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Michel Wacker
@michelwacker.bsky.social
Founder & CEO of Gentle Troll Entertainment 💚🧌 building a home for diversity 🏳️‍🌈 equality ✨& sustainability 🌍 Making Tavern Talk 🧝
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Hey #PitchYaGame,
ready for a trip across Europe?🗺️
#RascalsEscape is a co-op adventure game to satisfy your wanderlust!

🐿️🐻 Play Squirrel & Bear
🏃‍♀️Jump, stomp, zoom through 10 colorful cities
🇪🇺 Meet over 60 European animal friends

👉 NOW on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Android & iOS!
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June 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Cozy #PitchYaGame unite!

The Regreening is a cozy nature-restoration game about healing🌾

🌱grow living ecosystems
🦉become friends with ancient spirits
🔥 share stories by the bonfire
💧 engineer water & land to make nature thrive
🌿 watch the world bloom again

Follow us so you don't miss the demo!
June 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🚀 #PitchYaGame

Cloudscrapers is a minimalist strategy game about building the highest tower.

Manage your resources 🧱
Upgrade your building tools ⚒️
Uncover mysteries hidden in the clouds ☁️

✨ Join for exclusive playtests and surprise goodies:
cloudscrapersgame.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🚀 #PitchYaGame

Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker brings you back to the world of Asteria! Be ready for all new mechanics. 🔥

🍹 Mix new magical drinks
📜 Forge new quests
⚔️ Meet new Adventurers & old friends!

Wishlist & Follow now:
store.steampowered.com/app/3500880/...
June 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We just revealed our next game 👀
Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker

Our new game is finally here, ready to be wishlisted & followed:

store.steampowered.com/app/3500880/...

Thanks @ameliatyler.bsky.social for lending your incredible voice in our first announcement trailer!
June 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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May 29th, 2025 - 5 days left
May 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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We are so thankful for the opportunity at #derDCP! 💜 Just being nominated in two categories is something we'll cherish forever. Congratulations to all the winning games and studios. 🥰
May 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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He’s quack!! I mean, back!!

Duck Detective returns in a brand new no-murder mystery. Can he catch the ghost haunting this campsite and escape the shadows of his past?!

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping is now on PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox 🦆🔎
May 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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We have something big coming your way. 👀

May 29th, 2025 - 6 days left
May 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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NEW OUTERSLOTH GAME REVEAL 🔥

Start over on a farm and become the immortal herald of a dead god. Make friends, fight through horrors, and pay your debts.

Keep your life from falling apart in this nightmarish life sim RPG by @coldbloodinc.studio.

Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2318330/...
April 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Our four-part, two-hour-long series on Dwarf Fortress is now all on YouTube.

Massive thanks to @bay12games.com, @kitfoxgames.com and the DF community for opening their doors to us over the past three years of filming. We hope you all enjoyed it.

Series Playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwLS...
April 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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My friend and I are making a chill tower building game!

You build a quirky tower, manage resources, complete quests and uncover mysteries hidden in the clouds ☁️🐏

It's called Cloudscrapers, and the Steam page just went live:
store.steampowered.com/app/3562200/
April 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Stomp and the Sword of Miracles is a heartfelt metroidvania with a focus on story and characters - and it's coming very soon to Kickstarter!

We're a tiny team and we're gonna need the support to get this game finished, so shares would be very appreciated 💛

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fro...
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Pinch me! 😳
We are beyond proud to announce that Tavern Talk is one of the finalists of the WINGS Award at the Independent Games Festival this year! 🤩

We are honored to stand together with the other 4 amazing games! 💜

Thanks @wingsfund.me for making this possible! ✨
March 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Our name comes from a fabled magic trick, because gamedev often feels like an impossible feat of conjuration. But every magic show has an end, and after 14 years, Studio Fizbin will be winding down operations this spring after releasing Reignbreaker.

Statement: www.studio-fizbin.com/fizbins-last...
March 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Now is your chance - the Andu Plushie campaign just launched! 💯

https://buff.ly/4aLtwCI

@makeship.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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It's happening! The time has finally come - The Andu Plushi Makeship Campaign is dropping February 26th at 6 P.M. CET!

Subscribe now and get yourself the cuddliest draconic familiar ever: https://buff.ly/4aLtwCI

@makeship.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Happy new year, everyone! I wrote a manifesto for 2025! In 2025, I'm doing to review as many ZUNGEONS as I can get my hands on. Let's lower the bar on making dungeons, but keep in gorgeous. Here's how to make a zungeon. playfulvoid.game.blog/2025/01/01/t... #osr
The Zungeon Manifesto: Demystifying Dungeon Creation
I have a really large earring collection; I have perhaps as many earrings as I have TTRPGs, and I mainly buy them from local craft markets, not jewellers. They’re all made from resin or clay,…
playfulvoid.game.blog
December 31, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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2025 is here and we have some big projects coming at you. 👀

Celebrate with your found family, friends and loved ones. 💜 We are here, celebrating with you. 🥰
January 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
And there it is: our little fleeting “Overwhelmingly Positive” moment on Steam. 🥹

Don‘t blink!

#gamedev #indiedev #bucketlist
December 19, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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I've started a blog! My first post contains data and thoughts about the Duck Detective sequel announcement:
allthebees.de/sequel-annou...
Sequel Announcement Learnings
It's been only 5 days since we announced a and I want to share some data and thoughts Our announcement strategy mirrored exactly to last year's plan with...
allthebees.de
December 15, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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WORLD PREMIERE: When spookiness strikes a luxury campsite, the one and only Duck Detective is summoned to quack the case! Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping is a new standalone game in the acclaimed Duck Detective series! store.steampowered.com/app/2714620 #wholesomesnack
December 10, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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📢 EEEP!!! MYTHWRECKED is OUT NOW

After *3 years* my next indie game (following Röki) is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch...

🏝️ Explore a secret island
⚡️ Meet the gods of legend
🔎 Uncover the truth, behind the myth
December 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Happy to share that this Monday we crossed an amazing 1.000 (purchase based) reviews - not counting the additional 200+ free keys based ones from our Kickstarter backers. 🚀 What I loved about this most was that we jumped back on 90% All Time with that 1.000th review. Can’t make that up! Happiness! 💖
December 4, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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We have a quest for you! 📜

Vote for Tavern Talk in the Steam Award Nomination as the best "Sit Back and Relax" game 💜

store.steampowered.com/news/app/207...

And please, don't go on this quest alone. Share it with your friends and maybe we can celebrate a glorious win together. 🍻
November 27, 2024 at 6:29 PM