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Shane Denhardt

@shanedenhardt.bsky.social

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Wishlist Skull Scavenger! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2557470/Skull_Scavenger/ I'm one half of an Indie studio called Evil Villain Games. https://evilvillaingames.com/ I do C#, VFX, Animation, and Game Design in Unity.

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · Nov 5

Whoops Kind of missed
#PitchYaGame

We are making Skull Scavenger!

💀 Enter ever-changing battlegrounds,
👑 collect valuable loot,
💨 escape to stash your abilities,
👹 bump into enemies
✔️ experiment and refine your strategy while you prepare to
👿 defeat the three Greater Demons and the Devil.

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · 18d

Me make screen brighter!

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Giant Light Studios @giantlight.bsky.social · 22d

@ezra-szanton.itch.io and @shanedenhardt.bsky.social get up to some good looking shenanigans sometimes.

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CIPHER ZERO @cipherzerogame.com · Jul 22

A minimalist logic game. Can you solve for 𝒙?

❓ Infer the rules of each glyph without hints
🧠 Over 300 handcrafted across evolving lands
🎶 Chill, reactive soundtrack as you play

CIPHER ZERO. Out Now.

zpdt.co/playcz

#PlayCipherZero #GameDev #IndieGameDev #IndieDev #SolveForX

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Hypersect ⚔️ making Never’s End @hypersect.com · Jun 23

⚔️ Never’s End will be participating in #BitSummit in Kyoto!
Come try our first playable demo from July 18-20!
📌 Find us at Booth 3F-D57 — we can’t wait to meet you!

⚔️ Never’s Endが京都開催の #BitSummit13th に出展します！
7月18日〜20日に初のプレイアブルデモを体験してください！
📌 ブース番号：3F-D57 でお待ちしています！

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · Jun 7

This unironically sounds like a great talk as a postmortem once this game is out.

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · Jun 7

Woah! Jake Congrats that's so awesome! You guys deserve it this looks awesome!

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Adam deGrandis @adamdegrandis.bsky.social · May 29

more old work! the development progression of the kingdom screen in desktop dungeons rewind. There's a bunch of nice vfx and animation and such in the final version that obviously isn't captured in a still image. You're all missing out.

#gameart #indiegame #indiedev

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · May 26

Our little guy is up on steam! Please go check it out, Wishlist Share and all that!

Ezra Szanton @ezra-szanton.itch.io · May 26

Wishlist Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game on Steam!

👁️Push your luck
👁️Game breaking "perks"
👁️Escape Sunbright Pharma

store.steampowered.com/app/3616280/...

Mr. Magpie’s Harmless Card Game on Steam

Push your luck in this mysterious roguelike deckbuilder. Defeat your boss... OR DIE!

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · May 24

Uhhhh Pretty Surreal to see Markiplier staring down our little puppet guy last night! Also very fun to watch him read the entire tool tip for the 1000mg bottle.

Ezra Szanton @ezra-szanton.itch.io · May 24

Markiplier played our game!! youtu.be/uYneVs6PYKE

It's strange and wonderful to see someone I've been watching since I was like, 12, upload a video of a game I worked on.

Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game

YouTube video by Markiplier

youtu.be

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · May 13

How far will our little puppet go! So proud of him 🥲

Ezra Szanton @ezra-szanton.itch.io · May 1

Ayy Mr Magpie gets the Silver Medal from @itch.io for the month of March! Second only to @adamatomic.bsky.social's wonderful Prince of Prussia, which is also great and you should play it.

youtu.be/Yfl-3F9jIvY?...

Itch.io's Top 20 Games of March 2025!

YouTube video by itch.io

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The Horror At Highrook - Out Now! @highrookhorror.bsky.social · May 1

🌜The House is finally open 🌛

The Horror at Highrook is an occult card-crafting RPG
🕯️Uncover the dark secrets of Highrook Manor
🌙Manage your team of investigators
🔥Summon Ancient Demons

www.youtube.com/watch?v=drjG...

store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

The Horror At Highrook - Release Trailer

YouTube video by tomnullpointer

www.youtube.com

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Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social · May 8

Thank you to everyone who showed up and made Indies Demo Night and Make Games Make Friends an absolute blast!

