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Alexander Karenovics

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Working on #ruinsOfCalaworm Turn-based Dungeon Crawler after 90s german cult #roguelike "Die Gemäuer von #Kalawaum". Soundtrack: @composertom.bsky.social Key Art: @edjiearts.bsky.social DEMO: https://erdbeerscherge.itch.io/ruins-of-calaworm

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It's hard.

07.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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PixelArt practice — I’d love tips to improve.
Made with beep8’s low resolution and color limits.
#PixelArt #beep8 #IndieGames #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #MinimalArt

07.10.2025 17:17 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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sounds wild, I know 😲

07.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you! ❤️

06.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Please believe in me, folks! ❤️
Menu is getting a bit more done every day.
#ruinsOfCalaworm #roguelike #gameDev

"Recurrent thematic blurbs" may be set to either "Reset on New World Seed", "Reset on New Game" or "Never Reset". With 3rd option they will only show up once, then never bother you again.

06.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Mug check

22.09.2025 20:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just activated the Steam store page for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands! #CRPG #Lovecraft #GameDev

store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...

22.09.2025 17:37 — 👍 113    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 0

- Credits/Highscore display are no brainers. Algorithms are already home and dry (cuz available within the game), so for the menu display I just need a couple of interface lines.
- Option Menu probably sucks the most, coding-wise, so gonna tackle that first.
- Writing Intro Story will be fun!🤗

22.09.2025 18:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a cartoon of daffy duck writing in a notebook ALT: a cartoon of daffy duck writing in a notebook

Things left to do, so #ruinsOfCalaworm can go gold:
- Difficulty sliders
- m/f archetype selection
- Name input
- Display Credits (in menu)
- Display Highscores (in menu)
- Option screen (custom keybindings)
- Write & display Intro Story
- 2 more maps

❤️ for your ongoing support and patience.❤️

22.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

No work on #ruinsOfCalaworm this weekend, I am currently attending a movie festival, meeting friends, and filling up my batteries.🎥🍿🎬😍
Will resume on monday!

19.09.2025 10:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Menu is slowly coming together. Lotsa sketchy tricks to gaslight my engine into doing stuff as intended ...😅👀
There's no Roguelite-style progression, but all Story- and Lore notes you find are persistent achievements, and now you can also browse them in the Main Menu:
#ruinsOfCalaworm #gameDev

16.09.2025 20:03 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Reading DOOM GUY by @johnromero.bsky.social - the part, where he describes John Carmack's work ethics, solving problems as a means to an end, boy, can I relate! ❤️

Some years back I wrote my own A*-algorithm, just cuz I wanted to get behind the logic and the math. Crazy Eureka-moment!

Great read!

16.09.2025 19:57 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lol, got me. Thank's for the headsup, tho!😅

16.09.2025 15:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This looks fantastic!🤩

16.09.2025 14:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The dungeons of Thysiastery will be spawning at #TokyoGameShow Steam event!

Wishlist now on Steam: shorturl.at/IM4jS
Join our Discord server: discord.gg/HBg347hWhq

#pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev #turnbased #indiegame #trailertuesday #TGS2025

16.09.2025 09:01 — 👍 64    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1

😭

15.09.2025 08:52 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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behold.. chimkin with a sword

took a while but for this new project i took the chance to rework the perspective on the playable character from top view to this one that i like more!

#godot #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #furry

13.09.2025 06:43 — 👍 77    🔁 14    💬 6    📌 1

Love these! <3
Good, distinct use of limited palettes.

14.09.2025 21:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Added a "Completion%"-display. Some content/tools automatically unlock based on progression (amount of Story/Lore pages collected), so for those who want to truly grind it out, I thought it would be nice to provide some basic feedback.
#gameDev #ruinsOfCalaworm

14.09.2025 20:21 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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I love #coding in #PureBasic. ❤️😌

14.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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some small mons

Finlash (Mind)
Mosqhemo (Blood-Poison)
Aquine (Water)

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #godot #pixelart

14.09.2025 02:34 — 👍 50    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Menu is now fully responsive for the Play/Quit options. There are two Background Screens (designed by @edjiearts.bsky.social), depending on whether you have an active game that you can continue, or whether you're about to embark into a fresh adventure.
#gameDev #roguelike #ruinsOfCalaworm

13.09.2025 13:03 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you.
I'm in the SIGIL 2-phase of #gameDev (a.k.a. Final Episode). Fun, but hard af.😅
Good luck to you as well!❤️

11.09.2025 14:13 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

#turnbasedThursday ❤️🎲♟️

11.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congrats for hosting! 😍
I'm working on a turn-based dungeon crawler, inspired by an obscure german game from early 90s called "Die Gemäuer von Kalawaum".
Think Roguelike, but streamlined. No builds, no Skill Tree, just you and the Dungeon, bumping into Witches and Eldritch Horrors.
#ruinsOfCalaworm

11.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Work on #ruinsOfCalaworm Menu is underway. Some hacky hardcode required to make the Demo work, needs to be refactored.
PLAY-Submenu is smart, though: it will only prompt you with relevant options. When there's no active World Seed, pressing PLAY will immediately drop you in a fresh setup.
#gameDev

11.09.2025 13:33 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a black shirt and tie is writing on a notebook . ALT: a man in a black shirt and tie is writing on a notebook .

Residents of Ulthar taking notes right now ...

11.09.2025 12:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Befriend ghouls and poison cats in griddy retro RPG Cyclopean: The Great Abyss Three in a row for Schmidt Workshops! We should start giving out awards. Cyclopean Colon The Great Abyss is a modest li…

Nice short article about Cyclopean: The Great Abyss up on @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social

#GameDev #CRPG #Poison
www.rockpapershotgun.com/befriend-gho...

11.09.2025 12:16 — 👍 55    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0
Quentin Tarantino walking around his house and looking at things

Quentin Tarantino walking around his house and looking at things

Firing up your #code after a 2-month-long sabbatical be like

11.09.2025 12:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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After years of following and supporting #indiegames and #gamedev, it’s finally happening:

Our game "Kernelbay" has a "Coming Soon" page on @steampowered.com and we're part of the Fishing Fest! 🎣

It would mean the world if you could wishlist & repost🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/3686480/...

16.06.2025 18:01 — 👍 353    🔁 62    💬 22    📌 4

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