Where our character creator started vs. where our character creator is today! ✨ Young Suns has had a HUGE glow up in the past year, and we can’t wait to show y’all what we’ve been cooking up! store.steampowered.com/app/4149610/...
Asher Vollmer
@ashervo.bsky.social
Recovering game developer. Made Threes + Beast Breaker. he/him
Released minc compiler 0.9.9 - this is a major correctness and optimization update. The motivation for this work was to run the transpiled Box3D library at equal performance levels as msvc/clang. Installer scripts and links to repos at minc.dev
Blood Dungeon launches August 25th on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 1 + 2! Blooddungeon.com #boneup
Yoooooo!! Beast Breaker on steam!!! Pls check it out I absolutely adored this game it was so cute (and fun too) (End game endless turn knife build is broken and I cannot wait to play with it again)
Asher Vollmer@ashervo.bsky.social · 6mo agoHi friends! I'm happy to announce that our little mouse-bouncing adventure Beast Breaker will finally be playable on Steam! Everyone thank our friends at @kandofactory.bsky.social for making this possible. Lots of details about all the new stuff here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWfQ...
Here's my radical new proposal for privacy regulation: you shouldn't be able to sell SECRET CAMERAS !!
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoMeta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?
losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is
good linked series of threads about cyberdecks
Jenn Frank@jennatar.bsky.social · 3w ago"But I'm NOT spending like $8000 on a new Mac," the gen Z novelist was telling me. "I'm thinking about a typewriter, to be honest." "Oh!" I said to her. "Have you considered building your own cyberdeck? People are building their own writing machines with raspberry pis." She'd never heard of them.
I'm looking for recs for a solo tabletop worldbuilding game like Microscope or Quiet Year. Suggestions welcome! (It doesn't have to be JUST solo I guess, but it'd be nice.)
Systemic is coming back! My spec-fiction #comics anthology about folks trapped by the massive systemic forces of our society, returns to #Kickstarter soon! 9 all-new stories from an absurdly stacked roster of creators. Follow for launch day discounts! www.kickstarter.com/projects/art...
Coming soon: SYSTEMIC VOL. 2
The hit anthology returns with nine all-new stories where infinitely critical human lives and systemic forces grind together.
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It's not every day when the paths cross between two adventurers with so much in common... Until now, when #minathehollower joins forces with Skipper the #beastbreaker to defeat their mutual foes together. Mina © @yachtclubgames.bsky.social Beast Breaker © @kandofactory.bsky.social and Vodeo Games
📢 AMONG US STORY: ON GUARD 📢 Our demo is out NOW. A new narrative adventure in a world full of Impostors. ⭐️ Play as Guard, a Crewmate full of JUSTICE. ⭐️ A crime! A body! A false accusation! ⭐️ Prove your innocence... or else! Demo available until June 22: store.steampowered.com/app/2842310/...
most pains in gamedev directing come from the fact it's nearly impossible to do this for games unless you're repeating a known work
v buckenham@v21.bsky.social · 2mo agoan important skill, when directing a project, is to be able to imagine what the finished product will look like before it has been made
We (and we are sure @ashervo.bsky.social would agree) are so proud to be taking part in this bundle for such a good cause!
Make-A-Wish International@makeawishintl.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe next game in our amazing #CosyUpforWishes bundle is Beast Breaker from @vodeogames and @kandofactory! Grab this fun ricochet RPG that still gives cosy on June 19th and help grant wishes! https://ow.ly/lqmG50Z93sz Thank you to the teams who donated the game!
A nearly decade-long dream in the making, People of Note is an indie darling for all you JRPG and math sickos. Please enjoy this very long, very raw chat with @iridiumstudios.bsky.social founder and your best boy Jason Wishnov about the serendipitous path to ship: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YiY...
Jason Wishnov on How People of Note Explores Heavy Subjects with Whimsy and Musical Theater
YouTube video by Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
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We have released the amazing Beast Breaker OST by @bgc.bsky.social on STEAM. You can get it now with a 10% discount! To EXTRA celebrate, you can get 25% off of the game too! OR get them both in a bundle! Spoilt for choice! store.steampowered.com/bundle/77563...
Save 21% on Game & OST on Steam
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Here we go! My game, Neighborhoods - wishlist if you're into some cozy urbanism! Or claymation characters getting pancaked: store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/...
Neighborhoods on Steam
Neighborhoods is a cozy city sim where you shape streets to help people thrive, gather, and develop strong opinions about a particular bench. We're reimagining the city builder as a city fixer.
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GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands
I'm soft-launching my compiler project minc today. It compiles directly to minimal native executables for x64 Windows (PE), x64/ARM64 Linux (ELF), ARM64 macOS (Mach-O), ARM64 iOS, ARM64 Android (.so), and WASM. See minc.dev
minc — A minimal language for building native software
A minimal C replacement that compiles directly to native executables for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and WebAssembly. No assembler, no linker, no runtime.
minc.dev
Today we launched Ribbit — An Anagram game where you'll find every word — live to everyone! Letters are only linked if they're used in a word. As you find words, the grid prunes itself. By the end, there's just one word left. Then frogs sing to you. Play here: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...
My memory of what it was like to browse the Xbox Live Indie Games store page in 2010
