Let's turn my Tacticon presentation into a TLDW thread about medieval armored warfare on foot and overdesigning the gameplay mechanics of ZodiacLegion : bsky.app/profile/tact...

#TactiCon Talk 2025 - Knight Tactics: From medieval manuscripts to the gameplay mechanics of Zodiac Legion ⭐️ @galdred.bsky.social from Studio Draconis Watch live now: store.steampowered.com/sale/Tactico...

Greetings #PitchYaGame! ♎️In Zodiac Legion, turn-based dungeon crawling meets strategic kingdom management. ⚔️Authentic medieval combat 🥷Customize your armour one piece at a time 🏰Explore destructible dungeons 💀Triumph over death in a time of reawakening magic

Hey #PitchYaGame ! Mystical Tactics is a turn-based tactical-RPG roguelike in which you control a squad of adventurers trying to repel the Dark Lord and his minions. Demo available on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2850600

That was totally unexpected. I feel humbled by your support. Thank you all!

We're officially hosting this weeks #TurnBasedThursday! 🕹️ #indiedev: Reply with your game & don't forget the hashtag 🎮 #players: ❤️Like, 🗨️Comment & 🔄️Repost If you don't, we have a spot reserved for you in our haunted domain 👀!

As we Italians say: Patience is the Virtue of the Strong! Welcome to the official #TurnBasedThursday thread, we celebrate turn-based games! No rush, only strategy! #GameDev and #IndieDev, show us your work! Everybody, come and see plenty of awesome games and show your support!

ATTENTION INDIEDEVS Show off your art style

In our quest to revamp the armoured combat system to make it more authentic, I was thinking about adding stances for things like half-swording, but I fail to find many examples in tactical games and RPG.

Wow! We are hosting the official #TurnBasedThursday this week! 🎉 Turn-based #GameDev / #IndieDev - show your Power💪 and share your awesome projects in this thread! And to all #TurnBased lovers, help us spread the word with your ❤️'s and 🔁's, and your favorite creators in the replies!

It is #TurnBasedThursday, my dudes 🐸🌟And we’re your hosts this week! Indie devs: ⬇️ Share your turn-based games below ⬇️ Explore and support other amazing projects Gamers: Discover, like ❤️, share 🔄, and follow the ones you love!

Working until 3AM to implement a feature (level up+animated level up button) to discover that it cannot work until an old bug is fixed: The horizontal lines are randomly mangled when going from texture to screen (event at 1:1):

It's an honor to host this week's #TurnBasedThursday! Turn-based gamers, check out what the community has in store for you below, and don't forget to ❤️/ 🔁to show your support! 🥳 Turn-based devs, it is your turn to show off your games in the replies, using the hashtag! 👆

Knights, Sci-Fi, Cities and Sausage Thieves? In February's demo club we'll be testing: 🏘️Kingdom's Deck by @rogueduck.net 👾Silence of the Siren by @oxymorongames.bsky.social 🦜My Familiar by @chintzyink.bsky.social 🗡️Zodiac Legion by @galdred.bsky.social Join us👉https://discord.gg/9MtAPRFa

The Vale of Pnath is a valley in the underworld and location of a city of the same name. In the bone filled streets, ancient, broken buildings rise up, and provide access to basements and nether regions of that place where the dreaded Dholes burrow. #ScreenshotSaturday #Nightgaunts #DungeonCrawler

Honored to be hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday!⚔️ All #TurnBased creators, #IndieDev and #Gamedev folks, please show your games below!👇 And to all turnbased lovers, help us spread the love with your ❤️'s and 🔁's, and @ your favorite creators in the replies. Thank you!✨

The Elon Musk nazi salute question reminded me that at some point, we had let a neo-nazi symbol slip into ZodiacLegion: Someone on Twitter pointed out these runes were also a neo-nazi symbol now, as they were used in the castle of Wewelsburg, the SS, called the Black Sun.

Early Access release on Friday! I planned to release Cyclopean: The Great Abyss in 2024, but it still needs some time to bake. Early Access will help me polish out some of the rough edges. #EarlyAccess #CRPG #IndieGameDev Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/2958790/... Tell your friends!

ooh Regency Solitaire II got a mention at the start of this Polygon video all about solitaire! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY6D...

Germany's age rating is also an issue for demos: If the demo steam settings are not updated(even if it doesn't have a dedicated Steam store demo page), it will also be delisted from Germany. Thanks to @talecrafter.bsky.social for detailing the process here: steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d...

Total soutien à AtlanGames! Les petits studios ont vraiment besoin de support pour démarrer. C’est aussi l AddOn un super événement qui est remis en cause par cette décision !

Ancient temple in Zodiac Legion, now with its own set of destructible walls. #screenshotSaturday

I just found out that on some player computers, the game would halt to a crawl when loading a level, briefly leaving fullscreen (as if alt tabbed). It should be fixed now: Stay tuned for more coding tips!

How magic items are created in Zodiac Legion. #ScreenshotSaturday

We're hosting this weeks #TurnBasedThursday! 🕹️ #indiedev: Reply with your game & don't forget the hashtag 🎮 #players: ❤️Like, 🗨️Comment & 🔄️Repost If you don't, we have a spot reserved for you in our haunted domain 👀!

