I'm the developer of "Crack That Egg". In this post, I'm going to talk about:

• My story

• Story of "Crack That Egg"

• Current status of the game

• What's coming next

I want to be as transparent as I can and give you updates on the game's development progress as often as I can.

I'm a 40-year-old dad and husband. Born and raised in Iran. I immigrated to Canada in 2018. I grew up playing Atari games and later, games like Tomb Raider(1996-98), Twisted Metal (1995), and Crash Bandicoot (1996).

I used to sketch simple game levels on paper and plan my imaginary video game when I was a teenager. But reality was, I had to finish high school and go to university.

I picked up UDK (Unreal Development Kit, Epic’s free version of Unreal Engine 3) when I was in university studying Civil Engineering just to test the waters. At the time, it seemed that game development was a huge undertaking and not a single-man job. So I dropped it and went about my life, working in the construction industry, getting married, having a child.

In 2023, I read some articles about Unreal Engine for Fortnite that led me to Unreal Engine. I started learning this game engine and played around with it.

Since then, I've been trying to develop and publish a game. Since then, I've worked solo on some projects. My first ever serious project was a tower defense, which I started in March 2025. I worked on it for a month or so, created the Steam page, and promoted it a little bit.

But I came to the realization that this genre is not so popular and my concept for this game is weird, so I paused that project and started working on a more popular genre: an incremental game. "Crack That Egg" was born.

At the time of writing this, almost %90 of the game logic/game mechanics is finished. I have created a lot of graphical assets(including Steam page assets) and UI elements as placeholders. I also used some sound effects and music as placeholders. I have not done any playtesting for the game as the skill tree design is not completed yet. I'm in the process of finding a good 2D artist and SFX/Music artist.

Here are the main future steps in the development:

• I need to finalize the graphic and SFX/Music artist

• Update the game and Steam page with new graphical assets

• Finish the rest of the game logic/game mechanics

• Finish designing the skill tree

• Start playtesting the game