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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Title Screen for Time Distortionists dropped! This is the Anchor (the base outside of time) in the Veil (the timespace medium) with the river of time flowing. #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I work in AI for my day job, but deliberately chose not to use gen AI for art, music, or writing in my game. Building this game has let me collaborate with incredibly talented people, and their creativity has made it better. I'm very happy with that choice. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, Endiku! Time Distortionists is a turn-based strategy game where you're trying to stop the timeline from collapsing across 13 billion years. #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/4237710/...

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Folk Emerging 🦣 stone age 4X (OUT NOW) @curiousdynamics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Excited to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday thread! 🎮 If you're a #gamedev with a turn-based game, showcase it in the replies, and use the hashtag #TurnBasedThursday. We're all boosting this thread! ♖ If you love turn-based #Gaming: ❤️, 🔁, & follow your faves!

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#TurnBasedThursday - Turn-Based Game Showcases @turnbasedthursday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This week's host is a #TurnBasedThursday co-organizer, essential to organizing our yearly Steam sale and wonderfully helpful to so many in our community. A solo dev who just released his first (impressively deep & addictive) game, follow @CuriousDynamics.bsky.social for tomorrow's thread!

Screenshots from Folk Emerging, a pre-historic / Stone Age nomadic 4X strategy game by @CuriousDynamics.bsky.social.

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#TurnBasedThursday - Turn-Based Game Showcases @turnbasedthursday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What are you playing?! Here are some gems from last week's #TurnBasedThursday: ⭐ Retro space shooter with a spark 💥 Microgame mayhem with an ancient twist 🐛 Creepy ruin crawl just released 🐪 Strategic desert trading & caravan adventure All these and more in the full showcase thread⤵ #Gaming

Star Spark, by @jeremyjackson.bsky.social

The Ruins of Calaworm, by @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social

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BlindCoco Studios - Wicked Night @blindcoco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We are pleased to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday on Bsky Game devs and genre connoisseurs, kindly share your turn-based games in the replies! Enjoyers, fans and kindred spirits, Like ❤️ and Repost 🔁 any game you like!

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Folk Emerging 🦣 stone age 4X (OUT NOW) @curiousdynamics.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🎉 Folk Emerging is OUT NOW on Steam! 🎉 Grab that 10% launch discount, and don't forget to leave a review! store.steampowered.com/app/2275300/... MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone that has supported this game ❤️

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Loving this one. Time Distortionists, Digital Era Ruin location - an AI-pocalpyse. #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is my game marketing strategy now. Enjoy Isaac: #indiegame #indiedev #cats

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Folk Emerging 🦣 stone age 4X (OUT NOW) @curiousdynamics.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

📣 RELEASE DATE ANNOUNCEMENT 🎮 FOLK EMERGING will launch on August 26th! 🔥 stone Age 🦣 nomadic ⏳ turn-based ⬢ 4X strategy Wishlist on Steam 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/2275300?...

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Chromatic Ink | Dice Gambit is OUT NOW! @chromaticink.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's #TurnBasedThursday, and we're honored to be this week's host! 🎲 Are you a #Gamedev with a turn-based game? Reply below! 🎮 Are you a gamer? Check out all the fantastic games! ❤️ Like, 🔁 Retweet and 💬 Comment on any games that catch your attention!!

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Digital Era wild site for Time Distortionists - like the look of this one! #indiedev #indiegame

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A playtester managed to play my game for 2 hours in a row. o_O I can make fun one-more-turn feel games apparently! #indiedev #indiegames

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Time Distortionists announcement trailer and Steam page are up! Scan 13 billion years of history, deploy agents, and discover how one reasonable intervention creates seventeen new problems. Watch, wishlist, distort causality: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP5z... #indiedev #indiegame #strategy

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Time Distortionists - Official Announcement Trailer

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Attending FutureFest in Durham, NC and showcasing my game! futurefestconnect.com #indiedev #indiegames #festival #strategy #timetravel

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Reworked Digital era urban site; we changed it to be focused on the hero building like we have elsewhere for locations. Think it looks much better. #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Piuhonist sacred site! This is one of the sites in Time Distortionists. Piuhonism is a religion in the world of Kautos. #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Improved the procedural generation of Moment names, and I get moment names like this now. 🤣 #indiedev #indiegames #strategy #timetravel

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Gotta enjoy dem time tentacles (new animation when a moment in time is eroding) #indiedev #indiegames #strategy #timetravel

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R. Watson @flyingwienerdog.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Official launch announcement trailer for Idosra: The Electric Renaissance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUDe...

