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@yaengames.bsky.social

Game maker from Berlin and game designer @paintbucket.de. Check out my personal games on itch.io: https://yaen-games.itch.io/

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bpb.de @bpb.de · 7d ago

🎮Zurück von der Gamescom Eine Woche voller Eindrücke und Austausch liegt hinter uns. Wir freuen uns über tolle Gespräche, den Besuch des Bundespräsidenten an unserem Stand und den Award in der Kategorie „Games for Impact“ für unser historisch-politisches Deduktionsspiel SOKO 1977.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier am Stand der bpb bei seinem Rundgang über die Gamescom. Quelle: Bundesregierung / Sandra Steins.

Gruppenbild mit Frank-Walter Steinmeier beim Stand der bpb auf der Gamescom

Ausschnitt des bpb-Standes in der Indie Arena auf der Gamescom

Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · 3w ago

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Game Designer: I've balanced the full- and empty-variables evenly in the spreadsheets. Let's see how it does in drink-testing.

Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor@derek-lieu.com · 3w ago

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Trailer editor: [BOOM SFX] Tilt up closeup shot from bottom of glass showing how full it is (rise SFX) [SMASH CUT with hit SFX] [Red overlay]Tilt down closeup show from top of glass showing how empty it is. [Studio logos]

Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · 3w ago

Made a silly little artwork about our recent game 10, 9, 7... FIRE! #gameart #indiegame #digitalart

Educational counting poster: Let's Learn Numbers! From Ölö to Ölö
Three members of the species "Ölö" are seen in front of a blackboard. One of them is deep in thought about the intricacies of the Ölö counting system seen on the blackboard (it's just "Ölö" 10 times).
The middle Ölö is a teacher (with glasses) pointing a stick at one of the "numbers": Ölö.
On the right side, an Ölö wearing a square academic cap is sitting on the ground, quietly smiling.
Behind that last Ölö, the phrase "Shmölö?" is written on the blackboard.

putti @puttiputt.bsky.social · last mo.

We've put up a post-jam version of our @gamemakerstoolkit.com GMTK 2026 jam game about leading a team building exercise on @itch.io (additionally to @newgrounds.com ) and wrote a little devlog with it: jonas-tyroller.itch.io/10-9-7-fire/...

Post-jam update

Hey fellow gaming-/gamedev-enthusiast! Today, we put up a post-jam version of the WebGL build with a bug fix and a few small improvements to our jam submission. More about that later - Unless: if you....

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Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · last mo.

We just published a new, slightly fixed and polished version of our #GMTKjam #indiegame 10, 9, 7... FIRE! on @newgrounds.com! Be one of the first to play it here: www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/... #gamedev

10, 9, 7... FIRE!

Make sure they count down correctly!

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Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · last mo.

Play our game! www.jonas-tyroller.itch.io/10-9-7-fire #gmtkJam #gamedev #indiedev

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putti@puttiputt.bsky.social · last mo.

We've made a game for GMTK 2026 (@gamemakerstoolkit.com) with the theme "Count down". In "10, 9, 7... FIRE!" you'll be the coach leading a team building session where various species have to count down together. If they make a mistake you eject them into space. It's quite hilarious.

Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · last mo.

We made a game for GMTK jam! Try it out, it's a fun time :D

putti@puttiputt.bsky.social · last mo.

Team: Jonas Tyroller, Blackthornprod, @rugbugredfern.bsky.social, @yaengames.bsky.social, @nevisart.bsky.social, @schirdev.bsky.social Play in browser for free: jonas-tyroller.itch.io/10-9-7-fire

The Darkest Files 🕵️‍♀️@thedarkestfiles.paintbucket.de · 2mo ago

Wishlist here! 🧡 store.steampowered.com/app/4856260/...

The Darkest Files - Battalion on Steam

Back in Fritz Bauer’s unit, Esther Katz faces her biggest case yet: The Darkest Files - Battalion. Follow the trail of witness statements all the way to the top and face the perpetrators who believe t...

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The Darkest Files 🕵️‍♀️@thedarkestfiles.paintbucket.de · 3mo ago

We're honored that The Darkest Files is nominated for Best in Community Empowerment & Best in Learning at #G4C2026! 🥳 We designed our game to make history tangible through personal stories and to support remembrance. Congrats to all the finalists! 🧡 #GamesForChange #IndieGameDev #G4CAwards

Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My good friend and collaborator @bonicle.bsky.social has been working on this game for a while now. Big recommendation, it's already been really fun years ago whenever I got to test it. Reposts appreciated <3 #gaming #indiegames

Dustpocalypse 🐱 Wishlist on Steam!@dustpocalypse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hello Bluesky! 👋 This is Dustpocalypse, our cute twin stick/bullet heaven game where you play as a little cat fighting off hordes of evil dust monsters with a vacuum! We have a demo coming out soon, so be sure to wishlist on Steam and follow us! LINK: bit.ly/4xhFrTq #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

