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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 05/03/2026

Portal Sentinels is part of the Tower Defense Fest on Steam! If you like TD games with maze building (and without) come checkout the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3630370/... #TowerDefense #TowerDefenseFest #IndieGame #SoloDev

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 04/03/2026

If you haven't tried it yet, Portal Sentinels' demo was released yesterday... and hard mode is quite tough! store.steampowered.com/app/3630370/... #GameDev #IndieDev #TowerDefense #PixelArt

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 03/03/2026

The trailer for Portal Sentinels is finally here! youtu.be/fA_uNNcUmao?... And also the demo on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3630370/... Try it out and send me a screenshot of your maze! #IndieGame #GameDev #Solodev #TowerDefense

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Portal Sentinels - Development Trailer

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 04/12/2025

#BulletHeaven fest is on! The Nightwatch is part of it next to AMAZING bullet heaven games, with a 50% discount on top of it. Grab it for the price of a coffee, or go check those other great games! store.steampowered.com/sale/BulletH... store.steampowered.com/app/2817910/... #indiegame #Steam

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Bullet Heaven Festival 3.0

Enter Bullet Heaven Festival, a reverse bullet hell celebration. Unleash relentless projectiles, upgrade abilities, conquer foes, and ascend to ultimate power!

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 07/11/2025

Portal Sentinels is a 2D pixel-art tower defense game where maze creation is key! Choose your class, place towers & walls, and conquer waves in Solo, Co-op, or Versus mode. store.steampowered.com/app/3630370/... #PitchYaGame #IndieDev #TowerDefense #GameDev

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 29/10/2025

Creating complex mazes is a core element of Portal Sentinels. As a cheap alternative to placing towers, you can place walls! You can also replace them with a tower later on. #Gamedev #IndieDev #TowerDefense

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 13/10/2025

Thanks #animasia and #indiegamefactory it was a blast. Never watched so many people play my game live at once before. Now it's time to get back to work on Portal Sentinels, and share the progress with everyone! #devlife #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedev

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 10/10/2025

Getting ready for the week-end at the Indie Game Factory in Bordeaux ! Meet the Astrow Games team at hall 3 of the Palais des Expositions for the #animasia festival! #gamedev #indiegames #bordeaux

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 05/10/2025

Quick look at the Trap Launcher Tower in Portal Sentinels! Fills free nodes in a 3x3 radius around the tower with traps, damaging the enemies walking on it. Upgrade paths will unlock more utility by adding stuns, bleeding damage, explosion radius and more. #gamedev #solodev #indiegame #towerdefense

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 02/10/2025

Quick look at the Pyromancer Tower in Portal Sentinels! Stacks up to 5 projectiles for an initial burst of damage, and a chance to inflict burn stacks on the target. store.steampowered.com/app/3630370/... #gamedev #indiegame #towerdefense

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 08/09/2025

To my fellow french people in Bordeaux: Du monde interessé par Animasia le 11-12 octobre ? J'ai la possibilité de faire un concours pour 2 places offertes si il y a suffisamment d'intéressés ! Vous pourrez aussi m'y retrouver en tant qu'exposant pour le week-end. #jeuvideo #gamingfr #bordeaux

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 12/07/2025

Started experimenting with Steam Lobbies and Steam Peer-to-peer Networking for a multiplayer prototype. Pretty straightforward for the moment but if you have some general advice or cool insight on the subject, I'd love to hear it! #GameDev #SoloDev

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 26/06/2025

Now that the v1.2 update is live, Steam Summer Sale is here! The Nightwatch has its biggest discount ever with 50% off. If you wanted to try it out, and buy me a cup of coffee, you can! store.steampowered.com/app/2817910/... #steam #sales #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

The Nightwatch is in the Steam Summer Sale, with a -50% discount ($2.49)

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 25/06/2025

The Nightwatch v1.2 is out! store.steampowered.com/news/app/281... 2 new playable characters, performance and visual improvements, save/resume system and many more. New trailer and demo updated as well! store.steampowered.com/app/2817910/The_Nightwatch/ #steam #solodev #gamedev #indiedev

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The Nightwatch - Patch note v1.2 - Steam News

New playable characters, visual improvements, save/resume system...

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IGDA Foundation @igdafoundation.org · 28/05/2025

Play games. Fund futures. 🎮 🌱 @rootsofpacha.com‬ 🔪 Neon Knives 🏹 The Nightwatch 🏝️ Island of Insight 🌿 Plantasia Buy these in the #DownloadForCharity Steam event & support IGDA Foundation 💖 👉 buff.ly/FRwnFtE #Gamedev @cookiecrayon.bsky.social @astrowgames.com‬ @cavebeargames.bsky.social

DLC: Download for Charity presents Roots of Pacha, Neon Knives, The Nightwatch, Islands of Insight, and Plantasia. IGDA Foundation

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 25/05/2025

Come check out the "Download for Charity" event! store.steampowered.com/curator/4533... The Nightwatch is participating along amazing games, for a good cause. @igdafoundation.org #indieDev #GameDev #Steam

Download for Charity event regrouping many games for a charity sale on Steam

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 14/05/2025

store.steampowered.com/news/app/281... While I'm waiting on some administrative things for the new "Untitled RPG" game I'm working on, I'm diving back into "The Nightwatch" for the v1.2! I'll be working full time on it in the next few weeks. (New characters!) #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #Steam

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The Nightwatch - The Nightwatch v1.2 - Upcoming changes - Steam News

Work in progress

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 19/04/2025

Always a great surprise to see a new review! Coming back from my trip to Japan in a couple days and I can't wait to continue working on the new game. #gamedev #steam #solodev

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 05/03/2025

Still having a lot of fun implementing all the basic features of an RPG while experimenting with what could be some core mechanics of the game. (Assets are temporary) Got a lot of papers to fill this month and a big trip coming in April so updates will be a bit slower. #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev

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IGDA Foundation @igdafoundation.org · 17/02/2025

🚨 Developers, plan ahead! 🗓️ Join DLCforCharity on Steam, May 25-30, 2025 ✅ Prime Steam exposure ✅ Support @IGDAFoundation ✅ Donate 20% for maximum impact (5% min) Sign up by March 31: igdafoundation.org/dlc #GamingForGood #IndieDevs #GameDev

Feature your game or DLC on Steam. IGDA Foundation Download for Charity. A fundraising event supporting diversity and inclusion in gaming! May 25-30, 2025.

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 17/02/2025

The Nightwatch is part of the #NovaGameExpo! You can play many demos directly in your browser. There is also an AI Avatar who answers your questions about the game (or me!) Here's a link to get a free ticket if you want to try it out! giveaways.page/novagameexpo... #GameDev #Expo #IndieDev

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Free Nova Game Expo Ticket - Keymailer

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 14/02/2025

Went a bit overboard and implemented a first version of the Loot System, with random rarity, affixes, tiers. Managed to do something quite modular to add, remove, modify values, weight etc. (Assets are temporary!) #IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #Prototype

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 01/02/2025

I got contacted by a few people struggling to reach the 3rd boss in The Nightwatch, so I did a full run with a fresh save. I hope it can help guide a few players! I might reduce the difficulty again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs6Y... #TheNightwatch #IndieGame #GameDev

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The Nightwatch - Normal mode [8:46]

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 29/01/2025

Started working on a prototype (assets are temporary). Spell bar, cooldown management, tab/click targeting, player orientation, cast bars... Next step: ~20 spells available, proceduraly generated rooms filled with enemies and i'll start playtesting the combat system #gamedev #solodev

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 15/01/2025

Got a sweet new logo for Astrow Games! And I can say that I finally started working on a new game. I'll be working on a prototype of the combat system in the next few weeks and I'll go from there. I'll be back with something to show very soon! #GameDev #SoloDev

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 03/01/2025

Happy new year Bluesky! Back from winter holidays, I pushed a quick patch v1.1.1 for The Nightwatch TLDR : Removed the Mystery Scroll and added new Blood Shop Scroll and Upgrade Shop Scroll to avoid confusion. Have a good day! store.steampowered.com/news/app/281... #GameDev #SoloDev

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The Nightwatch - Patch note v1.1.1 - Happy New Year! - Steam News

Removed mystery scroll for specific shop scrolls, lower health on elites...

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 20/12/2024

Having a small break for the holidays, and I hope everyone else is doing the same! I still have a few updates for The Nightwatch and I can't wait to finally start working on my new project in january.

