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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The demo for Recursive Riftfall is now Live! Try it out and leave a review! #IndieGames #Gaming #IndieDev #GameDev #NextFest #VideoGames store.steampowered.com/app/2962260/...

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Free Playtest Update v1.06 #IndieGames #GameDev #Gaming -Fixed some issues where the ship would be prevented from taking off from a dungeon -Fixed an issue with some server racks vaults not spawning orange-tier loot -Tried to fix an issue where server rack loot would sometimes not be interactable

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Just hit NINE concurrent players on my free playtest, a new record! 🎉🥳 #IndieGames #IndieDev #IndieGaming #Gaming #VideoGames #GameDev

A screenshot of a webpage showing nine players in the game.

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

New capsule art. I just don't have the resources to chase something better. Just gotta get this game out. #IndieDev #GameDev #Gaming #IndieGames

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Last capsule art was awful, I restarted from scratch. Does this one catch an eye? #IndieDev #GameDev #Gaming #Liminal #ScreenshotSaturday

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Worked on this capsule art today, does it seem too cheap/unprofessional? Too saturated? #IndieDev #GameDev #Gaming #Steam #GameArt

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

DevNote 33: Designed some dungeons, optimized some occlusion data #IndieDev #GameDev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

DevNote 29: Lots of updates to the dungeon generator to make it more consistently interesting instead of randomly awful. Visual updates to the lighting. And some significant updates to the existing AI that were pretty easy to integrate because of the node graph I built it on. #IndieDev #GameDev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

For #ScreenshotSaturday, here is the debug console spouting foreach loop data for a bug I spent a few hours trying to fix, only for it to have been the variable was initialized outside the loop instead of inside. #IndieDev #GameDev #Agony

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Creating a heatmap display of how far each room is from the nearest entrance #IndieDev #GameDev #ProceduralGeneration

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm calling it the monolith but that's a work in progress #IndieDev #GameDev #Shaders #ShaderMagic

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

You know, it's just not fair how real life can do perfect volumetric clouds for free #GameDev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

DevNote 21: Recently reworked how loot is processed. Too complicated to explain here so just look at the crude animation. #IndieDev #GameDev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

DevNote 19: After more time off, I've refined and streamlined the process of spawning a puzzle, creating the in-world indicators of the puzzle's status, and linking them to the vault. All of that networked of course (and by that I mean - non of it is, just the end that matters). #IndieDev #GameDev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

DevNote 14: Not a lot of work these past few days but got some nice atmospherics going. #IndieDev #GameDev #ProceduralGeneration #Liminal #LiminalPlaces

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

DevNote 13: Worked on the procedural data rack (more on that later). Also spent a ton of time hunting down stupid bugs. I thought I'd get some work done, but I ended up barely getting started. #IndieDev #GameDev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

DevNote 11: Spent too much time on the system to make liminal terrain around the dungeon, but I need the simpler version now and didnt want to have to just do this part later. #IndieDev #GameDev #Liminal

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

DevNote 6: The last day-ish was spent fixing a bunch of little bugs I found hear and there when I tried to get a fully fleshed-out dungeon working without bugs at all. There were some issues and improvements to be made that I had been putting off or didn't see before. #IndieDev #GameDev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I've been spending so much time adding little features to everything, instead of just putting a procedural dungeon together. So that's what I did today. #IndieDev #GameDev #Liminal #LiminalSpaces #ProceduralGeneration

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

DevNote 5: Last night I made it so stairs can go into floor layers that aren't exactly 1-unit high, and fixed some bugs with that and with puzzle spawning behavior. #IndieDev #GameDev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

DevNote 4: Spent an hour debugging something that was actually just a boolean I forgot I added. Also added support for carriable large items to be "inserted" at a point, like a key. I wanted this cube to 'settle in', but that's proving hard, so it'll float. #IndieDev #GameDev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I recently made changes to how inventories work. Today I worked out a bunch of the wonderful bugs that come with networking a physicalized inventory system in a drop-in/out game. I also inadvertently discovered & fixed some old bug with items going into your hand weird. #indiedev #gamedev #devlog

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Finally getting around to those weird dungeon styles I've been trying to achieve #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hop the tables if you have to. Just don't touch the water. #indiegames #gaming

A first-person view of a poolrooms-like area.

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Finishing up the vessel's interior.. eight months later #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #gamedev

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ZanderK @zanderkepler.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

One of my favorite parts of #indiedev is spending a few hours fixing something I spent a few hours last month fixing. #gamedev #proceduralgeneration #bugfixing

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