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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡

@bordenary.bsky.social
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-Environment Artist, Pixel Artist and solo game dev. -Former env. artist on KSP2. -Play the demo for Towerbolt or buy the game now! tinyurl.com/drbcv8vj

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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is the last day to check out Towerbolt while it's on sale for the Steam Schmoovement Festival! Check out the game while it's still 25% off! And thank you to everyone who have already picked up the game or wishlisted it during the sale! 😄 #schmoovin2026 #steam #gaming
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Towerbolt is NOW on sale for the Steam Schmoovement Festival for 25% off! Check it out! ⚡Charge vertical momentum through wall jump combos ⚡Escape a cyberpunk tower prison and outrace deadly rising lasers on your way to the top ⚡100% handcrafted by a solo dev #schmoovin2026 #indiegame #steam
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Towerbolt is NOW on sale for the Steam Schmoovement Festival for 25% off! Check it out! ⚡Charge vertical momentum through wall jump combos ⚡Escape a cyberpunk tower prison and outrace deadly rising lasers on your way to the top ⚡100% handcrafted by a solo dev #schmoovin2026 #indiegame #steam
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm happy to announce that Towerbolt will be part of the Schmoovement Festival Steam Sale on Steam starting tomorrow! (9/22 - 9/29) Feel free to check out Towerbolt amongst a lot of other extremely cool games built around movement flow and high skill ceiling control! #schmoovin2026 #steam
A promo banner image for Towerbolt showing that it will be part of the Schmoovement Festival 2026, a Steam Sale focused on expressive and nuanced character movement.
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Sam 🧊🐐 | Xythas @xythas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At last... Draco and the Seven Scales is now out on Steam and Itch! Sail the seven seas on this pirate adventure!
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Big welcome to all my recently new followers! If you're looking for a hand crafted game made without AI, check out my game Towerbolt! ⚡Fast Paced 2D Cyberpunk Parkour ⚡Inspired by Metroid, Downwell, Celeste, Super Meat Boy ⚡Lovingly made by a solo dev (me!) store.steampowered.com/app/2559220/...
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Sam 🧊🐐 | Xythas @xythas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Draco and the Seven Scales is coming out September 18th, 2026! It's finally time to raise anchor!
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Audre Schutte @charamath.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yessss, the new trailer has dropped for Usual June!! And a few of my contributions make an appearance in it. Including that hulking one at the end 😉. Please check this game out! You won’t be disappointed.
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Audre Schutte @charamath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hey, HEY! Y’all need to check out this game! I had the pleasure of contributing to it a bit and I can say hands down that this team cares SO MUCH about this game and it really shows! Not one inch of this game isn’t fine tuned with love.
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Joanna "Ms. Crow" Blackhart [They/Them] @joannablackhart.com · 20/08/2026
I wanna pitch something. If you're an indie dev SPECIFICALLY in Seattle (like myself), and you wanna get some eyes on your project, reach out to me. Lets see if we can organize something.
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Seerlight @seerlight.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Kingdom Hearts When you walk away... 🥲 #Kingdomhearts #kh4
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 16/08/2026
Hey! Are you an indie dev who doesn't use gen AI and have a game you're currently promoting? I'm looking to make a starter pack and you could be in it! Reply below with a link to your game 👇 go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y
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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 18/08/2026
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you haven't worked in the industry in the last two years because you've been unable to find a job, it'll boot you out of the survey. So say you're self-employed.
"Why do you see yourself leaving the game industry [in the next twelve months]?"

AAA layoffs are decimating institutional knowledge and making a stable career impossible. Greed-first financial climate makes AA funding precarious. The job market is impossibly competitive. A lack of functional marketing systems makes indie success a coin flip at best. And cost of living in "industry cities" is too high to bear a long unemployment spell."What considerations or values guide your decisions about if, when, or how to use generative AI tools in your work?"

Personally: it short-circuits any learning process and atrophies personal skill.
Discipline: It's unsuitable for the work I do (design).
Professionally: genAI output is not protected by copyright and may expose me to theft/plagiarism liability. 
Industry: it's being over-deployed for work it can't do and used as an excuse to lay off, under-hire, and overwork workers. 
Societally: the genAI industry is vacuuming up investment money and starving other industries, including games. 
Morally: LLMs and image generators are trained on creative work taken without declaration, consent, or compensation.
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Goomboo @maplegecko.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#Asemulator v1.0.0 releases on August 28th! 🎉 The Top-down and Side-scroller templates will be available on the same date. Get ready to preview, test and share your characters' animated sprites in context, directly in @aseprite.org! Reposts highly appreciated~
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Today is the LAST day of the Cyperpunk Sale and to get Towerbolt at a 20% discount! ⚡150+ floors of fast, skill based movement ⚡Speedrunner friendly at all skill levels ⚡Lovingly made by a solo dev Steam Store Page: store.steampowered.com/app/2559220/... #indiegames #steam #cyberpunk
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Happy 40th Anniversary to the Metroid series! A green haired Samus from 2021 to celebrate! #metroid #samus #pixelart
A pixel art image of Samus Aran from the Metroid series.  She has green hair (notably different than her usual blonde hair) and is wearing her Varia suit with her helmet off.
