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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Uses Of Emptiness - Low Grade Certainty Remix

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

LINA now recites Arabic poetry, among other features I'm adding. #screenshotsunday #gamedev #indiedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fuad: Najma never knew a world that was not silent. #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Umm Walid now schedules regular belly dances so she can pour more of the synthetic arak for the off shift miners. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Fuad: Petrov was not watching me. He was doing the specific not-watching of a policeman who had already decided I was worth watching. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Umm Walid keeps a private reserve for those she judges worthy, and in my experience, her judgements are usually accurate.

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fuad: They still call it the souk, the way a street holds a name long after the thing it was named for is gone. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fuad: Something crossed his face. No Anger. The cousin of anger. The one who stays indoors. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Petrov: "Cause of death?" Fuad: He asked it the way a man asks if dinner is almost ready. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"That low-grade certainty that runs ahead of the words.." The Red Weight. Play the demo today. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The demo (about a half hour long) now shows your choices on the end screen. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Steam store page is up with the new demo (first two chapters). store.steampowered.com/app/4708270/...

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Amara: "You said, impossible." Fuad: "I did." #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Finished a soft launch of the demo. Chapter 3 content is still gated but if you wanted to jump back in you can on itch right now. Hoping for steam demo in a couple of weeks with chapter 3 content if I can manage it.

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new update should ship mid July to the demo. I've added a much requested feature called assignments (really quests lol) #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"The dullest stones keep the brightest interiors" #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"A man who studies old rocks knows a thing can be old and ruined and still have value." #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Spent the weekend adding reactivity everywhere in the upcoming update to the demo. Depending on how you approach Amara in chapter 1 she changes the way she talks to you. She also asks where to meet unless you bring it up first. This should make the characters feel much more alive. #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A few weeks away from the update to the demo. Among the new character is Najwa: #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Built a tool so I don't have to edit json myself and keep all the scene node connections in my head. It's still a bit baroque but gets the job done. Now I can bang out a template of a scene then come back and make lots of changes.

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The colonists still kept copies of Lina, even twenty years after the disaster. "With what shall I console myself -- no kin, no homeland, no companion, no cup, no rest" #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A promotional poster for: Askar and Yasmin the first two colonists on Mars.

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Working on the update to the demo. I'm adding more deduction sequences with better gameplay. Here Fuad is discovering 10,000 year old dust on a planet that has been dead for 2 billion years. #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Been remixing some of the tracks in the game. Working hard on the update to the demo. This is the remix of the intro track: "The Uses Of Emptiness (The Private Reserve Remix)." #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Almost done with the UI updates for the upcoming open world update to the demo. There are a few more elements to add/tweak. It animates now on calls from the comm, and has a "quest" tracker. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Experimenting with more of these small vignettes. #pixelart

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"He was not wrong and it would not improve him to say so." #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This weekend was productive. Got a lot done on the open world update to the demo. Soon you will be able to explore Bab Al-Hadid and the northern reach on Mars. In the meantime I backported all the voice acting to the demo that's up on itch. #gamedev #indiedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"I explained that Mars was not the end of the world" #pixelart #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Working on the new UI for the open world update to the demo. I added time periods to the game as first class flags. Even though this takes place inside a habitat, characters go about their business on a schedule. #screenshotsunday

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Spent the day redoing the narration voice until it came out right. I think now I finally nailed the intro. #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The demo now has tooltips explaining terms that I got feedback on. There's a in-game codex as well. I did third pass on voice acting for chapters 1 and 2. Still working on the big chapter 3 open world update for the demo #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #scifi

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Voice acting good or bad? If you've played the demo does this make it better? #indiedev #gamedev

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"Great winds come to those with great resolve" -- Al-Mutanabbi

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Adding more locations and characters for the upcoming open world update to the demo. There's an old souk now and stores surrounding it in the arab quarter. #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #godotengine #narrativegame #scifi #screenshotsunday

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Beginning to experiment with making the game more open world. Allowing the player to move between locations and not just fast travel. I've added about 50 more locations which I am slowly constructing. #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #godotengine #narrativegame #scifi #screenshotsaturday

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Something opened in the centre of my chest. Hot, specific. I had not felt it in years — that low-grade certainty that runs ahead of the words for it. Farafra, before my supervisor talked me out of being right."

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

With the recent update to the demo we've introduced Namra an new character. She has an important arc in the game. #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #godotengine #narrativegame #scifi #screenshotsunday

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Pushed out a new big update to the demo! Try out this riotous noir narrative adventure set in an arabesque future on Mars. alsakin.itch.io/red-weight #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #godotengine #narrativegame #scifi #screenshotsaturday

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"Petrov did something complicated with his face. The kind of expression a man arrives at when the question is correct and not what he wanted to hear."

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Working on a major update. Higher res graphics. More choice and consequence. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #godotengine #narrativegame #scifi

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Alsakin @alsakin.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Working on a new update to chapter 3. More reactivity, consequence and story. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #visualnovel #godot

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