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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Periapsis: Eclipse is a game under development by @skytrellisgames.bsky.social. It features "orbital mechanics, radiator management, nuclear weapons and more". Here's the announcement trailer showing off Orion drives and Casaba Howitzer warheads: youtu.be/g7qrHQ8oQmg

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

store.steampowered.com/app/3320850/Periapsis_Eclipse/ 🚀It’s finally time!! Periapsis: Eclipse is out now in Early Access!🚀 Get in there, light up the reactor, deploy the radiators, and turn some hostiles into dust!

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🔊How to use orbital-mechanics to intercept a spaceship in 60s 🪐 store.steampowered.com/app/3320850/...

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

💥How to cold-start a nuclear-thermal warship in Periapsis: Eclipse in 45 seconds💥 store.steampowered.com/app/3320850/... #indiegame #space #gamedev

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SULLY - POLYPAINT out now! 🎨 @artofsully.com · 13/06/2025

anime-style procedural pixel clouds achieved! :D☁️ #bombshellblitz #gamedev #madewithunity

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The Periapsis: Eclipse demo is finally out on Steam! Go see if your orbital warfare tactics are good enough to complete Operation False Altar! store.steampowered.com/app/3320850/... #indiegame #space #trailer #scifi

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

when bro asks if I'm good at orbital mechanics: (every maneuver is lithobreaking)

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soliloquis.bsky.social @soliloquis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Playtesting for #FrontiersReach : Battlespace has been going pretty good so far. Lots of great feedback. #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #scifi #retro #aviation #space #navy #madewithunity

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A 504m long Manticorian standard cruiser from Honor Harrington. All the warships in the series have the same layout and shape. #space #art by 'helot'. www.deviantart.com/helot/art/St...

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Exrocketman post on nuclear pulse propulsion: exrocketman.blogspot.com/2025/04/abou... The most interesting facts: A full Orion-like launch is like a 4-5 Megaton yield atmospheric test. Effective Isp increases rapidly with size, reaching 20,000s Isp with a 20,000 ton vehicle

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Been working on the tutorial for a few days and needed a break so I decided to do a refresh of some older ship models starting with the ubiquitous Starsprite Corvette. What do you think?

Two light blue spacecraft with conical noses, and a cylindrical midsection. One marked "new" is sleeker with a more spherical and detailed engine at the rear. The other, marked "old", is chunkier, thicker and has a less detailed, more cylindrical engine.

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My game has Casaba Howitzers (nuclear shaped charges) now! What're you melting first? #scifi #indiedev #gamedev #space

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

[sound up 🔊] Check out how debris and surface-fired railgun projectiles are affected by orbital mechanics! If you like nuclear propulsion and realistic space combat, wishlist Periapsis: Eclipse! store.steampowered.com/app/3320850/... #indiegame #Space #scifi #Physics

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Warp drive! Bending space and cheating time. #space #art by Thomas Thomsen. www.artstation.com/artwork/6LvQVn

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I find myself wanting new, easy to grasp terms for game A/I to avoid association with LLMs and gen-A/I in convos. NPCs maybe, but not everyone knows that term. Computer controlled enemies? Algorithmic assailants? Thinkin buddies? It's strange to have to explain the difference these days.

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Do you like nuclear propulsion, orbital mechanics, hot radiators, Orion drives, casaba howitzers and sarcasm? Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 today to have it all!! store.steampowered.com/app/3320850/... #indiegame #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #scifi #hardscifi #physics #space

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

AAAaAhHhhHH Periapsis: Eclipse finally has an official trailer and Steam page!! If you like physics, spaceships, sarcasm, radiators, nuclear propulsion and puppets, this game is for you! Check it out! youtu.be/g7qrHQ8oQmg #indiedev #gamedev #hardscifi #scifi #spaceships #solodev #indiegame

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Periapsis: Eclipse - Announcement Trailer

YouTube video by Skytrellis Games

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I’m teaching myself to juggle and starting to think I was a clown in a previous life

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The Orion League’s efforts to deregulate the galaxy’s network of wormholes and associated exotic material production have made it easy for the Exiled Empire’s fleets to launch lightning offensives deep into League space, threatening the fragile peace #screenshotsaturday #scifi #indiegame #solodev

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Howie Day @howieeday.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Working on making the B-Wing canopy raisable - trying to figure out the lifting mechanism is stupid. It has to rotate up and push forwards. On the plus side, it looks dope.

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EakyRtk @eakyrtk.com · 09/02/2025

Btw Im gonna create a BuyMeACoffee page. I also plan to make #Godot videos with my broken English grammar and absurd brain processor. Im kinda good at Godot, I do art and a bit jack-of-all trades. Because I will have to open sole proprietorship, I might create BMC page for your supports as well ^^

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

For this #screenshotsaturday I did some #WIP previs for a warp-in animation as ships spawn into the combat level. Next steps are to add more variance, some dirtiness, longer travel distance in the stretch portion and to refine the blue flash. Overall a pretty cool first pass! #indiegame #solodev

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beanhowitzer @beanhowitzer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Hey #gamedevs, what’s your process for making trailers? I’ve been working on Periapsis’ trailer for more than a week and keep dipping back into in-game work to fix bugs that look bad in a trailer and punch up important gameplay moments that need to be clear for the hook to land

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w. @willforwins.com · 01/02/2025

Nintendo, Atari, & Sega happened because of him, Jerry Lawson. #BlackHistory

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Laurence Datrier @asleepywanderer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We're living through stressful times, so a lot of people are turning to art lately. Here's a reminder that I've got a starter pack of super cool space artists 🔭🐡 go.bsky.app/T9Xcq1M

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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The droplet-core nuclear rocket: doi.org/10.2514/6.19... Uranium can stay liquid under 100 bars at 7500K. Droplets would rain through a chamber filled with hydrogen before being spun out by a vortex and quenched on lithium. 2000-3000s Isp with much less hassle than gas-cores!

