I made a quick video summarizing the new features in Icaria Update 2. #icariagame #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHBH...

Our next update is getting closer. Here's some more fun with our new enemy(ish) plant, Husk. #icariagame #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Phrasing, people 😂

WIP: A new challenge targeted for the next update of our game Icaria: the Husk defends its territory by draining power and using it to grow. As it is a programming game, the attacking drones are fully automated. #icariagame. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

First feature for our next update: I moved the command bar to the bottom of the screen (like the build bar I did earlier) and then put the script editor in a movable and resizable window. #icariagame. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

youtu.be/ReKH838XPao My first every voice over YouTube video. Would have been better if I had gotten it out when we launched the update, but this ended up being mostly a learning exercise. #icariagame #gamedev #indiedev

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Messing around with a multi-layer base using our new sloped conveyors in #icariagame. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Building a Fire xkcd.com/3114/

We're participating in the Steam Automation Festival this week. Valve gives us this promo art but lordy is it difficult to work with. Nothing I've got looks good against their background.

Getting ready for our first major update coming to #icariagame on Monday July 14. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

The biggest new feature in #icariagame update 1 is blueprints; copying builds within a save, between saves, and exporting them as a string to share with your friends. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Working on #icariagame Update 1 where conveyor can climb hills and jump over canyons. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

We created an Indie Den starter pack! We want to add as many of our community members as possible, so reply to this post to be added! 🤩 All I ask is that you follow us and some of the awesome accounts already on the list 💛 #startpack #indiedev #indiegame go.bsky.app/6jBtiB4

@techconnectify.bsky.social Just watched your video on DVD Closed Captioning. DVD supports closed captions because it is an extension of the MPEG-2 video standard which, in 1996, was how a live broadcast from WGBH in Boston made it to KQED in San Francisco.

Hey, want to comb through hours upon hours of raw live-action footage from the Myst games (including oodles of behind-the-scenes b-roll and interviews). Just click the link below the video and you can do that. Holy crap.

This is exciting: www.pcgamesn.com/icaria/new-a...

We released this morning! store.steampowered.com/news/app/261...

Took a little longer than expected but it's live now. Launch into Early Access is April 28, 2025! store.steampowered.com/app/2613890/... #indiedev #gamedev

We are announcing our EA release date Tomorrow. Last week I did a full playthrough starting from a new save through to the end of the tech tree on a near-release build: around 30 hours total in game. It's not a small. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Did a first pass playthrough of the content we have ready for EA. 24 hours start to finish seemed a bit too much given that there is more to come so we're rebalancing. We'll still end up with 20+ hours on release but the progression will be smoother. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Icaria Inspiration: Factorio, Minecraft, KSP For automation and block fans. Project Daedalus, a robotic expedition sent on a one-way mission to build a self-sufficient outpost on the recently discovered planet, Icaria store.steampowered.com/app/2613890/... #indiedev @arkenhammer.bsky.social

"...stands out from the pack." -- PC Gamer

We got a one sentence review from PC Gamer--not a stellar review but, out of 2400 games he only wrote about 72 so I consider it quite the accomplishment. #indiedev www.pcgamer.com/games/i-wrot...

Next Fest has brought a large number of new players to the game. We've been peaking at 40-50 concurrent players all week. Quite a thing for a first-time game dev; it's feeling like we are entering a new realm. #indiedev #gamedev

In somewhat more meaningful news we are in the top 10% of trending for all games in English in Next Fest. We're also #1 in our niche of programming games. The other tea leaf is that we are doing better in trending than in popular which suggests we're working our way up. #indiedev #gamedev

Woo hoo! We are the top robot voxel game in Next Fest. Number One out of.... 1. #indiedev #gamedev

We're getting ready for Next Fest. One more update to the demo will go out tomorrow morning and we'll be polishing our Steam page in anticipation. If you've had any thought of trying out the demo, Next Fest is a great time to do it. #indiedev #gamedev.

Steamdeck arrived yesterday morning; tuned the game to on it in time for our local gamedev meetup last night. Playing the game if you already know it works better than I expected. However its not yet a good device to learn on. Came home with some changes to make so it's a win. #indiedev

Have has a few players say our game works great on the SteamDeck so I ordered one and, while I wait for it to arrive, am adding support for the XBox One controller to the game. If anything, it should be handy for demos. It wasn't on my bingo card this game, but here we are. #indiedev #gamedev

A major milestone for Icaria today: we made it to the Steam Top Wishlist page. From SteamDB we're at #3455 so way down at the bottom of the list but progress it is! #indiedev #gamedev

One of the many disheartening things I do as an #indiedev is post on r/Games Indie Sunday. It is structured in a way that incentivizes people to down vote posts so it is hard to stay above water. Feels like a waste of time but I post anyhow cause that's what you do. www.reddit.com/r/Games/comm...

Gotta have a distillery in a factory game. First time for this model in game. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Today is the big day ... 🙋‍♀️ Just a few hours left. I am so excited for this moment that if I fail my mind is not mentally prepared and as a failsafe, I will go into the mountains and raise ducks for the rest of my life🦆 #indiegame #gamedev

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Update 3 for to our demo is live now! store.steampowered.com/news/app/261... #gamedev #indiedev

I cut a new trailer for our game Icaria in honor of the 3rd major update to our demo. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

"The whole tech world needs more projects that aren’t trying to become billion- (let alone trillion-) dollar ideas, but are happily shooting for success as million-dollar ideas (or less!)." daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

Messing around with our farming mechanics. Demo update coming to Steam soon! #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Spent the last few days playtesting our upcoming release and capturing video for a new trailer. The game is finally, I think, capturing that feeling we were going for when we started the project five and a half years ago. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Ensure you know the difference between #Roguelike and #Rougelike!

We've been reworking all our tutorials with a "new player start" that teaches the basics from the beginning of the game and a set of optional training scenarios that introduce more advanced systems. Tree farming is our main new mechanic for next update. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Thought from the shower: Production is when you make your game bigger. Pre-production is when you make your game better. If your game design requires your game to be big to be good, your are putting pre-production at the end which is... not likely to work out well. #gamedev #indiedev

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

With the new terrain and the new start, I am rebuilding our training scenarios. Each one introduces a mechanic in situ but also provides an example for how a player might approach the game. The tutorial is short and specific but I hope there's something here to spark curiosity. #gamedev #indiedev

We're reworking the start of our game to give it a more "just landed on an unexplored planet" vibe. We have been doing a more set up to help new players but, as we've simplified the early mechanics, we're thinking we can get away with something more minimalist. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

2024: Launched a demo of our game which now has 6000 hours of playtime and 5000 wishlists on Steam. 2025: Navigate Next Fest and release the game for real. #gamedev #indiedev

The rework of our procedural terrain is close to ready for a January release with a completely new erosion model, some new tiles, five new trees, and a full simulation of the tree ecosystem. Now on to playtesting the new mechanics. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty