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Andrew Gaubatz ✨ Making Steel Century Groove
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Indie game dev working on Steel Century Groove, a rhythm-RPG where you pilot mecha in dance battles: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1858950

Previously worked on Torchlight III, Star Wars: Uprising.

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Steel Century Groove spotted lurking in the background on the Steam front page.
A screenshot of the front page of Steam with Steel Century Groove's key art highlighted in the background on the Next Fest banner.
October 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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working on some new vfx for an enemy debuff that slows your cooldowns, but sometimes it glitches out 💀

#indiegames #gamedev
June 20, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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always getting distracted making minigames...

#indiegames #gamedev
June 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I originally wanted to do collectible creatures for Steel Century Groove, but I switched to mecha since they have a more consistent body type. Then I got super invested in the lore… so now you get a big JRPG about how it all ended up this way 💀

#indiegames #gamedev
May 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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cleaning up a bunch of corrupted assets because somehow the unreal PIE prefixes got serialized into the values for TSoftObjectPtr<UWorld> in some blueprints?? yuck
Unreal Editor window editing a blueprint asset, a value for a level drop down is None, but there is an asset there and it has the UEDPIE prefix that unreal adds for play in editor at runtime.
May 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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steam curators are so funny to me
May 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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getting some new runtime IK foot animations working

#indiegames #gamedev
May 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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got jump scared looking through the old bugs and screenshots folder
Characters in steel century groove having their finger bones turned into spider legs
February 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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my youtube recs have become so cursed and i have no one to blame but myself
Genshin impact spiral abyss clear video labeled Kaveh Hot Plunge (Top) and Alhaitham Spread (Bottom)
January 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Slapping this beta tag on features like I'm google in 2005
January 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Trying layering in some flipbook vfx (from asset pack) to emphasize the electrical aspect of this mech. #indiedev #gamedev
December 14, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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And it's secretly all just 2D under the hood.
December 9, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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It definitely is fun to look at and fly around in the editor.
December 9, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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I've been trying to build all the UI for Steel Century Groove in 3D because I thought it would be fun.

#indiedev #gamedev #ui
December 9, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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Hi! Can I be added? I'm working on a game where you pilot mecha in dance battles.
December 6, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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I'd never done voxel-style art before, but I'm pretty happy with how this hologram park turned out.

#indiedev #gamedev #voxelart
December 4, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Something I’ve found frustrating as a programmer working on learning art is how tedious it is to change things after the fact, so I’ve been building a lot of tools to make it easier, like these volumes that let you apply color presets to a whole area. #indiedev #gamedev
November 26, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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Sometimes placing too many props at once gets boring so I built this spline tool #indiedev #gamedev
November 22, 2024 at 9:00 PM