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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Summoning football experts! Does anyone know of any epic football kick video, seen from the front and with good quality? Kinda like the one of the intro of Fifa World Cup 98 but where the player is seen a little better and doesnt disappear from the frame. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp5y...

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World Cup 98 (PS1) - Intro

YouTube video by Rheinmetall

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Say hello to the new art of Broken Relic! Couldn't be happier with it. 😍😍 Art by the excellent al_pal55!

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Started playing a little with the particle system in @visionaire-studio.bsky.social and I'm super happy with how much life a few flying pixels add to a static background. (Might not look that impressive on video, especially on a phone)

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Big milestone today, Broken Relic is finally "playable" from start to finish 🥲

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Broken Relic has 132 inventory items, I think I made too many 💀

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

termination letter, day one: “freed an ancient demigod from a sealed book. employment ended effective immediately. recovery of the three relic fragments remains your responsibility.” Brokenrelic.com/steam

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

How do point-and-click gamers feel about the stone disc puzzles in Fate of Atlantis? As a child I really enjoyed them but I’ve noticed some debate recently suggesting these types of puzzles aren’t suitable for point-and-click games.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

the only fantasy protagonist who gets sacked and then handed the quest by the same boss who just sacked him.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

intern in an arcane library breaks a forbidden seal on day one. frees an ancient demigod. gets fired on the spot. still ordered to fix it. comedy point and click.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Broken Relic development is going well, moving forward one step at a time. Sorry if I don't have time to post but that means I'm being very productive! As a small tease, here are some Act2 backgrounds (and one from Act 3!) ♥️ #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev #pointandclick

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The problem with AI in gamedev is that everyone demoing it has never shipped a game. One "cool" asset in a video ≠ thousands of assets wired into every case in a real build. Implementing everything takes ages and it's something people don't see until they actually do it.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This is how Broken Relic would look in a CRT

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Not everyone is happy when you go around solving puzzles.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

David Attenborough. So close to the 100... I hope he has a happy day tomorrow.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Woke up to a spike of 337 wishlists in one day! Took me a while to figure out why, turns out pcgames.de included Broken Relic in a roundup of point-and-click adventures for 2026. One paragraph in a German article drove more wishlists than Steam Next Fest. Press coverage is a different planet!

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Listen up. Please calm down and hear me out. We are now further away from the Monkey Island Special Edition than the Special Edition was from the original Monkey Island.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Something AAA taught me that a lot of indie devs resist: If a player doesn't understand something in your game, that's not the player's fault. It's yours. Many indie devs get upset that players are "playing wrong." In AAA that sentence doesn't exist. If they're playing it wrong, you built it wrong.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I've redrawn this scene in my game so many times I could paint it from memory. Which is ironic because the whole reason I keep redrawing it is that I can't get it right. I think its done now.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This goblin king doesn't sing "Dance magic dance"

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

So how is everyone feeling about Nvidia's DLSS 5?

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

People ask what solo dev feels like vs working in a studio. Its like growing a garden. Every day something small appears that wasn't there before. It surprises me almost daily. The game slowly becomes real in front of me and I still don't fully believe it's happening.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A thing nobody tells you about making a point-and-click adventure game alone: You write the funny lines. ...Then you have to wait months to seer if they're actually funny.

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RoJo Aventuras @rojoaventuras.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Pues ya está aquí, el artículo en el que desgrano las aventuras españolas que han salido y saldrán durante este año. Vais a flipar con la cantidad y calidad de títulos que hay: aventurasrojo.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/e...

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¿El año de las aventuras gráficas españolas? La lista «definitiva» de lanzamientos made in Spain para 2026

La sensación generalizada en el mundillo de la aventura es que 2025 fue un año espectacular para el género, por lo menos en lo que respecta a la calidad de los lanzamientos (a nivel comercial no me…

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

When I told people I was going to make one video each day I never said they were going to be good

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Some people won't be happy if you go around solving ancient puzzles

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I thought there were no games like this anymore play the Broken Relic demo on steam store.steampowered.com/app/3384820/... #indiegames #pointandclick #digitalart #brokenrelic #pixelart #dnd

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

On his first day as an archive intern, Tim broke an ancient seal, freed Kaelvorn, the Cursed Devourer, and was fired on the spot. Now he has to save the world.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Me as an intern. store.steampowered.com/app/3384820/...

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Making a point-and-click adventure where the hero accidentally frees an ancient world-ending conqueror on his first day as an intern.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

If this hits you with nostalgia, you should start stretching before you stand up.

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Ok, ok, maybe there will be a tiny reference to MI... but only one! and tiny! #adventuregame #indiegames #pointandclick #pixelart

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Ah so you have played every Monkey Island game? Then what did you think about Treasure of Monkey Island?

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Made a visual progress report last month in Kickstarter so I will do a new one here using the same style. Happy to say that progress has been going very smoothly this new year! I focused HARD on writting dialogs and building all the main puzzles in Act 2 (which is the longest). Back to work now!

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Sandpenguin - Broken Relic @sandpenguin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I'm considering doing some small changes in Tim's appearance but I am not too sure... which version do you like most? A or B?

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