Wow, after 3+ years the game is getting a little life breathed into it! (maybe a lot, we'll see)

Some history ...

Dungeon Team was initially released in 2017 - it was my 3rd browser game, all evolutions of the same game engine, but my first attempt at full-stack engineering a real-time multiplayer game. The initial launch was ... rocky ... the backend pooping itself a lot, as you might expect having been built by someone who had approxmiately no idea what they were doing.

I managed to hack things into a somewhat stable state, and the game did OK & had a pretty nice player base. For a couple of weeks I even thought I might be succeeding enough to call myself a Real Game Developer™

Then I got my first lesson in a little software engineering concept called "scalability" - that is, while I'd succeeded in getting the game to *work*, the system was architected in such a way that hardware resources needed to run it cost me about 80% of the game's revenue. Oops?

I'd only released the game on one platform (Kongregate). I could have squeezed a little more cash out of the game by doing more releases, but I thought if I could just solve the technical problems & improve on the game design & whatnot I might still have a chance. But I was broke & needed a job, heh. I pretty much just put the game on hold.

Over all this time I never did find the wherewithal to jumpstart Dungeon Team again (there were a couple of half-assed attempts), but I did get a foothold on a software engineering career. Now I've done everything from Silicon Valley startups to helping build a cloud platform for Samsung ... and until a few weeks ago I thought I could just maintain where I am in the field, make good money & probably retire early.

Then I had a nervous breakdown & quit my job & decided if I can't be a game dev there's no point in living. Go figure.

So I'm back. And I know one or two things about building software now.

Actually I am primarly focused on a new game (still a prototype - DM me if you want to help out with playtesting), but releasing Dungeon Team to a few new places <cough> ... steam <cough> ... is included in the plan. Not gonna lie - it's largely a marketing ploy, to see if I can spark up another following to market the new game to. Also if it makes a couple bucks that will give me a little more "runway" for the new game (no, really, I left a very good job to do this). My last update here was about re-releasing the game "as is," but actually I've decided to invest a few weeks into going over the Dungeon Team code, design, etc. - there should be at least a few easy wins ... and, after all, it's still my baby ...

Thanks for playing :) Look for me in the game chat or Discord.