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Terence-Hari Fernandes
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🪄 Hyperromantic worldbuilder.
🖊️ "All great worlds were once great stories."

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Been packing a fair few orders of Into The Vortex these past weeks. Feels good.

#IndieGame
A photograph of 6 Into the Vortex boxes A photograph of 5 Into the Vortex boxes in shipping boxes with packing material
May 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"I've never known of a single alchemist to leave home without it." - Crisolie, an Alhami, on the subject of Liquid Luck.
A photograph of a side table with a yellow wide-base candle in the background, a large vase with yellow flowers on a white doilie, an orange card titled 'Liquid Luck' rests against it as the focal point of the image. An ornamental duck sits off to the edge of the frame.
May 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Into The Vortex has a teaser, too, if you'd like.

The world of Zinan is plagued by Chaos Vortexes and it's pretty bad tbh. You must work together to gather key ingredients and cast spells to fight back!

#gamedev #indiegame #teaser #spells #magic #indiedev #cardgame
May 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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In summary, if you like to work together with your friends, taking on seemingly insurmountable challenges all while immersed in beautiful card art and expansive lore, then Into The Vortex is the game for you!

Learn more: thunderandlightning.xyz/into-the-vor...
How To Play: youtu.be/4dXjgkfLMzY?...
A picture of a box of a game called Into The Vortex with the name written on the cover as well as a picture of a person wearing a black, billowing cloak set on a wooden table with books strewn in the back against the backdrop of a window looking out at an orange sunset sky.
May 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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3. It's Exceptionally Challenging

Ask anyone who's played and they'll tell you, the struggle to not draw that third Blood Moon is pure anxiety-fuel. In ITV you play against the game itself and that makes for some incredibly challenging spells of play! Watch out for that Vortex Lightning!
A card from Into The Vortex titled "The Blood Moon Rises". The text reads "If 3 Bloom Moons are active then you are too late. The Vortex has consumed all." The right of the card reads "art.THF" and 'copyright Thunder & Lightning' A Hex card from Into The Vortex titled "Toothache". The text reads "Throbbing and unbearable pain disrupts your focus and concentration." The cards healing cost is Incantation-9. The right of the card reads "art.THF" and 'copyright Thunder & Lightning' A card from Into The Vortex titled "Vortex Lightning Strikes!" The text reads "Send any 2 of your ingredients to the Lost Pile. Discard this card." The right of the card reads "art.THF" and 'copyright Thunder & Lightning'
May 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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2. Beautiful Card Are & Expansive Lore

This one's a bit self-explanatory, and dependent on taste, so here are some cards!
There are also stories coming out very soon that explore the world of Zinan and lends some context to the lives of Alhamis and the origin of the Chaos Vortex to look forward to.
An Alchemy-4 card from Into The Vortex titled "Marcania (HS)". The lore reads "Hel Sae graded sticks can be infused with great emotion. They are often given to people who have lost hope." The bottom of the card reads "art.THF" and copyright Thunder & Lightning. An Astronomy-1 card from Into The Vortex titled "New Moon". The lore reads "On this night we plant the seeds of tomorrow. Beware the shadows. - Mysteries of the Sky Coven" The bottom of the card reads "art.THF" and 'copyright Thunder & Lightning' An Botany-7 card from Into The Vortex titled "Lavender Stalk". The lore reads "Lavender whispers, soft and bright, chase away the shadows, hold you tight. - Coven Mother lullaby" The bottom of the card reads "art.THF" and 'copyright Thunder & Lightning' An Incantation-5 card from Into The Vortex titled "Shakk Ardente". The lore reads "The Shadow Weavers were not immune to Whispers in the dark, often falling to paranoia or distrust within their ranks." The bottom of the card reads "art.THF" and 'copyright Thunder & Lightning'
May 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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1. Co-Operation is a Core Mechanic

