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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Looking for a great #VR game that runs on your old Quest 2? Also like to help an indie dev with cancer? www.meta.com/en-gb/experi...

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Recluse Industries Ltd has now ceased trading. I feel like the videogames market is fundamentally broken, oversaturated with content - like the music industry before it. No visibility without 💵💵💵

Two exhausted game devs up to their ankles in water, fill an overflowing bucket labelled "Games Market"

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

skeleton, type-in listing, magazine screenshot, program pochette, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/prog...

skeletons and diamond-y shaped things are on the playing field. up the top is hi score, score and men left.

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I've long struggled with depression. I'd tell myself "you're lucky, others have it worse" and the dream of finally releasing a successful #indiegame sustained me through dark times. Coping strategies that fail now I have terminal cancer. Yet a ray of hope remains, for some kind of transcendence.

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Been a tough year. In January I was diagnosed with a terminal cancer caused by asbestos. I've been in hospital, unable to do #gamedev for a while. If you own a #meta Quest 2 or 3 every Haus Of Klaus sale helps this indie dev to keep on fighting another day. www.meta.com/experiences/...

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A handful of Youtubers are beginning to discover Haus Of Klaus. As a solo #indiedev with no QA support its a great source of insights to be able to watch people play the game first time 😅 www.youtube.com/live/SziUdgN...

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The Academy - LIVE - Haus of Klaus - (VR) - [First Impression]

YouTube video by The Academy

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Some of the earliest gen art was not visual, but musical; "Musikalisches Würfelspiel" games were so popular in the 1700s, even Mozart wrote one! Guillermo Brachetta has created an online version so even without piano (or dice) you can listen to some of the waltzes Mozart's algorithm creates.

RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Sinclair ZX81. 1K memory, monochrome graphics, no audio. My first experience of #gamedev ♥️

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

First console? Mine was a Grandstand Video Sports Centre. As an only child I had to play against myself - left vs right using both joysticks. I really wanted an Atari 2600 + Space Invaders, obviously.

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Added a tougher sentry bot variant - the Riot Bot. Check out the latest update (0.4.9) of Haus Of Klaus, live on Meta Store now! #gamedev #indiegame #VR

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Here's one I made earlier... I love that people still enjoy this game, it was one of my favourite projects to work on.

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Dan Dare, ZX Spectrum, 1986. I was sixteen when I designed the graphics and levels for this.

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The last couple of months has been a difficult time, life-changing even. I was unable to work on the game at all through December and most of January, so releasing an update (v0.4.5) today feels like quite an achievement. www.meta.com/experiences/...

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Haus Of Klaus on Meta Quest

It's payback time for Klaus Von Klensch, mastermind of the apocalypse! Sneak or fight your way through his bunker to the reactor core... Trigger a meltdown... then get the hell out before it all goes ...

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

There he is The Setup Wizard

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

@ultrabrilliant.xyz Hi Andy, nice to meet you at GR in York yesterday. I have a key for Haus Of Klaus for you!

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If VINCENT and Maximillian had a baby... I designed Haus Of Klaus's security bots as a mashup of the droids from Disney's 1979 space disaster The Black Hole.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

duke nukem, dos (1991) www.mobygames.com/game/559/duk...

duke nukem, in a more innocent incarnation, before his 3d days (no shades), blonde hair, blue pants, futuristic space boots, futuristic things strapped to his arms and wielding a space gun is jumping or leaping towards a green creature with a very sharp set of teeth (it has its mouth open wide). another green creature and robots are in the background as well as yellow radioactive barrels. the walls are sleek futuristic tiles. the title font is glistening chrome.

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

DEC VT-100 (1978)

A catalog shot of the VT-100 features a white-on-black monichrome monitor, a black monitor inset in a white case, and a black keyboard frontispiece and keys over a white keyboard case, set in a 70s warm umber backshot. The text, barely visible, features various forms of graphics characters, fonts, double-height lines, and inverse video; the 'digital VT 100' slogan appears case right.

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

sharp mz-80k2e, print ad, excerpt (1982) archive.org/details/io-1...

a stylish promotional snap of said system, taken at a diagonal angle. it has a small attached screen, a tape deck to the right, a small keyboard below the screen. on the screen is a pixelated rocket or space craft.

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RecluseIndie @recluseindie.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Hello. This is my latest game, unfunded and solo developed in my spare time over 3 years. Its a Roguelite #VR stealth & shooter with a daily random bunker full of robots and spiders. Features lots of swearing and toilet humour. www.meta.com/experiences/...

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Haus Of Klaus on Meta Quest

Find a way in. Overload the reactor core. Get out again in five minutes - before it all goes boom! Sounds easy right? After all, you've survived a nuclear war and now it's payback time for Klaus Von K...

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