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Idosra: The Electric Renaissance Launch Announcement

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Added some interactivity on mission deployment for Time Distortionists. It's still a bit abstract, I'll make it more sophisticated later. This will allow you to see the consequences of your decisions more! #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #timetravel #strategy

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Like to see my game coming to liiiife (pixel art buildings are placeholder that are being replaced) #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamee #strategy #turnbasedthursday #timetravel

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Added pinning (bookmarking) moments (time based locations) to my game, allowing the user to go to important moments in time at a glance. (For example, when allying with moments or defending them from erosion.) Also added heatmaps for the different moment statistics. #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Core Reactor for Time Distortionists, the second anchor facility texture finalized. This'll genenerate chrono energy per turn. You can start to see the beginning of a Time Distortionist building style here. #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #strategy #timetravel

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Excited to be collabing with @musicvsartstuff.bsky.social in creating the music for Time Distortionists! She's created 3 pieces so far and they will be available to hear in the next Playtest this Friday in Raleigh! #gamedev #indiegames #indiedef #strategy #timetrabel

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 10/04/2026

We would like to thank @megacrit.com for another year of sponsorship. This time, upgrading to Corporate Platinum! We were supposed to post this earlier but we were all busy playing Slay the Spire 2 🫡 fund.godotengine.org

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Art for the Quantum Forge, an Anchor facility that produces temporal metal for the player to build other facilities, installations, and equipment. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

New website for Fluxionary Studios, my game development brand that crafts Time Distortionists! If you are interested in learning more about the game or are interested in the beta test, sign up to the mailing list! fluxionary.net #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

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Fluxionary Studios - Games Set Within a Living World

Join Fluxionary Studios on a journey through Kautos, a universe of strategy games defined by causality, balance, and consequence. Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed.

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

In game rendition of The Anchor, the base outside time in my time travel turn based strategy game. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #strategy #gaming

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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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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

New feature for my time travel strategy game - mission flavor text. Now the mission has flavor success/failure text depending on the mission type and dynamics of the moment and location in time. This was a quick win bases on playtest feedback. #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Presenting my game at a playtest night in Raleigh-Durham tonight!

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Actions in my game are small things you can do like scanning moments in time to discover them, suppressing a lead so you don't have to worry about it expiring, etc. I added an action queue visualizing where and what actions you did and allowed the user to undo the action. #indiedev #indiegames

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Some updated screens from my game after work with my artist (there's still placeholders granted, but we got the UI renovated) #indiedev #indiegame

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Uncle Sasha @testingcoder.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

"Player making decisions", Chapter 23: Behaviourism This chapter was surprisingly good! (spoiler alert: book gets better from here) This chapter explains how different reward pattern affect player engagement, on a example we all love: coin pusher #gamedesign #indiegamedev #gamepsychology

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Folklands - Wishlist on Steam ✨ @folklandsgame.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Sometimes you have to take a step back and just realize how much your game can improve if you just keep working on it. These shots are two years apart. Keep at it. #indiedev #IndieGameDev #indiegaming #gamedeveloper #godot

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Inari PR @inaripr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Calling all #indiedev folks out there to drop your games for another #showcasethursday! Let's boost visibility, repost, and most importantly, wishlist each other's games! #gamedev #indiegame #indiegames #gaming #indiegamedev

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Really excited to be working with an artist to figure out the art direction of my time travel turn based strategy game! #indiedev

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FantasyAnime @fantasyanime.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Lavos is coming! 😱 - Chrono Trigger (SNES)

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Joshua Hallaran | 8-Bit Adventures 2 @criticalgamesau.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I'm honoured to be officially hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday! 🥳 🎨If you're a #GameDev / #IndieDev, comment below with your awesome #turnbased game! EVERYONE! 🔁 Repost & ❤️Like this tweet 👉 Tag other games & devs you support ✨ Add the games you love to your wishlist!

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Another book I am reading in the more technical space. I already have a pretty solid programming background but this is nice to know how software patterns can be specific to in terms of gaming. #indiedev #gamedev

Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Reading the Art of Game Design to up my game design skills! #gamedev #indiedev

Book: Art of Game Design, 3rd edition by Jesse Schell

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#TurnBasedThursday - Turn-Based Game Showcases @turnbasedthursday.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The 4th annual #TurnBasedThursdayFest will be March 9-16! Hundreds of excellent games & discounts on Steam, Let's Plays & giveaways, & our first ever Featured Reveals trailer showcase! Help us spread the word? ❤️🔃 Developer & content creator signups are open, 🔗 in replies 👇

#TurnBasedThursdayFest - Celebrating everyone who makes, plays, and loves turn-based video games! March 9th-16th, 2026. TurnBasedFest.com

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Bill Dusch @billistician.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I finally figured out how to make a GIF of the gameplay for my game Time Distortionists! Here’s a small peek at some of the aspects of the core loop: discovering new Moments, sending agents to intervene, and watching the ripples spread through history. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

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