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A team of three game makers from Manchester. We've made social deduction game, Paper Pirates (s.team/a/1234220) and are working on strategy chess game, An Elaborate History of Chess (s.team/a/1255020) linktr.ee/iterationgames

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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 02/07/2026
We'll be at @developconference.com in Brighton very soon, and we're super excited to be participating in the Indie Showcase! If you're going to be there, make sure to stop by to play our demo or tell us what your favourite chess piece is and why it's The Ghost 👻
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 24/06/2026
Find out more about Paper Pirates, a party social deduction game, and our Pirate Pool Party seasonal celebration on Steam: store.steampowered.com/news/app/123...
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Paper Pirates - The Pirate Pool Party! - Steam News
The Pirate Pool Party brings limited time bounties, traits, outfit options, a festive event, hats and more!
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 24/06/2026
The Pirate Pool Party has begun! Grab your rubber rings and dive into summer fun in Paper Pirates until 22nd July! 🧜 NEW Seasonal Trait: The Mermaid 🦈 Seasonal traits: The Shark & The Bait! 👙 Seasonal outfit pieces! 🏰 Seasonal event: Spooky Sandcastles!
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 21/06/2026
The ocean blesses you, crew! A Paper Pirates update today adds a new optional rule. Enable The Ocean's Blessing in a custom voyage and pirates won't be able to vote for whoever last went overboard. This softens the blow of being thrown overboard and is perfect when your crew isn't so cutthroat.
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 21/05/2026
Delighted to be featured in an amazing @gamerepublic.bsky.social Steam Festival celebrating games from Game Republic and @gamayo.bsky.social! Peep our upcoming game, An Elaborate History of Chess, in the 'Coming Soon' section or bag a copy of Paper Pirates, our social deduction game, at 90% off!
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Game Republic Games Festival
The Game Republic Games Festival features the best games from its UK members and events, including the huge game dev meet-up GaMaYo which takes place on the 21st May in Leeds!
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 20/05/2026
It's a guaranteed day 1 wishlist from us for you, fellow chess game maker!
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/03/2026
Our silly social deduction game, Paper Pirates, is on sale for the #SteamSpringSale! At 90% off, it's only $1.29! 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 Social deduction where nobody is ever out 📱 Everyone joins from their mobile phone 🔟 Buy once and play with up to 10 people 🎩 There's tonnes of hats Learn more: s.team/a/1234220
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Save 90% on Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 15/03/2026
Find out more about Paper Pirates and our Spring Sailing seasonal celebration on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1234220/... #IndieGame #GameDev #GameUpdate #Steam #SteamStore #SocialDeduction
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Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 15/03/2026
Take part in a Lucky Egg Hunt, as Spring Sailing returns to Paper Pirates! 🥚 Hunt Lucky Eggs to earn exclusive bounty rewards! 🐰 Buy seasonal customisation items before they hop away! 🐣Hatch into a Trait game as the seasonal trait, The Spring Chicken! #SocialDeduction #IndieGame #GameDev
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 12/03/2026
We’re taking over #TurnBasedThursday on Bsky this week and you can join in this thread! Devs: Plug your #TurnBased games below 🔽 Players: Check out the replies to discover your next favourite game ❤
#TurnBasedThursday

Devs: Share your games
Players: Find your next fav
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 12/03/2026
Hi @kitfoxgames.com, thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! We're making An Elaborate History of Chess! Underneath our real-time overworld are fiendish #TurnBased dungeons. There's chess combat and puzzles, and all the good chess pieces like the Jester and the Zombie! Demo available on Steam :D
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 28/02/2026
Happy 6th Anniversary to Paper Pirates, our party social deduction game! To celebrate, we've released a new update: 🪓 6 new traits, including The Executioner! 🧜‍♀️ 2 new events, including Call of the Siren! 🐐 Anniversary bounties to obtain unique hats! See the patch notes on Steam: s.team/a/1234220/
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Paper Pirates - The 6th Anniversary Update! - Steam News
This update adds six new traits for Trait and Trait+ games, plus two new events in Paper Pirates!
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 07/02/2026
Learn more about Valentine Voyages, or about Paper Pirates - a party social deduction game that everyone can join from their mobile phone - on Steam: s.team/a/1234220 Nobody's ever knocked out of the game, and up to ten people can play with only one copy!
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Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 07/02/2026
Love is in the water in Paper Pirate with Valentine Voyages, on now! ❤️ Meet The Admirer and The Lovers, two time limited traits for the season! 🏹 Use Cupid's Arrow or share a Love Letter! 🧸Limited time customisation options 💌 Mysterious love letter bounties?
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 14/01/2026
Hi Chris! We're making An Elaborate History of Chess, a zany take on chess with real-time base building and turn-based chess style dungeons with chess puzzles and combat. We even made up some new chess pieces, like Jester, Valkyrie, and Ghost! Steam page and demo are here: s.team/a/1255020
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 01/01/2026
Happy New Year from Iteration Games! Celebrate with Soggy Hogmanay in Paper Pirates until 21st Jan! 🤔 Crew Resolutions: Pick a vow each voyage 🎆 Seasonal Trait: The Resolute ✨ Seasonal Event: Fastest First Foot 🕰️ Limited time customisations in the shop ship! #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 22/12/2025
Paper Pirates is available on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/1234220/...
