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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why is the Quasimorph OST hitting so hard maaaan 🥹 youtu.be/ivEj-bWYTRE?...

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Quasimorph OST - Phase 3

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Another picture for the pile I am very close to subscribing to substance again BUT this was all textured with #blender and BAKED WITH CYCLES (takes forever) ... BUT I keep getting happier with the result of my (Titanic) Paint-Shop in #unrealengine ALSO this is baked lighting in unreal 🥹🫓 #indiedev

Titanic-like room with baked static lighting in unreal engine 5

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

All my friends playing watchdogs maaaaaan. Ain't no one vikinging it with me in the viking game?

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yesterday was all about the unwrapping. My eyes still hurt and everything is squares now. Finally get around to play around with some #blender shader stuff again - haven't used cycles in ages haha Did a lot of work linking all duplicate objects to minimize texture space - let's see how it turns out.

Blender screenshot showing a work in progress of the texturing process of a somehwhat fancy "art nouveau" room

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just a quick and dirty export of my #paintshop model - I am very very happy how this approach turned out :D #blender #unreal #indie

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I built a beautiful room for my paint shop tidy up game but somehow my OBS decided to stop being able to record my main screen - soooo just imagine it for now ......

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Man the new #ghostintheshell stuff is so cool! I get strong decorum vibes watching the series :D

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A bit rusty but still at it - I switched engines again and started working on a small game about tidying up :D More to come really soon - lets see if I can make a steam page until September 1st haha

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 16/07/2026

The 2026 Godot Community Poll is here: Takes about ten minutes to complete, and it's one of the more direct ways to influence where things head next. We want to hear from you! 📝 godotengine.org/article/godo...

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Godot Community Poll 2026 – Godot Engine

We want to learn more about the Godot community, understand who the users of the engine are, and find out how we can better support you.

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My game ENDSTATION is part of the "Games composed in Germany" event - how cool is that! 50% off and a fresh 1.1 update just landed bringing bug fixes and QoL improvements to my dirty little dice gambling game. Also I highly recommend you to check out the event - there are some many amazing indies!!

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

@pepperboxstudios.bsky.social and I teamed up to bring you the ultimate dice deckbuilding bundle :) ENDSTATION x Dice of Kalma - complete the set or pick up both on steam right now and start dicing! store.steampowered.com/bundle/72162... #indiegames #dice #endstation #diceofkalma

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ENDSTATION x Dice of Kalma on Steam

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It's #whishlistwednesday and my freshly released ENDSTATION is still discounted for 2 days on steam! How about a nice game of dice, make millions and lose everything? store.steampowered.com/app/4240810/... #dice #indiegames #godot #roguelike

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

ENDSTATION releases now on #steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4240810/... Get your #dice ready and start gaming :) ENDSTATION is a small #indiegame about dice, gambling and cash! It was a fun ride so far and I am looking forward to the next! Share with your friends and take care!

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ENDSTATION on Steam

How about some nice dice in a late-night grungy subway - earn cash, win dice, gamble! Create game-breaking synergies, lose everything. How far will you go?

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Arriving shortly: ENDSTATION I just wrote up a small announcement - announcing the release date of my #dice #indiegame ENDSTATION in round about two weeks!! Read the "story" here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/424... And while you are at it why don't you rest a bit and maybe play some demo-dice?

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ENDSTATION - ENDSTATION Release Date Announcement - Steam News

One week of ENDSTATION Probefahrt - thanks to you the game gets better and better - ENDSTATION releases on the 6th of March - there will be a final demo update before Next Fest

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

How about a nice game of dice on a Saturday? Win some cash and lose it on your next trip in ENDSTATION! Play the demo over here store.steampowered.com/app/4240810/... Have a great one! See you underground. #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #dice #gameplay

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I just released the demo for my dice gamble game ENDSTATION!! If you have the time and are into dice and gambling this might just be for you :) store.steampowered.com/app/4240810/... Spread the word and smash the wishlist button (if you enjoyed the game of course) 🎲💶🚊 #dice #indiegame #godot #steam

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ENDSTATION on Steam

A classic dice game played in a somewhat grungy subway train late at night - how many trips can you afford, how many dice can you collect?

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I sincerely invite you to come and say hi and play our game #potatopunk at the #devcom expo area :D It runs well, is fun, exciting and extra smooth on the big screen! @biasinteractive.bsky.social There are also like a ton of other nice games on display here around us that are worth a play, too!

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

#GMTKjam 2025 is over and we finished our game "Senoj and the Loop if Life" blured.itch.io/the-loop-of-... This was a blast. #godot and #blender as power-tools to bring our vision of a beautiful 3D-first person platformer to life - playable in Browser!!! #indie #gamedev #gamejam

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Senoj and the Loop of Life by BlurEd, Ultiray

Return the stolen artifact to the ancient temple!

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Sooooo after a "one-in-20-years" power outage in my area yesterday back to modelling loops for the #GMTKjam again!! My brother and I are working on a reverse Indiana Jones adventure - you need to return the "Loop of Life" back to its ancient resting place. Lets see how that turns out ^^

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A new monster just spawned-in on my cursed sepulchre - summer evenings playing #ageofsigmar in the garden ^^ and we thought these terrain pieces are unstable so you cannot end a move ON them...

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Animal Time is out and ready to be played on raucherpausegames.itch.io/animal-time as our submission to the #tgccoreblazerjam! Did some fun #gamejam work again and really nailed my 3D gradient workflow hehe. I am super excited to check out all the other submissions now :D #gamedev #indie

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Animal Time by RaucherPauseGames, BlurEd, Jeldrik

Collect Dough-nanas and do not feed the animals by pressing Q.

