What is The Daily Quest issue #1?

Treasure Maps & Tiny Shipments, published June 27, 2026. It bundles game development news with an optional daily quest you can complete for XP.

What is today's quest theme?

The Daily Quest theme is "treasure". Each pathway (programming, art, writing, audio, and more) gets a short prompt tied to that theme.

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Issue #1 · June 27, 2026

New helpers for co-op indies shipping small online modes without rebuilding netcode from scratch.

Fewer manual slices when you batch animations for jam builds.

Juice your game feel in thirty minutes — timing beats amplitude.

Collider fixes and faster sprite batching for teams still on the LTS train.

Demo window opens soon — store pages need to be locked six weeks out.

Moonwake Studio

A cozy gravity-flip puzzler in Godot — demo crossed 10k wishlists this week.

Itch.io Spring Art Pack itch.io · Free assets — Free pixel tileset bundle for prototyping dungeon crawlers.

treasure

General

Create something small themed around treasure — any discipline counts.

Programming

Implement a pickup that increments a counter when collected.

Art & Design

Draw a treasure chest in your style — 30 minutes max.

Writing

Write 150 words about a treasure and who guards it.

Audio

Design 3 SFX: chest rattle, lid open, coin sparkle.