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Panic @panic.com · 05/03/2026

🔧 Ratcheteer DX is HERE !!! It's dangerous to go alone, take a wrench 🔧 🎮 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac App Store ✨ Plus, a limited time 10% off launch discount! ➡️ Ratcheteer.game

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

After almost 15 years, the original Box Cat game is back! I love seeing the old games be playable again. And for the first time, it's out on Windows! rusty.itch.io/boxcat

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Box Cat by Rusty Moyher

A retro arcade smasher

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Steam Trading Cards — now available in Astro Duel 2. Good luck card hunters! store.steampowered.com/news/app/655...

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Astro Duel 2 - Steam Trading Cards now available! - Steam News

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Steam Trading Cards — now available in Astro Duel 2. Good luck card hunters! store.steampowered.com/news/app/655...

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Astro Duel 2 - Steam Trading Cards now available! - Steam News

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Samurai GUNN 2 @samuraigunn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We worked on this quietly for 3 years with our heads down. Now you can play it for free. Our goal is monthly updates going forward. store.steampowered.com/app/1397790/...

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LadiesGamers.com @ladiesgamers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Astro Party EX is a free-to-play pixel space brawler with two-button controls, destructible arenas, and pure pick-up-and-play multiplayer fun. @rustym.bsky.social #AstroPartyEX #Steam #indiegame wp.me/p70tPw-rxz

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

For the Steam PvP Fest - Astro Duel 2 is 40% off. Our biggest sale yet! store.steampowered.com/app/655350

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doseone @doseone.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

SAMURAI GUNN 2 ⚔️ IS SO BACK ⚔️ Rebuilt from the ground up in our own engine, FASTER and DEADLIER than ever! MORE to COME! store.steampowered.com/app/1397790/...

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Rgznsk @rgznsk.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Field of Fate from Street Fighter / Voxel Art

Remake of Field of Fate from Street Fighter in voxel art form

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Folks are asking what's new in Astro Party EX. Really depends which game you played first! Here's all the changes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/417...

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Shipping smaller games is kind of amazing! It’s such a nice break between big projects and way less pressure.

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Taking a break from PR stuff, I'm poking at some new Bounty levels in AD2. I think I've seen used Tiled now for like 15 years!

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Here's look at 4 player Team Annihilation on iPad #indiegames #iOS #NintendoSwitch

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Folks are asking what's new in Astro Party EX. Really depends which game you played first! Here's all the changes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/417...

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Nintendo Insider @nintendoinsider.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Astro Party EX Is Your Next Free Nintendo Switch Game www.nintendo-insider.com/astro-part…

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A new Astro soundtrack just dropped from @8bitmatt.com !! 🎶 bsky.app/profile/8bit...

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8bitmatt @8bitmatt.com · 29/01/2026

A surprise album drop in support of Astro Party EX launch! Astro Atmosphere A complete collection of my music from the Astro series! 💿 Available on bandcamp & streaming 8bitmatt.bandcamp.com/album/astro-... #chiptune #videogamemusic #vgm #chipmusic #8bit #8bitmatt #astroduel #astroparty #indiegame

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We did it! Astro Party EX is now in the wild everywhere. ➡️ rustymoyher.com/astropartyex

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🚨 Astro Party EX is out now! 🚨 🌐 Steam — Online Multiplayer !! 🎮 Switch — Touch or Game Controllers 📱 iOS — Astro returns after 11 years And it’s FREE! 💵🤝🏷️ #indiegames #nintendoswitch #pixelart

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Jeff @el-jeffe.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Happy to have helped out on another Astro Duel Cinematic Universe game! Check it out on your fav platform with your buds! It's free! And if you live in the woods (or deep space) you can even play online in the Steam version!

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8bitmatt @8bitmatt.com · 27/01/2026

Happy launch day Astro Party EX! (I wrote the title track💖)

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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 25/01/2026

People keep saying the codenames in Metal Gear Solid sound like Megaman X bosses, so I decided to give them actual designs. Matches the scale of my other X mockups. Something I've been sitting on for several years that I finally decided to wrap up tonight. #megaman #pixelart #ドット絵

Pixel art of various animal themed robot bosses. The tag at the top says MegaGear X

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 12/01/2026

I hit the button ✅😭🐸 🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨 Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount! #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 10/12/2025

We announced today with Day of the Devs that Big Hops will release on January 12th on PC, Switch, and PS5 And yes it runs great on Switch 2!!! Wishlist over here: store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...