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Audre Schutte @charamath.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
My second #Beastiebreakdown is based off the gorgeous game Blasphemous 2. Even though this game vexes me greatly I need to finish it purely so I can see all the fantastic enemy designs and backgrounds. I VERY rarely do pixel art, so this was a fun challenge! #Blasphemous2 #pixelart
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Reminder that my game Towerbolt is on sale for the Cyberpunk Fest! ⚡Enhanced with the latest Speedrunning Update ⚡Combo chain jumps to build momentum ⚡About the price of a fancy boba tea (you know, the ones with extra boba and salted cheese foam 😋) #steam #gaming #cyberpunk
A promo image showing that the game Towerbolt is on sale for 20% off during the Steam Cyberpunk Fest! (8/3 - 8/10)
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Happy 40th Anniversary to the Metroid series! A green haired Samus from 2021 to celebrate! #metroid #samus #pixelart
A pixel art image of Samus Aran from the Metroid series.  She has green hair (notably different than her usual blonde hair) and is wearing her Varia suit with her helmet off.
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Manijure @manijure.hijumpboots.com · 02/08/2026
Finally finished Towerbolt and collected every single cyberchip! Shoutouts to @bordenary.bsky.social for making this game and @valefor-m.bsky.social for running the it in SGDQ and encouraging me to try. :)
Results screen from the game Towerbolt. Time is 8:31:30.965, cyberchips is 102/102, speed is B, stealth is A.
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
⚡ Towerbolt is on sale for just less than $10 for the Steam Cyberpunk Fest! ⚡ If you're looking for a fast paced platformer with neon colors, cyberpunky vibes, and a cool hacker owl, check out Towerbolt! Steam page linked in the replies! #steam #indiegames #cyberpunk
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
QRP with your most popular piece on bsky!
A pixel art image of a snowy landscape lit under a sunrise.  The sun is peeking behind clouds and tints the snow with very pink lighting.
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Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🎉Excited to announce I've adapted Party House from UFO 50 into a physical card game! 🎉 Teaser trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHNF... Kickstarter prelaunch page (shared w/ a Baba is You game!): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit... Brought to you by @bitewinggames.bsky.social More details soon! 🥳
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Party House: The Deckbuilding Game — Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by Bitewing Games
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Feels a little anti-climatic after all the Towerbolt GDQ stuff to go, "here's a brick material!" 😅 But here's another Substance Designer material, some colored bricks! #substancedesigner #3dart #gameart
A side by side breakdown of a 3D brick game material made in Substance Designer.  3D view of the material applied to a sphere on the left, with a split layered breakdown of the textures on the right (Albedo, Normal, Roughness, Height, AO)
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Desktop Explorer 💾 Available on Steam now! @desktopexplorergame.com · 17/07/2026
🖥️ Desktop Explorer is AVAILABLE NOW! 🔍 Rummage through the abandoned profiles of an old PC to unravel an inherited mystery. 💾 Buy Now: tinyurl.com/DesktopExplo...
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Audre Schutte @charamath.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hello again #portfolioday (now w/ art carousel)! I'm Audre ('charamath')! I'm a vis-dev/concept artist for animation, film & games. I make f*d up horses for fun. *Looking for work* & making indie games & a monster manual in the meanwhile! www.charamath.com
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Desktop Explorer 💾 Available on Steam now! @desktopexplorergame.com · 13/07/2026
4 days to go! Desktop Explorer will be out this FREAKIN FRIDAY 📅
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Back from SGDQ. It's been so amazing to be an active part of the event with Towerbolt being ran at GDQ after watching the marathon for years! I'm hugely grateful to all the runners who submitted and to the GDQ staff for giving space in the schedule for my little game. Thank you all, and cheers!!
Photo of me talking about Towerbolt's SGDQ 2025 demo leaderboard during the Towerbolt SGDQ main stage run this year!
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Towerbolt's SGDQ run was finished this morning, @valefor-m.bsky.social crushed it and claimed a stunning new world record!! Feel free to check out the run VOD below! youtu.be/XRVzt9AqFCg?... #SGDQ2026 #speedrunning
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Towerbolt by Valefor_M in 26:11 - Summer Games Done Quick 2026
YouTube video by Games Done Quick
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Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We appreciate it whenever GDQ highlights an indie game on Steam that hasn’t received a lot of attention. Towerbolt looks really cool!
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Towerbolt's SGDQ run was finished this morning, @valefor-m.bsky.social crushed it and claimed a stunning new world record!! Feel free to check out the run VOD below! youtu.be/XRVzt9AqFCg?... #SGDQ2026 #speedrunning
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Towerbolt by Valefor_M in 26:11 - Summer Games Done Quick 2026
YouTube video by Games Done Quick
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I am at SGDQ! If you see bordenary walking about that's me. Feel free to say hi!
