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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Prepping Game 2 design doc for pitching. Remember you can't overprepare these things. Make sure you illustrate every detail.

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

We made it into the Steam Deck Builders Festival this year! Who needs cards to build a deck, dice bags are much nicer. #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #steam

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Just Joel and I's game on the front page of Steam no big deal (actually it is a big deal its half off) #gamedev #indiegames #developers

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Our revamped indie game Demo is live and looking good! Steam Link: store.steampowered.com/app/3435260/... We've tried to include a good amount of replay-ability even in the free version, so come roll the bones with us 🎲💀 #indiegame #gamedev #developers #gaming #vgc

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

My indie game Dice With Death has broken over 300 reviews on Steam with 91% Positive! To celebrate, we're giving away 3 copies of the game. To enter just make sure you're following and repost this post. We'll DM a code to 3 people on Wednesday. #gamedev #indiegame #IndieGameDevs

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

been somewhat absent here, too busy fixing (and breaking) our game. Dice With Death is live in Early Access on Steam now! The response has been incredibly flattering, 92% positive on 100+ reviews. Thank you all so much! #gamedev #indiegames #Steam #gaming

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

With Steam Next Fest kicking off tomorrow, our Demo Build for the festival is now live on Steam - if you haven't yet, it's a great time to Wishlist the game (link below). It's no commitment, and helps us out tremendously! store.steampowered.com/app/3435260/... #gamedev #IndieGameDev #SteamNextFest

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Demo is live! Very proud to announce you can now play a slice of our upcoming dice-building roguelite "Dice With Death". The Alpha playtest is free & available as a demo on Steam (link below) #gamedev #indiegames #SteamNextFest #gaming

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Asking here to try and hide from the twitter bots 😅 If anyone knows a freelancer / is one themselves who specialises in stylized Niagara effects in UE5 please get them to send me a portfolio or reel. Looking for relic activation effects in game. So simple effects but dozens! #gamedev #indiedev

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

There is no sign more encouraging than when you are QAing your game and realise you are actually enjoying playing. Might sound weird, but anyone who works in dev knows with how much you spend staring at the client, it's hard to see it as a game at times.

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Shares appreciated! Back from a short break in Puerto Rico and hammering out the demo build for Next Fest on Steam... if you'd like to keep an eye on the game & support us go Wishlist us! It helps out and I hope you'll love the game :) store.steampowered.com/app/3435260/... #indiegames #gamedev

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Dice With Death on Steam

Dice With Death is a Dicebuilding Roguelike – Unfortunately you have already died. Fortunately, Death is up for some friendly competition. Collect new dice and their paired relics, create damage stack...

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CarsonDrewIt @carson-drew-it.com · 22/01/2025

Happy #WishlistWednesday! I've been making #pixelart for Dice With Death - a Dicebuilding #Roguelike! It's like Balatro meets The Seventh Seal, with dice! Please wishlist us on #Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3435260/... Here's the Character Select screen I made! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

A pixel art illustration of a moonlit graveyard with a variety of graves in it, ranging from a freshly dug open grave, to a mausoleum on a hilltop.

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Any #GameDev people using Tiktok as a resource for reach + learning? Just set up an account for the studio, would love people to follow and what not. Drop us a follow over there and I'll go through and follow everyone back

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Decided to start some some short form content talking about the realities of making games! Started out answering the #1 question I get asked. If anyone has good ideas for topics let me steal them uh i mean suggest them to me! #Gamedev #Indiegames #gaming #indiedev www.youtube.com/shorts/tn10L...

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How do I start Designing my own Game? #gamedev #indiegame #indiegames #gamedesign #gaming

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Extremely happy to show what we have been creating in my indie studio Sea Glass for the last 4 months! Our "Coming Soon" Steam page is now live for Wishlists, very (read: very) early and with plenty subject to change / improvement, I'm proud to show you all! Link in reply. #GameDev #IndieDev

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The primal fear when you finally get your Steam Page published in a WIP / early state just to work on live changes and you wake up to 50+ wishlists without you mentioning it or sending it to anyone

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a cartoon of squidward from spongebob squarepants says they 're watching us

ALT: a cartoon of squidward from spongebob squarepants says they 're watching us

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Making games is pretty cool sometimes I guess. Reconstructing / parallaxing a piece by the incredibly talented @carsondrewit.bsky.social (we'll show you it properly soon!) #IndieGames #GameDev #GameArt #PixelArt

