What Solo Devs can Learn from Slay the Spire

PC Game
Year2022

Slay the Spire has one of the best core roguelike game designs making it a great game to learn from as a solo indie game developer and designer. In the devlog and case study I dive into why the relic system is so good and how I was inspired to add it to my own indie game Chess Survivors. 🎮Chess Survivors is Available now on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2065000/Chess_Survivors/ 00:00 Huge Game Dev Lesson 00:40 Roguelikes & Replayability 01:57 Slay the Spire 03:11 Adding Relics to my Game 👤 SOCIALS ~~~~~~~~~ 🔴 Aarimous 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AariAltF4 🔵 Discord: https://discord.gg/CZDpRMmJuz 🐤 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheAarimous 🎮 Games from the Vid (in order) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chess Survivors (my game): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2065000/Chess_Survivors/ Slay the Spire: https://store.steampowered.com/app/646570/Slay_the_Spire/ 📢Sounds from the Vid (in order) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 🎵 Song 1:Blue Dream by Cheel 🎵 Song 2: Rhodesia by Twin Musicom ✨Sound Effect Zap Splat (https://www.zapsplat.com/) 🛠️ Game Dev Tools ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ⚙️Game Engine: Godot (open source and free) https://godotengine.org/ 🗒️Notes and Planning: Notion (free with paid version) https://www.notion.so/ 👨‍🎨Pixel Art: Aseprite ($20 USD) https://www.aseprite.org/ 🖌️Drawing and Painting: Leonardo ($40 USD) https://www.getleonardo.com/ 📹Video Recording & Streaming: OBS (open source and free) https://obsproject.com/ 🎛️Audio Recording: Audacity (open source and free) https://www.audacityteam.org/ 📀Video Editing: DaVinci Resolve (free) https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve 🎨 Lospec Color Pallets: https://lospec.com/palette-list

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