DrHertz
@drhertz.bsky.social
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DrHertz
@drhertz.bsky.social
· Jun 1
My game 'Death in a Party' is now available for a free download for Windows on itch!
This version of the game is the Early Access to test ACT I ahead of it becoming the DEMO version later this year.
#DeathinaParty #indiegame #horror #pointandclick #textbased #pixelart #handdrawn #freedownload
This version of the game is the Early Access to test ACT I ahead of it becoming the DEMO version later this year.
#DeathinaParty #indiegame #horror #pointandclick #textbased #pixelart #handdrawn #freedownload
Death in a Party by The Function Creep
Point-and-click psychological horror
thefunctioncreep.itch.io
uh-oh, now you can play the thing i made
it's not body-horror it's blobby-horror
Somewhere far off in the distance you can almost hear it.
The call.
"Blobby blobby blobby!!"
#gamedev #pixelart #indiegame #horror #gamemaker #pointandclick
The call.
"Blobby blobby blobby!!"
#gamedev #pixelart #indiegame #horror #gamemaker #pointandclick
September 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
it's not body-horror it's blobby-horror
Forced myself to get on the number 7 bus despite my neurodivergent aversion to the number 7.
"It'll be fine, the world isn't going to end" Okay.
One stop later and the bus has a collision with someone running out in front of it.
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
"It'll be fine, the world isn't going to end" Okay.
One stop later and the bus has a collision with someone running out in front of it.
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
September 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Forced myself to get on the number 7 bus despite my neurodivergent aversion to the number 7.
"It'll be fine, the world isn't going to end" Okay.
One stop later and the bus has a collision with someone running out in front of it.
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
"It'll be fine, the world isn't going to end" Okay.
One stop later and the bus has a collision with someone running out in front of it.
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
wow they really will let anyone put a game on steam huh...
It happened!
My game has a real Steam store page now.
ACT I releases next month on the 31st... For free!
You can then click on all of the things. Spooky.
#indiegame #steam #horror #pixelart #gamedev
My game has a real Steam store page now.
ACT I releases next month on the 31st... For free!
You can then click on all of the things. Spooky.
#indiegame #steam #horror #pixelart #gamedev
Death in a Party - ACT I on Steam
Point and click horror game about nostalgia. You begin in a theme park forgotten to the world for over a decade. What you uncover will take you further down, below the surface, to man-made horrors you...
store.steampowered.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
wow they really will let anyone put a game on steam huh...
Oh my god, I can't believe Steam wants a TRAILER for my game's store page.
How dare they want a bare minimum basic promotional feature like that!!!1
Can't people just like, scroll through the screenshot gallery really fast to conjure the illusion of a trailer?
How dare they want a bare minimum basic promotional feature like that!!!1
Can't people just like, scroll through the screenshot gallery really fast to conjure the illusion of a trailer?
September 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Oh my god, I can't believe Steam wants a TRAILER for my game's store page.
How dare they want a bare minimum basic promotional feature like that!!!1
Can't people just like, scroll through the screenshot gallery really fast to conjure the illusion of a trailer?
How dare they want a bare minimum basic promotional feature like that!!!1
Can't people just like, scroll through the screenshot gallery really fast to conjure the illusion of a trailer?
writing up this 'how do you access the mature content' statement for my game's steam page is making me sound like the twisted weirdo i really am.
September 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
writing up this 'how do you access the mature content' statement for my game's steam page is making me sound like the twisted weirdo i really am.
hoohoohoo, i like a bit of friction.
friction makes heat.
friction makes heat.
August 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
hoohoohoo, i like a bit of friction.
friction makes heat.
friction makes heat.
when youtube tells me the total watch time of my videos, i think:
"nice, i've wasted that much time of the collective human experience."
"nice, i've wasted that much time of the collective human experience."
August 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
when youtube tells me the total watch time of my videos, i think:
"nice, i've wasted that much time of the collective human experience."
"nice, i've wasted that much time of the collective human experience."
When I test my own game I pretend it's someone else's game.
That way it's easier to identify things that are unacceptably bad.
That way it's easier to identify things that are unacceptably bad.
August 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
When I test my own game I pretend it's someone else's game.
