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Greetings folks, there are a good number of updates for the month, but there's one that I don't want to be hidden. Steam stats. I bring this up because it is a form of data collection, so I want to be as transparent as possible with it. The stats will only be used to gauge fallof
Greetings folks, July contained 2 notable features worth mentioning: the interactive tutorial and status pop-stacks . One of the pieces that I'd been putting off was the onboarding experience . I hoped that having good UX throughout a run would be enough to teach the player how t
Greetings folks, during June I got a few changes surrounding projected damage completed but won't be pushing them until next month. This is because the largest change, that I'm currently in progress with, is a refined tutorial. The category that had the most feedback in the past
Greetings folks, May was one of the busiest months I've had in awhile. Deck Builders Fest kicked off the early month while it was incredibly humbling, I learned a lot and was given loads of feedback. During deck builders fest, I logged 23 items resolved in the span of a week. Whi
Thank you all for the feedback during the past 2 days! I've been working on improving the user experience, fixing bugs, and feature requests that everyone has graciously notified me of. I have 2 intents with this update: I wanted to show that your feedback does matter. I created
Catch me tomorrow at 8 PM MT for the second stream for deck builders fest! We'll do deep-dives into mechanics in bursts. You can access the stream on the page for Self Recurse
Join me during the kick-off of Deck Builders Fest as we delve into the first act of gameplay in live-stream format. Everything you see will be available in the demo . I'll showoff gameplay while discuss the depth of mechanics ranging from their design to the art and trivia. I loo
Evening folks, April was a milestone month - the demo was released and is available for everyone to play. There is a Discord link on the start screen that I'll be fielding feedback with and I'm really excited to hear from all of you. I've also entered the Steam Deckbuilder's Fest
Hello folks, March was ultimately a month of an emphasis in marketing and a little bit of feature work, most of which was user experience related. On the marketing front, I decided to scale this down. Marketing research is showing that festival involvement, having a demo, and jus
Hello folks, February was a soul-searching month that resulted in some good outcomes. The first thing I want to address is AI tool usage in the creation of the game. As a civilization, we're at an interesting point where people can crank out games with the assistance of AI. I had
Hello folks! January felt like little process was made until I see the bullet list of what was worked on: Feature work - FPS improvement is substantial (when testing on the devices I own, it was ~33% better) - Steam cloud saves are working - the dice UI has been condensed to help
Happy new year, folks! December was filled with some behemoths that were tackled: the engine was upgraded from UE 5.0 to 5.7. This undertaking involved changing a lot of UI and going through some arduous learning experiences with how the game is packaged differently from any of t
Welcome folks, I'm thrilled that you're here! Thank you for checking out Self Recurse! Self Recurse is a Card-battler at its core, with roguelite elements meaning permanent progression in between a run and no run is the same. I'm Will - the solo dev behind the project. I grew up