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Stephan Hövelbrinks

@talecrafter.bsky.social

Game developer. Artist. Working on Death Trash: http://deathtrash.com

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Steam Workshop::Українська локалізація

Хтось не знав, а хтось уже й забув, що є чудовий послідовник класичних #Fallout — #DeathTrash. Поки гра в дочасному доступі, переклади додаються як модифікації.

Запрошуємо спробувати й наш переклад, який ми сьогодні оновили до поточної версії гри: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

18.07.2025 03:16 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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🔥 The Drifter is OUT NOW! 🔥

Solve your own murder in our fast-paced point 'n click thrill-ride. 15% off for launch!
Steam 🤜 store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/...
GoG 🤜 www.gog.com/en/game/the_...

It's been a long road working on this one- so exciting to finally get it in people's hands!

17.07.2025 17:15 — 👍 517    🔁 195    💬 38    📌 49

Got an e-mail from some fresh indie devs, asking what it would cost to make a game like Death Trash, and I am inclined to answer: TEN YEARS OF YOUR LIFE AND THE LAST SHRED OF YOUR SANITY!

17.07.2025 15:20 — 👍 67    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

It irritates me more than it should that there is a book, opened on a random page, with two title pages next to each other.

17.07.2025 11:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Got a technical bug report via e-mail, with nice words, description and screenshot.
Investigated the issue.
Wrote a reply listing what the person could try in this case.

E-mail could not be delivered. "This mailbox is disabled."

This job can be frustrating sometimes.

14.07.2025 09:30 — 👍 28    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

As game dev I often wonder if my intuition about the Steam market matches reality. So I did a small game to test it: Guess how many reviews a random game has. You can now play it too on steamle.com

07.07.2025 20:50 — 👍 251    🔁 91    💬 17    📌 14

I don't have an exact date. We have most of the Early Access phase behind us now and can focus on the remaining content updates, but don't know how long that will take.

09.07.2025 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Last chance to get Death Trash in the Steam summer sale:

store.steampowered.com/app/941460/D...

We released a major content update: store.steampowered.com/news/app/941...
Roadmap is on the store page.
Daily devlog: steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d...

Plus I can honestly say that I love this game.

09.07.2025 14:12 — 👍 70    🔁 20    💬 3    📌 1

Found some decade old design notes and really shaking my head over some of the ideas that my current self knows are dead-ends, or unrealistic, or just weak or stupid.

Wonder how understanding and benevolent my future self will be about my current output.

09.07.2025 13:07 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0
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Was going through some old feedback items today and rediscovered this favorite of mine.

08.07.2025 09:31 — 👍 48    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

I am. I think I have become pretty good at doing this marathon thing and still enjoy the process itself.

02.07.2025 13:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

As much as I love this game, I'll be relieved when it's fully out there. You have no idea.

02.07.2025 13:52 — 👍 41    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0
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OK COOL 3000 (#07/25) - OK COOL Das monatliche Magazin von OK COOL.

Ich bin SEHR stolz: Heute ist die erste Ausgabe von OK COOL 3000 erschienen, das neue monatliche Magazin von OK COOL. Liebevoll handgemacht, 14 Seiten gefüllt mit exklusiven Inhalten und komplett gratis, ohne Haken.

Hier könnt ihr die erste Ausgabe schmökern:

okcool.space/ok-cool-3000...

❤️

01.07.2025 09:29 — 👍 58    🔁 15    💬 5    📌 0
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This is the way!

02.07.2025 03:44 — 👍 161    🔁 18    💬 8    📌 0

Whoop. Thank you. :)

01.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I admit the Death Trash Early Access has been very long.
But it's disappointing, pushing out a major update, getting closer to the finish line, and Steam reviews landing at mixed, because "development hell", "never getting finished", "work harder" and the critics not even playing the latest version.

