That moment you find out you've won DARE Academy...
Congratulations to our DARE Academy 2025 winners - Riverboat Games! 🏆
Their game Galactic Postal Servitude wowed the judges 💫👽
Read more 👇
abertay.ac.uk/N2Yx
#DAREAcademy #DAREAcademy2025 @riverboatgames.bsky.social
We're happy to announce that the #DARE2025 release of Galactic Postal Servitude is now available for free on itch! riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-postal-servitude
Take a look at our new release trailer for a sneak-peak on what we’ve worked on at #DareAcademy 👀👽
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Our DARE build release is up on Itch! 🎉
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Wake up! Synaptic's new build is now available on itch.io! You can find it from the linktree in our bio. Please let us know what you think if you give it a shot :3
Updated trailer coming soon 👀
#bonnybandits #synapticgame #DareAcademy #DARE25 #gamedev #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment
As we close the first day of the last week of DARE, we bring you a video of our chatter teeth in our devbuild! Not long to go now ':D We hope you are excited to use these chompers yourself in our upcoming build!
#gamedev #indiegamedev #DAREAcademy #DARE25 #gamedevelopment #BonnyBandits #AbertayUni
Meet the team! Last week: We have been hard at work, implementing our new mechanics, level, revised tutorial and more. Prepped with our new team uniform, we are set for the final week of hothousing at DARE Academy.
#gamedev #abertayuniversity #davidlynch #dareacademy #godot #stealth #narrative
Its the final week of Hot Housing! Very excited to share with you all at the end of this week how far we've come. DARE Academy has been quite the experience and I'm so grateful for my team!
check our game out at: cosmic-coda.itch.io/eczt
#Abertay #Gamedev #DARE #DareAcademy #Producer #teamwork
Care for a cracker? ✨️
We always make sure our employees are provided with an adequate amount of nutrition. Keep up the good work and you might get some water too!
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We're deep in the throes of production right now - busy busy busy! We're raising our heads to share some recent set dressing crrated by our 3d artist for the new levels 🌸
#gamedev #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #Bonnybandits #synapticgame #DareAcademy #DARE25 #AbertayUniversity
SOUND ON! 🔊
Sometimes game development is implementing a dialogue system, and sometimes it's creating a 0.1 second audio clip and looping it hundreds of times to test the dialogue sounds.
Boss Gleeble is a fun example of work spanning disciplines!
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Take a first look at one of our new WIP mechanics, Fragile Tape!
We trust our employees to appropriately mark parcels that contain delicate items as fragile before sending.
... or mark their office as fragile too
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He even lovingly welcomes you to the galaxy's most successful postal company*!
What's not to love? ❤️
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* - May not be factually true
Halfway through DARE already? Here's a peek at some of the incredible work our audio designer has put into Synaptic to celebrate! 🔊
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New #DAREAcademy sneak peek... 👀
Your new boss cares a lot about your performance while on the clock, so expect timely and encouraging feedback to boost employee morale. You'll be constantly monitored while working, so make sure to keep up the good work! 📦👍
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We had the pleasure of welcoming Scottish Minister for Business Richard Lochhead this week! He took time to play our game, learn about DARE, our work at Abertay, and discuss the future of Scotland’s games industry. Thanks to Abertay for the incredible opportunity 🙏 #DAREAcademy #GameDev #Abertay
We had some fun in the recording studio today! Our Audio Deisnger has her work cut out for her in chopping all this down, and we can't wait to show you what we've been working on 🔊
#gamedev #IndieGameDev #gamedevelopment #Bonnybandits #synapticgame #DareAcademy #DARE25 #AbertayUniversity
Our levels are getting a much-needed update. Here's a sneak peek 👀
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Is that a Gleeble...? On a TV screen? Wearing a suit??? ...🛸📺
Introducing your new manager - Boss Gleeble! What could he possibly get up to around the Post Office 👀📦✨
#DAREAcademy #DARE2025 #IndieDev #GameDev #AbertayUniversity #Gleeble #GalacticPostalServitude
We've been hard at work updating all the menus for #DAREAcademy, here's a little before & after to show the glow-up ✨
#DARE2025 #GalacticPostalServitude #indiedev #gamedev
[FLASH WARNING]
Another day, another test passed with flying colours!
(This is not, in fact, intentional)
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It's time you finally got rewarded for all your hard work! One of the new features being worked on at #DAREAcademy is unique ending sequences based on how well you perform. 📦
Can you guess which ending this is from...? 👽✨️
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The teeth are moving now! Some progress on our chatter teeth projectile 🪥 they can't wait to start eating targets 👁👁
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The Fishbowl team graduated from #Abertay on Friday! Congratulations to everyone who graduated. We are looking forwards to putting all the skills earned in our degrees towards ADORATE!
#graduation #dareacademy #dare2025 #gamedev #indiegame
Check out some of the stuff I'm working on with Riverboat as part of #DAREacademy! I'm having such a great time working with the team, so make sure to go check out all their hard work :)
Watch out! A Gleeble found his way into the studio and messed around with our music! 😅
It seems like he wants to brighten up the post office for the next human who comes by though, so maybe we can let him sing a little longer… 🎶
#DAREacademy #DARE2025 #GalacticPostalServitude
Security cameras are coming along nicely!
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#indiedev
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#dareacademy
