Seven hundred people have my game, and most useful thing any of them did was tell me twelve finished systems were unreachable.

They were. Every automated test passed the whole time, because a test can prove a thing works without proving anybody can get to it.

#indiedev #gamedev

Sunday. In the car from eight until about eight.

There is a small card stuck in the back with a code on it. Two days in and I am fairly sure it talks to passengers better than I do.

Five weeks until we can pay for the flat.

The dog is the part with no date on it.

#gamedev #indiedev

A tester did not tell me my game was broken.

He sent a screenshot and asked if he had understood the rating system.

He had. Game was wrong and he was being polite about it.

Over 30 reports, from people doing it for free. They find what 1,556 tests cannot.

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Hi there! Id like to invite you to visit the hire page on my domain :)
It’s a place to know more, and from there you can also check out my Fiverr and JustJoinIT profiles :)

pcworkman.dev/hire/

for weeks i applied for jobs and heard nothing back.
not rejections. nothing.

yesterday i read my own profile instead of the offers on it.

it rated me advanced at operating a forklift and beginner at software development.

i filled that in myself.

#indiedev #gamedev #opentowork

a piece of my Toyota left at 120km/h this week, with a passenger in back
💀

i watched it explode into a thousand pieces in mirror and spent three seconds certain underside was gone.

it was a plastic trim. drove four more hours, nothing happened.

what fell off yours?😂
#toyota

#indiedev #gamedev

i opened all fourteen.

three quarters were people wishing me happy birthday.

i had carried that number for weeks like it was a bill i could not pay. it was my friends being kind to me.

two months of not applying, because of a door i never tried.

#gamedev #indiedev

i can talk to a stranger in my taxi for forty minutes.

i cannot open a message about work. fourteen of them are sitting unread on linkedin, some for a month

it is not laziness. its one specific blocked door, and it cost me two months of not applying anywhere
tonight i open all fourteen

#JobSearch

Tell me what you need built and I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.

I take on desktop apps, automation, Python tooling and local AI, and I write the tests and documentation that go with them.

pcworkman.dev/hire/

i opened a freelance desk this week, because of a number i found on friday.

i exported a year of my own data. the post i wrote off as a failure brought more people than the one i was proud of. i had been reading the wrong number for a year.

priced properly this time.

#python #gamedev #indiedev

my game has been downloadable since wednesday. the code for it went public tonight.

for three days the thing people were playing did not exist in the repository, and i only found out because something unrelated refused to run.

eighteen months of
"every commit is public"

#indiedev #gamedev

i have spent eighteen months guessing low about my own work. on friday i found out i do it about my own life too.

i said 1,600 commits. the repos said 1,980.
i said three months to move out.
Arihmetic said six weeks.

same direction every time. not once the other way.

#gamedev #indiedev

a feature in my game had never worked. not broken last week. never, not once, since i wrote it.

two lines in the wrong order, so the click was never delivered to anything. 1,624 tests green the whole time.

they prove the rule works. they cannot prove a person can reach it.

#indiedev #gamedev

i spent four extra days on a build and added almost nothing.

most of it was connecting things i had already built and could not reach: a contract you pay $1.2m for in game and cannot read, a tutorial that had been hiding the bottom third of every screen.

0.6.2 is out, free.

#indiedev #gamedev

i wrote the whole thing down.

why i did not believe my own fundraiser would work, the shop that failed three years before any of this, and three bugs in the current build that 1,624 passing tests could never have caught.

pcworkman.dev/blog/the-fund-i-wrote-off/

#gamedev #indiedev

What the four days bought.

When it lands, please try to break it. Tell me what confused you, not only what crashed.
Any language, I will translate it.

hcklab.itch.io/scaling-laws

#gamedev #indiegame

I took tomorrow off work to finish a build that was meant to ship on Sunday.

Four days late. Every time I sat down to freeze it I found something else quietly broken.
Tutorial had been hiding the bottom third of every screen and I had never noticed

1 October, before 13:00 CEST

#gamedev #indiegame

eleven days...
that is all it took me to give up on my own fundraiser.
<3 :)

github.com/sponsors/Huc...

#indiedev #gamedev

eleven days...
that is all it took me to give up on my own fundraiser.
<3 :)

github.com/sponsors/Huc...

#indiedev #gamedev