MKSchmidt
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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.
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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...
about 21 hours ago
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A new STALKER 2 screenshot for fun...
#ScreenshotSaturday
1 day ago
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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
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2 days ago
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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
2 days ago
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#TurnBasedThursday
- I am making my first new dungeon (in color) for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands.
#CRPG
#Lovecraft
4 days ago
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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.
4 days ago
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New STALKER 2 Screenshot for you...
5 days ago
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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...
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Experimental Version 5.5.25c
Here are all the new updates starting with the most recent, and going back to where I began this new branch... Testing Branch Updated to Version 5.5.25c Bad Inventory Slots Addressed Update - 5.5.25c....
https://schmidt-workshops.itch.io/star-explorers/devlog/1345750/experimental-version-5525c
6 days ago
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Someone made this Star Explorers DVD cover (it wasn't me!) and I love it.
#GameDev
#DVD
#Retrogaming
6 days ago
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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
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Paradox Vector Trailer - ss4
YouTube video by Schmidt Workshops
https://youtu.be/mXPcl0mCx7I
7 days ago
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Absolutely in love with this. I love graphics when there are hardware limitations that you just have to work within ... or whatever this is.
add a skeleton here at some point
7 days ago
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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.
10 days ago
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Sharing an updated creature design, from Cyclopean to Cyclopean II. The Urhag is a creature Lovecaft mentioned, but never described.
#TurnBasedThursday
#CRPG
#Retrogaming
10 days ago
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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.
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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/...
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Save 30% on Paradox Vector on Steam
Explore impossible mazes while battling the Ancient Ones and their bio-mechanical servitors in this retro first-person, Lovecraft inspired shooter. Paradox Vector's graphics are inspired by the old-sc...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1051840/Paradox_Vector/
12 days ago
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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.
13 days ago
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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/...
13 days ago
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New STALKER 2 screenshot. Look at that glorious garbage!
#STALKER
13 days ago
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I love this 2D lighting thing...
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15 days ago
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Step away from the Kraken!
add a skeleton here at some point
16 days ago
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16 days ago
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Those STALKER 2 underground labs... 💀💀💀
17 days ago
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Everyone stop what you are doing and watch this!
youtu.be/LHszQL-kxfQ?...
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ANTEDILUVIAN - Animation Short Film
YouTube video by Mario Lanzas
https://youtu.be/LHszQL-kxfQ?si=6g_IbnZtCMCBNdhi
17 days ago
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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...
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss - Cyclopean: The Great Abyss - Official Soundtrack - Steam News
After much demand, the soundtrack is finally here! Okay, it was just one guy who asked for it, but that's more than all my previous games so I consider it a positive step.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2958790/view/494966715941128337
17 days ago
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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.
17 days ago
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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/...
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18 days ago
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Another weird thing ... I am working on several things simultaneously this week, but they are all connected.
#GameDev
19 days ago
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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...
19 days ago
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STALKER 2 screenshot of the day. Maybe my favorite graphics ever ... look how dilapidated that truck is! It's glorious.
19 days ago
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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?
20 days ago
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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.
20 days ago
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Working on something ... weird.
21 days ago
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New Soundtrack just dropped. Planning for the Steam release later today.
#Soundtrack
#CRPG
#ScreenshotSaturday
mkschmidt.bandcamp.com/album/cyclop...
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Cyclopean: The Great Abyss - Soundtrack, by Michael Klaus Schmidt
8 track album
https://mkschmidt.bandcamp.com/album/cyclopean-the-great-abyss-soundtrack
23 days ago
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These are beautiful, but I feel compelled to mention that most of them are not birds.
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24 days ago
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I am really honored that Cyclopean: The Great Abyss was included among the "only good games" of 2025 :) Around the 43:00 mark...
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25 days ago
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25 days ago
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I have been very fortunate to be able to get nice reference photos for Cyclopean: The Dreamlands … gimme them ancient ruins!
#references
#ruins
#roman
about 1 month ago
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I love the vibes of this game...
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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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.
about 1 month ago
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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
about 1 month ago
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It took eleven versions of Windows to finally get here...
about 1 month ago
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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/
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Save 36% on Schmidt Workshops SUPERFANTASTICMEGABUNDLE on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/9006/
about 2 months ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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Give me your best advice on re-factoring code.
#GameDev
#Refactor
#Programming
about 2 months ago
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All things considered, this was the best think to come out of having had a Google+ account...
about 2 months 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
about 2 months 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
about 2 months 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...
about 2 months 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
about 2 months ago
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