Games where you're excepted to scheme & deceive your friends are a tab bit sociopathic. ITV is the antithesis of all that. Here, your friends aren't opponents, they are the magic. The game incentivizes working together, selflessly. Win or lose, you do it together.
A picture of seven cards from Into The Vortex floating magically in the air.
May 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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3 Reason Why You Should Play Into The Vortex,

a co-operative card game where you play witches called Alhamis who must cast spells to save the world from a Chaos Vortex:

#gamedev #indiegame #cardgame #indiedev #magic #spells
A photo of a box of the game Into The Vortex with the name of the game written on the cover and a person wearing a black billowing cloak. There's a massive lightning strike in the background that makes the whole thing look quite cool.
May 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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After the intense struggle of getting this game off the ground this past year, we've just sold the first deck of Into The Vortex through the new website!

Lord, it feels like a weight off the shoulders. So grateful for the slow but definite progress!

#gamedev #indiedev #cardgame #intothevortex
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May 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This was on a previous website I'd done.

Always sign your crimes.
May 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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tee hee
A screenshot of a 404 error page with an information box that reads "all those who wander are not lost. But you are... [404]" And a button that reads "Go home".
May 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Finished the #IntoTheVortex How To Play video today, music, subs, the works.

Hopefully the website should now be done in a week, too.

Then I look forward to people reminding me of other things that I need to do.
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April 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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More in than out.

#LiverpoolFC
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April 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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From paper to digital paper, like the masters of old.

#digitalart #art #poster #ShadowsOfElsinore
A photograph of a paper/pencil drawing on the left of a mockup for a poster, featuring a partial skull with a shocked human eye in the eye socket visible, the words "Embrace" and "Madness" can be seen vertically on the right along with the words" Shadows of Elsinore" on the bottom. On the right of the image there is a photoshop screen with a half-done redrawing of the reference on the left in digital brush.
March 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Searching for my friend, Hamlet.
Various drawings of a half human face-half human skull. There's also a drawing of a person with the head of a skull holding a human head. It's meant to be an artistic depiction of Hamlet.
March 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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I've wanted to make a tarot app for a while now. I don't like existing ui/ux on the market. Shuffling is an important method of 'charging' the cards and I wanted the ux to help me feel that.

Hacked this together today. Hoping to flesh it out more when I have the time.

Also, I hate gltfs now.
March 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I want Fractal Noise to be my best friend.

#AfterEffects #vfx
A photo of a computer screen running After Effects, with a shot of out of focus rocks and a large lightning strike in the background visible among other UI.
March 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Fear the Blood Moon.

#IntoTheVortex #LunarEclipse
A card from a game called Into The Vortex called 'The Blood Moon Rises'. There is an illustration of a red moon in a desolate landscape on it. The card also reads, 'If 3 Blood Moons are active then you are too late. The Vortex has consumed all.'
March 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Look at all these beautiful Into The Vortex boxes that will be going to their new homes tomorrow.

Aren't they beautiful?

#gamedev
Seven boxes of the game Into The Vortex and it's expensive The Fate's Favour.
March 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Some Thumbnail sketches for the cover of an upcoming story of mine called 'The Mark of an Alhami'.

Mostly playing with framing here. Hoping to explore some more concepts although I'm not optimistic...

#artists #writingcommunity
A rough thumbnail sketch of a hooded person in a battle stance. A rough thumbnail sketch of a hooded person in a battle stance.
March 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Early Into The Vortex 'photoshoot'. I have never been more bereft of inspiration than at the final hour.

I genuinely wonder sometimes whether soloing anything creative is something that is even meant to be done...

#IntoTheVortex #gamedev
March 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Why is shrink wrapping so satisfying?

#gamedev
Shrinkwrapped boxes for Into The Vortex and The Fates Favour
February 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Vacation like you're never going to leave.
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February 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Leaving on a jet plane. Hoping to find more takers for Into The Vortex in far, distant lands.

#gamedev #cardgame
A photograph taken in the aisle of an airplane. A photograph of a card game called Into The Vortex with a neck pillow wrapped around it.
February 19, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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all work and no play makes me a dull boy. but then during play i worry about work and that makes me duller. i am the jack, the ouroboros.
February 17, 2025 at 6:55 AM