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Luke M
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Software engineer, Naarm

Liberation (retro space adventure): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2413940/Liberation/

Cell Sword (Descent inside a human body): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3163320/Cell_Sword/
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Here's a new anniversary short story set in the same universe as my retro space adventure, Liberation

Ganthar and Kaan are being held for interrogation. If they stick together they'll survive. But there's one small crack in their unity. They can't stand each other!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The title of a short story: "Liberation: Galactic Federation Rebel Dilemma" with the caption "free anniversary short story"
October 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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My games are up to 85% off (average 40%) as part of the Steam Spring/Autumn sale until 6 October

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A list of games: My Ex-Boyfriend the Space Tyrant, Miss Fisher and the Deathly Maze, Liberation, Escape from Pleasure Planet, Glam Noir: The Beat, Low Earth Orbit Adventures, Cell Sword, Magnavody, OscarWildeCard
October 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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There's one episode, Guardians of Piri, that I consider the best looking episode of television from the 1970s. Sublime production design and near perfect coordination between the visual effects team doing the miniatures and the set designers. I'm in love with it so much
September 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Cell Sword, my comedy scifi shooter, is now available for the mostly harmless price of $8 on Steam and Itch. It's a love letter to Descent and I've tried to make it crazy and full of twists. Boosts appreciated!

store.steampowered.com/app/3163320/...
classyk.itch.io/cell-sword

#6DOF
A man that looks suspiciously like Homer Simpson in a poor disguise (a stuck on moustache and fancy hat) saying "GOOD EVENING, CELL SWORD LOOKS AMAZING AND AS A COMPLETELY NEUTRAL THIRD PARTY I INSIST EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY IT" A horde of virus-infected robots attack you inside a large chamber. A sea of acid sits at the bottom along with a half digested yellow bus (from the cartoon The Magic School Bus). The chamber is the stomach of the patient your ship is inside of from the game Cell Sword
June 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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24 hours until Cell Sword launches! Hmm, wait, I should be theming the announcements. Um, 24 hours until it injects... 24 hours until the doctor will see you... 24 hours until hemoglobing ... hmm

#CellSword #BoomerShooter #Games
June 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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And how it looks in-game 😍

#ScreenshotSaturday #gaming #6DOF #BoomerShooter #CellSword #Descent
A message arrives for the player: "The client has paid extra to send you this message: Hi, are you familiar with homeopathy?"
June 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Cell Sword is a modern game but I wanted to evoke the classic 90s genre in some way so I made a custom typeface to use as a font.

It's called "6DOF Sword" and it releases with the game under a creative commons license.

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Some of the characters available in a typeface. It says "6DOF Sword" and under that it lists the letters of the alphabet, numbers and special characters such as exclamation points. They are a bit gimmicky (the letters have spikes) as was the style in the 1990s
June 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Cell Sword ready to launch
A disheveled man waving a homemade doll as he says "You think a depressed person could make this?" except some words are crossed out so the subtitle says "You think an indie dev could make this?" and the "steam release your game button" is pasted over the doll.
June 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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spin it

#CellSword #6DOF
May 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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I'm here to give the people what they want... and they want high FOV

#CellSword #6DOF #godotengine
May 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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At that stage of launching Cell Sword where I'm like "if only one person buys my homage to high energy super crazy #6DOF shooters then it will all be worth it... particularly if that player happens to pay $46,000 for that game.

Wishlist and share 💪! #gaming

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Lisa Simpson saying to her jaded business partner: You know, if we get through to just that one little girl it will all be worth it Partner: Yes. Particularly if that little girl happens to pay $46,000 for that doll.
May 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Final production board for Cell Sword. Even small games take lots of planning. From this board 460+ tasks were generated (435 are closed) to get to v1

What I like about this is you can see visually without text by the end (far right) the story beats, missions and monsters all integrated

#gamedev
A screenshot of a miro board showing hundreds of little squares, each representing an idea, feature, task or design element from the video game Cell Sword. They are grouped into sections such as "Story Beats" "Missions" and "Levels"
May 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Submitted Cell Sword to Steam for final approval. MEGA excited to show you this game.

#CellSword #gaming #6DOF #forsaken #overload #desecrators
A mean looking robot glares at the camera (you) while nestled amongst a forest of microvilli inside a human body.
May 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Cell Sword hit release candidate today! As far as I can tell it is ready for release.

Last minute addition of a ping ability that sends out a cute little wobbly pulse and then highlights the nearest enemy.

#CellSword is my homage to #6DoF games like Descent and Forsaken
May 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Going for that Descent (1995) feel but updated for 2025. So high energy but accessible in a way it wasn't in 1995.

#CellSword #gaming #descent
A tiny ship flies through a large cavern made from bone while the words "Alert! Body Quake" flash on the screen. The words are shaped in a similar front used in the 1995 game, Descent.
May 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I think there's something in my eye!

#CellSword #gaming #InnerSpace
A sporty nanocraft flies towards a giant eyeball as microscopic robots fire weapons at it from the video game Cell Sword
May 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Liberation is 50% off on itch and steam this week.

store.steampowered.com/app/2413940/...

#gaming #elite #retro
A small spaceship made out of simple shapes, mostly triangles, and covered in graffiti, starts an attack run towards the player in the video game Liberation
May 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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My baby is alive (and in game) #CellSword #gaming
Giant maggots from the video game Cell Sword. They have weirdly human looking faces like many microscopic animals do
May 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Hello Bluesky! It's great to be here. I'm a game developer and historian from Melbourne. I love open source but, hey, whatever gets the job done.

My most recent game is Liberation, my version of a 1980s space sim, and I hope to make many more games.

Looking forward to new (and familiar) faces!
A nanoship approaches a robot monster sitting on a giant red blood cell from the video game Cell Sword A card game where each card is a variation of the vain but beautiful socialiate, Oscar Wildecarde. A spaceship make out of chunky and simple shapes, in this case triangles, peels away from the player as we fire solid and chunky laser beams at them from the game Liberation A policeman dances at a gay club from the game, Glam Noir: The Beat
May 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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So true 🤣🤣🤣🤣
February 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM