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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

been a fantastic journey for us to far. absolute career highlight for me to with the team making this

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ShadowZone @theshadowzone.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Is this the Kitten Space Agency equivalent of the Kraken in KSP? @deanhall.bsky.social @ahwoo-official.bsky.social

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Some screenshots of the new rocket plumes in Kitten Space Agency. I think we are the first/only to do volumetric plumes in this way. download free ksa.ahwoo.com

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ash! :3 @arthomnix.dev · 03/04/2026

Artemis II's real-time orbit in @ahwoo-official.bsky.social @deanhall.bsky.social's Kitten Space Agency

A screenshot of the spaceflight simulation game Kitten Space Agency in its map view. There are various complicated-looking gauges, buttons and windows around the edges. The focused window is titled "OemLoader 0.0.1-alpha+ffb34e0a6ece9d252a475c2fa9". In the middle of the screen, there is a zoomed out view of the Earth and the Moon. Near the Earth, there is a marking that says "Rocket", with the rocket's future trajectory (taking it around the moon) visible as a green line.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If anyone is running a space company or org. Just a reminder kitten space agency is free, and you can use it for graphical rendering of your mission/launches

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Artemis 2 launch was incredible. Just wow!

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Any senior folks from epic layoffs who want to move to NZ and make games, visit careers.rocketwerkz.com. If you want to help build a client email me dean.hall@ahwoo.com

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Rocketwerkz

RocketWerkz is an ambitious video games studio based on Auckland’s waterfront in beautiful New Zealand.

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John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I arrived four years late to @deanhall.bsky.social's Icarus, and I'm so glad I found it. This is my perfect survival sim. kotaku.com/icarus-survi...

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Icarus Is The Perfect Survival Sim No One's Talking About

Dean 'Rocket' Hall's Icarus is my platonic ideal of a survival sim

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Not photos. Screenshot from Kitten Space Agency and our volumetric + Instanced mesh planetary rings for saturn.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I need to setup a dual boot as well. Going to try get it running next week

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Gimballed Vernier and turbine exhaust nozzles added by the incredible Gravhoek into Kitten Space Agency.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

We added a native Linux deployment for Kitten Space Agency, which is free. Linux users have responded with thousands of dollars of contributions, including one of USD 1000. I think this will be the new way to make games like this. Unheard of lifetime customer values for us.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Latest version of Kitten Space Agency just deployed with new shadow system, fully working with ground clutter. Download for free at ksa.ahwoo.com

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I mean you can think anything you want for sure. But if you think 75 million is “mid” for a budget you are not living in reality. It would be like trying to argue in a made up language.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Australia should have been “australasia” (they’re in my country, NZ) but autocorrect ate it

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The budget of arc raiders was 75 million (confirmed as “no far off” by the CEO). Not trying to be rude, but I am not sure any of your data is even remotely tied with reality.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The products you listed are big, big spenders. GGG who makes Path of Exile are one of the largest studios in Australia in spend, and are wholly owned by the largest video game company in the world, Tencent. ARC raiders is backed by Nexon, one of the largest game companies in the world.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I the prospect of success is no better from micro to mid. So we will see more people aim for hits as a micro studio. And funding to scale will be poor for micro aiming to mid. Those that do will suffer high attrition as past success no longer counts for much. Monaco v Monaco 2 is a good example

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Most of what you listed have listed are some of the most successful games ever made. The others are the most successful games of their years. Middle is the games in the middle of revenue. Starting approx USD10M up to about USD100M. Beyond that you will be the top grossing titles.(top tier)

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The death of the middle of the market in PC gaming has now spread to the highest tier of success. The situation is now irreversible. We will see consolidation of the middle with only small islands of success. This is new territory for video games, where the mid-market was the nursery for AAA success

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I am 44 years old. I have accepted with grace that I will never spell separately right the first time.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

User on r/kittenspaceagency posted this comparison of the actual Apollo Landing site matched in Kitten Space Agency. Wider shot is ingame, inset is the apollo photo. Best thing, you can try the pre-alpha now for free, ksa.ahwoo.com (credit: u/u/Longjumping-Box-8145)

Screenshot of kitten space agency lunar landscape from within game, with an overlay of the apollo landing site for comparison. The two images match very well.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Over the steam winter sale, ICARUS sold just under a million new base game units during the sale (984k). We also did quarter of a million DLC units (243k).