Lenja making WATERFUL🌱@lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨️ finally officially announcing my first game ✨️ WATERFUL: a peaceful nature-builder where you dig riverbeds to guide water through desert valleys 🏜️ make tiny ecosystems blossom! 🌴 grow a variety of plants 🦊 discover animals in the new habitats ⚙️ unlock contraptions to reach new areas

Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're making a deduction roguelike inspired by real historical events at Paintbucket Games! I'm working on it as a game designer. Gonna come out next year! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame

Paintbucket made The Darkest Files 🕵️‍♀️@paintbucket.de · 4mo ago

We're excited to announce our new game SOKO 1977: Anti-Terror Task Force, coming to Steam in early 2027! 🕵️ Set in 1970s West Germany, the game puts you in charge of a special police task force during a time of emergency. ➡️ More info on our website: paintbucket.de/en/projekte/...

Paintbucket made The Darkest Files 🕵️‍♀️@paintbucket.de · 4mo ago

The Darkest Files 🕵️‍♀️@thedarkestfiles.paintbucket.de · 4mo ago

We’re still as blown away as before: The Darkest Files really won the DCP in the categories "Best Serious Game" and "Best German Game"!! 🥳 We‘re so grateful and congratulate the other nominees and winners. Thanks to everyone who kept their fingers crossed for us 🧡 Photo: Franziska Krug & DCP

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Blue Prince won Best International Game at the German Computer Game Awards 2026, with The Darkest Files receiving awards for Best German Game and Best Serious Game www.gamesindustry.biz/blue-prince-...

Saftladen Indie Games Collective 🍊@saftladen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The German Game Awards @derdcp.bsky.social took place last night and 5 awards went to Saftladen members! 🏆🏆 @paintbucket.de: Best German + Best Serious 🏆🏆 @bluebackpack.bsky.social: Best Graphics Design + Story 🏆 @butterbythefish.com: Best Family Needless to say, we're very proud 😊 #derDCP

game – Verband der deutschen Games-Branche e.V.@gameverband.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Wir gratulieren allen Gewinnerinnen und Gewinnern des Deutschen Computerspielpreises #derDCP www.game.de/deutscher-co...

Der Deutsche Computerspielpreis | Der DCP @derdcp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Darkest Files ist das Beste Deutsche Spiel des #derDCP 26! Mit einer visuell starken Welt im „Comic-Noir“-Stil und spannenden Mechaniken eröffnet es eine Spielerfahrung, die Erinnerungskultur innovativ und glaubwürdig erlebbar macht, ohne Unterhaltungswert zu verlieren.

GamesWirtschaft @gameswirtschaft.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Deutscher Computerspielpreis 2026 🏆 Bestes deutsches Spiel: The Darkest Files (Paintbucket Games) 🏆 Studio des Jahres: @weltenbauer3D 🏆 Alle Gewinner auf GamesWirtschaft

GamesMarket @gamesmarket.global · 5mo ago

At the RadiGaMe cluster transfer conference, research partners from law, police, civil society, games industry and media gathered to exchange and consolidate their knowledge and research results. www.gamesmarket.global/radigame-tra...

RadiGaMe Transfer Conference Caps Deradicalisation Cluster

At the RadiGaMe cluster transfer conference, research partners from law, police, civil society, games industry and media gathered to exchange and consolidate their knowledge and research results.

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Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Real men" aren't real and thereby, in the end, aren't even men.

Friedemann Allmenröder @friedemanna.bsky.social · 5mo ago

SUMMERHOUSE is in a new charity bundle with @whalesorg.bsky.social 🌊 This lovely collection of games will help fund really important conservation efforts to protect our sea friends 🐳🐬 Check it out! 🔗 www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/wh...

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The Darkest Files 🕵️‍♀️@thedarkestfiles.paintbucket.de · 5mo ago

500 reviews!! You did it, thank you everyone 🧡 The Darkest Files is overwhelmingly positive on Steam - we can‘t believe it 🥹 #indiedev #indiegames

The Darkest Files 🕵️‍♀️@thedarkestfiles.paintbucket.de · 5mo ago

We woke up to some incredible news today! The Darkest Files has been nominated for the @derdcp.bsky.social in no less than five categories! 🥳 Thank you to the jury and congratulations to the other nominees. We're really grateful to be alongside so many great names 🧡 See you in Munich! #derDCP

Key art of The Darkest Files with the text: "We are nominated! Best Serious Game, Best Game Design, Best Graphic Design, Best Story, Best German Game"

Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The distorted world. Interpretation in the alt text. #digitalart #digitalpainting #horrorart #horror

