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Vote Cyclopean: The Great Abyss for "Indie of the Year!"
https://www.indiedb.com/games/cyclopean
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This is a list of my currently released games, starting from the most recent. Right now I am working on Cyclopean. It's an old school CRPG based on Lovecraft's Dreamlands. Without getting too detailed about the gameplay, let's call it "Befriending cats in the underworld" for now.
about 1 year ago
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Give me your best advice on re-factoring code.
#GameDev
#Refactor
#Programming
1 day ago
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All things considered, this was the best think to come out of having had a Google+ account...
2 days ago
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I am working on some building interiors and such for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. Still in love with this CGA palette ...
#CRPG
#CGA
#RETROGAMING
3 days ago
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A lot of the time I end up doing a very poor sketch, scanning it, and then using the smudge tool to just push colors around until I start to like it. I think I just like the smudge tool and that gets me motivated to work on things...
#PixelArt
#Drawing
7 days ago
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Hey, check out my game Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. It is in the top 100 games at IndieDB, and has a shot at Indie of the Year!
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
#Indie
#GameDev
#TurnBasedThursday
You can still vote for it here (2 days left)
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
7 days ago
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I am working on changing some of the small ways in which Cyclopean II works, as compared with the original. Now enemy portraits will appear on screen, even in the overworld, where enemy icons are tiny otherwise.
#CRPG
#Gamedev
#Lovecraft
#Dreamlands
store.steampowered.com/news/app/399...
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Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands - New Features (as compared to Cyclopean: The Great Abyss) - Steam News
I am going to be putting some updates here, while the game is in development. My hope is to have a working demo ready by February but we'll see if that is feasible with time. For now I just want to st...
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3998510/view/537747742027416031
8 days ago
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What's this? Gushing about my game? Sign me up!
add a skeleton here at some point
8 days ago
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Introducing the Voonith, a large and terrible amphibian that inhabits some of the lakes and rivers of the Dreamlands. Cyclopean II will have a bunch of new creatures and this the first new one I am adding...
#Lovecraft
#Dreamlands
#CRPG
10 days ago
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Can you do better than my ten year old daughter? Play Cyclopean: The Great Abyss today and find out!
#Lovecraft
#RPG
#Gamedev
youtu.be/z9vyg4hpJ2c
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Indie of the Year!
YouTube video by Schmidt Workshops
https://youtu.be/z9vyg4hpJ2c
12 days ago
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I regret to inform you that Cyclopean: The Great Abyss, has made the top 100 in Indie of the Year. As such, I'm now obligated to continuously request votes for the next 8 days. I wish it were not the case, but these are the rules...
#IndieoftheYear
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
13 days ago
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Cover Image...
14 days ago
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Amazing news! "Cyclopean: The Great Abyss" has made it into the top 100 Indie games on IndieDB! You can vote again to make sure it beats all these other games :)
#Top100
#IndieoftheYear
#GameDev
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
14 days ago
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The problem (as I see it) with LLMs and such, is that it works both ways. Yes, you can prompt it to write (theoretically) an amazing paper. But the reader can also use it to break your amazing paper down into a summary. So, if we follow this path, no one is writing, and no one is reading anymore.
14 days ago
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There is still some work to do on the overworld, but I have started making some of the cities for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. I am hoping to have 2 cities and one dungeon ready for the Next Fest Demo in February... Here is a ruined brick village for your viewing pleasure.
#GameDev
#Demo
#CRPG
16 days ago
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It's working! Cyclopean: The Great Abyss has reached the #5 spot on IndieDB :)
#IndieoftheYear
#Indie
#GameDev
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
16 days ago
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IndieDB is one of the few places where relatively small games like mine actually stand a chance of rising to the top. I am here, once again, to formally ask you to vote "Cyclopean: The Great Abyss" for Indie of the Year.
#Indie
#IndieGames
#Vote
#SoloDev
#GameDev
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
16 days ago
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I cannot express how much I love the CGA palette...
