--- title: One Day of Indie Game Development | daily.dev description: An indie developer shares a day-in-the-life devlog for their farming game 'Home Grown'. The day's work covers implementing a fruit production and harvesting... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/one-day-of-indie-game-development-b3m9wdsqy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: One Day of Indie Game Development | daily.dev og:description: An indie developer shares a day-in-the-life devlog for their farming game 'Home Grown'. The day's work covers implementing a fruit production and harvesting... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/one-day-of-indie-game-development-b3m9wdsqy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/B3m9WDSQY.png og:image:alt: One Day of Indie Game Development 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. # One Day of Indie Game Development **[ThinMatrix](https://daily.dev/sources/thinmatrix)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An indie developer shares a day-in-the-life devlog for their farming game 'Home Grown'. The day's work covers implementing a fruit production and harvesting system, including additive model stages for plants, a fruit component with growth timers, a fruit-picking mechanic using secateurs tools, inventory integration for harvested items, tool variants with different range properties, and the addition of apple trees. The developer completes the full lifecycle from planting seeds to selling harvested produce in a shop, all within a single day. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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