Fun fact: I very nearly missed our button push for Baby Trading launch because I started playing this demo a couple hours beforehand and completely lost track of time. It's SO FUN

placing turrets, setting traps, and fighting a wave. This is Existential Treads, our top-down shooter/tower defense/settlement building game! Go play the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/ (also on itch) #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

Placing the first tower and clearing out the sprawl. This is Existential Treads, our post-post-apocalypse settlement action game. Positivitycore throwbacky top-down action tower defense ass game, right here. Demo on steam and itch. #indiegame #indiegamedev

finally added some settlers to the tank in our key art, no big whoop #indiegamedev

Happy 2026 everyone, here's some very good #conceptart #indiegame #indiegamedev

My kiddo made me an office poster for a gift this year and I'm pretty pumped about it

we were using spritesheets for our little settlers, but for various reasons we wanted to see if using the rigged mesh we used to generate the sheets would be too much of a perf hit. It's not, which means we can do more with them in-game. Yay. #indiedev #indiegame

we're officially pushing on 1.0 of Existential Treads. Nice. Yay.

new prototypey enemy building for #screenshotsaturday: the bomb nullifier. Zaps your bombs before they explode. (Friends, we're SO CLOSE to being content complete.) #indiegame

hey check it out, #screenshotsaturday

It's our collab anniversary (🍻) and we're marking the day with a special announcement: we're pricing our games like beers during happy hour, starting with GOBSMACKED. It's now $5. store.steampowered.com/app/2769410/... ashadamsgames.itch.io/gobsmacked #indiegame #roguelike #actiongame #FPS

it wouldn't be making a trailer for a thing if I didn't have to re-render the project 8 times because I keep noticing tiny errors in each subsequent render

hey it's bandcamp friday, which means its the perfect time to check out @oselkasound.bsky.social's amazing soundtracks to both GOBSMACKED and Existential Treads. For real. They're amazing. Give Chris your dollars. oselkasound.bandcamp.com/album/gobsma... oselkasound.bandcamp.com/album/existe...

I never did a real "im sitting in a turret" animation for the settlers, so they just sorta dance around when they hop in the seat. I'll be honest, this might just get shipped as is #indiedev #indiegame

I'm not using dvi screens from 10+ years ago anymore. This will assuredly be a boon to my artables

Fun little process video for #screenshotsaturday

Fun little process video for #screenshotsaturday

technically #conceptart

Footage of the prototype that would eventually become Existential Treads. This is from a little over a year ago. The direction we should take it was really clear, even early on. Also hey, check out the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/ #indiedev #indiegame

if you want to watch past adam and past ash hang out for two hours, here you go. We're both very charming and tired. (also thanks danny for nabbing the link 🍻)

friends. Ash and I will be on www.twitch.tv/middleagedga... / www.youtube.com/@middleagedg... today at 9p UK time (4p EST) to chat about Existential Treads and gaming news of the week. I, for one, am looking pretty haggard. Pretty sure Ash does too. Gonna be some great tv. Come watch.

I'm trying to work through new game ideas. I don't have time for this. A solid half-dozen fans are frothing for my game ideas. Mew Mew, please

lil bit of progress

This will eventually be an enemy base. Or well, i guess its a base right now, but it will eventually look like a base. Just you wait. It'll look like a base, you see

hey #screenshotsaturday, we released our first big demo update for our tank/settlement building/tower defense game this past week, Existential Treads. Check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/ ashadamsgames.itch.io/existential-... #indiegame

Friends! We updated the Existential Treads demo! Presenting the Towerful Demo Update; four new tower upgrade buildings that allow you to better defend your settlement. And we also have a bunch of bug fixes and QoL tweaks as well. 🤘 store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/

big ol' demo update tomorrow. Pretty pumped.

A bit of everything for #screenshotsaturday. Defending the settlement, repairing a turret, collecting a new settler, constructing a new building, clearing out the sprawl. Huzzah and such Check out the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/ #indiegame

Hey #pitchyagame ! 💥a mash up of top-down action, tower defense, and settlement building, and hive fives 🏠defend your people against waves of rogue AI bots 🌳bring life back to your island in the post-post-apocalypse DEMO: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/

Ash prototyped a new game idea and its effin great

preview of a near-future demo update: new turret types. You build a standard turret and then modify it with an upgrade building. Looks cool, super fun. Just like you. Love, dad Check out the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/ #screenshotsaturday #indiegame

We've had some very awesome things said about the game over the last two weeks, and holy heck, is it energizing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TU6...

collecting bombs and using bombs for #screenshotsaturday Hey, there's still a couple days left for #steamnextfest... go try the demo of our top down action/tower defense/settlement builder mash-up, Existential Treads! store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/...

My beard is so long now that it trails after my head. Overlapping action on my beard. This is Adam, by the way, not Ash. Ash's beard is tightly maintained. He's made the choice to not look like an asshole. Is that the correct choice? Who's to say? Anyway here's some Existential Treads sketches.

Check out the demo of our top down action/tower defense/settlement builder mashup Existential Treads during #SteamNextFest! You won't regret it! But even if you do, whatever! Check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/ #indiegame

shootin' and haulin' for #screenshotsaturday it's kinda funny to put the apostrophe instead of just writing the full word, right? Same number of characters. It's closer to how I actually speak but it's so odd in text! Anyway try our demo: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/... #indiegame

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx7j... You heard it here first: SURPRISINGLY FUN. Actually I guess this is second, first would be youtube. But whatever, still, fun, to a surprising degree

www.twitch.tv/myst1s?sr=a LIVE RIGHT NOW WITH GOBSMACKED 🤘

youtu.be/0jBCCLVOEnc Check it! Our game! Being played!

uh oh, the artist is prototypin' a thing

www.twitch.tv/condi_tv LIVE RIGHT NOW, GO WATCH SOME EXISTENTIAL TREADS

Vamos a probar la demo de Existential Treads de @ashandadamsgames.bsky.social, mezcla City Builder con Tower Defense, y la colocación de edificios tienes que jugar casi al Tetris, es genial. twitch.tv/Aeolux

do you like gun sounds? hoo boy this video is like one of degas' ballerinas if you like gun sounds. play the demo for more gun sounds and explosions and hugs and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/... #indiegame #gunsounds #degas

Using my monthly log-in at Bluesky to tell you to go and play this demo 🎮

oselkasound.bandcamp.com/track/settle... Easily one of my favorite songs in any game I've worked on, and I've been doing this professionally since '04. Love this song. ( #indiegamedev friends, hire @oselkasound.bsky.social )

Clear out the old, dead world. Use its bones to build something better. Perchance to wishlist? store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/... #screenshotsaturday #indiegame

Ash and I were talking yesterday about how the demo today feels better than the demo we released a few weeks ago; that we're iterating, polishing, etc and pretty much every 2 days we have something that's notably better. I love this zone. Feels great to be here. #indiedev

lil' stroll through a settlement for #screenshotsaturday Check out our demo if you like bouncy tanks and junkyard settlements and blowin' stuff up store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/... #indiedev #indiegame

You know it’s a good day to get home from work when you get an email from steam reminding you that @ashandadamsgames.bsky.social have a sick nasty demo for their retro shooter / mini td city builder EXISTENTIAL TREADS