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S O M A T O F O R M
@somatoformdev.bsky.social
Microblog for collaborative indie game dev broccoli 🥦
Currently working multiple jobs to create arcade platformer ✨ RADIANT ELUSION ✨

Game!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3021220/RADIANT_ELUSION/

Support!
https://buymeacoffee.com/somatoform
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My friends! ✨

With great demo updates comes great trailers! Here's a freshly baked one made by yours truly for version 1.3 of the Interactive Sample we have uploaded on our itch-page!

It has improved visuals, new UI/HUD and added gameplay scenarios! 🌈

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7S...
RADIANT ELUSION (光放逃避) - 1.3 Trailer
YouTube video by Somatoform
www.youtube.com
Ofc this isnt a silly Jack-o-lantern for Halloween! Its an obv artistic and materially based representation of the main collectable of RADIANT ELUSION aka Humanity made by urs truly! Try to understand the deeper meaning of them in the 1.3 demo over on itch! Currently workin ma ass off on the game 💀✨
November 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
As all press is good press: RADIANT ELUSION's 1.3 update was recently featured in the swedish edition of Gamereactor! Everyone who can manoeuvre the intricacies of the swedish language can enjoy this short news article! Congratulations! 🌞👏🙌✨

www.gamereactor.se/ny-trailer-h...
Ny trailer har släppts för svenskutvecklade Radiant Elusion
För precis ett år sedan skrev vi en förhandstitt om det kommande svenskutvecklade spelet Radiant Elusion. Nu, ett år senare, har spelets skick förbättrats väsentligt där...
www.gamereactor.se
August 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Yohoo! 🌞✨
RADIANT ELUSION will be featured during @gamedevist.bsky.social Debut Festival 2025! Very excited, very happy!

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✨ New games, new faces, new stories.

🚀 Introducing Debut Festival 2025 - a celebration of developers launching their very first games on Steam!

🔗 Are you a dev? Is your first game ready to be unveiled?
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🗓 Submission Deadline: Aug 1
📅 Festival Dates: Aug 7–11
August 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Update bcuz of sparse updates! This month I have ventured into the neighbouring wilderness of Norway, working as a libraryassistant and yoga-instructor to fund the development of RADIANT ELUSION and my living lol! 🙏
Reading some BERSERK on my free time and ofc doing as much as I can on the game! ✨
July 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This is great, totally stealin some phrases from this for marketing purposes lol 🤡

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video reality, from the official southpeak studio website (1997) web.archive.org/web/19971008...
June 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Dearest internet and lovely friends!

The newly released 1.3 Interactive Sample of RADIANT ELUSION is part in this game jam, full of art and games shedding light upon the complications and injustices of our contemporary culture! All through diverse and creative means!

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June 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
My friends! ✨

With great demo updates comes great trailers! Here's a freshly baked one made by yours truly for version 1.3 of the Interactive Sample we have uploaded on our itch-page!

It has improved visuals, new UI/HUD and added gameplay scenarios! 🌈

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7S...
RADIANT ELUSION (光放逃避) - 1.3 Trailer
YouTube video by Somatoform
www.youtube.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A slight (visual) update and glorious announcement to the most recent trailer for RADIANT ELUSION, please share and make merry! We are hard at work making the best dumb computer game experience there is!

youtu.be/AgNvpdyWzZo?...
RADIANT ELUSION (光放逃避) - 1.2 Trailer VHS-Edition & 1.3 Announcement!
YouTube video by Somatoform
youtu.be
May 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Wahoo every1! As a wee sprout I played both Klonoa 1 and 2 🏃🏃🏃
I got the Remasters for the Switch for a cheap price so I will try and spend some free time looking into them again, joy! I find them facinating as cute platformers that narratively explore circumnstances of life, dreams and emotions! 🌟✨
April 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Misato Monday, Misato embodiment!!

