Hades clearly has a lot of influence on Absolum but the most basic reason that the Absolum story doesn't work while the Hades one does is that Hades focuses on interpersonal relationships and Absolum on macguffins.

🏹🏹🏹 Mythmatch is OUT NOW on Steam! 🏹🏹🏹 AND there's a 20% launch discount! 🐐 Merge the items 💪 Unite the people 🏠 Make a home And it's Steam Deck Verified!! store.steampowered.com/app/1778050/...

Today's "drop everything and read this" is @mckaycoppins.bsky.social's latest. Just trust me on this: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Have you ever wanted sports games to take more narrative techniques from sports anime? Try out Hoop Dungeon, a basketball turn-based-tactics game. #basketball #turn-based-tactics #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

I try not to do ranty threads anymore, but man, this Valve GDC graph has just rubbed me up unbelievably badly This was presented as a good thing - "more games are finding success!" -- when actually the data has just been presented in a tricksy way to make it look like everything is fine

Absolum has the same issue that I had with Hades, Slay the Spire, Vampire Survivors and all of the other run based games (all of which I still love). Once I get better at the games, the runs start to take longer than the 10-15 min I would like. In hindsight, I made the same mistake with Hoop Dungeon

Yay. $100k is bankruptcy for pretty much everyone. But it’s ok cos they made steam $30k before they folded.

This is TODAY!!!

If anyone is willing the share the following, I would be so grateful! We just launched Piece by Piece on Steam 🎉🎉 It's a cozy repair shop sim, you play a woodland fox who inherits his grandfather's store. You fix up items with your hammer and paintbrush 🔨🖌️🦊 store.steampowered.com/app/3179050/...

LMFAO SOMEONE MADE IT A REAL THING sweepthestrait.com

Netflix’s Dinosaurs has weirdly poor animation and writing and Morgan Freeman is abysmal but it does have a lot of cool dinosaurs

I just put in the first update to Hoop Dungeon. Try out some turn-based-tactical basketball and be sure to leave a review! #basketball #turn-based-tactics #indiegames #roguelike store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

If you've played Hoop Dungeon, I would really appreciate your reviewing it and if you haven't, check out my basketball turn-based-tactics game! store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

Hoop Dungeon is still 10% off. Play the only basketball game that lets you defeat your enemies through turn-based-tactics and the power of friendship. #basketball #roguelike #turn-based-tactics #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

I always enjoy dinosaur media but I'm not a fan of Morgan Freeman pretending to be the Bene Gesserit of the Triassic.

If you like basketball, turn-based-tactics or the power of friendship, you’ll like Hoop Dungeon and it’s still discounted to $7.19 for launch. store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

This is exactly right. If you do a playtest without a specific hypothesis to prove or disprove, you are hurting your game

Hoop Dungeon has #basketball, it has #turn-based-tactics, it has a #roguelike structure, it has the power of friendship and it has a 10% launch discount if you buy it now. store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

Use the powers of friendship and rivalry to become a better basketball player and conquer the Hoop Dungeon! Out today for $7.99. #roguelike #turn-based-tactics #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

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Hoop Dungeon is now available for purchase. Try out my basketball turn-based-tactics game that uses the powers of friendship and rivalry! store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

Befuddled please-help-with-article-research post #231231: I'm looking for examples and discussion of "postcolonial open worlds" (inc discussion of the validity of that term), together with formally unusual writing about open worlds.

We are honored to be this week's official #TurnBasedThursday host on Bsky! 🖥️Are you an #IndieDev? Reply with your stellar turn-based game! 🎸Are you a turn-based game fan? Then 💬comment, ❤️like and 🔁share all the great games inside this thread! Don't forget to add the hashtag & tag other devs!

are you a indie game developer of color? will you be in the sf bay area for GDC? do you want to demo your game? bubblesort and @gdocexpo.com are co-hosting a showcase of games at the bubblesort shop! apply here to show your game! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The rumors are true! Future? No Thanks! will be playable at Day of the Devs in San Francisco. I'll be there too! March 8 - 3PM to 8PM - Free www.dayofthedevs.org/events/day-o...

