Daniel_Game_Dev

Hey everyone! I'm Daniel, a 14-year-old indie developer and the creator of A Survival Game — a chaotic 2D survival strategy game with permanent consequences, card-based gameplay, and tough choices in a desperate underground bunker. You can play it here: https://danielgamedev14.itch.io/a-survival-game

The last update added new events, better performance, and polish to the survival mechanics. But now I’m looking ahead…

I need YOUR ideas for the next update! What features do you want to see?

New types of cards?

More bunker events?

Pets? Robots? Betrayals?

Permanent progression between runs?

Visual effects? Achievements?

Let me know what you think would make the game even more fun, chaotic, and re-playable! Big or small, serious or silly — I’m reading all suggestions.

If you're into survival games, design feedback, or just want to help an indie dev grow, I’d love to hear from you. Let’s build something cool together!

Hey everyone! I'm Daniel, a 14-year-old indie dev, and I recently released my survival strategy game called A Survival Game on itch.io.

It’s a card-based, permadeath game where you manage a group of desperate stickmen stuck in a bunker full of bad decisions.

🔗 Play here (free): https://danielgamedev14.itch.io/a-survival-game

I’d love to see how different people play it — so if you’re into recording gameplay or just feel like sharing how your run went, I’d be super grateful!

📹 What I’m looking for:

Short videos (1–5 mins) showing how you play

Funny or unexpected situations

Feedback, ideas, or even bug moments

Feel free to post a link here or DM me if you record something! Thank you so much 🙏 – Daniel_Game_Dev

Hey everyone! 👋 (again) I’m Daniel, a 14-year-old indie developer, and I’ve been working on a survival strategy game called A Survival Game. It mixes stickmen, hand-drawn chaos, resource management, and lots of dumb (but fun) decisions.

🧠 About the game: You control a group of desperate stickmen trapped in a not-so-safe bunker. Your goal? Survive as long as possible. You’ll need to fight monsters, manage food, make tough choices, and pray your stickmen don’t do something… stupid.

Each run is different thanks to random events, unique cards, and permadeath mechanics. There’s also a good dose of humor (because dying horribly should be funny, right?)

🆕 I just released a big update with:

10 new stickmen

New items, traps and events

Improved difficulty system

Even crazier cards (like "Mercy", which might save… or kill a stickman 😅)

🎮 Play it for free on Itch.io: 👉 https://danielgamedev14.itch.io/a-survival-game

💬 I’d love your feedback or ideas! I’m constantly updating the game and open to collabs with other devs too.

Thanks for reading! 🚀

Hi! I'm Daniel, a 14-year-old Brazilian indie dev who loves creating different, funny and somewhat chaotic games 😅

I develop my projects with Godot 3.5, using a lot of creativity (and some bugs too, lol).

My current game is "A Survival Game", a 2D survival game with stickmen, cards, perma-death and bizarre decisions.👀

and today I just changed the design of my itch.io page because it was terrible before! now it has stickman image effects that shake and everything is great with CSS!💯

if you want to play the game or learn more

click here👍 https://danielgamedev14.itch.io/a-survival-game

if you hear rat noises in A Survival Game BE CAREFUL!

a rat may be eating all your FOOD!

and if it runs out your stickmen may DIE!!!!

1 by 1 😉

play now: https://danielgamedev14.itch.io/a-survival-game

Ever wondered what happens when you mix:

Stickmen with anxiety,

A totally “safe” bunker,

A resource system that hates you,

And a card mechanic designed by someone who watched too much chaos theory?

Well, now you don’t have to — because I made A Survival Game: a simulation/strategy roguelike where you’re always one bad card away from total disaster.

👨‍💻 Why? Because I’m a developer with questionable priorities and too much love for watching virtual stickmen fail at life.

🃏 Features: A full card-based control system

Resource micromanagement that makes you question your decisions

Stickmen that level up, change appearance, and complain a lot

Permadeath, obviously

A Monster Wiki, because everything wants to kill you, and you need receipts

A “Mercy DLC” where you can literally pay $1 to go back in time (feels very on-brand for debugging, tbh)

😅 Dev things I learned the hard way: Implementing permadeath logic is easy. Explaining it to confused players? Not so much.

Saving in HTML5 is a feature I now worship.

Stickmen animations don’t need to be fancy if they scream internally.

💾 Tech stack? Godot, lots of JSON, and the occasional sacrifice to the RNG gods.

💥 Play it. Break it. Tell me it’s terrible. Or great. Or both.

Link: https://danielgamedev14.itch.io/a-survival-game (Warning: may cause stickman-related stress.)

#GodotEngine

Ever wondered what happens when you mix:

Stickmen with anxiety,

A totally “safe” bunker,

A resource system that hates you,

And a card mechanic designed by someone who watched too much chaos theory?

Well, now you don’t have to — because I made A Survival Game: a simulation/strategy roguelike where you’re always one bad card away from total disaster.

👨‍💻 Why? Because I’m a developer with questionable priorities and too much love for watching virtual stickmen fail at life.

🃏 Features: A full card-based control system (because UIs are for cowards)

Resource micromanagement that makes you question your decisions

Stickmen that level up, change appearance, and complain a lot

Permadeath, obviously

A Monster Wiki, because everything wants to kill you, and you need receipts

A “Mercy DLC” where you can literally pay $1 to go back in time (feels very on-brand for debugging, tbh)

😅 Dev things I learned the hard way: Implementing permadeath logic is easy. Explaining it to confused players? Not so much.

Saving in HTML5 is a feature I now worship.

Stickmen animations don’t need to be fancy if they scream internally.

💾 Tech stack? Godot, lots of JSON, and the occasional sacrifice to the RNG gods.

💥 Play it. Break it. Tell me it’s terrible. Or great. Or both.

Link: https://danielgamedev14.itch.io/a-survival-game (Warning: may cause stickman-related stress.)

Ever wondered what happens when you mix:

Stickmen with anxiety,

A totally “safe” bunker,

A resource system that hates you,

And a card mechanic designed by someone who watched too much chaos theory?

Well, now you don’t have to — because I made A Survival Game: a simulation/strategy roguelike where you’re always one bad card away from total disaster.

👨‍💻 Why? Because I’m a developer with questionable priorities and too much love for watching virtual stickmen fail at life.

🃏 Features: A full card-based control system (because UIs are for cowards)

Resource micromanagement that makes you question your decisions

Stickmen that level up, change appearance, and complain a lot

Permadeath, obviously

A Monster Wiki, because everything wants to kill you, and you need receipts

A “Mercy DLC” where you can literally pay $1 to go back in time (feels very on-brand for debugging, tbh)

😅 Dev things I learned the hard way: Implementing permadeath logic is easy. Explaining it to confused players? Not so much.

Saving in HTML5 is a feature I now worship.

Stickmen animations don’t need to be fancy if they scream internally.

💾 Tech stack? Godot, lots of JSON, and the occasional sacrifice to the RNG gods.

💥 Play it. Break it. Tell me it’s terrible. Or great. Or both.

Link: https://danielgamedev14.itch.io/a-survival-game (Warning: may cause stickman-related stress.)