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Indie game devs making retro and retro-inspired games! The Aching • Enigma Heart • In Silence Waits hadrosaurus.net hadrosoft.itch.io patreon.com/hadrosoft Follow us on Mastodon, too! mastodon.gamedev.place/@HadroSoft Banner art by @pepperly.art

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aw, that's awesome to hear, thank you!

And yeah, I've been feeling that myself about this project. Like, even if I *could* do this project on my own (I can't lol), working with you and the rest of the team is far more rewarding. It's really cool seeing it come together in ways I didn't foresee!

~C

07.08.2025 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

all the more props to HB for making something so cool and functional in it lol

07.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

lol
yeah i've never used GameMaker, but I've heard... stories

07.08.2025 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

oh, for sure! :)

07.08.2025 19:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

HoverBat is deffo getting a special-thanks credit in the game because, without him making ZA:LiA, I never would have realized "oh yeah, this game I love from my kidhood still has some life to it" and been inspired to make Enigma Heart :)

~Clarissa

07.08.2025 19:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

aw, thank you!
Yeah, can confirm -- I'm writing the game completely from scratch in C++. Nothing is taken, code-wise, from either Zelda II or from ZA:LiA -- just inspiration and observation, the good old fashioned way.

07.08.2025 19:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

dev here!

lol... yeah, it's semi-intentional, let's say. 😅 I'm a big fan of HoverBat's game, and when I came up with Enigma Heart's story, the name "Zalia" popped into my head for the protag's name. And then a couple hours later, it clicked and I was like

".........oh." XD

~Clarissa

07.08.2025 19:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Indie games seem better than AAA nowadays

#IndieGames #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #GamingCommunity

04.08.2025 18:07 — 👍 34    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 1
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My Castlevania-like "Lady Dracula" will be releasing an official Demo soon.

Wishlist on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/3624840/Lady_Dracula/

Glitch art and footage by @glitchwolfe.studio
Music by @mikhailagkonov.bsky.social
Game by me

#indiegame #castlevania #glitchart #pixelart #vampire

04.08.2025 03:40 — 👍 205    🔁 88    💬 5    📌 3
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Chronicles IV: Ebonheim is a classic dungeon-crawling CRPG with nuanced character building and brutal, turn-based tactical combat.

Wishlist today at store.steampowered.com/app/3919080/...

01.08.2025 23:18 — 👍 23    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 5
Pixel art scene from Enigma Heart, showing Zalia taking point as she escorts Remont, his horses, and their wagon full of grain through a forest.

Pixel art scene from Enigma Heart, showing Zalia taking point as she escorts Remont, his horses, and their wagon full of grain through a forest.

Development of the story and main adventure in Enigma Heart is proceeding! The scripting engine is robust and featureful (is that a word?!) and there's real progression starting to happen from the player's end!

#ScreenshotSaturday #EnigmaHeart

26.07.2025 19:15 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Pixel art scene from Enigma Heart, showing Zalia taking point as she escorts Remont, his horses, and their wagon full of grain through a forest.

Pixel art scene from Enigma Heart, showing Zalia taking point as she escorts Remont, his horses, and their wagon full of grain through a forest.

Development of the story and main adventure in Enigma Heart is proceeding! The scripting engine is robust and featureful (is that a word?!) and there's real progression starting to happen from the player's end!

#ScreenshotSaturday #EnigmaHeart

26.07.2025 19:15 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe we could find out.

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PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

24.07.2025 03:57 — 👍 13923    🔁 11244    💬 40    📌 351
Screenshot of Enigma Heart, but I've goofed up the camera and we're looking up into the sky (which ends abruptly into black about two thirds of the way up the screen)

Screenshot of Enigma Heart, but I've goofed up the camera and we're looking up into the sky (which ends abruptly into black about two thirds of the way up the screen)

Hey, camera guy? Wanna join us down on the ground? We've got three shots to get through today and we're losing light.

#GameDev #PixelArt #EnigmaHeart

22.07.2025 17:27 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Rosewater, my Wild West adventure game, has been out nearly 4 months and has been very well-received!

But I also feel like it’s reached a fraction of its potential audience.

If you can spare a repost and help spread the word, it would be greatly appreciated!

www.grundislav.games/Rosewater.html

21.07.2025 15:34 — 👍 178    🔁 133    💬 2    📌 17
Nonbinary Day Celebration schedule for Day 1

text reads:
Sat, July 19
Time (ET)	Game	Category	Runner
			
1:00 PM	Day Intro		
1:02 PM	Beastieball	Any% (Race)	Hallow, mistypalms
1:48 PM	Parking Garage Rally Circuit	USA Circuit	ateatree
2:09 PM	F-Zero GX	Story Mode (Normal) w/ Racing Wheel	Elite_Spud
2:50 PM	Muse Dash	Master Showcase	soulmass218
3:26 PM	Silent Hill 2 (2024)	Any% NG+	Nerd_Squared
4:47 PM	Kitsune Tails	Kiri% (New Game)	debeaunairVT
5:45 PM	Zelda II: Adventures of Link	100% All Keys	iceblue
7:11 PM	MASH VP! Re:VISION	Showcase	limy
7:57 PM	DELTARUNE	Chapter 3 All Bosses	SawaYoshi

