Gamescom Booth: Dream Opportunity or Too Soon? Need Advice!

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve been dreaming of showcasing my game at Gamescom for years, and now that booth bookings for 2025 are open, I’m seriously considering it. It feels like such a big milestone as an indie dev—an amazing way to share my work with the world. But I also know it’s a huge investment, both financially and in terms of time and energy.

The thing is, my game is still in progress. It’s functional, but it’s far from polished or “juice-filled,” and I’m not sure if it’ll be in good enough shape to show by then. It makes me wonder:

• Is it worth committing to such a big event if the game isn’t in a polished or near-finished state?

• For those of you who’ve presented at events like Gamescom, where were you in your production timeline when you took the leap?

• Was the experience worth it for you in terms of visibility, feedback, or just as a personal milestone?

I’d love to hear your thoughts, experiences, or advice on this! I’m torn between chasing a dream and waiting until the timing feels more “right” (if there’s even such a thing).

Thanks in advance for sharing! 🙏

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2D sidescroller/Metroidvania

Just wondering what the normal reference resolution should be for a pixel art metroidvania?

Making 16x16 pixel art assets, including the ground tiles, the player and a building for now.

What size should my canvas be? For example, if im making a parallax background. What size should I set the canvas to be on Aseprite before I import that into unity? Then the pixel art camera needs to be set to a certain reference resolution too.

Thanks!

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90% off BUNDLE / from $20,97 to $2,07 on all effects assets in 2D pixelart. Limited
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Tranquil Pond: A Zen mobile game

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How can a tile from Unity tilemaps change every time I draw it?

So I'm beginner and I'm trying to recreate the first level of Mega Man 1 for practice, and now I'm trying to learn how to use the tilemaps editor of Unity. My problem right now is:

https://preview.redd.it/kezazbmkb37e1.png?width=389&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c9c148b7d6c851f7e9361a686ee5d7c2e250e69

Those are the 2 tiles I need for the ground, so when I draw it, I need to be switching between those 2 since they combine when they are next to each other, so it would look like this:

https://preview.redd.it/y94v20g0c37e1.png?width=615&format=png&auto=webp&s=8270a161a852d42c6dda91c06b248a4346839d0d

But is there any way to make it automatic? So that every time I add a tile, they automatically change to the correct one, similar to using a rule tile but these switch between 2 tiles every time I add one

It can be done with noscripts or something? Thanks for your advice

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UI Checkers Free as always ( See Down Below!)

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I updated my unity version from my project and now shaders look entirely different. Why?

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Bending object along spline?
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I know everyone has probably seen my little physics based Marble game over the year I have been making it. Well I have finally finished and it is released on steam! I am still very nervous about it, but at least some people are playing now!

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Making Books Without Cutting Trees :)

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Survey for game developers

Hello!
Our team is working on making a web platform for developing, publishing, testing and discussing demos of indie games on the Godot engine.
The survey is divided into three components of the project by areas: development, testing and forum parts. With this survey we want to study the relevance of our project. If you are (or were) an indie game developer, please leave your honest answer, it will help us a lot! Survey is accessible by this link

We would be very grateful if you can share this survey with friends or group chats related to game-development.

If you also like to play and support indie games, could you please take this survey. Here we are mostly interested in your ways of finding new games.

Both of the surveys are short and will not take more than 5 minutes of your time, and would help us a lot!

If you're interested in the results of the survey and in the project itself, it will be published and updated to this thread by May.

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Why were these two selectors changed from toggles to dropdowns?

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Should an indie team give up after three failed games? We don’t think so. Taking a break to recharge and learn from our experiences, we spent two years building a pixel-art world with turn-based combat and time-stopping mechanics. Take a look at the result!
https://youtu.be/NHlLXXIfg4g

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The job market sucks right now

I know I'm not the only one struggling, and this is already well documented so I'll keep it short. I just need to scream my frustrations into the proverbial void. I'm a competent programmer, with reasonable expectations, a passable resume/portfolio, and it's not often that I fail to impress in a interview. But over the last year I can't even get to the interview stage. I'm tired of iterating my resume to please some opaque talent acquisition algorithm(s). I'm going insane... and broke!


Rant over.

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