Below the Crown Launches 1.0 today! Our love letter to Chess, Dungeon Crawlers, and general nerdery :)
15 years ago it was called "Chess the Gathering" and I would take to boardgame meetups... I'm thrilled with what it's become with the help of an amazing team & community <3
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Mark your calendars for April 21st: Below the Crown day. You'll be able to play as a Queen Wizard, fight the Emperor, there are even multiple endings 😱
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After failing to find any worthy opponents on earth, Chuck decided to run the MMA clinic in Valhalla.
Last week, I flew to GDC in San Francisco to show The Last Night in private thanks to @elbowgreasegames.bsky.social...
More fresh GIFs in the thread.
I’m going to your talk!
Here is EGG blog post telling VoxRay’s founding story and the motivation behind their game: open.substack.com/pub/elbowgre...
The @voxraygames.bsky.social team posted a major update to Voxile in The Builder’s Updates (and they added grenades). Voxile is made in its own engine in its own language. The game is 40% off on Steam right now, go check it out! The EGG Blog just featured their amazing story. (links in comments)
Check out the cool fan art of Duskers Drones from @xlaxxon.bsky.social ! Time to make it live action people...
Voxile, The Builder's Update is out!
This includes a lot of building-centric features we've added recently such as better carpenter tool and building plans, a very buildy world called Crystal Cathedral, and also grenades, angry NPCs, better falling physics..
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Below the Crown is coming in April! Our final Update in Early Access is in just a couple weeks. What a wild ride so far, and IGF honorable mention to boot. We added a discount to celebrate and made this trailer remix🥳
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Just so you know that new content is coming, the Emperor is making an entrance... #BelowTheCrown
Unless there’s a rift in the space-time continuum I don’t know about, this Facebook email isn’t true🤔…
Interestingly, Steam just rewrote - but did NOT remove - its 'does your game have AI in it?' dev disclosure form.
Valve's making it clearer the 'AI powered tools' (like code helpers) don't need citing - "Efficiency gains through the use of [AI powered dev tools] is not the focus of this section."
Is this true?
Someone just used PayPal to share their 2 cents about how they can improve my business… literally. A+ for innovation!
The following games have been chosen for Honorable Mentions for Excellence in Design:
@flebpuzzles.bsky.social's Strange Jigsaws
@misfitsattic.bsky.social and Shochiku's Below The Crown
@potipoti.studio's Is This Seat Taken?
@lululu.games's Henry Halfhead
William Rous' Type Help
Congrats @misfitsattic.bsky.social!!!
Wow, Below the Crown getting honored by IGF makes it that our last two games have been recognized by them for Excellence in Design <3
5g is trolling my phone. Coverage is so spotty yet it opts for 1 bar of 5g over 3 of LTE effectively locking me out of the internet. Maybe LTE was peak? Is this how Starlink wins?
Got to #2 on hacker news today and are still on the front page!
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The games industry needs to build trust in 2026 to reboot the games funding ecosystem. If we follow @boyes.bsky.social’s advice and remember the Golden Rule, a better future lies before us.
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MTV is sunsetting its music channels today. Maybe it's time for a new song: "Social Media Killed The MTV Star" Think Hans Zimmer would play the keyboard again for it? I feel old.
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Just used Gemini to quickly learn how to turn off Copilot in the newest Word.😅🤖 If they had personified Copilot as Clippy this would have been a much harder decision.📎
TIL that the Italian term “chiaroscuro” has the same literal meaning as the French “clair obscur” but while culturally the former mainly refers to Renaissance painting techniques…the latter represents 19th century French philosophy and symbolism.
Sounds like both Steam and EGS/Fortnite went down as well. Too many holiday gamers?!
Have you checked out COZY TRAILER TV? There are over 57,000 games in the Steam Winter Sale right now. Here are the 97 coziest: cozywintergames.com/cozy-trailer...
Happy Holidays from Voxile!
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What?! Never knew this.
Found some nice floating snow biome while exploring a survival world.. but HOW do you get up there!
