Slime Breeder (prototype)

Devlog

• Few finalisations for interactions
  January 11, 2026 by 0l!ver#slime breeder, #casual

  Hey everyone :) For those of you who don't know my game yet. It is supposed to be a casual farming-like game in which you take care of some slime blobs and breed and feed them to be colourful at your... Continue reading

  
• Interactions from scratch - technical rework
  January 04, 2026 by 0l!ver#Slime Breeder, #farming, #casual, #2D, #MonoGame, #cozy, #chill, #easy

  About the game For anyone who is not familiar with my game it is about taking care of slimes and breeding them into different kinds (colours). But all things start small and so I keep on writting thes... Continue reading

  
• Retrospective on UI work
  December 28, 2025 by 0l!ver#slime breeder, #casual, #farming, #cozy, #breeding, #singleplayer, #controller, #breed, #breeding game, #simulation, #indie, #update, #mini post-mortem, #2D, #MonoGame, #Slime

  Thanks for being here This dev blog post series is about my slime breeding game, in which you live and work at a place somewhere in nature. I thank you for stopping by and reading this. Today I share... Continue reading

  
• Added inventory slots
  December 14, 2025 by 0l!ver#slime breeder, #singleplayer, #cozy, #casual, #farming, #controller

  Aloha This project is about a little slime breeding game in which you own a little farm that will be managed and built by you :) In this week I added inventory slots which are visible at the bottom of... Continue reading

  
• First simple ingame-menu (UI)
  December 06, 2025 by 0l!ver

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  #slime breeder, #casual, #farming, #breeding game, #breeding, #breed, #slimes, #slime, #cozy, #singleplayer, #gamepad, #controller, #indie

  Hello! For those of you who don't know about this project, I am working on a small breeding game in which you can have slime "farm". It is still under heavy development and I am yet another solo dev,... Continue reading

  
• Starting UI work
  November 29, 2025 by 0l!ver#slime breeder, #breeding game, #breed, #slimes, #farming game, #farm, #casual, #relaxed, #chill, #singleplayer, #easy, #controller, #indie

  General Update Aloha to any new readers here and thank you for sticking around :) Today I will present new additions regarding the user interface like chosen fonts, basic UI elements and the day statu... Continue reading

  
• Sound and Music
  November 16, 2025 by 0l!ver#slime breeder, #farming, #cozy, #chill, #breeding, #casual, #simulator

  How do I enclude sound and music? So using my own framework "MonoEngine" on top of MonoGame which is built on top of XNA as far as I know, I prepared myself two handy service classes. The so called Me... Continue reading
• Entities, entities and entities
  November 08, 2025 by 0l!ver#Slime Breeder, #farming, #simulation, #casual, #update, #indie, #cozy, #easy, #singleplayer, #solo, #chill, #upcoming, #breeding

  Progress has been made :) Ever since the last devlog I was fairly productive. I added gamepad support, reworked the movement, I finally implemented the collisions and more! Movement In the last 2 week... Continue reading

  
• Binary serialisation for save files using Mapster & MessagePack - a naive attempt
  October 20, 2025 by 0l!ver#breeding, #slime breeder, #farming, #mapster, #messagepack, #binary serialisation, #save files

  General waffle around the project So I checked my schedule again and I noticed, that I was one week behind. I still had work to do regarding saving and loading a save file of the game. Not a big deal... Continue reading
• Scene transitions & Loading screen
  October 12, 2025 by 0l!ver#slime breeder, #2D, #breed, #breeding, #casual, #farming

  What's new? Well as the title suggests I worked on the transition when swapping scenes. It is still just a black fade-in fade-out effect, but it does its job well. In fact even better now because I re... Continue reading

  
• Scenes
  October 04, 2025 by 0l!ver#Slime breeder, #breeding, #scene logic, #map traversing

  Progress on the Scene system Right now I am working on the Scene System. This means how is the game going to change the things you can see from one "section" of the game to another. This could be as s... Continue reading
• Maps
  September 27, 2025 by 0l!ver##slime breeder

  It is done! This post is almost a post-mortem as we look back at what has been finished within a minor project scope. If you haven't followed this dev blog so far, my goal was to create propper maps t... Continue reading

  
• Map Builder
  September 07, 2025 by 0l!ver#Slime Breeder, #MonoGame, #Dev-Tool

  The Map Builder I initially didn't want to do it but... Going on with my week I constantly thought to myself, that having scheduled so much time for tiles AND world building, having a little developer... Continue reading

  
• Slime Breeder
  September 02, 2025 by 0l!ver

  Devlogs! With this I start my little dev log journey for this game. I don't know if anyone is even going to read this, but if you do heya! :) Thanks for sticking by. As I start making the making of th... Continue reading