17 days ago
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I wrote this short article about Lovecraft’s work and it’s unique relationship with video games. Something I have always been interested in over the years…
#lovecraft
#videogames
#article
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
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Lovecraft and Video Games feature - Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
The "Lovecraftian" tag on Steam seems to be something unique in the venn diagram of games and authors. This article explores why this might be the case.
https://www.indiedb.com/games/cyclopean/features/lovecraft-and-video-games
18 days ago
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I wrote this short article about Lovecraft’s work and it’s unique relation ship with video games. Something I have always been interested in over the years…
#lovecraft
#videogames
#article
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
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Lovecraft and Video Games feature - Cyclopean: The Great Abyss
The "Lovecraftian" tag on Steam seems to be something unique in the venn diagram of games and authors. This article explores why this might be the case.
https://www.indiedb.com/games/cyclopean/features/lovecraft-and-video-games
18 days ago
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Just three days left to vote for Indie of the Year at IndieDB! If you like, you could consider voting for my game, Cyclopean: The Great Abyss!
#IndieDB
#IndieoftheYear
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
#Cats
#Ghouls
#Ghasts
#Gugs
#Dreamlands
www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss Windows game
Trapped in the Great Abyss! You are an old dreamer who, through unforeseen circumstances, has found himself trapped in the Great Abyss, the vast underworld beneath the Dreamlands. Use the resources a...
https://www.indiedb.com/games/cyclopean
18 days ago
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My six year old son just encountered the existence of the spork, and all that it implies...
26 days ago
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I am starting to fill in some of the content in the northern part of the Dreamlands. I will do another pass after all the cities and dungeons are done, but this is roughly what the game will look like.
#CRPG
#TurnBasedThursday
#Lovecraft
store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...
28 days ago
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss reaches 100 reviews! I actually missed the event itself, as a few came in over the last day or so.
#GameDev
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
#Steam
#Reviews
29 days ago
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All the main land masses are in place, so I'm adding some more details to the map now, this part is fun.
#GameDev
#LevelDesign
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
about 1 month ago
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Someone's been playing my games! These are two older projects, I hope they stand the test of time...
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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I managed to reproduce and fix a big bug that would erase people's games! What a nightmare, it's like the capital offence of game development. Luckily it only effected a small group of people. I also nerfed Nets a bit...
#Gamedev
#TurnBasedThursday
#CRPG
store.steampowered.com/news/app/295...
about 1 month ago
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Just uploaded an update with a ton of bug fixes for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.
#GameDev
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
store.steampowered.com/news/app/295...
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss - Game Updated to Version 1.1.2h - Steam News
Bug Fixes Galore
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2958790/view/630068614159925842
about 1 month ago
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Re-sharing for
#ScreenshotSaturday
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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I inherently distrust any talk of “retention” “engagement” and “monetization” when it comes to games. This does not mean I think games should be free or boring, its just the business jargon that bothers me.
about 1 month ago
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For
#TurnBasedThursday
I am sharing a first attempt at a cloudy edge for my Dreamlands map.
#GameDev
#CRPG
#Dreamlands
store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...
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about 1 month ago
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Critiques of Bethesda's Fallout 4 update seem entirely legitimate. Why force an update on a 10 year old game, breaking mods that people have been using in the process, when you could just make Elder Scrolls 6?
twistedvoxel.com/fallout-4-an...
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Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition Faces Harsh Backlash Over Bugs and Mod Issues
Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition launches to negative reviews on Steam, with players criticizing broken mods, crashes, and limited upgrades in Bethesda’s latest update.
https://twistedvoxel.com/fallout-4-anniversary-edition-faces-harsh-backlash-over-bugs-and-mod-issues/
about 1 month ago
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I am excited to announce that Islands of the Caliph is now bundled with Heroes of the Seven Islands, in the "Island RPG Bundle!" If you already have one game, you can get the discount on the other.
#Discount
#Bundle
#Sale
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61087...
