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Gabriel

@gabrielhelfenstein.bsky.social

Games + Performances Part of Fantasia Malware Making The House Before and The Abyssal Diplomat ------------------------------------------------------- https://gabrielhelfenstein.mmm.page/ https://gabriel-helfenstein.itch.io/ https://fantasia-malware.net/

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Creating some awkward dreams for The House Before

23.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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If you're in Berlin in March you should come to the next Fantasia Malware show!

Tickets here: www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme...

20.02.2026 14:52 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Drowning pixels for a short game called LANDLORDS

17.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

play my new game!!! 🎉

15.02.2026 08:38 — 👍 39    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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You wonder: what is there outside of your walls? Has there ever been a world beyond your flesh?

If you wanna know, wishlist>> store.steampowered.com/app/1779750/...

#wishlistwednesday #indiegames #gamedev

11.02.2026 11:37 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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The Runner goes adventuring into the depth of the Pantry.

#indiedev #screenshotsaturday

07.02.2026 14:18 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Some cool games I played recently:

- Chiaroscuro Imago (howling-stars.itch.io/chiaroscuro-...)
- NOTHERE RN (minime1212.itch.io/nothere-rn)
- Biophobia (store.steampowered.com/app/3702510/...)
- Sanctuary (officialelectric.itch.io/sanctuary)

05.02.2026 16:05 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Our next game ABIDE is coming to KickStarter soon. Here is a teaser. Click the link to find out more and follow along: www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...

17.09.2025 13:04 — 👍 125    🔁 57    💬 6    📌 9
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Going for a swim.

29.01.2026 16:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did you always want to be a House instead of a flesh puppet with agency, busy friends and taxes to file?

Here's your chance: store.steampowered.com/app/1779750/...

#indiegames #gamedev

27.01.2026 10:40 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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Some more test visuals for a game I'm going to perform in march in Berlin.

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame

24.01.2026 17:09 — 👍 14    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Phantom Slayer inspired thing I'm working on for a performance in March in Berlin.

22.01.2026 10:45 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A new way to control your inhabitants in The House Before.

As always, every wishlist helps a lot: store.steampowered.com/app/1779750/...

#indiegames #gamedev

19.01.2026 14:15 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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The treatment isn't working.

#indiegames #gamedev

15.01.2026 15:39 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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If you like atmospheric body horror games and also plastic toys, you should wishlist The House Before > store.steampowered.com/app/1779750/...

#gamedev #indiedev

13.01.2026 09:37 — 👍 22    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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A Broken House.

#IndieGameDev #screenshotsaturday #indiegame

10.01.2026 13:24 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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10 years of my life is condensed into a package that costs 20 bucks and you can play through it all in one cold winter weekend. 👾🎮

10.01.2026 09:58 — 👍 31    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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What did they do to the Runner?

08.01.2026 17:57 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Ghost of Houses Past.

Want to squeeze more ghost houses? Then maybe wishlist The House Before > store.steampowered.com/app/1779750/...

#wishlistwednesday #indiegames #gamedev

07.01.2026 15:49 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Some favorites from the Deck-Month 3 jam:

- silvazuao.itch.io/garoa-acida
- ednaarel.itch.io/port-priority
- mindape.itch.io/video-leech
- puter-and-tunep-games.itch.io/inspiration-...

06.01.2026 12:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mostly I use real pics (sometimes a bit modified) and import them in Decker - it applies this dithering style automatically. But you can also use tools like ditherit.com for example

22.12.2025 13:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I made a very short visual novel in Decker, for Deck-Month 3. Check it out!

gabriel-helfenstein.itch.io/anothingness

22.12.2025 12:39 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you!

20.12.2025 19:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The House Before on Steam You wake up as a House. Your bones are pipes and tunnels. Your organs are a labyrinth of caves. The House Before is a narrative body horror adventure where you play as a monstrous structure filled wit...

I made a new Steam page for The House Before - a game where you play as a house filled with weird creatures.

No release date yet, but it will definitely be out sometime in 2026.

Reposts and Wishlists very appreciated!

#indiegames #gamedev #IndieGame

20.12.2025 19:16 — 👍 32    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0
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Doing the centennial health check-up

14.12.2025 11:02 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Made a small thing for a Galician game jam (don't worry, it's also in English).

The theme was making a game based on a short story about someone trying to remember an odd childhood story about fishing a giant octopus.

My take on this was a quiz horror game:
apehardware.itch.io/polbo-xigant...

11.12.2025 21:27 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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The Lung is feeling a bit putrid today

12.12.2025 17:02 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The Runner is having weird dreams

10.12.2025 11:58 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ready to scream

08.12.2025 13:12 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Scanning the flesh of a confused creature.

04.12.2025 17:17 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0