Stephan Hövelbrinks

Stephan Hövelbrinks

@talecrafter.bsky.social

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

5,457 Followers 17 Following 43 Posts Joined Jul 2023
2 months ago

Playing Bloodborne intensively while lying sick in bed for days is one of my favorite gaming memories. Perfect immersion for the sickness theme of that game.
(Nothing to do with playing video games badly, sorry.)

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3 months ago
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Working on some level design today.

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3 months ago

My computer, after having arrived with the train.

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3 months ago

I feel old,
sitting on the train,
not swiping my phone.

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3 months ago

So in Arc Raiders there is a door glitch. You don't need to know what it is, just that the gamers are brainstorming all the "easy" ways to "fix" the doors and it's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. My two favorite solutions are "add a kill volume" and "put a second door behind the door".

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3 months ago

@jesawyer.bsky.social This might be of interest to you: bsky.app/profile/blue... (Made by a few friends from the Saftladen.)

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3 months ago
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✨IT'S MOVING DAY✨

Are you ready to explore the apartment, renovate it and uncover its turbulent past?

Out on Steam (Steamdeck verified!), PlayStation and Xbox NOW!

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3 months ago
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Checked out @deadstaticdrive.com today - not sure I've seen something so immediately stylish and suffused with atmosphere in a long time! Very dreamlike experience so far...

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3 months ago
Pixel art of Piglet standing in front of an open door leading into a room with a few chairs in a cirkle and a table with a coffee machine and mugs in the back. Piglet seems to think about if  they want to enter the room, which is still empty. A sign beside the door frame says: Today, 09:00 AM, Sidekick self-help group.

Should I stay or should I go?

#pixelart

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4 months ago

I'll better skip calculating this. ^^

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4 months ago
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The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)

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4 months ago

I really hope that it's not another 10 years. ^^

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4 months ago

Death Trash Update 0.14.4 and a few words on the current focus of development: (content, of course)

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

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4 months ago
Pixel art of a green toad with red sand on its feet and belly, up to the mouth.

sandy toad

#peachtober25toad
#pixelart

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4 months ago
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Dead Static Drive | Coming to PC and Xbox Grab your bat, steal a car, and take your chances against the unearthly horrors found along Route 666. This is Dead Static Drive.

🚨DEAD STATIC DRIVE HAS A RELEASE DATE!!!🚨

www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases

NOVEMBER 5TH Y'ALL.

Congrats to @mike.reuben.games, @leena.reuben.games, and the whole DSD team - I've been DYING to play this one.

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5 months ago
Pixelart of a meadow with poppies, grasses, cornflowers and french daisies. In the background are some trees and the iconic elevator tower.

field of flowers at ghibli park

#peachtober25poppy
#pixelart

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5 months ago
Pixelart of an acorn-shaped booth. Inside is a squirrel selling different nuts. The booth has a sign with the word "nuts" painted on the outside and inside is a board with unreadable chalk writing. Some nuts are presented in paper bags, some in a basket and some are piled up.

Nuts, anyone?

#acorn
#peachtober25

First time trying out a color palette.

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6 months ago
The Saftladen logo. It's an organge holding a gamepad.

As we all know the game industry is going through very turbulent times, unfortunately this has also affected several members of our collective. The silver lining is that one of the largest rooms in our coworking space in Berlin will be available from September 1st.

More info in thread...

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6 months ago

The Saftladen, the indie games collective I'm part of here in Berlin, is looking for new members to rent some desks.

Infos over here: www.linkedin.com/posts/saftla...

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6 months ago

Posted this a few months ago when itch went offline (following the bogus phishing report from Funko), still very relevant today for different reasons

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7 months ago
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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/...

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7 months ago
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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!

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7 months ago

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!

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7 months ago

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.

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7 months ago

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.

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8 months ago

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

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8 months ago

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.

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8 months ago
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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.

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8 months ago

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.

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8 months ago
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Was going through some old feedback items today and rediscovered this favorite of mine.

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