That way it's easier to identify things that are unacceptably bad.
That way it's easier to identify things that are unacceptably bad.
If anyone wants to buy my flat off my landlord, so I can pay your mortgage, so that I don't have to be me made homeless again, that'd be pretty great. Thanks.
July 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If anyone wants to buy my flat off my landlord, so I can pay your mortgage, so that I don't have to be me made homeless again, that'd be pretty great. Thanks.
I will be beside myself if I buy and install this and it DOESN'T shoot out literal MAGNET LIGHTNING while in operation.
July 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I will be beside myself if I buy and install this and it DOESN'T shoot out literal MAGNET LIGHTNING while in operation.
You know, if it wasn't for the drought, crop failures and failing infrastructure thing, this weather would be quite nice.
July 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You know, if it wasn't for the drought, crop failures and failing infrastructure thing, this weather would be quite nice.
The music production peoples were like
"Just trust your ears".
What we didn't know is my ears are LIARS and cannot be trusted with tasks that don't require tinnitus.
Things got easier after going back to using the numbers and the graphs.
"Just trust your ears".
What we didn't know is my ears are LIARS and cannot be trusted with tasks that don't require tinnitus.
Things got easier after going back to using the numbers and the graphs.
July 11, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The music production peoples were like
"Just trust your ears".
What we didn't know is my ears are LIARS and cannot be trusted with tasks that don't require tinnitus.
Things got easier after going back to using the numbers and the graphs.
"Just trust your ears".
What we didn't know is my ears are LIARS and cannot be trusted with tasks that don't require tinnitus.
Things got easier after going back to using the numbers and the graphs.
You dislike Pirate Software for the SKG fiasco.
I dislike PS for taking $20k to not finish a shitty UNDERTALE knock off game and then treating his backers, fans and players like crap.
We are not the same.
(But I welcome you all the same, because fuck that guy.)
I dislike PS for taking $20k to not finish a shitty UNDERTALE knock off game and then treating his backers, fans and players like crap.
We are not the same.
(But I welcome you all the same, because fuck that guy.)
July 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
You dislike Pirate Software for the SKG fiasco.
I dislike PS for taking $20k to not finish a shitty UNDERTALE knock off game and then treating his backers, fans and players like crap.
We are not the same.
(But I welcome you all the same, because fuck that guy.)
I dislike PS for taking $20k to not finish a shitty UNDERTALE knock off game and then treating his backers, fans and players like crap.
We are not the same.
(But I welcome you all the same, because fuck that guy.)
When my players play my game 'wrong', I encourage them to keep at it.
Sometimes I even turn it into an actual gameplay feature.
Because that shit is on me for not doing my job properly.
Sometimes I even turn it into an actual gameplay feature.
Because that shit is on me for not doing my job properly.
July 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
When my players play my game 'wrong', I encourage them to keep at it.
Sometimes I even turn it into an actual gameplay feature.
Because that shit is on me for not doing my job properly.
Sometimes I even turn it into an actual gameplay feature.
Because that shit is on me for not doing my job properly.
I spend a lot of time worrying and fretting about my competency as a game dev.
Meanwhile, PirateSoftware is out there getting butt hurt over people playing his game 'wrong'...
Has he tried like, making better games?
Meanwhile, PirateSoftware is out there getting butt hurt over people playing his game 'wrong'...
Has he tried like, making better games?
July 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I spend a lot of time worrying and fretting about my competency as a game dev.
Meanwhile, PirateSoftware is out there getting butt hurt over people playing his game 'wrong'...
Has he tried like, making better games?
Meanwhile, PirateSoftware is out there getting butt hurt over people playing his game 'wrong'...
Has he tried like, making better games?
I just love being born at the wrong time and into the wrong circumstances, so worrying about being made homeless again is on my mind literally every day.
I work hard on my game so maybe I can find some security. Times like this it feels all for nothing...
I work hard on my game so maybe I can find some security. Times like this it feels all for nothing...
June 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I just love being born at the wrong time and into the wrong circumstances, so worrying about being made homeless again is on my mind literally every day.
I work hard on my game so maybe I can find some security. Times like this it feels all for nothing...
I work hard on my game so maybe I can find some security. Times like this it feels all for nothing...
