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Matt Hackett
@richtaur.bsky.social
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Friendly neighborhood game dev (he/him)

📙 Wrote How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself: https://www.amazon.com/How-Make-Video-Game-Yourself/dp/1736576208/
🐷 Working on Pixel Washer: https://playacclaim.com/pixel-washer/
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yo dawg I heard you like games so I put a game in your game so you can game while you game

#screenshotsaturday
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Please enjoy these new Pixel Washer cuties.

#pixelart #WishlistWednesday #WIPWednesday
November 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Is it #PitchYaGame or #PigYaGame?

Pixel Washer offers:

🐷 A cute piggy with goggles
🎨 Lovely #pixelart
😱 Mesmerizing gameplay to help forget the horrors
🍑 Single-pixel buttholes

If that sounds alright to you add it to your Steam washlist:

store.steampowered.com/app/2572060/...
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Please enjoy some exports of freshly squeezed Pixel Washer levels 🐷🫧

#WishlistWednesday #WIPWednesday
Pixel Washer WIP - Memory Museum Pixel Washer - Food Truck Fleet Pixel Washer - Train Station Pixel Washer - Big Memory
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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It's time for your annual reminder to make the weird thing you want to make!

Be weird, have fun 🦈🗡️ #indiegamedev
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🍌🔥
Michael Bluth ignoring Gob Bluth's fireball trick (Arrested Development).
October 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The only kings we need are the fictional ones in indie games.

Stay safe out there friends #NoKings
Yes, Your Grace Asgore Dreemurr, King of the Underground (Undertale) Kingdom: Classic
October 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Happy 2nd anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet 🥂

LMK if any info is out of date! Good luck with your game 🎮

#indiegamedev
STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas: STEAM CAPSULE (Your Game) The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most Clear Readable Game name Genre Hook(s) Hire on artist! THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM Get 7,000+ wishlists before launch Get 10+ reviews ASAP (positive or negative, just need 10) The only punishing review status is OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE (the rest are neutral for traffic) WISHLISTS About 15% of wishlists convert in the first week. ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch. Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch. SALES ESTIMATES FROM REVIEWS One review represents about 20-55 soles. It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold. TRAILER (Viewers skip through trailers) Start strong Omit intro logos Direct to gameplay 60 seconds or less End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it Made in October 2023 From the author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself valadria.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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[David Lynch looking awesome in sunglasses] i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects
October 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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brb I'm gonna go have these game dev youtubers duke it out
A YouTube playlist showing two videos: 1. GAMEPLAY LOOPS - Go from Ideas to Gameplay using Gameplay Loops 2. make games using CHAINS! - Game Loops Are Out, Chains Are In
October 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Driving home after a VERY busy week 🚐🐷🫧

#PlayAcclaim #ScreenshotSaturday
September 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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thank youuuuuu! I hope to maximize the cuteness as much as possible
September 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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ok friends this is a big deal for me I hope you'll help spread the news:

🐷 PIXEL WASHER is being published by ACCLAIM! 🎮

Ahhhhhh I am very excited. I'll post much more about this soon. Stay tuned!

#acclaim #PlayAcclaim
Play Acclaim / Pixel Washer
September 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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[strong dragon] me doing game design [strong dragon] me doing programming [derpy dragon] me doing marketing
September 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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WHY MAKE GAMES? (Check all that apply.) For FUN For MONEY For REVENGE For SPITE Because NOBODY HAS MADE THIS SPECIFIC GAME I WANT TO PLAY SO I HAVE TO DO IT Matt Hackett April 2025 valadria.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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finish your game
[crying man] NOOOOOOOO [chad] ALL I SAID WAS FINISH YOUR GAME
August 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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[bugs bunny looking quite dapper in a suit with a red flower-shaped lapel] i wish all INDIE GAME DEVS a very FINISH YOUR GAME
August 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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happy #MarketingMonday indie devs
[anakin] My game releases next week. [padme] Congrats! How have you been marketing it? [anakin] ... [padme] You did some marketing, right?
August 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The problem was the hit boxes. Had to "shrinkwrap" the rectangles to the size of the (dynamic) text. #indiegamedev
The Pixel Washer MOUSE menu, showing that the options have smaller rectangle hit boxes than they should.
August 12, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Distracted by a side project idea again?
[Bilbo Baggins] Well, no. And yes.
August 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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nobody ever tells you how distracting making games can be 😭 you'll be working on something but you find a weird bug in another part of the game so you feel compelled to investigate then suddenly it's tomorrow 💀
August 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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NOW where are you at on the game dev map?
GAME DEVELOPMENT MAP rough sketch v3 Set sail: OCEAN OF IDEAS <- Tides of inaction Dream smashin' rocks Prototype Pond Desert of Dead Projects Clearing of Clarity "Real Project" On-Ramp SLOG SWAMP Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs Bugs SCOPE CREEP CREEK Fjords of finishing Farmhouse of finishing Fairgrounds of finishing Factory of finishing Forest of finishing Fountain of finishing CONTENT MOUNTAIN Game Dev Event Horizon SHIP IT BAY CONGRATULATIONS! Where will you go next? Land of Neverending Updates (GOTO SLOG SWAMP) or "Dead Game" Island From Matt Hackett, author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself May 2023 valadria.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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sorry about this
Tell me the truth…lm..l'm ready to hear it. You can't just constantly start new prototypes. Sometimes you have to ship games.
August 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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August 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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here we go again 😭
Get new game idea Make a prototype Get to the part where it needs lots of content (skipped) Finish the game valadria.com @richtaur
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM