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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 7h

Had quite a lot of traffic on my @itch.io page today, another 5-Stars Rating, lotsa Demo downloads, and 2 more payments, before I finally realized, that #ruinsOfCalaworm is listed in the Top-10 on the "New & Popular" page!🫨 Don't know about the algorithm - anyway, Muchas Gracias! 🤗🫶

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Alex And Wonderland Take A Bow Thank You Misskatie

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The 'Rite of the Seal' has you placing Artifacts at Locations in specific order. Clues ("Pnakotic Fragments") are procGenerated (it's 100% math, you get all the intel you need + 1 Bonus Clue). And I just added another possible type, collapsing two Clues into one, XOR-encoded.🧐 #ruinsOfCalaworm

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Rhubarb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A little preview for you…

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#ruinsOfCalaworm Patch v4.14.12.19 is live! It's a pretty hefty package: lots of bugFixes, QoL-additions, polish, and most prominently, two non-NumPad-based keyboardBinding Layouts as a Preselect. The Demo has been updated as well. erdbeerscherge.itch.io/ruins-of-cal... #roguelike

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Patch v4.14.12.19 is live

Patch 3 is live now, and the Demo has been updated as well. Active Runs saved on previous Builds arel NOT compatible! Applying this patch WILL tank any active Run you've already started (alongside wit...

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🐝rent @mrghostradio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

did a bit more work on making the row look more seamless. Looks a lot better now, and turning each section on and off shows no weirdness, which is nice. #gamedev

A sewer wall of red stone, with grime on the bottom stones from the sewer water rising in the past, staining it a yellow-green with green vines/weeds growing up along it in places. The water level is lower and a yellow-green muck color. The ceiling is also a red stone.

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Kornel Kisielewicz @epyoncf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If AI ever truly "solves" software engineering, it will have solved most non-physical jobs first. Cheering for coders to get replaced is a bit like cheering for the iceberg because you dislike the people standing at the bow.

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Neverway - COMING IN 2027! @coldbloodinc.studio · 02/10/2026

our indie game: - hand drawn by Celeste's pixel artist - music by Disasterpeace - made on our own game engine - sound by Martin Kvale - a slow-burning horror RPG - meet (or date) 10+ charming characters - fast-paced combat - customize your playstyle with crafted items and combat abilities

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now that the Big Orange Dumbo has rebranded AI as "Superintelligence", and the term is finally free again, can we please go back to applying it to Behavior Selection Algorithms in Traditional Roguelike games, just as God intended?🤔

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Chris Perry @perridot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OH!WARE, my first commercial release, IS OUT NOW! Your ancestors whisper guidance. The Gods all watch. They want you to check it out and give it a review 🙏♥️ store.steampowered.com/app/4121430/...

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Dark Spaghetti Cat @spaghetticatdark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hold on! For you, this is just 15 sec of our game. For us, it's a chance to find our audience. Please just watch the video to the end ♥️ #indiedev #indiegame #TrailerTuesday #IndieGames #horror

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Quadrat Markius @quadratiy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This asshole appeared in my dream the other day so I drew him #noiamnotahuman #ninah #intruder

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Holland Albright ｡°✩ 🏳️‍🌈✨ @hollandalbright.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The Way Home (Piano arr.) This month one year ago (July 2025), someone asked if I had a piano arrangement of this previously orchestral song. I didn't, but I'd thought about making one. So, I wrote it that week but then never recorded it. Now, I've finally recorded this song. #composer #piano

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With the overall favorable reception of the WORLD OF WARCRAFT: FOREVER announcement, can't Microsoft take an example and bring us WINDOWS: FOREVER? Based on Windows XP, ofc.

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maciekglowka.bsky.social @maciekglowka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Got back to proper development (after working mostly on internals). Three new potions added. Some minor mechanic changes. Boss rewrite is next... #roguelike #roguelikedev #pixelart #solodev

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Learning VI-Keys. Took me 2 days to retrain my muscles, lol. Wanted to get a feel for what kind of buttons go well with it, but on yesterday's run 50% of the damage I took was due to wrestling with the layout, but after one night of sleep now things go much smoother.🥳 #ruinsOfCalaworm #roguelike

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To properly celebrate Spooky Season, #ruinsOfCalaworm will go on sale from October 13th - 31st. Get it for $4.95 (38% Discount). 👻🎃🕯️🌈🦇🏮👹 ⭐Save the Date!⭐ #roguelike #indieGame

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are there any "normal' MARIO MAKER Maps, and how does one find them, lol? I mean Maps that aren't "My 1st Level Ever" or "Here's 1001 Discord Emojis puked across the screen, glhf."

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Jennifer Aniston Thinking and Contemplating

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Danger Zones in #ruinsOfCalaworm are procGenerated. The regular Dungeon Tileset didn't have one yet, tho, so I just wanted to expand the codebase for future support, but went down the Rabbit Hole instead, and now here's a pointy Spike Pit (complete with death animation). 🪡🪡🪡💀 #roguelike

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Keybinding Preselects are up and running. 😎 Tested it a bit, and realized that muscle memory IS a thing, lol, took me some time to adapt. But it's a cool feature to have on offer, for players with older/smaller Laptops.🫶 #ruinsOfCalaworm #roguelike

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#indieGame #gameDev #soloDev If ur game runs fine and has no (gamebreaking) bugs, no one cares about quality of your code. Optimization doesn't have to look pretty, and Polish only refers to what players can actually see & feel. Sometimes a simple Global checkVar can save you 2 days of refactoring.

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Woah, MINECRAFT Movie is surprisingly funny and well-written for the thing it's trying to convey. Lotsa low-key adult-targetted innuendo, certainly did not expect that, lol, and cast is having a blast, apparently. Pro-Creativity message is also legit. 🥰 Perfect sick-in-bed pastime, loving it!

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Currently sick in bed (🤧🥴), so not working on the upcoming patch as much as I want to ... once it drops, tho, you can choose a Keybinding Layout from 3 PreSelects, two of which are Non-Numpad-based. The WSAD-based is courtesy to @altermox.bsky.social, who came up with a cool solution for diagonals.😎

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Balanced and extremely based take on the "gameDevs are cooked" argument from certain AI folks. Also debunking the myth of the AAA-quality "one-shot" product. #gameDev #indieGame

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It's time to talk about AI games...

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I still find it kinda daunting to watch others play my game, lol, but imagine my excitement, when just today I stumbled upon a playthrough compilation, that shows quite a few late-game mechanics and events.😮 Thank you 'Dungeon Plungeon'! 😎🤩🫶 #ruinsOfCalaworm #roguelike #lovecraft

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I tried to dissect this obscure Lovecraftian roguelike - The Ruins of Calaworm

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GENC @genc.newgrounds.com · 19/09/2026

Rayquaza, the Sky Guardian

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Benjamin Soulé @benjaminsoule.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I made a game for #pico1k ! Just click to jump on a lilypad, but time it well! :) you play here : benjamin-soul.itch.io/lily-leap #gamedev #pico8

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

there is some really organic material in here, but it's all enforced via 8 neighbor checks.

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La fleur du mal 🦉🌟 @fleurdumal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Autumn in the hills F. Carmichael

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i added one final thing to the CA generator- identifying rooms. so now it can make proper room data even though there's no concept of rooms in the process itself.

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More Keybindings-related QoL-changes incoming, e.g. reminder in Tutorials and hints will show the actual prompt from your personal Keybindings, and not refer to the Default. Will also include at least 2 alternate layouts to select on a fly, for players without NumPads (e.g. VI-keys).

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Back on working on next Patch for #ruinsOfCalaworm ... Warning for conflicting Keybindings currently pops up regardless, because of a lazy check, that does only compare buttonIndex, and not whether there's an actual conflict within the same gameMode. Thx @altermox.bsky.social for the reminder.🫶

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FARLAND - COMING 2027 @farlandbcd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Farland is an earthbound and undertale inspired rpg maker game about 6 people and an organisation killing the earth, with pastel and surreal visuals and a story driven plot Coming sometime 2027 #farland #undertale #earthbound #indiegame #indiedev #rpgmaker

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

German #fantasyFilmfest is over, and these were my 4 favorites: • CAROLINA CAROLINE - 🇺🇸 / Adam Carter Rehmeier • THE ONES WHO GRIEVE - 🇫🇷 / Quarxx • THE PLAGUE - 🇺🇸 🇷🇴 / Charlie Polinger • SPECIES (a.k.a. SANGUINE) - 🇫🇷 / Marion Le Corroller

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KRIEG SPIELEN @peripheryinteractive.com · 17/09/2026

For all game devs that are confused by the steam backend: here is a handy overview. We are fairly certain we got this one figured … #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In 'Trending' I just noticed a topic called "Trump orders Canadian goods removed", and at first I read "Trump orders Canadian gods removed", and this didn't even seem weird, with the current timeline we're living in, lol, so why did I double-check, fr

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 17/09/2026

Indie game dev is more than anything else, a test of resilience and commitment. Either you can stick to a project and constantly learn new things for years without seeing a penny, or you can't.

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taxicomics @taxicomics.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I wrote a little beginners guide on #pico8 and #picotron math. It's a short read going over the most common applications of percentages, distance functions, linear interpolation, sin, cos and atan2. Big thanks to the PICO-8 community for giving me feedback on this! #gamedev #tutorial

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Math for PICO-8 devs

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Maybe ... not let AI kill us all in 2030? Just a thought, thank you.

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Received note that we got a 1st to defeat the #ruinsOfCalaworm! 🥳 Expect a nerf of some of the lateGame instaKill deaths tho (apart from Pits and Spikes), with next patch: thinking safety HP buffer zone, that scales with how often you've beaten the game, to grant some initial leeway to learn shit.🤔

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The Office Party: Michael and Dwight

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Currently on a movie festival in Cologne, but will resume supporting and patching #ruinsOfCalaworm by end of next week or so, and wanted to say Big Thanks for playing so far.🙏🫶 It is in a decent state overall, just one weird teleport bug currently: erdbeerscherge.itch.io/ruins-of-cal...

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Known Issues (in v4.13.12.18)

Will be tracking all issues here from my personal play sessions - plus any complications that I've received reports of. Once they pop up here, chances are high that I've already fixed them in my local...

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026

DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--

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Joana Almeida 🧙‍♀️ @sorcerystory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Now streaming the development of my Colony Sim + RPG videogame "AVE VIRIATE"! ⚒️🤖⚔️ Map creation and rendering is now almost complete! Now working on rendering chunks as the view moves and the grid overlay! Come join me! www.twitch.tv/sorcerystory #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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