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Alex Elsäßer
@totally-not-alex.bsky.social
Totally human indie gamedev | Co-Founder of Totally Not Aliens | Working on All Quiet in the Trenches
-> https://totallynotaliens.com/
-> https://s.team/a/863500
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The Soldier Update is now live!

This update puts the soldiers in the spotlight with a new experience system, unique abilities, relationships between soldiers and troop morale in battle, as well as lots of new content!

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#indiegame #gamedev #strategygame #ww1
All Quiet in the Trenches - Soldier Update 0.10 – now live! - Steam News
The Soldier Update (Version 0.10) is now live! This update puts the soldiers themselves even more in the spotlight: their development, their relationships, and their role on the battlefield. In additi...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Der Indie Outpost war wieder richtig schön

Danke an @cipsoftgmbh.bsky.social und @gamesbavaria.bsky.social für das Sponsoring – ohne euch wäre das nicht möglich!

Beide Talks waren super danke auch an die beiden Speaker.

Hier ein paar Eindrücke vom Abend #IndieOutpost #GameDev #IndieDev
October 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Der nächste Würzburger Indie Outpost
21. Oktober 2025, 19:00 Uhr im Würzburg, Ottostraße 2

Mit Talks von Emanuel Fitz (Vom Geräusch zum Gefühl) und Alexander Elsäßer (Antikrieg im Game Design).
Kostenloser Eintritt, Essen und Getränke inklusive – kommt vorbei und vernetzt euch.
October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Indie Outpost Würzburg
21. Okt 2025, 19:00
Dom@in Würzburg

Talks
Emanuel Fitz - Vom Geräusch zum Gefühl – wie Audio Gamewelten lebendig macht
Alexander Elsäßer - Antikrieg im Game Design – Entwicklung und Herausforderungen bei All Quiet in the Trenches

#GameDev #IndieDev
September 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Next Indie Outpost Nuremberg: Sep 1st, 6 PM! Talks by:
- @distantmeadows.bsky.social about: Open Source in Game Dev
- Florian Fischer: Community Management @gamedevrgb.bsky.social
Thanks, to our fantastic sponsors, @cipsoftgmbh.bsky.social and @gamesbavaria.bsky.social, for supporting the event!
August 5, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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From today until the end of July, we are also taking part in the Games Forged in Germany event. This gives you the opportunity to purchase the game as part of the bundle at an all-time low price during that period.

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Welcome to "Games Forged in Germany"!
Greetings again, friends! Celebrate with us a hand-forged variety of German games forged with passion and love whilst discovering everything from AAA productions to indie gems and solo dev projects! F...
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July 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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We're happy to announce that, from today, All Quiet in the Trenches will be available as part of the Games That Remember Steam bundle, alongside the amazing game The Darkest Files by @paintbucket.de

store.steampowered.com/bundle/55560...
Save 11% on Games That Remember on Steam
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July 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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After a little over five months, we finally released our next major update today. The Gas Update is our biggest yet, adding lots of new content and opening up the playable time period to 1917.

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#indiegame #gamedev
All Quiet in the Trenches - Gas Update 0.9 – now live! - Steam News
The Gas Update 0.9 has now been released! We are extremely happy to present you with the biggest update to All Quiet in the Trenches to date. The core features of this update are: The game has been ex...
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May 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Only a few days left until our fourth major update: the Gas Update. In our last Dev Diary before release, we'll cover all the features we haven't talked about yet.

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#indiegame #gamedev
All Quiet in the Trenches - Dev Diary #021 - Scenarios, Game Start and more - Steam News
The next major update 0.9 (Gas Update) is just around the corner! In the last Dev Diary before the release, we want to introduce you to some exciting new features. Scenarios: Variety and Challenge Int...
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May 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Our new update will include over 40 new diary entries. It covers historical and personal stories about the gas warfare and many other topics related to World War I.

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#indiegame #gamedev
All Quiet in the Trenches - Dev Diary #020 - Journal Stories - Steam News
For our upcoming Gas Update, we plan to extend the game time by another in-game year. This also means that you will experience another year with the soldiers through your diary entries – for better or...
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May 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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A quick reminder that tommorrow is the day of the Würzburger Outpost. I am looking forward to seeing all you there.
🚨 Indie Outpost
📷Next event: April 22, 7 PM, Würzburg!

Talks
- btf Games (@sibagasser.bsky.social) - Art Style Evolution von Constance
- @pitheadstudio.bsky.social (Björn Pankratz) - Gamer sind bekloppt, Developer aber auch

Thanks to! @gamesbavaria.bsky.social &
@cipsoftgmbh.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Our new Dev Diary is about poison gas, one of the most horrific weapons of the First World War.

We'll be talking about stories, gas masks and the integration of gas into the trench and battle phases.

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All Quiet in the Trenches - Dev Diary #019 - Poison Gas - Steam News
All Quiet in the Trenches is set in a (fictional) secondary theatre of war on the Western Front. Many soldiers stationed away from the main front lines probably did not come into direct contact with p...
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April 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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In the last two Dev Diaries, we talked about the limited visibility caused by artillery smoke and smoke grenades.

This will be supplemented by fog as a natural challenge that will be added with the gas update and which we will tell you about today.

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All Quiet in the Trenches - Dev Diary #018 - Visual obstruction: Fog - Steam News
In the last two Dev Diaries, we talked about the limited visibility caused by artillery smoke and smoke grenades. This will be supplemented by fog as a natural challenge that will be added with the ga...
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April 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Reposted by Alex Elsäßer
Another new feature in the 0.9 Gas Update are smoke grenades. Similar to artillery smoke, they will provide a way to obscure parts of the battlefield.
Along with this there will be changes to the equipment system.

📝Find out more here:
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#indiegame #gamedev
All Quiet in the Trenches - Dev Diary #017 - Visual obstruction: Smoke Grenades - Steam News
The last dev diary was about the effects of artillery fire and the resulting smoke as a tactical challenge in the upcoming Gas Update 0.9. Now we can present another way in which obscuring visibility ...
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March 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Alex Elsäßer
We're currently working hard on the upcoming Gas Update (0.9 ) for our game All Quiet in the Trenches. One added feature will be the possibility of small fires and smoke from artillery hits.

📝You can read all about how it will work in our newest dev diary: store.steampowered.com/news/app/863...
All Quiet in the Trenches - Dev Diary #016 - Visual obstruction: smoke from artillery - Steam News
With the upcoming Gas Update 0.9, there will be new tactical challenges in battle that restrict visibility and movement. These new features are primarily intended to provide more depth and more dynami...
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March 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🚨 Indie Outpost alert! 🚨
Next event: March 3rd, 6 PM, Nuremberg!
Talks by @gentletrolldevs.bsky.social (makers of Tavern Talk):
🎭 Selima Heister – Subverting Character Archetypes
🌍 Michel Wacker – The Future is Community
Big thanks to @gamesbavaria.bsky.social & @cipsoftgmbh.bsky.social! 🙌
February 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
How to unsubscribe from #Unity3D newsletters ... or not. Is that on purpose, @unity.com ?
February 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM