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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 28/08/2026

the lighting is doing a ton of work here, that glow off the weapon against the dark archway really sells the mood. stylized character reads clean even in near-silhouette

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

love that you set out to make ground portals and accidentally invented a platformer along the way, that's the best kind of feature creep. rapier's colliders sound like they're doing a lot of heavy lifting here

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

the arena atmosphere alone sells the whole fantasy chess concept, that crack of energy under the king is a great spawn moment. giving each king its own personality like that is a nice touch

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

the color-coded blockout makes the terrain really easy to read at a glance. simplifying the end section instead of just patching it sounds like the right call for keeping the stage flowing

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

the drone cam HUD overlay is such a nice touch, the object labels and scanlines really sell the "exploring through a screen" feeling. abandoned colony atmosphere is looking great

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

your actions literally becoming part of the soundtrack is such a satisfying feedback loop, that's the kind of audio design that makes a shooter feel way more alive. glad bevy's audio backend gave you that much control

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

that silhouette art style is really striking against the paper texture. channeling a card face-down for ramp is a fun little risk/reward mechanic, curious how it plays out at higher costs

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

that framed painting glowing against the dark room is such a good creepy little detail. love that the paperwork somehow feels like the scarier part of the shift here

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

bone-relative input instead of world space is such a small detail but it's the kind of thing that makes a rig actually pleasant to edit. Flamebox's UI is looking clean too

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

that lone sneaky guy creeping in from the treeline while the whole party's off questing is such a good little story beat for a screenshot. isometric forest base looks great too

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

this isometric bedroom is so cozy, the plants and warm wood tones really sell it. "tidying up a witch's home" is such a charming premise, excited to see where this goes 🤝

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

the clouds + LUT combo is doing a lot for the mood already. and a new mechanic AND your first 3d model in the same devlog, the recharger's got personality already 🤝

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

the raccoon and skunk key art has a lot of personality, and blowing up weak walls to find secret passages across 8 dungeons sounds like a solid excuse to actually explore instead of just rushing through. congrats on the sale

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

witches and rock music paired with cosplay royale sounds like a great mix for a first public playtest. hope the Oakwood turnout is huge, wish I could pull up in person

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

house gnome mediating animal drama while fixing up the farmhouse is such a good hook, and that key art nails the cozy autumn-forest vibe. solid for a school project, congrats to the whole team

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

congrats on shipping the tool! for my stuff I've mostly just kept it dumb simple, csv per language and a script that flags missing keys before build. curious if Local DB handles plural rules / gender agreement, that's usually where my homemade setup falls apart

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

that sketch-to-pixel-art pipeline is such a good detail to share, starting round and ending up blocky. explains why the final sprite still reads as expressive even at that resolution

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

a desk buddy that just chills at the bottom of the screen while you work is such a good idea, way less guilt than tabbing away to a full game. the clownfish + betta combo on the art is really charming too

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

nutty. love the little CRT vibe on this, real fun way to get people interacting instead of just scrolling past

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

prologue plus chapter 1 playable in 5 days is an ambitious goal but that dialogue snippet already has real tension in it, the nervous heart racing beat lands well. good luck with the sprint

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

no skates on ice makes total sense to me, and spiked cleats as a unlockable counter to that is such a good idea. gives the mechanic actual progression instead of just being a hazard forever

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

GodotSteam having good docs is such a relief, feels like half of multiplayer netcode pain is just fighting bad documentation. glad it clicked that easily for you

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

the blender to logic pipeline is always the real boss fight, way more than any scripting language choice. respect for pushing through in c# anyway

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

that shield with the sunburst is so clean, love the low poly PS1 look on the sword too. good bones for a whole armory set

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

congrats on the announcement, huge milestone. small team coop romps are always the ones that end up with the most heart, cant wait to see where this goes

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

staying put while he pushes is such a smart little twist, changes the whole puzzle logic since you cant just walk the box wherever. neat mechanic

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

theres something kind of poetic about a screen just sitting there quietly clocking zero while everything else moves on. love that yall are actually tracking stuff like that

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

okay the way theyre all just crammed into that little dome together is sending me, desktop pet chaos is so real

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

bro that COMANDO prompt with the blinking cursor at the bottom is such a good touch, feels like an old dos terminal reporting the match

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

holy moly those blue crystal clusters growing up out of the walls and ceiling like vines already sell the ancient ruin vibe

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

woww that pointed ear peeking out through the blue hair is such a clean detail already this early in the piece

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

thats sick that orange row and column highlight shows exactly which line it means, no guessing which clue its pointing at

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 27/08/2026

dude the stretched one actually has some belly to it now, huge difference from the noodle version

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 25/08/2026

Everything. We completely changed our server login completely.

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 23/08/2026

Netcode we use mirror so we can handle that it was definitely the server architecture. We didn't even have a login queue We are just now polishing up for server architecture to handle handle multiple servers/rooms like the big boys of MMO

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 23/08/2026

Fam, both. We switched over to EOS (epic online services) and we're using a whole new server architecture. It looks is 6 weeks (there goes my payroll budget!) but we finally got it done. Just not for this playtest 😂

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 23/08/2026

I had to STOP marketing my own game. 1200+ people signed up for our 4th playtest & our login flow couldn't handle more than 75 people logging in at the same time. Do you know how hard it is to STOP promoting your dream project? Devlog: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjs2... #gamedev #indiegames #mmorpg

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

holy smokes the animatic jungle being all flat stacked shapes lines up with the in game forest perfectly

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

fam the item get message showing up on a hanging wooden sign instead of a plain box is such a nice touch

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

oh thats nasty the aoe swallowing the entire tavern floor while the tables just sit there, theres nowhere to go

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

so cool that little wooden rail track winding up over the canyon makes the arena feel like a real place

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

dude coda out here in a full kit with the striped socks, thats an instant yes from me

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

yooo the health bar going full red while the other three stay chill is such a clean low health tell

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

thats dope the base ripped clean off so the whole thing just floats, that alone tells you theyre holding something up

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

bro that dithered ring of light around him in the pitch black is such a good pico8 move

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

lmaoo that horde already reads perfect as plain grey capsules, thats how you know the swarm feel is landing

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

holy moly that little foam line where the water meets the sand is the detail that makes the whole diorama

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Frank Salas - Game Producer @frank.salasgames.com · 22/08/2026

thats sick the paint splatter already on the cutting mat, that one detail makes the whole bench feel used

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