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Indie Game Dev from Greece. Lightmapping enthusiast. We made Lost Echo. Currently working on Lost Echo: Resonance. Nick posts. He/him πŸ”— http://linktr.ee/kickbackstudios

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New review
on Jul 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM GMT
I never thought a game could make me feel this way. The story was truly touching, as if it portrayed a part of my own life. Thank you for delivering such a profound and inspiring experience. a GOAT GAME EVER! I'm sorry if my english is so bad.

New review on Jul 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM GMT I never thought a game could make me feel this way. The story was truly touching, as if it portrayed a part of my own life. Thank you for delivering such a profound and inspiring experience. a GOAT GAME EVER! I'm sorry if my english is so bad.

Some days are good and make you feel like what you’re doing has meaning.

21.07.2025 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ₯³ Lost Echo is featured on Google Play in category "Incredible Indies"

17.07.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lost Echo promocodes!

iOS:
NNT3YAMFJ7N6
MHAT4EPLMY4X
EAT4NE47YNLL
HPJRF9J4LLFX

Android:
CM6N2PPGPB60ER0ZGSYCXKH
GBRR42SP6RVM95HMPSDW1H5
W9JSBA1PBA4JHM7NAJ3JHNV
6AJGPWKRZN0B3SZKV8WDEP4

08.07.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Much improved! Seems like it works.

07.07.2025 13:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Update is out on all platforms, make sure you update to version 9.

30.06.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can relate, not sure how to deal with them either.

30.06.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Animator Bug in 6000.50f1 and after
YouTube video by KickBack Animator Bug in 6000.50f1 and after

This is clear enough for Unity's QA to understand the issue, right?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhyN...

29.06.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Connection | a blog post about gamedev, life & Lost Echo: Resonance Words are bad at connecting people and yet here I am, once again, choosing the wrong medium.

I wrote a new blog post, for those that are interested in reading almost coherent musings that are loosely related to gamedev :P

29.06.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Latest Lost Echo has a major bug, where many parts of it break, because Unity broke adding animation events at runtime.

Fix will be released soon.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

28.06.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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When we pushed back, they went β€œoops turns out we were thinking of someone else”. This happened twice, a few years apart.

11.05.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They did not provide any data at all, they just expressed a vague notion that we were flagged for some reason with nothing to back it up and that we should buy more Pro licenses.

11.05.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Not in our cases (it happened twice).

11.05.2025 07:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I took it as them β€œcold calling” without any data and hoping they β€œcatch” someone doing something wrong by chance, but I’m famously uncharitable towards Unity.

11.05.2025 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Plus, I don't actually know if they actually have any data before sending such an e-mail, because both times we pushed back they replied with "oops, turns out it was a mistake, our bad".

11.05.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

No, they imply the data they have (that they won't show you) shows you've been doing something wrong, then they "suggest" you "fix it" by buying a bunch of licenses you don't need "or else"

So they threaten, politely and passive aggressively, but they threaten and have been doing it for many years.

11.05.2025 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, who hasn't said "Smash that like button" to their doctor?

07.05.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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my AI company is shocked, SHOCKED that all the candidates selected by our AI tool are using AI to do the interview

05.05.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 821    πŸ” 229    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 55

Sorry to hear that, that sucks.

They haunt us every other year because having most of our income come from outside of our country (Greece) is a red flag for some reason.

05.05.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Done (I think?)

05.05.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyways you ain't never had autism in the US until at least 2028 probably

Maybe 2026 depending on how the midterms go

All my homies ain't never had autism in the US

02.05.2025 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Well, at least I’ll be in good company :)

14.04.2025 09:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

and here I was trying to have a "normal" day. Thanks... :P

14.04.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, second this one, Switch 1 Pro controller was great but D-Pad was very meh.

13.04.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I despise lawyers but they are really needed sometimes. It sounds to me you are close to that time, but you know best.

21.03.2025 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Are lawyers involved yet?

21.03.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, the series has a knack of pulling that whiplash off

"omg this is so beautiful... WTF IS THAT"

20.03.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't think LLMs are healthy for me.

20.03.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Terry Cavanagh Completes Hyper Hexagonest mode in Super Hexagon on stage (78:32)
YouTube video by FantasticArcade Terry Cavanagh Completes Hyper Hexagonest mode in Super Hexagon on stage (78:32)

One of my regrets is that I'll never be this cool
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ96...

19.02.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m on 38f1 and cmd/ctrl + r does nothing during play time. Didn’t try right clicking reimport yet, but I’m convinced I mistakenly changed a setting or something.

17.02.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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