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Philomena
@philomenaschwab.bsky.social
Co-Founder of Stray Fawn Studio & Publishing
Making Wandering Village + Dungeon Clawler
Council Member at Wings Fund
#30under30 #SwissGames #indiedev
Contact: hi@philo.me
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Hey fellow devs!
A friend of mine wants to get into game marketing.
She is looking for a dev/team to support with FREE marketing for 2 months to learn and improve her skills. 🐧💡

Are you interested or know anyone?
✍️Leave a comment
🔁 RTs appreciated
#gamedev #indiedev
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Hey fellow devs!
A friend of mine wants to get into game marketing.
She is looking for a dev/team to support with FREE marketing for 2 months to learn and improve her skills. 🐧💡

Are you interested or know anyone?
✍️Leave a comment
🔁 RTs appreciated
#gamedev #indiedev
January 21, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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🧶 Play / Promote / Publish - three of the key challenges of indie developers these days. Usually the "Play" or game design aspects works out well but when we talk about promotion and publishing it looks like quite different and can be even more challenging. That is why we ... 🧶 1/x

#indiegamedev
January 12, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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👑 GAME ANNOUNCEMENT ⚔️

Crown Siege is a short incremental tower defense game centered around growing and strengthening armies, to defend your kingdom and stop endless waves of enemies.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
January 24, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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We just released the steam demo of Blessed be the chamber, our tense russian roulette roguelite.

After more than 8’000 players on itch, we thought that we would try to push this game a little further and there it is ! The steam demo is finally out :)

Any help sharing the news helps a lot!!!
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Hey fellow devs!
A friend of mine wants to get into game marketing.
She is looking for a dev/team to support with FREE marketing for 2 months to learn and improve her skills. 🐧💡

Are you interested or know anyone?
✍️Leave a comment
🔁 RTs appreciated
#gamedev #indiedev
January 21, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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proud to report that Rift Riff earned enough to break-even its development costs! it's currently at ±€130k net from Steam, App Store, and Google Play.

Rift Riff team members share in the game's profit, so the money that continues to trickle in is also theirs <3

#gamedev #godotengine
January 15, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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Flotsam 1.0 is officially OUT NOW!

🔎 Featuring a Main Narrative Questline
❗ Specialist Quests & Characters
🔧 New Upgrade System
🗺️ New Regions and much more!

🔁 Repost and comment until Dec 6 for a
chance to win a Steam key!
December 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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good news I have done the thing! Please head over to reddit if you'd like to partake in my oversharing of gamedev insights!

www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Heading over to Vienna tomorrow to talk about
"Surviving as an Indie Game Studio for 9 Years"
Looking forward to meet lots Austrian devs 🎉

subotron.com/event/strayf...
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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May I have your attention once more beloved #gamedev ppl:

Our workshop with the Erich Pommer Institut and amazing indie speakers has some last free slots - register here: bit.ly/epi_2025gg

1/2 🧶
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Our game Dungeon Clawler is nominated for a Gamescom award ✨
Now we only need to get passed Genshin Impact 🤣
August 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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NEW INDIGO 2025 TALK AVAILABLE ONLINE!

Philomena Schwab (@philomenaschwab.bsky.social) – Co-founder of Stray Fawn Studio ( @strayfawnstudio.bsky.social )

Talk: Surviving as an indie game studio for 9 years
Video: youtu.be/G2uJabADe48

Recorded at #indigo2025 !

#techtalk #gamedev #indiedev
Philomena Schwab - Surviving as an indie game studio for 9 years - INDIGO 2025
YouTube video by INDIGO Showcase
youtu.be
July 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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BIG THREAD of the very best Discord servers for indie games Marketing, PR, CM and support!

Whether you're a solo dev, small team, social & community manager, agency or publisher here are some really excellent discords you should join.

👇 Reply below if I missed one & share if this was helpful
January 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Dungeon Clawler (which I've noticed since writing isn't buried thanks to YouTube!) by @philomenaschwab.bsky.social et al is a claw machine-based deckbuilder! And it's bursting with original ideas.

buried-treasure.org/2024/12/dung...

Please support Buried Treasure: www.patreon.com/c/buriedtrea...
December 5, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Occasional Reminder: If you're a person working in, writing about, or otherwise involved in making video games in Switzerland, please let me know so I can add you to the SwissGames starter pack 😊

bsky.app/starter-pack...
October 17, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Launching our new game in 3 days, aaaaa
November 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM