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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 14/09/2026

When I finish the next Wunder update I'm might give myself a week to work on some Comet Coast stuff... I miss it so much

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 09/09/2026

is the x files the best show?! I just got to the virtual reality episode and it's just so good

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/09/2026

no top down zelda in 13 years is so sad, very much hoping for one today! but I'm not holding my breath 😅 I can only hope OoT remake doesn't have emergent gameplay mechanics

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 07/09/2026

got a lot of follows from the "No AI" starter pack, thanks for being interested in my small human game dev work 💛 atm I'm working on a little game about flipping coins to learn how to make numbers & stats feel fun!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 06/09/2026

I ran a marathon! I mostly walked the last 15k but I did go the distance!! MVP was defo my left leg, I wore a knee brace for the first 30k to help with joint pain I usually get. Runner-up went to my right leg who was there for me every other step of the way!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 01/09/2026

Why does One Drive act like this?! I know I'm everywhere... in my own pictures, what are you talking about?!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 22/08/2026

Started a contract recently so I have a lot less time to work on wunder, but I still want to make progress. I've been trying to do at least a little bit every night, without over-exerting myself. Only got 10 more talisman models to make!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 14/08/2026

28 potions are now all working, little consumables add a lot to these kinds of games!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 13/08/2026

also holy hell, finding out I can do this is such a massive boon! I can go on a little company purge for any of them that have made a big splash saying stuff like "we're AI-First", etc. very cool feature

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 12/08/2026

Adding potions to Wunder and I just hit 20! I reckon I'm gonna try to get 28 in for the big update

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 31/07/2026

Wunder is in this event, just got the demo back up a few days ago! Still working on next update and whilst it's taking a lot longer, there's some really fun new Coins & Talismans coming in v0.4 Like Odysseusssss!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 29/07/2026

finally got around to making a studio page for playdate, it's very cute and I love that they added this

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 22/07/2026

we're 55.6% of the way through the year but I've only managed 36.92% of my goals this year 😭 Hopefully I can jump up in the next months or 2

A group of 24 goals I'm aiming to achieve this year

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 19/07/2026

Everyone should go play The Mermaid Mask 🧜🎭 It's wonderful and everything games should be! If I ever lose my drive to make games a bit, I play a game from @sfbtom.bsky.social and @sfbdim.bsky.social, it always rejuvenates me!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 09/07/2026

trying to get back into making youtube videos but miso wants the video to be about her also the games industry is mega cooked and I'm trying very hard to not think about it 😭

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 21/06/2026

Anyway that's all from me! I'm making a concerted effort to use less social media atm as the AI stuff that keeps popping off is depressing me a huge amount. I'm gonna try to only post when I have something creative to share... Like these cool little potions that are coming soon™️ to Wunder!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 21/06/2026

So far quite a few players have played through everything in the game so I know roughly that the game takes around 20 - 30 hours to 100% in it's current state. I think this means 1.0 will have around 100 hours of gameplay for the sickos obsessed with collecting everything, that's pretty cool to me!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 21/06/2026

So while sales have slowed down quite a bit (even whilst on discount), this is expected as I've made no real marketing attempt. Wishlists have climbed significantly since launch (was around 400) so I reckon if I keep plugging away and working on updates we'll be okay!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 21/06/2026

Wunder stats! Some cool stuff and not so cool stuff has happened 😅 Sales are low but a lot of people like the game! Sales minus refunds are at 274, unless I get lucky in the next sale I think the projected goal of between 200 - 400 sales a month for year 1 might be missed. #indiedev

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/06/2026

That episode ends with Tim saying: "You're trying to get people to contribute their whole selves to the project... ... to make a group of people work well together, bring the best ideas forth and make good stuff together." I think AI is a great way to not "Make good stuff together."

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/06/2026

It's not just a "style" and it's not just "ideas", what we're searching for as artists is a format of expression that feels honest. A compelling way to tell stories that we want to tell.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/06/2026

Even when an artist is following a previously established direction, you can see their identity and attention to detail bleed through.

A shot from a later episode, Levi talks about revisit a lot of earlier assets to polish and improve them.

Continuation of previous image, showing the main characters have been completely repainted.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/06/2026

Part of the solution is bringing on @leviryken.bsky.social who jokingly says "I'll get out my tracing paper" in reference to Peter Chan's concept art. This is preceded by him talking about watching Ghibli films every day at a local cinema to get inspired.

Levi showing and talking about his art work referencing Peter Chan.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 08/06/2026

That's hard if you want to ship a game in a timely fashion. The process makes Nathan question what "Bagel Style" even is. But with the advent of replacing human labour with AI maybe we can do it! That's a joke of course, it's fundamentally not possible.

Nathan Stapley pointing at a production chart and laughing.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 05/06/2026

It's #PitchYaGame! Wunder: The Double-Sided Deckbuilder is all about flipping coins in battles of chance to escape Hades! Every coin does something unique when it lands Heads or Tails, and can be upgraded to cause absolute chaos! 💀 Check it out on Steam 💀 store.steampowered.com/app/3895480/...

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 29/05/2026

🧪 potions looking cool 🧪 Still a lot left to do, but I've missed doing tech art!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 28/05/2026

I ranted about Gen-AI again 😅 About how it prevents you from growing into a master.

I have very negative feelings towards Generative AI.

This is gonna be a bit of an arsy rant, just to save you time reading haha.

I've been asked recently multiple times what kind of AI I use, I know they're not asking how I handle behaviour trees for enemies in my games. I know they're not asking about proc gen, NPCs, simulation, etc. They're asking which LLM tech company do I prompt to do my work.