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

We’re not doing it for kitten space agency (ksa.ahwoo.com)

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

fun times. Reminds me of when I reported one that called me a “FA**OT” (it was not censored). That’s all the review said. Steam wouldn’t remove it. They also didn’t remove a review that said they wished I had died on Mount Everest, when I complained I was told they didn’t threaten me “directly”

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Kitten Space Agency just crossed the USD 100K mark, including quite a few subscriptions! Cya later steam!

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

We just pushed new version of Kitten Space Agency (its free) running on .net 10. I believe first game in the world to do so. Only possible because of BRUTAL. You're only as indie as the tools you use. Unreal + Unity and their licensing & tech are a blight on the industry ksa.ahwoo.com

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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 20/11/2025

New from me! Talked to @deanhall.bsky.social about Brutal, coding with LLM assistance, and why open source frameworks could be the future of game dev. Maybe the best chat I've had about what genAI can do for game development (caveat: my other worries about the technology still stand).

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Vulkan is really the “Karen” of programming. It’s like “You said you were going to do this in subpass 0 but you did it in subpass 1. I’ve rendered the frame but I’m going to crash out and I want to speak to the manager.”

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Unity and unreal are the past. Here’s another shot of a dust storm on mars in Kitten Space Agency. Coming free powered by contributions.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Second angle. Dust storm on Mars, in Kitten Space Agency. No unreal. No unity. BRUTAL framework. Volumetric with atmos scattering including atmospheric layers such as ozone etc. full solar system scale.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Dust storm on Mars, in Kitten Space Agency. No unreal. No unity. BRUTAL framework.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

my average chatgpt experience summed up in a single screenshot

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Added the new extra solar object 3I/ATLAS to Kitten Space Agency. Trying to get a burn to intercept. I think I need a real rocket scientist 😂

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Fun fact. Smartphones were invented so people had something to do in lifts.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

My votes saved Iceland!! They aren’t last! I loved their performance

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Uuuuuooooaaaawwwooohhhh 🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸 go Iceland!

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

EUROVISION 2025 HAS STARTED!

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

If any media want the raw emails from unity and our invoices, email me at dean.hall@rocketwerkz.com. I can’t post them unredacted here as they contain the names of employees of another company. But once you see the names, it becomes obvious how easy it is to google search

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

More help? All you did is pretend someone reached out to resolve this. Nobody has replied to my email. But I’ll tell you who has reached out. Two ex Unity employees and someone who works at a European DPA. If you are harvesting data illegally and then misapplying it, good luck

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ShadowZone @theshadowzone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Unity is currently threatening Rocketwerkz, the studio developing Kitten Space Agency. You can check out the details surrounding this in @deanhall.bsky.social's post on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...

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Uriah @uriahgnu.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Posted by @deanhall.bsky.social on reddit, anyone using #Unity needs to take a serious look at what is going on. This is a direct threat to hundreds (thousands?) of studios and tens of thousands of indie developers with games built on Unity. www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Oh I missed Luke! I’ll flick an email through. Thanks for the ping!

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ShadowZone @theshadowzone.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is not a drill! This is a spacecraft... Over on another social network, @deanhall.bsky.social posted this current progress screenshot of KSA.

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

It had ten iterations and you had to get all of them right or you had to restart. You had to match the icon with the orbit. I’m pretty sure it was impossible, and it was a bot trap. I think had accidentally identified my dad as a bot. Hilarious though. Ended up registering on a different computer

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Just helped my parents try and activate Office and got stuck in captcha “help us beat the robots” hell for THREE HOURS. The plot of Dune doesn’t seem so far fetched now

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

“I know I used to be crazy, I know I used to be fun, you say I used to be wild, I say I used to be young”….. Miley Cyrus “used to be young” hits pretty hard

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Dean Hall @deanhall.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

When something embarrassing happens. Just imagine you are on your countries version of Air Force one. You are talking with the prime minister, your head of state. You gesture wildly and break a glass from your tray. The prime minister insists on picking up the pieces. This happened. I did this

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