A digital painting from the perspective of a dementia patient. It's an artistic interpretation of what the world might feel like when viewed through this lens. The patient is in bed, surrounded by family but each one of them appears severely estranged, faces and other features are distorted, absent, confusing, or exaggerated to a point where they feel dangerous. Examining people from left to right, on the left, closest to the patient, there is a lanky woman, one hand resting on the bed, the other reaching out to you with exaggerated perspective. A grotesquely large, desparate grin stretches across her face as she seems to be crying and laughing at the same time. Behind her on the left side a person is wearing black. But the black appears as a hole, consuming the world around it and cracking into any matter behind or in front of it. Their face appears severely distorted and partially missing due to the presence of another deep black void in it. The glasses are strangely duplicated and arranged in a nonsensical pattern. To the right in the back, there is a bearded man holding a child whose facial features are entirely absent. The patient doesn't recognise the child at all. For the man, all identifying features are replaced with hair. Closest on the right is a person with a face that has all parts twisted and misplaced to the point where it looks as if it came right out of a picasso painting. They are holding a large cake right in front of the patient's face, above the bed. The candles' flames engulf its entire top and create the impression of an enormous, dangerous fire that could catch on anything else in the room at any moment. In the background there is a large banner. It might have been a cheerful message like "Happy Birthday" but the writing is illegible and feels completely alien. Overall, the scene feels threatening, confusing, and alienating as the disease turns what was meant to be a friendly gesture by loved ones into a bizarre horror trip.

The Darkest Files 🕵️‍♀️@thedarkestfiles.paintbucket.de · 6mo ago

We're part of the Steam Spring Sale with 35% off The Darkest Files! And if you'd like to take it outside, the game runs on the Steam Deck as well 🌞

Graphic of the Steam Spring Sale featuring the cover image of The Darkest Files

Sarah McKenzie | Comms Available @sarahdraws8.bsky.social · 6mo ago

May I ask to be added, perhaps? I am currently working on my own sci-fi themed indie game. I am still in the concept art stages, so here are some examples of that, if you want to see. 👉👈

Creature Concept: Draco (mecha amphitere)

Digital illustration of a robotic winged snake on a black background. His tongue is made of black metal, and two plasma globes are fastened to the back of his head. Yellow-painted spikes stick backwards from the back base of each globe, and similar stripes run the length of the creature's body on its back.

The long serpentine body is made of spacesuit-like white canvas, and has metal plates sewn into it on the top and belly. Between the metal plates is a long row of rocket boosters, some of which are firing white and orange flames. the tip of the tail, at the very end of the serpent's body, is split into 3 black tendrils made of similar material to its tongue. They crackle with lighting rods that jump between them.

A pair of draconic wings sprouts from Draco's sides, made of a jointed metal frame with a rubber membrane stretched between. Inset in the membrane of each wing is a pair of large propellers.

Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.

[#Art #DigitalArt #Scifi #ScifiWorlds #ScienceFiction #ScifiArt #Illustration #SciFiArtist #ClipStudioPaint #ClipStudio #Mecha #Dragon #DragonArt #DragonArtwork #DragonDesign]

Creature Concept: The Executrix (Gorgon-Lamia Gynoid)

A thin, robotic woman with a giant khopesh in one hand and a smoking rocket launcher in the other slithers in front of a black background on her snake-like lower body of metal plates. Her mouth is open in a scream, and black oil is sloshing out of it while neon magenta flames streak from her eyes, which are weeping tears of similar oil.

Her entire head is medusa-like, and her scalp is ringed by mechanical snakes whose heads all point in the direction her khopesh is raised. Their mouths are opened to reveal firing gun barrels mounted in their throats.

Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.

Creature Concepts: Rage and Sorrow the Mechanical Harpies

2 robotic harpies on a grey background. They have long necks with a single rotating joint in the middle, and metallic masks that look like women's faces form their heads. The jaw of these masks is open, and a flamethrower protrudes from Rage's mouth, while a sonic pulse weapon sits in Sorrow's.

Bird-like wings made of metal feathers sprout from their backs, and a shawl-like fabric covering that flaps in the wind is fastened to both pairs of wings.

Both harpies sport a long, snake-like tail. Sorrow's is tipped with a blade, and Rage's ends in a tube that belches smoke.

Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.

Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! To celebrate and highlight wonderful women working on games, and because I think we need more of them in the industry, I made this little starter pack: go.bsky.app/FmwtvvV I want to keep adding to it so please suggest more! And yes, trans women are women. #gamedev

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putti @puttiputt.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Quack quack!!

Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Quack #GameArt #digitalart #seamlesstexture #ducks

A seamless texture pattern depicting rubber ducks on a wavy, purple background. Some ducks are front-facing while others are seen from the side. One of the duck has an evil glare. All of them are cute.

Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Wow, Bluesky now lets you embed @bandcamp.com links :) Let's try it out! yaenmusic.bandcamp.com/track/discov... #music #electronicmusic

Discovery Delve, by Yän

track by Yän

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