Cat’s out of the bag, Emily will be one of the members of the first ever GDC Game Trailer Microtalks panel! Also, you can get see her behind-the-scenes work on the Evolve Originals channel RIGHT NOW 😃

⚠️ IMPORTANT #INDIEDEV INFO ⚠️ If you haven't completed the age rating content survey, your #Steam page is now HIDDEN in Germany due to very recent policy changes! This is important EVEN BEFORE RELEASE, cause your entire Steam page will be inaccessible. 🚨 Look at how this massacred my wishlist! 😭

As with all shiny toys, I went a bit overboard with tapestries in @ZodiacLegion. I'm pretty sure the layout of the room doesn't comply to fire safety recommendations. #screenshotSaturday

Indies, go here ASAP to add missing information to get your Steam games re-listed in Germany: partner.steamgames.com/healthcheck/...

Here is a great usecase of getting Claude AI to write code for you (in cursor): The designer sent me an aseprite file that would be impractical to turn into a tilesheet (as lines are not horizontal). The solution worked out of the box, but would add part of the other tiles :

Zodiac Legion is a turn-based tactical RPG in which you are the commander of an order of arcane knights. Make the strategic decisions for the order, and lead its champions through unforgiving dungeon raids in an age of returning magic. store.steampowered.com/app/812910/Z...

#Turnbased lovers of Bluesky unite! Excited to be the official #TurnBasedThursday host this week 🎉 🕹️ If you're a #GameDev or an #IndieDev reply with your fantastic #turnbased game below! --- 🔁 Share & ❤️ Like this post 👉 Tag other games and devs ✨ Check out the games in the replies!

Helldivers #pixelart

Hi, I've been an indie dev for 20 years and shipped 15 games. Here's a GDC talk I did in 2016 that was quite popular. It was about indie sustainability and I'm still here, so that's good :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmwb...

This one is for the indie devs out there 🤣 #indiedev #indiegames #indiegame #promosky

The in-universe reason for the door serving as a T junction is that the dungeon was split between his two heirs after the mage who built it died! For some reason, my procedural generation algorithm puts a lot of doors instead of T junctions... 😱

Even if you don't want AI to write code, asking it beats trying to remember how past-you organized his code(this is with cursor btw): #gamedev #AI

Game announcement 📢 As the hero is able to control and ride the giant beasts, they venture forth with a party to discover that the world is much bigger than they initially thought. Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/3216150/...

For those interested in SRPGs, I've created a list of all the indie SRPG developers I know about here on Bluesky. Go ahead and follow 'em! 😉 (And of course, if you know someone missing from the list, feel free to message me with their user name and I'll add them.) bsky.app/profile/did:...

Greedy pathfinding in Zodiac Legion: #screenshotsaturday #TurnBasedTactics

We had some very cool games showcased in this month's #TurnBasedThursday thread: ✦ Exploration-filled jRPG w/ minimalist style 💗 Terrain-savvy tactical RPG 🐙 Deep-sea horror boss hunt tactics 🌿 Dark fantasy strategy roguelike working on a sequel & many more! ⤵️ #TurnBased #Gaming #IndieGames

After seven years of work, Odd Realm's 1.0 is nearly complete. For those interested in building settlements across procedurally generated worlds with a variety of races to play, you can check out Odd Realm in Early Access now:

If you are a true "independent" dev then good game sales free you from: - grant applications - tax credits (though still claim them) - publishers - investors - contract work - a day job

Three hours remain to get GearHead Caramel for 50% off as part of the turn based RPG fest at #Steam. #GameDev #IndieGames #Mecha store.steampowered.com/app/1565090/...

Thank you for hosting! I'm working on a sequel to Path of Achra, bringing the universe into a turn-based strategy wargame with generated continents You're doing great work with this thread here store.steampowered.com/app/3211220/...

Hello! Thanks for hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday! #Archrebel is my heartfelt tribute to the classic Rebelstar, released in 1986 by Julian Gollop. ularis-badler.itch.io/archrebel

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! GearHead Caramel is the third in a series of turn based #Mecha RPGs. Dive into this richly developed world and blow your enemies up real good. Currently 50% off for the Steam Turn Based RPG Fest! #GameDev 🎮 store.steampowered.com/app/1565090/...

Our cyberpunk mercenaries RPG is in Steam's Turn-Based RPG Fest! store.steampowered.com/app/1021210/... 🎮 #TurnBasedThursday 🧠 XCOM-like squad tactics 💰 Heist-planning strategy 🔀 Dynamic, replayable story system 🦾 Character customization, multiclassing, cybernetics & more 34%-off for 4 more days!

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, @megaknockdown.com! Quasimorph is a #turnbased extraction #roguelike. Unforgiving combat, your own spacecraft, and mysterious dark threat to all life. There is an ongoing OBT of our next major update!

Hey @megaknockdown.com thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday on Bsky this month! Like many games from the community, we are also participating Steam's #TurnBasedRPGFest this week 🎉 bsky.app/profile/terr...