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Elliott Ayling | The Fire Must Grow 🔥
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Wishlist The Fire Must Grow on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4129050
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New game! The Fire Must Grow.
A hex-based horror city builder.

🏘️Grow your village.
🔥Tend the flame.
💀Sacrifice your villagers.
👹Meet strange people and creatures.
Coming soon! Wishlist on #Steam !

#gaming #horrorgame #indiegame
Playing around with #Unity new graph toolkit stuff to build out a tool for defining my 'expeditions' (choose your own adventure type system). Seems pretty good, but missing a fair bit at the moment. Hopefully 6.4 sorts a lot of it out.
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Happy to say that The Fire Must Grow🔥 is taking place in the #MidwinterSpirits steam event! ❄️

A great celebration of current and upcoming games that celebrate the cosy start of winter!

Check out the sale page!
store.steampowered.com/curator/4412...

Thanks
@IvyJuiceGames
December 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Keep your villagers safe from the terrors that lie beyond the light. #screenshotsaturday
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
New game! The Fire Must Grow.
A hex-based horror city builder.

🏘️Grow your village.
🔥Tend the flame.
💀Sacrifice your villagers.
👹Meet strange people and creatures.
Coming soon! Wishlist on #Steam !

#gaming #horrorgame #indiegame
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Damn, everybody trying to buy Devil's Derby today have crashed Steam. Crazy stuff. Guess I'll play #Silksong instead.
Devil's Derby is OUT NOW!

Fast-paced FPS on skates in a single arena where you fight endless hordes of demons using advance movement to compete for high score! 🛼

Get it on Steam!

#indiegame #madewithunity #gaming #indiedev
September 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This game is over 10 years old. Still looks amazing. Arkham Knight.
August 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Added a table UI class. Supports dynamic column/row changes and sorting. Editor and runtime support. Here it is tracking total existing resources. Will help me add various stats windows. Quite neat.
#gamedev #madeinunity
August 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
August 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Basic farming system done (sped up). Villager plants/maintains/harvests crops. Crop can fail, be affected by weather, temperature etc, which can effect final yield. Needs some UI, but quite happy at the moment
#gamedev #madewithunity
August 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
August 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
August 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Just updated this and my resource system to use "IResourceAttribute". Effectively means I now raise request for any attributes (IsEdible, IsBurnable etc) rather than specific resources. Resource itself is a IResourceAttribute though, so you can still do that. Much more flexible. #gamedev
I wrote up how I designed my logistics system in my next game.
It's not a complete in depth post, but just a general overview of how it works at the moment, and the classes/objects that it uses. Hope it is helpful to some people.
#gamedev #madeinunity
Unity C# Logistics System
Hello. I’m Elliott. I’m a software engineer, but I also made the arena FPS Devil’s Derby on Steam. You can find me on Twitter and Bluesky…
medium.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Quite like this subtle scanline effect #gamedev #madeinunity #shaders
July 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I wrote up how I designed my logistics system in my next game.
It's not a complete in depth post, but just a general overview of how it works at the moment, and the classes/objects that it uses. Hope it is helpful to some people.
#gamedev #madeinunity
Unity C# Logistics System
Hello. I’m Elliott. I’m a software engineer, but I also made the arena FPS Devil’s Derby on Steam. You can find me on Twitter and Bluesky…
medium.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Reworking my logistical system right now- easily the most complex part of the code so far. It gets complicated fast. Have to be strict with your abstractions, and don't design yourself in a corner with no room to expand. Lots of edge cases! Might do a little write up when I'm happy with it #gamedev
July 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Devil's Derby is 20% off in the Steam Summer Sale! Give it a go if you like fast paced shooters.

#indiegames #steam #fpsgames
June 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
June 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
June 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
June 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Some early WIP of UI/gameplay. #gamedev #madewithunity #indiegame
June 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Swear 50% of #gamedev time is just save/load edge case bugs and UI fiddling. Losing my mind.
June 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Working on "the next thing" which is all hex based with a lighting mechanic. I wanted clearly defined hexes of fully lit (where player can build), partial lit (risky to build here), and darkness (big no no), with a nice fall off at the edges. But how did I do this in Unity? #gamedev #madeinunity
May 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM