Philipp Seifried
@philippseifried.bsky.social
Game Developer, Co-Founder
Microbird - https://www.dungeonsofhinterberg.com/
Microbird - https://www.dungeonsofhinterberg.com/
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Hi, I'm Philipp! I co-founded @microbirdgames.bsky.social with @reginatown.bsky.social, wrote our rendering tech for Dungeons of Hinterberg, designed a few of our dungeons, wrote most of the dialogue and made our cash flow spreadsheet. Hoping to talk a bit more about the dev side of things here. :)
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I can't wait to have this lovely box on my shelf! 🤩
Physical Edition is definitely an item on my personal bucket list ✅️
Physical Edition is definitely an item on my personal bucket list ✅️
ANNOUNCING: Dungeons of Hinterberg 🏔️✨
Monsters to fight, dungeons to explore, and friends to make - welcome to the magical Alpine town of Hinterberg!
Coming to PS5 physical!🚶♀️➡️
Monsters to fight, dungeons to explore, and friends to make - welcome to the magical Alpine town of Hinterberg!
Coming to PS5 physical!🚶♀️➡️
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I can't wait to have this lovely box on my shelf! 🤩
Physical Edition is definitely an item on my personal bucket list ✅️
Physical Edition is definitely an item on my personal bucket list ✅️
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ICYMI, I just announced my "Citizen Sleeper meets Dishonored" RPG I've been working on for the last 2 years!
⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city
💣Spark revolution!
🚩Take down the Empire...
👿...or put a new dictator in power?
⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city
💣Spark revolution!
🚩Take down the Empire...
👿...or put a new dictator in power?
September 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ICYMI, I just announced my "Citizen Sleeper meets Dishonored" RPG I've been working on for the last 2 years!
⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city
💣Spark revolution!
🚩Take down the Empire...
👿...or put a new dictator in power?
⚙️Survive a gritty steampunk city
💣Spark revolution!
🚩Take down the Empire...
👿...or put a new dictator in power?
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Fun statistic: "Dungeons of Hinterberg" has an extraordinarily high % of people playing it on Steam Deck rather than PC (judging by % of reviewers that mostly played on Deck).
newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/steam-deck...
newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/steam-deck...
September 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Fun statistic: "Dungeons of Hinterberg" has an extraordinarily high % of people playing it on Steam Deck rather than PC (judging by % of reviewers that mostly played on Deck).
newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/steam-deck...
newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/steam-deck...
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Thinking about a magical vacation in the Austrian Alps? "Dungeons of Hinterberg" is currently 60% off on Steam (that's under 10 USD!)
store.steampowered.com/app/1983260/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1983260/...
September 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Thinking about a magical vacation in the Austrian Alps? "Dungeons of Hinterberg" is currently 60% off on Steam (that's under 10 USD!)
store.steampowered.com/app/1983260/...
store.steampowered.com/app/1983260/...
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There's still a bit of summer left (at least in central Europe 🙂).
Take a moment and catch yourselves some sunlight!
Take a moment and catch yourselves some sunlight!
September 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
There's still a bit of summer left (at least in central Europe 🙂).
Take a moment and catch yourselves some sunlight!
Take a moment and catch yourselves some sunlight!
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Kick back and enjoy some Game Pass offerings this holiday weekend.
3 Game Pass games we're playing Labor Day weekend (Aug. 30-Sept. 1)
Kick back and enjoy some Game Pass offerings this holiday weekend.
www.polygon.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Kick back and enjoy some Game Pass offerings this holiday weekend.
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Thrilled to announce our next original game, Black Jacket, in partnership with Skystone Games!
A blackjack-inspired roguelite deck builder. Gamble your way out of hell, supercharge your deck, & play impossible card combos. ♥️♠️ ♦️ ♣️
Wishlists are welcome! 🙏
A blackjack-inspired roguelite deck builder. Gamble your way out of hell, supercharge your deck, & play impossible card combos. ♥️♠️ ♦️ ♣️
Wishlists are welcome! 🙏
Black Jacket on Steam
Gamble your way out of hell in this blackjack-inspired rogue-lite deckbuilder. Play powerful card combos or cheat to outwit your opponents and earn your freedom. Win their Soul coins! Bribe the ferryman! And uncover the story of those who stand in your way.
store.steampowered.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thrilled to announce our next original game, Black Jacket, in partnership with Skystone Games!
