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Blindflug Studios 🛩️ GROUND OF ACES @blindflugstudios.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🛫 GROUND OF ACES IS OUT NOW in Early Access on Steam! 🛫 Manage and build your very own WWII airbase! 🎮 Build. Manage. Survive. Take Off. Fulfill missions. 🛩️ store.steampowered.com/app/2308690/...

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Reddit also became so sad because of this. Every post and comment I read I have to ask myself if it was created by a human or by AI. Especially when I want to comment, because the thought of replying to a LLM without realizing it just feels so pathetic.

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Stardust ✨ creating Grimoire Groves @stardustgames.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

📣Calling all content creators📣 It's less than a month until Grimoire Groves releases 😱 If you would like to get a super sparkly ✨review key✨ so you can play Grimoire Groves before it releases, we got a sign-up form for you🌸 forms.gle/PxFCv9QUjVrR... Please also help spread the word by reposting 🙏

A Grimoire Groves screenshot showing Primrose casting spells on a bunch of cute sunflower plants.

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Stardust ✨ creating Grimoire Groves @stardustgames.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

👀 Psst..we’ve got some exciting news! With the help of witch magic, Grimoire Groves is releasing early on March 4th!🧙 Also, a new demo releases February 17th, so you can soon grow your garden, cast some spells and make new friends!🔮 Trailer is too long for Bsky, so have a random bug video 💖

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Been thinking a lot about posting more often about my WIP stuff after Grimoire Groves is released. But then again, I worry that this might mess with a first big game reveal marketing beat 🤔 Anyone got any advice on that?

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Would love to be on there if there's still space 💕

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Stardust ✨ creating Grimoire Groves @stardustgames.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Not sure if a bug or a feature 🤔 #screenshotsaturday

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Just realized that this might sound like "my favorites are not on here, so have these instead", but what I meant was of course "these are two of the most helpful people I know - there would be more, but they are not on Bluesky" 🙈

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Many of the most wonderful people in the industry don't have a Bluesky account (yet), but let me just leave these two lovely people here 🥰 @astridmrefstrup.bsky.social @julialkenny.bsky.social

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The craziest part about the new SRF article about funding for games in Zurich is that 58% of the readers say they have played a Swiss video game before. That not only means they care about (Swiss) indie games, but also that they know which games actually were made in Switzerland 🤯 buff.ly/4hnOBoP

Screenshot of poll that shows that 58% of readers have played a Swiss game before.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Yeah, 100%! It's just always this feeling in the back of my head that I must have forgotten something, as a launch can't feel that "normal" 🙈

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Also, it's so weird. The Grimoire Groves release is roughly a month away and I'm pretty calm about it. Heck, the thing is super buggy and unbalanced, but I just feel like it will be ok? I feel so guilty about not freaking out…

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Yeah I have something similar. It's not weird at all to use English words in everyday German among my peers, but if I talk to my family, I struggle to find the corresponding German expressions (they don't speak any English).

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Well, I guess I'm a weird Frankenstein's monster: My English vocabulary is not too great because I'm not a native speaker, but my German vocabulary also is lacking because I consume most media in English 🙈

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

And I really hope people will like it too! I tried to create a happy-go-lucky vibe, and I hope it does not come across as childish or as a kids game. Buuut kids might dig the story 😊

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Just finished translating Grimoire Groves to German. And I had so much fun! I mean I tried to write funny dialogues when I wrote the story, but somehow it hits so much harder in German. Not sure if it is because it's because I'm a German native speaker, or if the stuff just is funnier in German.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The best part is that I have a new PC and I haven't deployed to Steam with it before. So I also had the additional thrill of messing up the Steam upload, which is absolutely wonderful ✨

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It's 9.30pm. You notice that while fixing a bug for your closed beta, you accidentally created another bug (of course). Now it's 9.43pm and you watch your build pipeline slowly building. You hope that your bug fix for the previous bug fix will not introduce another new bug to the beta. 😮‍💨

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Played Grimoire Groves with only two fingers today, to try and simulate how hard the game is if you just picked it up (and don't have like 4 years of experience like me). Well, now my hands hurt. Thanks, game dev tip I read somewhere months ago ☹️

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Stardust ✨ creating Grimoire Groves @stardustgames.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

📣Last chance to participate in the raffle📣 Tomorrow, the winners will get their keys for the last Grimoire Groves beta before the game releases 😱