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April 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Hurray it's Transparency day! 1 of my fav YT-channels that nvr fails to inspire and analyse games and media via fresh ("cultural artifactal") lenses! Please have a look at their work and be astonished by their big brains! 🌈✨ @transparency.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Been tryin to hit the beats of project managin/game devin with my newly acquianted super talented game artist while working hard to pay rent via my 2 part-time jobs! So I apologize for the lack of interactivity with u fine ppl over here! 🙏🌟

Goin to show off some before/after shots 2morro! 🌞✨
March 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Todays tip is the epic sci-fi poem Aniara by the late Harry Martinson! All songs are not equally good imo, but the majority, overarching themes and plots are phenomenal, forebooding and very contemporary even though it was written in the 1950's. Its language is also mucho grande inspiring! 🔥✨
February 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I watched Shin Ultraman some weeks ago and I must concur with @devilsblush.bsky.social statement! The movie had exceptional sound design and I vibed immensely with Ultramans motives. A great film about the power of hope and love! ❤️💕

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February 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Even tho some of my followers probably are AI-porno-bots I am vry thankful for all 100 of you choosing to join me on this insane journey that is video game creation within the boiling virtuality of our contemporary cauldron! 🙏❤️

To celebrate I will randomly post trivia about myself under this post ✨
January 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Very pleased to present the newest and freshest trailer for the newest and freshest unreleased old school retro nostalgiafest that is RADIANT ELUSION! Arcade platforming in first-person perspective ala Jumping Flash! ✨✨✨

Currently in development by myself and my friends! 💕

youtu.be/kEGlUGyknBU?...
RADIANT ELUSION (光放逃避) - 1.2 Trailer
YouTube video by Somatoform
youtu.be
January 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Lovely ppl! 💞
The EEK Indie Games Showcase is ALIVE for anyone to dip into and get absolutely drenched in creative video game madness! RADIANT ELUSION's Combo-Collectathon trailer is number 67 ;));)
Big hurrah for @amossorri.sauna2000.com and @hauntedps1.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZVS...
January 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Feeling blessed to be a part of this showcase together wid a bunch of other crazycool games!🌈

Will post a pretty picture when its live! ✨

Virtual hugs to @amossorri.sauna2000.com for crushing technological and physical barriers to create this video game buffet! 🙏

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THE WAIT IS OVER.💿📀
THE PREMIERE LINK IS HERE! (below)
2 HOURS OF OBSCURE, SPOOKY and STRANGE
INDIE GAME GOODNESS! Don't miss this!
THIS IS GAMES, THIS IS LOVE, THIS IS LIFE!
BIGGEST EEK3 EVER. 💀✏️👁️🚗🚓👻🧒
4 PM PST Jan 10th
9 AM JST Jan 11th
#Indiegames #indiegamedev #lowpoly #PS1 #Demodisc #horrorgames
January 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is really not in regards to the collab between Helldivers 2 and Killzone 2. I simply just want to highlight Killzone 2's extreme dedication to gamefeel. It was prevalent in the PS2 original but way deeper in the sequel for the PS3. Totally neglecting the paperweight movements of the COD-games.
December 23, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Masahiro Sakurai's video games and his Youtube Channel 'Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games' are big inspirations for RADIANT ELUSION. Especially in regards to game feel and giving feedback to the players actions. He is also extremely disciplined and works so hard. I just hope he gets enough rest! 🙏
December 16, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam!

This extreme ultimatum was easier to counter than trying to draw the bloody cover of 'Loveless' in GIMP. So many great 90's albums to choose from to begin with 😅😵👹
December 11, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Today starts the sharing of media that influence me as a game dev! Startin off is the original "Jak and Daxter" for the PS2! Supercozy collectathon platformer. I have quite a lot of issues with it but it still is one of my top games lol. The sense of traversing a magical land is very pleasant! 🌈
December 10, 2024 at 1:21 PM
To celebrate the insane black hole that is Black Friday I share with you this magnificent electronic megatrack made by my sweet prince bro ✨

This song is an edit of the in-game version which is dynamic and used within a dungeon-esque shopping mall 💀

youtu.be/RYkL2P_KxGU
RADIANT ELUSION (光放逃避) - OST (Black Friday Soundtrack Edit)
YouTube video by Somatoform
youtu.be
November 29, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Currently working on a surfing-level reminiscent of CS Source maps together with floating Islands. It is creatively liberating since each island can function as its own "small level". But it is also vital and challenging to make them all interconnected in a satisfying and meaningful way 🙃✨🌈
November 18, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Humbo Kojumbo my life being a porter..Errr..I mean game dev! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
November 18, 2024 at 7:43 AM