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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Guess what inspired The Hive most? The answer is pretty unexpected #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

These percentages are always funny. +5,588% sounds pretty good #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think this concept art helped us get our first 10,000 wishlists for The Hive. Hand painted by our artist. No AI involved, of course. #gamedev #indiedev

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This unit grows each time it kills something, how big will it get. #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mistä tietää että suomalaisten tekemä peli? #finland

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We made The Hive for everyone who grew up loving strategy games and never really stopped. #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Indeed, we have notified people if the issue or improvement they wanted has been implemented.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today The Hive reached 300 reviews on Steam! Even better, our recent reviews have been 100% positive. Do you ever go back and change your Steam review after a game gets major updates? #gamedev #indiegame

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Steam @steampowered.com · 01/10/2026

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We made an old-school real-time strategy game where you play as the monster. - Command an insectoid hive mind and build your nest - Salvage enemies for DNA, weapons, and body parts - Evolve new creatures and carry them through the campaign store.steampowered.com/app/325730/T...

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Save 50% on The Hive on Steam

The Hive is a strategy game with RPG elements where you assume command as the insectoid hivemind. Build and expand your underground colony, harvest resources, and evolve your swarm using DNA. Will you...

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Valve is changing the handpicked Daily Deals. You needed around $5–6k monthly revenue to qualify, and getting one could generate around $72k in a day. Only ~1% of games used to qualify though. So this seems like a good change for indies? #gamedev #indiegame steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

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Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Upcoming Changes to the Discounts & Events Section on Steam

Improvements coming in early 2027

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We found my old Anomalocaris model from 2013, gave it a new texture, rigged and animated it... And now, 13 years later, the little guy is happily alive in "The Hive" #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't think anyone has seen these glowing eyes in The Hive, but I still added them 10 years ago because it was cool, now I made them glow. #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tried making new detailed texture for "Boss" monsters, how do you like it? #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fight Steam? Players specifically want their games in one place. Blizzard would have to release Half-Life 3 at minimum to change that.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It has Breakout score of 24.7× on our Youtube channel and it's the most successful one we have done this year.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is most curious, our "The Hive" lore video had ~50 views and 1.1% CTR for 3 days. Then it suddenly just blew up out of nowhere? #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally after year of trying, we got some success with our Youtube videos and I have no idea why. #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We spent WAY too much time, making detailed animation for this turtle. Do you think it was worth it? #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also the size of your audience matters a lot. When we post, it's usually ~10 likes and few hundred views. When a larger media posted about our game it was suddenly 500,000 views and thousands of likes. It's just very hard if you don't have a huge following, even if your game is good quality.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Honestly, in indie game development, the hardest part is not the development itself, but marketing, right? #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This comment from @valvesoftware.com also makes it curious. It specifically says it should highlight the product that the customers does not own instead, so it should show the base game.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Any idea why @steampowered.com shows our DLC on top sellers list instead of base game? Even when majority of our sales are not coming from the expansion. Also for anyone curious we needed $463 in sales today to show up there, alongside 12 other games out of 1,301. #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Why are the wounded creatures in the Hive afraid of their Medic? First, its healing process is extremely painful. Second, when it regenerates a lost limb, it does not always grow back correctly. Every mutation teaches the Hive something new. #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Guess what game inspired the huge red scorpions in "The Hive" #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Always good stuff when Roach decides to rush down a mountain when you whistle for it.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There kind of is, bring too many and they will blow up in the super nova mission since they are outside dust cloud. Lol

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pillbugs now only give you resources after carrying them back to base. This makes travel distance matter more and encourages players to spread their base across the map. Good change? #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mostly by email. It is a shame because they make genuine key requests look sketchy too.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have learned in 15 years that there is no such thing as luck.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We have so small reach here that I don't think it will have much effect. We start noticing something when post goes +30,000 views.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Could it be that big spike? It was on monday

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We did not post anything new at this time. We had major update a month ago, but thats about it.

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Homeworld was heavy inspiration how our own game "The Hive" works. I always loved the idea that your army carries over from one mission to another. #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I find this curious. Visits stay fairly consistent on itchio, but purchases sometimes suddenly spike. What causes that? #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Behemoth in "The Hive" is not really one creature. #gamedev #indiegame

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⚜️ Skydome ⚜️ @skydomehive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is it sad or funny that our game makes way more money on @itch.io than on Epic Games Store?

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