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We hope the video games we create will provide you with joy, relieve stress, benefit your mental health, and taste great.
Sonderians understand that all people live their own ongoing, unique, and complex narrative.
We see your light, in all its frequencies.
#pride #pridemonth
Creating a Bug Swarm: A quick breakdown of building a bug swarm using VFX Graph and vertex painting in Unity.
#blender #unity #indiedev #hardlight
Credit to:
"Low Poly X-Wing" (skfb.ly/6W8Rs) by felipelunardelli (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...).
"Baby Yoda (Grogu)" (skfb.ly/ovyzL) by mister dude (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...).
May the 4th Be With You! #starwarsday #maythe4thbewithyou
04.05.2025 17:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Spitter Attack VFX Refinement using particle collisions.
#indiegames #vfx #particles
Exploring various VFX to use for enemy statuses.
20.04.2025 20:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Playtesting: the best kind of testing.
#indiegames #indiedev #fun #hardlight
AddExplosionForce in Unity - A quick rundown of the 4 ForceModes, how they work and how we utilize AddExplosionForce in our game: HARDLIGHT.
#unity #explosion #force #indiedev #hardlight
How to code in 3 easy steps!
#coding #code #indiegames #hardlight
www.youtube.com/shorts/5Ep7d...
Acrobia Map and Environment Design
Map design of terrain and environmental objects in Unity for our upcoming map: Acrobia, at 15x speed.
#unity #design #bobross #painting #indiedev #hardlight
Here's the image from the article:
21.03.2025 17:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looks like Steam on Xbox is all but confirmed. Looks like "Controller support" just went up on the list of priorities.
www.ign.com/articles/mic...
Clips showing the evolution of the Torchblade tower in Hardlight.
#indiegames #towerdefense #hardlight
www.youtube.com/shorts/TAXXX...
Enemy Spawn Portal Enhancement - A quick comparison of the original version of the portal and an updated version that matches the design language of the enemies.
#indiegames #indiegame #towerdefense #spawn #hardlight
Photic Sweep is one of the abilities of the WISP that the player controls. It's a great crowd-control (CC) ability and can help slow things down to help towers gain more time to damage enemies heading towards the CORE.
#indiegames #indiegaming #hardlight
youtube.com/shorts/mDsSt...
Happy New Year! 2025, Hardlight, Sonderian Games
Happy New Year from Sonderian! Sending best wishes for the new year to everyone, particularly those in the indie development community:
May your projects be on-time, your code bug-free and your wishlist count high.
#happynewyear #newyear #2024 #hardlight #indiegames
Happy Holidays from Sonderian
From everyone at Sonderian, we want to wish you all a happy holiday season!
#holiday #holidays #indiegames
We're not saying it was CHASE towers... but it was CHASE towers.
20.12.2024 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coincidence? We think not.
#drone #drones #hardlight
The game development process is a dynamic one and can be challenging at times. Mistakes happen and need to be addressed. Sometimes, those mistakes lead to hilarious and/or frightening results. It's all part of the process.
#indiedev #gaming #hardlight #ik #oops
The Culverion tower has come a bit of a ways since the early days.
#hardlight #towerdefense #indiegames
Sans chill.
#hardlight #indiegames #chillguy
Enhancing enemy targeting to allow multiple points for towers and abilities to hit, improving visuals, tower reach for larger enemies & laying the groundwork for some more complex enemies and bosses (coming soon).
#hardlight #gamedev #IndieGameDev
www.youtube.com/shorts/HEJlj...
The critters are not alright.
www.tiktok.com/@sonderian/v...
Steam Tower Defense Fest 2024 banner for Hardlight
Hardlight has joined Steam's Tower Defense Fest!
The new Hardlight Demo is available now for everyone!
store.steampowered.com/app/2386770/...
#hardlight #TowerDefense
Side-by-side screenshots of Scout and Sentry modes for the WISP.
The WISP has learned some new tricks... Introducing SCOUT and SENTRY modes!
If you currently have a key you will see the update in Steam. If not, the demo will be available to play during Tower Defense Fest 2024!
#hardlight
Next Fest Thank You from Sonderian
Next Fest was incredible. Thank you for your support of Hardlight!
We are working to include planned enhancements, along with new features based on your suggestions, so for now, we've taken the Hardlight Demo down. Back shortly!
#hardlight #steamnextfest #indiegame
For those looking for an immersive new tower defense video game, here is a link to the recording of our 2nd live stream of the Hardlight Demo, during Next Fest, June 13, 2024.
youtu.be/tN5MYO4C-Ds
#hardlight #steamnextfest #indiegame
For anyone who missed it, here is a link to the recording of our 1st live stream of the Hardlight Demo during Next Fest, June 12, 2024.
youtu.be/V_nm3zR1jeA
#hardlight #steamnextfest #indiegame
As part of Steam's Next Fest, we're doing 2 live streams tonight and tomorrow, June 12 & 13 @ 6 PM ET / 3 PM PT! Please check it out if you can and share with others who might be interested!
#hardlight #steamnextfest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=meks...
