More than 20,000 people have wishlisted AETHUS! tinyurl.com/aethus20k The end is in sight, and your support means the world ❤️ #IndieDev #GameDev #survival

More than 20,000 people have wishlisted AETHUS! tinyurl.com/aethus20k The end is in sight, and your support means the world ❤️ #IndieDev #GameDev #survival

AETHUS is an underground survival-crafting game, focused around a proper story with full voice-acting, that I'm developing solo after leaving my AAA job! Think a more story-driven #Subnautica, set in alien caverns... 👩‍🚀⛏️ Check out the demo and wishlist on Steam! #PitchYaGame

AETHUS is an underground survival-crafting game, focused around a proper story with full voice-acting, that I'm developing solo after leaving my AAA job! Think a more story-driven #Subnautica, set in alien caverns... 👩‍🚀⛏️ Check out the demo and wishlist on Steam! #PitchYaGame

AAA strikes again. Ginormous megacorp prefers to settle for big cash in 30+ employment tribunals for wrongful termination rather than allow unionising! Take them for all they're worth and then go start your own crew, gang! ✊

What could this mean?...

Today's joyful gamedev experience - a negative review for the demo from someone who hates tutorials! But... apparently can't spell or form coherent sentences.

Big thanks to @ign.com for featuring AETHUS' Gameplay Deep Dive - 'The Menagerie' on their GameTrailers channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ino5... #GameDev #IndieGame #SurvivalGame

I'm looking to cast a new #VoiceActor for AETHUS! This is a freelance, paid position! Male, 60+ voice-age, UK/EU-based. Native Scottish accent preferred. Email: hello(at)pawsmonaut(.)games with your reel! Please share and spread far and wide! #GameDev #VoiceActing #CastingCall #IndieDev #GamesJobs

I'm looking to cast a new #VoiceActor for AETHUS! This is a freelance, paid position! Male, 60+ voice-age, UK/EU-based. Native Scottish accent preferred. Email: hello(at)pawsmonaut(.)games with your reel! Please share and spread far and wide! #GameDev #VoiceActing #CastingCall #IndieDev #GamesJobs

Preach!

AETHUS is currently featured on the show-floor at SXSW Sydney! Check it out today and tomorrow if you're around in person! Huge thanks to Pete and Babette for volunteering to man the physical both way over in Aus! <3 store.steampowered.com/news/app/254... #GameDev #IndieDev

AETHUS is currently featured on the show-floor at SXSW Sydney! Check it out today and tomorrow if you're around in person! Huge thanks to Pete and Babette for volunteering to man the physical both way over in Aus! <3 store.steampowered.com/news/app/254... #GameDev #IndieDev

Happy to say that after two and a half years, AETHUS is now playable from start to finish.

Check out the new gameplay trailer for my solo-indie survival-crafting game, AETHUS, as featured by @ign.com! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUem... #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame

Check out the new gameplay trailer for my solo-indie survival-crafting game, AETHUS, as featured by @ign.com! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUem... #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame

The AETHUS September Development Diary is now live! This month: 📺 - New Gameplay Trailer 🔥 - The Magma Rifts ✅ - Steam Achievements Check out the September update below! 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/254... #GameDev #IndieDev #SurvivalGame #IndieGame #IndieGaming

The AETHUS September Development Diary is now live! This month: 📺 - New Gameplay Trailer 🔥 - The Magma Rifts ✅ - Steam Achievements Check out the September update below! 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/254... #GameDev #IndieDev #SurvivalGame #IndieGame #IndieGaming

There's discourse happening around #Silksong not having difficulty options so I wanted to show the gameplay modifiers for AETHUS, my survival-crafting game! Everyone enjoys games differently - if you want to make it easier/harder in particular ways, who am I to stop you? #GameDev #IndieDev #Gaming

There's discourse happening around #Silksong not having difficulty options so I wanted to show the gameplay modifiers for AETHUS, my survival-crafting game! Everyone enjoys games differently - if you want to make it easier/harder in particular ways, who am I to stop you? #GameDev #IndieDev #Gaming

One of my old colleagues at Splash Damage has just released a small indie multiplayer horror game - and it’s not even the price of a coffee! store.steampowered.com/app/3551100/...

It's the last day of Tiny Teams 2025! 😭 Make sure you get all your wishlisting done by 6pm BST so you don't miss out on discovering these ABSOLUTE GEMS!

Delighted that AETHUS has been selected by @yogscast.com for @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social 2025! Tiny Teams starts August 7th at 6PM BST, so go check out the awesome games that we're featured alongside! If you've not wishlisted and played the demo, it's LIVE NOW! #IndieDev #IndieGames #TinyTeams

Dystopian corporate conspiracy you say? Sign us up!

