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Sinister Design

@sinisterdesign.net
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Creator of turn-based tactics games and SRPGs; most recently, Together in Battle! store.steampowered.com/app/1267210/… 📧: sinisterdesign@gmail.com

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Sean Dick @seandick.net · 28/09/2026
This is incredibly good and you should kick some money to the dev if you are able shinmera.itch.io/promptfont
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PromptFont by Shinmera
This is a font designed for user interfaces and button prompts in games. It features hundreds of custom made icons.
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 14/09/2026
Together in Battle is now at version 1.1.20, featuring the whip-wielding, tree-climbing, gap-swinging wachikit; 13 new skills; cross-path advancements; a combat animation speed setting; and more! Here's the full post: store.steampowered.com/news/app/126...
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Together in Battle - Version 1.1.20: New classes, cross-path skills, speed improvements, and more! - Steam News
Greetings, tactics fans! It's been a few months since our last update, but the wait is over! As a certain SRPG juggernaut with an odd (one might say unbeWeaveable) amount of overlap* with TIB bears do...
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Moonshen @moonshen-owl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A few months ago I did this, it may be a good time to post it here to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this game. #chronotrigger #chronotriggeranniversary #pixelart #chrono #chronotriggerfanart #gamefanart #retrogame #pixel
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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2
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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Information: This is for 720 games released (see start of thread). So 8.6% hit 100 reviews, which might mean they are doing OK, depending on budget. And 1.4% hit 1000 reviews. Those games are probably successful (or will be in the long term) but it all depends on team size, time taken etc.
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BlindCoco Studios - Wicked Night @blindcoco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We are pleased to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday on Bsky Game devs and genre connoisseurs, kindly share your turn-based games in the replies! Enjoyers, fans and kindred spirits, Like ❤️ and Repost 🔁 any game you like!
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Jon Davies 🦖 🔜 Pixel Art Park (Tokyo) @sovanjedi.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Black Hole Hand #pixelart #artpost
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 07/08/2026
Content creators: are you planning a list of games like Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave? Make sure to add the one game with Fire Emblem-style mechanics that's organized around gladiatorial games; the one with a calendar and time management. Together in Battle! 🙂 store.steampowered.com/app/1267210/...
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Together in Battle on Steam
Manage a team of fantasy gladiators in this Fire Emblem-style strategy RPG with vibrant characters, funny random events, and emergent relationship-building. Uncover a sinister conspiracy; fight deep t...
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 31/07/2026
I swear to god, Godot devs will implement absolutely anything except for proper C# integration
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Quasimorph, 1.0.4 is OUT! @quasimorph.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We're honored to be this week's official #TurnBasedThursday host! #gamedevs #indiedev share your #turnbased games below, and use the hashtag! Like what you see? Don't forget to ❤️/🔁 and feel free to @ other devs!
#TurnBasedThursday
Show us what you got
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 25/07/2026
This is a good summary. The legal reasons are enough all on their own, tbh--not actually owning a copyright in your own game art is a bad situation to be in.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
With regards to that last repost, reviews can mean a lot to smaller developers, so I'm gonna put out a little call to action. Everyone following me? DO THIS NOW! I'm asking for replies so more folks pick this up, and continue it. Please take this graphic and ask your followers to do the same!
"Goto your Steam™ library

Leave a review for a smaller game you like

Now tell me what it was"

There's a very crudely drawn Steam logo in the middle. In the bottom right, there's an even crudely-er drawn frog, and the sideways text reads "I am a graphic design terrorist"
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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Gut Falkensee
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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Dude I saw you autosave before walking up to me whats up man we cool
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 01/07/2026
She's not wrong. It's kind of mind-blowing to me that companies like Sony have voluntarily chosen to make this the case.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 17/06/2026
Paladin: Oathbreaker 

[stock photo of people in business suits]

An oathbreaker is a paladin who breaks their sacred oaths to pursue some dark ambition or serve an evil power. Whatever light burned in the paladin's heart been extinguished. Only darkness remains. Source: Dungeon Master's Guide Oath Spells You gain oath spells at the paladin levels listed. 

