Hey there gun golfers!
It's been a while. Nice Shot - The Gun Golfing Game released in 2018. Here we are 7 years later, so I can see why one might think I just stopped making games after I released the Desolate Dunes update in 2020. After all, Nice Shot was sort of a silly casual project.
That's not exactly what happened. As it turns out, making video games is difficult, but what's even more difficult is the business side of it.
After I released the Desolate Dunes update, I started work on a metroidvania project, called Our Dead Surface. After three years of working on that game (metroidvanias are a lot of work and take a lot of time), I was really happy with where the project was and I thought it was really good. So I put together a vertical slice and started looking for a publisher for the funding to finish the game... right when the market for publishing went downhill.
As a millennial, I'm used to getting into the market at a bad time.
Interest rates had spiked, and with that, the willingness of publishers to take on riskier genres took a nosedive as investing money became more expensive.
I didn't have enough money to finish this game, so... back to the drawing board
I had been playing a lot of Slay the Spire (as one does), and had recently played Dicey Dungeons as well. I really liked Dicey Dungeons, but wished it had a little more variety to the gameplay and a little less susceptibility to RNG. So what if I really focused in on the dice? Instead of upgrading spells like you do in Slay the Spire, what if you upgraded your dice instead? And you could take control of the RNG by modifying your dice faces as well.
Over the next few weeks, I put together a barebones prototype and it was really fun. And what's more, I was confident I would be able to finish the game whether I got funding from a publisher or not. So at the end of 2023 I began working on this game. Here's how it looks now:
The game is currently gameplay and content complete, and just needs a few remaining art and music assets. I'm anticipating a Q1 or Q2 release in 2026. Hope you go check it out!