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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ok, this goes somewhere I didn't expect but it touches on something I have been thinking about for a while. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgjX...

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Why Nothing Looks Cool Anymore

YouTube video by Design Theory

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I've wanted to animate the lander actually landing at the beginning of the game for years now. Today was the day. Knocking off more things on the list to get to 1.0. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Working on finishing up the Icaria story in anticipation of 1.0. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

When searching for a name for our next game I found this: www.linkedin.com/company/10x-... which is just the kind of attitude we are trying to parody. I also found a post on Reddit suggesting that 10X Factory is a scam. What are the odds?

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10X Factory | LinkedIn

10X Factory | 540 followers on LinkedIn. 10X Factory is the fastest-growing entrepreneurship group in the world, connecting entrepreneurs throughout the world over Slack. Our community of members repr...

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Here's @sarahtaber.bsky.social using farm economics to explain why LLMs are so popular in Silicon Valley. They feed the dream of trust fund babies that they don't need talent to be successful, only money.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Our next update is getting closer. Here's some more fun with our new enemy(ish) plant, Husk. #icariagame #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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BeyondDC @beyonddc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Phrasing, people 😂

Screencap of a news story from Germany with the headline "Cargo train breaks the sound barrier," and a photo of a train crashing through a sound wall.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

WIP: A new challenge targeted for the next update of our game Icaria: the Husk defends its territory by draining power and using it to grow. As it is a programming game, the attacking drones are fully automated. #icariagame. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

A drawing of a horse. The front half of the horse is black. The back half of the horse is white. The tail is black.

Text reads: I defragged my zebra

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

First feature for our next update: I moved the command bar to the bottom of the screen (like the build bar I did earlier) and then put the script editor in a movable and resizable window. #icariagame. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

youtu.be/ReKH838XPao My first every voice over YouTube video. Would have been better if I had gotten it out when we launched the update, but this ended up being mostly a learning exercise. #icariagame #gamedev #indiedev

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Icaria Update 1 Feature Overview and Demo

YouTube video by Icaria

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Messing around with a multi-layer base using our new sloped conveyors in #icariagame. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14/07/2025

Building a Fire xkcd.com/3114/

4-panel comic. (1) [Two people in front of tent. Person with short hair kneels, stacking sticks.] PERSON 1: Can you show me how to build a campfire? PERSON 2 with short hair: Sure! We’ll use the log cabin method. First, we build a square cabin out of sticks. (2) PERSON 2 [holding tiny table and chair]: Next, we’ll add interior walls, doors, and some cabin furniture made from twigs. PERSON 1: This is very elaborate. (3) [Person 2 runs wire to miniature cabin. Tiny lightning bolt symbols indicate the wire is energized.] PERSON 2: Now we’ll add some rudimentary plumbing and electrical wiring. 50 amps, nothing fancy. PERSON 1: It kind of seems like you’re just building a cabin. PERSON 2: I just— …Oops. (4) [The mini cabin is on fire.] PERSON 2: I think my wiring wasn’t up to code. PERSON 1 [leaning away and shielding face]: *AAAAA!* PERSON 2: …And that’s how you build a fire!

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We're participating in the Steam Automation Festival this week. Valve gives us this promo art but lordy is it difficult to work with. Nothing I've got looks good against their background.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Getting ready for our first major update coming to #icariagame on Monday July 14. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The biggest new feature in #icariagame update 1 is blueprints; copying builds within a save, between saves, and exporting them as a string to share with your friends. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Working on #icariagame Update 1 where conveyor can climb hills and jump over canyons. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Indie Games @theindieden.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We created an Indie Den starter pack! We want to add as many of our community members as possible, so reply to this post to be added! 🤩 All I ask is that you follow us and some of the awesome accounts already on the list 💛 #startpack #indiedev #indiegame go.bsky.app/6jBtiB4

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

@techconnectify.bsky.social Just watched your video on DVD Closed Captioning. DVD supports closed captions because it is an extension of the MPEG-2 video standard which, in 1996, was how a live broadcast from WGBH in Boston made it to KQED in San Francisco.

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 27/05/2025

Hey, want to comb through hours upon hours of raw live-action footage from the Myst games (including oodles of behind-the-scenes b-roll and interviews). Just click the link below the video and you can do that. Holy crap.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We are announcing our EA release date Tomorrow. Last week I did a full playthrough starting from a new save through to the end of the tech tree on a near-release build: around 30 hours total in game. It's not a small. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Did a first pass playthrough of the content we have ready for EA. 24 hours start to finish seemed a bit too much given that there is more to come so we're rebalancing. We'll still end up with 20+ hours on release but the progression will be smoother. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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AMD Ryzen @amdryzen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Icaria Inspiration: Factorio, Minecraft, KSP For automation and block fans. Project Daedalus, a robotic expedition sent on a one-way mission to build a self-sufficient outpost on the recently discovered planet, Icaria store.steampowered.com/app/2613890/... #indiedev @arkenhammer.bsky.social

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Icaria on Steam

Automate a team of robots to gather resources, reshape terrain, and scale up factories on a procedurally generated alien world.

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"...stands out from the pack." -- PC Gamer

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We got a one sentence review from PC Gamer--not a stellar review but, out of 2400 games he only wrote about 72 so I consider it quite the accomplishment. #indiedev www.pcgamer.com/games/i-wrot...

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I played over 70 Steam Next Fest demos and wrote one-sentence reviews of all of them

I played way too many Steam Next Fest demos this week. Here's what I thought about almost all of them.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Next Fest has brought a large number of new players to the game. We've been peaking at 40-50 concurrent players all week. Quite a thing for a first-time game dev; it's feeling like we are entering a new realm. #indiedev #gamedev

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

In somewhat more meaningful news we are in the top 10% of trending for all games in English in Next Fest. We're also #1 in our niche of programming games. The other tea leaf is that we are doing better in trending than in popular which suggests we're working our way up. #indiedev #gamedev

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Woo hoo! We are the top robot voxel game in Next Fest. Number One out of.... 1. #indiedev #gamedev

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

We're getting ready for Next Fest. One more update to the demo will go out tomorrow morning and we'll be polishing our Steam page in anticipation. If you've had any thought of trying out the demo, Next Fest is a great time to do it. #indiedev #gamedev.

Next Fest Announcement For Icaria: Feb 24 - Mar 3

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Steamdeck arrived yesterday morning; tuned the game to on it in time for our local gamedev meetup last night. Playing the game if you already know it works better than I expected. However its not yet a good device to learn on. Came home with some changes to make so it's a win. #indiedev

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Have has a few players say our game works great on the SteamDeck so I ordered one and, while I wait for it to arrive, am adding support for the XBox One controller to the game. If anything, it should be handy for demos. It wasn't on my bingo card this game, but here we are. #indiedev #gamedev

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A major milestone for Icaria today: we made it to the Steam Top Wishlist page. From SteamDB we're at #3455 so way down at the bottom of the list but progress it is! #indiedev #gamedev

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

One of the many disheartening things I do as an #indiedev is post on r/Games Indie Sunday. It is structured in a way that incentivizes people to down vote posts so it is hard to stay above water. Feels like a waste of time but I post anyhow cause that's what you do. www.reddit.com/r/Games/comm...

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From the Games community on Reddit: Icaria - Blindsight Games - Program robots to terraform, mine, and build factories in a open voxel world. New demo version out now.

Explore this post and more from the Games community

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Gotta have a distillery in a factory game. First time for this model in game. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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16 BIT NIGHTS @16bitnights.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Today is the big day ... 🙋‍♀️ Just a few hours left. I am so excited for this moment that if I fail my mind is not mentally prepared and as a failsafe, I will go into the mountains and raise ducks for the rest of my life🦆 #indiegame #gamedev

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John Brewer @jbrewer-jera.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I’m currently actively looking for work. I’ve been an iOS developer since 2007. My specialty is in developing great UI, currently focusing on SwiftUI. I’ve also done some visionOS work over the past year. I'm located in the South SF Bay Area. Thanks! My resume is at:  jera.com/john-brewer-...

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I cut a new trailer for our game Icaria in honor of the 3rd major update to our demo. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"The whole tech world needs more projects that aren’t trying to become billion- (let alone trillion-) dollar ideas, but are happily shooting for success as million-dollar ideas (or less!)." daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...

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Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back

Link to: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24352968/pebble-smartwatch-open-source-google-comeback

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Messing around with our farming mechanics. Demo update coming to Steam soon! #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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