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Save 90% on Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 22/12/2025
If you’re after a #SocialDeduction game to play over Christmas, check out Paper Pirates! Buy it once and up to ten people can play! Nobody’s ever out of the game, and there’s absolutely stacks of customisation and game modes. Currently 90% off on the #SteamSale - it’s £1.09! #IndieGame #IndieDev
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 11/12/2025
Tomorrow is the last day to enter this exclusive giveaway ⬇️⬇️⬇️ All you need to do to enter is repost the ORIGINAL post and follow us!
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#TurnBasedThursday - Turn-Based Game Showcases @turnbasedthursday.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Lots of fun news in last week's #TurnBasedThursday! 🏰 Playtest for a roguelike tower defense 🎨 Artbook release for story-rich cyberpunk RPG 💀 Major update for dark sci-fi extraction RPG ♟️ Free demo for zany strategy game filled w/ chess lore & much more! ⤵ #Gaming #TurnBased #IndieGames
Monuments to Ruin, by @ohnsinn.bsky.socialHeistGeist, by @doublequotestudio.bsky.socialQuasimorph (@quasimorph.bsky.social)An Elaborate History of Chess, by @iteration-games.com
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 01/12/2025
Learn more about Festive Feast, or about Paper Pirates - a party social deduction game that everyone can join from their mobile phone - on Steam: s.team/a/1234220 Nobody's ever knocked out of the game, and up to ten people can play with only one copy!
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Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 01/12/2025
It's Yule Tides in Paper Pirates! The seas turn chilly, and snow begins to fall! 🎁 Limited-time Trait: The Gift Giver! ❌ Limited-time Trait+ The Miser! 🎅 Limited-time customisation options in the Outfit and Ship Shops! ⛄ THREE seasonal events! #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
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GaMaYo - next GaMaYo 26th November 2026 @gamayo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
So excited that we have brilliant #gamedevs in the @gamerepublic.bsky.social zone at @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social #indiegamedev
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 27/11/2025
If you like chess, turnips, and/or turn-based combat, you might love An Elaborate History of Chess! It's full of everyone's chess favourites: the pawn, the bishop, the treant creatures, spiders that confuse your pieces. Oh and checkmate puzzles! Demo on Steam: s.team/a/1255020 #TurnBasedThursday
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RichardStampDev - Freelance Games Designer/Developer! @richardstampdev.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Welcome, kobolds and non-kobolds! We are honoured to be the official host of this week's #TurnBasedThursday! Show us your turn-based games, indie devs. =D Remember to 💬comment, ♥️like and 🔁 share!
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 26/11/2025
Full Terms and Conditions are available online: www.iteration-games.com/giveaway-ter...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 26/11/2025
Exclusive #Giveaway! We're giving away an exclusive t-shirt inspired by An Elaborate History of Chess to one lucky winner! To enter just ✅follow and 🔁repost! We'll pick one random winner at 5pm GMT on 12th December 2025. Full T&Cs in reply ⬇️ #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 16/11/2025
Learn more about Festive Feast, or about Paper Pirates - a party social deduction game that everyone can join from their mobile phone - on Steam: s.team/a/1234220 Nobody's ever knocked out of the game, and up to ten people can play with only one copy! #IndieGame
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Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 16/11/2025
The Festive Feast, a season of harvest and feasting, starts today in Paper Pirates! 🏈 Seasonal Trait: The Quarterback 🧑‍🍳 Seasonal Trait+: The Chef 🔮 Seasonal Event: Wish on a Wishbone 🦃 Limited time goodies at the Shop Ship! #indiegame #gamedev #socialdeduction
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 07/11/2025
If you want to learn more about An Elaborate History of Chess, give us a wishlist, or even try the free demo (with around 2 hours of content!) visit the Steam store page: store.steampowered.com/app/1255020/...
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An Elaborate History of Chess on Steam
An Elaborate History of Chess is a crafting strategy game touring the history of Chess. In true Chess tradition build castles, explore dungeons, farm turnips and get checkmated by a tree. Find answers...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 07/11/2025
Hi #PitchYaGame! Let me tell you about An Elaborate History of Chess: 🌽Make and cultivate farms using pawns 🧩Solve chess-style puzzles ⚔️Engage in turn-based chess combat with bosses ⬆️Level up your pawns to gain unique abilities and promote them into wacky nonsense like Druids and Lumberjacks
Your pawns are your farmers, responsible for growing crops like turnips and wheat needed to keep your pieces alive every day.Entering dungeons means solving puzzles. In this case, a checkmate puzzle! Which white piece needs to move where to put the black king in check?Fight a wide variety of pieces with different movement patterns and abilities. Combat in dungeons is turn-based, so it feels like playing chess!Every piece has a set of abilities which it learns as it levels up. If you get special items, you can even promote pieces into new pieces!
