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@swordandquill.itch.io

I'm Zein! Award-winning game and narrative designer. Excessively inconsistent. Artistic Allrounder. Empathetic Entertainer. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ | enby | he/they | ๐ŸšซA/I Wishlist Soulblaze: s.team/a/3505230 Presskit: https://impress.games/press-kit/swordandquill/soulblaze

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08.08.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When we discussed who goes where in the credits of the first game I worked on, my boss - who wanted to be listed almost everywhere - also dropped "aren't we all game designer??"

And I was the one and only actual game designer on the project ๐Ÿ™ƒ

08.08.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Es ist leider nicht die einzige Firma die gerade nur Unsinn macht. Ich glaube die benutzen alle A/I fรผr alles ๐Ÿซ 

08.08.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You're the second person to mention this. I will totally keep this now ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ’™

08.08.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
One of the boxes from previous post holding all stickers

One of the boxes from previous post holding all stickers

It's not like they could all perfectly fit into ONE

08.08.2025 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Five carton boxes with each three stacks of square stickers that fill less than 30% or the box

Five carton boxes with each three stacks of square stickers that fill less than 30% or the box

The saga continues!
They decided to ship my stickers in five separate packages like this...

AND: I actually ordered six motives.

08.08.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy ending. They approved the re-print.
It's not like gamescom prep is already stressful enough without things going wrong ๐Ÿซ 

08.08.2025 08:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh damn, you're right! Need to frame the worst copies and keep them safe for when Soulblaze is more famous than Pokรฉmon ๐Ÿ˜

08.08.2025 08:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So Flyeralarm is actually asking me for more photos.

Will never order from them again.

08.08.2025 07:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
A futuristic creature with the gamescom logo as a head. Head and limbs are floating unconnected. It has a drop-shaped torso and thighs, triangle-shaped lower legs, all purple and blue. Two arms are made from glowing blue energy and extending to the side. It is floating with the legs pulled up a little and at a slight angle.

A futuristic creature with the gamescom logo as a head. Head and limbs are floating unconnected. It has a drop-shaped torso and thighs, triangle-shaped lower legs, all purple and blue. Two arms are made from glowing blue energy and extending to the side. It is floating with the legs pulled up a little and at a slight angle.

gamescom logo, white on black

gamescom logo, white on black

Meet me at gamescom (August 20th-24th) in Hall 10.2 at Home of Indies. Play the latest demo with all the newest stuff including SOULBLAZE TRANSFORMATIONS ๐Ÿฅณ

Oh, and you get a code for this gamescom event starter!

#gamedev #indiedev #soulblaze #godot #gamescom #gaming

23.07.2025 09:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's Flyeralarm ๐Ÿคช
I've been using them for years, also recently, without issues. This is a (very dramatic) first...

07.08.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Photo of several flyers that are barely the yellow tone they should be, one is even ripped off diagonally

Photo of several flyers that are barely the yellow tone they should be, one is even ripped off diagonally

Misalign print that looks like your staring at the flyer drunk

Misalign print that looks like your staring at the flyer drunk

ripped page back side has even parts of front motive printed on it

ripped page back side has even parts of front motive printed on it

paper smashed and wrinkled

paper smashed and wrinkled

Just received the flyers I ordered for gamescom and.. I have never seen such a ridiculously misprinted product. Like... there was literally nobody looking at this and thinking 'huh' before shipping? ๐Ÿซ 

Like... zero... quality control?

07.08.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Today we took our young son to the hospital because he suffers from two holes in his heart, which affects his breathing and causes him pain. I hope that everyone will help us save our young sonโ€™s life and donate any amount possible to provide treatment and medicine
www.gofundme.com/f/dd6vn-dona...

17.05.2025 22:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 607    ๐Ÿ” 1151    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 311    ๐Ÿ“Œ 179

I hope we get 69 shares on the main post

07.08.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a woman with a #schittscreek logo on the bottom Alt: Moira from Schitt's Creek saying "Color me curious"
07.08.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Soulblaze on Steam Catch Animons and roll some dice in this cute creature-collecting roguelite! Build your team, train them well, and fight your way through several regions. Can you defeat all bosses?

Oh, hi, I'm making a game by myself. It's cute? I draw every by hand. Fuck A/I ๐Ÿ™‚

Please wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3505230/...

#indiegames #indiedev #godot #pokemon #roguelike #gamedev

07.08.2025 11:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My big brother @stormi-v2.bsky.social is about to beat me to releasing a game on Steam(*), despite me being the one working professionally in the game industry ๐Ÿ˜ญ

Help me repair this injustice by wishlisting, following and sharing @oremus-the-game.bsky.social!

A beautiful text adventure in ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง and ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท!

07.08.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Honoured to follow some of my biggest inspirations in hosting this week's official #TurnBasedThursday!

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ #gamedev making a turn-based game (finished or WIP)? Show us what you got!

๐ŸŽฎ Just a fan? Check out these awesome games and drop a follow or wishlist! ๐ŸŽฎ Repost to support! ๐Ÿ”

07.08.2025 11:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 89    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 56    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Naturolls The Naturolls is your seat at the table for a Daggerheart TTRPG actual play. Listen in as a group of friends from around the world tells campfire stories (and puns) in The Shatterlands, a once-divided...

Did you know: our #daggerheart podcast isnโ€™t based on any campaign frame or prewritten story. We really hope what weโ€™re creating will capture your imagination, move you, and make you laugh and/or groan at all of our terrible jokes.

Weโ€™re making it for us, but also for you. โค๏ธ

07.08.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Google their FAQs - start the call off with one of them and take it to the end of that long road - then when they ask if you need anything else - bring up the censorship.

06.08.2025 12:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1632    ๐Ÿ” 1248    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

NICE

I need to open them all.

07.08.2025 11:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fresh off the press, here is the full pack opening screen I just finished making.

Yes you can just click through all the animations when you don't want to wait.

Ignore the general lack of art.

#indiegamedev #solodev

07.08.2025 11:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

BDS is being extremely reasonable asking consumers to boycott Xbox, Minecraft and video games; pure luxury items. There are plenty of fantastic video games that wonโ€™t give MS profits.

07.08.2025 09:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Woah! I need to remember that!

07.08.2025 10:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's a feature! The "Programmer's Teleport"

07.08.2025 08:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It feels wrong but it works ๐Ÿฅฒ

07.08.2025 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Okay, I admit: Sometimes, I intentionally add a syntax error to my script to go change something somewhere else and have a shortcut back.

(I know the "browser back" button on the mouse works too but it is really wonky as it remembers the steps back separately per script)

#gamedev #indiedev #Godot

07.08.2025 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Video description: Player pays for Kalboo's Snap and uses it, activating Tag Team. Then swaps to Difdagua that also has Snap with tag team and it becomes free.

06.08.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New Flavor: Tag Team!

When you use a Trick that has Tag Team and switch to an Animon that also has a Trick with Tag Team, it becomes free (if used back to back)

#gamedev #indiedev #soulblaze #godot

06.08.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Damn. That hits hard...

But beautiful work.

05.08.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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