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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz

@sharkbombs.bsky.social

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hi! :) I'm making things to figure out who I am. Currently working on http://www.crownbreakersgame.com. You can find all the games I made at http://sharkbombs.com and you can follow along at https://waylost.beehiiv.com/

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · Jul 31

Jumping onto the #indiegame meme bandwagon with #Crownbreakers! Here's about two years of development.

And as always, wishlist!

shorturl.at/SinB9

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah. It came out of my research into ways to make the city screen in Crownbreakers look interesting. Kinda looks like this at the moment. And that opens up questions of scale and level of detail etc. And of course ways of populating things simply...

Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 2h

I made these simple shapes extrude upward based on the vertex color of the face, giving the new faces their own material. It's quite simple but was a fun project to start learning the geometry nodes.

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 2h

Started playing around with Geometry nodes in blender yesterday. That was a lot of fun!

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Moo Yu (Mythmatch) @oneofmoo.bsky.social · 2d

HOT TAKE: Sometimes, I feel like the people saying this mean why isn't anyone with lots of power covering my game. When smaller folks ARE covering indie games and you're not uplifting them. You just want others to lift you up without giving back to the community.

Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 2d

“Why isn’t anyone covering our indie games?”

1. The gaming press has been decimated by business suits, and the whims of an uncaring search engine behemoth
2. Doing the job means you get death threats and harassment
3. There are more games released in 1 week than there were in entire months in 2015

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Jörg Friedrich 🕹️ @freejsf.paintbucket.de · 2d

fascist regimes don’t need to officially censor games - game corps will censor themselves to »avoid political controversy«.
We will see diversity in games replaced with racism, chauvinism and mysogony.
We need alternatives to US platforms and we need them fast.

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · Jul 31

Jumping onto the #indiegame meme bandwagon with #Crownbreakers! Here's about two years of development.

And as always, wishlist!

shorturl.at/SinB9

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think that's right:

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The Rabbit 2025 - Indie Games Residency @therabbitgames.bsky.social · 4d

Meet @sharkbombs.bsky.social, the solo label of Martin Nerurkar! 🐇 Crownbreakers is a fast-paced single-player card tactics game where magic meets modern life. Every run is different, blending strategy, movement & story-driven choices 🎮

More: sharkbombs.com #gamedev #indiedev

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 4d

Well, I'm sure you can find a service that gets you an AI summary :P

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 4d

5 HOURS!!

store.steampowered.com/app/2451100/...

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 4d

Voice memos?

Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 4d

Always carry a little notebook? But also accept that your vague sketchy thoughts often seem better than they are once you look at them more closely?

At least I often find that the „great idea“ I had doesn‘t lead anywhere useful…

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 4d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 4d

Been playing with some foil effects over the weekend...

Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 4d

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 5d

These look great!

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John Bilodeau Illustrations @servsci.bsky.social · 5d

I recently got to see the reliquary box they used to display Thomas Aquinas skull and I can't stop thinking about an undead version of him with it as his helmet...

The box the Jacobins of Toulouse kept his skull in

Descriptive text on the display of his reliquary

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 5d

Unfortunately I think you’re more right than I‘d like…

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Night of the Living Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 7d

While writing CASTLE AUTOMATIC for WORM, I've put my approach to dungeon keying to the test.

NPCs are described last in the room's description but first in the details. This is because players *jump* at NPCs and tune out other descriptions. First, set the scene, then say who's in it.

420 - Cathedral Gate Guardians
A colossal door frame inscribed with Vetus text leading to a sanctuary. Two giant nuns flank the doors, their habits surrounding empty voids where their faces should be. Inside, a cathedral lit by flickering candles and filled with the scent of incense.
Giant nuns: Two massive statues stand as Gate Guardians to XX - Outer Sanctuary (p. XX). One nun holds a giant, empty bell, one holds the bell's clapper like a giant mace. They cannot speak, but forbid entry to any not carrying a sacred candle.
> Trying to pass through the door without having either a sacred candle from the Page of Cups or an active heavenfire spell causes the two gate guardians to attack.
Vetus text: "Let the sacred light shine to light the way."

Two nun statues, one holding a giant bell and one a giant clapper, flank a door while adventurers climb up giant-sized steps

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Dinoberry Press @dinoberrypress.bsky.social · 7d

There are a few games we really want to play this year that need to be purchased, so we've put together a bundle of our spooky, haunted, and weird games to help cover the costs!

Any funds we raise over our goal will be donated to Fund Texas Choice during the stream!

itch.io/b/3315/make-...

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 7d

🙌
Well, my brain ran away with a problem and I managed to build a little feature before breakfast, so...

Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 7d

At least it's quiet and no one emails me :D

Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 7d

It's Saturday and I don't have big plans, so probably. At least I used the last hour to do some work. Before 7 AM.

Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 7d

Appreciated!

This has been happening more in the last few months than in the last few decades…

Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · 7d

Up since 4 AM. I guess no more sleep for me tonight