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So the banner ad didn't scale down for the mobile browser and it took me multiple minutes to realize that this stock photo of people in business suits was not, in fact, an illustration of what oathbreaker paladins in service to an evil power are supposed to look like
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Schippj @schippj.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Reflection
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I don't want to pretend this *isn't* shocking or ghastly but, like, when digital media experts are expressing concern generally about the data a game like Pokemon Go is collecting from day one, this is precisely the kind of end game they are thinking about.
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Nancy Lucía López @cybergata.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Artist: the late B. Kliban #Kliban
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chimera aunt @strangelittlevine.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
jack chick dark dungeons tract but there's zero religious or moral payload and it's propagandizing against d&d strictly for design reasons
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John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Remember about 400 hours ago when Geoff opened the event saying how small, indie games are such a big part of gaming? And 540 hours in, we've had, er, that Untitled Goose Game copy?
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Patrick W. Reed @patrickwreed.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
there's a moment early in the film of Ready Player One, where the voiceover says, "the only limit was your imagination", as the screen fills with pre-existing characters & IPs. It would one of the most on the nose satires of modern culture if not for the fact that it's meant entirely without irony
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 31/05/2026
Horrid. I don't use Linktree myself, but just an FYI for those who do...
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BlindCoco Studios - Wicked Night @blindcoco.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Support Wicked Night - Holy Knights on Kickstarter TODAY! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bli...
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Wicked Night - Holy Knights
A modern SRPG inspired by classics like Fire Emblem and Shining Force where your choices reshape the battlefield.
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Byte Arcane making Sigil of Kings @byte-arcane.itch.io · 21/05/2026
Honored to host #TurnBasedThursday! 🛠 #GameDev folks, show your #turnbased games below, and use the hashtag above 🎮 #Gamer folks have a look, as there are a lot of TBS gems in here, out or in the making Spam our favorite buttons 🔁/❤️ to show your support, and comments are very much appreciated!
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 06/05/2026
It's the 1-year anniversary of Together in Battle's version 1.0 launch! To celebrate, I pushed a new update with a major change to roguelike mode, new skills, new events, and more--plus, a custom character showcase contest happening this month! Click for more: store.steampowered.com/news/app/126...
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Together in Battle - Happy Launch-iversary (and version 1.1.10)! - Steam News
It's been one year since verison 1.0: to celebrate, here's a contest, a new trailer, and a beefy free update!
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The meme where there's a sad guy and a happy guy looking at opposite side windows of the bus, except they are upside down. The top of the screen says "suplex" in the display style of q Final Fantasy special attack.
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It’s Akira Kurosawa’s birthday. This is what it’s all about.
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The Pixel Kyubi Tanuki | Games & Art! @pixeltanuki.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A very helpful pixel art tip! #pixelartist #pixelartgames #indiegamedev #indiegame #indiedev
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 20/03/2026
ICYMI, Together in Battle has now hit version 1.1! Featuring an unlockable new game mode; a zillion UI improvements; a new, free mini-campaign featuring gridless real-time exploration; and more! store.steampowered.com/news/app/126...
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Together in Battle - Version 1.1: Multiplayer Arena, better UI, free exploration mode, and more! - Steam News
Greetings, tactics fans! It's been a little while since I pushed a real update, hasn't it? If you were the worrying sort, you might even have started to suspect that I'd stopped working on Together in...
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 15/03/2026
Lol, wowww. The disrespect! I wonder if this guy's strategy is to goad developers into responding with a well-earned "fuck off," only to claim that they accepted the terms of the offer by replying to the email?
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Brett is Somewhat Nifty @brettmuller.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Playing Caves of Qud on my switch last night, I got the urge to name my gun after a harrowing encounter, and was given the option to name it based the culture of the baboons I killed it with. Not sure what I was expecting.
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Braden Nesin @hellapositivepinup.com · 15/02/2026
Absolutely brutal thing to do to a coworker
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
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DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
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Karina S. @chirunax.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hi #PortfolioDay! I am Karina, a digital artist and illustrator. Portfolio: cara.app/chirunax E-mail: chirunax@gmail.com Commission info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A giant woman dressed in white floating in the air. She has four white wings and two long black braids.
