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Axolotl 🚀

@pengonauts.com
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- strange creature - designer of StarVaders & DiceVaders - not an astronaut

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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 16/06/2026
New key art for Dicevaders by @lanternowl.bsky.social !
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 10/03/2026
I'll be around the GDC yerba buena gardens throughout the week! If you spot me come say hi! (pictured: me)
a picture of an axolotl
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 09/02/2026
woah!
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 21/11/2025
DiceVaders!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3917700/... (capsule art by @godsavant.bsky.social )
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 18/11/2025
soft-announcing something soon!! be not afraid
an incomplete piece of an image
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 09/05/2025
Huge shoutout to @joystickventures.bsky.social, our investor / publisher. I remember in our first meeting the fund manager asked "How much do you need to make the best version of the game?" They really believed in the early vision of our new studio with no track record - and it's paying off!
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 07/05/2025
StarVaders just hit Overwhelmingly Positive at 97% !! maybe i will be able to keep making games after all
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 05/05/2025
holy hell im in a press localthunk article title
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 05/05/2025
350 reviews at 96% positive!! dunno what to do with my hands
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 03/05/2025
It's only been 3 days and over 27% of players have beaten Apocalypse difficulty 🤯
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 29/04/2025
wew!! in a list
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 19/02/2025
ANNOUNCING... StarVaders 2!!! All the cool kids are doing it, wanted to hop on the train (we're cancelling StarVaders 1 sorry, sequels are cooler)
starvaders title, but with a funaky paint.net 2 added
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 14/02/2025
valentines day card template, invaders from the game StarVaders appearing

"you invaded my heart"
"to:"
"from:"
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 23/01/2025
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 16/12/2024
BREAKING!! - Clearest Picture Captured of Mystery Drones Sightings over New Jersey !!!!
a picture of the night sky with starvaders invaders in the sky, circled by a big red circle with arrows pointing at it
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 13/12/2024
Surprise! i am hosting TGAGWCAGA prepare to get raw dogged by a thousand indie games
axolotl hosting the game awards for games who can't afford the game awards
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 23/11/2024
another classic
"What is a game?" alignment chart

Menu: interfaced through a menu, usually strategic or turn based

In Between: Elements of both

Parkour: relies on timing, reflexes and coordination 

Game Purist: win/lose condition and enforced rules

Game Neutral: creation with implicit goals

Game Rebel: only exists as a goal in the player's mind 


Slay the Spire is a Menu Game Purist

Lego is a Menu Game Neutral

Creating alignment chart meme is a Menu Game Rebel

Hades is a Menu-Parkour Game Purist

Minecraft is a Menu-Parkour Game Neutral

Debating on discord is a Menu-Parkour Game Rebel

Celeste is a Parkour Game Purists

Monkey Bars are a Parkour Game Neutral

Eating Large Hamburger is a Parkour Game Rebel
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 20/11/2024
"born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the universe, born just in time to explore game design"
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 19/11/2024
an expansion of the original chart with the Y axis (parkour-menu spectrum)

Stardew Valley - very smooth, somewhat menu
Celeste - very smooth, very parkour
Slay the Spire - somewhat smooth, very menu
Hades - somewhat smooth, somewhat parkour
Minecraft - perfectly in the middle
Hollow Knight - slightly spiky, very parkour 
FTL - somewhat spiky, somewhat menu 
Noita - very spiky, somewhat parkour 
Dwarf Fortress - very spiky, very menu
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 18/11/2024
game design theorem
"all games are on the smooth-spiky spectrum"

Into the Breach - Smooth
Slay the Spire - Lumpy
Noita - Spiky
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 14/11/2024
What's the 'anime' title for your game?
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Axolotl 🚀 @pengonauts.com · 25/10/2024
i love games where the UI interface is humans Ninja, Contact, Chopsticks, Sandman, Hide & Seek, etc what are some of your favorite human interface games?
4 hands playing the game known as "chopsticks"
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