announcing Claims & Caverns -- the public playtest. It's free and it's available on Steam right now!

https://t.co/PrpCKyBXMx

Play it alone or with friends, join the Discord, and leave feedback so the full release can be as great as possible. Enjoy! #godot #indiedev #gamedev

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

Claims & Caverns playtest is almost ready… publicly! Yep, you’ll be able to play a super early version for free for a limited time. I’ll just ask that you help me make it better.

Racing against the clock to update the Steam page because I have a baby due any day now! 😂

#godot #indiedev #gamedev

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

New procedural level gen system:

Big "hub rooms" act as an anchor so you don't get too lost in the mines. "Spoke rooms" are worth exploring because they have evidence to collect... but you might also run into a hungry creature like a Croakus.🐸

#godot #gamedev #indiedev

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@cmuratori Haaaaard disagree. When you consider the service they’re providing YouTubers, it dwarfs what those other 70-30 providers are offering (free video streaming to billions of users, for one). And they take a 0% cut on sponsorships. Those other platforms charge fees on everything.

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@teamldm Such a cool technique

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@Kabooski01 I gotta say, while the core fantasies of these games are simple, the games themselves are anything but.

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

Coding is a subset of software engineering. Yeah, coding was absolutely hard. It’s not anymore.

The “coding was never the hard part” thing is less an insult, and more of a cope to deal with the reality that the thing we spent the most time on (while, yes, maybe not always being hard) takes nearly no time now. So, we can spend time doing the “other” parts of software engineering that are still difficult.

But you can probably expect “software engineering was never the hard part of creating a product” copes in the next couple years. Reductio ad absurdum

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@0xPaulius Genuinely curious, how does the game actually feel to play? I’ve played some of these strictly one-shotted games. They always look impressive in a screenshot or even a video, then when I go and play them they feel joyless.

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@Jonathan_Blow This is getting ridiculous, now even Jonathan Blow is announcing an AI model

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

And yet it feels like Steam mints a new mega-viral indie game almost every week

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Roblox has lost around $70 billion in value over the past year, with its stock price down 70%

The company blamed a lack of new viral games after disappointing earnings

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@kimmonismus I recall that he said during his Dwarkesh interview that he wasn’t sure if “super-intelligence” should still be the be-all and end-all for the company (kind of a crazy thing to say offhand, by the way), so I think people should temper their expectations. But who knows

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@JinBaigujing

[Robert Varadan @robertvaradan]

@shindags Two things can be true at once!