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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 9h

Highscores for POLARIS convention 2025! TONS of players 😍

If you see yourself or a friend in the scores, feel free to tag!

#wardingwitches #polarisconvention #shmup

FRIDAY Highscores for players of Warding Witches at POLARIS convention 2025 in Hamburg, Germany.

SATURDAY Highscores for players of Warding Witches at POLARIS convention 2025 in Hamburg, Germany.

SUNDAY Highscores for players of Warding Witches at POLARIS convention 2025 in Hamburg, Germany.

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 1d

a man in a yellow vest is dancing in a bedroom next to a man playing drums .

ALT: a man in a yellow vest is dancing in a bedroom next to a man playing drums .

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Flo Malo | Battlewrights @flomalodev.bsky.social · 1d

I think my composer mixed up the tracks for the main menu theme... (SOUND ON 🎶)

#BattleWrinceOfBelAir #SteamNextFest #indiedev #solodev #indiegames #Battlewrights

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 1d

Awesome thread by a great and loyal player who came to my booth to play Warding Witches every day at POLARIS! ✨🧹

We met in Bavaria, that's on the other side of the country!

Warms my heart to see that people enjoy my silly little project this much

Thanks for the support Nico 🫶

NicoAICP @habk.de · 3d

[1/9] The past few days, at Polaris in Hamburg, I was able to replay a indie game, that I discovered at the beginning of the year. Said Game is Warding Witches by @sonorode.com
Warding Witches is a Shoot'em'Up Bullet Hell, which I personally really enjoy.

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 2d

Bla bla Next Fest

If you find yourself with your friends on a couch anytime soon, I suggest you try this fun little Couch PVP game with music by yours truly! 🎶

Think Towerfall 🏹 x The Axe from God of War. Big fun, simple yet deep, shmove on your friends.

free Demo!

#nextfest #steamnextfest

Flo Malo | Battlewrights @flomalodev.bsky.social · 2d

NEXT FEST - this is it!
Check out my #localmultiplayer game #Battlewrights, an hommage to @exokgames.bsky.social Towerfall and God of War (2018)'s axe throwing.
store.steampowered.com/app/3112470/Battlewrights

#nextfest #steamnextfest #indiegame #indiegamedev #solodev #pixelart

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 2d

feel you brother

I don't want to advertise for myself, but all my original EDM music (that isn't made for other games) is cc-by even for commercial use. If you need well produced electronic music for trailers or if it fits in-game, feel free to use mine!

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 2d

read gommage first. I'm too maellepilled

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 3d

Optional und wild!

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 3d

Danke für den Button! 😁 Ich mag ja die smugness

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Cawthorne @cawthorne.bsky.social · 3d

Dieses Wochenende durfte ich ein wirklich super vielversprechendes Spiel auf der Polaris ausprobieren: WARDING WITCHES vom lieben Paul (@sonorode.com). Wenn euch actiongeladene vertikale Shmups mit einem gut durchschaubaren Skilltree Spaß machen: Wishlisten! store.steampowered.com/app/3536520/...

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 3d

Exhibiting at POLARIS in Hamburg, Germany this weekend. Look at this beautiful cabinet ✨💅

#indie #indiedev #gamedev #shmup #stgshmup

Warding Witches Arcade cabinet at POLARIS con, Hamburg, Germany

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GamesMarket @gamesmarkt.bsky.social · 5d

At GG Bavaria 2025, Paul Nguyen, a solo developer and game music composer, presented his current hobby project in an impromptu performance. Headup discovered the project there and signed it up. It's a local Munich indie success story. @headup.bsky.social

www.gamesmarket.global/business/hea...

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Azumi-kun - Coms open @azumi-kun.bsky.social · 5d

Umitober day 10!
A Cruel Eagle's Thesis

#Umitober2025 #Umitober

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 6d

the cranking animation goes wild too 😂

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 15d

what I do when I'm not programming bullet hell games or playing bullet hell video games? play tabletop bullet hell games of course #bullet

Photo of tabletop "shoot 'em up" game Bullet.

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 18d

By now, you know the drill. Hamburg's gonna be warded up. Catch #wardingwitches at POLARIS convention (@polarisconvention.bsky.social) and try out stage 1 in the brand new CURSED difficulty, as well as 2-Player coop!

Come by and say hi ✨🧹

Warding Witches will be exhibited at POLARIS convention in Hamburg, 10th to 12th of October.

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 19d

Video shot and edited by the talented christopher_szuecs (instagram)

Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 19d

75% of 2025 is about to be over, and looking back I've had some amazing opportunities to exhibit #wardingwitches. One of them was LEVEL UP Salzburg, truly unforgettable and such a great event, Austria got game ngl

Seeing people react positively to playing a #shmup always puts a smile on my face 🥰

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 26d

times sure have changed. Riding the train to the German shmup event. Overhearing two soldiers (German military), one is explaining honkai star rail to the other. 😄

The other says "this guy looks like Kirito"

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 26d

You can listen to the whole OST here (YouTube playlist).

Beats to investigate to 🕵️‍♂️

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Murder Hotel - Original Soundtrack - YouTube

The original Soundtrack for The Murder Hotel, a murder mystery visual novel. Composers featured: Bartosch McCarthy Sonorode Cpaws Music Scramel Check out The...

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · 26d

Proud to announce that The Murder Hotel is out on Steam! If "ace attorney x Danganronpa x umineko" piques your interest, check out the demo✂️

OST by yours truly, with additional tracks by other talented musicians!

Loved working on this one, what a journey with @wegenbartho.bsky.social ✌️

Wegenbartho @wegenbartho.bsky.social · 28d

Hey everyone, #TheMurderHotel is coming out in less than 10 minutes. You can play here it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1969170/...

The Murder Hotel on Steam

Interrogate suspects, search for clues, & uncover a dastardly plot, as you solve a string of mystifying murders to help reluctant detective Ilmarinen escape the foreboding Fafnir Hotel.

store.steampowered.com

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Azumi-kun - Coms open @azumi-kun.bsky.social · 28d

Today's a big day.

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · Sep 14

started playing it too just recently. gotta admit it's good

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · Sep 7

Kid was playing Mushihimesama Futari (one of the GOAT shmups and an inspiration to mine), then saw Warding Witches and said to his friend "Look, this one is newer!" - played it - "this is way better!!" 🥹🥰

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Sonorode | Warding Witches @sonorode.com · Sep 3

Courtesy of the arcade gamesroom at Connichi (thanks @prinnytonic.munichfgc.de 🙏 ) #wardingwitches is going to be part of the arcade games lineup among shmups, rhythm & fighting games!

If you happen to be at Connichi, come check out the brand new 2-player coop mode with a friend (or a stranger).

Warding Witches will be at Connichi 2025 (Wiesbaden, Germany), as part of the Arcade Gamesroom Lineup of arcade games.

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