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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 13h

Haha, by reloading! That's funny 🤣

Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 14h

Wait, you got into 13_4, haha? I guess if you go around and over, you can get there even in the demo.
There's supposed to be a breakable block there in the final game, but I've disabled it for the demo. Looks like I only disabled it from one side!
Feel free to keep reporting issues, btw! Its great

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 22h

Oh! I see! I needed to grab some quick placeholder music for the demo, but I didn't know that was from somewhere. Maybe I should try and patch that out before the Next Fest...

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Indie Insights, Your Indie HQ @indieinsights.bsky.social · 2d

Alruna: End of History, Indie Puzzle Metroidvania Demo Now Available on Steam

More details and trailer here:
indieinsights.org/2025/10/09/a...

#Alruna #Metroidvania #adventuregame #indiegames

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 1d

The new Alruna trailer had reached 2k views on youtube, which i think is pretty good 😊

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I was too much square in the middle of the audience here to pass on this

The Lego Gameboy alongside the original Gameboy on a kitchen table. They are remarkably similar in size and dimensions!

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 1d

Alruna: End of History announced!! Go wishlist and check out the demo 😍🥀

#indiegame #indiedev #Alruna

youtu.be/6A7hQuK37D8?...

Alruna: End of History. TRAILER 1 (Announcement Trailer)

YouTube video by Burning Planet

youtu.be

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 1d

That's fantastic! I love when games are on small screens!

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 2d

Trailer drop!
Alruna End of History, also know as Alruna 2, also know as The Good One.
Alruna, now in wide-screen!
This game has so many wild ideas packed into it, it should be illegal.
#indiegame #pixelart #metroidvania

Alruna: End of History. TRAILER 1 (Announcement Trailer)

YouTube video by Burning Planet

youtu.be

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Demajen @demajen.co.uk · 2d

I was terrible at the first one and cheated my way through it but had a great time making a map of the game. This seems to be a fun evolution… that I’m also terrible at! 🤣 Recommend if you like pixel art, retro combat — and if you despise capitalism and the heaving hoards of industrialisation!

Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 2d

My Alruna demo is live on Steam now 🌸🌸

Alruna End of History Steam store page. A big green banner says "Download Demo"

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 2d

And it was a great map! 🤩

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 2d

My Alruna demo is live on Steam now 🌸🌸

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 2d

Trailer drop!
Alruna End of History, also know as Alruna 2, also know as The Good One.
Alruna, now in wide-screen!
This game has so many wild ideas packed into it, it should be illegal.
#indiegame #pixelart #metroidvania

Alruna: End of History. TRAILER 1 (Announcement Trailer)

YouTube video by Burning Planet

youtu.be

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Aurora @auroraplz.bsky.social · 2d

Hey gremlins! It's my bday today, be kind and share these portfolio pieces around :3

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Kay Lousberg @kaylousberg.bsky.social · 5d

Oh btw, this month's Patreon character turned out to be a real monstrosity! :D

#gamedev

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 7d

Taylor Swift is releasing a new album, and I have friends organizing listening parties on discord... Just saying

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 7d

A few days ago headlines were making the rounds about an "AI Actress". Do any of you even remember what her name was supposed to be? Would you recognize her face if you saw it again?
And that was just a couple of day ago...

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 7d

You'll get these beautifully written pleas for authenticity from filmmakers, authors, poets, artists.
And then you'll get LinkedIn posts talking about how ai is the future in the most boring, unimaginativly dry way possible. Embarrassingly flat and regurgitated.

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Namis.rt @namisrt.bsky.social · 29d

Hi! Here’s Silksongs Hornet if she were a Hades 2 character!

Check the last slide for Melinoe as a Silksong character :)

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 21d

Yes, thank you! It takes a bit of fidgeting, but I got something running!

Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 21d

Hey, anyone got an idea of how I could play Quake, kinda like how it looked in the nineties?
The version on Steam and Gog seem to have a lot of modern lighting and texture filtering and stuff...

A screenshot from Quake (1996) with a big Shambler.

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Karol Sollich @sollfie.bsky.social · 21d

Weekend dark fantasy project update #08: Testing out some battle animations! #gamedev #darkfantasy #screenshotsaturday #gamemaker

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · Sep 8

In Alruna you start with all movement abilities available from the go. Sometimes you have to find out how they work ...

Ashley Schofield🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social · Sep 8

hey so i'm gonna need metroidvania designers to stop making movement tools that are necessary for traversal to be enjoyable into unlockable items that you only get 5-10 hours in

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Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Silksong causes server chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nintendo as platforms grind to a halt

www.eurogamer.net/silksong-cau...

Hornet character from Silksong superimposed over error messages

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · Sep 4

Wild to see Steam just fall over completely due to a small-team, comparatively low-budget indie game TWICE this year.

Deltarune knocked over their whole checkout system a couple months ago.

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