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zarkonnen.bsky.social
I make games about bad things happening to tiny simulated people and help run the Zurich gamedev community. He/him. Website: https://zarkonnen.com/ Games: https://zarkonnen.itch.io/ Game Hub: https://www.swissgamehub.com/
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🥳 River Towns has a release date - March 24! 🥳 Our Tetris-like city puzzler launches on Steam, and we're part of Steam Next Fest starting today with a brand-new demo featuring the Challenge Level. Please RT to help spread the word! ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/2485350/...

🎉🛩️🎉 Airships: Lost Flotilla, my steampunk Autoshooter inspired by Brotato, Luftrausers, and Binding of Isaac is out now! Battle aerial foes, upgrade your vessel, unlock secrets. $4.71 @ store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/...

The grapes of wrath and the avocados of hatred.

Calamari Roman gutters Type · in batter www.migros.ch/en/product/2...

I've made a new specialized account to highlight weird translations in our local supermarket's online shopping.

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

Put together a mad science lab in my current Vintage Story playthrough.

#SwissGames release alert! ⚔️ Pale Abyss ⚔️ released today! The first person action RPG made by two SAE students is now available on Steam. You can delve into the Pale Abyss here: https://buff.ly/40G6EzV

Looking to play a simplified take on a classic strategy game? Play Airships: Lost Flotilla instead of Civ 7: $5 ↔️ $70 Very Positive ↔️ Mostly Negative Brother Zinn, a mysterious monk who gets better with every martini he ingests ↔️ Mangy Ben Franklin store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/...

Finally fixed a weird bug in Airships: Conquer the Skies where one part of the AI would build supply ships, and another part would look at the supply ships, see that they were cheap an unarmed, and instantly scrap them again - store.steampowered.com/app/342560/A...

Airships: Lost Flotilla is now also Deck Verified, which I'm very pleased with, because I worked hard during development to make it run just as well on the Deck than on Desktop. 🛩️ ▶️ store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/...

After a game launch it's always a struggle to make yourself stop refreshing stuff and actually go to bed. Go to bed, David.

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a perfect time-killer where you can make some ridiculous ships #AirshipsLostFlotilla #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck

Got the first negative review of Lost Flotilla, which says that "the game demands too much careful selection [of upgrades]". I'll take that as a compliment. 😅

My friend launched a game today and I think you should have a look and see if that‘s something you might enjoy 🥰

#SwissGames release alert! 🛩️ Airships: Lost Flotilla 🛩️ relased today! Check this steampunk autoshooter out on Steam, and if you are already there, leave a review 🫡 https://buff.ly/40HLcvz

🎉🛩️🎉 Airships: Lost Flotilla, my steampunk Autoshooter inspired by Brotato, Luftrausers, and Binding of Isaac is out now! Battle aerial foes, upgrade your vessel, unlock secrets. $4.71 @ store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/...

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Ad | I'm now live with @zarkonnen.bsky.social's Airships: Lost Flotilla 🛩️ A Steampunk Autoshooter ✨ Many thanks to @metaroot.bsky.social for providing Giveaway Steam Keys for my community (links below!) 💗

I'm live right now over at twitch.tv/felixinfintum with Airships: Lost Flotilla

Watching www.twitch.tv/sprigleaf play Airships: Lost Flotilla

Tonight at 7 PM CET, we'll be live with my first-ever sponsored stream and I'm really excited to play #AirshipsLostFlotilla by @zarkonnen.bsky.social over on Twitch: twitch.tv/magiwastaken! We'll also give away a key for the game! I also did a quick little doodle of "Fighter-Plane Pilot Magi". 0w0)

According to the Nicene Creed, Hello Kitty is both fully cat and fully girl.

Aah! Airships: Lost Flotilla is coming out in three days! It's an autoshooter with multiple control schemes, big boss monsters, and all kinds of fun options for your airship builds.

Separating the art from the artist using some kind of centrifuge

Watched Nosferatu last night and this popped into my head in the starting scene.

Best typo I found in the game lore so far while translating it to German: "a glowing fleshy protrusion capable of firing powerful energy beans"

Getting back into pottery as a nice balance to the game pre-release stress.

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a prequel to my previous game, Airships: Conquer the Skies. It's set in the time immediately after the collapse of the old empire, whereas in Conquer the Skies it's 20 years later and you're trying to re-unify.

One week until my game releases, which means last night I had a nightmare about shader errors, performance problems, and mis-aligned GUI elements. #gamedev

Each page in the Airships: Lost Flotilla manual has a code made up of five symbols, and there are hints on how to find additional codes throughout.

In only 9 days we release Airships: Lost Flotilla together with @zarkonnen.bsky.social! We are already very excited! 🥳 If you want to support us: - Add the game to your wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/... - Tell your favourite streamer - ♥️and 🔁 That would mean a lot to us! 🥰🙏

👋 I’m David Stark, the developer of Airships: Lost Flotilla. I’m pleased to show you the official trailer for this steampunk autoshooter! 🛩️ Command airships, battle sky monsters, and make your way to safety against waves of enemies like robot wasps, pirates, and worm cultists.

Moving Van Tetris!

Introduction post! We're Swiss Game Hub, a co-working space and incubator for games, located in Zurich, Switzerland. We've been around for about 5 years and have just moved into a new, larger office. ▶️ www.swissgamehub.com

Working on the final boss graphics for Lost Flotilla - store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/...

Wrote my 2024 retrospective - I was sick and stressed a lot, but there were some very nice things too - good trips, books, games, cats, partners. ❤️ zarkonnen.com/2024

I have promised myself to never make another multiplayer game for exactly these reasons.