Chris Hanney
@hanney.bsky.social
Building games, listening to records, eating cheese 🧀 Currently: Curiosmos 🪐Gameplainer 💾 Previously: Starship Home 🚀, Shredders 🏂 and Space Pirate Trainer 👾
Hey #ScreenshotSaturday ! Get ready to boost, blast and burn your way through Rogue Eclipse on August 7th! 🕹 Tight Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome 🚀 A Roguelike Campaign ☪ An Arabesque Futurism inspired Cosmos bit.ly/4bRLumD #gamedev #gaming
I finally started my Gameplainer BlueSky account. I’ll be posting updates about the ever growing tool there from now on. Big updates this month, TikTok is now supported, some new Steam review graphs and plenty of Steam Forum tools. Follow along, or sign up to Gameplainer if you’ve got a game 🤗
Gameplainer@gameplainer.bsky.social · 3w agoSome brand new reports have been added to the /reviews section of Gameplainer, diving into average playtime per country as well as trying to find the pain points of why players bounce of games quickly, and why some hardcore players leave a negative review after getting into the weeds..
Epic. Spaceflight. Action. Roguelike. This is Rogue Eclipse, launching NEXT MONTH ON AUGUST 7th! 🕹 Arcade Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome 🚀 A Story that unfolds over roguelike campaign Wishlist Here! bit.ly/4bRLumD #gaming #indiegames #gamedev
Not only best weird sci-fi narrative, perfectly voiced and incredibly drawn, but also THE best use of controller with point-n-click I’ve ever seen. The Drifter is a must play.
Dave 💾 Powerhoof@dave.powerhoof.com · last mo.Big Important News Alert! The Drifter is out *right now* on Switch and Switch 2! 🗡️ www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Steam Next Fest was back and more impossible than ever, with 30% more new demos available than the June '25 edition. Here's a breakdown of the demos added over the years, with a breakdown of when they were added to Steam in relation to each next fest (3,2, 1 week before hand, or on launch day)
Seeing a talk by @hanney.bsky.social right now, about Steam reviewers. Using data to debunk many common misconceptions. For example, asking folks on Twitter or Bluesky to please review your game, doesn’t work. Instead, focus on the folks who already review many games!
We can get 2K boost from launchgood If we get ~800usd in the next 2 hours Please help us achieve that Launchgood.com/1948
“Dreams on a Pillow” is in development - Help Us Tell The Full Story | LaunchGood | LaunchGood
Development of the stealth adventure game about the Nakba is underway. New game trailer headlines a final crowdfunding push for remaining budget until release.
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Yesterday Don Hertzfeldt uploaded a HD version of his 2001 short film “Rejected” Bookmark and rewatch foreverrrr m.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_m...
REJECTED by DON HERTZFELDT
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Happy National Solitaire Day! To celebrate we have just updated Forbidden Solitaire with a New Game+ difficulty mode, which is balanced for players who own all gems+jokers and features harder puzzle and combat levels. Enjoy! store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...
Forbidden Solitaire on Steam
Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.
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I’m doing a free little talk on preparing for Gamescom in an hour with some Belgian legends. It’s on teams but I swear it’ll be good. Come say hello! events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4fb7f3...
I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo
Dreams on a Pillow - Official Gameplay First Look
YouTube video by Rasheed Abueideh
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Every Monday I start writing a blog post about the top 5 reviewed new releases, and every Thursday night I'm still retooling the new feature on Gameplainer to help explain wtf happened. This weeks rabbit hole included analysing nearly 7000 posts on the Mixtape forums for toxicity 🧵
Forbidden Solitaire is a *classic* Easily the highlight of the last few weeks of games, and if it wasn't for my 20-years-delayed play through of Shadow of the Colossus, last few months. The moment @writnelson.bsky.social chimed in a voiced character shouldn't have shocked me the way it did 👏
Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie@greyalien.bsky.social · 3mo agoLAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS
Steam Review Review timeeeee! Every Thursday I go through the top 5 reviewed new releases of the past week with Gameplainer.com's review and forum tools to try and a) make sure the thing works b) look for ways to make it better for users of the site c) ✨make snazzy new graphs 📈✨ Thread time🧵
The weekly Steam report is a couple of days late this week.. I ended up doing a full rewrite of the Gameplainer forum monitor halfway through. It now runs way faster, and so my poor lil server can have a slightly calmer weekend! 😅 This week was all about the demos!
ICYMI - my game Treeplanter is OUT NOW! 1 copy sold = 1 tree planted IRL🌲 No timers, challenges or pressure. Just building beautiful woodlands that change with the seasons and time of day you choose 💚
Steam UX gripe: Every time I start a game that requires a controller this modal window pops up - which I appreciate as it's a reminder that the game *needs* a controller; ~ 𝒽𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 ~ you can't close the prompt with a controller, it needs a *mouse* 🫠 🎮
as part of building Gameplainer I downloaded all of the steam reviews. This one is officially the "most played after leaving a negative review" They replied to their own review 11 years ago. in the past two weeks they haven't played the game for nine whole hours. What even is a steam review
🥳Modulus is OUT NOW🥳 Build, optimise, and bring your creativity to life on the factory floor! Watch the launch trailer and start building today. Buy now: store.steampowered.com/app/2779120/...
Presenting 'Qitta', the fastest dang ship in the entire galaxy 😎🚀💥 As we know cat ears make the ship go zoom zoom pew pew faster. (Wishlist Rogue Eclipse here plz: bit.ly/4bRLumD ) #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gaming
Gameplainer weekly review time ding ding - big ol' breakdown of the reviews that came in for the 800 or so games released last week. Reviews went down from 75k last week to just *ten thousand* this week.. carnage of a Spring sale! Thread timeeeee 🧵
I would describe our game's gameplay as: the parts in Portal 2 in between test chambers and the parts in Half Life 2 and Mirror's Edge where no one is shooting at you. Oh and last year it shifted from a linear game to a metroidvania.
Gameplainer review data time! Crimson Desert pulled nearly 60% of all Steam reviews tracked this week. its developer replied to zero forum threads... then came the ai art scandal 😬 🧵let's dive into a lil thread!
Weekly steam report is up for march 8-15 this week's story isn't the scores, it's the forums. a thread 🧵
1/ so for the past few months I’ve been doing a weekly report on the most reviewed Steam games. this week’s data genuinely surprised me.
Hello Bluesky. I'm working on an animated short and just launched a Kickstarter for it. Please take a look and share with anyone you think will like it! 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alt...
I went through 50 demos during last weeks Steam Next Fest, and ranked them to see which had the best Wishlist button. Forbidden Solitaire by @greyalien.bsky.social was the winner with 14/15 points 🎉