Nonbinary Day Celebration schedule for Day 1 text reads: Sat, July 19 Time (ET) Game Category Runner 1:00 PM Day Intro 1:02 PM Beastieball Any% (Race) Hallow, mistypalms 1:48 PM Parking Garage Rally Circuit USA Circuit ateatree 2:09 PM F-Zero GX Story Mode (Normal) w/ Racing Wheel Elite_Spud 2:50 PM Muse Dash Master Showcase soulmass218 3:26 PM Silent Hill 2 (2024) Any% NG+ Nerd_Squared 4:47 PM Kitsune Tails Kiri% (New Game) debeaunairVT 5:45 PM Zelda II: Adventures of Link 100% All Keys iceblue 7:11 PM MASH VP! Re:VISION Showcase limy 7:57 PM DELTARUNE Chapter 3 All Bosses SawaYoshi

I hope you're ready.

Because.

Our Nonbinary Day Celebration starts TODAY!!!!!!!! 🎉💛🤍💜🖤

twitch.tv/gamesdoneq...

19.07.2025 16:55 — 👍 274    🔁 88    💬 3    📌 15
Yuzu air dashes through a brick wall as a rainbow powered super fox

Yuzu air dashes through a brick wall as a rainbow powered super fox

Anyway you should give Kitsune Tails a look if you like old Mario games and or gay fox girls, it's 30% off right now on Steam and itch and it recently won the Gayming Award for best LGBTQ indie game kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails/

18.07.2025 18:40 — 👍 44    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 0
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Wishlist? Nah, it's now BUY.

My solo-dev game, Advent NEON, 🚨IS FINALLY OUT!🚨

Get your hyperactive action platforming fix in NOW!

#indiegame #AdventNEON #indiedev

18.07.2025 15:40 — 👍 977    🔁 392    💬 28    📌 36
A screenshot of Enigma Heart. The player is in The Purple Labrys, a central location in the game. The wall is adorned with banners bearing the purple labrys crest. One picture frame in particular contains a large, hard-to-miss lesbian pride flag.

A screenshot of Enigma Heart. The player is in The Purple Labrys, a central location in the game. The wall is adorned with banners bearing the purple labrys crest. One picture frame in particular contains a large, hard-to-miss lesbian pride flag.

Screenshot of Enigma Heart. The scene is in Zalia's room in The Purple Labrys. Zalia (identified as question marks in her dialogue box because we don't know her name yet) is looking at Esme, who's sitting beside her bed in a chair. Zalia says: "I... Um. No. My first and only memory is waking up here, looking up into your..."

Screenshot of Enigma Heart. The scene is in Zalia's room in The Purple Labrys. Zalia (identified as question marks in her dialogue box because we don't know her name yet) is looking at Esme, who's sitting beside her bed in a chair. Zalia says: "I... Um. No. My first and only memory is waking up here, looking up into your..."

Zalia is looking straight ahead, silent, but blushing profusely.

Zalia is looking straight ahead, silent, but blushing profusely.

Subtlety? What's that? Beats me; I don't do subtext! 🏳️‍🌈

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➡️ Ever wished Zelda II were (even more) gay?
Wishlist Enigma Heart!
www.hadrosaurus.net/enigma-heart/
store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/...

18.07.2025 15:10 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
A screenshot of Enigma Heart. The player is in The Purple Labrys, a central location in the game. The wall is adorned with banners bearing the purple labrys crest. One picture frame in particular contains a large, hard-to-miss lesbian pride flag.

A screenshot of Enigma Heart. The player is in The Purple Labrys, a central location in the game. The wall is adorned with banners bearing the purple labrys crest. One picture frame in particular contains a large, hard-to-miss lesbian pride flag.

Screenshot of Enigma Heart. The scene is in Zalia's room in The Purple Labrys. Zalia (identified as question marks in her dialogue box because we don't know her name yet) is looking at Esme, who's sitting beside her bed in a chair. Zalia says: "I... Um. No. My first and only memory is waking up here, looking up into your..."

Screenshot of Enigma Heart. The scene is in Zalia's room in The Purple Labrys. Zalia (identified as question marks in her dialogue box because we don't know her name yet) is looking at Esme, who's sitting beside her bed in a chair. Zalia says: "I... Um. No. My first and only memory is waking up here, looking up into your..."

Zalia is looking straight ahead, silent, but blushing profusely.

Zalia is looking straight ahead, silent, but blushing profusely.

