Backyard Zoo | Wishlist Mayfly on Steam

I enjoyed reading this. I didn’t know a lot of this info about you. I’m glad you have got to where you are in your journey.

Very inspiring 💪

The Piece I Didn’t Know Was Missing For most of my life, I knew two pieces of my Congenital Rubella Syndrome puzzle: vision loss and a heart condition. It took nearly thirty years—and a lot of questions—to realise there was a third p…

For years I thought I was just bad at paying attention. Turns out, a piece of my story was missing. In my new blog, I share the long journey to discovering my Deafblind identity.

Read here:
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pixel art of a radio telescope dish silhouetted against a red and orange nebula sky. a forest sits on the horizon above a lake that reflects the sky, stars, and the dish's silhouette (inspired by "Kalyazin Radio Astronomy Observatory")

Observatory

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Marblous Worlds on Steam Marblous Worlds is a toylike 3D Platformer. Explore a series of worlds collecting meebstars, and flower medals to customise your marble to your hearts content.

🔮So begins the long journey of self promo.✨
The initial (still very WIP) Steam page for Marblous Worlds is live.
If rolling around vibrant worlds and making your own marble design sounds fun to you I'd appreciate a wishlist 💖 store.steampowered.com/app/3469260/...
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A sepia-toned, flat-shaded poster showing a landscape full of spikes.

A sepia-toned, flat-shaded poster showing an angel holding a spear in their right hand and an open scroll in their left hand.

Finally settled on a name for my next game: SHUNNED LAND. Coming March 2026 - stay tuned! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #godot #horrorgame #indiegame #wip #digitalart #lowpoly

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An early development shot showing the Mayfly main menu before proper lighting was added. Also shows an older narrowboat model

The gorgeous new main menu from Mayfly with atmospheric lighting and a beautiful narrowboat model

Another gem from my old dev progress videos, this one makes me chuckle - though I do like the old font 🙃

September 2023 versus today.

It's surprising just how much of the environment was actually in place back then 🌳

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Wow! So regal 😻. She has a British twin (Colin)

Though I wear headphones because he is honestly the loudest cat in the universe.

Mayfly is a story-rich quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England

Coming Q3 2026 🤞

Wishlist now if you haven’t already:
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Thank you!

I will be jumping straight on getting this as soon as it's released.
Go add it to your wishlist, it's shaping up to be a brilliantly creepy little game 😁
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Mayfly is a story-rich quiet horror set aboard a narrowboat in Northern England

Coming Q3 2026 🤞
Wishlist now if you haven’t already:
store.steampowered.com/app/4057470/...

#gamedev #indiegame #solodev #unity3d #horrorgame #quiethorror #wishlistwednesday #gametrailer #promosky #storybased

This looks gorgeous, where is it?

You know it better than most that’s for sure. It’s funny I remember walking round the scene when it looked like the first screenshot and thinking ‘wow I’ll have this finished in no time, it’s basically finished’ 😵

A very early build progress screenshot showing a bare narrowboat interior

A super awesome new narrowboat model from the latest Mayfly build with better lighting + fully 'furnished'

I stumbled across some early build progress videos for Mayfly. When you feel like you're making no progress at all it's good to remind yourself how far you've come!

September 2023 v today. Hopefully you can tell which is which 😆

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Thank you for saying so!

Genius to make a horror game on a narrow boat

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The entire narrowboat world fascinates me and I just imagine each one is its own horror… and now finally a game.

I’m really happy to hear that and I hope you enjoy it - thank you for sharing

I’m really happy to hear you’d still like to give it a try. Thank you again for your time

That makes a lot of sense and you’re not the first person to say so. Had similar feedback over on Reddit.

Thank you for taking the time out to respond it’s much appreciated

Thank you so much for the constructive feedback.

What you say makes a lot of sense. I’m coming from the perspective of knowing the game inside out but from the outside I would think exactly the same way as you.

This is really helpful, thank you!

Thank you so much for taking the time. It’s a very good point about the transitions - a fade would suit better

Over on Reddit the feedback has mainly been the lack of diverse screenshots, people don’t even bother with the trailer apparently!

I think a demo is the way to go, let people play!

*Steam/marketing advice needed please*

My Steam page stats:

• CTR: 85% (very high)
• Wishlists: 3.5% (low)

Feels like I’m losing people after the click.

Is the trailer too slow in the first 10s? Or something else I’m missing?

Brutal honesty welcome #steam
#gamedev #indiedev #gamemarketing

Beautifully grimy. Love the lighting on the train

Thank you for saying so!

Mayfly is a short story-led quiet horror set entirely on a narrowboat in Northern England.

Coming Q3 2026 🤞
Wishlist now if you haven’t already:
store.steampowered.com/app/4057470/...

#gamedev #indiegame #solodev #horrorgame #quiethorror #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gametrailer #promosky

Thank you - you’ve inspired me to try a Mac build soon and hopefully it’ll just be a case of checking an extra box and everything works 🤔

Hey 👋, I thought you might like to see the new cinematic trailer for Mayfly?

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