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SquareDog Studios

@sqrdog.bsky.social

Small Indie Studio making WebGL games with a custom TypeScript engine. Currently working on LeapDrive Tactics. Steam: s.team/a/4549550/ Web: sqrdog.com

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This looks great! I remember seeing a video of this several months ago, it's come a long way!

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Doing some work on the encounter editor. All the environment and unit placement is done, now building the VERY SIMPLE scripting system. LeapDrive Tactics Steam: s.team/a/4549550/ Web: sqrdog.com #ScreenshotSaturday #HTML5Games #GameDev #turnbased #TurnBasedTactics

The Locale section is where you define the maps associated with the encounter. I built the system allow additive maps, so you can make a base map for Mars (for example) and add layers for a specific encounter (a large debris field because of a battle).

Unit panel allows the placement of player, friendly, and enemy units. For units with Drones it also allows some initial spawning behavior such as launching the drones to a specific location.

The scripting system (Triggers), LeapDrive Tactics' scripting system is very simple with a set of triggers (left column) that trigger on conditions and then fire a set of effects (middle column). I'm working on the trigger player right now.

Game tile from Steam for LeapDrive Tactics

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Here's a working steam link: store.steampowered.com/app/4549550/...

store.steampowered.com

LeapDrive Tactics on Steam

LeapDrive Tactics is a single-player turn-based tactical game where you command a fleet of two capital ships and two wings of drones in a campaign against an alien threat throughout the solar system.

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix that!

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! LeapDrive Tactics is a single-player turn-based tactical game where you command a small fleet in a campaign against an alien threat throughout the solar system. Written in a custom #webgl typescript engine. sqrdog.com store.steampowered.com/app/4549550/...

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Sony has sold 92 million ps5s. So that’s less than $0.10 per owner (and that’s not even counting that the lawyers are taking at least half)

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Forgot to add one of the most important tags! #turnbased

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

LeapDrive Tactics is a single-player turn-based tactical game where you command a fleet of two capital ships and two wings of drones in a campaign against an alien threat throughout the solar system. store.steampowered.com/app/4549550/... #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #webgl

Your Heavy Cruiser, The Chicago, fires a laser at a Myrathen ship.

A support ship, The Paris, fires missiles at a Myrathen destroyer.

Your Drone Wing selects what formation it is going to envelop a friendly ship with, giving it extra abilities.

The Solar System map, where you decide which missions to take. Mission selection has implications for the development of your base and fleet.

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

It’s Zune all over again

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We'd all built teams in the past, so we had all done that before, but it did feel a little bad not having any mid or jr people on the team. And we were all planning on making two or three games for this company and retiring.

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It's very tricky, my last project we were a ~18 person team of ultra experienced people. I don't think a single person had less then 15 years and had come from a AAA studio. We were easily 2x (maybe 4x) a normal team twice the size. But like you said, there was no future for the studio.

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Ha ha! I finally saw that when I bought your game the other day. Great surprise!

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SquareDog Studios @sqrdog.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I had a huge amount of fun playing your game on SteamFest! Reminded me of a slightly deeper Thronefall.

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