In a world where people are endlessly signalling their vices, I don't seem to signal my virtues nearly enough. I hate Gen-AI, I think using it makes you dumber over time, and ultimately creates a separation between you and your work. That space is then filled by an average weighted sum of the collective works of humanity. I think it's bad.

None of this is new though, I'm unsure I can say anything that hasn't been said better by others, but I want to make it clear on this website (that seems to be the nexus for very weird AI-Powered "Creators") that no, not everyone uses it. A lot of people find it revolting, for many, many reasons.

One reason, that I don't see brought up enough, is that using it creates all the requirements needed to never achieve mastery in anything. Odd comparison, but you'll become Adam Sandler's character in the movie Click, eventually skipping everything involved with living your life to supercharge your career. You will opt out of your own existence.

I would like to achieve mastery. I honestly can't imagine just wanting to make number go up to build capital, the irony of my current game being a 'number go up' game is not lost on me 😅. But not doing the work and gaining experience would rob me of that potential, and the fact that so many people are falling over themselves to farm their work out to machines is sad.

Somehow, people are managing to convince themselves that everyone who doesn't use it will be left behind. Which first of all, is bananas; I disagree that any industry can be tracked so linearly. Secondly, I don't mean this in a "we'll win the war" kind of way, but unlike past improvements in technology that were dogpiled on for making things easier, Gen-AI tech has no real future of mastery.

The often idealised version of Gen-AI is that it becomes so easy to create, that anyone can with a single button. You "make" a game / film / song / illustration / etc. and then I suppose you share it. But if I can also do that, then why would I care about yours? The only response I can imagine to this from a capitalist is, "No, we'll make it easy enough to sell it to others, but not so easy that they can do it themselves", I know that's a strawman but I'm on my last straw, man.

I'll end by saying that for anyone that likes Gen-AI and wants to use it, people who hate Gen-AI are here to stay. They're not going anywhere and you'll have to adapt to survive, or get left behind.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 24/05/2026

This is a view that I don't think gets enough pushback, in instances like this people are not using generative AI, they are having it forced upon them. It will take a bit of time for folks to switch to tools that don't have llm bs in them

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 22/05/2026

Nothing that can't be attributed to the actual event, atm we get roughly 20 - 30 wishlists a day, and I think we got about 60 since the event started

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 19/05/2026

very basic thing to be proud of, I finally feel like I'm developing properly (branches for big and small changes), only got used to it slightly when bug fixing for Scroll after release

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 12/05/2026

I'm a week into the release of my second game and I didn't expect it to do so well! wishlists have more than doubled since launch and general feedback is that it's a worthy entry in the genre. We'll of course know more by the end of month 1 or 2, but I'm quietly hopeful word of mouth has started.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 12/05/2026

I finished the last of the 3 peaks finally by climbing ben nevis!!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 07/05/2026

just pushed my first set of balancing & bug fixes, it feels like I'm really working on it now!! Feels like the good old days of getting Echo out the door... games take too long to make!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 07/05/2026

ngl I was terrified we would be doing a lot worse when I looked at the conventional wisdom of the industry, but thanks to the amount of friends who have shown it to friends it's (very slightly) starting to grow beyond what was expected maybe we'll be okay 😅

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 07/05/2026

Hell ye, we're positive!! and we passed 100 copies sold this morning!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 06/05/2026

it's early days on wunder but people are already sending me footage of them going infinite 😭 I did not consider infinity and it somehow loops your score around to 0... today I am adding infinity to the game! #gamedev

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 05/05/2026

Wunder somehow hit all the comedy numbers! 69 copies, nice. $420 but 2 refunds so it's actually.... six seven

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 05/05/2026

I can't believe it's finally out!! It's gonna be tough to get to the 10 reviews milestone but I feel so much lighter now, no more big deadlines for while! I just have to make cool updates, genuinely so happy 😭 #DeckBuildersFest

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 04/05/2026

Only a few hours and already so close to 50 bucks!! That pays for tonights takeaway so I'm getting stuffed crust and a beer 🍕

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 04/05/2026

☠️ LAUNCH TIME ☠️ Wunder: The Double-Sided Deckbuilder is Out Now! My partner @emilymumble.bsky.social made the coins and good art, I made the "everything else", both our cats think you'll like this game! Steam: s.team/a/3895480 Please share with everyone, thanks! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 30/04/2026

LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT Wunder: The Double-Sided Deckbuilder is releasing in Early Access on the 4th of May! Flip magical coins to defeat the Ferryman and cross the rivers of the Underworld! Wishlist on Steam: s.team/a/3895480

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 30/04/2026

Sorry for the long post, I don't have a big point to conclude I'm just trying to make sense of a lot of the thoughts that are swirling lately... Bonus Miso & Mush pic for getting to the end!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 27/04/2026

Making new talismans tonight, defo went overboard on the water wheel but I had fun!

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 20/04/2026

spent the day at beamish and found a yellow horse

a yellow steed, fitting for a yellow boy

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 17/04/2026

I've got the 5 launch decks for Wunder half done! It's exciting to see it all come together. I do wonder how people will react to the Early Access version of it though, I'm planning on going a bit against the grain by having more placeholder than normal for EA games.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 16/04/2026

It's called bluesky cause all the little bubbles look like clouds it's not about loading posts anymore it's about looking at the bubbles, look at them go don't you feel more serene

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 13/04/2026

I did the grid thing! It was actually quite tough nailing down what I would put silksong down as, I think a more accurate / boring version of this list would have it occupying more spots

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 13/04/2026

my cat keeps walking into rooms saying "It's not who we are underneath, but what we do that defines us" right before he tries to eat some plastic

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