Friends! ⭐ I’m looking for all kinds if people to test my new game with a focus on women and queer people. If you would like to participate on this, please DM me! 😊💛

I did not expect Next Fest to be so physically draining. My body is out and I haven’t even dealt with the disappointment of looking at the numbers yet

Want to understand the design dynamics of Pokopia's overlapping habitats? Read a design breakdown of how they work and what they do for the excellent Horticular whynotgames.in/2024/09/05/h...

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday! Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced. … AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

#HoopDungeon デモ版を少し触った。ターン制バスケットボールとのこと。バスケのシミュレーターと言うよりは、かなり抽象化されたボードゲームに近い印象。 バスケは門外漢だけど、選手の向きが重要だったり、回りくどいことはせずにゴールへ向かうほうが良かったりといったところがバスケっぽい？ #SteamNextFest

They announced my stretch goal for Blades '68! Let's get to $390,000 so I can write about The Inaugural Crowfoot Wargaming Convention of '68 (which split of from the Charterhall Conference On Historical and Strategic Wargames that started two years before). www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

[untitled games event] Amsterdam so excited to have our game, Something To Reach For, be part of the lineup for the 3rd edition: "secret handshake" buttondown.com/untitledgame... 🫶 @roughat.bsky.social 🤝 @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social

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Born to listen to the new Gorillaz album and contemplate impending doom, forced to stream for Next Fest. Come hang out store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

The Cat and the Coup is both my favorite historical game and a very relevant understanding of American imperialism. store.steampowered.com/app/95700/Th...

When I went to Tehran in 2018 for a game conference I hung out with game nerds, music weirdos, and queer folks with tattoos and colored hair, just like I do here. We got vegetarian food and watched goofy uncles play basketball in the park. I sure hope they can live to see a better day.

If you have to wake up to a bug report, there's no better one to wake up to than for an issue that you've already solved but you didn't deploy because you didn't think anyone would play your demo enough to trigger it.

Yeah, looks like we will soon release a new experiment in playable philosophy called >> 'HAMM-3R" << (made with @amidos2006.bsky.social and @demigiant.com and others who are not on Bluesky). We will demo it and give a short talk in Valletta on March the 24th :) Come say hi!

We're officially hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday, alchemists! 🕹️ #IndieDev #GameDev, it's your time to shine! Reply and show us your game 🎮 Calling all turn-based game fans! Like, retweet, and comment on all great games! Don't forget to use the hashtags and tag other devs! ☝

Calling all South Asian gamedevs! I'm hosting another South Asian Gamedev Meetup at #GDC26 with @ekanaut.bsky.social. Wednesday, 1 PM at the Waterfall. Come through, meet fellow devs, make lifelong friends, what have you. Turns out there are DOZENS of us. See you soon!

NEXT THURSDAY "Why did I make this?" NYU Game Center Lecture Series Presents Bennett Foddy March 5th 7pm - 8:30pm RSVP: bennettfoddylectureseries.eventbrite.com (Also live streaming at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter) Join us for a career retrospective with @foddy.net! Poster by @cromsferatu.bsky.social

Just a hot tip but if you see anyone in games talking about unpaid internships it's worth noting that in most countries, having an intern do the work a full employee would usually do for no pay is in fact extremely illegal

I’m starting a Hoop Dungeon stream on Steam now. Come hang out! store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

Be sure to check out Hoop Dungeon in this Steam Next Fest. It's got basketball, it's got turn-based tactics and it's got an innovative narrative system and I'm sure you're interested in at least one of those. store.steampowered.com/app/4250030/...

The Mythmatch Demo is going to be part of Steam Next Fest!! store.steampowered.com/app/2490290/... So now is the perfect time to give the demo some love to please the Steam algorithm. So please 🙏 Wishlist the Game 🙏 Play the Demo 🙏 Recommend the Demo 🙏 Review the Demo And please repost!!

Museu Do Lactário is a legit hidden gem of a museum in Lisbon. Walking in, I assumed it was about a milk cooperative, instead it turned out to be about arguably the first social institution in Portugal providing neo natal care for young mothers and babies. #museumSky #Lisbon

Is this not on us as game designers to fix? Granted, this is about AAA, but as an indie I have the freedom to see this as a problem and work towards a solution

tbt when i read that post to actual damon albarn www.vulture.com/2021/11/damo...

The open call for Game Poems Magazine Issue 2 is now live! Game Poems is a *playable* magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames. If you make small, experimental games, we'd love to see what you create. Learn more at www.gamepoems.com/submit