mortals 👀 I am in a game. it is called Oh Apollo! you work at my oracle. you fix my temple. you try to impress me. wishlist on Steam 🔥

Working on some Death Trash scene art today.

I have become more efficient and productive over the last years, but I feel more and more like a person stuck in the past, not using AI tools. (I see how they can be useful and time-saving in some cases, but I hate basically everything else about them.)

I'm planning to be more active here... (imagine this, tonally, like a blog entry, promising to write more regularly soon, but that promise already being four years old with no new post in sight) ...but in the meantime there's my regular dev log over here: steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d...

Playing Bloodborne intensively while lying sick in bed for days is one of my favorite gaming memories. Perfect immersion for the sickness theme of that game. (Nothing to do with playing video games badly, sorry.)

Working on some level design today.

I feel old, sitting on the train, not swiping my phone.

So in Arc Raiders there is a door glitch. You don't need to know what it is, just that the gamers are brainstorming all the "easy" ways to "fix" the doors and it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. My two favorite solutions are "add a kill volume" and "put a second door behind the door".

@jesawyer.bsky.social This might be of interest to you: bsky.app/profile/blue... (Made by a few friends from the Saftladen.)

✨IT'S MOVING DAY✨ Are you ready to explore the apartment, renovate it and uncover its turbulent past? Out on Steam (Steamdeck verified!), PlayStation and Xbox NOW!

Checked out @deadstaticdrive.com today - not sure I've seen something so immediately stylish and suffused with atmosphere in a long time! Very dreamlike experience so far...

Should I stay or should I go? #pixelart

I'll better skip calculating this. ^^

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

Death Trash Update 0.14.4 and a few words on the current focus of development: (content, of course) store.steampowered.com/news/app/941...

sandy toad #peachtober25toad #pixelart

🚨DEAD STATIC DRIVE HAS A RELEASE DATE!!!🚨 www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases NOVEMBER 5TH Y'ALL. Congrats to @mike.reuben.games, @leena.reuben.games, and the whole DSD team - I've been DYING to play this one.

field of flowers at ghibli park #peachtober25poppy #pixelart

Nuts, anyone? #acorn #peachtober25 First time trying out a color palette.

As we all know the game industry is going through very turbulent times, unfortunately this has also affected several members of our collective. The silver lining is that one of the largest rooms in our coworking space in Berlin will be available from September 1st. More info in thread...

The Saftladen, the indie games collective I'm part of here in Berlin, is looking for new members to rent some desks. Infos over here: www.linkedin.com/posts/saftla...

Posted this a few months ago when itch went offline (following the bogus phishing report from Funko), still very relevant today for different reasons

Хтось не знав, а хтось уже й забув, що є чудовий послідовник класичних #Fallout — #DeathTrash. Поки гра в дочасному доступі, переклади додаються як модифікації. Запрошуємо спробувати й наш переклад, який ми сьогодні оновили до поточної версії гри: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

🔥 The Drifter is OUT NOW! 🔥 Solve your own murder in our fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride. 15% off for launch! Steam 🤜 store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/... GoG 🤜 www.gog.com/en/game/the_... It's been a long road working on this one- so exciting to finally get it in people's hands!

Got an e-mail from some fresh indie devs, asking what it would cost to make a game like Death Trash, and I am inclined to answer: TEN YEARS OF YOUR LIFE AND THE LAST SHRED OF YOUR SANITY!

Got a technical bug report via e-mail, with nice words, description and screenshot. Investigated the issue. Wrote a reply listing what the person could try in this case. E-mail could not be delivered. "This mailbox is disabled." This job can be frustrating sometimes.

As game dev I often wonder if my intuition about the Steam market matches reality. So I did a small game to test it: Guess how many reviews a random game has. You can now play it too on steamle.com

Last chance to get Death Trash in the Steam summer sale: store.steampowered.com/app/941460/D... We released a major content update: store.steampowered.com/news/app/941... Roadmap is on the store page. Daily devlog: steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d... Plus I can honestly say that I love this game.

