A digitally created banner image. The background is black with rainbow colored waves, shapes, and lines. There is white text that repeats the word Horizon with other text symbols. At the bottom, it says 04 LBK-04 Event_Horizon.

hello and welcome to our 4th Official Astronaut Press Conference! over the next few days, i’ll be telling you all about the super dense, super eventful games we've recovered from the recently arrived black hole.

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banner by @hexrae.bsky.social 🎨

A digitally drawn badge over a starry sky image. The badge is circular with an orange black hole in the center. It says Lithobreakers-04 on the top and Event Horizon on the bottom.

well, good news and bad news folks!

the bad: the Second Horizon was actually a black hole. it ate like 5 spaceships and way too many telescopes.

the good: it brought a bunch of games with the theme

🌌 EVENT HORIZON 🌌

play them here: itch.io/c/6922523/li...

art by princessinternet.cafe 🎨

My Happy School Life by La Saison du Croissant Journal through the education system

Made a new game! A bit of a heavy topic for me but I'm glad I pushed through and released it.

#GameDev #IndieGame #ArtTool

cavalcadeur.itch.io/my-happy-sch...

WIP screenshot of My Happy School Life, an agenda is full of stickers and post-it notes with journal entries "I love school and school loves me, I am the good kind of [hidden by a heart sticker] I listen, I learn [hidden] My parents told me it was important." "I am in middle school. I am a ginger kid." "Both [hidden by a sticker] were first generation college students, they worked hard to climb the social ladder. They taught me to have respect for the institution." Stickers include characters from previous games I made (Big Snake, Danatia, Midnight Tram, Kallypse), two sheeps in love, fish, moons, the word "LOVE" written with rainbow colors and flowers.

WIP for My Happy School Life game. An agenda page is full of stickers. A lot of them are round smiling yellow faces, someone drew a different nose for each with a blue pen. On the bottom right a cat is surrounded by moons, stars and flowers. A dinosaur is holding a treble clef.

WIP from My Happy School Life game. A blank page is adorned with stickers. In the bottom right corner, a post it note says "I am in elementary school, I am a good kid." In the center, a deer person is held upside down on top of a boiling cauldron. The drawing is made of stickers and hand drawn elements. A happy dinosaur and three sheeps are observing the scene. On the right side, the interface for the game is visible. It offers various stickers to choose from and a post-it note reading "I love school and school loves me. I am the good kind of student. I listen. I learn. I behave. My parents told me it was important."

My next game is almost done!
It was a bit of a depressing one to make but at least I had fun play testing it by making silly doodles!

A digitally designed and illustrated award for a game. There are two internet windows open, one with the game title and one with the award name, award description, and a little doodle. Off to the side, there are cute characters, two aliens and an astronaut.

The Plato's Prize Award, for bringing the cave to life, goes to Wall Wide Weird by ↟‗, ƪː and ∦‷! 🌋✨

lithobreakers.itch.io/wall-wide-we...

over a space background, there is art of a patch featuring a colorful W shaped zig zag with two dots above it. the text around the patch says Lithobreakers on the top and 03 - World Wide Weird on the bottom.

THIS JUST IN! fresh games from the Digital Planet have arrived with a brand new theme:

🌐 WORLD WIDE WEIRD 🌐

we assume the games deal with the World, Width, and/or Weirdness... but our Official Space Stance is:

idk yay games!!

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art by @hexrae.bsky.social 🎨

good news and bad news!

good news: the weird signals we've been getting from the Digital Planet are not Super Scary Space Viruses, they're just sneak peeks at the upcoming games!

bad news: we destroyed a lot of computers before that realization...

anyway, here's what we've got so far! 👀🔭✨

3d art of a cute astronaut and two little alien guys, one with just an eye and the other with just a mouth. they're standing on a planet smiling and facing forward.

gather around everyone, our Top Astronauts have made a discovery: a Digital Planet! it’s like a normal planet, but also the internet?

we’re still investigating, but so far we know that it’s weird and it’s dropping a bunch of games next month!!

stay tuned! 🌐🔭✨

art by @computermilk.bsky.social

After months of working on a big update for The Midnight Tram I finally have some big results!

Everything from the prototype was rewritten to accomodate for advanced npc interactions, better line of sights, bigger levels, slicker menus, inventory systems, and even tools to predict the future!

