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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My game, a Fire-Embem-like Rogue-like-like is on sale for the Steam Winter Sale! Go buy it please!! #indiegaming #indiegames #roguelike store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

New game new game new game!! Just announced Astral Throne II: Age of the Phoenix. It's a Fire Emblem and FFT-inspired Roguelite, written by a fantasy novelist, and has Octopath-style graphics. Wow! Wishlist! -> store.steampowered.com/app/4084400/... #SRPG #Roguelike #InideGame #IndieGames

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Super excited, my game Astral Throne is back on the steam front page for a daily deal! The game didn't even meet the documented requisites for being chosen, we just asked support if we could have one and they said yes 😀 store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

Screenshot of the front page of Steam. Astral Throne is 50% off with a crudely scribbled red circle, arrows and "Wow!" around it.

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I think one of the best feelings you can get as an #indiedev is for your community to make a fan wiki. Like, they like the game this much that they're making supplemental material?? Hell yeah astralthrone.wiki.gg

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Love to put out content updates and put my game on sale #roguelike #srpg #indiegame Also love to post links not in replies: store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Oh shit, top a da list baybee! Wonder if we'll be here all weekend. #indiegamedev #gamedev

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Our game, Astral Throne, is out now! It's a Fire Emblem-like Rogue-like-like. #SRPG #Roguelike #InideGame #IndieGames Right here!! -> store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hm, yes, people might be onto something regarding this "Popular Upcoming" thing #indiedev #gamedev

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Yeah!!! Achieved life goal of hitting Steam's front page :D #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I know the news is crazy, but look at this girl we put in our game. She summons a marionette!! Also our game releases in 2 days! store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #roguelike #SRPG

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

How do I deal with all these key begging emails? Please, my phone is going crazy 😭 #indiedev #gamedev #inidegamedev

Deluge of "curators" and "reviewers" asking for free steam keys, presumably to sell on key re-seller websites

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Always wanted to add a character to a game with RNG that plays around with the random numbers, so we added a gambler character to our #Roguelike #SRPG Also he's a funny guy with a cat. #indiegame #indiedev Also, wishlist!! the game comes out next week!!! -> store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Another hero for the game, our artists had a lot of freedom with her. She's a blood witch, who takes blood from enemies (and allies) for power #roguelike #srpg #indiegame #indiedev the game, which released in 2.5 weeks: store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Also check out our butterfly knight. She's an older veteran-type character. I think her tired expression pairs very well with the colourful designs of the armour and butterfly lol #srpg #roguelike #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Always nervous about locking in a release date because what if we missed it and I've lied to the universe store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Astral Throne's release date is set to 7 Feb, 2025

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I can't think of a better value-to-work ratio on giving the players a debug-like "custom games" editor where they can just do whatever they want. Wonder if this will decrease or increase people asking for stuff 😅 #gamedev #indiegame #indiegames #roguelike store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

One of the things about being a #gamedev is giving other people some fun stuff that you don't really care about. I'm not really a cheevo-chaser, nor do I really care about unlocking stuff in a #roguelike, but I know some people are gonna like filling in the entries in our "codex" #indiegames

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Teasing new hero characters for my #Roguelike #SRPG, I like doing this silhouette thing because it makes it seem mysterious #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev They're for this game, it's got a demo! -> store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I love video games because all these images represent the same person and we all just sort of accept that #indiedev #indiegames

Portrait of one of the heroes in Astral Throne: Lyra, a battlemage woman with short blue hair and a long red cape with a floating magical astrolabe

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Added controller support to our game, so now the bottom of the screen looks like a party instead of productivity software :) It's been added to the game's demo, and we'd really like some feedback. Demo -> store.steampowered.com/app/2573790/... #TurnBasedThursday #Roguelike #SRPG #IndieGame

Twee-looking pixel art controller glyphs next to their respective functions E.g. "A" to select unit

Steam patch notes for Astral Throne that say: Controller Support
The game is now fully playable with a controller and on Steam Deck!
Navigate through menus and the tile grid using D-Pad, Analogue Stick, and buttons like you’d expect
Moving the right stick activates a virtual cursor that allows you to mouse over stuff for tooltips

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Getting absolutely swarmed by bots on my studio's account on the other place. Anyone else dealing with this? #indiedev #indiegamedev

A stream of bots following me on twitter

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

The god damn narrative designer is making me write so many different branches of dialogue per scene (I am the narrative designer) #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegame

Branching dialogue sequence with a lot of different branches

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

I appreciate all the nice changes coming Unity's way but this logo kinda sucks lmao

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Does anybody have any experience receiving government grants for game dev? Especially in Ontario and/or Canada #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

lol Steam Next Fest is taking credit for wishlists that came from another sales event that was happening at the same time (Roguelike Celebration, which is still going btw) #IndieDev #IndieGameDev

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Fine, I will post about my game. It's a Fire-Emblem-Like Rogue-Like-Like.... Like #SRPG #Roguelike #IndieGameDev store.steampowered.com/app/2560500/...

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Chief Goblin Officer 🇨🇦 @mcdichael.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Being a part of niche events like Roguelike Celebration always brings us more attention than big events like Steam Next Fest, and I think it's always a good lesson in not just reaching the largest audience, but the *right* audience #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Daily wishlist graph showing the wishlists gained during Roguelike Celebration being substantially higher than Steam Next Fest

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