One of the things I love about STALKER 2, and the series in general, is being able to revisit locations from the original game. In a way, the locations become characters in the story, and acquire a legendary aspect. Here is the abandoned train depot which usually serves as a bandit hideout...

A new STALKER 2 screenshot for fun... #ScreenshotSaturday

Voonith - large, aggressive amphibians - are chasing me and scaring all the zebras. Eventually I had to intercede in one of their battles, as I felt responsible for the whole mess. #ScreenshotSaturday #CRPG #Zebras

I have added this new feature of showing enemies up close during encounters. But I forgot to make their regular sprite invisible, so it looks like there are two Voonith here, instead of just one. It scared me for a moment because I thought they were multiplying! #ScreenshotSaturday #CRPG #GameDev

#TurnBasedThursday - I am making my first new dungeon (in color) for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. #CRPG #Lovecraft

@ccinemapodcast.bsky.social Just saw this because it was leaving Netflix (which is a whole other discussion). I was surprised how it felt like a disaster movie, but before all the disaster movie tropes and expectations had been established.

New STALKER 2 Screenshot for you...

Star Explorers has been updated on Itch to include the latest, experimental branch. There is a long devlog if anyone is interested in seeing all the changes... schmidt-workshops.itch.io/star-explore...

Someone made this Star Explorers DVD cover (it wasn't me!) and I love it. #GameDev #DVD #Retrogaming

The Steam Sale is over in 4 hours, so I am just re-sharing the trailer for Paradox Vector. If you ever have the itch to play a first person shooter in the style of an early 1980s vector graphics arcade game ... now's your chance! youtu.be/mXPcl0mCx7I #VectorGraphics #retrogaming #non-euclidean

Absolutely in love with this. I love graphics when there are hardware limitations that you just have to work within ... or whatever this is.

Another STALKER 2 location. One thing I loved about this series is that oftentimes, old abandoned buildings were just that ... old abandoned buildings. The empty spaces made the encounters that much more meaningful.

Sharing an updated creature design, from Cyclopean to Cyclopean II. The Urhag is a creature Lovecaft mentioned, but never described. #TurnBasedThursday #CRPG #Retrogaming

Just curious about the use of AI image making. Personally, I don't use it and have no intention of using it, as I feel it was made unethically. But I am curious about possible ethical ways it could have been made and/or used.

Before I made CRPGs, I tried my hand at a few First Person Shooters. Paradox Vector imagines an FPS game made with early #1980s #VectorGraphics. You can get it and it's #Soundtrack over on Steam, at a discount, today! store.steampowered.com/app/1051840/...

Interested in what people consider "good" game design. I think it involves being able to find what's wrong with the current state of the games industry, and making an effort to do better.

As much as I love the hyper-realistic graphics of STALKER 2, I am equally excited to see games like this coming out ... not just a text based aesthetic, but actual text! store.steampowered.com/app/4327720/...

New STALKER 2 screenshot. Look at that glorious garbage! #STALKER

I love this 2D lighting thing...

Step away from the Kraken!

Those STALKER 2 underground labs... 💀💀💀

Everyone stop what you are doing and watch this! youtu.be/LHszQL-kxfQ?...

It's finally here, a year after the game's Early Access release. Presenting the Cyclopean Official Soundtrack! #OST #DungeonSynth (or so I'm told) #Soundtrack #Lovecraft #DarkAmbient store.steampowered.com/news/app/295...

STALKER 2 has just the most luxurious graphics .. from the textures to the lighting and the overall setting. It is probably the most visually atmospheric game I have experienced. It's still not as good as the original games, but that is unrelated to the graphics.

My recent curiosity over #DungeonSynth has caused me to make a new, free DLC for Anomalies, which I am calling "Dungeonomalies" #DLC #GameDev #GenerativeArt store.steampowered.com/app/4349730/...

Another weird thing ... I am working on several things simultaneously this week, but they are all connected. #GameDev

Updating the Steam build,I am trying to get a demo ready for Next Fest, but it is really going to be minimal. Not sure if it will be worth sharing yet...

STALKER 2 screenshot of the day. Maybe my favorite graphics ever ... look how dilapidated that truck is! It's glorious.

A while ago a player referred to the music in my game "Cyclopean: The Great Abyss" as "Dungeon Synth." It was a term I had heard, but never listened to. Well, that got me more interested and I have been going down the rabbit hole ever since... what are your favorite #DungeonSynth songs/artists?

A while ago I said I would (probably) be sharing a lot of STALKER 2 screenshots. But I really failed to live up to that statement. Today, I will begin to make things right.

Working on something ... weird.

New Soundtrack just dropped. Planning for the Steam release later today. #Soundtrack #CRPG #ScreenshotSaturday mkschmidt.bandcamp.com/album/cyclop...

These are beautiful, but I feel compelled to mention that most of them are not birds.

I am really honored that Cyclopean: The Great Abyss was included among the "only good games" of 2025 :) Around the 43:00 mark...

I have been very fortunate to be able to get nice reference photos for Cyclopean: The Dreamlands … gimme them ancient ruins! #references #ruins #roman

I love the vibes of this game...

I woke up from a dream in which I was working on my game and making some effect that would cause "interstitial" damage ... a word I do not remember ever learning. But after finding out it is indeed a real word, the idea is intriguing.

Exploring an abandoned brick village near the base of Mount Ngranek, on the Isle of Oriab in the Dreamlands... I have been adding a lot of stuff to the game, and more importantly, updating the script to facilitate adding lots of new enemies and NPCs. #ScreenshotSaturday #CRPG #GameDev #Dreamlands

It took eleven versions of Windows to finally get here...

All my games are on sale during the #SteamWinterSale! You can also access an additional discount, by getting the Schmidt Workshops #SUPERFANTASTICMEGABUNDLE (no that's not the name of a Soundgarden album) store.steampowered.com/bundle/9006/

One of the cities I've been working on for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. This is Baharna, on the coast of Oriab, a large island in the Southern Sea... #TurnBasedThursday #CRPG #GameDev

Give me your best advice on re-factoring code. #GameDev #Refactor #Programming

All things considered, this was the best think to come out of having had a Google+ account...

I am working on some building interiors and such for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. Still in love with this CGA palette ... #CRPG #CGA #RETROGAMING

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

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...

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...