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I work as a Lead Game Designer in Malta, and keep a myriad of unfinished somehow-still-alive side projects. Right now I'm focused on Stellar Settlers, a dice rolling strategy and luck board game. www.enriquehervas.com www.strawberrytreegames.com
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Strawberry Tree's #gamedev Update #6 Had a bit of time to continue to polish the instructions manual of #stellarsettlers #boardgame and create some fun #vectorart to illustrate the story. I also added a QR code to a feedback survey I hope helps refining the game further! 🎲✂️ #boardgamedesign

Brutal truth for aspiring game designers: Many (most?) publishers do minimal to no marketing, and in today’s unstable economy and crowded market It means most signed games will sell 500 copies or less and publishers will drop and move on Always create, always follow your passion But stay frosty

I present to the #warhammercommunity the Star Rise Defenders, the homebrew #SpaceMarines Chapter I've been designing over the past few weeks! Meet the (WIP) valiant captain of the 3rd Company: Luthien Velt. Hopefully soon he'll be joined by some intercessor squad! #Warhammer40k #nerdlings

Andor really hit too close to home :')

Strawberry Tree's #gamedev Update #5 A tiny bit of progress this week! Hard to believe between my recent Warhammer obsession and watching The Handmaid's Tale! But now, with the PM hat on, we have a new Trello board with a few tasks, and a Roadmap. Love it when spare time becomes actual work! 1/3

#WIP Playing a bit with kit bashing and Green Stuff to try to turn a Sternguard Veteran #SpaceMarine into a Captain for the Custom Chapter I'm musing about. As it's the first time I do something like this, I'm quite happy with the result. #Warhammer40k #miniaturepainting

Yes.

Just finished Andor Season 2, and I think the Andor series and Rogue One combined are the best Star Wars has ever been and will ever be. It is just normal people doing whatever they can, whichever way they can, tipping the dominoes that ultimately can bring down evil of that magnitude.

Happy Pride Month!

Pride month begins, so let's all be as loud and proud as possible ! #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #lgbt

#aseprite #pixelart Simple Guide: Pixelart Fundamentals (Repost from June 2024)

WHOOOF READ THIS #gamedev

Finished the Soul Drinker that completes my Rainbow 🌈 set of #spacemarines. I have learnt a lot through the process and improved my technique in ways I thought I wouldn't be able to. And it was lots of fun! #warhammer40k #mimiaturepainting

When you're at a point where there's just no way your action game based on a world-famous billion-dollar box office super hero character can realistically be financially viable you have to ask what the games industry is doing, man.

Examples of GOOD sell sheets! 11 of my sell sheets that got positive responses from publishers. Commonalities: 1. Big images 2. Concise text 3. Prominent hooks 4. Fonts and colors convey the vibe Post your own as good examples or ask for feedback! drive.google.com/file/d/1hvbB...

esto debería empezar ya, no sé si comentaré algo sobre la marcha o esperaré a echarle un ojo con calma al libro blanco (450 estudios en españa ftw!) para hacer un hilazo de esos www.youtube.com/live/Ch1u2Za...

More WIP #miniaturepainting Soul Drinker #spacemarines #warhammer40k! Played with the gold. It's metallic paint, but using some NMM techniques to it (I'm not good enough to do NMM so this approach is safer). Looks good in picture but in person it doesn't look that different from a normal metallic.

@appletves.bsky.social want an amazing show with loyal fans? #saveWot #TheWheelOfTime #wotskies

The Wheel of Time deserves an ending worthy of the Pattern. Don’t let it fade into legend. 👉 savewot.com 🔁 Retweet 💬 Tag @PrimeVideo 📢 Use #SaveWheelOfTime The Wheel still turns. Let’s prove it. #WoT #SaveWoT

WIP Soul Drinker #spacemarine. #miniaturepainting #nerdlings #warhammer40k Testing out some armour colouring effects, trying to add a little bit of gradient in the armour pieces. Also tried to improve a bit the way I do the face/helmet highlighting. So far quite fun!

WARNING 🚨 This concerningly long list of things people are wrong about will send you down a Wikipedia rabbit hole. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

NEW VIDEO! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLx...

Strawberry Tree's #gamedev Update #4 1/3 Couldn't do any work on #StellarSettlers this week, but I've been thinking what to do next as the work on the game might be slowing down. I think I'll build some more games for my son, as he's getting tired of always playing play.google.com/store/apps/d...

#aseprite #pixelart Simple Guide: Aseprite Brush Tool (Repost from April 2024)

High Tide 🌊🐚 is now available for pre-order!!! 🚨This is not a drill!! Go buy it!!🚨 www.underdoggames.com/pages/highti...

City Kit: Commercial has been completely remade! ✨ More details, better optimized and ready to be used in your games (completely free, no permission/donation/attribution etc. required) kenney.nl/assets/city-...

Did you know? The word “pacifism” was coined at a peace conference in 1901, but the idea of rejecting war is far older. Ancient Chinese thinkers, early Christians, and the Moriori of New Zealand all embraced nonviolence. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)

Strawberry Tree's Update #3 1/3 I dedicated some time to tinker around on the website. The new www.stellarsettlers.com domain is set up and redirects to a new game's subpage on the website. It's all really placeholder for now. #gamedev #boardgames 🎲✂️

I've continued with this orange #SpaceMarine. Still WIP, but getting close! I painted several details, including the gryphon in the shoulder pad 😵‍💫 It could be better, but all in all I'm very happy with how it's looking. Might be my best #miniature so far! #warhammer40k #miniaturepainting

WIP Knights of Gryphonne Veteran Space Marine. #WarhammerCommunity #Warhammer40k

I only have one piece of advice to juniors: don't go showing off how fast you are It's amazing that you can do in 15 minutes what takes others 1 hour! Good for you! Spend those extra 55 minutes resting or pretending. Don't tell higher ups. You're setting up expectations for you and everyone.

new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

If you see this post a tank. Old-school Land Raider at my parents home. I always wanted to take it and improve it. Maybe one day... #nerdlings #WarhammerCommunity #wargaming

The awesome folks at @unrealengine.bsky.social have just uploaded a course on creating a 2.5D game featuring my #gameassets! 🎉 youtube.com/@UnrealEngine/videos

Strawberry Tree Game's Update #2 - 1/2 Couldn't do a lot of actual work this week, but I registered the www.stellarsettlers.com domain, which I'll use probably just to redirect to the main Strawberry Tree website for now, until we have time to produce a good landing page.

From prototype to production, here comes #CGE! Headlines: 00:00 Intro 01:24 The Prototypes 03:02 Life Before Lasers 04:53 Iterating & Art 05:23 Inventing Components 08:28 The Print Sheets 11:58 The Factory 13:00 The Rulebook 14:45 Assembly 15:53 Containers #boardgames #gaming #bgg #tabletopgames