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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

After committing code where debug variables were at non-default value for the umpteenth time ... I finally added a pre-commit hook that make sure all vars are at default. It's a rather barbaric bash script with a hodge podge of regexps, but it does the trick. #Godot #IndieDev #GameDev

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Changed the "hand" to one card, since it's an auto-battler and you can't choose card order anyway. Added explicit discard pile, and market is almost done. Progress! #Godot #Cyberpunk #DeckBuilder #Idler #IndieGame

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Added three new cards! I'm starting to see how the different mechanics will weave together to make interesting combos and interesting gameplay decisions. 💠💠💠 Next update will be the market! 💠💠💠 #Godot #Cyberpunk #DeckBuilding #Idler #IndieGame

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Day 21: Cards are working, ICE subroutines are working, we're damaging each other! We have a gameplay loop. Now time to make an actual game. #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot #Cyberpunk #Deckbuilding #Idler

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Day 6: Slightly improved UI. #Godot progress bar is percentile only, so I used a label to show actual HP and shield values. I cleaned up the code quite a bit. Lots of design work on ICE subroutines and how they work, stay tuned!! #GameDev #IndieGame #Cyberpunk #DeckBuilding #Idler

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The kids are asleep. The house is tidy. The bourbon has been poured. Time to do some coding. #GameDev #IndieDev #GameDesign

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

RUNtime starting to look like an actual game 🎉 Bastion is the ICE you're hacking (grey block up top). Your cards tick down and fire automatically. The game sits in the corner of your screen—chip away at corporate defenses while you live your life! #IndieGame #Cyberpunk #Deckbuilding #Idler

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Day 4: Game UX hasn't changed and yet I couldn't be happier!!! I decoupled game logic from the UX and tidied up the signaling chain. For example, hand mgr → game mgr → scene, INSTEAD of scene reaching into game_mgr.hand_mgr 😵 #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot #DeckBuilding #Idler

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

RUNtime day 2: we have some cards, they fire sequentially, and they're on cooldown! Huzzah! #IndieGame #Godot #Cyberpunk #DeckBuilding #Idler

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

#TurnBasedThursdayFest is NOW LIVE!! Go check it out on Steam for some of the based turn-based #IndieGame out there 🥳🎮

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Step 1: Recreate classic #retrogames using #Godot. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit! (... I promise that there's step 2, but it might not actually lead to profit 😝) #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I have a zany new game idea which I am prototyping. Step 1 is to re-create certain #retrogames classics using #Godot ... #Arcade #IndieGame #GameDev

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Rotation is now operational! The more I work with hexes, the more sense the math makes. Usually I'm more of a theory kind of person so it's interesting to experience how effective coding-based learning can be. #IndieDev #GameDev #Programming #Godot

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The slow march of progress! Programmers: "Nice! 👏" Non-programmers: "Why is this interesting?!" #IndieDev #GameDev #Programming #Godot (The engine can create a hex grid of any shape, hexes don't need to be adjacent or conform to an array or anything.)

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Now you're thinking with cube coordinates 🤓 I couldn't find a #godot package to manage logical hex grids and then seamlessly translate them to local coordinates, so I'm guessing I'll develop one myself. Thankfully there is ample support online. #IndieDev #GameDev

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Wow. I have a completely empty weekend day. I browsed through my calendar, last time this happened was 3.5 months ago. (Started the day with a 1.5 walk with the dorg, then family lunch followed by some coding 😊)

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

You should check out Flocking Hell, then ;-) There are tons of puns.

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

"Based on a true story." Posted on /r/IndieDev this morning. I can very much empathize with the fickle nature of wishlists, and the repeated disappointment / confusion of exposure not leading to any measurable interest. #IndieDev #GameDev #Marketing

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Here we go again. It's not much, but most starts are uninspiring ;-) BTW #Godot 4.4 is 🔥🔥🔥! (After using 4.2 for a year.) #IndieDev #GameDev

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Super-excited about next week's update to my #IndieGame Flocking Hell! New boss level, new music, quality of life updates, and a bunch more 🐑😈 It's on track to be the best update since release 🥳 #TurnBased #Strategy #Roguelite

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The latest addition to the pre-production checklist 😳 Turn off the "Playtest" flag ... #IndieDev #GameDev #Programming

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Poor variable naming strikes again 😭😭😭 #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot #Programming In case you were wondering ... `campaign_finale_panel` shows up at the end of the demo and has a marketing blurb + wishlist button. `campaign_summary_panel` appears at the end of the full game.

