Steam page is LIVE! Our online playtest starts this Friday! Sign up for our playtest directly on the page (if you haven't filled out the form already!) Wishlist if you're interested!

Poly Fighter’s Steam page is LIVE! Our Alpha Playtest starts this Friday, September 26 for 1 week only. 👉 Request access on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/3977340/... #Playtest #IndieGame #Roguelike #FightingGame #Steam

Steam page is LIVE! Our online playtest starts this Friday! Sign up for our playtest directly on the page (if you haven't filled out the form already!) Wishlist if you're interested!

Some light reading tonight!

Dual Eclipse has hit 10 reviews and earned the Positive Rating on Steam! 🌞🎉 Thank you for the reviews and reaching out to share your adventures!🌜🎉 #dualeclipse #indiegame #indiedev #deckbuilding #RPG #turnbased

🌜Dual Eclipse is out NOW on Steam!! 🌞 After 2 years of dev, I'm excited to share this project that combines my love of tabletop and retro RPGs! 🃏⚔️ Please check it out, spread the word, and leave a review! store.steampowered.com/app/3048300/Dual_Eclipse #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #rpg #steam

Interview with our Creative Director Osama Dorias with The Fandom post. www.fandompost.com/2025/09/11/p...

We recently finished our 4th conference! I'll work through posting about the backlog of finished papers (from 2022-2024) before sharing little previews of this year's papers.

Kind Games: Designing for Prosocial Multiplayer is a game design report exploring "multiplayer games designed from the start with systems that deliberately promote prosocial behaviour". Come for the charts, stay for the design patterns to use in your own games: polarisgamedesign.com/2022/kind-ga...

Hi Bluesky! Polaris Game Design Retreat is an annual event where game designers tackle tough problems together, then write reports on their discoveries. If you're looking for our reports, start here: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

Poly Fighter (Roguelike Fighting Game) - Reveal Trailer #FGC #PolyFighter #Gaming

Class is in session! New Video Drop and todays Class is Gaming Critique 101 where we will be looking at a new upcoming Roguelike FIGHTING GAME... called Poly Fighter. youtu.be/KItyuc-__7o @polyfightergame.bsky.social

New studio. New game. Step into the ring with Poly Fighter, a single-player roguelike fighting game where every run reshapes your style. 🖊️ Sign up to playtest: bit.ly/polyfighterplaytest www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilkn... #indiegames #videogame #reveal #trailer

Crunch KILLS people, I'm not sure how many times we need to tell companies this. Companies need to be held accountable for these kind of things. www.kiro7.com/news/trendin...

🥊 Poly Fighter is hitting Montréal! This weekend (Sept 5-7) we’ll be at NoReset Game Festival. 🎟️ noreset.tv Play the demo. Chat with the devs. Help shape the game. Not in Montréal? Sign up to our playtesting list here 👉 bit.ly/polyfighterp... #indiegame #videogame #festival #gamedemo #playtest

Montreal folks! In-person Playtest is live!!

We're at @noreset.tv Game Festival in Montréal all weekend. Come play Poly Fighter with us. Tickets & Info: noreset.tv Not in Montréal? Sign up to our playtest group: bit.ly/polyfighterp... #indiegame #videogame #playtest #event

Adrian is SO. COOL. We need more female boxers in fighting games. (And I don't mean kickboxers...)

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

Friends! We're wrapping up our Poly Fighter playtest build! If you're in Montreal, you can playtest this weekend in person at NoReset! Otherwise you can sign to playtest remotely soon after that!!

It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter! We are HeartLoop Games! ♥

This is the perfect blend of nostalgia + aesthetic + newness to tickle my wishlist

So happy to see this!! AND I LOVE THE TRAILER!! I've almost never played fighting games but put in a roguelike AND SIGN ME UP!!!!

This looks so sick

Great trailer! #takemymoney

Super hype for this and love to support someone like @osamadorias.bsky.social. Get in the playtest!

It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter! We are HeartLoop Games! ♥

I love caps! No cap! 🧢

Oh hey i did a teeny tiny bit of sound design work on this!! Go check it out if you're at PAX!! It's really satisfying just cruising around and throwing newspaper! A feat my lack dexterity would never permit so this is nice heh!

Hell yeah! I've gotten to try this and it super rules and is made by wonderful folks!

So, we're doing this!

Big news, friends! Next week we’re officially announcing our studio and revealing our very first game!!! We’ve been pouring our hearts into: the world’s first single-player roguelike fighting game!

being straight forward and being cruel are two different things. You will inevitably hurt people's feelings in a creative environment, it happens. But you do not need to cut people down, make them feel small, hurt their self worth as a creative and person.

maybe I'm naive, but I really do think we could get a Disco Elysium from a healthy workplace. I genuinely don't believe that we are doing anything for our artistry & industry when we don't hold auteurs & their hangers-ons accountable for what their work culture does to people who work there.

If airdropping aid was actually helping the Palestinians in Gaza, instead of adding just one more way of cruelly killing them as they're concentrated in extermination camps, Israel would never have allowed it. share.google/lOF4390NV6tN...

Tomorrow’s indie legends start here. ✨Check out the winners of the PAX Rising Showcase presented by Zenni: PAXwest25.com/Rising --- @wonderbellygames.bsky.social l @beatdown.city @bunkstunkis.bsky.social @mcdoogleh.bsky.social @rollergirlgame.bsky.social ‪@hypersect.com‬

The most bussin' thing about new slang is that by the time I learn how to use it, it's already skibidi toilet.

"Some of us can't make food without ordering out." Well then you're not really making food, are you?

Honestly, I think I had forgotten that making games can be fun. I didn't think that I forgot. But I did.

May your land always tap for the mana you need. ♥

A friend's post reminded me of when a conference asked me to come and speak about the possibilities that NFTs make possible in games and how they are the future of games. I said sure!

When killing your darlings, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Expressions are weird.

friends have been congratulating/asking if I'm excited my ✨Mastering Community Management book✨ is coming out soon (3 days?!) and this has been my rollercoaster reaction every time lmao:

Should I break my streak of never having vaguebooked on this platform?

The fact that many of my colleagues including myself have developed PTSD and anxiety disorders from this industry should tell you this. Until the CEOs/stockholders lose $$$ by factoring human capital loss nothing will change. The stock market was built to fund slavery so don’t hold your breath.

Hi friends! My team is casting 5 voice actors for contract roles in our combat-focused video game! Ideally remote voice talent with home recording setups. We’re seeking authentic representation for the following roles: