Alex Kane | Pawsmonaut Games
@beacondev.bsky.social
Founder of Pawsmonaut Games, a Scottish Solo-indie game studio. Creator of AETHUS and Tidy Up the Town. Previously: AAA Tech Designer: Splash Damage | BARB | R* North
👻 The Samhainn Update is now live for Tidy Up the Town! 🎃 🧙♂️Head-to-Head Multiplayer! 👻A whole new spooky stall and 100+ goods to tidy! 🎵 Brand new music! ✅ Six new achievements! And much more! Check it out! 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/519...
Tidy Up the Town - The Samhainn (Halloween) Update has arrived, alongside head-to-head multiplayer! - Steam News
The market has turned dark... Race a friend to tidy the market the fastest, including a new seasonal stall!
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👻 The Samhainn Update is now live for Tidy Up the Town! 🎃 🧙♂️Head-to-Head Multiplayer! 👻A whole new spooky stall and 100+ goods to tidy! 🎵 Brand new music! ✅ Six new achievements! And much more! Check it out! 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/519...
Tidy Up the Town - The Samhainn (Halloween) Update has arrived, alongside head-to-head multiplayer! - Steam News
The market has turned dark... Race a friend to tidy the market the fastest, including a new seasonal stall!
store.steampowered.com
I find it so weird that all these AI outreach spam mails start the same way - telling me about my own studio or my own games, as if it's news to me. Yes, I wrote my website straplines, I know what I do. Does this crap ever actually work? Who replies to this junk?
I can't quite believe it, but AETHUS is coming to consoles! I've partnered with @makingport.bsky.social to bring the game to all major consoles, add several text localisations, and make a bunch of gamepad improvements! Check out the full announcement👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/254...
I can't quite believe it, but AETHUS is coming to consoles! I've partnered with @makingport.bsky.social to bring the game to all major consoles, add several text localisations, and make a bunch of gamepad improvements! Check out the full announcement👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/254...
🧹 Tidy Up the Town is OUT NOW! 🧙♂️ store.steampowered.com/app/5190030/... Power up and upgrade your magic to collect and sort hundreds of different items into their correct market stalls and shelves, and bring life back to your town! This has been a really fun wee game to make! #IndieDev
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What have you done to the market?! Practising your amateur sorcery in the town square might not have been the best idea… You should really tidy up the market stalls before everyone arrives for a hard ...
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Super proud to get 'Masterpiece' status from the wonderful @lydocia.com, 'queen of tidy-up games'! Tidy Up the Town is out right now, go check it out! ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/tidying-ga...
Another five days have passed, so I played another five games. Of course. ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/cabinstoto... dev ping: @beacondev.bsky.social
From cabins to entire towns.
We’re sorting and tidying it ALL the way up.
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🧹 Tidy Up the Town is OUT NOW! 🧙♂️ store.steampowered.com/app/5190030/... Power up and upgrade your magic to collect and sort hundreds of different items into their correct market stalls and shelves, and bring life back to your town! This has been a really fun wee game to make! #IndieDev
Save 10% on Tidy Up the Town on Steam
What have you done to the market?! Practising your amateur sorcery in the town square might not have been the best idea… You should really tidy up the market stalls before everyone arrives for a hard ...
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We at @ahwoo-official.bsky.social and RocketWerkz have made the BRUTAL Framework, that Ludeon have used to make their engine to power RimWorld, and us Kitten Space Agency, open source and free to use. Our industry is rotting from the core out. We plan to change it. www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...
From the gamedev community on Reddit: Introducing BRUTAL | A free C# framework that helped RimWorld make its own engine and break free of Unity. Now you can too.
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I remember seeing Project Americas while I was working on GTA Online back in 2016, can't believe that it's ten years since then and what it's become now is finally going to see the light of day! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The Making of Grand Theft Auto VI
Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to be biggest video game blockbuster ever. Here’s the inside story of how Rockstar made it.
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✨New sci-fi game in the directory: Outer Wilds by @mobiusdigitalgames.com, published by @annapurna.com exothermic.co/outer-wilds/ If you like exploration and puzzles and time loops, this is for you.
Big Les still getting his million quid a year salary though :)
Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 2mo agoMindsEye studio Build A Rocket Boy appear to be making fresh redundancies, as one staffer says he's "helping wrap things up here in the HR department" https://bit.ly/4yGWUVn
Announcing my second solo-indie game - Tidy Up the Town! 🧙♂️🧹 - Tidy up the medieval marketplace stalls, - Regain and use your magical powers after a... mishap. - Restore the market to life! store.steampowered.com/app/5190030/... Wishlists and shares hugely appreciated! 💖
Tidy Up the Town on Steam
What have you done to the market?! Practising your amateur sorcery in the town square might not have been the best idea… You should really tidy up the market stalls before everyone arrives for a hard ...
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Thank you so much for the lovely review! 💖
GamertechAU - Variety Streamer@gamertechau.com · 2mo agoCompleted the very shiny indie game AETHUS from Pawsmonaut Games @beacondev.bsky.social An expertly-made base-builder adventure game with a highly configurable touch of survival featuring excellent writing and voice acting. Definitely worth checking out. #GameReviews #GamesMedia #IndieGames
Damn, you've got to imagine Rockstar never envisioned a speech like this one happening when they fired those 34 workers, huh?
Austin Kelmore@austinkelmore.com · 2mo agoClosing out the rally, @nershly.bsky.social beautifully speaks about her experience being fired by Rockstar and how they try to use fear.
Announcing my second solo-indie game - Tidy Up the Town! 🧙♂️🧹 - Tidy up the medieval marketplace stalls, - Regain and use your magical powers after a... mishap. - Restore the market to life! store.steampowered.com/app/5190030/... Wishlists and shares hugely appreciated! 💖
Tidy Up the Town on Steam
What have you done to the market?! Practising your amateur sorcery in the town square might not have been the best idea… You should really tidy up the market stalls before everyone arrives for a hard ...
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My wee indie game just passed 2,000 reviews on Steam, and at 94% positive no less. I put three years of my heart and soul into this game, so to see it resonate is absolutely humbling and I'm incredibly grateful.
My wee indie game just passed 2,000 reviews on Steam, and at 94% positive no less. I put three years of my heart and soul into this game, so to see it resonate is absolutely humbling and I'm incredibly grateful.
Giving an indie game a "thumbs down" negative review is LITERALLY a punishment. In many cases due to how the Steam algorithm works, it is a capital one. If a game just wasn't for you, or you have some feedback, please just post on the forums! Save the "thumbs down" for AI slop and other offenses.
coil@coil.bsky.social · 2mo agoLet's say you're at 7/8 positive reviews, an 88%. Two more negative reviews gets you a visible score: a 70. To get that 7/10 back to an 88% would require 14 more positive reviews (21/24). Without those two negatives, just two thumbs up would have put the game at 90%.
Was this... always just a black box? Have you all been retweeting and liking the black box?! 😭 That is supposed to be THIS!
Experience a 30-hour-long, fully voice-acted storyline where your crafting, exploration and building always have an actual story-driven purpose! You can grab AETHUS right now for just $14.99 - find out why the game has 94% positive reviews! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2541530/... #IndieDev
Experience a 30-hour-long, fully voice-acted storyline where your crafting, exploration and building always have an actual story-driven purpose! You can grab AETHUS right now for just $14.99 - find out why the game has 94% positive reviews! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2541530/... #IndieDev
Frictional are absolutely cooking as usual with ONTOS. Incredibly excited for this one.
ONTOS - Gameplay Reveal Trailer
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Hey! Are you an indie dev who doesn't use gen AI and have a game you're currently promoting? I'm looking to make a starter pack and you could be in it! Reply below with a link to your game 👇 go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y
Ambrosia Sky is now complete. I hope you find it as compelling and complex to play as it was for us to build. Act Two is a FREE update, and the base game is 20% off this week. The full-game price goes up soon, so now is the best time to grab or gift a copy! store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...
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You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by an unknown contamination. Survive and harvest strains of hostile alien fungi, explore trea...
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Ambrosia Sky 🪐@softrains.bsky.social · 3mo agoAmbrosia Sky is now available on Steam & EGS! ✨ Featuring: 🪐 A vibrant space colony + alien ecosystem to explore ⚙ Simulation mechanics + progression 📖 A sombre homecoming 🍄 Exo-fungus to discover + cleanse 💜 Your lost love Start your journey today at ambrosiasky.com
Game workers protested outside the Build A Rocket Boy offices on Saturday, as the studio hosted a playtesting event for fans. BARB has laid off 250-300 employees over the last 13 months & has been accused of installing surveillance software on workers' PCs to root out "saboteurs" within the company
Prototyping THREE new games at the same time right now. It’s incredibly fun. They might not turn into anything but it’s so wonderful to have the studio runway to be able to spend time in this phase, while being able to be a dad whenever I need to be during the workday. Really thankful.
I did this too for my recent launch and one of the pirates actually interviewed me for a Russian online games website afterwards (he had since bought the game) and it was 100% the right way to go. Always better to lean into it.
