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Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gay · 26/07/2026

🟥💀SPOOKY SUNDAY💀🟥 🟥LIVE🟥 Its "Endless Dark" tonight, a Psychological Thriller about lil Robots just trying to do their jobs. 🤖🤖🤖🚀 ▶️ www.twitch.tv/pankraru ◀️ #vtuber #endlessdark #scifi #indi #guests

A little Robot in the pilot room of a spaceship seeing themself in a the windows reflection 3 times, one is happy, one is sad, one is faceless.

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Pank 🦑 @littlepinksquid.gay · 26/07/2026

Tidying up my Streaming Area, Still needs a lot of work, (big mess not seen in picture), but I did get the 3rd Monitor set up for Chat, going to try Vertical Position first, see how that feels. #vtuber #vsky #battlestation

A vtubers streaming area, showing to large Monitors in L Postion with a middle Monitor for Chat Text, and a streamdeck

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

After a long, LONG development cycle, 1.2 is ready for beta! Please give us a shot and give us feedback! store.steampowered.com/news/app/229... #indiegame #indiedev

The Endless Dark Custodian Robots meet their struggles head on, in their own ways. One breaks through barriers physically, one tenaciously does its duty, one retreats into its life's work.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

What sources would satisfy you, as you've already stated Epic is The Best? What authority would make this productive, not an argument? A noted security expert? A FOSS group? All are possible. None will change an established decision. Do as you like, but as a developer, we feel EGS is Bad Business.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Among other things: EGS maintains the most invasive and aggressive data gathering and warehousing policies of any major platform (including Origin and Uplay), and continues to be implicated in unethical data sales. GoG and itch won't expose our customers to extra risks for wanting to play our game!

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

We're delighted to have our game on more than One Platform, but it will never be on Epic until they stop treating our community as commodities. We can overlook the HUGE deficit of dev-friendly tools that EGS lacks, but treating people as commodities is a red line. Good behavior is good business.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Sliding into your DM - we'll work something out!

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Thanks for the shout-out!! Don't hesitate to hit us up if you want to do a stream of it sometime, we're currently hard at work on a massive revamp of the core systems to make them more engaging - we'd be delighted to get you the password to the beta when it goes live!

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

“The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try if you can to belong to the first class, there is far less competition.” - Siegmund Warburg, famous for outflanking massive banking conglomerates that were generations older than him, let alone his business.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Tools are great, but here's an #accessibility tip to verify: Colors are programmed 0-255 in RGB, right? Calculate the deltas between colors. ex: The delta between Red and Blue is 510; (255-0, 0-0, 0-255). Deltas over ~350 will USUALLY be accessible for all vision types.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Colony ships have something in common with this idea and boy do our robots have some Words about how hard keeping the rustbucket running is about 350k words in fact

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Pank is good people, stop by and support them if you've got a few this afternoon!

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Dreki Ormur 🐍Wyrm VTuber @drekiormur.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Okay so Robbie has been misplaced. Unrelated, but all personnel are to avoid Hydroponics for the next few cycles. As Annie is still barricaded in the underbelly, we have activated a new Frank for this leg of the voyage! This is uhh... fine. Very... fine. 🐍 twitch.tv/DrekiOrmur #VTuber #EndlessDark

Game title: Endless Dark
A robot is holding a wrench and looking outside a window. There is space and a crescent moon. There is also a rainbow feathered wyrm and a wyrm on a string poking in from the bottom and right sides.
The inside of the room is a stark metallic grey, devoid of any interesting features. A single red light is lit on a panel.
The drab colours and position of the robot evoke a sense of longing and emptiness because everywhere else is cast in shadow.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Thought experiment here: How many unicorn games are there? There's not a lot, but some sure! How many unicorn finance companies are there? Zero, despite much larger potential profits. You can't even get a fair price on running cards without a connection/privilege. Repeat for construction, etc.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If 'having connections' is part of 'privilege' (it is), then yes, success in most businesses is VERY heavily predicated on it. Gamedev is kinda unique in that you can get very profitable without having ivy league-esque privilege. Both ED founders came from other industries and saw it everywhere.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Order's a big word for what comes after this part

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The terrible secret of space is so much weirder than we thought

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Got someone who will be interested in that one

An angry bruiser robot imitates Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We'd love to contribute sometime if you'd have us!

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

nervously looking left and right, wondering if using cool-dashes outs me as a robit

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Cleanup on Aisle ANNIE, Part I - I'm so disappointed

If the ship has these cleaners—and you're PRETTY SURE it does—then why are you responsible for them? If YOU designed it, it would be straightforward and reliable. You could do more enjoyable tasks like, literally anything else. Instead, every time you see something out of place for the rest of the cycle, you send a lengthy tirade to the ship about it, literally wagging your finger at the wall, ceiling, or floor as you belt off your reprimand.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It's on our next game rather than Endless Dark but yes we can definitely confirm this is true for us #indiedev

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The daily grind 🦾 You get used to it. Or you suffer a psychotic breakdown. #GameDev #IndieDev #TurnBasedThursday

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

We're working on a massive mechanical overhaul to our game, and we're always happy to talk to indie game enthusiasts like you!