A blackjack-inspired roguelite deck builder. Gamble your way out of hell, supercharge your deck, & play impossible card combos. ♥️♠️ ♦️ ♣️
Wishlists are welcome! 🙏
A blackjack-inspired roguelite deck builder. Gamble your way out of hell, supercharge your deck, & play impossible card combos. ♥️♠️ ♦️ ♣️
Wishlists are welcome! 🙏
How German can you get?
August 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
How German can you get?
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⚠️ This is not a drill ⚠️
✨ HERDLING IS COMING OUT ON AUGUST 21st! ✨
In 2 weeks you'll be able to experience all that fluffy fur and shiny water on PC, Xbox, PS and the Nintendo Switch from up close!
Can't wait for all of you to experience our beautiful game ✨✨
✨ HERDLING IS COMING OUT ON AUGUST 21st! ✨
In 2 weeks you'll be able to experience all that fluffy fur and shiny water on PC, Xbox, PS and the Nintendo Switch from up close!
Can't wait for all of you to experience our beautiful game ✨✨
✨BREAKING NEWS ✨HERDLING is coming Xbox Series X|S and Game Pass, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Epic Game Store and Steam on AUGUST 21 2025
Release Date Trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvho...
Release Date Trailer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvho...
Herdling – Release Date Trailer – Nintendo Switch
YouTube video by Nintendo of America
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
⚠️ This is not a drill ⚠️
✨ HERDLING IS COMING OUT ON AUGUST 21st! ✨
In 2 weeks you'll be able to experience all that fluffy fur and shiny water on PC, Xbox, PS and the Nintendo Switch from up close!
Can't wait for all of you to experience our beautiful game ✨✨
✨ HERDLING IS COMING OUT ON AUGUST 21st! ✨
In 2 weeks you'll be able to experience all that fluffy fur and shiny water on PC, Xbox, PS and the Nintendo Switch from up close!
Can't wait for all of you to experience our beautiful game ✨✨
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Alright, due to popular demand, let's start talking about the
🎶 Beasts with the fur (with the fur) 🎶
in ✨HERDLING ✨
Here's a 🧵 with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:
🎶 Beasts with the fur (with the fur) 🎶
in ✨HERDLING ✨
Here's a 🧵 with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:
August 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Alright, due to popular demand, let's start talking about the
🎶 Beasts with the fur (with the fur) 🎶
in ✨HERDLING ✨
Here's a 🧵 with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:
🎶 Beasts with the fur (with the fur) 🎶
in ✨HERDLING ✨
Here's a 🧵 with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:
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🥳 It's been exactly 1 year since we released "Dungeons of Hinterberg"! 🥳
Since then we added:
- New Game +
- A free DLC with 7 mini-dungeons
- Costumes & gear visuals
- Photo Mode filters, frames and poses
- Tons of quality of life updates
Time to replay the game?
Since then we added:
- New Game +
- A free DLC with 7 mini-dungeons
- Costumes & gear visuals
- Photo Mode filters, frames and poses
- Tons of quality of life updates
Time to replay the game?
July 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🥳 It's been exactly 1 year since we released "Dungeons of Hinterberg"! 🥳
Since then we added:
- New Game +
- A free DLC with 7 mini-dungeons
- Costumes & gear visuals
- Photo Mode filters, frames and poses
- Tons of quality of life updates
Time to replay the game?
Since then we added:
- New Game +
- A free DLC with 7 mini-dungeons
- Costumes & gear visuals
- Photo Mode filters, frames and poses
- Tons of quality of life updates
Time to replay the game?
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if you're tired of friendslop, that's not very hopecore of you, truly in your hate era, so not teeheepilled, should be smilemaxxing, have you ever heard of yay theory, don't be a genrecel, i love to play companionlikes, it's so sugoipunk
July 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
if you're tired of friendslop, that's not very hopecore of you, truly in your hate era, so not teeheepilled, should be smilemaxxing, have you ever heard of yay theory, don't be a genrecel, i love to play companionlikes, it's so sugoipunk
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It was a pleasure talking to Jack about Microbird and everything gamedev! 💛
In this new episode, I talk with Regina Reisinger
@reginatown.bsky.social, Art Director and Co-Founder of Microbird Games @microbirdgames.bsky.social, the studio behind Dungeons of Hinterberg.