01.07.2025 15:21 — 👍 102    🔁 5    💬 13    📌 5
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The Perished City is here. A large content update for Death Trash, continuing the campaign, with new locations, new quests, new characters, new enemies, and more. We hope you'll enjoy this.

store.steampowered.com/news/app/941...

26.06.2025 16:57 — 👍 154    🔁 36    💬 1    📌 2

Not sure how dopamine-related reading is, but I have noticed that I have a lot more patience again these days for quiet moments and boring waiting times. And not saying it has to be extensive reading, but I believe at least that change away from quick feedback cycles is possible.

27.06.2025 11:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think I was there, for a while, but I have returned to reading books in my free time instead of spending time online, which makes for a whole different pacing, following someone laying out a thought over three hundred pages instead of a short video clip.

27.06.2025 11:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Perished City is here. A large content update for Death Trash, continuing the campaign, with new locations, new quests, new characters, new enemies, and more. We hope you'll enjoy this.

store.steampowered.com/news/app/941...

26.06.2025 16:57 — 👍 154    🔁 36    💬 1    📌 2
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Moment of forced self-reflection as an artist: Painting of my painting inside the game I'm painting.

24.06.2025 14:37 — 👍 69    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

I don't think it makes for the most edifying literature, but I have continued writing my daily development log for a few months now. Maybe it's of interest to someone.

steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d...

11.06.2025 12:17 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Collection of thumbnails for projects I was part of. Screenshot of my homepage. Link in post.

Collection of thumbnails for projects I was part of. Screenshot of my homepage. Link in post.

New "Featured Projects" section on my recently reinstated homepage: www.anjinanhut.com/featured/ A solid overview of what sort of experiences I can bring to your team. Open for jobs in Germany or remote from Germany. Game director, art director, team lead, product lead, game design and art, senior.

03.06.2025 14:09 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Space: the final frontier.

Have you ever thought that maybe not space itself, but the thing exploring space, nameley fiction, was the actual final frontier all along?

02.06.2025 07:03 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's from a speech given before the smartphone age.
It feels relevant to me because we are constantly bombarded with narratives when it would sometimes be better to think situations through ourselves.
Also, in regards to focus and concentration instead of getting distracted.

22.05.2025 13:55 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

I return to this quote from David Foster Wallace quite often:

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

22.05.2025 13:55 — 👍 69    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

I have been neglecting social media in the past 2-3 years. I lost acquaintances, audience, a sense of community.
But I also feel as if I got some peace of mind back. I enjoy my time being alone with my thoughts or a book. Same as when I was young.

I guess there's rarely a way to "have it all".

21.05.2025 11:43 — 👍 53    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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I'm looking for work, part time or full time.
Basically I want to make your stuff look good, be it newspapers, magazines, shirts, games, sticker sheets or ice cream packaging ✨

I'd love it if you could share this post.

If you want to work with me, please get in touch.

21.05.2025 09:36 — 👍 87    🔁 45    💬 2    📌 2
A flyer for "Copy That —  A Zine History Workshop"

Make mini-zines and learn about the history of zines!

With S. Mirk

A flyer for "Copy That — A Zine History Workshop" Make mini-zines and learn about the history of zines! With S. Mirk

My friend @mirkdrop.bsky.social is in Berlin for a few weeks, I’ve asked her to host a small workshop about zines and she said yes!

📆 When: Thursday, May 8, 3–5 pm (it's a public holiday)
🍊 Where: at @saftladen.bsky.social, close to Frankfurter Allee

Sign up at www.eventbrite.com/e/copy-that-...

05.05.2025 15:15 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
Pixelart heron with light grey wings, a white feathered head with a bit of dark blue and a white body with dark blue feathers under the wing. The beak is colored orange and brown. It is standing on one leg, maybe it's walking.

Pixelart heron with light grey wings, a white feathered head with a bit of dark blue and a white body with dark blue feathers under the wing. The beak is colored orange and brown. It is standing on one leg, maybe it's walking.

Heron. #pixel_dailies

28.04.2025 13:43 — 👍 30    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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