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Whoever did this needs to sleep with one eye open. Comin' for you, meatbag.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You read tens of millions of words in books, and write millions of words in random fan stories and other 'ignoble' practice, so you can write a few ten thousand words that touch hearts. Never be ashamed of your roots. We're not.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The truly horrifying thing I'm seeing here is that there's so many skin tubes inside of so many perfectly normal looking robots.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Well, what do they mean by 'test'? I know, a robot asking for definitions, but... Unit testing is almost NEVER practiced in games, and it's massively helpful. Even for DMC; does a cutscene forget to re-enable collision? Easy to test with a harness! It caught dozens of bugs for Endless Dark.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me scrolling the national security team group chat

A robot is followed by a shadow in a hallway

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

You could try mining some of the same historical documents our game used to make a lot of its most absurdist jokes: Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Carl gets a broom shoved up his tailpipe and says his insurance won't do anything because they dropped him. The joke genuinely doesn't work nowadays.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 24/03/2025

It's been a while since I've done this, and the world is bleak - so we can all use a little art & creativity. What is everyone creating nowadays? Games, art, music, video, writing, anything - whether it is early, almost done, or just shipped. Feel free to include trailers, images, links - whatever.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We're currently working on a massive mechanics overhaul of the existential horror game that places a laser focus on unreasonable expectations, loneliness, and the psychological effects of the above. ...Would you believe us if we said there's actually hope and light at the end? No? Well, there is.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

To make things better requires clear eyes and lots of heart. If we lose that, we lock in our losses. Hope to go numb to the pain. Even in a rusted space can, we reject that. 21 of our 22 endings have at least some hope for the future. Many, we bring brightness out of the dark ourselves. 2/2

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

One of the biggest reasons our #indiegame became profitable despite being in a weird genre and our first game out is because millennials have genuinely never had it good. They speedran war, famine (jobs, 2008), pestilence, and death in 15 years. It's just nostalgia for a time when it hurt less. 1/2

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

An #indiegame in particular can include a lot of writing if you dose things properly, and usually helps it a lot. Endless Dark originally was planned to have a limited story that we estimated at 75,000 words. Our 1.0 release was over 300k, responding to effusive feedback from fans. Pic related.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

In preparation for a major mechanics overhaul/upgrade, we revisited the code for our primary antagonist: Doors. 4 hours and 47 counts of "why is it done like this" later, the codebase is 5k lines lighter, the game runs 5 FPS faster, and doors have a 'trapped' status. #gamedev #indiedev

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

You get 30? The people who keep hitting us up after becoming profitable 15 days after launch want 50. No marketing plan for doubling sales, of course.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I crew a sleeper colony ship. We travel slower-than-FTL. There is an unfathomable amount of nothing. One thing I am sure of, in the stasis? Humans did not keep millennia of culture alive with verbal storytelling to have some weirdo insist that honoring that tradition is 'cheating'. #audiobooks

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

One of the primary things that our founders decided when they started the studio that made Endless Dark (and working on other games), is that no matter what, they would never, no matter what, take a penny from or give a penny to Epic. Specifically because of Sweeney.

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Wonderful #fanart of Annie from @windyboxman.bsky.social! Appropriate on multiple levels, if you know you know. 🤫

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Gangway! Version 1.1 of Endless Dark is now available on Steam! A new Saving Throws system, dozens of fixes, and some updates for the #modding system! #indiegame #indiedev store.steampowered.com/news/app/229...

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Endless Dark - Arriving now at slipway 2: version 1.1! - Steam News

Our first major post-release update tightens down a bunch of welds and lays groundwork for more building.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

So, I got roped into a conversation about violence and games, and I decided to explain why A) games are not art (hehe), B) violence is good, and C) there are a lot of problems facing nonviolent games, but I'm sure someone can figure them out docseuss.medium.com/people-alway... please enjoy!

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people always ask why games are so violent, so let’s give ’em an answer

The other day, I got tagged into a discussion about violence in games. If people want to know my thoughts on the matter, I should do my…

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Combat and violence should stay! They're useful! But there's so much space elsewhere. Endless Dark made the very conscious decision of No Combat early in order to explore some of that space. Our studio's next game will do the same. Hopefully we'll see more people trying out a #nocombat design! (3/3)

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If you had to clean, treat, regenerate, and REHAB to get back to full HP, people would be much more apt to find alternate routes, which would open up narrative space for those options. But it all still has to be fun. Combat has been made extremely fun over 40+ years of gaming. Which is great! (2/n)

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A piece of this is how violence is treated in the games it's in. Between humans, violence is USUALLY the ultimate final option. Even away from social moors, it's DANGEROUS! If you take even a minor wound, the injury isn't worth your prize. Fewer healing potions and cure spells can help there. (1/n)

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Endless Dark @endlessdark.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Our take is that the metaprogression should be built into the game arc itself. Each chapter is a run and each run gives progression. You can TRY to jump to the last chapter if you want, and maybe you'll succeed, but, uh, we've definitely assumed you've played a couple games, so good luck!

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