Trying not to feel down about my landlord considering selling my place.
This is the second time this has happened to me now in the past 5 years... Am I going to have to move AGAIN??
I guess me getting my game demo finished by the end of the year is going to be difficult on top of my health...
This is the second time this has happened to me now in the past 5 years... Am I going to have to move AGAIN??
I guess me getting my game demo finished by the end of the year is going to be difficult on top of my health...
June 23, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Trying not to feel down about my landlord considering selling my place.
This is the second time this has happened to me now in the past 5 years... Am I going to have to move AGAIN??
I guess me getting my game demo finished by the end of the year is going to be difficult on top of my health...
This is the second time this has happened to me now in the past 5 years... Am I going to have to move AGAIN??
I guess me getting my game demo finished by the end of the year is going to be difficult on top of my health...
Like it's actually so annoying.
IRL I'm fine generally talking and stuff.
As soon as I need to communicate via text, uh-oh. Overthinking and anxiety starts and I'm crippled by it and can't come up with a reply.
IRL I'm fine generally talking and stuff.
As soon as I need to communicate via text, uh-oh. Overthinking and anxiety starts and I'm crippled by it and can't come up with a reply.
June 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Like it's actually so annoying.
IRL I'm fine generally talking and stuff.
As soon as I need to communicate via text, uh-oh. Overthinking and anxiety starts and I'm crippled by it and can't come up with a reply.
IRL I'm fine generally talking and stuff.
As soon as I need to communicate via text, uh-oh. Overthinking and anxiety starts and I'm crippled by it and can't come up with a reply.
I'm so caffeinated right now so that I can focus the single molecule of dopamine in my brain to reply to comments.
Internet stage fright is a pain...
Internet stage fright is a pain...
June 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm so caffeinated right now so that I can focus the single molecule of dopamine in my brain to reply to comments.
Internet stage fright is a pain...
Internet stage fright is a pain...
uh-oh, now you can play the thing i made
My game 'Death in a Party' is now available for a free download for Windows on itch!
This version of the game is the Early Access to test ACT I ahead of it becoming the DEMO version later this year.
#DeathinaParty #indiegame #horror #pointandclick #textbased #pixelart #handdrawn #freedownload
This version of the game is the Early Access to test ACT I ahead of it becoming the DEMO version later this year.
#DeathinaParty #indiegame #horror #pointandclick #textbased #pixelart #handdrawn #freedownload
Death in a Party by The Function Creep
Point-and-click psychological horror
thefunctioncreep.itch.io
June 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
uh-oh, now you can play the thing i made
Bloody hell, these ADHD pre-assessment forms are hard work. I feel like being able to fill them all in correctly will detract from my case... Absolutely reminds me of making the word 'Dyslexic' hard to spell.
To my benefit though, they have had to send me two text message reminders to fill them in.
To my benefit though, they have had to send me two text message reminders to fill them in.
May 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Bloody hell, these ADHD pre-assessment forms are hard work. I feel like being able to fill them all in correctly will detract from my case... Absolutely reminds me of making the word 'Dyslexic' hard to spell.
To my benefit though, they have had to send me two text message reminders to fill them in.
To my benefit though, they have had to send me two text message reminders to fill them in.
Love looking through my old code and seeing this comment line
May 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Love looking through my old code and seeing this comment line
Reposted by DrHertz
Once when I was playing Skyrim, I'd had enough of Jarl Balgruuf's son giving me cheek all the time.
I put horse meat on his bed to send a message.
Apparently it confused his AI because he could no longer use the bed to sleep.
Every night he'd walk to his bed and stand next to it until morning.
I put horse meat on his bed to send a message.
Apparently it confused his AI because he could no longer use the bed to sleep.
Every night he'd walk to his bed and stand next to it until morning.
May 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Once when I was playing Skyrim, I'd had enough of Jarl Balgruuf's son giving me cheek all the time.
I put horse meat on his bed to send a message.
Apparently it confused his AI because he could no longer use the bed to sleep.
Every night he'd walk to his bed and stand next to it until morning.
I put horse meat on his bed to send a message.
Apparently it confused his AI because he could no longer use the bed to sleep.
Every night he'd walk to his bed and stand next to it until morning.