Sinan Ata

Last week's performance reports for my xplatform/multiplayer/free-to-play: Leap of Legends - $0 ad spend - continuous improvement based on user feedback My observations: - An expected drop in player activity as NextFest kicked in and this game is not a part of it - A major update coming this week with 1v1 2v2 3v3 ranked matches, ELO system and a UI/UX overhaul Available on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows. #gamedev #unity #buildinpublic #indiedev

IL2CPP is magic. Rocket League-style ranked matchmaking server for my cross-platform F2P game (Leap of Legends) is just 124MB. Sleeps when idle, wakes on demand, and auto-scales stupidly easily. Solo dev win. 🚀 #Unity #GameDev #IndieGame #SoloDev #BuildInPublic

🚀 GeometryTD Steam NextFest Recap Completely blown away by the response for its one week old page: • 54,353 impressions • 1,896 visits • 91 wishlists • 745 demo downloads • 62 demo players • 13 min average playtime (demo hard-stops at 15!) People are sticking around and almost finishing the full demo — that means a lot. Huge thank you to everyone who jumped in and left a wishlist. Demo is still up if you missed it. Go give it a shot and tell me what you think of the towers 👀 #unity #indiedev #gamedev #buildinpublic

Good, but far from being enough. Game Developers should disclose their parents' social security numbers and a clear description of what kind of the household they grew up in.

Here are last week's stats: Enjoy Leap of Legends with your friends and kids! Desktops: store.steampowered.com/app/2… iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/leap-o… Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…

Wild how getting positive interaction on Reddit requires giving away free assets or open-source tools, otherwise you're just fighting for your life in the comments. On X, you can actually just share your game and build in public. Shoutout to the late-night #indiedev/#gamedev crew on here. I’m cooking a new UI for my f2p, xplatform, multiplayer game: Leap of Legends. What are you all working on tonight?

okay a week is over… what did you ship this week? I’m starting to see lots of excuses around. Let’s get your shit together and keep building. I go first: - ranked matches and ELO system for Leap of Legends - pill-sized linux cpp matchmaking and match servers (100-150mb) for faster deployment for Leap of Legends - complete UI/UX overhaul of Leap of Legends leveraging new UI shading features of my open source ui design system at github/unity-ui-toolkit-design-system. - steam overlay integration for seamless wishlist call to action for Geometry TD - crew member ID and face generator for Geometry TD - crew animation polish for Geometry TD - a cinematic trailer for Geometry TD - performance optimizations for over 15k ID carrying/vehicle driving/home owning/job performing citizens in my upcoming city game - first person mode and animations for my upcoming game - from gas stations to sushi restaurants, over a 100 legal job/work stations and animations for my upcoming game - scooter, skateboard, rollerblades, bicycle and motorcycle driving animation fixes for my upcoming game - some uncommited improvements to my open source umg design system for unreal. low level stuff and more icons and icon functionality. it is available at github/unreal-umg-design-system #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #unity #unreal

Finally someone with senses wrote a few words on software. I’m starting to see an increasing volume of excuses. Just build.

83 wishlists. Aiming for 8,000. Just dropped a new cinematic trailer — gave the crew faces and real identity. Demo’s updated too. Why wait for Next Fest to end? Check out Geometry TD on Steam. #gamedev #indiedev

In the dawn of the SI age and @Medium still thinks Dark Mode is a groundbreaking feature 💀 Imagine emailing that to millions to promote something in 2026. Meanwhile I’ve spent two full days building gameplay trailers and promos that are 10x more sophisticated… and still wondering if we’re overthinking it. The gap is wild. #SuperIntelligence #AI #IndieDev #GameDev #DarkMode #UIUX #TechTwitter

Imagine casually pulling over a million people to a tech festival — every single time — in a country of 88 million. Total so far: 13.5 million. @Selcuk and @teknofest aren’t just organizing events. They’re building a generation. And it goes deeper. Beyond the famous armed-drones, he’s also running DENEYAP — a free, 36-month nationwide robotics, coding, and technology program for kids (“Try and Do”). This year alone: 182,800 kids took the first-round tests 49,052 advanced to the hands-on stage ~15,000 got accepted My daughter just made it in. This is the real deal. #TEKNOFEST #DENEYAP