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 13/12/2024

I've been having such a BLAST playing #pathofexile2 these past couple of days. Can't wait to see what they bring during the early access.

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 04/12/2024

Come checkout the Bullet Heaven Fest on Steam! store.steampowered.com/sale/bulleth... Many amazing bullet heaven games with a special discount, and the biggest discount I've done for The Nightwatch yet. #BulletHeavenFest #GameDev #Steam

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Bullet Heaven Festival 2.0

Enter Bullet Heaven Festival, a reverse bullet hell celebration. Unleash relentless projectiles, upgrade abilities, conquer foes, and ascend to ultimate power!

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 03/12/2024

Just updated the demo for The Nightwatch with all the QOL features of the v1.1.0, with the possibility to continue in infinite mode right after the first boss, that was missing from previous demo version. Can't wait for new people to try it during the #BulletHeavenFest 🏹 #GameDev #SoloDev

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 02/12/2024

Thrilled to announce that The Nightwatch will be part of this #BulletHeavenFest, Dec 4–11, 2024 (PST), next to all those amazing bullet heaven games! With of course, a special discount for the occasion. Come check it out!

Bullet heaven festival promo for The Nightwatch with a 20% discount

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 01/12/2024

Patch v1.1.0 for The Nightwatch is now LIVE on Windows and Linux : store.steampowered.com/news/app/281... Many many changes, I added a TLDR at the top of the patch note. I'm thankful to everyone enjoying the game and sticking around for those patches! #gamedev #indiedev #thenightwatch

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The Nightwatch - Patch note v1.1.0 - Steam News

Ultra Hard mode, more XP, new upgrades, more enemy variations, balance changes...

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 30/11/2024

I've been working on the v1.1.0 update for The Nightwatch for a couple of weeks now, will redact the patch note today and most likely push it tomorrow!

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 18/11/2024

Might need a bit more move speed for this one #GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 17/11/2024

Kicking up projectile number in Ultra Hard, not sure if it really adds difficulty, but it's prettier!

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 16/11/2024

This rare one dabs in multiple directions, I might need to tweak it a bit more as it's getting hard to dodge

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Indie Games Developer Magazine @igdmag.com · 16/11/2024

Launched an #indiegame in 2024? Let us know - we'll add you to the list this weekend. #indiegamedev #gamepublisher #indiegames go.bsky.app/F9RGk7d

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 15/11/2024

New Starter Pack brewing, exclusively for #gamedev that support #Linux directly. I've added a good few to start, but boosts and suggestions appreciated. If you're a dev replying, be sure to link your game(s). go.bsky.app/FEMywoR

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CodeRed @codered-dev1.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Awesome #gamedev and #artist to follow. If you want to be added, just comment. go.bsky.app/Nov6PsC

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Julian // Calm Pewter Games @calmpewter.games · 15/11/2024

Another day, another starter pack - the Game Dev Field Guide community! This one will be wild. We've got people from all over the dev landscape - artists, coders, composers, solo devs... hobbyists and old pros, all hanging out & sharing their passions and insights on games 💜 go.bsky.app/Aydg7NB

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Florian Verdier @floriannechekuv.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Il reste une vingtaine de place pour ce premier starter pack ! Si vous voulez le rejoindre, n'hésitez pas à me faire signe en mp. Et pas d'inquiétude , j'en ai créé un autre où on réunira tous les développeurs français, pas forcément que indé ^^ //go.bsky.app/AkoEdbY

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 14/11/2024

Except some weird rounding issues in damage calculations, my game seems to run out of the box with WebGL. Not sure what to do with this information.

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Point’n Think @pointnthink.fr · 14/11/2024

Notre premier Start Pack consacré aux solo devs français. Il est très loin d’être complet donc n’hésitez à faire tourner pour qu’on fasse grossir cette liste 🙏 go.bsky.app/9W88nGU

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 14/11/2024

As someone who never took the Twitter leap, and tried it "too late", I'm really enjoying the vibe here and all those amazing devs and games

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 13/11/2024

Cannot express how much reviews are the best thing you could do to an indie dev when you enjoy a game, do it if you have the opportunity! Congrats on your 235!

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Astrow @astrowgames.com · 13/11/2024

Working on variations of each enemies, here's the big eye variant!

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