THYSIASTERY IS OUT NOW!!!
The Labyrinth opens today. Your descent into the unknown awaits.
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3140180/
This launch marks the beginning of a new chapter for our studio and for everyone who has followed the journey so far.
For me, the best form of ambient indie game marketing is talking about your game in a natural way, as if you were speaking to someone at an expo.
Don't overthink it. Just be you, be honest, be human, and speak from the heart.
#ScreenshotSaturday I wanted to share some of my favorite recent screenshots from Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. It is on schedule for full release this coming Thursday, so pray for me! :)
#Cats #GameDev
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Accessibility is important, folks
Don't forget to add accessibility options to your works. It takes just a little more time and it makes a HUGE difference for those who need it
The whole point of a contract is the extremely precise wording. No summary can replace that.
hot gamedev tip of the week: make your rhythm minigame *the* indie game
The first message of this thread summarises the biggest issue and what #StopKillingGames is aiming for. A negotiation of establishing new laws that are customer friendly.
For more info check the latest update from the person who has been in the front lines of this campaign
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The Crew was a curious game. However, if you haven't played it before, you can never play it.
It's a design issue. A lot of games are designed to have an end date. In essence, if you haven't played the game within the years it was available, you can never play it later or share the game with others.
What is Eu Citizens' Initiative?
Start of the conversation about how best to make changes in laws that should be applied in the EU countries.
In order for this negotiation to begin, the Initiative needs to collect enough signatures, in this case 1M. We are currently half way and there's 1 month left
"<company> reserves the right to terminate this EULA at any time for any reason, or for no reason, with or without notice to you."
Just 1 example of how lack of laws is being abused.
If you are a citizen of EU and you think that we consumers should be treated fairly, check out the initiative.
If the concept of consent would kill an industry, that industry should not exist in the first place.
This is not even a debate.
People outside the games industry don't grasp that this is absolutely unheard of. Workers don't get royalties, and we definitely don't get performance bonuses. When we make a hit game we sometimes just get laid off
Today we crossed a big milestone: more than 10k wishlists on Steam! Itβs been a dream come true to see people all around the world play our game π
Many thanks to you all for joining our small #indiedev team on this journey with Thysiastery β€οΈ
The tension and comparison between "indie devs" and "AAA devs" exists only in the minds of gamers (derogatory) and armchair devs who play the vicissitudes of the game industry as a hipster class warfare. Indie devs and AAA devs are often only separated by career decisions and the fortunes of fate.
The team has been working hard and I'm proud of where they are taking the game!
Go and try out the updated new version of the demo:
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Indie game dev tip: make sure you have low end devices to test your game on.
I just tested on my crappy old Microsoft surface again and realized the recent shaders I wrote plummet the fps from 60 to 25.
Works perfectly fine on a normal computer though.
Test on as many low end devices as possible!
After all, your players are people, not just stats.
Remember that "target audience" is not just age + gender. That could be useful for buying ad space but not useful for designing the game.
Rather think of how the player approaches all games, how much time per session they spend, how do they like their coffee, and many other similar questions.
Everything, sure.
#gamedev
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- this initiative calls for European Commission to address such practices for what they are, torture and fraud; enact a widespread ban on these practices; establish minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of the people affected by the conversion practices
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- due to the nature of these practices being discriminatory, degrading, harmful and fraudulent, these practices have been deemed torturous.
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Here are rough main points:
- many countries have conversion practices that are interventions aimed at changing, repressing or supressing sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expressionof LGBTQ+ persons
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I try to make gamedev posts, but there is no gamedev without dev:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... in EU the following initiative from citizens is collecting signatures. We are 70% through. So If you think that this is important, pls sign it. The deadline is in 2 days (17.5.2025)
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The european citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU only has 250k signatures and needs to amass 1 million in the next 7 days... If you live in the EU, please sign it (you can't otherwise); if you don't, please share it around.
Here to say that we wouldn't exist without arts funding.
Not only would 1000xRESIST not exist without arts funding, we as artists who practiced for YEARS, trying to understand ourselves and our mediums would not exist without arts funding.
Fund the arts! All of them. Including games.
Your destiny is not predetermined. Each descent into the Labyrinth brings your path across different allies to recruit, and different skills to wield.
Test your adaptability in #THYSIASTERY Demo on Steam: shorturl.at/EF5mn
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On their own, none survives the Labyrinth.
Find reliable allies and learn valuable skills to improve your chances against the Rot...
Try out the teaching mechanic in #THYSIASTERY Demo on Steam: shorturl.at/EF5mn
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Have you told your mom yet about Psychotic Bathtub's Demo on Steam? You should. And if you haven't yet yourself: Go play it now. This is a threat.
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#indiegamedev #indiegame #story #storygames #ducks #mentalhelath #illustration
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In #THYSIASTERY, command a band of Brand Bearers in turn-based combat against any challenges the mysterious Labyrinth throws at you.
Check out our free demo here: shorturl.at/Z5xT6
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