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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🕯️MY GAME COMES OUT TOMORROW!! 🕯️ If you want to help me, the best way is to buy the game and review it on Steam as close to 5AM Pacific or 8AM Eastern as possible. The algo lords do a special thing at 10 reviews, as many of you know : ) store.steampowered.com/app/2105840/...

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Order Automatica on Steam

A dark tactical roguelite where positioning, synergies, and automated battles collide on a tiny 3x3 ritual grid. Like chess with demons.

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🕯️ANNOUNCEMENT🕯️ My game Order Automatica has a release date: September 4th, 2026 We are doing a simultaneous release on Steam, GOG, Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox, iOS, and Android 😅 New demo up on Steam right now : )

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Order Automatica - Official Release Date Trailer

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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

How do elevators work? We have no idea, but this week's design dive shows some of the details that make elevators feel like elevators in our game. #gamedesign #steam #indiegame #indiedev

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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We shared some of our reasoning for keeping generative AI out of our creative process with @aftermath.site. Respecting our players' time and attention is at the core of everything we do. If something isn't worth our time to make, it's not worth our players' time to engage with it.

“We don't use generative AI for art, audio, code, or anything else. We've been pretty outspoken about our stance, like with the 200 pins we gave away at GDC this year or our studio Christmas cards where we paid artists to draw what they thought AI-generated cards from us would have looked like.

We have spent time evaluating/experimenting with tools so we feel informed and understand what they can do, but that just gives us more confidence about not using them in any part of our production or preproduction processes for any of our projects. Among our reasons:

We care a ton about respecting our players' time and attention, so if something isn't worth our time to make, it's not worth our players' time to look at.

It's pretty important to have friction with iteration in creative processes. When ideas are cheap to try, they're challenged and vetted less before the implementation. That's going to lead to a lot of games fully realizing some half-baked ideas. We don't want to be the studio that tries to figure out that process.

Even the cases where gen AI quality might be good enough, it is not worth the toxic association. Our players are very clear that they don't want it.

We worked in VR for a decade. We've seen what happens when people make plans and change all their processes based on potential instead of focusing on the present. It usually doesn't work out.”

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Messhof @messhof.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Blood Dungeon launches August 25th on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 1 + 2! Blooddungeon.com #boneup

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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

we've been using Clawed Code for years but we double checked and Steam still does NOT require a disclosure #indiegames #gamedev

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Just booked a session to go play. Can't wait! Seems like they really went all-out!

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There’s nothing quite like editing VO to make you self conscious of your weird mouth sounds

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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Our game has lots of puzzles and interactive environments. But when players are constantly exploring for clues, those interactions can become red herrings - so we made them into a feature! #gaming #indiegames #gamedev

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Ben was awesome to work with on this in so many ways! His willingness to just riff and try out silly stuff while recording made the process really fun and added a LOT to the final trailer. Super grateful for all his help and excellent work

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

WOW! Quite the compliment! We had such a great time watching these folks play at Play Days. Always fun to see people laughing together while playing the game

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

an opportunity to stab your fingers* and tell us what you think! *virtual fingers

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We take player input very seriously

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We’ve been having a blast cramming little jokes and details into the game. These are just a taste of what you can find in the trailer alone!

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

"It is the most fun, most dumb game I've played in a very long time." - Couldn't ask for higher praise!

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is SO up my alley. Cannot wait to play!

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Just announced our new game during the Day of the Devs showcase! Beyond excited to be able to talk about it now

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Holden Link @holdenlink.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

After Day of the Devs on Friday, catch @nicv.bsky.social and I on Giant Bomb @ Nite! bsky.app/profile/gian...

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

So stoked to share what we've been cookin up! And can't think of a better way to do it than with Day of the Devs. See ya soon, Summer Game Fest

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Turbo Button | Floor Plan: Slap Out Of It! @turbobuttoninc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

psssst... you don't want to miss this 😉

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

VERY hyped on this game. Can't wait to play it in full!

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Moonlight Kids @moonlightkids.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🎉NEW TRAILER ALERT🎉We're announcing a shiny new demo coming to Steam Next Fest very soon! Watch, absorb, let the mystery wash over you 🙏 youtu.be/lK8bGNU-cVc #echoweaver #thinky #thinkydirect #indie #indiegames #indiedev

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Echo Weaver | Thinky Games Showcase Trailer

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Ido Yehieli - Stellar Cartography Interactive @tametick.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Tune in to @thinkygames.com Thinky Direct in a bit to catch Prophet Margin and other great games! Demo release!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=26pA... Find it on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/...

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Thinky Direct 2026 - Exclusive trailers and announcements for puzzle fans!

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I always find myself so inspired playing Amanita’s games. Can’t wait to check this one out!

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Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 20/05/2026

Phonopolis is out NOW on Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store 📣 We hope you have fun playing with the cardboard city! All links here 👇 amanita-design.net/games/phonop...

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VR Games Showcase @vrgamesshowcase.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨 CREATURE FEATURE 2026 AIRS ON VRGS NEXT WEEK 🚨 😍 New VR game reveals & info... 🤫 ...including a very big surprise ✈️ Updates on Compass, Deadly Delivery & more 📆 9:30am PT, May 6 on YouTube Set a reminder here: buff.ly/X2k9QcD

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Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Two+ years of work by a wonderful dev team and lot of support to get to launch!

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 28/03/2026

Today we're releasing a huge free content update: Cappler's Conspiracy! It's a whole 2+ hour photography game hidden inside BIG HOPS: store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/... Enjoy this little thread about it:

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hard to top giant cat butt slapping, but it was still an excellent GDC! Caught up with some old friends, made some new ones. Doesn’t get much better

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Gonna be hard to top this gem from GDC last year, but a man can hope

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Looking forward to seeing everyone at GDC next week!

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

🧵 Big Hops Sewer Exit Level Design Deep Dive Thread 🧵 Inspired by @radiatoryang.bsky.social's excellent Big Hops level design blog post and encouraged by Chris @luckshotgames.com, here's a thread where I dove back through the commits to look at our iterations on a single level in Big Hops.

A sewer in Big Hops with a big yellow rotating platform surrounded by waterfalls.

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

🚨Announce! Hype!🚨 Order Automatica has a new trailer, new demo, new art, and a new publisher! OA will be published by @betterpubpro.bsky.social - they're really cool and have been helping me a lot : ) Check it all out on the steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/2105840/...

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Order Automatica on Steam

A dark roguelike auto battler played on a 3×3 grid. Arrange your units, harness forbidden relics, and complete the ritual before your last candle burns out.

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This year was an excellent GDC in so many ways, but the best part was we got to have the whole Turbo Button team in the same place for the first time ever! Such a fun group to hang out with. I’m so grateful to be a part of it

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

GDC here we go! First time back in awhile. Hit me up if you wanna hang

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We're all just out here trying our best

A C# code snippet declaring a variable called "StateAwake" with Visual Studio then suggesting a second variable called "StateBwake"

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

When I first entered this industry, anything over 3 years at the same company was unimaginable. Now looking back at the last 10, I can't believe it's gone so quickly! @holdenlink.bsky.social and I are so grateful to everyone we've worked with, and are stoked for the next decade of Turbo Button

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Nic Vasconcellos @nicv.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We worked with some of our favorite folks to create artist-generated AI spoof cards to ring in the holiday season. Hapy holipy merry, everyone!

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