Delighted that AETHUS has been selected by @yogscast.com for @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social 2025! Tiny Teams starts August 7th at 6PM BST, so go check out the awesome games that we're featured alongside! If you've not wishlisted and played the demo, it's LIVE NOW! #IndieDev #IndieGames #TinyTeams

Here it is! The first Gameplay Deep Dive for AETHUS! Allow me to introduce you to Trudy, your old manager and now contracting rep!😎 shorturl.at/nAjiI There's also a wee update on the recent publishing announcement as well, check it out! #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #Gaming #IndieGames

Here it is! The first Gameplay Deep Dive for AETHUS! Allow me to introduce you to Trudy, your old manager and now contracting rep!😎 shorturl.at/nAjiI There's also a wee update on the recent publishing announcement as well, check it out! #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #Gaming #IndieGames

90 minutes until the Deep Dive! Who's going to watch along with me? 👨‍🚀⛏

This Friday I'll be premiering the very first Gameplay Deep Dive for AETHUS - The Menagerie! Come along as we explore various gameplay features and locate some 'strange eggs' for a corporate menagerie, and earn some extra credits for our trouble! shorturl.at/btfBE #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieGaming

This Friday I'll be premiering the very first Gameplay Deep Dive for AETHUS - The Menagerie! Come along as we explore various gameplay features and locate some 'strange eggs' for a corporate menagerie, and earn some extra credits for our trouble! shorturl.at/btfBE #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieGaming

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

I don't even know what to say about all this Microsoft/Xbox stuff. It's just day after day of this bullshit. It's exhausting.

As always, it'll be the hardest working and most talented people at the bottom of the stack getting laid off. I'm absolutely sick of useless executives making terrible decisions and not suffering the consequences. All my love to my friends going through this ❤ www.ign.com/articles/min...

Check out the awesome @orbitalpotato.bsky.social playing the AETHUS demo! ❤️👩‍🚀⛏️ youtu.be/57gYh7qjvPo #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #survivalgame #youtube

Check out the awesome @orbitalpotato.bsky.social playing the AETHUS demo! ❤️👩‍🚀⛏️ youtu.be/57gYh7qjvPo #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #survivalgame #youtube

This has been a tough secret to keep... AETHUS has a publisher! 🥳👩‍🚀 As a solo-indie dev making a game during a really tough period in the industry, I feel very proud to have achieved this partnership and can't wait to bring the game to as many people as possible, together! #IndieDev #IndieGame

This has been a tough secret to keep... AETHUS has a publisher! 🥳👩‍🚀 As a solo-indie dev making a game during a really tough period in the industry, I feel very proud to have achieved this partnership and can't wait to bring the game to as many people as possible, together! #IndieDev #IndieGame

This is familiar 😉

Five years of my life went into this game. Go check it out! So proud of my colleagues who stuck it out through nonsensical decisionmaking, daily changing requirements and toxic work culture. You're heroes! ❤ Anyone see my name in the Special Thanks? 👀 #MindsEye #MindsEyeGame

Five years of my life went into this game. Go check it out! So proud of my colleagues who stuck it out through nonsensical decisionmaking, daily changing requirements and toxic work culture. You're heroes! ❤ Anyone see my name in the Special Thanks? 👀 #MindsEye #MindsEyeGame

Experimenting with new types of resources today 🧨👀 #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev

Since the #SoloDev discourse is happening again I'm gonna go out on a limb and set the cut-off at 'if the solodev died would the game still get made?' - IMO if the answer (unless you're almost shipping) is 'yes' then it might not be a 'solo dev' project. Does that seem reasonable?

#PitchYaGame My solo-dev game, AETHUS, is all about story-driven survival! 🛠 Mine using tons of tools including powerful lasers, explosives and drills! 🚀 Build a futuristic base using a library of modules, 💬A fully voiced dystopian narrative, 🤖And a Scottish AI companion... #IndieGameDev #GameDev

Since the #SoloDev discourse is happening again I'm gonna go out on a limb and set the cut-off at 'if the solodev died would the game still get made?' - IMO if the answer (unless you're almost shipping) is 'yes' then it might not be a 'solo dev' project. Does that seem reasonable?

#PitchYaGame My solo-dev game, AETHUS, is all about story-driven survival! 🛠 Mine using tons of tools including powerful lasers, explosives and drills! 🚀 Build a futuristic base using a library of modules, 💬A fully voiced dystopian narrative, 🤖And a Scottish AI companion... #IndieGameDev #GameDev

Experimenting with new types of resources today 🧨👀 #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev

Today I'm porting AETHUS over to use Diversion rather than Perforce for source control! Wish me luck on the migration! Anyone used it before? 🙏

Post a Steam review for your game/demo that makes your indie dev heart swell! 🥰

Post a Steam review for your game/demo that makes your indie dev heart swell! 🥰

Thanks so much to everyone who's left a review on the new AETHUS demo page so far! Today we got the official rating after hitting ten reviews! 🥳 If you've not left a review yet, would you please take two minutes to do it? ❤👇 shorturl.at/KnJG9