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Stardust ✨ creating Grimoire Groves @stardustgames.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Don't forget that you still can enter the raffle to win a free key for the super ✨exlusive✨ Grimoire Groves closed beta! 💅

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We're giving away a few exclusive keys for the second closed Grimoire Groves beta! If you wanna do some magical gardening and cute-creature-meeting before the game officially releases, this is your chance! 🍀✨

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My first iMac was a 2007 model and I ran a VM on it to play games 🙈

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

These screenshots also perfectly illustrate that I haven't upgraded my PC in 6 years, and it's starting to show 😢

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I'm no soulslike expert, Elden Ring is the first and only I played, and I'm at 80h now. So most people who care about these games probably have more experience. Personally, I feel like this is one of the games that gives me the least guidance of where I need to go or what I can interact with.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Can't get enough of these sealed doors 😍

An Elden Ring screenshot showing a door sealed by yellow wax

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I know, the "yellow paint" discussion is very 2024, but I'm playing Elden Ring over the holidays and their use of "yellow paint" - or refusal thereof - amuses me a lot.

A screenshot of Elden Ring, showing yellow wax to seal doors and windows closed.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My partner and I need to stop accidentally gifting each other the same thing for Christmas. Last year we got each other a Steam Deck, this year we both got each other books about mushroom foraging. At this point, it's getting scarry.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

As someone who's neurospicy and has many other neurospicy friends, that one hits super hard 🥺

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I'm Swiss and I hate it if people/things are not reliable. Also, I wish cheese and chocolate were more ethically unproblematic to consume. Cause they ARE super tasty.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

me, crying, reaching the end of the year and no worst for the wear 😭🥲: Game Developer Dot Com just included my “solo-devs and risk takers” post in their 10 must read featured blogs 2024 wrapup www.gamedeveloper.com/design/game-... 🥹🙏🤓💕

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Game Developer's 2024 Wrap-Up: 10 must-read Featured Blogs

Read the most significant featured blogs of the year.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Oooh, I think I saw Samantha Shannon floating around when searching for new books to read, have to check it out. Still "working" on the Cerulean Chronicles rn tho 😊

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Love seeing other people's ready lists 💕 Any must read favorites?

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

So following that, my red flags would be: - No clear vision - No or insufficient research - Inconsistency with vision statement These are hard to put into a statement that is super easy to understand or to have a simple picture to illustrate them. But yeah. My learnings from my 3 teaching years.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

What I focused on with the projects I mentored was that the students A) have a very defined vision/goal which B) is not something they can just google/do a tutorial for (aka is unique) and C) that their decisions are in line with that vision.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Yet, let's say a student just really wants to focus on becoming/finding a job as a 3D artist and they choose a project to study, learn and hone that skill, I for example don't care how edgy their project is.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I see where you are going with this, and I've seen many student projects that are not well thought through because students chose one of these points.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Most of your points would also apply to my approach, as the points you mention make it hard to follow a specific goal - they are too unfocused or not well thought through. So from that view, the points on your list that I don't agree with are edginess, multiplayer, and physics.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I see. Well, personally what makes a student concept "interesting" to me is if I see something the student(s) want to learn/study, for example because they have a specific career goal they are working towards, or a specific game vision.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A red flag for what exactly? Because red flags for a thesis project are not the same as red flags for actually releasing a game. For example, there were many cool couch multiplayer thesis projects, so multiplayer would not be a red flag there imho. Making money with the same project? Hard.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

In other words: It's absolutely possible to make a very successful game in that "niche", but if you do that, you know that you are taking a bigger risk by doing so.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

While the market for underrepresented audiences is growing – which is amazing – game development still is a highly risky business. And doing a game in a well performing genre for the core gamer audience is still the safest bet.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

As a ceo of a game studio, this is so true! The money says you should do a traditional game for a traditional audience. But the heart wants to make cool games for cool, queer folks 🌈

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Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS @alexstrook.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

what game devs see in their nightmare

steam forum post titled "ultrawide support"

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Working on a bottom of the screen game prototype, and every time I see this task on my to-do list, I get a tiny stroke.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So if I understood correctly, Twitter now starts to charge social media management tools if they are connecting to Twitter. Which means Twitter will probably disappear from these tools' free plans. As a small indie dev, this is the point where I'm seriously considering to drop Twitter.

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Boo-beauli 👻 @beaubeauli.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It might be a bit early to do that step, we still get some engagement on Twitter. Then again, the question probably is not IF Twitter becomes irrelevant for us, but rather WHEN.

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