Axolotl 🚀
@pengonauts.com
- strange creature - designer of StarVaders & DiceVaders - not an astronaut
@wanderbot.bsky.social getting to Act 7 in endless mode <3 cool Egg scaling build that pivots into an Astromancer trigger spam! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqpF...
I CONQUERED EARTH With An Alien Slime Girl! - Dicevaders
YouTube video by Wanderbots
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Dicevaders is being published by Playstack!!
Dicevaders - Steam NextFest Demo Out Now Trailer
YouTube video by Playstack
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Remember when I was super hyped about Balatro pre-launch? Well, I already put 90 hours into our next deckbuilder @dicevaders.bsky.social and that game is gonna be a PROBLEM! We have a demo at next fest: store.steampowered.com/app/3917700/...
Hello, my name is Joonas Turner and I am looking for new projects to work on. I have a long experience working in all kinds of games. I am primarily looking for work as a Sound Designer and Music Composer but I am useful as a Game Designer as well. #gamedev #indiedev #gameaudio
I'll be around the GDC yerba buena gardens throughout the week! If you spot me come say hi! (pictured: me)
feel this in my bones my games so far have been "one for them" games that are safe for the market so that our third game can finally be a riskier, more innovative "one for me" game
Adriaan@adriaan.games · 5mo agoi really believe indie game devs can only ‘innovate’ if there’s ample opportunity for their experiments to generate a sustainable income. we all know the ability to generate that income is increasingly at risk, yet stores & platforms never seem to understand & take their responsibility in this
StarVaders might be one of the best roguelikes of all time
My new Steam sci-fi game obsession has become a problem — soon it'll be yours, too
StarVaders might be one of the best roguelikes of all time
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At last, here's my capsule art for DiceVaders , a dice-based strategy game by Pengonauts! Or is it Dice◈Vaders...? It's a dice-based follow-up to the roguelite deckbuilder StarVaders, but this time you play as the alien invaders from the first game.
There's a game on Steam called Omelet You Cook, which looks fucking delightful They had a 100% Steam user rating, and then someone this morning posted this review And I know it's haha *so funny*, but also, this person can entirely go fuck themselves store.steampowered.com/app/3205380/...
Alterfauna: A Weirdlife Park, the game we're working on with @juleeeeeee.pointnthink.fr and @jrevel.itch.io now have a Steam page!✨ 🌱Bring back life by planting seeds 🐉Attract weird creatures 📸Take photos of each one of them 🧙♀️ Meet unique characters
go get this game! amazing dev, deserves way more attention
FromLefcourt@fromlefcourt.bsky.social · 10mo agoGunlocked 2 gets a Turbo Mode, leaderboards, 80 weapon enhancements, a new playable character, and yes - more. 20% off all week. Buy it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3492830/... Like 💚 and share 🔃. #pixelart #indiegaming #shmup #roguelite
Two games. One bundle. Infinite strategy!🙌 StarVaders + Wildfrost now bundled on Steam at 10% off. Explore the stars & brave the storms!✨❄️ 🔗: store.steampowered.com/bundle/59531/StarVaders_x_Wildfrost/
I strongly believe in the breadth and influence of independent art, to grant us oblique angles on the world and ourselves. But also every indie game is somewhere on this spectrum:
I am prototyping two new games - one is a game driven by passion and exploring game design space that I've wanted for years - the other is a game driven by HATE, completely soulless, i am compelled by some dark forces to make both gonna be great, stay tuned for more information
if you're evil and get enough players, you could put fake steam pages up to crowdsource player intuition to market test if a game concept would do well
Riad Djemili@handle.invalid · last yr.As game dev I often wonder if my intuition about the Steam market matches reality. So I did a small game to test it: Guess how many reviews a random game has. You can now play it too on steamle.com
still think a character creation themed roguelike would be very cool with style points and all
newobject@newobject.bsky.social · last yr.When we “played” TTRPGs as kids by making up characters and then … doing nothing with them … and then making more characters, we were all expressing a yearning for the as yet unearthed but still archetypal expression of theorycrafting roguelike builds
These innovative geniuses took it upon themselves to clone my game not once, but twice! What a wonderful use of the $6,000,000 in funding you got for *checks notes* "inventing the luck-puzzler genre." I guess I'm just not enough of a scumbag to add microtransactions to my game, I'll work on that!
SO... STAR★VADERS in on DISCOUNT for the SUMMER SALE with a BRAND NEW UPDATE 👀 Update 1.1 includes: 🏖️ Beach Pack (5 new cards, 3 artifacts, 1 surprise) 🛠️ Sandbox mode 🤖 10 new pilot-specific artifacts store.steampowered.com/app/2097570/...
Save 10% on StarVaders on Steam
Pilot a powerful mech to fight off the alien invasion in this ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Discover game-breaking combos, rewind time to alter your fate, and protect the fut...
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Spent the last two weeks coming up with the 1.2 and 1.3 updates for StarVaders they are gonna be bangers
this reasoning is basically what drove me to make game
Gaziter@gaziter.bsky.social · last yr.side rant: I dislike most % upgrades in games, I think players are inherently bad at evaluating % effects so I try to avoid them as much as possible. seeing a +5% increase on a stat never excites me, its such a small increase it might as well be 0%...
it would be great to have a switch dev kit so we can do the switch port ...
We've also bundled with both Frostpunk and Star★Vaders so you can snag an extra 10% off. They're both awesome games!
I finally put out an article about a game design thing! I have a bunch of these stored up but they often end up in editing purgatory. This one has escaped! Output Randomness: Game Designers should know how to use it. open.substack.com/pub/ezraszan...
Output Randomness: Game Designers should know how to use it.
And ways to make it feel "fair"
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🚨WE JUST HIT 1000 REVIEWS ON STEAM🚨 Not even two weeks since launch and we've managed to hit 98% Overwhelmingly Positive with 1000 reviews!🎉 Thank you all for your support💙
