Happy #turnbasedthursday everyone! Exemplar '79 is about as retro as they get, with a text based extraction themed dungeon crawler, but I'm making up for it with more interesting interactions with my monsters! #indiedev #solodev
The Lost Sectors
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🎲 The Lost Sectors – Solo Indie Dev 🕹️ Crafting Exemplar: A retro infused dungeon crawler ✨ Inspired by classics like Ultima and Bard’s Tale, with modern twists. 📜 Join the journey for dev updates, lore teases, and dungeon delving goodness.
Hear me out: PUBG with wizards. I don’t have time. Someone make this.
Starting to show off Exemplar '79. "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid." Very Retro Turn Based Dungeon Crawler. Manage noise and danger as the dungeon actively works against you. #TurnBasedThursday #IndieDev #GameDev #TurnBased
small choices in the dungeon should offer options… and sometimes unknown consequences. #Exemplar #indiedev #dungeoncrawler
You know you’re on to something when one of your testers is late for a work meeting because they want just one more room. #indiedev #crpg #dungeoncrawler
Is it wrong to want a Mechwarrior game that plays like Tie Fighter’s mission structure?
The Lost Sectors are back! Talk with Jason Cook (Tower and Dragon) youtu.be/Vq0wp0Y7wqc?...
Let's Talk with Jason Cook (Tower and Dragon)
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Do you ever make a game out of spite? I just had someone tell me I don’t know what I’m doing and decided to strip out all the juice and prove it’s fun at its core. So far so good!
If you love playing games, don't let anyone ever tell you you can't. If you love making games, don't let anyone ever tell you you can't. If you're "interested" in making games, don't let anyone ever tell you you can't or aren't allowed. Anyone. Any age. Any experience level 😤
Quick note: please be mindful when leaving negative reviews on Steam as they can heavily impact a game's score. If you have questions or need support, reviews aren't the best place. Opening a discussion thread helps everyone. Reviews are best kept for sharing your experience!
Today’s struggle: for 40 years I’ve been working on getting my skills and resources to a point where I’m ready to make my dream game. Now that I am I realized that game isn’t what I want anymore.
Devastated to hear that @burgerbecky.bsky.social has lost her battle with cancer. I was lucky enough to be her roommate at KFest 2016 and was amazed by her knowledge and her vivaciousness! She will be deeply missed by all those her life touched. She is in Valhalla tonight!
I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3
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"This framing recasts leaving a broken platform as performative “virtue signaling” rather than strategic action. But it’s a false dichotomy. The choice isn’t between purity and pragmatism—it’s about where you can actually have impact." www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/s... By @mmasnick.bsky.social
Stop Begging. Start Building
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Why can I not set my phone on “white list” only instead of blocking accounts? It would help with spam, wrong numbers and stalking.
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Realms of Antiquity: The Shattered Crown
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I’m just saying if someone made a game for Burn Notice using a Deus Ex like game design it would do very well.
Commodore are back after 47 trademarks bought, maybe now we can have a new 64 like a mini version or a full size one with sd cards and hdmi or some kind of sd device for the old machines and some new games and hopefully this will kick start the demo scene and magazines and shows
Knowing when to pivot. When to back track. When to give up. When to postpone. It's hard. I've just had to do all those things in the last 2 months as the day job has drained my energy from dream job work. That said I'm VERY excited for the game I accidently discovered while making something else.
I'm about to do the unthinkable...re-enter tutorial hell for fun. Work from the day job has burnt me out on things that 'need' to happen, but I'm also only happiest creating. So... I'm going to take a break, prototype and just do tutorials for a month or 2. See you all on the other side! #indiedev
Ever had your day job flip upside down and realized your passion project must wait? You don’t want to abandon what you’ve built, but sunk-cost fallacy can trap you. How do you decide to pause and start something new? #indiedev #gamedev #productivity #sunkcosts
If you like Minecraft, this feels like the next step. I don’t think it’s getting enough attention, so I’m just giving it a little nod for anyone who might be interested. www.vintagestory.at
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Going live now! Hope to see you all there.
4/11 at 11:15am Central, I’ll be diving into this fan-made port of Ultima III to see how it holds up and talk about how it’s influencing Tenebris. Excited to return to U3! Come hang out for some retro RPG goodness! 🧙♂️ #Ultima #VIC20 #RetroGaming #GameDev #Tenebris www.youtube.com/live/oHjOJ9T...
4/11 at 11:15am Central, I’ll be diving into this fan-made port of Ultima III to see how it holds up and talk about how it’s influencing Tenebris. Excited to return to U3! Come hang out for some retro RPG goodness! 🧙♂️ #Ultima #VIC20 #RetroGaming #GameDev #Tenebris www.youtube.com/live/oHjOJ9T...
Theory and Discussion Live Stream - Ultima III (Vic 20 Version!)
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This is hitting hard right now.
When your day job is stressing you out but then you get stressed out because you can't work on your passion project and that stresses you out.. I'm ready for some well deserved vacation next week to reset my mind. #Art #indiedev #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames #oc