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Rubén Garat

@rgarat.bsky.social
731 followers 872 following 20 posts

Currently working on Cleared Hot, Worked on Cleanup Crew at Magical Beast Games, Was Lead Programmer at Ironhide Games 2013-2022, also @rgarat at twitter

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 06/08/2026
Whenever a publisher says "We want the next Balatro" what this would literally mean is "We want to give money to someone who has never released a game before, and also it has to be a kind of game that has never been made before", and then not looking at any metrics or data because those don't exist.
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Ariel Coppes 🚀 Ship Miner 🚀🎮 Wishlist on Steam 🎮 @arielsan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ship Miner has a EA Release Date!! Here is the announcement trailer!! I worked really hard on that trailer, had to learn davinci resolve and recorded and edited like one hundred videos. Really proud of the result. Likes and retweets are really appreciated!
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 28/05/2026
Real good bit about the slippery slope of genAI use. A battle we're already fighting, especially against the C-suite.
Text clip from the Harvard Gazette article: 

He continued, “Whatever your chosen profession is, please don’t let AI rob you of the fun part of it. Your generation’s upcoming battle won’t be humans against AI; that’s at least two months away. … It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”
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Ariel Coppes 🚀 Ship Miner 🚀🎮 Wishlist on Steam 🎮 @arielsan.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Ship Miner reached 4k Wishlists on Steam!! 🥳 Thank you so much!!🙏
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Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 30/03/2026
Incredible how a specific brand of smart people can be this dumb sometimes. You don't hate social commentary - you hate social commentary that doesn't conform to your own, and you're normative enough that you don't have to worry about reminding people you are human. gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...
“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.”
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Ariel Coppes 🚀 Ship Miner 🚀🎮 Wishlist on Steam 🎮 @arielsan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It's been a while since I do a semi technical blog post but here I am, sharing my second part of the "how I use ECS in my games" series (in 2.5y I will write the 3rd part xD): arielcoppes.dev/2026/03/29/d... If you are using ECS, would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks for reading!
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Design decisions when building games using ECS II
This is just the second part to the “Design decisions when building games using ECS” since I have new patterns that I want to share.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Placing a layer of algorithmic recommendation on speech does not make speech less free, but it does pervert it. Algorithmic mediation turns speech into a resource extracted from human behavior. Platforms do not value speech because it is protected, they value the service it provides them.
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 26/11/2025
Huh. Looks like Cleared Hot - a modern successor to EA's old Strike series of helicopter shooters - is doing great. 1000 user reviews in a few days, 98% positive. Right now it's just Episode 1 (defending Texas against corporate technocrat takeover), shareware style, with the others coming later.
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CLEARED HOT is a nostalgic helicopter shooter with satisfying physics and light tactical elements. Shoot, dodge, move your squad around the battlefield, and pick up almost anything with your rope and ...
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Rubén Garat @rgarat.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It has been amazing working on this game with Colin and the team at @notknowingcorp.bsky.social Everyone in the team is super talented and thankfully players seem to be having a great time. This begins a new chapter with the game live, and I hope we can all enjoy the journey even more.
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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
How poor leadership slows down game development
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How poor leadership slows down game development
No tool—AI or otherwise—can speed up game development if leaders don't rise to the occasion.
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notknowingcorp.bsky.social @notknowingcorp.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
After years of building, it’s finally happening 🤯 Cleared Hot launches into Steam Early Access on Nov 20, 2025! Can't believe I just typed that. Only 3 weeks away 😮 Any help sharing is appreciated ❤️ 🎯 Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1710820/...
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Rubén Garat @rgarat.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This weekend I tried for the first time making a game with Bruno, my 5 year old son. It was an awesome experience for both of us, he was super excited, and I loved it. We entered LudumDare 58 with our game PirateCopter Play it here !! rubeng.itch.io/piratecopter #ludumdare #ld58 #unity
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Ariel Coppes 🚀 Ship Miner 🚀🎮 Wishlist on Steam 🎮 @arielsan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I've just released the Demo of Ship Miner! Weeeee!!!🍻 Ship Miner is a relaxing mining game with some elements of combat. Explore procedural generated asteroids to collect minerals, survive threats and improve your ship. Play the Demo Now on Steam! 🚀
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 03/09/2025
It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
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Australia Did It - Reveal Trailer
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Harry 💬 @halisavakis.com · 21/08/2025
HERDLING is coming out in just a few hours, so there's just enough time to go through some other fun tech-art stuff 👀 Here's another behind-the-scenes 🧵 with various other interesting tech-art stuff featured in our vast and furrious game ✨
