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Posts by Stephan Hövelbrinks

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mortals 👀
I am in a game.
it is called Oh Apollo!
you work at my oracle.
you fix my temple.
you try to impress me.
wishlist on Steam 🔥

3 weeks ago 37 13 1 6
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Working on some Death Trash scene art today.

3 weeks ago 153 13 2 1

I have become more efficient and productive over the last years, but I feel more and more like a person stuck in the past, not using AI tools. (I see how they can be useful and time-saving in some cases, but I hate basically everything else about them.)

1 month ago 26 2 5 0

Hey, thank you for giving it a try. =)

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

I'm planning to be more active here...

(imagine this, tonally, like a blog entry, promising to write more regularly soon, but that promise already being four years old with no new post in sight)

...but in the meantime there's my regular dev log over here: steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d...

1 month ago 19 3 2 0

Playing Bloodborne intensively while lying sick in bed for days is one of my favorite gaming memories. Perfect immersion for the sickness theme of that game.
(Nothing to do with playing video games badly, sorry.)

3 months ago 17 1 2 0
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Working on some level design today.

4 months ago 56 5 2 0
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My computer, after having arrived with the train.

4 months ago 1 0 1 0

I feel old,
sitting on the train,
not swiping my phone.

4 months ago 15 0 3 0

So in Arc Raiders there is a door glitch. You don't need to know what it is, just that the gamers are brainstorming all the "easy" ways to "fix" the doors and it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. My two favorite solutions are "add a kill volume" and "put a second door behind the door".

5 months ago 345 36 25 5

@jesawyer.bsky.social This might be of interest to you: bsky.app/profile/blue... (Made by a few friends from the Saftladen.)

5 months ago 8 1 1 0
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✨IT'S MOVING DAY✨

Are you ready to explore the apartment, renovate it and uncover its turbulent past?

Out on Steam (Steamdeck verified!), PlayStation and Xbox NOW!

5 months ago 187 58 10 13
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Checked out @deadstaticdrive.com today - not sure I've seen something so immediately stylish and suffused with atmosphere in a long time! Very dreamlike experience so far...

5 months ago 39 4 3 0
Pixel art of Piglet standing in front of an open door leading into a room with a few chairs in a cirkle and a table with a coffee machine and mugs in the back. Piglet seems to think about if  they want to enter the room, which is still empty. A sign beside the door frame says: Today, 09:00 AM, Sidekick self-help group.

Pixel art of Piglet standing in front of an open door leading into a room with a few chairs in a cirkle and a table with a coffee machine and mugs in the back. Piglet seems to think about if they want to enter the room, which is still empty. A sign beside the door frame says: Today, 09:00 AM, Sidekick self-help group.

Should I stay or should I go?

#pixelart

5 months ago 14 1 0 0

I'll better skip calculating this. ^^

5 months ago 19 1 2 0
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The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)

5 months ago 977 644 43 33
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I really hope that it's not another 10 years. ^^

5 months ago 1 0 0 0

Death Trash Update 0.14.4 and a few words on the current focus of development: (content, of course)

store.steampowered.com/news/app/941...

5 months ago 24 2 1 1
Pixel art of a green toad with red sand on its feet and belly, up to the mouth.

Pixel art of a green toad with red sand on its feet and belly, up to the mouth.

sandy toad

#peachtober25toad
#pixelart

6 months ago 19 2 0 0
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Dead Static Drive | Coming to PC and Xbox Grab your bat, steal a car, and take your chances against the unearthly horrors found along Route 666. This is Dead Static Drive.

🚨DEAD STATIC DRIVE HAS A RELEASE DATE!!!🚨

www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases

NOVEMBER 5TH Y'ALL.

Congrats to @mike.reuben.games, @leena.reuben.games, and the whole DSD team - I've been DYING to play this one.

5 months ago 139 39 4 24
Pixelart of a meadow with poppies, grasses, cornflowers and french daisies. In the background are some trees and the iconic elevator tower.

Pixelart of a meadow with poppies, grasses, cornflowers and french daisies. In the background are some trees and the iconic elevator tower.

field of flowers at ghibli park

#peachtober25poppy
#pixelart

6 months ago 23 3 0 0
Pixelart of an acorn-shaped booth. Inside is a squirrel selling different nuts. The booth has a sign with the word "nuts" painted on the outside and inside is a board with unreadable chalk writing. Some nuts are presented in paper bags, some in a basket and some are piled up.

Pixelart of an acorn-shaped booth. Inside is a squirrel selling different nuts. The booth has a sign with the word "nuts" painted on the outside and inside is a board with unreadable chalk writing. Some nuts are presented in paper bags, some in a basket and some are piled up.

Nuts, anyone?

#acorn
#peachtober25

First time trying out a color palette.

6 months ago 6 2 0 0
The Saftladen logo. It's an organge holding a gamepad.

The Saftladen logo. It's an organge holding a gamepad.

As we all know the game industry is going through very turbulent times, unfortunately this has also affected several members of our collective. The silver lining is that one of the largest rooms in our coworking space in Berlin will be available from September 1st.

More info in thread...

8 months ago 67 51 1 7

The Saftladen, the indie games collective I'm part of here in Berlin, is looking for new members to rent some desks.

Infos over here: www.linkedin.com/posts/saftla...

8 months ago 22 4 0 0
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Posted this a few months ago when itch went offline (following the bogus phishing report from Funko), still very relevant today for different reasons

8 months ago 75 32 1 0
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Steam Workshop::Українська локалізація

Хтось не знав, а хтось уже й забув, що є чудовий послідовник класичних #Fallout#DeathTrash. Поки гра в дочасному доступі, переклади додаються як модифікації.

Запрошуємо спробувати й наш переклад, який ми сьогодні оновили до поточної версії гри: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

9 months ago 7 1 1 1
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🔥 The Drifter is OUT NOW! 🔥

Solve your own murder in our fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride. 15% off for launch!
Steam 🤜 store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/...
GoG 🤜 www.gog.com/en/game/the_...

It's been a long road working on this one- so exciting to finally get it in people's hands!

9 months ago 550 200 42 56

Got an e-mail from some fresh indie devs, asking what it would cost to make a game like Death Trash, and I am inclined to answer: TEN YEARS OF YOUR LIFE AND THE LAST SHRED OF YOUR SANITY!

9 months ago 69 3 3 0

It irritates me more than it should that there is a book, opened on a random page, with two title pages next to each other.

9 months ago 5 0 0 0

Got a technical bug report via e-mail, with nice words, description and screenshot.
Investigated the issue.
Wrote a reply listing what the person could try in this case.

E-mail could not be delivered. "This mailbox is disabled."

This job can be frustrating sometimes.

9 months ago 28 1 0 0