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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My wee indie game just passed 2,000 reviews on Steam, and at 94% positive no less. I put three years of my heart and soul into this game, so to see it resonate is absolutely humbling and I'm incredibly grateful.

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Was this... always just a black box? Have you all been retweeting and liking the black box?! 😭 That is supposed to be THIS!

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Experience a 30-hour-long, fully voice-acted storyline where your crafting, exploration and building always have an actual story-driven purpose! You can grab AETHUS right now for just $14.99 - find out why the game has 94% positive reviews! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2541530/... #IndieDev

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

AETHUS received a 'phenomenal' review from @debugmag.com in their latest issue! 👩‍🚀⛏️ So chuffed. Thank you for the lovely words, my physical copy will be going up on the wall!

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

AETHUS has passed 1,500 reviews on Steam! 🥳 I never imagined I might achieve this goal within two months, and for the game to still be Overwhelmingly Positive is just a dream come true. I'm incrediby happy that this little story has resonated so much with everyone. Thank you so much!

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The AETHUS Original Soundtrack is now available on your favourite streaming platforms, if that's your thing! 🔊 Remember you can also purchase a copy for yourself on Steam, and 50% of the profit goes to the awesome composer! 💖

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

After three years of work, AETHUS is out... NOW! 👩‍🚀⛏️ This is my love letter to survival-crafting games, and it's a full 1.0 package - no EA! $15.99 at launch for 30+ hours of proper story-driven gameplay. Can you help me spread the word about my little indie game? #AETHUS #GameDev #IndieGame

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

AETHUS, my solo-indie debut, launches straight to 1.0 (no Early Access!) TOMORROW, March 6th! Story is so often an afterthought in survival-crafting games... Not so in AETHUS - fully voice-acted, there's always a narrative reason to head underground or build up your mining base! #IndieDev

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Thanks for sharing, Moo! Here are the numbers from AETHUS :) More data is a GOOD thing!

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Congratulations to upstart indie devs @bungie.net on their unexpected #NextFest success! 😎

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The AETHUS demo just passed 100 reviews, with a 93% positive rating both recent and overall!😍 I've been tweaking and hotfixing all week, and I'm so happy that the game is resonating so well with the thousands of new players trying it out. Next Fest has been an absolute blast! #GameDev #NextFest

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

One of my playtesters (who has now played the game through twice!...) also found time to crochet this miniature version of Roland! Isn't it the cutest thing in the world?!😍

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Are you a #ContentCreator, #Creator, or #Influencer interested in covering AETHUS ahead of launch in the coming weeks? 👩‍🚀⛏️ Get in touch below, link your channel and make sure you have a content email available!👇 Shares really appreciated to get the word out to the community! 💖 #IndieGame #GameDev

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Getting my wee girl enrolled early. Start as you mean to go on, after all!

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

During @piratesoftware.live's stream of AETHUS last week a number of chatters were asking about UI scaling! I did already have a global UI scaling option, but I was inspired over the weekend to add a bespoke setting for each different UI element so you can set them individually! #IndieDev #GameDev

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

So chuffed to see AETHUS make the list this year! Big thanks to @botherer.bsky.social and @kotaku.com for highlighting awesome indie games! ❤️ (Thanks for letting me know about the broken trailer link😅)

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

AETHUS is an underground survival-crafting game, focused around a proper story with full voice-acting, that I'm developing solo after leaving my AAA job! Think a more story-driven #Subnautica, set in alien caverns... 👩‍🚀⛏️ Check out the demo and wishlist on Steam! #PitchYaGame

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Today's joyful gamedev experience - a negative review for the demo from someone who hates tutorials! But... apparently can't spell or form coherent sentences.

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

So cool to see the game at a physical event! Big shout-out to Peak and the #SXSWSydney crew for picking AETHUS as an international selection to join an awesome host of Australian games!

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

There's discourse happening around #Silksong not having difficulty options so I wanted to show the gameplay modifiers for AETHUS, my survival-crafting game! Everyone enjoys games differently - if you want to make it easier/harder in particular ways, who am I to stop you? #GameDev #IndieDev #Gaming

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Hahaha the icon has been on my screen all day and I have just been wondering what on earth they're doing!

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Delighted that AETHUS has been selected by @yogscast.com for @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social 2025! Tiny Teams starts August 7th at 6PM BST, so go check out the awesome games that we're featured alongside! If you've not wishlisted and played the demo, it's LIVE NOW! #IndieDev #IndieGames #TinyTeams

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

#PitchYaGame My solo-dev game, AETHUS, is all about story-driven survival! 🛠 Mine using tons of tools including powerful lasers, explosives and drills! 🚀 Build a futuristic base using a library of modules, 💬A fully voiced dystopian narrative, 🤖And a Scottish AI companion... #IndieGameDev #GameDev

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Perforce has served me very well so far (1663 commits!) but the simple branching offered by Diversion (plus it having a free Indie tier) means it's just too useful as I approach launch and want to maintain a couple of different versions of the game.

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Post a Steam review for your game/demo that makes your indie dev heart swell! 🥰

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Thanks so much to everyone who's left a review on the new AETHUS demo page so far! Today we got the official rating after hitting ten reviews! 🥳 If you've not left a review yet, would you please take two minutes to do it? ❤👇 shorturl.at/KnJG9

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

#IndieAssemble is in full swing, and AETHUS is right there in the mix! Check it out on #Steam today and don't forget to hit that Wishlist button! 👍 store.steampowered.com/app/2541530?... #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGame #Gaming

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I'm proud to say that AETHUS is part of #IndieAssemble, live now on #Steam! Find us showcased among many excellent indie titles from the 5th to 11th of May! Check us out and give us a wishlist? store.steampowered.com/app/2541530?... #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #IndieGameDev #Gaming

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🚨 Applications for the May Playtest of AETHUS are now OPEN! 👇 forms.gle/5XCgSomeqzND... The playtest will begin next Friday and run for approx. two weeks, and contains 2/3 of the final game, roughly ~15+ hours of gameplay. #GameDev #IndieDev #Playtest #IndieGameDev #GamePlaytest

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Storage crates in AETHUS have coloured lights based on the state: My desire is to make the inventory status clearer: Empty: White Contains Items: Change from Green to Red based on fullness. What do you think? Is this clearer? Any issues you see with it? #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #SoloIndie

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Commit 1,500 on AETHUS in the bag! The game is really coming along, just in grind mode at the moment getting ready for the next playtest 👀

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Here's the full piece (the one above is the main capsule on Steam).

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Super excited to share the new key art for AETHUS! 👨‍🚀⛏👇 What do you think? Does it give a better sense of an exciting world to explore? Wishlist at the link in bio! #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #IndieGameDev

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My Indie Sunday post for AETHUS on r/Games absolutely exploded yesterday, so awesome to be at the top of the subreddit and have so many new eyes on the game. www.reddit.com/r/Games/comm... #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #UnrealEngine #SoloIndie

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Check out the AETHUS Dev Diary for December! 👇 This month: 🌴 - The Lost World ✅ - QOL Continues 🖥️ - Rich Presence store.steampowered.com/news/app/254... #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #UE5 #SoloIndie #SurvivalGame

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Exciting stuff happening in the background, but in the mean-time, the QOL additions continue! Now any resources in your inventory that can be refined in the selected facility are highlighted for visibility! #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGame #MadeWithUnreal #SurvivalGame

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Alex Kane | Wishlist Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 @beacondev.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky ↘️ Day 7: Blast Corps