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Laia Bee @laiabee.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Longest-running diversity panel at @officialgdc.bsky.social #1ReasonToBe is looking for panelists for 2026 We are looking for underrepresented women in video games living in the U.S., or from abroad, who normally attend GDC, due to the challenges of entering the country forms.gle/QWSK8wPjLu5t...
6 women giving a panel at GDC
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Tomas Sala @falconeerdev.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I sat down with Chris Zukowski for his subscribers to discuss how vital demos are to current day steam success, as well as a variety of tangents. Turns out this was a very appreciated video with his audience , so much so he put it public for everyone. Enjoy :) youtu.be/0oYXQLdggHw?...
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Why Demos are so critical with Tomas Sala
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Ariel Coppes 🚀 Ship Miner 🚀🎮 Wishlist on Steam 🎮 @arielsan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
My game has a Steam private Playtest now!! Ship Miner is a sci-fi twin stick 1bit pixel art mining game. Explore, gather minerals, upgrade and survive!
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Rubén Garat @rgarat.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Not even a month ago, it was scary thinking about everything that still needed to be done to get the demo we wanted out. In the end, we finished something we are super proud of, with an awesome team, exceeding all our expectations. Hope you like it!
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Ariel Coppes 🚀 Ship Miner 🚀🎮 Wishlist on Steam 🎮 @arielsan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
After a year of doing "marketing" for Ship Miner I decided to write a blog post from my experience: arielcoppes.dev/2025/05/18/d...
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Doing Marketing for Ship Miner
After a year of working on how to market my game Ship Miner I want to share part of my experience and learning about it.
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Ariel Coppes 🚀 Ship Miner 🚀🎮 Wishlist on Steam 🎮 @arielsan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This is Ship Miner, a 1bit pixel art twin stick miner game in space. For those interested, I wrote a blogpost with a roadmap for having a Demo in Steam here arielcoppes.dev/2025/03/29/s... where I explain the state of game and what the game needs for the demo. Hope you you like it.
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Rubber Duck Games @rubberduckgames.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🔥 Kingdom of Cards demo is here for Steam Next Fest! 🃏✨ Step into a world of strategy, discovery, and endless card combinations! Play the brand-new demo, shape your kingdom, and take on powerful foes. ⚔️ Explore. Combine. Conquer. 🎮 Play now: store.steampowered.com/app/3367090/... Don’t miss it!
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Tomas Sala @falconeerdev.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It seems the Early Acces debate is back on, I did a GDC talk on this last year, (It seems sadly it wasn't recorded or didn't make it to the vault). For various reasons Early Acces is very dangerous for Indies specifically. Your EA product being reviewed as a your launch was one vulnerability.
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Fer // WISHLIST TOSSDOWN! 🚀 @theferfactor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🚨🚀 TOSSDOWN IS NOW ON STEAM 🚀🚨 Run, jump and dash through chaos, dodging hazards and enemies as you deliver packages. It’s Crazy taxi meets Jet Set Radio! Wishlist it on Steam now! store.steampowered.com/app/3241560/... RTs highly appreciated! #gamedev #indiedev
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Ariel Coppes 🚀 Ship Miner 🚀🎮 Wishlist on Steam 🎮 @arielsan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I just published a recap blog post about what happened in 2024 for Pixel Core Games and Ship Miner, like winning an innovation award, and my plan for 2025. arielcoppes.dev/2025/01/12/r... Hope you like it. Btw, here is Ship Miner in case you didn't see it before.
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Rubber Duck Games @rubberduckgames.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
🎉 Exciting news 🎉 We're thrilled to announce that the demo of our upcoming game, is now available on Steam and Itch.io! Play the demo and let us know your thoughts—we’d love to hear from you! LINKS IN THE COMMENTS. We can’t wait to hear what you think. Thanks for being part of our journey!
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Rubén Garat @rgarat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hi, I am Rubén and I am working as part of the team making Cleared Hot a nostalgic helicopter shooter with satisfying physics and light tactical elements. Trailer here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO7K... And would love for you to wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1710820/...
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Cleared Hot – Publishing Announcement Trailer
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Rubén Garat @rgarat.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We just shared a devlog of our progress with Cleared Hot on Steam. store.steampowered.com/news/app/171...
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Cleared Hot - Viral Reddit Post Aftermath + Combat Refinements - Steam News
Welcome back faithful wishlisters, and hello to all the new people who discovered us last month! The Publisher announcement went better than I ever could've expected, with our Reddit post reaching the...
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nin @bolinuy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Tourist Trap, our dark comedy surrealist point & click game, was released 1 year ago today! 🥳 🚨You can get it now with a 30% DISCOUNT🚨 If you enjoyed it please write a review ♥️ store.steampowered.com/app/2206660/...
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Save 30% on Tourist Trap on Steam
Face an evil corporation™ with the help of a talking monkey in Tourist Trap, a surrealist dark comedy point and click adventure set in a South American coastal city.
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Charles Boury @charlesboury.fr · 21/10/2024
Hey I wrote a blog post It's about setting up test-levels for art direction (and more) I'm new to this blog thing so tell me honestly what you think alright?
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Scene setup for art direction
How to use showcase scenes to work on your game art
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