I got commissioned by @hallinniklas.bsky.social to make art of the titular character in his upcoming game Alruna: End of History I'm pretty pleased with how this came out! I don't often draw stuff like this but I'd like to do it more often. #pixelart

Testing out the optimised particle system by making all enemies explode into gibs #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

could you help me make my art reach more people?? 🙏🏼😭

I feel like devs and CEOs need to accept that a consequence of using gen AI is that a lot of people won’t like it. That’s just the case as it is and the risks you take

And one other thing: we’re being told that AI is the only way to make games cheaper and faster, to pull us from this precipice of production nightmares the industry has found itself in. That it’s necessary. We put out roughly 3 motherfucking games a year, not touching the stuff. Skill issue.

A reviewer from Rock Paper Shotgun suggested that the opening of Alruna 1 was perhaps a tad too pretentious. I made sure to make the opening of Alruna 2 even more pretentious for that guy specifically! 😁

Really enjoyed playing Alruna: End of History - a plant powered grimdark Metroidvania!

Here's a little thought... Historically people (women, really) have been waiting in bread-lines next to eachother, talking about what's going on and why. But this is America, so the bread-lines take the form of individuals in personal vehicles, and the political energy is just kind of... neutered.

A story in three emails.

Happy Halloween! October Panic is on like 90% sale and costs practically nothing. It's a sweet little halloween treat!

Happy Halloween! October Panic is on like 90% sale and costs practically nothing. It's a sweet little halloween treat!

It's a pretty subtle difference, I'd say. Alruna 1 is very raw and direct, A2 is smoother and more sophisticated. The insanity there is that there are just hundreds of new ideas, new types of platforms, new enemies, excellence in level design. The fourth temple in Alruna 2 is nuts!

Indeed! The Sacrifice of Alruna is that the camera is completely static and there are no parallaxing background layers. That's a pretty big deal for the genre. But the Insanity of Alruna is pretty much everything else! Sequence-breaking, free movement, gamebreaking abilities. Reckless game design!

Every game I make had one big Sacrifice and one big Insanity. October Panic's sacrifice is that you can't save and have to play it in one session. It's insanity is that its five levels are absolutely packed with unique enemy types, movie references and halloween party goodness! #halloween

October Panic is now only 0,99€ on Steam!! 🎃 Super cute, hella challenging but so much fun, go go go grab it!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3165420/... #IndieGame #IndieDev

by Martin Bruckner #PEANUTS 🎃

Less than 24 hours until Spooky Express releases! Wishlist on Steam, pre-order on iOS/Android spooky.express Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania! Plan routes and lay train tracks to meet your creepy commuters' demands.

There's our baby!

Spooky Express is OUT NOW on PC and Mobile! 🚂🎃 All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet! spooky.express

I beat "Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists" last night. It literally made me beat the game just the whole day. It's a very short game, but it's still very fun overal. #AlrunaAndTheNecroIndustrialists #Alruna #Metroidvania @zerolifex00.bsky.social

I admit. I kept seeing an IG ad for this game around last year, so thankfully I finally started playing this game today. Also.. is that a System Of A Down reference..?? #AlrunaAndTheNecroIndustrialists #Alruna #Metroidvania

Been playing this game all day called "Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists". It's a Gameboy Color style Metroidvania and surprisingly I am enjoying it so far. It's straight forward, yet can still be challenging. #AlrunaAndTheNecroIndustrialists #Alruna #Metroidvania

👾Yes, THESE are Sculii games, for sure! Check out this #retro #2D #indiegame for #SteamNextFest October 2025! 🕹️ #Arluna: End of History by @hallinniklas.bsky.social 🔗Steam | store.steampowered.com/app/3440260/... #indiegames #videogames #gaming

I'll just keep putting emo-kid song lyrics into these games. No one's stopping me!

Alruna End of History by @hallinniklas.bsky.social is a meaty metroidvania for platforming fans store.steampowered.com/app/3440260/...

Our search / action platformer Constance has a demo out for Steam Next Fest! 💜 If you're a fan of precision platforming games like Celeste and Ori or exploration focused games like Hollow Knight, Blasphemous and Metroid, you might enjoy Constance as well! Demo link & more info in the comments!✨

Yo. Who’s making a game that looks good rn, i wanna follow more indies on here, i seem to have lost too many in the migration from xitter

Okay, I have a keyboard button re-mapping system for Alruna. I'm thinking of patching it into the demo today... Look, it works, of course it works. But what if the player uses it to re-bind their keys in such an absurd way that the game becomes unplayable? Kinda their own fault, isn't it?

Alruna: End of History, Indie Puzzle Metroidvania Demo Now Available on Steam More details and trailer here: indieinsights.org/2025/10/09/a... #Alruna #Metroidvania #adventuregame #indiegames

The new Alruna trailer had reached 2k views on youtube, which i think is pretty good 😊

Yeah, I was too much square in the middle of the audience here to pass on this

Alruna: End of History announced!! Go wishlist and check out the demo 😍🥀 #indiegame #indiedev #Alruna youtu.be/6A7hQuK37D8?...

Trailer drop! Alruna End of History, also know as Alruna 2, also know as The Good One. Alruna, now in wide-screen! This game has so many wild ideas packed into it, it should be illegal. #indiegame #pixelart #metroidvania

I was terrible at the first one and cheated my way through it but had a great time making a map of the game. This seems to be a fun evolution… that I’m also terrible at! 🤣 Recommend if you like pixel art, retro combat — and if you despise capitalism and the heaving hoards of industrialisation!

My Alruna demo is live on Steam now 🌸🌸

Trailer drop! Alruna End of History, also know as Alruna 2, also know as The Good One. Alruna, now in wide-screen! This game has so many wild ideas packed into it, it should be illegal. #indiegame #pixelart #metroidvania

Hey gremlins! It's my bday today, be kind and share these portfolio pieces around :3

Oh btw, this month's Patreon character turned out to be a real monstrosity! :D #gamedev

A few days ago headlines were making the rounds about an "AI Actress". Do any of you even remember what her name was supposed to be? Would you recognize her face if you saw it again? And that was just a couple of day ago...

You'll get these beautifully written pleas for authenticity from filmmakers, authors, poets, artists. And then you'll get LinkedIn posts talking about how ai is the future in the most boring, unimaginativly dry way possible. Embarrassingly flat and regurgitated.

Hi! Here’s Silksongs Hornet if she were a Hades 2 character! Check the last slide for Melinoe as a Silksong character :)

Hey, anyone got an idea of how I could play Quake, kinda like how it looked in the nineties? The version on Steam and Gog seem to have a lot of modern lighting and texture filtering and stuff...

Weekend dark fantasy project update #08: Testing out some battle animations! #gamedev #darkfantasy #screenshotsaturday #gamemaker

In Alruna you start with all movement abilities available from the go. Sometimes you have to find out how they work ...

Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo as platforms grind to a halt www.eurogamer.net/silksong-cau...

Wild to see Steam just fall over completely due to a small-team, comparatively low-budget indie game TWICE this year. Deltarune knocked over their whole checkout system a couple months ago.

Steam and Nintendo eShop both down lmaooooooo

I'm very happy that a 2D indie game can be so big that it crashes Steam in four minutes after launch. It's fantastic that that can happen!

Meatwashing. When a human being repeats hallunicantions from chatbots, which other people inadvertedly trust more; creating both factoids & simulacra in the process. i’m sure i’m not the forst this has occured to, but i want to call it that. Meatwashing. As in ”that’s just meatwashed slop”.

What is Plot? There is only Themes! Only vibes. Sex scenes have to serve the themes. And, good news, they kinda... do, automatically 👍