Subtlety? What's that? Beats me; I don't do subtext! 🏳️‍🌈

---

➡️ Ever wished Zelda II were (even more) gay?
Wishlist Enigma Heart!
www.hadrosaurus.net/enigma-heart/
store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/...

18.07.2025 15:10 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Support small gamedevs, eh?
We are burning ourselves out, out of passion about you having a good time for a few hours 🙃
(I need vacation, badly lol)

#gamedev #indiegames

18.07.2025 12:12 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Kitsune Tails might be my favourite video game of all time. Just a perfect encapsulation of everything I want out of video games, including having gay foxgirls.

It plays exactly right, it's the right length, there's a heartwarming story, with a twist that you see coming.

16.07.2025 20:41 — 👍 21    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Save 30% on Kitsune Tails on Steam Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery. Explore the complicated relationships between ...

anyway uhhh get it while it's legal i guess? kitsune tails is 30% off on steam right now store.steampowered.com/app/1325260

16.07.2025 08:48 — 👍 144    🔁 77    💬 6    📌 6

I need to stress that this isnt a random fear, sesta/fosta laid a lot of groundwork to empower payment processors to police online content and those bills define lgbtq language as "sexually soliciting"

Its a big reason i dropped facebook during trump 1.0

16.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 77    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 0

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

16.07.2025 05:05 — 👍 9656    🔁 4362    💬 125    📌 431
A pixel art scene of a grassy field, with a dense wood at the horizon along with the crumbled ruins of a stone tower nearby. A river runs through the field. Zalia, the protagonist, walks toward the camera, along the bank of the river.

A pixel art scene of a grassy field, with a dense wood at the horizon along with the crumbled ruins of a stone tower nearby. A river runs through the field. Zalia, the protagonist, walks toward the camera, along the bank of the river.

Zalia walks, tightrope-style, on a fallen tree which acts as a bridge between two grass-covered rocky cliffs. Bare-limbed trees line both cliffs. We're very, very high up, as the trees below appear quite small.

Zalia walks, tightrope-style, on a fallen tree which acts as a bridge between two grass-covered rocky cliffs. Bare-limbed trees line both cliffs. We're very, very high up, as the trees below appear quite small.

A bit more of a serene scene. Zalia, her back to us, sits in the grass at the shore of a lake. Her sword and shield sit in the grass near her. The lake surface is as flat and calm as a mill pond. The sun is low in the sky, probably setting. The mountains in the background reflect off the lake's surface, and the low-hanging sun shimmers on the water.

A bit more of a serene scene. Zalia, her back to us, sits in the grass at the shore of a lake. Her sword and shield sit in the grass near her. The lake surface is as flat and calm as a mill pond. The sun is low in the sky, probably setting. The mountains in the background reflect off the lake's surface, and the low-hanging sun shimmers on the water.

A side-scrolling scene more typical of the gameplay. Zalia stands in some tall grass near the entrance of a forest. The scene is at sunset, as the sky is filled with brilliant gold, orange, and purple colors, with orange and gold-colored clouds. She's standing still, looking into the woods, and calling out: "Hello?"

A side-scrolling scene more typical of the gameplay. Zalia stands in some tall grass near the entrance of a forest. The scene is at sunset, as the sky is filled with brilliant gold, orange, and purple colors, with orange and gold-colored clouds. She's standing still, looking into the woods, and calling out: "Hello?"

In Enigma Heart, you begin the story as a wanderer, traveling from place to place. Why? We don't know. After an encounter in the woods with some monsters, you've lost your memory.

The cool part? You can wishlist it on #Steam right now!

store.steampowered.com/app/2986980/...

#ScreenshotSaturday

21.06.2025 22:15 — 👍 21    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

eeeeyyy, thanks for the shoutout! 🌈🦕

~Clarissa

15.07.2025 20:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A screenshot of the dance in kitsune tails, with kiri dipping a shocked looking yuzu. Above them is a pull quote:

"Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" GamesRadar+

A screenshot of the dance in kitsune tails, with kiri dipping a shocked looking yuzu. Above them is a pull quote: "Nintendo wasn't brave enough to put lesbian fox girls in Super Mario Bros. 3" GamesRadar+

Regret not picking up Kitsune Tails during the summer sale? No problem, it's now on sale at 30% off on Steam and itch! kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails/

Most fox girls recommend Kitsune Tails for queer retro platforming fun

14.07.2025 19:08 — 👍 224    🔁 79    💬 2    📌 2

Hi friends!

My team is casting 5 voice actors for contract roles in our combat-focused video game! Ideally remote voice talent with home recording setups.

We’re seeking authentic representation for the following roles:

12.07.2025 19:12 — 👍 372    🔁 270    💬 26    📌 12

if our game ever ships i am making sure everyone in the credits is listed as "solo developer"

11.07.2025 22:39 — 👍 541    🔁 38    💬 8    📌 0

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