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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 1d

Hey there @mantisgames.bsky.social & thanks for hosting this #TurnBasedThursday!

@martinpi.bsky.social & I are making a weird deckbuilder with lots of birds called SPARROW WARFARE, & we'll have a new playtest next week - come sign up on our Steam page!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to see PepperHead trying out the playtest build of Sparrow Warfare live in a few hours as part of their "Finding the Next Big Roguelike" series!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob4T...

FINDING THE NEXT BIG ROGUELIKE

YouTube video by PepperHead

www.youtube.com

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 14d

#ScreenshotSaturday #GodotEngine #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGames

Arson 666!
Get wild with the tiles in Sparrow Warfare - our playtest is live on Steam right now!

A screenshot from the game Sparrow Warfare, where the player is playing 3 tiles of value 666, which will put an insanely huge amount of fire damage on the boss of the level, The Poacher.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 16d

Worldwide, baby.

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#TurnBasedThursday - Turn-Based Game Showcases @turnbasedthursday.bsky.social · 17d

Our first look at so many games in last week's #TurnBasedThursday showcase!

◻️ Deep sandbox RPG in a living, procedural world
✏️ Whimsical hand-drawn dungeon crawler
🐦 Bird-filled deckbuilder w/ crazy combos
💥 Turn-based 80's action boomer shooter in EA

& many more! ⤵
#Gaming #TurnBased #IndieGames

A Kobold Story : Trenchcoat Adventurer, by @richardstampdev.bsky.social

Sparrow Warfare, by @martinpi.bsky.social

Eye of the Commando, by @madjackmcmad.bsky.social

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 17d

Hi #PitchYaRogue!

Check out our mahjong-inspired roguelite deckbuilder:

🦉 Combine tiles to free birds
🦜 Unlock wildtiles to craft riotous combos
🦚 Defeat the Storyteller!

Playtest out now! Come battle it out on the leaderboard & join our glorious bird army!

store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Sparrow Warfare on Steam

Lead a feathered rebellion in the bird-filled deckbuilder SPARROW WARFARE! Combine your tiles to free birds. Unlock wildtiles to craft riotous combos. Take down the fiendish Storyteller for the libera...

store.steampowered.com

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 17d

I just played a normal round of my own game and I'm nowadays only the 15th best player in the world it seems. And we're only in playtest and that only for a week.

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 18d

We're up on nextupgames.com and it would be nice if you'd 💛 us there. It seems to be a ProductHunt-like thing for games.

NextUp Games

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 18d

We're one of the 5 featured games here today, and every vote helps boost our visibility! Thank you kindly for your clicking generosity 🙏
nextupgames.com

NextUp Games

nextupgames.com

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 18d

New patch of our playtest for Sparrow Warfare is live!

🃏 New wildtile: Joker
🏆 More bonus points for extra birds
🙅‍♀️ Wildtiles show an X when in draw pile
🏞️ Scenery perfectly scaled
🎨 7 new tile icons

Also fixed a horrible crash bug and numerous smaller ones.

store.steampowered.com/news/app/397...

Sparrow Warfare Playtest - Patch notes, v0.1.9, 2025-09-23 - Steam News

Changes Fixed a crash when the boss was killed but an elite was still out Decreased wonkiness of tile sorting when drawing with a wildtile Tile and enemy counters now more often show the correct count...

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 18d

Really fun video of a Sparrow Warfare stream by @unaminh.bsky.social over the weekend! So many big boy bomb booms!
www.twitch.tv/videos/25714...

I'm obsessed with this game! Speak Irish or English with me :) - yunitex on Twitch

yunitex went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Just Chatting VOD now.

www.twitch.tv

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 19d

Dr. Incompetent took a swing at the Beekeeper this week... and won!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HeJ...

Sparrow Warfare | Episode 1 | Let's Play for the First Time in 2025

YouTube video by Dr. Incompetent

www.youtube.com

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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 20d

14 hours in and this morning finally managed to claim top spot on Sparrow Warfare. Screenshotting for posterity because I'm normally rubbish at roguelikes (and until I'm knocked off my feathery pedestal).

What a super playtest this is 🐦

A screenshot of Sparrow Warfare menu screen

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Úna-Minh 🔥 Play Eyes of Hellfire! @unaminh.bsky.social · 20d

Currently liiiiiiive on Twitch playing @alphachar.bsky.social and @martinpi.bsky.social's Sparrow Warfare (badly)

www.twitch.tv/yunitex

yunitex - Twitch

I'm obsessed with this game! Speak Irish or English with me :)

www.twitch.tv

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 21d

We're sorry-not-sorry, but please come meet Chickis Khan and Fluff Justice in our bird-based deckbuilder Sparrow Warfare 😅 (there is also a seagull... he is An Taoiseach)

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 21d

😅 uh oh!

NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 22d

It's the first #TurnBasedThursday that we can participate in and here's our little turn-based contribution, Sparrow Warfare, a bird-themed deck-builder: store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Sparrow Warfare on Steam

Lead a feathered rebellion in the bird-filled deckbuilder SPARROW WARFARE! Combine your tiles to free birds. Unlock wildtiles to craft riotous combos. Take down the fiendish Storyteller for the libera...

store.steampowered.com

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks to our many playtest players we could already put together an update. If you head to Steam you can play a brand new version of Sparrow Warfare with the following changes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/397...

Sparrow Warfare Playtest - Patch notes, v0.1.8, 2025-09-18 - Steam News

Changes There is a new welcome screen that explains the basics of the game before you get started The tutorial can be reset by turning it off an on again Each bird still in the tiles when you beat the...

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 23d

Watch us launch the game live in 5 minutes on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

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martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · 23d

Quite happy with how some of the backgrounds in our game have come together. All mountains are actual mountains I photographed in Yangshuo and traced by hand. This rainforest I've only been to virtually though.

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 23d

It's realisations like this that made us chose our company name.

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 24d

Let's rollllllllllllllll

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 25d

Delighted that our Sparrow Warfare has already been added to the Imirt curated list of Irish games by @craigbreathnach.bsky.social - we are currently only 50% Irish (but tweaking @martinpi.bsky.social in the right direction a little more every day 🇮🇪)
store.steampowered.com/curator/4145...

Steam Curator: Games From Ireland

Games developed in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, from Irish creators, or playable in the Irish language (Gaeilge).

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · 25d

We're planning to open up our public playtest TOMORROW on Steam... but if you're super keen to hang out with the birds today, just reach out to [email protected] and we'll get you an advance key ❤️

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NEON AURELIUS @neonaurelius.bsky.social · Sep 11

OK, OK, OK, we're ready now! Our Steam page is up for SPARROW WARFARE - get ready for wildtiles, birds, and mayhem. Playtest coming soon, every wishlist appreciated!
store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Sparrow Warfare on Steam

Lead a feathered rebellion in the bird-filled deckbuilder SPARROW WARFARE! Combine your tiles to free birds. Unlock wildtiles to craft riotous combos. Take down the fiendish Storyteller for the libera...

store.steampowered.com

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