Full Episode: youtu.be/1jiKMCd3reU
@reginatown.bsky.social, Art Director and Co-Founder of Microbird Games @microbirdgames.bsky.social, the studio behind Dungeons of Hinterberg.
Full Episode: youtu.be/1jiKMCd3reU
Regina - Art Director & Co-Founder Microbird Games - The developers of Dungeons of Hinterberg
YouTube video by Jack the Generalist
youtu.be
July 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It was a pleasure talking to Jack about Microbird and everything gamedev! 💛
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Roto Force!
Fight a shitload of bosses!
Don't get dizzy!
A game I made!
A short game!
A way too hard game!
On Sale 60%!
store.steampowered.com/app/1181610/...
Fight a shitload of bosses!
Don't get dizzy!
A game I made!
A short game!
A way too hard game!
On Sale 60%!
store.steampowered.com/app/1181610/...
June 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Roto Force!
Fight a shitload of bosses!
Don't get dizzy!
A game I made!
A short game!
A way too hard game!
On Sale 60%!
store.steampowered.com/app/1181610/...
Fight a shitload of bosses!
Don't get dizzy!
A game I made!
A short game!
A way too hard game!
On Sale 60%!
store.steampowered.com/app/1181610/...
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Hello, I forgot this was happening but it is happening
Sable is free on Epic Games Store. Backpack Hero & Figment are the next free titles buff.ly/3Y5zGHT
June 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hello, I forgot this was happening but it is happening
It gave us a peak Smashing Pumpkins track.
June 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
It gave us a peak Smashing Pumpkins track.
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relooted is being made by a team of developers from numerous african countries, but only its white south african creative director was able to demo it to summer game fest attendees. this was most certainly not always the plan
![“At least three people before me in the queue were denied without having their documents looked at,” they said. “In fact, as I left the consulate, someone else who had their visa approved with no issue, who had no travel history and did not provide concrete travel plans, asked me if I noticed what was happening inside. You can probably guess what the main difference between myself and this other applicant is.”
Myres believes he was only able to attend SGF on behalf of Nyamakop because of his unique history: While he was born in Australia, his parents moved to South Africa when he was just six months old. Due to their histories and his own, he possesses an Australian passport, a South African passport, and a British passport. This has repeatedly come in handy for Nyamakop, which – even prior to the past few years’ documented increase in refusal rates of visas from African countries – faced difficulties when it came to visiting Western countries.
"We had the same problem on our previous project where, if I didn't have a British passport, basically our company wouldn't exist,” Myres told Aftermath. “Because if you don't have enough lead time to go to important events, you just can't get a visa from an African country. And on [Relooted] specifically, it's kind of fucked up to be making a game about reclaiming African artifacts that are in Western countries, and Africans [on the team] can't even visit those artifacts. Hundreds of dollars in visa application fees, and then it might get declined. Thousands of dollars for accommodations and flights just to even visit your own cultural heritage, and that's a best-case scenario. But in this case, most of the people on the continent can't even get a visa to travel [to the United States]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreihle42aqaz7bqvfvn7m73hajdyp6cn4tfmzjyy2anhrderhix56ru@jpeg)
June 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
relooted is being made by a team of developers from numerous african countries, but only its white south african creative director was able to demo it to summer game fest attendees. this was most certainly not always the plan
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One element of the Dragon Age story that I want to emphasize: If the team had known in 2021 (after the single-player pivot) that they'd ship in Oct 2024, it'd be a much different game. Instead they were always under the impression they had to finish in 6-12 months, which led to all sorts of problems
NEW: What went wrong with Dragon Age: The Veilguard? Why was the writing so tonally inconsistent? Why did it feel so shallow? Why were there so few choices?
Really, after ten years of turbulence, it was a miracle that anything came out at all. This is the story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Really, after ten years of turbulence, it was a miracle that anything came out at all. This is the story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Inside the ‘Dragon Age’ Debacle That Gutted EA’s BioWare Studio
The latest game in BioWare’s fantasy role-playing series went through ten years of development turmoil
www.bloomberg.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
One element of the Dragon Age story that I want to emphasize: If the team had known in 2021 (after the single-player pivot) that they'd ship in Oct 2024, it'd be a much different game. Instead they were always under the impression they had to finish in 6-12 months, which led to all sorts of problems
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it's been a year since we announced our game fund @outersloth.com!!!
wrote a lil transparent reflection, including tidbits like:
✨ signing rate is 1.4%
✨ majority of our games are <$500k
✨ total games funded so far: 22!!
in my feels! chuffed! happy! emotional! 🥺
www.innersloth.com/1-year-of-ou...
wrote a lil transparent reflection, including tidbits like:
✨ signing rate is 1.4%
✨ majority of our games are <$500k
✨ total games funded so far: 22!!
in my feels! chuffed! happy! emotional! 🥺
www.innersloth.com/1-year-of-ou...
1 Year of Outersloth 🦥 | Innersloth - Creators of Among Us and The Henry Stickmin Collection!
Hi everyone!
www.innersloth.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
it's been a year since we announced our game fund @outersloth.com!!!
wrote a lil transparent reflection, including tidbits like:
✨ signing rate is 1.4%
✨ majority of our games are <$500k
✨ total games funded so far: 22!!
in my feels! chuffed! happy! emotional! 🥺
www.innersloth.com/1-year-of-ou...
wrote a lil transparent reflection, including tidbits like:
✨ signing rate is 1.4%
✨ majority of our games are <$500k
✨ total games funded so far: 22!!
in my feels! chuffed! happy! emotional! 🥺
www.innersloth.com/1-year-of-ou...
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Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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"Dungeons of Hinterberg" is currently 33% off on Playstation 4/5!
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
Travel to a modern day alpine village, explore 25 magical dungeons, slay mythical monsters, and have a schnitzel with locals and other adventurers!
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
Travel to a modern day alpine village, explore 25 magical dungeons, slay mythical monsters, and have a schnitzel with locals and other adventurers!
May 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"Dungeons of Hinterberg" is currently 33% off on Playstation 4/5!
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
Travel to a modern day alpine village, explore 25 magical dungeons, slay mythical monsters, and have a schnitzel with locals and other adventurers!
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
Travel to a modern day alpine village, explore 25 magical dungeons, slay mythical monsters, and have a schnitzel with locals and other adventurers!
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Our silly game about a spider called Silky is out now on Steam!
☠️ Climb anywhere
🕸️ Create insane sticky web structures
⛓️💥 Interact with (and break!) hundreds of objects
✅ Complete chaotic tasks
👒 Customise Silkys with hats, shoes + varying levels of fluffiness
store.steampowered.com/app/2073910/...
☠️ Climb anywhere
🕸️ Create insane sticky web structures
⛓️💥 Interact with (and break!) hundreds of objects
✅ Complete chaotic tasks
👒 Customise Silkys with hats, shoes + varying levels of fluffiness
store.steampowered.com/app/2073910/...
May 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Our silly game about a spider called Silky is out now on Steam!
☠️ Climb anywhere
🕸️ Create insane sticky web structures
⛓️💥 Interact with (and break!) hundreds of objects
✅ Complete chaotic tasks
👒 Customise Silkys with hats, shoes + varying levels of fluffiness
store.steampowered.com/app/2073910/...
☠️ Climb anywhere
🕸️ Create insane sticky web structures
⛓️💥 Interact with (and break!) hundreds of objects
✅ Complete chaotic tasks
👒 Customise Silkys with hats, shoes + varying levels of fluffiness
store.steampowered.com/app/2073910/...
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A Webbing Journey is coming out on 19th May on Steam! 🥳
After 4 years of development, we are finally reaching this milestone. Tbh it feels a bit unreal. 😅
But we can't wait to see you play the new levels and create amazing spider webs.
After 4 years of development, we are finally reaching this milestone. Tbh it feels a bit unreal. 😅
But we can't wait to see you play the new levels and create amazing spider webs.
May 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A Webbing Journey is coming out on 19th May on Steam! 🥳
After 4 years of development, we are finally reaching this milestone. Tbh it feels a bit unreal. 😅
But we can't wait to see you play the new levels and create amazing spider webs.
After 4 years of development, we are finally reaching this milestone. Tbh it feels a bit unreal. 😅
But we can't wait to see you play the new levels and create amazing spider webs.