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@maxmraz.bsky.social

Game developer, founder of Moth Atlas: Ocean's Heart, Yarntown, and more. Wishlist Tombwater!: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3308200/Tombwater/ mothatlas.co

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Concept art for spell caster enemy! Which one do you like the most? #pixelart #ドット絵 #gamedev #indiedev

12.11.2025 21:32 — 👍 89    🔁 14    💬 7    📌 0
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A few years ago I made a little game for Halloween, and I've got it on sale for a few dollars now.

Play a pumpkin man visiting the mortal world to rent Jurassic Park from the video store, and getting minorly embroiled in a Witch's curse:

itch.io/s/166371/hal...

30.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Tombwater on Steam A Souls-Like Western. Explore the accursed Wild West town of Tombwater and lay bare the eldritch horrors that lie beneath. Survive blood-spilling combat in this gruesome 2D action-RPG that might just ...

[INDIE ALERT] 📢

Tombwater by @maxmraz.bsky.social - A Souls-Like Western. Survive blood-spilling combat in this gruesome 2D action-RPG that might just drive you to madness.

Wishlist (Release Date: Nov. 12)
store.steampowered.com/app/3308200/

#CoolIndies #indiegames #2D #Soulslike

02.10.2025 15:34 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trying to gauge if anyone would be interested in backing Mansion of a Million Monsters!, my cartoony zelda-like whodunnit game!

Is that you? If it is, could you click on the "notify" button on the kickstarter page below and share? Thanks!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/lkm...

#gamedev #indiegames

08.09.2025 14:26 — 👍 40    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 0

It's pretty good weather and there's a video game expo with a bunch of Indie and student games at the Columbus convention center this weekend.

There's always a bunch of cool projects to check out and have fun talks about makin games, it's called GDEX.

03.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A cursed town, a mining disaster, a missing sheriff, and a darkness permeating everything.

Can you survive the madness?

Tombwater officially welcomes visitors on November 12th, 2025.

#indiegame #gamedev #tombwater #indiegames

02.09.2025 15:53 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Wild West Soulslike Game Tombwater Reveals Release Date [EXCLUSIVE] Game Rant shares when fans can get their hands on Tombwater, an upcoming 2D Western soulslike action RPG by Midwest Games and Moth Atlas.

We can finally announce Tombwater's Release date! It'll be out November 12th!

We're also running a playtest for a limited time, starting next week. Sign up here: steamcommunity.com/linkfilter/?...

gamerant.com/tombwater-re...

02.09.2025 13:39 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
picture that just says "Tombwater x Big Fall Showcase 2025, Tuesday September 2nd, 8am Pacific"

picture that just says "Tombwater x Big Fall Showcase 2025, Tuesday September 2nd, 8am Pacific"

Tombwater news tomorrow! I did the math for me, it's at 11am Eastern

01.09.2025 15:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey me too I hope whatever they announce we're right next to each other 😂

01.09.2025 15:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Quote from team cherry talking about how they don't go online

Quote from team cherry talking about how they don't go online

May this be the thing everyone starts copying from team cherry

21.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Arkanya is ALMOST OUT!
If you liked my last big game, Ocean's Heart, there will be a lot to love with Arkanya as well. Their team is great folks, give them a wishlist and check it out next month

22.07.2025 17:13 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Tombwater demo is only 5% of this extensive playable map…

“We were having so much fun exploring what could be in each area that we didn’t realize how big the map was growing.” - Max Mraz, Moth Atlas

Thank you to @gamesradarplus.bsky.social for featuring our map!

10.07.2025 16:54 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks! I played the Witcher 3 really early in Ocean's Heart's development and it definitely had an impact

05.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Needed more room for flowers

04.07.2025 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Save 80% on Ocean's Heart on Steam Ocean’s Heart is an epic top-down action RPG in which you explore a beautiful archipelago as a young woman named Tilia. Take on contracts to fight monsters, descend deep into ancient dungeons, defeat ...

My Zeldalike game is on sale for $3 for the Steam summer sale. If you know hyrule too well and want a new world to explore with massive optional zones, maybe check it out:

store.steampowered.com/app/1393750/...

01.07.2025 23:26 — 👍 28    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0
Tearscape - Gameplay Trailer
YouTube video by T𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖈𝖆𝖕𝖊 🎮 WISHLIST NOW Tearscape - Gameplay Trailer

TEARSCAPE

GAMEPLAY TRAILER

WISHLIST ON STEAM

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

25.06.2025 16:15 — 👍 33    🔁 15    💬 5    📌 2

Amazing

24.06.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks amazing, such cool attacks from this boss too 😍
Congrats on a big milestone announcement and demo!

09.06.2025 17:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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It has been just over a week since we launched the Tombwater demo and the response has been nothing short of amazing! 🙌

Huge thanks to @gamerant.bsky.social, @pcgamer.com, and @pcgamesn.com for the kind words!

01.05.2025 18:13 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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It's here! The Under the Island demo is out now on Steam!
May it make you smile, laugh, and get pleasantly lost on Seashell Island. Feedback is very welcome!

Link below 👇

06.06.2025 17:11 — 👍 94    🔁 38    💬 2    📌 3

😍

04.06.2025 03:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That's a very cool name for the attacks

29.05.2025 21:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Fighting a big guy. This one can combo you hard. #indiegame #indiedev #gaming

21.05.2025 16:14 — 👍 53    🔁 11    💬 3    📌 2
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In Mansion of a Million Monsters, you get to unmask the culprit at the end of each case!
It won't actually always be the Butler. OR will it???
(no, I'm being told that's a very bad idea and not to do that)

wishlist ➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3627210/
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame

03.05.2025 13:33 — 👍 69    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 2

Thanks so much!

26.04.2025 20:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tombwater Demo on Steam A Souls-Like Western. Explore the Wild West town of Tombwater and lay bare the eldritch horrors that lie beneath. Survive blood-spilling combat in this gruesome 2D action-RPG that might just drive you...

Oops and here's a link to the demo page:
store.steampowered.com/app/3547600/...

26.04.2025 15:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Tombwater - Playable Demo Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by GameSpot Trailers Tombwater - Playable Demo Reveal Trailer

It's a chilly Saturday morning, perfect weather to try the demo I just put out for my Wild West Bloodborne/Zelda style game!

youtu.be/q2w9GqCARWk?...

If you got a few minutes to try it out or tell your friends, I think this one might really click with a lot of people.

26.04.2025 15:54 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

wait wtf did microsoft just secretly release a giant remake on the day I'm releasing my demo. hey. stop.

22.04.2025 17:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The demo for my game is out! I'm super excited to be able to actually show what we've been working on with the world.

22.04.2025 17:09 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕕 𝕔𝕝𝕠𝕥𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕚𝕝. 𝕊𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕓𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙. 𝕄𝕒𝕕𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕒𝕨𝕒𝕚𝕥𝕤.

𝕋𝕠𝕞𝕓𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕠 𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕚𝕝𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝔸𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕝 𝟚𝟚𝕟𝕕!

#indiegames #freegames #gamedev #soulslike

18.04.2025 13:51 — 👍 28    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0

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