CTO & Co-founder @lavapotion (Songs of Conquest & Wielders of the Essence). Creator of @niklasnotes.
Gothenburg, Sweden
Joined July 2009
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Would love to play these on the deck 👀
Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 are getting full-fat gamepad support and you can try it right now pcgamer.com/games/rpg/oh-hel…
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The best kind of scope creep in the history of games? You decide. Prepare to lost track of... wait, why is it dark outside?
🐸✨💥
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This indie dev made a horde survival game where you build a town between runs.
- Cast spells and command troops
- Each building unlocks a troop, spell or skill
- Spinoff of Songs of Conquest
This is Wielders of the Essence and it's out now. What's your favourite bullet heaven?
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Well, we did it! Wielders of the Essence is out now on Steam!
What started as a small side project has turned into an entire game full of frogs, spells, a whole horde of enemies, and a suspicious talking egg.
Go save the swamp! (Link in thread!)
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youtu.be/bprs8WLhs3Q
Right now, there is a weird calm at the office. Did we forget something, or are we just prepared?
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Want a Wielders of the Essence Steam key?
Repost this and reply with why you’d like to try our frog-filled survivor game for a chance to win one. No swamp experience required.
The game releases on november 5th! 🐸
What is the best way to use a Hermes instance hosted on a home computer on my phone? Tailscale and web interface?
I've been using chat with telegram so far, but I'm starting to realize there are better ways
Working on a better lists-experience on Niklas Notes. Coming along nicely with tags, bookmarks and better search support - all while containing the data support.
Avid user of Letterboxd for films and I like their list support. So I've been taking a lot of inspiration from that whilst keeping my data oriented approach to them.
We created a system for it in Songs of Conquest, so it's easier now.
But I would say it's keeping and remember to develop every component you launched with for every new little feature.
So if we want to add like a new menu in the game, we have to:
* Translate it into 14 languages
* Make sure it works on desktop, gamepad, consoles and now mobile (which often means to create a new custom menu)
* Check that it doesn't work differently in singleplayer or various multiplayer modes (pvp, co-op, hotseat)
And then we need to somewhat time the launches for online crossplay.
Requires a few spreadsheets to organize it all 😅
Question for fellow indie developers:
What’s the most painful part of maintaining an app after launch?
Bug fixes?
App Store policies?
Customer support?
Subscriptions?
Marketing?
For me, the interesting problems usually involve several at once.
#buildinpublic #indiedev
First Monkey Island game I played as a kid. Probably my favorite of them to this day.
I backtracked and played all the other ones too after finishing this.
Absolute masterpiece!
Trying out grokbot now. It's an incredibly smooth user experience so far. Very easy to spin up a team of assistants in the app and give it just enough access to stuff
These are the 7 games that reached over 5k CCU during Next Fest. All tracked with my tracker! 🙃
I just launched a bunch of updates.
New Filters:
* Min CCU Peak
* How far until game launch
* Demo Release Date
UI/UX changes + new tag sidebar
Link: niklasnotes.com/festivals/ne…
BioWare shutting down is sad and the end of an era. But this just seems like a bad idea
The leader of one of Canada's top opposition parties, wants the Canadian government to save Mass Effect developer BioWare. bit.ly/4ijc1Ok
If your baseline consciousness is caffeinated, then sure. (i.e. If you're a coffee addict - like me 🙃)
It's not a black & white issue. Highly recommend "Caffeine: How Coffee and Tea Created the Modern World" by @michaelpollan
Just launched these features to my Steam Next Fest Tracker: niklasnotes.com/festivals/ne…
* Added a sentiment analysis excerpt under title
* Filter on supported languages (once backend catches up)
* Sort on review language count.
Plus some more changes on the rest of the main site!
