Mark Mayers
@desolus.bsky.social
Creating Desolus: explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between time. Previously worked on Outer Wilds, Manifold Garden, and a few other titles!
Excited to announce Desolus will release on October 15th! Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structures whole and save the city from ruin.
Shoutout to all the hard working indie devs that showcased their games in our Seattle event! 💪 and thank you to everyone who took the time to visit. We loved watching everyone play the incredible demos available!! ♥️ Next up is our Fall Online showcase - October 16th! 🤯
I'm in Seattle for Pax West to show off Desolus. This picture is definitely not photoshopped and totally real.
More of the awesome games you can catch at our Seattle in-person showcase, Sept 4th! 👀 🔸 The Mailroom - @TheMailroomGame 🔸 Voidwood - @VoidwoodGame 🔸 DESOLUS - @DesolusDev 🔸 N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO - @metanetsoftware ➡️ bit.ly/MIXFALL2026
I can't do everything individually so here's a whole list of demos I've been playing from Steam Next Fest- Over the Hill, FluxWerks, Hyper Detonator, Desolus, Spanky Bat-A-Swing, Blood Dungeon, Lazy Kickers, Moonbrella. Plus a pile of others mentioned in passing. hardcoregamer.com/a-small-sele...
A Small Selection Of Great Steam Next Fest Demos
The secret is to play what you can, enjoy what you've got time for, and not worry about the rest.
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Steam Next Fest is under way and we're in it! If you love big non-violent RPGs with lots of colorful characters and dense hand-crafted worlds, this is a great time to try out our 2 hour demo 😊 store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/...
It's the first day of #SteamNextFest and Desolus is part of it! Check out our new demo! store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/...
DESOLUS on Steam
Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structu...
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Desolus by @desolus.bsky.social is a state-based puzzle game as you explore a beautiful world and multiple dimensions store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/...
DESOLUS on Steam
Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structu...
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Desolus is part of the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! Come check out our new demo! You can find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/...
DESOLUS on Steam
Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structu...
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Cerebral Puzzle Showcase (May 28 - June 4 2026)@puzzleshowcase.bsky.social · 4mo agoThat's a wrap on Day 1 of the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! 🧩 Thanks to everyone who checked out the demos, discounts, and of course tuned in for the livestreams! The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase will be live for the next 6 days on Steam. store.steampowered.com/sale/Cerebra...
In case you missed it- an overview of Desolus from PAX East! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpL...
What Is Desolus? LV1 Gaming Talks with Producer Chris @ PAX East 2026
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Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in DESOLUS, a 1st person puzzle game. Solve puzzles through the use of black holes, traveling back and forth through time to make architecture whole. Wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/... #indiedev @desolus.bsky.social
OUR NEW GAMEPLAY TRAILER! Check out Songs of Glimmerwick, our witch academy RPG where the magic of the world is music! Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/...
We checked out some people playing Desolus at the recommendation of @valkariye.bsky.social and it was so cool. Single player puzzle with amazing gothic aesthetic. #PAXEast @desolus.bsky.social
DESOLUS is a stunning first person puzzle exploration game where you explore a city of Gothic architecture between the past and the future. #BIGSpringShowcase
It sucks to see a fellow dev get ripped off like this, but at least the revenge story is very satisfying. Got 'em! Oh and their game DESOLUS has a demo and you can wishlist it to help them out: store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/... #screenshotsaturday
Ty Taylor@imakeindiegames.bsky.social · 6mo agoI've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉
I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWv... Time to tighten up the graphics on level 3
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Science: Weather forecasting is a large-scale state-estimation and numerical-simulation problem in which the atmosphere is treated as a high-dimensional, nonlinear, chaotic dynamical system governed by discretized PDEs; heterogeneous, noisy observations... Faith: Groundhog I say the odds are even.
a man is holding a microphone in front of a crowd and says " well it 's groundhog day ... again "
ALT: a man is holding a microphone in front of a crowd and says " well it 's groundhog day ... again "
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Desolus is featured in #IndieCade! Very happy to be presented alongside all these amazing games! You can check out the Steam event here: store.steampowered.com/sale/indieca...
19th Annual IndieCade Festival
Join us this January 16th - 30th, 2026 as we celebrate this past year’s IndieCade indie game nominees. Connect with the creators, play demos and featured games, and more!
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Excited to share the Battle for Croaker Command update to Sail Forth! 🐸 Help the Croakers in their hour of need ⛵ Sail the brand new Croaker Flagship 🦿 Do battle with giant Tekk Walkers Out now on Steam, Epic, and the consoles! store.steampowered.com/app/1031460/...
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yea this is 100% how trees work in real life. (I think it's a shader error). #gamedev
Mark Mayers@desolus.bsky.social · 11mo agoSpeedTree rocks
I was fortunate enough to catch golden hour on the way back to NYC. Took this picture from the train.
This website is fantastic for any type of geometrical calculation you would ever need. I've been using it for years. rechneronline.de/pi/triangle.... #gamedev
Some artistic reference pictures I took for a new area I'm creating in Desolus. It's a historic fort in New Jersey, this place is pretty neat.
Explore Desolus, a first-person puzzle demo where you navigate a Gothic city caught between past and future, solving Escher-like puzzles with black holes to mend time-fractured architecture. Play the demo: playtester.io/desolus #IndieGaming #GameDev #Gaming #IndieDev #IndieGame