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
⚡ LAST minute chance to pick up Towerbolt at 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale! ⚡ Check out the new Speedrunning Update and grab yourself a spot on the global leaderboards! #indiegame #steam #gaming
A promo image showing Towerbolt is on sale for 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale for $9.59.  The Speedrunning Update is featured on Towerbolt's title art.
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hope everyone has been enjoying SGDQ! In case you missed it, my game Towerbolt will be having it's GDQ debut this week on Friday 7/10 at 3:05 AM PST! ⚡ I'm so excited for the run and looking forward to supporting the run from the commentator's couch! Check it out! #SGDQ #speedrunning #indiegames
A half and half image of Towerbolt promo art showing it's logo and the Games Done Quick logo, and on the other side, an image of the Summer Games Done Quick 2026 games schedule with Towerbolt's time slot highlighted (7/10 at 3:05 AM PST).
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Reminder that my game is on sale for 20% off for the Steam Summer Sale! Also with a shiny new update with global leaderboards and speedrunning QoL features just added. It's Time to Break Free! (from paying full price on video games 😄) #steam #gaming #platformers #indiegame
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The Witch's Bakery - Sunny Lab @sunnylabgames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
With inspiration from Kiki's Delivery Service and Persona 5~~ we now have a release date! 🥐
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Towerbolt is now on sale for the Steam Summer Sale, catch it now while it's 20% off! It's a great time to check out the new Speedrunning Update and to claim top spots on the global leaderboards while they're new and fresh! Hope to see you on the climb! #steam #gaming #indiegames
An image showing Towerbolt's discount during the Steam Summer Sale, which is happening now!  Towerbolt is on sale for 20% off and is now $9.59.  Towerbolt is a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X.
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Announcing that the free Speedrunning Update for Towerbolt is NOW AVAILABLE! Check out the main features below: 🏁 Global Leaderboards for each ranked floor of the Tower 👻 Player Ghosts based on your fastest floor times 🔄 Repeat Level Mode #indiegames #steam #speedrunning #platformer
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The Speedrunning Update to Towerbolt is coming out later today at 6 PM PST! Will be posting here again later when it's live! #indiegames #gaming #steam #speedrunning
A promo art image for Towerbolt, a fast paced vertical platformer set in the year 239X.  It shows The Bolter in a dynamic jumping pose, leaping up a sci-fi vertical shaft environment with multiple glowing lasers chasing her.  The text at the bottom details The Speedrunning Update's release date and time, June 24th at 6PM PST.
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Desktop Explorer 💾 Available on Steam now! @desktopexplorergame.com · 22/06/2026
🖥️Desktop Explorer has over 100,000 wishlists! And we wish to thank each and every one of you! ✨ We can't wait for you to finally play the full game next month on July 17th 📅
image of desktop Explorer characters thanking players for 100'000 wishlists
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Speedrunning Update for Towerbolt is coming soon! Ironing out bugs for this now, the update will be live this Wednesday around 6 PM PST! Towerbolt will be on sale during the Steam Summer Sale as well, so keep an eye on it this week if you'd like to check it out! #gaming #steam #speedrunning
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 21/06/2026
I'm at the end of my self-imposed deadline and now present to you... Crappy Bird! Feel free to unburden yourself and play this game. Consider it your duty. It may not be the best thing you see today, but I'll bet it's number 2. ...poop. 👀👀 klamp.itch.io/crappy-bird #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart
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Crappy Bird by klamp
Takin' Craps and Dodgin' Zaps
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Kieran Lampert @kieranlampert.com · 16/06/2026
Almost done with this little project, which is good because I don't want to spend more than a few weeks on it. It has been extremely fun playing around in PICO-8, though. I will definitely be making more little games with it. #gamedev #indiegame #pico8 #pixelart
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チムニー @chimney1022.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Marihilda
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Shoring up my 3D art portfolio with some Substance Designer work! Here's a wood plank material: #substancedesigner #3dart #gameart
A 3D render of a wooden plank material applied to a sphere (rendered in UE5).  The planks are stylized and chunky with accentuated, curvy wood grain.  Metal nails are placed at the end of various planks.
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Towerbolt is getting a free Speedrunning Update in late June! This update is focused on adding speedrunning QoL features: ⚡ Global Leaderboards for each ranked floor ⚡ Player Ghosts ⚡ Repeat Level Mode Open beta for this is out NOW on the Towerbolt discord! (link below) #indiegames #speedrunning
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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Towerbolt on Steam! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Towerbolt is getting a free Speedrunning Update in late June! This update is focused on adding speedrunning QoL features: ⚡ Global Leaderboards for each ranked floor ⚡ Player Ghosts ⚡ Repeat Level Mode Open beta for this is out NOW on the Towerbolt discord! (link below) #indiegames #speedrunning
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Mega 🎮😈 @megamachina.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Games are for everyone. Not just you. Not just your gender. Not just your race. For EVERYONE. A game featuring a character who has at least one characteristic different than you is not an agenda, it's just different from you. The game is still for you too, and everyone else.
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