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Inserting hyperlinks into RichTextLabel in #Godot: "[url=https://...]Link Text[/url]" (don't forget to enable BBCode in the inspector!) Then ... `rich_text_label.meta_clicked.connect(func(url): OS. shell_open(url))` You're welcome 😼 #IndieDev #GameDev #Programming

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

These two scenes use the same MenuPanel (circled, top right). However, it's not the same object, they each instantiate their own. This requires duplicate signaling code and manually verifying that the position is identical 😬 Next time, I'll make sure it's the same object. #Godot #IndieDev #GameDev

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

When I first created this scene, I was planning to have a different main menu for the full game, so I named it "main_menu_demo.tscn". I changed my mind since, but the name is still there 🤷‍♀️ #Programming is arbitrary like that sometimes. #IndieDev #GameDev #Godot

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here's a trick to get easy demo analytics: use achievements! 27% of players finished the tutorial level 🥳 Out of them, 56% (15/27) made it to the last level, and 45% finished the campaign. That's great numbers, I'm excited to more than half persisted through the campaign. #IndieDev #GameDev

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

How to name the Snarebunny's sneak attack? "Bunboozle", of course!! 🥁 🐰😈 #TurnBased #Strategy #IndieGame

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This is my closest win ever 🙀 There is 1 city left, it has 8 HP, and the demons were at strength 8. So one more blow and it would be a defeat! 🐑😈 #TurnBased #Strategy #Roguelite

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

One of the many joys of making a card game, figuring out satiric names for cards. These two were codenamed "Sheep Fund" and "Easy Sheep" for a while. I wanted to convey the idea of getting a burst of resources, at the cost of making your deck clunkier. #TurnBased #Strategy #Roguelite #IndieGame

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Here's a TOP game design secret. For your eyes only! Every game created after 1987 MUST contain a Princess Bride Easter egg. #IndieGame #CardGame #BoardGame (This is from my indie card game Worldbreakers, BTW 😅)

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This one number helps me feel confident & happy about my #IndieGame Flocking Hell 🐑😈 Half the players played the demo for at least 30 minutes, which probably means they finished the tutorial. Hopefully they had fun along the way, and can now make an informed purchase decision! #IndieDev #GameDev

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This trick made translating my solo #IndieGame to 8 languages so much easier: I bound the “Q” key to cycle through languages. Pressing it sends a locale_changed signal from the settings singleton, instantly updating every UI element. Fast and easy QC! #IndieDev #GameDev #Godot

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Curses!! Curses as far as the eye can see!!!!! 🐑😈 #TurnBased #Strategy #Roguelite (I was testing to see if curses overload is a boring yet viable strategy. It was. I had to nerf it a bit to shut it down. It's a 0-interaction strategy otherwise.)

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Dev secrets never stay hidden for long 🤦‍♀️ Teleportation pools were originally called “subways” in development, and that's how they're called in the source code. Now a playtester somehow found out. It's only a matter of time before everyone starts calling them that 😭 #IndieDev #GameDev #Playtesting

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Are situations like this why I want to become a full-time game designer? No. But they does help 😈 #Godot #GameDev #IndieDev #Programming

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Boys, gals, and non-binary pals, I give you: The dog. Our greatest friend and ally, a fierce protector that watches over us and keeps us safe. Bred over millennia to become the most diligent of guards, the vanguard of the animal kingdom.

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Blighter spawn animation is complete! 🐑😈 (The main challenge was using other map tiles to form the Blighter, as opposed to the other demon characters that are just created out of nowhere and appear from the Hell Gate.) #IndieDev #TurnBased #Strategy #Roguelite

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Today's fun #Godot trick: You can turn on the color picker by right-clicking on `Color` variables. #IndieDev #GameDev #Programming

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Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam! @sextantstudios.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

... I think that the recent political climate in the United States might have seeped into my writing ... Stay safe, everyone 💜 #TurnBased #Strategy #Roguelite 🐑😈

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