Stephan Hövelbrinks
@talecrafter.bsky.social
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Game developer. Artist. Working on Death Trash:
http://deathtrash.com
I'll better skip calculating this. ^^
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Felipe Pepe
11 days ago
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 :)
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The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story
Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.
https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/the-video-game-history-expansion-pack-pitch-your-story/
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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...
15 days ago
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Cäcilia Eming
24 days ago
sandy toad
#peachtober25toad
#pixelart
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eric stirpē
15 days ago
🚨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.
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Dead Static Drive | Coming to PC and Xbox
Grab your bat, steal a car, and take your chances against the unearthly horrors found along Route 666. This is Dead Static Drive.
https://www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases
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Cäcilia Eming
about 1 month ago
field of flowers at ghibli park
#peachtober25poppy
#pixelart
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Cäcilia Eming
about 1 month ago
Nuts, anyone?
#acorn
#peachtober25
First time trying out a color palette.
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Saftladen Indie Games Collective 🍊
3 months ago
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...
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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...
3 months ago
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Lorenzo Pilia
3 months ago
Posted this a few months ago when itch went offline (following the bogus phishing report from Funko), still very relevant today for different reasons
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UnlocTeam
4 months ago
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/...
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Steam Workshop::Українська локалізація
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2629812629
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Dave Lloyd 💾 Powerhoof
4 months ago
🔥 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!
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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!
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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.
4 months ago
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Riad Djemili
4 months ago
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
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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.
4 months ago
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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.
4 months ago
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Was going through some old feedback items today and rediscovered this favorite of mine.
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Dom Schott
4 months ago
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...
❤️
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OK COOL 3000 (#07/25) - OK COOL
Das monatliche Magazin von OK COOL.
https://okcool.space/ok-cool-3000-07-25/
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This is the way!
4 months ago
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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.
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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...
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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...
5 months ago
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Moment of forced self-reflection as an artist: Painting of my painting inside the game I'm painting.
5 months ago
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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...
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Anjin Anhut - Open for Work
5 months ago
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.
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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?
5 months ago
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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.
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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".
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Tim
6 months ago
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.
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Lorenzo Pilia
6 months ago
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-...
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Cäcilia Eming
7 months ago
Heron.
#pixel_dailies
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Lorenzo Pilia
7 months ago
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
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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.
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Maschinen-Mensch 🤖 Mother Machine 🤖 out now!
8 months ago
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?...
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Mother Machine on Steam
Climb, jump, and explore procedurally generated alien caves in this 1-4 player co-op action-RPG platformer. Customize your cute gremlin, embrace the creative chaos, and unlock a vast array of mutation...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1555980?utm_source=MM_bsky
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The Darkest Files 🕵️♀️
8 months ago
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/...
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Reignbreaker
8 months ago
⚔️ OUT NOW 👑 Reignbreaker is now available on Steam & GOG 🔥 god slay the queen.
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The Darkest Files 🕵️♀️
8 months ago
8 days until the release of The Darkest Files! 🥳 Did you play our demo on Steam yet? 🧡
#indiegame
#indiedev
#detectivegame
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I have been writing a simple devlog since two months now. Just a few bullet points per day.
steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d...
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Beta Release of the Death Trash update "The Perished City":
store.steampowered.com/news/app/941...
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Reignbreaker
9 months ago
smash the system. loot their vaults. rise again & again until the Queen is dead. ready your Javelin: Reignbreaker launches March 18 👑 play the DEMO now:
store.steampowered.com/app/2129810/...
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Cäcilia Eming
10 months ago
80s garden
#swing
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Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders OUT NOW!
10 months ago
HUGE NEWS: we got a release date for Steam AND are coming to Xbox Game Pass on the same day!! Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders arrives on Jan 21!
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Lonely Mountains Snow Riders - Release Date Announcement
YouTube video by Megagon Industries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsoXrGCdO8E&feature=youtu.be
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10 months ago
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...
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itch.io
11 months ago
I kid you not,
@itch.io
has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
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Cäcilia Eming
11 months ago
Keeping
#watch
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#pixel-dailies
@pixeldailies.bsky.social
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Cäcilia Eming
12 months ago
Here are some of my favourite pixel art paintings I did for peachtober.
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Daniel Burke - 🍺INNKEEP
about 1 year ago
Have you played Death Trash yet?? You should! It's still in early access, but already a super polished action RPG experience.
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