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Brandon "wayward strategy" Casteel

@wayward.bsky.social

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Here to make, play, discuss, + write about competitive strategy & tactics games. Game Design Lead on Tempest Rising. Commentator. Also bearded and lover of horror fiction.

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Brandon "wayward strategy" Casteel @wayward.bsky.social · Jun 9

Tempest Rising won Best Gameplay at the Pixel Awards Europe for 2025. As the Lead Game Designer and therefore responsible for the gameplay, this is a HUGE deal for me. Super overwhelmed right now...

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Tempest Rising @tempestrts.bsky.social · Sep 16

🛠️ A new hotfix is live!

This update notably fixes the issue with 'Classic Controls' and re-adds this option in the control settings.

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Tempest Rising - Hotfix Update #6 - Steam News

Bug Fixes Controls Following the latest patch, players were unable to fully replicate the intended behaviour of 'Classic Controls'. To fix this, we are reintroducing the 'Classic Controls' option, whi...

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Tempest Rising @tempestrts.bsky.social · Sep 9

Reinforcements have arrived! ⛩️

The Triple Threat Update for Tempest Rising is out NOW!

Highlights:
🔻 3v3 / 6-player matches
🔻 Full Spectator Mode
🔻 Adjust Game Speed & Active Pause
🔻 New Kyoto-based map
🔻 Three repurposed maps
🔻 'No Bot' Sandbox mode

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Aysha @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · Sep 5

Layoffs wreck studios. Institutional knowledge is SO valuable in the games industry. When you eventually replace that laid off employee, I don’t care if they’ve got 30 years of experience and dozens of games under their belt. They still have to learn the pipeline, the software, the systems.

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Brandon "wayward strategy" Casteel @wayward.bsky.social · Sep 4

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foxwarrior3d.bsky.social @foxwarrior3d.bsky.social · Sep 4

Giants: Citizen Kabuto. It's a bit unconventional to call an RTS but the Harvesting, Building, and Destroying game mode was very fun

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Brandon "wayward strategy" Casteel @wayward.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Sep 4

Heroes of Annihilated Empires

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Brandon "wayward strategy" Casteel @wayward.bsky.social · Sep 4

What game is this for you?

Brandon "wayward strategy" Casteel @wayward.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats!

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Sep 3

It's been a while.

Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.

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