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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Today my game got its 1,000th player! Here's the progress since 6 years ago. Thanks for all the support! ❤️ #gamedev #indiedev

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I've been experimenting with villagers automatically forming paths through their steps. Should I add this to the next update? #gamedev #indiedev

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Heard of the Story? is about building your own cozy medieval town with villagers that can do almost anything you can! Gather resources, form relationships, and trade to get the items you need - all whilst your villagers do the same! store.steampowered.com/app/1881940?...

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Forge a medieval community with intelligent and quirky villagers. Gather resources and transform the village into a town, or simply listen to captivating stories from various simulated and evolving li...

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I added a mechanic to customise the shape and size of farming fields! #gamedev #indiedev

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

When you get trapped by that one annoying friend... #gamedev #indiegames

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Participating in the Winter Sale with a Winter update that included this and many other things. If you're interested, come join the Early Access journey - lots more super exciting stuff in the pipeline too! :) store.steampowered.com/app/1881940?...

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Added snowballs so you can pester people during winter :) #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Adding a little bit of love to the sleeping screen 😊 #indiegames #gamedev

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Small preview of what's to come: villagers setting up their own constructions and building out the town by themselves 🙂 #indiegames #gamedev #cozygames

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

New update is live! I apologise for the (very) long time since the previous update! This has been a major code overhaul (see comment below) to help improve feature quality and development speed. Excited to build on this and return to regular updates! #gamedev #indiegames

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I've made a blog post to share progress on the next major update 👑 Autonomy & Governance, and to talk a bit more about what you can expect 🙂 Here's a sneak peak (link below) #indiegame #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I have an important poll for you all! I'd like to let you decide what should be the next major update for Heard of the Story? I've laid out a few of the key features, come cast your vote in the Discord! 😄 #gamedev #indiedev

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A little video about the latest update "Life & Prosperity" to our cozy building and simulation game! 😊 #gamedev #indiedev #cozygames #indiegames

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Writing a story about the Dragon and the Jester... have you heard of it? :) #gamedev #indiegame

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Serenading the tavernfolk with my vielle 🎻✨

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Some of the new items we added in this update - still love the icon style 🥗 #gamedev #indiegame

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

New prosperity mechanic: based on housing, infrastructure, beauty, and overall happiness - make your town shine to prospective villagers! #gamedev #indiedev #cozygames #unity3d

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

We just released a major update to our #indiegame for Steam's City-Builder Fest! We've added a new jewellery building and a masonry and a new prosperity mechanic and tons of new items and new villager activities and a visual flower overhaul and and...

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We released a devblog about the next major update: Life & Prosperity - coming 24th of March! It will include masonry, whitesmithing, gardening, cards, tasty food, a new section in your book, and much more! (link in the comments) #gamedev #indiedev #cozygames

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

New update is out! Added seasonal food, durability indicators, various improvements, and of course, some shy little rabbit rascals 🐇 #indiegame #gamedev #cozygames

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Wow this is a beautiful take, I love it! I know Jonathan Blow at one point shared a story about how the mechanics he programmed for Braid were trying to describe quantum mechanics or something like that. Part of those, he discovered by thinking and getting ideas from the code he wrote!

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

One last day to pick up Heard of the Story? in the Steam Winter Sale! Come join us and help shape this game's future in 2025 😊 (screenshot by merchant Dr Koilinger) #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity

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Heard of the Story? @heardofthestory.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here are all the things we’ve added this year in Heard of the Story? Thanks so much to all the fans and players for your support! We’ve got exciting plans for 2025 - looking forward to making even better updates 😊 #gamedev #indiedev #cozygames #gaming

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