Let's turn my Tacticon presentation into a TLDW thread about medieval armored warfare on foot and overdesigning the gameplay mechanics of ZodiacLegion : bsky.app/profile/tact...

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#TactiCon Talk 2025 - Knight Tactics: From medieval manuscripts to the gameplay mechanics of Zodiac Legion ⭐️ @galdred.bsky.social from Studio Draconis Watch live now: store.steampowered.com/sale/Tactico...

#TactiCon Talk 2025 - Knight Tactics: From medieval manuscripts to the gameplay mechanics of Zodiac Legion ⭐️ @galdred.bsky.social from Studio Draconis Watch live now: store.steampowered.com/sale/Tactico...

Greetings #PitchYaGame! ♎️In Zodiac Legion, turn-based dungeon crawling meets strategic kingdom management. ⚔️Authentic medieval combat 🥷Customize your armour one piece at a time 🏰Explore destructible dungeons 💀Triumph over death in a time of reawakening magic

Hey #PitchYaGame ! Mystical Tactics is a turn-based tactical-RPG roguelike in which you control a squad of adventurers trying to repel the Dark Lord and his minions. Demo available on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2850600

That was totally unexpected. I feel humbled by your support. Thank you all!

We're officially hosting this weeks #TurnBasedThursday! 🕹️ #indiedev: Reply with your game & don't forget the hashtag 🎮 #players: ❤️Like, 🗨️Comment & 🔄️Repost If you don't, we have a spot reserved for you in our haunted domain 👀!

As we Italians say: Patience is the Virtue of the Strong! Welcome to the official #TurnBasedThursday thread, we celebrate turn-based games! No rush, only strategy! #GameDev and #IndieDev, show us your work! Everybody, come and see plenty of awesome games and show your support!

ATTENTION INDIEDEVS Show off your art style

Géraud Zucchini - SOL CESTO 🌞@docgeraud.bsky.social · 2y ago

ATTENTION INDIEDEVS Show off your art style

In our quest to revamp the armoured combat system to make it more authentic, I was thinking about adding stances for things like half-swording, but I fail to find many examples in tactical games and RPG.

Wow! We are hosting the official #TurnBasedThursday this week! 🎉 Turn-based #GameDev / #IndieDev - show your Power💪 and share your awesome projects in this thread! And to all #TurnBased lovers, help us spread the word with your ❤️'s and 🔁's, and your favorite creators in the replies!

It is #TurnBasedThursday, my dudes 🐸🌟And we’re your hosts this week! Indie devs: ⬇️ Share your turn-based games below ⬇️ Explore and support other amazing projects Gamers: Discover, like ❤️, share 🔄, and follow the ones you love!

Working until 3AM to implement a feature (level up+animated level up button) to discover that it cannot work until an old bug is fixed: The horizontal lines are randomly mangled when going from texture to screen (event at 1:1):

It's an honor to host this week's #TurnBasedThursday! Turn-based gamers, check out what the community has in store for you below, and don't forget to ❤️/ 🔁to show your support! 🥳 Turn-based devs, it is your turn to show off your games in the replies, using the hashtag! 👆

Knights, Sci-Fi, Cities and Sausage Thieves? In February's demo club we'll be testing: 🏘️Kingdom's Deck by @rogueduck.net 👾Silence of the Siren by @oxymorongames.bsky.social 🦜My Familiar by @chintzyink.bsky.social 🗡️Zodiac Legion by @galdred.bsky.social Join us👉https://discord.gg/9MtAPRFa

The Vale of Pnath is a valley in the underworld and location of a city of the same name. In the bone filled streets, ancient, broken buildings rise up, and provide access to basements and nether regions of that place where the dreaded Dholes burrow. #ScreenshotSaturday #Nightgaunts #DungeonCrawler

Honored to be hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday!⚔️ All #TurnBased creators, #IndieDev and #Gamedev folks, please show your games below!👇 And to all turnbased lovers, help us spread the love with your ❤️'s and 🔁's, and @ your favorite creators in the replies. Thank you!✨

The Elon Musk nazi salute question reminded me that at some point, we had let a neo-nazi symbol slip into ZodiacLegion: Someone on Twitter pointed out these runes were also a neo-nazi symbol now, as they were used in the castle of Wewelsburg, the SS, called the Black Sun.

Early Access release on Friday! I planned to release Cyclopean: The Great Abyss in 2024, but it still needs some time to bake. Early Access will help me polish out some of the rough edges. #EarlyAccess #CRPG #IndieGameDev Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/2958790/... Tell your friends!

ooh Regency Solitaire II got a mention at the start of this Polygon video all about solitaire! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY6D...

Nobody understands playing cards — not even the experts

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Germany's age rating is also an issue for demos: If the demo steam settings are not updated(even if it doesn't have a dedicated Steam store demo page), it will also be delisted from Germany. Thanks to @talecrafter.bsky.social for detailing the process here: steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d...

Total soutien à AtlanGames! Les petits studios ont vraiment besoin de support pour démarrer. C’est aussi l AddOn un super événement qui est remis en cause par cette décision !

Atlangames@atlangames.com · 2y ago

🔴 COMMUNIQUÉ Suppression totale de l’aide publique régionale de la Région Pays de la Loire pour Atlangames Depuis sa création en 2010, Atlangames, réseau dédié au développement de l’industrie du jeu vidéo dans le grand Ouest, s’est affirmé comme un acteur clé de l’écosystème local.

Ancient temple in Zodiac Legion, now with its own set of destructible walls. #screenshotSaturday

I just found out that on some player computers, the game would halt to a crawl when loading a level, briefly leaving fullscreen (as if alt tabbed). It should be fixed now: Stay tuned for more coding tips!

How magic items are created in Zodiac Legion. #ScreenshotSaturday

We're hosting this weeks #TurnBasedThursday! 🕹️ #indiedev: Reply with your game & don't forget the hashtag 🎮 #players: ❤️Like, 🗨️Comment & 🔄️Repost If you don't, we have a spot reserved for you in our haunted domain 👀!

Cat’s out of the bag, Emily will be one of the members of the first ever GDC Game Trailer Microtalks panel! Also, you can get see her behind-the-scenes work on the Evolve Originals channel RIGHT NOW 😃

BEHIND THE SCENES: Starship Troopers: Extermination Update Trailer

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Emily Kolm 📽️🎮@em-k-ultra.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am overwhelmed with appreciation to Derek Lieu for inviting me to be part of the first ever Game Trailer Microtalks at GDC next year! It was one of my goals I established early in my career (when I was 20 😭) to speak at GDC, I'm thrilled! See you there!! #GDC #gametrailers

⚠️ IMPORTANT #INDIEDEV INFO ⚠️ If you haven't completed the age rating content survey, your #Steam page is now HIDDEN in Germany due to very recent policy changes! This is important EVEN BEFORE RELEASE, cause your entire Steam page will be inaccessible. 🚨 Look at how this massacred my wishlist! 😭

As with all shiny toys, I went a bit overboard with tapestries in @ZodiacLegion. I'm pretty sure the layout of the room doesn't comply to fire safety recommendations. #screenshotSaturday

Indies, go here ASAP to add missing information to get your Steam games re-listed in Germany: partner.steamgames.com/healthcheck/...

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Layal💫ليال@lalaxy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hey Indie devs make sure you add age rating because with new regulation on the German Steam Store games are marked hidden or not available without age rating. #indieGames

Here is a great usecase of getting Claude AI to write code for you (in cursor): The designer sent me an aseprite file that would be impractical to turn into a tilesheet (as lines are not horizontal). The solution worked out of the box, but would add part of the other tiles :