Devlog 6 - The Great Life Defence

I’m running a series of developer logs where I just write down everything I’ve tried to do over the past week, and share a little progress. Largely I’m doing these for my own self-reflection but I hope there’s a little humour and maybe even something useful in there too.

You have my apologies that Indev 12 is yet to be released - it’s all ready to go but I’m away from home and didn’t bring the completed build nor the export/build environment with me! It’ll be the first thing I do when I get back home.

On this great train defence we call life, the bandits are making it to the end of my path with alarming regularity. That is, life is kicking my arse lately! I won’t get into what exactly is going on (devlogs aren’t a good place for trauma dumping) but I do want to be clear that things are going to be slower for a little while.

Slower, but not stopped.

This month is all about art and impact (and I suspect we’ll be rolling over into next month as well), working on making the game look juicy and worth playing before we consider the road to Steam.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before so here’s as good a place as any - this game will have a Steam page before the end of the year.

There, that’s a commitment I can’t back out of.

I actually have an earlier deadline than that, but it’s always good to leave yourself a little (a lot of) wiggle room when it comes to software development.

In the meantime, check out the first art update!

The Great Train Defence is a tower defence game where you’re often on the move, and it often feels like that’s my life too! Drop a comment below or chat to me on discord, and save me from just having to talk to myself!