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

For anyone: Games look silly and "bad" often right up until the finishing phases putting together their true release builds. Here's what my current dev version of Dice with Death looks like with grey boxes and placeholders. Don't get put off by not starting at the finish line. #GameDev #IndieDev

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The Soldier's portrait from Dice with Death! His unique passive summons reinforcements (dice) to the battle (uh, bowl) when you roll duplicates! If you like the sound of rolling 20 dice instead of 6, he's the one for you. Art by the ever talented @mopmey.bsky.social #GameDev #GameArt #IndieGames

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Posting updates and peeks at Dice With Death more in January - thanks for all the new follows! We've been hard at work on the feel of the game mechanically and aesthetically. Here's some item design we're doing! Our artist Meeral taking a very liberal approach to a "Heart Locket" #GameDev #GameArt

A fleshy heart covered in keyholes and protruding keys, with a central lock held in place with a leather strap.

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The Witch! One of our playable characters in Dice With Death. She summons her Familiar dice to replace those you Bank, giving her some solid staying power in a round. We designed her aesthetic using Celtic history and hedge magic - art by awesome @mopmey.bsky.social #IndieDev #GameDev #GameArt

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Games Journalism is getting a lot of brutal attacks these days for reviews, but this is a symptom of a long term self-inflicted problem. But it's not the problem people think. It's score inflation. How are journalists meant to give nuanced scores in a world where 7 = Bad, 8 = Good and 9 = Great?

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Classes in Dice With Death are the departed, their core mechanics related to who they were & how they died. This is the Healer, fallen to the plague she spent her life treating. For people who love poisons and status effects she's a fun one! WIP Art by @mopmey.bsky.social #GameDev #IndieGames

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

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Ericbomb @ericbomb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

#GameJam #GameDev #IndieDev Pretty please join this game jam dedicated to blind accessibility that's happening in Feb! The goal is for devs to get together and learn how to make games blind accessible! itch.io/jam/games-fo... If you have any feedback/questions/concerns, please let me know!

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Games for Blind Gamers 4

A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awa...

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

When you try to post about a table, it helps to post the table. Here's our fancy dice table #GameDev #IndieDev

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Can't make a dice game without a fancy table can we? Little early WIP look at us setting up the core view of the game board for Dice With Death! Table made by the talented Kayleigh Danieli @ka-leidos.bsky.social #GameDev #IndieDev #GameArt

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

WIP early character concepts for one of the starting classes for Dice with Death - The Soldier. This guy's core mechanic calls his "reinforcements" to the roll, triggering extra dice on certain conditions! Art by the phenomenal @mopmey.bsky.social #IndieDev #GameArt #GameDev

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Ahh the "grand" reveal, also known as finally having some fantastic key art. You have died. The good news is Death is eager to help you process this via a friendly game of Dice. Or is he just bored? Anyway, we're working on Dice With Death. A dice-builder made in a pixelated 3d! #GameDev #IndieDev

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Need to actually start posting progress here hehe Working with just one other coder means our changelists have become... efficient? #gamedev #indiedev #indie

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

DWD Dev Blog 2: Good news! The game works! Bad news! It's in Excel

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Some of these briefs from #GameDev people are amazing Our wip badly: You die and immediately find out Death has a gambling problem

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

@ozone.birb.house Would love to get the #GameDev tag if possible! 10 year veteran, currently running an indie studio working on our first title!

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Know what we left behind in the 90s that we should have carried forward? FMVs in video game narratives. With all these AAA studio boardrooms spending 200 gorrillion dollars on a project the least you can do is give me more soviet Tim Curry

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

DWD Dev Mini-blog 1: Early work for me often revolves around modelling play patterns. One of the things I did in the last year was improve my use of Excel to do so. Last day has been creating a dice rolling, hand detecting sheet in Visual Basic to nail down base scoring. #GameDev #IndieDev

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

To all the other game dev migrants, go follow my incredibly talented friend and co-dev/artist extraordinaire

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

I should say as I'm looking to blog my game dev more actively, I'm very interested in following others especially people working on interesting or indie projects! uhhh yes hashtags #gamedev #gameart #indiedev #indiegames

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Twitter going up in flames and deciding to move to a calmer space here for posting actually times quite nicely. Starting work on a new journey (aka one that sat in my head for a few years). Posting this here so people can see that yes even real games can start with a few words. #gamedev #indiedev

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C L Hawkins - "Dice With Death" Early Access on Steam! @clhawkins.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Finally ascended out of the Twitter gutter. Hello! Any & all game dev folk please feel free to drop a follow #gamedev

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