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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 3h

It's also very influenced by what you typed yourself to get that AI summary.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 5h

Both countries are kind of vertical and narrow.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 20h

There's no debate. We know which ones are biscuits and which ones are cake. :D

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Is mustard a sauce? To me it's the same as mayonnaise, they are condiments. So I understand their point. But normally in restaurants, no sauce means nothing added, so I would expect no mayo.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I can't believe that in some very old C# code of mine I wrote function names starting in lowercase.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You're still far from 12 million (as said in your short video :D), but on its way!

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I never had that many followers in any social media. It's not really me, somehow I think by a combination of circumstances, Bluesky makes it possible.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You know what? I've noticed I have 2.7K followers. Not 2.6K anymore, you see, 2.7K.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That feature, besides showing delusion, shows a total lack of respect for the thousands of creators who have been using the engine for years (sometimes for decades) and are serious about the engine and features being added.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That is wild, I didn't know. So if you're in reverse you go through the dots and back the other way to eat them.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I realise that they couldn't change the orientation of pac-man when you change direction, since they are LED with a fixed drawing.

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Helm @helmll.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

my best artwork ever

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And it doesn't even have to be with ChatGPT. A simple Google search ends up a chat bot session with Gemini. They want people let the AI do all the "thinking" and then of course with no ability to think you cannot do without.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And this study is still looking at it in a rather short term. We don't know if the debt of bad AI code that constantly has to be reviewed and/or pass tests could actually increase over time.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I was in Margate in the summer (on the beach), and I'm a game developer. But I"m gone now :)

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Rejoice, for low effort, AI video game tripe regularly gets 0% funding on Kickstarter

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clay-zulAHHH @clayzulah.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What's with these phantoms foiling my fall, why do they gotta front 🍅👻 #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev #indiegame

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I remember I was really impressed by the graphics. At the time there was a desire for realism in 3D (even if we were far from it), and this game was very stylised, and colourful. Great art direction.

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David Walters @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thunder Helix is ON SALE for one more day - and this new, and very serious, scenario mission is coming soon !! store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/... #lowpoly #flightsim #gamedev #steam 🚁 🐪

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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yoooo my little pixel game Pixel Washer launches into Steam Early Access THIS MONTH! 🐷 Here's a podcast, YouTube video, and links to all the things: www.valadria.com/pixel-washer... #IndieGameDev

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🐷 Pixel Washer Launches October 15 Into Early Access

Pixel Washer Launches October 15 Into Early Access! Let's chat about the game and how/why games take so long to make.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They should have to do all the work at a micro level that goes with every idea: "What do you mean I have to decide what happens if the inventory has no items and you have a spell that lets you to keep an item on death, just sort it now, I just wanted to direct!"

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ah yes that much better. Especially as it's all in capital letters and you might even not realise that "Gone Tomorrow" is a title, you need to give a bit of context.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Shouldn't it have been: "Based on Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child, and his fictional character Jack Reacher" (comma after Lee Child, and no comma after character)?

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And eating mushrooms, seriously they were on something?

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Talking from experience, it's too easy tbh. There's no challenge.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ah the pausing mechanic baked into the move, a big source of bugs for me in the past, and a feat for QA! The game looks great.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The bit about making it online to play with his friends is so sad, but touching. No-one would want to play a game about his own dreams and hopes, references that only he would know. And no-one would buy it to fund "his next game".

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm VIC. Who the hell is PTG? Demo now available on Steam. Enjoy! store.steampowered.com/app/3584730/... #screenshotsaturday #shmup #indiedev

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There should be a simple option to have all the store assets of the demo duplicated from the main app, and no need to have the demo store page reviewed if the main one has already been approved.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I like how the shovel really digs into the ground

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I remember people collecting mp3 files, anything they could find. I did to, but I was more about ripping my CD's, so not a huge amount of songs in comparison. It was like "Woah I can get them all!", but songs still felt like they had value.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And only biographies if it's entrepreneurial, self-improvement, or something like that. No fictions, and nothing about art!

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I know you don't do baked beans, but surely you must have one or two tins somewhere in the store room, can I have some please?".

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I also feel that way (to a lesser extent) about RPG's and stats (they could be written on paper, so I don't feel very excited about it, it's not what I ask from a computer).

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don't generally gravitate around card/deck builder, or turn-based games, because I'm old school and have this ingrained idea that video games are skill based. The computer computes and tests you in a way that couldn't be done without. But I can get into those games. It's just my initial reaction.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some people don't get it, and explaining why it so obviously matters to other people is pointless because the thing that makes them not get it, whatever it is, is central to their being. "But... but... if I can have voice acting?".

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The Legend of Chalkvania 💀 @legendofchalkvania.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bosses in my indie game are retro styled and inspired by Mega Man, defeating them grants you a new power! The Rat King. Beat him and steal his crown! Free demo incoming in October 🎃 -> Wishlist now: store.steampowered.com/app/4502240/... #IndieGame #IndieDev #PixelArt #IndieGames #GameDev #RPG

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But I don't know, miracles happen. In any case, good luck for your launch.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One thing that Steam does is provide features to help manage your community (blog, forums...), so there's that, but it goes with the idea I mentioned previously, I think you need an audience.

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

+ a publisher fee, + another fee per application... Yes I think you can say that, especially for small Indies who have no chance of being boosted by Steam on the store since it requires some momentum to start with (wishlists, then sales).

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Romain Macré - Alexus 2040 Demo on Steam @romainmacre.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nothing is fine. At some point it stops making a difference once you accept that it's way past the point where discoverability on Steam could work. Creators try to create a community around their game, for those who succeed. But mostly people don't expect to make any money, as simple as that.

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