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’m building a ton of debug tooling to get better footage for Periapsis’ Steam trailer and I gotta say I’m pretty excited about how much more productive the rest of my workflow is gonna be with all these new tools #gamedev

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Finally got around to building a procedural planet shader to replace the temporary textures I'd been using and it really improves the vibes in space! #spaceart #indiegame #hardscifi #solodev #space #screenshotsaturday

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Put an infrared targeting beam (the white one) on a patrol destroyer to see how much it helps allied ships’ weapon range and targeting - I feel very cool illuminating a hostile ship and letting my escort ships tear it apart at long range #indiegame #indiedev #hardscifi #scifiart #spaceship

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

players: "wow your game has orbital mechanics and nuclear reactors? this is gonna be super realistic" me: *sweats in improvised magnetic trash shield*

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

This info graphic on a new heavy cruiser I recently built was a fun excuse to write up some lore on the universe, good practice on the ship art style refresh and definitely not procrastination on all the changes I need to make from the last playtest #gamedev #scifiart #indiedev #hardscifi

A magazine styled info graphic on a cone shaped ship with a spin gravity ring, rail guns and large spherical fuel tanks.

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Almost lost to burnout this year. Next year I’m going in swinging

Panel 1: I may be scared of 2025.
A person clenches a ruined comic in their hands with tears streaming down their cheeks.

Panel 2: But 2025 should be scared of me too.
Same person looks determinedly into the camera, preparing to draw anyway.

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

❌crushed by the weight of fear and give up ✅deadlift fear and get emotionally huge #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I recently skirted burnout doing optimization but thanks to that work I can now use a more computationally expensive trajectory prediction model that's way more stable! This enables smarter NPCs + more missiles during combat, which means crazier battles and more explosions! #indiedev #scifi #space

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hoojiwana @hoojiwana.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This weeks Spacedock video looks at some of the problems and strange physics that crop up when flying between the stars. Thanks to @macspace.bsky.social and @zandoarts.bsky.social for letting us use some of their gorgeous art!

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Slower Than Light Interstellar Travel

YouTube video by Spacedock

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Today’s task: teach NPC ships how to modulate reactor temperatures using their control rods to balance thrust output with safety + how to manage waste heat during combat using their radiators dynamically. I expect a day full of boiling hulls, meltdowns and unscheduled lithobreaking.. #gamedev

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EakyRtk @eakyrtk.com · 25/11/2024

Okay, so here goes my first Starter Pack. Go follow these cool people!! ^_^ 💜 There is still much room and packs are bit buggy so I might missed you even if I added you in the first place. You can comment ask to be added and DM to be removed. #gamedev #indie #solodev Part 1: go.bsky.app/BA4PbSG

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 24/11/2024

Morning, Dan the music produce for the Never Yield games as well as many other projects. His mom is looking for a little help with his final expenses. If you have a few dollars to send her way I know Dan would greatly appreciate it 🙏🏾 gofund.me/e85f65a3

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Donate to Remembering Daniel Wilkins, organized by Gina Wilkins

In Loving Memory of Daniel Wilkins – A Legacy of Music, Friendship, and Generosity It … Gina Wilkins needs your support for Remembering Daniel Wilkins

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

hey #solodev and #indiedev folks, what's your completed task count? I'll start: my "Done" stack in Trello is at 319, not including checklist items ...don't ask about the backlog tho

DW from Arthur looking as tired as I feel

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Brutal Grounds @brutalgrounds.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Grab Steam keys on our discord now and shoot your friends in the ball! 👉 discord.gg/mamsmjx Follow for dev updates! #alpha #gameplay #screenshot #marbles #deathmatch #indiegamedev #indiegame #gamedev #respawn #UE4 #madewithUnreal #balls

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school: Hey I'm John and I should probably drop my interest in astrophysics because that's a lot of math and I'm more artsy than smart.

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Fire Totem Games 🕷🕸 A Webbing Journey 🌍🧡 @firetotemgames.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We found a cool solution to quickly travel through the office level: adjustable desk fans. Do you think three are too many for this small room?

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🐸 Yami | ヤ三 @yamielsun.itch.io · 16/11/2024

Please consider playing my demo I worked very hard on it 🥺

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Wishlist 🚀Periapsis: Eclipse🚀 @skytrellisgames.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I like to see how many interesting moments from #TheExpanse I can recreate in Periapsis to decide whether I'm on the right track for making an awesome hard #scifi experience. The Inaros attack at close range can be pretty fun to pull off! [🔊sound up for explanation 🔊] #indiedev #gamedev

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