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TheMH06 @themh06.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fanart for the SRPG 'Vermilion Sea' by my homie @mkiang.bsky.social ! Go check it out on Steam when it drops, it's gonna be super cool!! store.steampowered.com/app/3558280/...

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Roby @lapithai.art · 14/09/2026

I'm working on this game with Kiang!!!!! I'm the main artist/designerrrr, please consider wishlisting it, especially if you love fire emblem style games!!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Kiang @mkiang.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Inspired by medieval China & Korea, and by my love of strategy RPGs, I've been hard at work on Vermilion Sea. We've got: 🏯 A new, lore-rich world 🎨 Hand-drawn illustrations & pixel art 🧩 Tactical gameplay grounded in meaningful choices Please wishlist on Steam if you're interested~! #vermilionsea

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Turn Based Lovers @turnbasedlovers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Vermilion Sea Is a Tactical RPG Where You Can’t Complete Every Mission turnbasedlovers.com/overview/ver... #turnbased #VermilionSea #TacticalRPG #RPG #indiegames #turnbasedlovers

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Kiang @mkiang.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Vermilion Sea is an upcoming SRPG inspired by Chinese and Korean history. We've got: 🏯 A brand-new, lore-rich world 🎨 Hand-drawn illustrations and pixel art 🧩 Tactical gameplay grounded in meaningful choices Please wishlist on Steam and follow along if you're interested! :)

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Kiang @mkiang.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Quite a coincidence as I just announced Vermilion Sea today! It's a strategy RPG set in a world inspired by medieval Chinese and Korean history. store.steampowered.com/app/3558280/... Thanks for hosting, @blindcoco.bsky.social !

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Kiang @mkiang.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Super happy to reveal what I've been working on all this time: Vermilion Sea, a tactics RPG that combines my love of strategy games with my love of history. I'll be posting a lot more about this, so please follow if you'd like to see more~

Pixel-art screenshot from the game Vermilion Sea. A 2D character is standing on a bridge that connects a boat to the beach. They are wielding a spear in one hand and a fire in the other. A second character, on the beach, is obfuscated by a pillar of flame.

Pixel-art screenshot from the game Vermilion Sea. Two characters are standing in front of an announcement board in a Chinese-styled courtyard. There is an an illustration of a young man with black hair wearing armor in the bottom-left of the image. A dialogue banner extends across the bottom of the image. It reads: "Taelun — It feels like only yesterday that you were so nervous to come here and check your examination results..."

Screenshot of a combat preview screen from the game Vermilion Sea. Two boxes on either side of the screen display information like weapons, damage, hit rate, critical hit rate, and HP. In the background is a pixel-art map of a dungeon, dimly lit by torches.

Screenshot of a level-up screen from the game Vermilion Sea. A UI box shaped like a scroll covers most of the right half of the screen. It says "Jiayun: Disciple, LV 2." It also displays a list of stats, labelled "HP," "STR," "PIE," "SKL," "SPD," "DEF," "CHA," and "FOR." Some of the stats are highlighted in green and a small green arrow pointing upwards is displayed next to them. An illustration of a young woman with pink air dressed in armor covers most of the left side of the image. A dialogue bubble beneath her reads: "We'll make this work."

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Roby @lapithai.art · 01/08/2026

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of ILION's 2.0 website! ❄️ 07/31 ❄️ I've been so busy, so I haven't been able to update as much as I'd like, but please look forward to new Ilion updates in the near future! There's a new facility on the horizon~ I wonder what it could be? 🐶♨️

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you

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Kobazco (Alaina) @kobazco.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I love writing a resume that's all about game development/design and modding and then at the bottom its just like: "Education: BA in History :)"

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Not touching the solo dev discourse outside of snarky comments during the show but do want to ask when did we decide '30 devs' was a *small* team??? Napkin math, 30 dev core team for 3 years => $10-15M budget depending on location, excluding any O/S spend or marketing

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 01/04/2025

A former French military base, Vauban is a thriving neighbourhood of 5,500 residents connected to Freiburg town centre by bus and light rail. Built in the late 1990s as a radical experiment in low-car living, it forgoes virtually all on-street parking in favour of active, green, and social spaces. 🧵

People in casual spring attire walk, cycle, and ride trams along car-free streets lined with colourful low-rise residential buildings in the neighbourhood of Vauban in Freiburg, Germany.

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

You might be having larks at GDC but I spent the day doing careers talks for high schoolers and one kid asked "Would it not be a better idea to make a famous or successful game?"

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Ori-Warui -KNUCKLE JET out now on Steam! @oleivarrudi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Casual reminder that a game having mixed reviews might not mean it's actually bad, it might mean that it's tailored close enough to your personal dream game preferences to actively put other prople off it

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Roby @lapithai.art · 01/02/2025

🐍mmxxv

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Roby @lapithai.art · 01/12/2024

❄️Winter 2024 postcard

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