The turnout of devs from all over our community, the country and the world blew us away.

A crowd of people chatting and playing game demos outside.

A crowd of people chatting in a bar. There's a sign that reads "Flat Top Johnny's".

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BRODUCE! @broduce.bsky.social · May 9

#GodotConBoston was a huge success! We met so many cool devs, played a lot of interesting indie games, and even got to playtest #BRODUCE for a bunch of people!

Special thanks to @bostongamedev.bsky.social for hosting such an amazing Demo Night!

#indiedev #gamedev #godotengine #godot

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Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social · May 12

That's a wrap on the very first Boston Gamedev Week! We were totally blown away by how many people showed up to every single event, wore our pins and embraced BGW enthusiastically. Thank you to everyone who took this leap with us, and to all of our incredible organizers. Let's do this again!

A table with several BGW pins, name tags, and a poster that says "this event is brought to you by Boston Game Dev!"

A photo from Made in MA. Manny Mallea is holding a frog plushie from the game Frogmageddon in front of a mounted camera. Its big frog face appears on the large screen behind Manny.

The Boston Indies Demo Night. A crowd of game devs socializing and playing demos outdoors in the evening.

Our Make Games Make Friends event. A crowd gathered indoors is chatting and ordering drinks.

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Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social · Mar 28

One of the Boston Gamedev Week events we're super excited about is @shanedenhardt.bsky.social's Relaxing Chats East: a series of 90 minute roundtable discussions conducted in small groups.

The April 1st deadline to sign up is coming up fast! more info and RSVP here: gamedev.boston/events/relax...

RELAXING CHATS EAST: DAY ONE | BOSTON GAMEDEV WEEK

<p>Relaxing Chats East 2025!</p>

gamedev.boston

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Boston Game Dev @bostongamedev.bsky.social · Mar 24

Introducing BOSTON GAMEDEV WEEK - May 5-11! 🥳

Traveling to Boston for PAX East? Join us early for a week full of developer-focused events including meetups, roundtable chats, GodotCon, indies demo night and more!

Full schedule at gamedev.boston

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · Mar 22

Our little puppet guy just hit the front page of @itch.io and is currently featured!

Go checkout Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card game!

giantlight.itch.io/mr-magpies-h...

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · Mar 16

Had a ton of fun working on this so far!

Check it out!

Ezra Szanton @ezra-szanton.itch.io · Mar 14

Severance meets Inscryption in Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game!

👁️👁️👁️Play it now👁️👁️👁️

giantlight.itch.io/mr-magpies-h...

Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game by Giant Light Studios

Greed is Good.

giantlight.itch.io

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Nick V (Wishlist Chico's Rebound!) @nickvv.me · Jan 2

I finally made a new trailer for Chico's Rebound, and revamped the Steam page. Now it's a much better representation of what the game is like. Check it out! Sound on for some nice chiptunes too

#indiegames #gamedev #chicosrebound #indiedev

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · Dec 14

Geeez Absolutely love the light sources and detail in these. Incredible stuff!

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Chris Lewis Lee - available for work @chrislewislee.com · Oct 17

Hi new people! I'm Chris, an illustrator and 2D game artist from the UK. I love fantasy, folklore, myth, and fairytale.

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Chris Lewis Lee - available for work @chrislewislee.com · Dec 14

Temple entrance

E-ink (Supernote) sketch.

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Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · Dec 11

We're excited to announce that LOK Digital is OUT NOW on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2207440/LOK_Digital/

Featuring approachable mechanics and mind-bending gameplay, LOK Digital is the latest game from @letibus.bsky.social and @icedropgames.bsky.social

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · Dec 5

Thanks! Glad you're liking the vibe. The art in high spirits looks great too! Love the drawing process video.

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Shane Denhardt @shanedenhardt.bsky.social · Dec 5

Nice! It's looking very stylish in genera! Also I can't help but notice the video looks great, any tips on which codec you used or anything special? I feel like mine come out super compressed looking on blueSky.