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Scruffy Dog Games (Palace of a Thousand Curses)
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We're making a 2.5D swashbuckler set in a magical Al-Andalus:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3330540/Palace_of_a_Thousand_Curses/
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Scruffy Dog Games (Palace of a Thousand Curses) @scruffydoggames.bsky.social · Dec 21
Introducing Palace of a Thousand Curses! It's a bit like a mix of The Princess Bride and the OG Prince of Persia (1989). Who can resist such a royal pedigree!

store.steampowered.com/app/3330540/...

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
While you're waiting for PoaTC to come out, here's another 2.5D action-platformer where you can swing on ropes to tide you over in the meantime...
maschimensch.bsky.social Maschinen-Mensch 🤖 Mother Machine 🤖 out now! @maschimensch.bsky.social · Mar 26
This feels surreal. We’ve been building Mother Machine for so long — and now it’s out.
It’s scary, but also really damn cool.
Thanks for sticking with us. Can’t wait for you to play Mother Machine! 💜💜💜

#MotherMachine #GameRelease #IndieGame #NowOnSteam #Roguevania #Cozygame
March 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
After all the progress we've made lately, it was time for a new trailer.

youtu.be/qzeI5qJzeCA

#trailer #indiegame #gaming #metroidvania #gamedev
Palace of a Thousand Curses - Storyteller Trailer 🧾⚔️
YouTube video by Scruffy Dog Games
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March 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Doing an AMA over on Reddit for anyone interested in the Spec Ops days...
www.reddit.com/r/gaming/com...

#specopstheline #gamewriting #narrativedesign
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March 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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When building a magical cursed palace, it's important to hide a few secrets here and there.

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #metroidvania #steam #gamedev
March 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Palace of a Thousand Curses is definitely not a game ABOUT physics, but sometimes they do add some fun visual moments. :)

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #steam #gamedev #metroidvania
March 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
I kind of love our new melodramatic death animation. 😅

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
February 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Hey streamers - anyone interested in getting a sneak peek at the Palace of a Thousand Curses demo before it goes public? (And before you get buried in Next Fest content.) Let me know and I'll send you a key!

#indiegame #gamedev #twitch #stream
February 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Palace of a Thousand Curses is more about swordfighting than platforming, but you can't have swashbuckling without at least a BIT of swinging around on ropes. ;)

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #platformer #metroidvania
February 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Little known fact: My title on SpecOps: The Line was Senior Game Designer, but I also was one of the two main writers!

So here are screenshots of... some text. SO EXCITING!!

(More detail / context on the writing team in replies below...)

#indiegame #specopstheline #gamewriting #narrativedesign
February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
A whole, unedited fight. For those who want to see how the game ACTUALLY plays and not just fancy trailer cuts. :)

youtu.be/TujYnl3MqSw

#indiegame #wishlistwednesday #gamedev
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February 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
The Mouse King thinks his tricks are clever, but personally I find them a bit cheesy.

#indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedev
February 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Sometimes we put little details in the background that most people don't notice. I think when you've got a lot of these, it adds a lot of neat texture and fun details for people who are paying attention.

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indiegamedev #unity3d
January 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Hey! 👋

We're releasing #TheStoneOfmadness in just a few days, but you can already play a 2 hours long prologue (Which is basically the first campaign of the game) ENTIRELY FOR FREE!

Just hit the DEMO button on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/1309710/...

And if you like it, WISHLIST! 💗
January 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
In honor of the #tiktokban, here's a vertical video.

store.steampowered.com/app/3330540/...

#indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #gaming
January 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
When we make environments (and most of the outfits / weapons), we're careful to base them off of real world references. Sometimes there are small changes to make them more fantastical, but I think the touch of authenticity adds a lot.

#screenshotsaturday #indiegames #indiegamedev #gaming
January 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Did a little polish on the rope resizer today. That's kind of our version of the thing in Dark Souls where you kick a ladder down so you can open up a shortcut.

#followfriday #indiegames #indiegamedev
January 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
By law every indie dev is required to make a "how it started / how it's going" post. This one is ours!

#indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedev #gaming
January 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
The Palace of a Thousand... Deaths? Hm.

#indiegames #indiegamedev #metroidvania
January 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Here's a video explaining our Style system (and a tiny glimpse of the Style Challenge mode, where you play for Style high scores).

youtu.be/GOkbS4WSNhk

#indiegame #indiegames #indiedev
Palace of a Thousand Curses - The Style System (and how it tries to improve on DMC/Bayonetta)
YouTube video by Scruffy Dog Games
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January 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
The character art is placeholder, but I still love our first boss, the Mouse King. As you play through the level, mice keep luring you into traps and generally being a nuisance, so that by the time you get here you're properly ready to fight. :)

#indiegames #screenshotsaturday #indiedev
January 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
In Palace of a Thousand Curses, the protagonist in the real world enters into a magical storybook. To reflect these two different worlds, we have completely different art styles and rendering setups. Even the subtitles look different!

#followfriday #indiegame #neverendingstory
January 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
We were very lucky to find Muneer Adhami to do the voice of the Narrator in our game. He's both a fantastic voice actor and a native Arabic speaker, both of which were important to us.

And because he's the one telling the story, he does the NPC voices as well... ;)

#indiegames #game #voiceacting
January 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Couple book recommendations for fans of our game...

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social : Thoroughly researched swashbuckling pirate fun set in the Islamic world!

The Bird King by @gwillow.me : A fantasy adventure set in Al-Andalus, featuring nefarious inquisitors!
January 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Going old school and posting ACTUAL SCREENSHOTS for #screenshotsaturday! Sometimes the old ways are best?

Wishlist it! DO IT!
store.steampowered.com/app/3330540?...

#indiegames #platformer
not quite a #metroidvania but tagging it that way anyway
January 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
scruffydoggames.bsky.social
Did you know? There's an actual (not very) scruffy dog behind the Scruffy Dog logo!

She does not like fireworks. :(

(Marketing trick: hide screenshots behind pictures of cute dogs.)

#indiegames #silvester #wheatenterrier #cutedogs
The cutest dog in the world hides under a couch. A very cute fluffy dog gently places her paw on a human's hand. The secret of life hidden in a set of complex math questions. (Not really, it's just a dog happy to be in the snow.) Who cares what this picture is? It's just a screenshot of the game. Go back to the dog pictures. Okay, fine. Just in case someone actually wants functional alt text: A screenshot of a swashbuckling hero sliding under some rubble. Text on the image says: "GUTEN RUTSCH! (That's how we say "happy new year" here in Germany when the new year is still coming up. It means 'good slide', like uh sliding into the new year? Who knows?)"
December 31, 2024 at 3:24 PM