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 31/10/2025
Learn more about The Cheerleader, or about Paper Pirates - a party social deduction game that everyone can join from their mobile phone - on Steam: s.team/a/1234220 Nobody's ever knocked out of the game, and up to ten people can play with only one copy! #IndieGame
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Save 75% on Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 31/10/2025
The seventh of seven new traits for Paper Pirates is available now: The Cheerleader! The Cheerleader is a passive trait that chooses to support either the human or the ghost team. Depending on how well their chosen team is doing, The Cheerleader can gain extra voting power! #IndieGame #GameDev
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 25/10/2025
This talk was amazing, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom!
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 24/10/2025
We’re at @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social and EGX in the Rezzed Zone with an updated demo of An Elaborate History of Chess! There’s a whole new dungeon playable for the first time, plus a leaderboard to find out who can complete a dungeon in the fewest moves! #IndieGame #GameDev #EGX #IndieDev
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 17/10/2025
Learn more about The Diplomat, or about Paper Pirates - a party social deduction game that everyone can join from their mobile phone - on Steam: s.team/a/1234220 Nobody's ever knocked out of the game, and up to ten people can play with only one copy! #IndieGame
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Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 17/10/2025
The sixth of seven new traits for Paper Pirates is available now: The Diplomat! The Diplomat is a new active trait, who can target a pirate and force them to skip their next vote. This gives them a lot of power over a pirate that is maybe too eager to vote! #GameDev #IndieGame #SocialDeduction
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 04/10/2025
It's spooky season and that means it's the return of Haunted Seas in Paper Pirates! Check out all the haunted goodies: 🧛 Seasonal Trait+: The Vampire 🐺 Seasonal Trait: The Werewolf 🍬 Seasonal Event: Trick or Treat? .. and more! Haunted Seas runs all through October🦇 #IndieGame #GameDev
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 02/10/2025
Learn more about The Wereghost, or about Paper Pirates - a party social deduction game that everyone can join from their mobile phone - on Steam: s.team/a/1234220 Nobody's ever knocked out of the game, and up to ten people can play with only one copy! #IndieGame
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Save 75% on Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 02/10/2025
The fifth of seven new traits for Paper Pirates is available now: The Wereghost! The Wereghost is a new seasonal trait for Haunted Seas. On days when the moon isn't full, The Wereghost is always human. But beware, on full moon nights, they become a ghost! #GameDev #IndieGame #SocialDeduction
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/09/2025
Learn more about The Imitator, or about Paper Pirates - a party social deduction game that everyone can join from their mobile phone - on Steam: s.team/a/1234220 Nobody's ever knocked out of the game, and up to ten people can play with only one copy! #IndieGame
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Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/09/2025
The fourth of seven new traits for Paper Pirates is available now: The Imitator! When The Imitator's team is revealed, like in a Spy event, a different pirate's team is revealed instead. The Imitator knows who they're imitating, but will they share this info? #GameDev #IndieGame #SocialDeduction
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/09/2025
Learn more about Oktoberfest on the Ocean, and Paper Pirates, on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1234220/...
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Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 19/09/2025
Grab a sausage and a stein to celebrate the end of September with Oktoberfest on the Ocean, until 30th September in Paper Pirates! 🍻 Meet The Brewmaster and get the party started! 🌭 Find out who has the biggest bratwurst! 🥨 Grab seasonal treats in the outfit shop! #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 18/09/2025
Hello everyone! We're excited to be part of the @sixoneindie.com Steam Event Selection. You can play the first few hours of An Elaborate History of Chess now on Steam, for free! There are spiders in it though. Sorry. #SixOneIndie #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev
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Six One Indie @sixoneindie.com · 10/09/2025
47 indies. 72 minutes. The Six One Indie Showcase returns September 18th via IGN, GameSpot, and Six One Indie's channels! • World premiere from ORIGAME DIGITAL • Lil Gator Game: In the Dark gameplay • Super Rare Originals, Blumhouse Games, and so much more! Save The Date: youtu.be/QncfsZr_fxQ?...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 05/09/2025
Learn more about The Dutiful, or about Paper Pirates - a party social deduction game that everyone can join from their mobile phone - on Steam: s.team/a/1234220 Nobody's ever knocked out of the game, and up to ten people can play with only one copy! #IndieGame #SocialDeduction
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Paper Pirates on Steam
Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw ...
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 05/09/2025
The third of seven new traits coming to Paper Pirates is now available: The Dutiful! The Dutiful is an active trait who can trigger their current rank's crew duty event whenever they don't play in. There's a three-day cooldown, so make sure to use it when it helps you most! #IndieGame #GameDev
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Iteration Games @iteration-games.com · 28/08/2025
Thank you for hosting, @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social, and hi #TurnBasedThursday! We've been working on power and automation systems, which will appear in one of the themed dungeons of An Elaborate History of Chess. You can use them to automate some farming too! Demo available: s.team/a/1255020
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Nine Dots Studio @ninedotsstudio.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
We're very happy to be the official #TurnBasedThursday host this week. This community is amazing and support us a lot. Now it's your time #GameDev #IndieDev to let players discover your #turnbased games. Love #turnbased games? ♥ / 🔁 great games in the replies and @ who should be in this thread!
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