Big Snake by LITHOBREAKERS, La Saison du Croissant A card based visual novel about a big snake

lithobreakers.itch.io/big-snake

Big Snake just received an update! On top of a better user experience it offers booster packs adding unique new scenes to your games.

Don't miss out on the three new endings and the fancy unlockable foils! (link in the replies)

#game #indiedev #lithobreakers #snake #groSerpan #bestCardGameEver

Another fun glitch that is sadly patched out by now messes with the character's memory of the map, turning exploration into this weird dreamlike sequence where the walls seem to rearrange themselves around the player.

Outside of the bounds of the screen, I have found this group of fish, chilling upside down. I think they're taking a break in between two of their shifts swimming the screen.

Screenshot from The Midnight Tram, the vfx for the time travel is frozen in place, inverting the world's colors.

And so I thought I'd share the glitches I've seen while trying to add a dungeon crawler to The Midnight Tram.

At the very least it's visually interesting.

Getting out of the magic circle Making art, and especially video games, is what I find to be the closest to doing magic in real life. It may not be an universal experience but let me try to show you how magic comes into play in my g...

As a #gamedev I am obsessed with the idea of magic and how to incorporate it into gameplay.

But this time I felt the magic from my position as a gamedev. And I thought I could share it so I wrote a post about it.

cavalcadeur.itch.io/the-midnight...

As a #gamedev I like gamedeving it's pretty fun

BIG SNAKE
lithobreakers.itch.io/big-snake

Big Snake Postmortem Hi! This is Angitia ! And this is a Big Snake postmortem! Inventory Management I played The Oregon Trail for a college class. My final presentation was on how the American Frontier influenced video ga...

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Project Kūnlún by Atelier Cassette, MadameEtrange, Dr Umbrus Become the concierge of a strange residential complex.

Hey, everyone!
With the 32Bit Prototype Jam coming to an end, we officially make our return with a brand new prototype!

We'd like to welcome you into the weird but welcoming hallways of Project Kūnlún!

atelier-cassette.itch.io/project-kunlun

#32bitjam #gamejam #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

And here is what the menu looks like in game! I think big snake is winning.

Made this background for Big Snake's main menu. This was my first update post release, along with some quality of life improvements! The next step will be adding new cards and story events! Can't wait!

I made this game! The lithobreaker jam was a blast, I recommend all the games, they're very cool!

Currently working on Mignight Tram's next update. Introducing brand new levels and a level selection menu!

over a space background, there is art of an irregularly shaped patch featuring several astronauts doing strange things like kissing an alien and holding a chainsaw. the text around the patch says Lithobreakers on top and 02 - Unhinged Group Dynamics on the bottom.

the games are finally here and they’ve brought a new theme: Unhinged Group Dynamics!

as a Big Deal Astronaut who only engages in strictly Hinged Group Dynamics, I hope to learn a lot playing these games! 🧑‍🚀🚀

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art by @gleamiarts.bsky.social 🎨

dear diary,

just as i was Not Discussing my book at secret book club… everyone left again! apparently the telescopes got their first look at some of the games headed to earth next month.

i guess i'll attach the findings below. i am still an Astronaut of Science after all! 🧑‍🚀🚀

A drawing depicting a battle between two mages on a tile-based arena in the middle of a forest: A goblin fire mage jumping in the air while preparing to attack with her flamethrower, and a water mage on the ground preparing a huge blast with her pincer.

The holidays got in the way of our surprise, sorry! 👀
Well, better late than never! Here it is!

#WrestleMancers has its very own splash art! Courtesy of our artist, the one and only @madameetrange.itch.io!
Pretty cool, eh? 😀

#indiedev #gamedev

three space blondies. there are photos of planets and a bunch of sparkles on top of them.

dear astronaut diary,

today’s secret book club has been cancelled. everyone’s too busy “doing math” and “looking at the sky” because ~apparently~ there’s a bunch of games crashing to earth next month.

made space blondies for nothing.

xoxo,

big deal astronaut

6) Still a work in progress but I'm having a lot of fun working on Wrestlemancers with @ateliercassette.bsky.social

Oh... Oh my!
Looks like we're very, VERY close to reaching our next milestone!

Let's spice things up a little, shall we?
When we reach 500 followers, we'll unveil a little surprise for you all, how about that? 😉

(And this time, it won't be just a thread!)

More Midnight Tram gameplay, the game is available there: cavalcadeur.itch.io/the-midnight...