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Island RPG Bundle on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/61087/Island_RPG_Bundle/
about 2 months ago
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Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands is the much anticipated follow up to Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. An old school CRPG in the vein of Ultima, Questron and Legacy of the Ancients, based on H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.
#PitchYaGame
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...
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about 2 months ago
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Wishlist Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands! Maybe I will produce some more finished looking screenshots in the near future. The level design process is filled with weird little artifacts, that I am too tired to explain.
#TurnBasedThursday
#GameDev
#CRPG
store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...
about 2 months ago
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Updated Aberration Analyst. The game's Rolodex system did not have any on-screen indication of how to scroll through team members. I've added a couple buttons, but you can still use the mouse scroll wheel to do it.
#GameDesign
#UIdesign
#UXDesign
store.steampowered.com/news/app/172...
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Aberration Analyst - Version 1.0.6b - Steam News
Slight Interface Update
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1721180/view/603046131020071173
about 2 months ago
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This is starting to feel like a world ready to explore. It's a tedious process to build, but the pay off is nice. Still it's just very basic areas, with very few details...
#GameDev
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
#Dreamlands
about 2 months ago
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This is what I would call a "first pass" at a new area. I plan to come back and add details, maybe move things around a bit. But all the main elements are there...
#ScreenshotSaturday
#GameDev
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
#Dreamlands
about 2 months ago
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Very cool art-style on this one...
#PixelArt
#GameDev
#RetroGaming
youtu.be/2p0pE9RHFKg?...
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PROJECT SHADOWGLASS Trailer (New BEAUTIFUL 3D Pixel Art Open World RPG 2026)
YouTube video by Punish
https://youtu.be/2p0pE9RHFKg?si=xizysLdT65eMbuO_
about 2 months ago
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I have had a productive few days. I re-designed my whole map to be much more contained. So now when I think about adding all the details, I don't get totally overwhelmed. Speaking of which, here is an area I've been working on...
#GameDev
#CRPG
#Lovecraftian
about 2 months ago
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This may not look like much, but to me it represents a breakthrough. I've been busting my head against making this overworld map for days, and I kept getting stuck. A game design stumbling block thread đź§µ
#GameDev
#GameDesign
#LevelDesign
2 months ago
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is fortunate to have been included in Roguelike Fest on Steam! It is categorized, appropriately, under "Weird Stuff" just where I like to be :)
#Roguelike
#RPG
#Lovecraftian
2 months ago
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Starting to smooth out and add detail to the world map. It's still super rough, but you can see some progress between the different areas, some still being in the blocked out phase...
#GameDev
2 months ago
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@duskdev.bsky.social
Congrats on getting mentioned here!
bsky.app/profile/pcga...
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2 months ago
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Ah, none of my games are on here ... maybe next year! Right?
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
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Testing one of the new areas in-game. Making sure things like collisions work. It's important to do this early before adding a ton of detail, as that can require a lot of re-doing if it is not prepared properly.
#GameDev
#LevelDesign
#CRPG
2 months ago
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Making a lot more progress on Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands today. I think I should add some more variation to the height of these cliffs ... it's a little too uniform.
#GameDev
#LevelDesign
#CRPG
2 months ago
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At long last I am once again able to focus on Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. Very little progress today, as I spent most of my time trying to figure out WHAT to work on. But now I am getting back into the rhythm...
#GameDev
#CRPG
#Progress
2 months ago
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I took down my request for Photoshop alternatives because I realized I have a lot of caveats and requirements I forgot to mention. I do appreciate all the good input I was getting! I will do my research and see what I can figure out. Thanks anyway :)
2 months ago
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scraped from Facebook - Introverts are Awesome page.
2 months ago
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I hear some very different opinions about how difficult my game is, and I think I am beginning to understand why. This is from a Steam discussion. I might be over simplifying it, but I think this may be at the heart of the problem.
#GameHard
#Difficulty
#GameDesign
2 months ago
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