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jonka.bsky.social
lead dev of White Knuckle, i do torchship art, video gams, and the 3d. https://whiteknuckle.net/ (She/Her)
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New Environmental teaser just dropped for White Knuckle. Check out the Steam post for more info! store.steampowered.com/news/app/319...

Welcome to Habitation, the third region in White Knuckle. Here's a little teaser, as a treat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQMv... #whiteknuckle #gamedev #indiedev #indiehorror

I've been playing the demo of this and it is genuinely incredible. I've never felt a game rewiring my brain as I improve quite so much as this one, and the style of it is great. I have no idea what you collect cockroaches for yet, but you can do that!

Good spot for a picnic, probably! #whiteknuckle #indiedev #gamedev

I didn't realize we were sharing such intimate details about the game on here. Also, she was dead serious about recording this yesterday.

White Knuckle is currently the Top Rated Demo at Steam Next Fest! If you haven't had the chance, check out the demo and Wishlist now!

So, uh, we are *literally* the highest rated demo in next fest. 🤯 That's wild!! People love climbing up underground superstructures and getting devoured or melted into a mass of living goo is all I can say #whiteknuckle #indiedev #indiehorror #indiegaming #nextfest

Give the demo a try! The community keeps screaming it at me that its good so I can only hope they are right! Either that, or nearly 1300 people have lost their minds. Which is probably true but *still* #whiteknuckle #indiegame #indiedev

#AVENGEYMYSELF NEXT FEST DEMO IS OUT PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW AND SHILL IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW THANK YOU store.steampowered.com/app/3488520/... #gamedev #nextfest

Sometimes when writing announcer lines for White Knuckle I start to lose my mind and put in dumb jokes. One of these days, I'm going to accidently record it when reading down the script lol

Delta Labs? Yeah, last I heard something was growing all through their vents. They've sent two extermination teams in to clear out whatever it is, without much luck. I've heard there's a sound like teeth gnashing too. This fucking Hab is going to hell.. #whiteknuckle #indiedev #indiehorror

The other website is pretty much done

why wouldn't you want it to end like Jurassic Park that movie ruled

The White Knuckle community discord in a nutshell. (All credit goes to Daveii_01 in the server!)

This is incredible youtu.be/n3AEtMGd4bg?... #whiteknuckle

A deeply sobering but important article here from @hungrybowtie.bsky.social podcast episode to come via It Could Happen Here shatterzone.substack.com/p/how-the-fe...

As an aside - I did a dumb little kitbash made from a bunch of old things to get back into doing ship art! I've missed it, hopefully in a month or two I can have the time to really do a bunch more!! #spaceart #hardsf

There's something really funny about how quickly a seemingly mechanic is to implement, and then doing some basic ass UI sucks time like you're being atomized on the edge of an event horizon

So a few days back I was sharing some gifs from old prototypes in the WK discord, and found this one. One day I will go back and make this a real game, I love the vibe! (And yes, the Terrapin is a direct ripoff of my favorite ship from Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. Go play that game!) #indiedev

I just want to point this one out again!!! @loonymetal.bsky.social won the contest in our discord and there was so much amazing stuff, I am told by @imsam.bsky.social it was a real challenge to pick between everyone!!

Seems Im really on that White Knuckle currently. None the less, keep climbing wherever you're at! 💔 #fanart #whiteknuckle

The first screenshots I have from early in White Knuckle development. The environmental textures have stuck around! And the look was already pretty established despite being only a few days into prototyping. Wild to think this was only last summer! #whiteknuckle #indiedev #gamedev

It's crazy how much experience in level design White Knuckle has forced into me. I used to dread doing any level stuff for the games I was working on, because levels are haaaarrrrddddd. I mean, I still think I'm bad at it, just less so, maybe in another year of dev I'll graduate to 'mediocre'

Yeahhhh, probably shouldn't ride the service elevator here. Gonna need maintenance to come take a look. #whiteknuckle #gamedev #indiedev #indiehorror

I was hoping to get some more skiing done this year, but considering it's going to be in the 60s all week despite barely being even February... I guess it's time to start hiking? 😰

The White Knuckle discord is having a lil event over one of the dev's cake. So heres a lil art to celebrate that incident ^^ 💔 #whiteknuckle

The Lacerator blends survival horror with brutal-ation mechanics. Keep your guard up, he may strike from anywhere-it may cost you an arm...or a tongue. Wishlist now! 👇

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

You all should try White Knuckle. It's basically "what if David Szymanski made Jusant?"

played @duskdev.bsky.social's Butcher's Creek and this forced its way into my mind

HUGE Torchship dev diary!!!! torchship-rpg.tumblr.com/post/7735111...

We're so excited to finally announce publishing White Knuckle. The news has been... difficult to hold onto. Go give the demo a play on Steam, and read the post from Dark Machine Games to learn more: dreadxp.games/WhiteKnuckle...

DreadXP and Dark Machine Games have come together to bring the new horror game, White Knuckle, to horror gamer fans. Learn more: