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Dave Zhang @godsavant.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Today marks the 17-year anniversary of Askiisoft’s ‘Tower of Heaven’. It was the first game project I ever worked on, and my introduction to the world of indie games. 🧵

Intermission room from 'Tower of Heaven'

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My first ranked win against a masters player this season :)

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Gouie comes out today and Rivals 2 is on sale for 50% off!

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Jameson @jaymission.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

All the middle aged adults in the Rivals of Aether 2 roster about to be accosted by the ghost of a dead child #rivalsofaether

Image of Gouie, the new character from Rivals of Aether 2, who is a green climb blob with a platypus skull sticking out. Gouie stares at the viewer, with the caption "u got games on ur phone?"

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My biggest dream as a game developer is coming true later this month at @evo.gg!

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My first shortform video. It took me 5 hours to make a video that is 90 seconds long. I’ll have to get faster since this apparently what videogame marketing looks like now.

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Rivals of Aether II @rivals2.com · 19/05/2026

This is how we made a brand new special attack for one of our oldest characters 🐳

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Happy La Reina Day to those who celebrate! 🤼‍♀️

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Rivals of Aether II is EVO Mainstage next year! WE DID IT!

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Happy 10 Year Anniversary to a little indie game known as Rivals of Aether. Who knew it would grow into a franchise with 6 games across 5 platforms. We even made a comic at one point and to celebrate our anniversary, I'll post the first issue for everyone to read :)

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

You're gonna want to tune in at 1 PM PT this Friday. We're revealing something pretty cool imo.

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I'm going to rocky montage train then win Evo so we can get some of our pot bonus back. This is the only viable way to keep Aether Studios profitable.

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Somehow, I've been making platform fighters for over 20 years now.

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Rivals of Aether II @rivals2.com · 13/04/2025

As a child, Olympia yearned for the mines. Now, you can answer that call. As revealed during Twitch Rivals, The BADGER CO. OLYMPIA SKIN arrives on 4/15 in our latest mid-month update drop! youtu.be/rCQwqFb5WRU?...

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I keep forgetting to post here so here’s a goal I scored tonight in my beer league hockey game. I hope it brings you joy.

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Giik @giik.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

As a lil' added bonus...if you have Dreams of Aether in your steam library, you also get these 5 lovely player icons in Rivals of Aether 2!

5 player icons, labelled "Dreams Artemis", "Dreams Hodan", "Dreams Ani" (sic), "Dreams Absa" and "Dreams Sylvanos"

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We call that there Mount Olympia.

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Olympia is live! Go try her out and let us know what you think!

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RESOFORCE @resoforce.com · 01/04/2025

We are delighted to bring you our latest soundtrack for the Aether series—Dreams of Aether! @rivals2.com Written and directed by @flashygoodness.bsky.social. 80 genre-hopping tracks. Lovingly made for GBA sound hardware. Grab it for free on Bandcamp! resoforce.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...

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Dreams of Aether (Original Soundtrack), by flashygoodness, RESOFORCE

80 track album

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Don’t let your meme games be dream games.

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The crowd at Genesis X2 got to see Olympia in Rivals of Aether II before anyone else.

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Rivals 2 is the first game up for Finals Sunday at Genesis X2!

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Katie Chironis @kchironis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

there are only 3 kinds of game producers. i will not explain

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Me: I tried to get back into Melee but it was too hard so I started Rivals of Aether so there could be a game like Melee but easier to get into. With a modern buffer and other improvements to player intent. Our fans on our nolt board:

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

So now that Etalus is out, who’s gonna be the next character? I’ll collect the bets and use the money that doesn’t pay out to make the other characters.

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Garrett @garretthanna.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Etalus illustration for Rivals 2

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We have two community managers at Aether Studios. One can only tell the truth and one can only lie. They both said that the game is balanced after the latest patch.

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JustaRandomdud3 @justarandomdud3.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A #Beastieball RoA Stage Mod with my take on a Geo city Stadium thingy (The RoA ring Stage Mod) #RivalsofAether #Roa

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Rivals of Aether II @rivals2.com · 28/11/2024

Please consider nominating our friendly little indie game for the "Best Game You Suck At" award in the 2024 Steam Awards. We've checked your ranked scores and have confirmed that this is the best category for us

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

So happy to be celebrating our Game Awards nomination with all my new bluesky friends. Oh wait... we didn't get nominated. At least I still have a bunch of bluesky friends. Right? RIGHT?!

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Dan Fornace @danfornace.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello Bluesky. Here is a picture from a videogame that I like. It has a blue sky.

It is the air armada background from the videogame Rivals of Aether II.

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