Found some decade old design notes and really shaking my head over some of the ideas that my current self knows are dead-ends, or unrealistic, or just weak or stupid. Wonder how understanding and benevolent my future self will be about my current output.

Was going through some old feedback items today and rediscovered this favorite of mine.

Ich bin SEHR stolz: Heute ist die erste Ausgabe von OK COOL 3000 erschienen, das neue monatliche Magazin von OK COOL. Liebevoll handgemacht, 14 Seiten gefüllt mit exklusiven Inhalten und komplett gratis, ohne Haken. Hier könnt ihr die erste Ausgabe schmökern: okcool.space/ok-cool-3000... ❤️

This is the way!

I admit the Death Trash Early Access has been very long. But it's disappointing, pushing out a major update, getting closer to the finish line, and Steam reviews landing at mixed, because "development hell", "never getting finished", "work harder" and the critics not even playing the latest version.

The Perished City is here. A large content update for Death Trash, continuing the campaign, with new locations, new quests, new characters, new enemies, and more. We hope you'll enjoy this. store.steampowered.com/news/app/941...

The Perished City is here. A large content update for Death Trash, continuing the campaign, with new locations, new quests, new characters, new enemies, and more. We hope you'll enjoy this. store.steampowered.com/news/app/941...

Moment of forced self-reflection as an artist: Painting of my painting inside the game I'm painting.

I don't think it makes for the most edifying literature, but I have continued writing my daily development log for a few months now. Maybe it's of interest to someone. steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d...

New "Featured Projects" section on my recently reinstated homepage: www.anjinanhut.com/featured/ A solid overview of what sort of experiences I can bring to your team. Open for jobs in Germany or remote from Germany. Game director, art director, team lead, product lead, game design and art, senior.

Space: the final frontier. Have you ever thought that maybe not space itself, but the thing exploring space, nameley fiction, was the actual final frontier all along?

I return to this quote from David Foster Wallace quite often: Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

I have been neglecting social media in the past 2-3 years. I lost acquaintances, audience, a sense of community. But I also feel as if I got some peace of mind back. I enjoy my time being alone with my thoughts or a book. Same as when I was young. I guess there's rarely a way to "have it all".

I'm looking for work, part time or full time. Basically I want to make your stuff look good, be it newspapers, magazines, shirts, games, sticker sheets or ice cream packaging ✨ I'd love it if you could share this post. If you want to work with me, please get in touch.

My friend @mirkdrop.bsky.social is in Berlin for a few weeks, I’ve asked her to host a small workshop about zines and she said yes! 📆 When: Thursday, May 8, 3–5 pm (it's a public holiday) 🍊 Where: at @saftladen.bsky.social, close to Frankfurter Allee Sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/copy-that-...

Heron. #pixel_dailies

Can't believe I've done this shit 50 times I'm not going to say it's one of the biggest, consistently running game-related meetups in the world... but I think it is? Not counting meetups in bars where people only mingle and network, which is different than what we've been doing with #TalkAndPlay

I am looking for a technical solution for this scenario: Playing a classic singleplayer PC game with mouse(!) any keyboard, but with two people on different computers, like a "virtual hot seat". So a shared screen scenario with people being able to switch controls, and performant enough for games.

Today is the big day! 🤖🥳🎉 From 9am ET / 6am PT / 2pm CET you will be able to buy Mother Machine! And until April 9th you can get a free FLC to expand your experience! store.steampowered.com/app/1555980?...

The Darkest Files is OUT NOW on Steam! 🔎 After 4 years of development, our historical investigation game about Fritz Bauer's quest for justice in 1950s Germany is finally available. Uncover the truth. Confront the past. Serve justice. Buy and play today: store.steampowered.com/app/2058730/...

⚔️ OUT NOW 👑 Reignbreaker is now available on Steam & GOG 🔥 god slay the queen.

8 days until the release of The Darkest Files! 🥳 Did you play our demo on Steam yet? 🧡 #indiegame #indiedev #detectivegame