Eat an Elephant Game Dev Planner
Digital Game Development Doc, and project planner. Designed to help indie game developers plan out their games, and to maintain a blog with updates from the planner software. Designed for autistic brains.
This project is is my own creation. I’m using Godot 4.4.1 and C#. I started this project in 2024, but ran into the UUID bug in godot and nodes and data replication was an issue. So I’m upgrading to Godot 4.4.1 and starting over with c# instead of GDScript. I’ve updated the plan in my physical planner and as a fun experiment I’ve asked ChatGPT to help me plan out the digital version. I’m not worried about the deadlines, I just want something to compare to to see how long it takes me to finish the MVP project. The goal is to publish a Demo (no WordPress support) on Steam, and a version that connects to a WordPress plugin for posting blogs as the second version.
Milestones
What’s your current timeline for release and progress on the project?
Apr 2026
RELEASE
Full Release on Steam
November 2025
🏁 Phase 1: Foundation Setup (Weeks 1–4)
🟢🎯 Goal: Get the structure, menus, and save system groundwork ready.
Week 1 (Oct 28–Nov 3)
🟢🧱 : Set up Godot project folders & base scenes
🟢🎨 : Create Title Page scene (simple animation or fade-in logo)
Week 2 (Nov 4–10)
🟢🧭 : Build Main Menu (buttons + scene switching)
❌⚙️ : Add transitions between Title → Menu → Settings
Week 3 (Nov 11–17)
🧩 : Start Settings Scene UI (basic toggles/sliders)
❌💾 : Implement saving/loading settings (ConfigFile or JSON)
Week 4 (Nov 18–24)
❌📘 : Design core data structures (Project, Milestone, Goal, Task)
❌🧠 : Connect classes and signals for data updates
🎄 Holiday Break (Nov 26–Nov 30)
Schedule was too ambitious for a holiday month.
❌ Migraines daily. No significant progress.
October 2025
Goals
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Week 1
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🟢 Brainstorm, and plan
🟢 Create repository for GD4.4.1 project.
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Week 2
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🟢 Make website pages and organize blog🟢 Update discord group.
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Week 3 and 4
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🟢 Create logo and timeline for the project
🟢 Create planner/dev doc, listing out the features.
🟢 Create website pages for digital planner.
❌ Migraines daily. No significant progress.
Developer Blog
(Most Recent Posts)
Weekly Events
Purple Dragon Dev Streaming on twitch, game development for Eat an Elephant – Task List
Eat an Elephant Dev Time – Task List
Eat an Elephant Dev Time – Task List
2026 Sales
(As an indie developer how are your sales for the first year a game is released?)
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10 YR Sales
(As an indie developer how are your sales going?)
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Socials Discussion
(Do they help with engagement and sales?)
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