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Game developer (Subclasses: Gameplay programmer & Narrative designer)

Play "Eidolon: Fate of Fools" for free! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3961630/

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"Eidolon: Fate of Fools" launched today: free to play on Steam! It is a classic arena shooter with a tarot card twist. Each Major Arcana card has an Upright and Inverted ability, and resource management is key if you wish to become the master of your fate.

Link in bio! 🔁?
#gamedev #fps #gaming
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November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Eidolon: Fate of Fools" launched today: free to play on Steam! It is a classic arena shooter with a tarot card twist. Each Major Arcana card has an Upright and Inverted ability, and resource management is key if you wish to become the master of your fate.

Link in bio! 🔁?
#gamedev #fps #gaming
September 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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THIS ANIMATION IS SO INSANE
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"Eidolon: Fate of Fools" - a new arena shooter where you use Major Arcana tarot cards as weapons - will be FREE on Steam September 19th.

Become the master of your fate and achieve divinity through domination!

store.steampowered.com/app/3961630/
Eidolon: Fate of Fools on Steam
An arena shooter with a card game twist in which combatants compete using Major Arcana tarot cards. Celestials manifest in a metaphysical realm for a combat ritual that results in divinity... or death...
store.steampowered.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Our first Steam game 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧' is OUT NOW!

🟦 Click and Drag to cast your Spell Box
🐲 Capture invasive Draggins
🪄 Learn 15+ Spells
📜 Over 40+ Challenges

Take on the endless waves of Draggins and help Margot the Mouse Curser save up for magic college!

🔽 Link Below 🔽
#indiegames #gamedev #draggin
August 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I think that as an indie game dev without a large publisher, your target audience is not gamers in general, it is sickos.

It's hardcore sickos that will be diving the depths of your genre and finding your game, and it is sickos who will be spreading it.

Please the passionate, not the masses.
August 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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It's been creeping up for years, but with Collective Shout and KOSA (again), I've been finding myself thinking of Boards of Canada's "One Very Important Thought" a lot lately.

Make some calls this week.

Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you.
Thank you.
July 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Does anyone who's been playing the new Donkey Kong game know if there's a remix of "Life in the Mines"?

#donkeykong #videogamemusic #vgm
July 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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mobOS, my fake OS exploration game is now available to wishlist on steam!!!!

#gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker

store.steampowered.com/app/3731270/...
mobOS on Steam
Explore an open ended internet and operating system set in a 2000s alternate reality that changes over real life time depending on how you interact with it. Discover secrets through the web, download ...
store.steampowered.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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me: created this tool to help me place characters at specific animation keyframes to help me set up cutscenes in the unity editor

also me: wasting way too much time making my boy here dance as I move the slider around

#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
May 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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🧵of my level / game design videos, talks etc:

Every game designer should understand Orthogonal Design:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW5s...

Dishonored 2 LD critiques Dishonored 1 level:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQD...

Why Speed Level Design videos are so misleading:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcCF...
May 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I propose that a group of cyclists be called a circumference.

🚵‍♂️🚵🚵‍♀️🚵🚵‍♂️🚵‍♀️
April 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The Elder Scrolls already told its story. Try something new!

(And give $$ to developers, not conglomerates)
April 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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The 20th anniversary of the release of the game that started it all, Psychonauts is coming April the 19th! We got all kinds of fun things planned for that week. I am very excited to celebrate with all of you. @doublefine.com @timoflegend.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Apparently artificial mimicry of Miyazaki's work is trending...

If you're "Ghiblifying" anything, you've become part of the most poser thing to ever happen in the history of being a poser

Like art? Pay artists.
March 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Nice start to GDC - got a little pink on my face from napping in Yerba Buena. My home planet doesn't get this much sunlight
March 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Catch me at GDC this week! Or... shall I catch you? 🤔

My team is eager to share the tarot-inspired arena shooter we've been developing! Eidolon: Fate of Fools is an arena shooter with a card game twist where players use mystical abilities inspired by Major Arcana tarot cards!

#GDC2025 #gamedev 🔁❓
March 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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summoning circle time

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good weather
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this year
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March 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Game writers, you'll be glad to know that Yarn Spinner rejects using GenAI.

"What troubles me most is how AI threatens to devalue human creativity by suggesting that the creative process itself—the vision, the intention, the evolution—doesn’t matter."

hey.paris/posts/genai/
The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity
“Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development conferences, online, or during meetings, there’s an assumption that ever...
hey.paris
March 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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‼️LOOKING FOR COMMISSIONS/WORK‼️

Hi! I'm a digital and traditional artist with an interest in surrealism, horror & sci-fi styles. I have experience in character designs, tattoo designs, album and book covers. Let's work together!

#commission #art #lookingforwork #horror #gamedesign #gamedev #scifi
February 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Mind logging in to upvote this? It's regarding Discord's new gen ai feature. support.discord.com/hc/en-us/com...

There's a smaller one here as well: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/com...
Remove the AI remix feature.
Please remove the AI remix features that are attached to images immediately. At the very least, make them opt-in PER USER as well as adding moderation settings PER SERVER. Users did not consent to ...
support.discord.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Cats & Critters is available on Steam!

It is free and you can play with your friends using Remote Play Together :D

#gamedev #indiegames #indiedev
🎮 Do you miss Couch Co-Op? Do you LOVE silly cats?! 😻

"Cats & Critters: A Dungeon Claw-er" is Coming Soon! Wishlist in bio (and follow for random behind-the-scenes #gamedev lore)

😼 1-4 cat wizards on a whimsical adventure!
✨ 18 silly spells to cast!
🏝️ Explore 3 areas on your way to find Frank!

🔁💟
February 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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"You can tell its a bunch of miniatures and suits" yeah, I can also tell when a Hollywood movie is 99% CGI, and they don't look nearly as cool as this!

The choreography, weight, miniatures blowing up, real explosions/fire, suits showing real damage 👌

Where's my Gundam show in this style, bandai??
February 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN Avowed by @obsidian.net has "Dialogue history & lore" available for you when you talk to other characters! 😭

I screamed when I saw it! Cognitive accessibility is so often forgotten, but here it is, so simple and yet so impactful for gamers like me🖤
February 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM