The engine I use & the game I’m making

we're having our first snow of the season in Vienna so naturally we headed out for an extensive walk, after which Snoopy chose to warm up with a nap on my lap ❄️🐺 10/10 can recommend (apart from my leg slowly dying from holding him up 😅)

Duskpunk launched 24h ago. The response has been fab! ⭐GamingBible: "9/10 Exceptional" 🧠RPS: "Duskpunk has piqued my curiosity" ✨The Pixel Post: "Duskpunk’s storyline fascinated me from start to finish" Don't wait to grab it: there's a hefty launch discount! store.steampowered.com/app/2610880/...

Do yourself a favour and don’t miss out on this one 💪🤩

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Let’s do this! :)

Dev friends from LATAM: Google is committing $2 million in funding for up to 10 indie studios in LATAM America to help refine games and boost new audiences. blog.google/feed/indie-g... (Pls boost 💜)

it was an honour and a pleasure to talk about how shit Microsoft's Quake II Muse demo is for GadgetGuy's latest article (@gadgetguyau.bsky.social). thanks to Chris (@bibbybhoy.bsky.social) for asking me to contribute & for putting together this article that challenges the diminishment of humanity 🙏

It’s that time of the year again - looking forward to catching up with old friends and making new ones at Reboot 😊

Going to be in London April 7-10 and looking forward to catch up with my lovely UK friends - hit me up if I you’re around 👀

Now that Astrobot won GOTY can we please end the "No 3D platformers" thing publishers have going on as a blanket rule at the moment? It's the "blanket rule" thing that bothers me. Publishing sounds like a AAA boardroom when they collectively have rules like that.

I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong

Never forget alt text again: 1. Settings 2. Accessibility 3. Require alt text before posting

Just watched „The Remarkable Life of Ibelin“ on Netflix - what a truly incredible testament to how games are able to just tear through barriers and can touch the hearts of any and every one! Get tissues ready before watching tho, it’s an intense emotional rollercoaster ❤️🥹

My nephew (4) absolutely HAD to „make spooky pumpkins“ this year so today the family had a little carving session ^^ I think they turned out quite well 👻🎃

I recently noticed that there is a queer museum somewhat near so I attended a tour there on the weekend with some friends - to the surprise of absolutely no one it's run by the nicest people and I wholeheartedly recommend checking out their current exhibition! :)

There’s something soothing in watching him delicately and patiently disassembling his toy 🐶😅

Exhibiting Herdles this weekend at Game City in Vienna‘s town hall 🤩

„Why are you looking at my toy?“ 🤣🐶 #pet #dog #australianshepherd

Ok, I knew I was gonna like Astro Bot because I adored Playroom but I was NOT prepared for an Astro Bot Jormungandr 🤩🤩

Lots of amazing people to follow 👀🤩

And we continue down the PS3 rabbit hole 😅

Time to work on the PS3 backlog a bit 🧐😅

Ah yes, my favourite state of being: Melting because it’s still 29 degrees in the apartment at 9pm causing me to struggle coming up with anything even remotely resembling productivity, in turn opening wide the doors for impostor syndrome to creep in - love it 🫠

Reminder to take breaks between your play sessions 😅

That’s another convention wrapped! Had an amazing weekend exhibiting #herdles at #kokorokon last weekend, meeting old and making lots of new friends 😊 Now it’s back to work! 🐺

Everybody knows the elf on the shelf, but have you heard about the snowman on the trashcan?

Rather on the spontaneous side but it looks like I’ll be exhibiting #Herdles this weekend at the Vienna Comic-Con 💪😅

The Frosthaven campaign has begun ❄️ Everybody is loving the game already, which was my hope 😊 We played the prologue and fought our way through the cold besting a pack of vicious hounds 💪

This weekend was incredible - made lots of new industry friends and seeing people play your own game simply never gets old! Thanks @ramiismail.com for making my day by refusing to get up until you 100% completed the prototype 😅 Absolutely earned the 3D printing prototype reward ^^

Looking forward to spending the next 3 days showing Herdles at GameCity in the town hall of Vienna 🐺 Rumor has it there’ll 3D prints to win! 👀

Almost forgot to share some exciting news 🙈 Herdles was chosen by radio FM4 to be part of their Indie Area at this year’s GameCity in Vienna’s town hall!!! Thankful for the opportunity - hyped beyond measure 🤩🐺 Come by and check out what I've been working on! 💪

Armored Core 6 is really something - Balteus down! 💪🤩

Looks like gamescom has officially begun for me with a plane full of Austrian Gamedevs 💪😅

Guess it’s time to start a new collection of *checks notes* Disney branded canned food? 🫠

Writing Pitch Decks is hard! 🥺😅 Can I maybe just visit publishers in person like a good old door-to-door salesman and tell them all about #herdles? 👀

Wrote a public post on exhibiting #Herdles at AniNite on my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/87721205?pr=true a more in depth one for the patreons will follow soon :)

Exhibiting at AniNite last weekend was absolutely amazing! 🤩 Already ordered new business cards because of the 100 I brought only 1 remained Got lots of good feedback and people seemed genuinely excited to play #Herdles 😊 Can’t wait for what’s next! 🐺 #indiedev #gaming

Off to the last day of AniNite 🤩

AniNite day 1 was amazing (I think I’ll be out of business cards after this weekend^^)! Nothing beats strangers playing your game and delightfully exclaiming „how cool is that?!“ and „it lets you do THAT?!“ Super exhausted but looking forward to 2 more days 💪😊 #herdles #indiedev #gaming #convention

Convention time 🤩🐺 #Herdles

Doggo approved the #Herdles business cards 🐺🤩

Have to be honest, Nintendo going horny on main was not on my bucket list today 🙈🤣 https://www.eurogamer.net/pokemon-unveils-official-wiglett-toy

Got me some video game history 🤩

I'm normally not that much into e-sports but @ramiismail.com vs Duolingo has me hooked xD

Herdles will be exhibited this weekend at AniNite 🐺 Can’t wait to see what people think of it 🤩 https://www.aninite.at/ #herdles #aninite #convention

Ah, yes: the sweet dichotomy of refactoring You’re happy and satisfied because you improved part of your code but are simultaneously dreading the moment you figure out the 50.000 other little things you broke 😅 What’s your worst/funniest refactor story? 👀 #herdles #gamedev

It’s a raining outside. I’ve just finished Gears of War 2 and eaten pizza with a good friend. Now we’re gonna start Gears 3. Today is a good day indeed.

Sometimes you have to give your legs a quick rest after landing a jump from a high point and just go *splat* 😅🐺 still WIP and for some reason GIFs don’t seem to work here but trust me, it’s gonna be awesome ^^ #screenshotsaturday #herdles #indiedev

Started implementing sound effects and can’t stop grinning - it just adds so much enjoyment to have audio feedback for the bark itself and for barking at things 🤩 And there’s a lot of it as you can bark at almost everything 😅🐺 #herdles #indiegame #indiedev #gaming