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Big Hops on Steam

Tongue-swing, free climb, and build your own path forward in a new kind of 3D platformer! Plant veggie bounce pads, tightropes, hookshots, and much more. Find a way home through huge Desert, Ocean, an...

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Happy Metroid Day! I’m damn proud to have contributed to Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. It was an honor working with the talented crew at Retro Studios. So exciting seeing folks finally play it!

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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition — Launch Trailer

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🚀 ASTRO XBOX RELEASE 🚀 After a lot of hard work, Astro Duel 2 is out now on Xbox Series X|S! It’s a chaotic mix of dueling, flying, and accidental betrayal — best enjoyed with friends. 💥 ⚠️ BEWARE: Six controllers. One Xbox. We cared only about possibility, not responsibility. ➡️ astroduel2.com

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Value's making some new landing pages for Steam Deck verified games. 👀 store.steampowered.com/verified/655...

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Astro Duel 2 is 30% off on Steam for the Autumn Sale! 🚀 store.steampowered.com/app/655350/ ✅ And now Verified on Deck!

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Ryoichi Hasegawa on the localisation process for the Japanese version of Ecco the Dolphin (released in June 1993 in Japan): xcancel.com/rio_hasegawa...

It was back in the early 90s, a time when there was no internet, no email, no Excel, no text files, no TrueType fonts—nothing of what we have today.

I had to come up with a solution to deliver all the text data to the developer in Hungary (Novotrade), where no one spoke Japanese.

First, I created bitmap images of all the hiragana and katakana characters, as well as commas, periods, exclamation points, question marks, and two types of overstrikes (two dots/circles), something like this:

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I then printed all characters page by page and FAXED nearly 100 pages to the developer, and their artist converted them into nicely shaded Japanese fonts.

Each character was assigned a code based on rules such as:

H for hiragana, K for katakana
01, 02, 03, 04, 05 for vowel rows
A, K, S, T, N, H, M, Y, R, W for consonant columns
d for overstriking dots, c for overstriking circles
sp for space
(Note: I might not remember all the rules perfectly now, lol.)

For example, the phrase "こんにちは" should be converted to something like:

H05K, H05W, H02N, H02T, H01H

The developer sent me all the in-game dialogues via fax. I translated them and assigned each string a number for easy reference, instead of saying something like "the third window of the second dolphin in stage 2."

Now here's the best part: once I finished translating all the dialogues, I typed them into a word processing program (like an early version of WordPad), then converted each letter to its corresponding code, character by character.

I printed all of this out and faxed dozens of pages to the developer, who then had to convert them back into dialogue data.

To my surprise, the system we created was quite robust. There were only a few text-related bugs, mostly caused by my typos.

I still work in game localization. It feels like we were in the stone age compared to today's methods, but I still cherish those moments.

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 02/06/2025

In case you missed it, we're doing a Kickstarter for #BigHops! 🎮 Free Steam demo (100% positive so far) 📽️ 3 new trailers dropping This Week! 💸 Covers full VO, localization, QA, and Switch 1 | 2 ports 🐸 We're at 65% so help us get to our stretch goals! www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr...

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 25/05/2025

🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)

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Rusty Moyher @rustym.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Happy 1st birthday to Astro Duel 2, fly free old friend! 🎉 Pickup up now on Nintendo Switch for 30% off. What a deal! www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

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Astro Duel 2 for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Astro Duel 2 and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

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Tim Keenan @misfitsattic.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Here's a list 'o indie devs, if you're into that sorta thing go.bsky.app/63596PA

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Indie Game Developers

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Joshua Boggs @jboggsie.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

After a year that felt like shuffling a bad hand, we finally revealed gameplay for @sleightofhand.game at @dayofthedevs.org ! It’s Metal Gear Solid meets Dishonored, but with a twist: your deck of cards is your set of powers. 🃏 Wishlist here! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2857810/...

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Sleight of Hand on Steam

Infiltrate a hardboiled, rain-slicked city of taboo, where ritual magic and cursed artefacts set apart those with power from those without. Sleight of Hand is a 3rd-person Stealth Action Card-Sim abou...

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