--- title: A Day in the Life of an Indie Game Developer | daily.dev description: An indie game developer shares a full workday building a farming game, covering a redesign of the tool interaction system. Key changes include replacing... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-indie-game-developer-svhnuvjd5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Day in the Life of an Indie Game Developer | daily.dev og:description: An indie game developer shares a full workday building a farming game, covering a redesign of the tool interaction system. Key changes include replacing... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-day-in-the-life-of-an-indie-game-developer-svhnuvjd5 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sVHnuVjd5.png og:image:alt: A Day in the Life of an Indie Game Developer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Day in the Life of an Indie Game Developer **[ThinMatrix](https://daily.dev/sources/thinmatrix)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An indie game developer shares a full workday building a farming game, covering a redesign of the tool interaction system. Key changes include replacing per-click actions with hold-and-drag mechanics, adding time-based action completion to enforce a relaxed pace, implementing variable tool speeds and multi-tile tools for progression, and introducing interactable world objects via right-click. The developer also adds visual feedback for watering and outlines the roadmap toward version 0.3 (graphical overhaul) and 0.4 (UI and sound). ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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