On her head there is a kokoshnik-like crown.A pale man with long red hair, has orange feathers sticking out of his eye and through a hole in his cheek
Wears an orange suit and black gloves.Two horsemen running for their lives. In the background there are two giants, one of which is stabbing the other. The blood flowing down in glowing like molten lava.
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Julia Metzger @juliametzgerart.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hello #portfolioday 💙 I'm Julia, a freelance illustrator and art teacher from Germany! I do a lot of work for TCGs and TTRPGs, like Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons&Dragons, Humblewood and Daggerheart. 🌍 juliametzger.net 📧 julianatmetzger(at)gmail.com
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Shade of Stars @shade-of-stars.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
‪Hello #portfolioday ! I'm Shade, a freelance artist who loves fantasy and sci-fi. I do book covers, illustrations and character art. ✉️shadeofstars@outlook.com cara.app/shadeofstars
Digital artwork. It is a wedding scene, the bride and the groom are both dressed in white and gold, they are surrounded by knights in armor holding their swords above the couple to form an arch. There is a flower arch behind them and flower petals are flying in the air.Digital artwork, fanart of a game "The Talos Principle 2". A robot of red and white colors named Byron is suffering from some kind of malfunction while touching a computer panel. He is on his knees, not able to free his hand. In the distance another robot named 1K is rushing to help, but he is too late. They seem to be inside of a huge artificial structure, but the floor is filled with water, Byron and the computer panel are located on an island of rocks with some pine trees and plants.Digital illustration. It's autumn, the day is gray, the leaves on trees and on the ground are golden yellow. A young woman sits under the tree at the edge of a forest and casts a spell - glowing golden magic around her, it's an illusion of a lot of things and characters, she seems to tell a story. Near her is a black horse that looks at the magic in awe. A cat sneaks behind the tree and looks at them too. Far in the background is a small town with colorful houses and some colorful fields near it, some light shines through clouds and lightens the town.Digital artwork, fanart of the game "Baldur's Gate 3". Illustration of two mind flayers walking and holding tentacles instead of holding hands. The mood is calm and romantic.
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Prosper Tipaldi 🌱🌿 @prospertipaldi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Prosper, an illustrator and concept artist based in France. I specialize in history and fantasy! 🌱🗡️ 🌐 linktr.ee/prospertipaldi ✉️ prospertipaldi@gmail.com
A painting of a knight in a fourteenth century inspired armor, wearing plate armor with a bascinet type helmet and black and green clothes with dagged ends. He is wielding a one handed arming sword and shield.A drawing of a knight in plate armor with a sallet helmet toped with a golden dragon. Over his armor is a red cloth embroidered with the Blackfyre three headed black dragon. He is wielding a two handed pole axe. A drawing of a woman in plate armor. Her clothes displays the red and black Targaryen three headed dragon, embroidered with yellow flames. She is wielding a wing shaped halberd.A drawing of a woman in plate, mail and scale armor, with green clothes. She is wielding a two handed war hammer and a wooden shield, displaying the house Mormont coat of arms from A Song of Ice and Fire, a black bear on a green background. The visor of her bascinet helmet is open.
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J.M. (But also Nemo) - writing comms open @alamhigo.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 22/11/2025
Free at 1 PM Central Time? Like SRPGs? I'm going to stream user-created mini campaign the Secret of Frost; come by and say hello! www.youtube.com/live/9tPQ7hJ...
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Streaming a custom Together in Battle campaign: Secret of Frost!
YouTube video by Sinister Design
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 17/11/2025
New Together in Battle review: "Wish more TTRPG's had telepath system's range of tactical options when it comes to positioning, shifting positions and terrain!...Easy recommend if you're at all into tactics, be glad to see this game get more attention." steamcommunity.com/profiles/765...
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference
What we're watching: A new take on
"Frankenstein," a lavish legal drama starring Kim Kardashian and a Tracy Morgan-led spinoff.
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 26/10/2025
Lol, just...wow
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TayaSigerson @tayasigerson.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Four ways to avoid taking damage in FF6
Shield: TerraSword: CyanCape: LockeDog: Shadow and Interceptor
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Sinister Design @sinisterdesign.net · 24/09/2025
New Together in Battle update! We've got some long-awaited UI improvements designed to make weapon management easier both in and out of battle: store.steampowered.com/news/app/126...
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Together in Battle - Quick weapon switching, broken-weapon indicators, bug fixes, and more! - Steam News
Hey all! I've got another update for you with a bunch of UI improvements designed to make it easier to keep track of worn and broken weapons, as well as making weapon-swapping quicker and easier in ba...
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Tofu @tofupixel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
mt. pastel (2021)
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 01/09/2025
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
Onlookers queue up to view the excavations of Caligula's ancient Roman vessels, known as the Nemi ships 1932.
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