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I rarely use Unity - I love this output Log thing in the bottom tho. It randomly gives crazy cool loading screen tips. I mean of course. Who thought they could just pass in objects there are already persistent? Pathetic. I am doing 3D art here and do not know what that evens means.

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I always miss #screenshotsaturday so this one is now my official first late screenshot #gamejam game with my mates at RaucherPauseGames. Hand placed collisions - I don't know, there might be a faster way but I enjoy the silence of placing boxes. Will be available on @itch.io later today #indie

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

just a small "how it's going" update. The space belt elevators are mental - not to mention the dimensions here AND the throughput update on the space belts - my brain hurts a bit and I have too little blue paint... #shapez2 #factory @tobsprgames.bsky.social

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I have a pretty good idea of my Warhammer pile of shame. I am about to evaluate my Steam tsundoku pile now as well. My impression, prior count - about 80% of games that I own I also played. howtomarketagame.com/2025/06/03/m... #tsundoku #pileofshame #steam

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Most people who buy your game won’t play it – How To Market A Game

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

@tobsprgames.bsky.social Oh no. Oh no .. I had it in my calendar and forgot about it. Oh goodbye cruel world - the shapez updated just dropped. Ciao. I am gone now. For some time. #shapez2 #indie

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Fest- und weichkochend!! What a timing - we have a public playable for the #dayofthepotato! There were so many ideas and some of them made it into systems and features for you to try! Looking forward to new problems to solve next week haha #indie #gamedev #potatopunk

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Jamming in room 404 was always part of my favourite game dev activities. It doesn't have a name yet but a lot of cool art haha. Developed a fancy style for this one ^^ Ready to play next week around Sunday for the #tgccoreblazerjam #gamejam #indie #room404 #gamedev

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

one of the gems I discovered at gamescom 24 - go argue with your duck

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This looks already like it has "the magic" without even understanding a single bit of gameplay

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

📣 The rush to add AI into everything is a big threat to privacy, as we've been saying. MS Recall's screenshotting everything is a (not) great example of exactly why. So, Signal took steps to protect everyone using Signal on Windows 11 from Recall's privacy invasion.👇 signal.org/blog/signal-...

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By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is a...

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Dark Ages first impressions: I like Eternal more - until chapter five. I still miss my Castle Doom tho. Very interesting how the core design has changed and somehow made it back to the original. #Doom

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Someone googled "cool sci-fi graphic design" and just what - screenshot - ctrl-v into painter, export done? And no one noticed throughout the whole pipeline? Ouch...

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Great small read with some pointers to nice further bigger reads on architecture :) Watching a lot of @stevelee.bsky.social level design videos on YouTube has really reignited my passion for these things totter87.medium.com/why-architec... #leveldesign #architecture

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Why Architecture Matters for Level Design

Architect Paul Goldberger’s book, Why Architecture Matters (from which this article takes its title), proclaims that “we could not live…

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Another Sunday activity: building a new shelf in for the boardgame trailer. According to our math everything should fit - Twilight Imperium and Frosthaven are the oddballs definitely ^^ #boardgames #trailer

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Just play-tested the "fresh out of the oven build" of Railroad Scheduler by @kawanka.bsky.social and friends :D This is gonna be very very cool for all train and Deutsche Bahn (the schedule aspect!) fans! store.steampowered.com/app/2820250/...

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Railroad Scheduler on Steam

Control time to lead your trains to their destinations. Orchestrate all schedules and test them as you go. Don't fear crashes – fix them by going back in time! Master each mission and become the ultim...

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Unwinnable @unwinnable.com · 07/05/2025

"We were afraid of SHODAN, but somewhere along the way we lost the plot about how being able to make our own decisions was the thing we didn’t want to lose." Emma Kostopolus explains how the AI apocalypse is much more boring than we expected in games like System Shock:

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The Banality of AI Hell, or: We Were Worried About the Wrong Thing - Unwinnable

I know you’re watching me type this, Copilot.

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"You Are An Insurance Agent On A Ship" is my favorite video game genre.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 02/05/2025

In response to the Polygon and Giant Bomb news, I created an indie and worker-owned games media starter pack. I’ll keep adding to it, so suggestions and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Please share!

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Do not let yourself get fooled by the Arc tech test II You need to check out Skin Deep now!

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Sunday activity: looking at and talking about kick-ass board games. with friends. sunny. garden.

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

451 the code to my heart Started another run in this re-masterpiece yesterday - Cyberspace hacking never gets old, I still hate it as much as ever ... #systemshock #fourfiveone

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A few weeks ago I finally got this gem and basically played it covert to cover over the weekend. Super nice game & very inspiring. Can't wait to get back into it, start my next live and finally outsmart Tang in engineering ^^ @sarahnorthway.bsky.social please give us more of the Exocolony soon!

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We are going to show you some potatoes at Gamescom this year

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

@tobsprgames.bsky.social the moment I scrolled to the 3D space belts I fell of my chair. Do not try to call me or text me after June 2, 2025 #shapez2 store.steampowered.com/news/app/216...

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shapez 2 - Dimension Update Reveal - Steam News

Going into detail about the Dimension Update

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

and I will be in Düsseldorf at that time ....

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bALDUIN @bal-duin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Just watched "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" and my god that was a nice movie! I need to make a game now that works like theater sets. With actors that are both playing a character and simultaneously breaking the 4th wall, narrating the script that they should play instead.

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