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Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS
@alexstrook.bsky.social
Indie game dev making games (and typos) - He/Him

Squeakross | The Spirit and the Mouse @LukaTheMouse.bsky.social
🐭 s.team/a/2871440 | @alblune.bsky.social
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Our game is finally out! It's a unique blend of nonograms (picross) and decoration! And of course rodents because why not

We made it for beginners and experts, and so far it's seems players are loving it🐭

It's out on Steam and Switch: squeakross.cool
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home is available NOW on Steam and Nintendo Switch!

🧩Solve 650 nonograms!
🧀Decorate your home!
🐭RATS!

Made with love for picross experts as well as total beginners!

Steam: s.team/a/2871440
Switch: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
More info: squeakross.cool
We said we would take a break caring for rodents after our last gerbs…but we saw 2 gerbils for adoption at the local rescue shelter

Despite all our efforts we couldnt resist so here we go again! We build a few platforms with leftover wood, set up the cage, and everything is ready to welcome them!
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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you can nominate squeakross for the "Sit back and relax" Steam award!!

NOMINATE=> store.steampowered.com/news/app/287...
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...

More updates on the rockstar union busting, rockstar disabling recreational slack channels is insane like wtf is that company
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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We're honored to be nominated in 2 categories for the GAConf awards!

You can vote for us in the Indie Excellence and Best Cognitive Accessibility on the GAconf website or the link below!
Our finalists for Indie Excellence are:

The Art of Fauna
Trash Goblin
Squeakross
Peak
An Unplayable Game

Public vote now open at gaconf.com/gaconf-awards-2025/
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Beep boop boop beep beep boop boop

Metroid Prime - Elevator Room Theme
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
i know its common knowledge but I always get surprised that some awards are pay-to-enter (DICE awards)

$1000 entry fees, $250 if you're indie
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Cool little shader to animate construction progression without having to do everything by hand 😅

#godotengine #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #citybuilder
November 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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As part of Cozy Quest festivities, a fundraiser for @trevorproject.bsky.social is running until November 24!

They're an organization focused on suicide prevention and crisis intervention, giving help resources to LGBTQ+ youth.

Let's give support our community 💛🐁

tiltify.com/@secret-mode...
Tiltify - Made for Fundraisers
We give you the tools to engage with your donors and raise more for your charity
tiltify.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Behind Alblune is a queer duo 🐁🏳️‍🌈🐁

We're lucky enough to be able to make our own games and add representation to them... And we will continue to do that for all our future games too!
November 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Wonder which other game has an Enum of pet rodent races (yes rabbit are rodent i know)
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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🐭PSA for no reason whatsoever: if you're ever talking about a trans person you knew before they became trans, their new name and pronouns retroactively get applied to back then too. it's very disrespectful to call them by their dead name, even if that's how you knew them back then
November 20, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Ignore the clickbait title and thumbnail, and I swear you'll be in for a ride

The amount of twists and turns, betrayals and geopolitics is incredible!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef56...
1000 Players Simulate Civilization: Rich & Poor
YouTube video by ish
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Self-replicating cars cause the apocalypse

From: Automania 2000 (1963), dir. John Halas, Halas & Batchelor
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
you should be able to give a tiny slap in the face of someone if they say the word "agentic", nothing too violent more like a warning
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Playing Metroid prime remaster and im still in love with how good it looks… the chozo esoteric-scifi designs are so unique and look amazing in HD! can’t wait to see MP4

Incredible what baked lighting and great art direction can do
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
found this reply where I tried to explain what is vertex color, might help others!
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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This year I helped with nominee curation for The Indie Game Awards @indiegameawards.gg .

I'll also be presenting the winner for the "Achievement in Accessibility" award during the awards show on the night.
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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🐿️people are liking our nonogram prototype, and we appreciate the feedback so far! I made you guys another nonogram if you went through all the ones on the page (see the code in the reply)

cyansorcery.itch.io/vulpine-bloc...
November 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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This game is VERY CUTE AND GOOD, and I feel like the first game that’s helped me really understand how to do nonograms ✨
Squeakross is current on discount as part of the Animal Fest on steam! Here are 4 screenshots from players to convince you to check out the game!

s.team/a/2871440 (We also have a lengthy demo with progress that carries over to the full game, check it out!)
November 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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As someone who loves picross games, Squeakross is the best one I've ever played. There's loads of puzzles and controls and features are great for experts and for beginners alike, and absolutely no microstransction slop. If you have the vaguest interest in picross I'd highly suggest picking it up
last day!
Squeakross is current on discount as part of the Animal Fest on steam! Here are 4 screenshots from players to convince you to check out the game!

s.team/a/2871440 (We also have a lengthy demo with progress that carries over to the full game, check it out!)
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS
last day!
Squeakross is current on discount as part of the Animal Fest on steam! Here are 4 screenshots from players to convince you to check out the game!

s.team/a/2871440 (We also have a lengthy demo with progress that carries over to the full game, check it out!)
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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i’ve never played a picross game before but squeakross is so goddamn charming and cute i can’t stop playing it
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
kirby air riders looks and sounds amazing, but I feel its a bit too fast for me

it feels too chaotic and messy, I think I just suck to much at it 😩
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I saw a tiktok years ago explaining how fruits/veggies nets are colored to trick your eyes to make the fruits appear more saturated and ripe, and ive been thinking about it ever since

(Ex: orange fruit/red net, make them look more orange)
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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It's nice that you can use your Switch 1 controllers on the Switch 2, but I swear to god, it's just a bullshit ruse from Nintendo that you CANNOT wake your console up with the old controllers. They clearly want to annoy you after a while and force you to buy the Pro Controller 2.
October 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM