Thomas Faust
@someindie.bsky.social
Translating videogames (ENG-GER) since 2012. Also: dogs, guitars, shenanigans. He/Him.
late night post: I wrote a fairly long article quite awhile ago (auratriolo.com/blog/2024/09...) on why you might submit to the Independent Games Festival. Today I present something a bit more specific: Advice on navigating the submissions interface and common pitfalls auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...
A quick guide to the Submissions Interface for The Independent Games Festival (IGF) – AURAMBLES
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People! Go and fund Ithaca: A Narrative Road-Trip RPG About Climate Resistance on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...
Ithaca: A Narrative Road-Trip RPG About Climate Resistance
The world is burning. There’s a hostage in your trunk. How far will you go?
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The deities of the flea market smiled upon me yesterday. All of this for 8€? What a haul.
Here's the official revel trailer for Ithaca, our road-trip RPG about climate resistance. The world is burning. There’s a hostage in your trunk. How far will you go? If you'd like to play this one day, please consider backing the project on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...
Happy Alruna launch day, everyone. Did some translating for this. It was fun!
Niklas Hallin@hallinniklas.bsky.social · 3mo agoYes! We have a release date for Alruna: End of History! The best game I've ever made! June 4th! 🎉 Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/3440260/... Art by: @sacherali.bsky.social
Encountered the unholy trinity in my current translation project: - one character who talks in limericks - one character who talks in haiku - one character who talks like the Beas- tie- BOYS!
a man with his mouth open and the words beastie boys written on his face
ALT: a man with his mouth open and the words beastie boys written on his face
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I made a spiritual followup to the Eastshade postmortem video (which went a bit viral) in celebration of our big demo day! youtu.be/0D9HnCZdq2k
My Wife and I Spent All Our Money Making an Indie Game
YouTube video by Eastshade Studios
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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/...
@rainersigl.bsky.social Hey! 4 Tage Wien im Sommer - was muss ich da unbedingt sehen?
It’s finally time! Our submissions for gamescom 2026 are officially open! ✨ We have a bunch of free and discounted showcasing options available for you 👀 Check out our website for all relevant information: home.indiearenabooth.de/submission ⌛ Submissions are open until April 13
To anybody who happens to play games in French or Spanish (or other heavily gendered languages): How does an NPC typically address gender of player avatar? Like in an RPG where you pick gender, do NPCs use gendered adjectives, or do they sort of weasel around it? And is it strange for players?
MIDNIGHT IN BABYLON, the first episode of AZATHOTH BLUES, is now out on all major podcast platforms, including Spotify. A dark journey into paranoia, conspiracy, murder & ritual. How do you fight back in a world that seems increasingly insane?
I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:
Resisting the Hivemind: Pluribus, Generative AI, and Empire - Reactor
While its creator tell us that Pluribus is not about advent of generative AI, it's difficult not to spot the many places where the fledgling tech and extraterrestrial hivemind overlap.
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we’ve got somewhere to stay after the fucking place flooded again, just a room tho, I’ve just managed to pack the bare minimum and I’m skint beyond words. I am so sorry, this has all gone to shit. Can anyone help with emergency survival funds? www.paypal.com/paypalme/ret... ko-fi.com/robfearon
Pay Emma Fearon using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/retroremakes and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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Do I know anyone here who speaks French? I'm looking for an old fashioned, colloquial word or phrase that translates to "troublemakers". Something you'd call a group of schoolgirls that are very clever about pulling pranks. Along the lines of rascals, scamps, misfits, etc. Thank you!
Die or Die, by @aonorte.com is on the front page of @kotaku.com! Let's hope it will help put this fun game in the spotlight. You can currently play the demo on Steam in English, Spanish, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and French. Lots of other great games on that list too!
John Walker - Industry Analcyst@botherer.bsky.social · 8mo agoHooray! The first of the Thanksgaming 2025 posts is up on Kotaku, with an epic TWENTY unknown indies to check out! I'm going to put up another 20 tomorrow. Spread it far and wide! kotaku.com/indie-games-...
Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse. Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/... or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays before November 21th 9PM CET!
Virtue's Heaven has finally reached the 10 review threshold and to both celebrate and potentially capitalize on the (marginal and temporary) boost in visibility, I've put the game on sale for this week! store.steampowered.com/app/1929860/...
Save 15% on Virtue's Heaven on Steam
The world ends tomorrow, your friends are imprisoned and those responsible for both have stolen the future. The time for deliberation is over. It is time to be reckless, irresponsible and beautiful.
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Here's the reason why you see so many people beg for reviews on Steam. Virtue's Heaven got past 10 reviews this weekend and suddenly the amount of page views tripled, mostly because the game started to show up in people's discovery queues.
Bonescape is an exploration and trading game I've been working on: The discovery of a giant, verdant boneyard spurs on a flood of explorers, hunters, homesteaders, outlaws and merchants - and you. 🦴 zarkonnen.com/bonescape
GFM update! Recovery has gone almost as perfectly as it could, but unfortunately, I had to re-open the fundraising because between a partial insurance denial and some frankly ridiculous hospital costs, I'm now looking at over $9000 #transsupport #supporttransmen #transhealthcare gofund.me/44e711c83
Donate to Rhys' Top Surgery Fund, organized by Rhys Pittman
Hi, I'm Rhys (they/he)! I'm 36-year-old non-binary trans man trying to raise money for gender affi… Rhys Pittman needs your support for Rhys' Top Surgery Fund
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I have played this almost one year ago and I still keep thinking about it. It's very good.
Noppy@thomasnoppers.com · 11mo agoHey solo gamers. I am working on a 1-2 player dungeon crawler. There is a new version coming up but if you are interested take a look at Halls of Teknor. #solosept www.hallsofteknor.com
I know it's the new hip cost cutting thing but let me tell you as someone who worked on a game that got utterly reviewbombed by Chinese players due to the poor quality of the translation ...don't fucking rely on genAI translations. Thank you.
