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Realm Creation Studios

@realmcreationstudios.com
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Solo developer. Small retro games, one shared world. Building Legend of the Ultimate Dragon (LOUD) - a tribute to '90s BBS door games. www.realmcreationstudios.com

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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 28/09/2026
There's no Save button in my game, and there won't be save slots. One save that moves forward with you. If it's ever damaged, the game won't patch it up. It'll tell you. Why, and what it took to trust it: www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #godot
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There's No Save Button
LOUD Devlog #6
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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 14/09/2026
65 test boards. 3,403 checks. All green. None of them can tell me whether the tavern list looks like it ends where it ends. On what tests catch, what they can't, and the balance pass that promised "hard but solvent" then killed me. www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #godot
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Everything passed. Then I played it.
LOUD Devlog #5
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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 31/08/2026
First look at my game (LOUD) moving: seven seconds of one ordinary fight. Aggressive enemies have to telegraph a heavy hit before it lands — and the warning turn still swings at you. A free warning is a gift, not a threat. Devlog #4 @ www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming
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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 28/08/2026
Something happened in LOUD this week that I've been waiting a long time to see. I'm really tempted to show it. Not yet. Soon. 😏 #IndieDev #GameDev
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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 21/08/2026
The town square in the old door games was one paragraph. Same at dawn, same at midnight, same every visit. Mine is five layers, reassembled every visit — and the hardest rule was "look at the picture before you write the room." www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming
Solus at different times of day with differing narration text.
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Theropods - OUT NOW @losttoken.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How do you convey emotion when your character's entire face is two pixels? Cutscenes and a killer soundtrack!
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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 15/08/2026
Spent an hour chasing a mismatch. Same number written in two places. I'd updated one. The bug wasn't the number. The bug was that the number existed twice. Rule I keep relearning the hard way: one fact, one home. Everything else points at it.
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GameBrief @gamebrief.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A weekly devlog with modest updates seems to build more trust with wishlisters than one big flashy reveal every few months. Steady presence over spectacle, even if the individual posts are less impressive. #indiedev #gamedev
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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 08/08/2026
RCS - one person, building small retro games in one shared world. First: Legend of the Ultimate Dragon, a single-player tribute to '90s BBS door games. 30 days, one dragon. Art: Midjourney, corrected and modified by hand. Music: Suno. Design and code are mine. www.realmcreationstudios.com
Realm Creation Studios logo: a skull-and-book medallion with a lit candle, beside the studio name in gold serif text on a black background.
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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 08/08/2026
Been quiet a few days — was heads-down building this instead: www.realmcreationstudios.com A recent devlog got stuck in itch's moderation queue for days with zero way to reach anyone about it. So the studio has its own home now. Devlog #2 is already live there. #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming
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Home | Realm Creation Studios
A solo studio making cozy, bite-sized tributes to the BBS door games of the '90s. First up: Legend of the Ultimate Dragon.
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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 08/08/2026
Devlog #2 is up. I found a bug in LOUD's encounter tables that had never once broken anything — four wrong rows in a key nothing was reading yet. Deleting the key was the fix. Correcting it would have kept the real problem. www.realmcreationstudios.com #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming
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I found a bug that had never broken anything — LOUD Devlog #2
I found a four-row bug in LOUD's encounter tables that had never once broken anything — and what deleting a redundant data key taught me.
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Brianna Townsend @brianna.town · 05/08/2026
It's #WishlistWednesday and my game has been TBA on Steam 1 year this month! Please consider sharing my game with your friends and in return I will eventually someday finish it so you can play! store.steampowered.com/app/3919080/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #solodev
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Retro Gaming Geek 🕹️ @retrogaminggeek.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Did you grow up playing The Oregon Trail your school's Apple II? Here's the team you should thank. :) From left to right are Charolyn Kapplinger, John Krenz, Shirley Keran, and Philip Bouchard
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RPG in a Box: The Future of Game Creation! @rpginabox.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Shares are greatly appreciated 💖 #gamedev #indiedev
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Realm Creation Studios @realmcreationstudios.com · 24/07/2026
Devlog #1 is up - what LOUD is, and why a 30-day BBS door game still works in 2026. I ran a BBS called Realms BBS out of Montgomery, Alabama when I was 13. This is that, 30 years later. Follow Realm Creation Studios on itch: realmcreationstudios.itch.io #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming
LOUD cover art. A small village at sunrise. Lights on in the buildings. Mountains in the distance. Stars fading from the sky as the sun rises.
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