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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 22h

Wooo, TWRP show tonight. Should be a fun time. I always enjoy those funky lads.

Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I should set up a neocities or something. Might be nice to have a spot to consolidate all my weird internet junk.

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 1d

Heya! I recently put my demo up ahead of Next Fest so people have a chance to check it out ahead of time. It's a shopkeeping roguelike deckbuilder about a raccoon trying to run an item shop for a month. Looking forward to Next Fest!

Check it out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3778620/...

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 2d

Lookin’ forward to this tonight! Missed the last few due to various concerts, so it’ll be fun to see what folks are cooking up.

Dirty Rectangles @dirty-rectangles.com · 4d

Do you know what time it is?

Where are your keys?

Did you even remember to change your shirt today?

Look, The 8th (the 8th?) the 8th is the 2nd Wednesday of the month and therefore...

Yes, it's ͓̽D͓͓̽̽i͓͓̽̽r͓͓̽̽t͓͓̽̽y͓̽ ͓̽R͓͓̽̽e͓͓̽̽c͓͓̽̽t͓̽a͓͓̽̽n͓͓̽̽g͓͓̽̽l͓͓̽̽e͓͓̽̽s͓̽. See you know something!

Look come down, we can talk about it.

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~Moyashi Mei🌱🌙~ @letsongakemi.bsky.social · 3d

INKTOBER 2025 - CHIBI MTG COMMANDERS
Day 07 - Bello, Bard of the Brambles
#inktober #inktober25 #mtg #magicthegathering #art

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to reconcile my personal distaste for ads and marketing with the fact that I now have to probably make ads and do marketing/cold email outreach for my game if anyone's ever gonna see it.

Bleh

#gamedev #indiedev

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 5d

No way am I gonna attempt Steel Soul though. That's a bit beyond me I think.

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 5d

100% done with Silksong! Cleared the game in just about 69ish hours. Had some good times in there. Final final boss is sweet. My hands hurt.

#silksong

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 6d

When I started off learning Godot last year, I found this playlist pretty helpful since I prefer to learn by example. Goes over a lot of basic concepts as he builds a StS clone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulgh...

Slay the Spire Clone Godot 4 Tutorial: Intro, Architecture & Setup (01/08)

YouTube video by GodotGameLab

www.youtube.com

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 7d

It should work on SteamDeck more or less fine! I used my own SteamDeck to test controller support during development.

Controls might still be a lil clunky, but that’d be on me and my lack of UI prowess for intuitive controller settings rather than lack of support 😅

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 7d

Heya! I just got a demo up in time for Next Fest if you're interested in an item-shop sim/roguelike deckbuilder mashup. It's also got a cute raccoon mascot. I had a lot of fun making it, and I hope it'll reach some folks that are into these kinda games too.

store.steampowered.com/app/3778620/...

Raccoons to Riches on Steam

Run your own fuzzy fantasy Item Shop in this Roguelike Deckbuilder! Sell and Craft Items, exploit powerful Business Tactics, Redecorate your Shop, and befriend new Customers to reap incredible profits...

store.steampowered.com

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 7d

Heya! I just got a demo up in time for Next Fest if you're interested in an item-shop sim/roguelike deckbuilder mashup. It's also got a cute raccoon mascot. I had a lot of fun making it, and I hope it'll reach some folks that are into these kinda games too.

store.steampowered.com/app/3778620/...

Raccoons to Riches on Steam

Run your own fuzzy fantasy Item Shop in this Roguelike Deckbuilder! Sell and Craft Items, exploit powerful Business Tactics, Redecorate your Shop, and befriend new Customers to reap incredible profits...

store.steampowered.com

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 8d

Making some good progress in Silksong. The late game bosses are pretty sweet. Some of them feel like playing fighting games almost. Lots of finding windows to punish positioning and stuff. (I am bad at fighting games)

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 9d

Fun draft night this week! We ran an EoE draft, and I put together a solid UB artifacts deck. Good enough to 3-0 with the help of a round 1 bye 😅

#MagicTheGathering

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 10d

Just shipped my first Steam demo! Wowee! Please go play it and have some fun with it! Also, if something crazy broke last minute, also let me know, haha.

Raccoons to Riches 🦝 Next Fest Demo! 💰 @raccoonstoriches.bsky.social · 10d

Whoa! The demo's out! Go play it!

store.steampowered.com/app/3778620/...

#indiegames #majorupdate #gaming

Raccoons to Riches on Steam

Run your own fuzzy fantasy Item Shop in this Roguelike Deckbuilder! Sell and Craft Items, exploit powerful Business Tactics, Redecorate your Shop, and befriend new Customers to reap incredible profits...

store.steampowered.com

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 11d

Frantically doing some last minute tweaks/testing, but my game’s demo should go live soon! Woooo

Raccoons to Riches 🦝 Next Fest Demo! 💰 @raccoonstoriches.bsky.social · 11d

Hey! Back from a little vacation! Probably short notice, but the demo's going live very very soon (just a few hours from now). Get excited!

#indiegames #gaming #indiedev

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 12d

After a travel weekend, I like to take the following Monday off to regen. Makes a huge difference for my brain.

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 13d

Got to play Blood on the Clocktower for the first time last night around a bonfire! Super cool variant on Werewolf, would love to play it again.

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 13d

Hiked a (small) mountain today. Neature!

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 16d

Also, managed to flip both Sephiroth and Cecil at least once. 12’d someone with Black Waltz, and made like 6 tokens off a 3rd chapter GF Cerberus into Qu + the 2 mana make a chocobo spell. All sweet. Achievement(s) unlocked!

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 16d

Draft was indeed sweet. Ran a really fun offbeat Jund equipment/landfall deck featuring Sephiroth. Took the 3-0 undefeated record after some pretty close matches. Great fun!

#MagicTheGathering

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 16d

Aight, off to the usual weekly bar draft. Final fantasy tonight, which should be fun. Super good draft format imo

#MagicTheGathering

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 16d

Did a bit of foley work today trying to get some satisfying clinky coin sounds to use in the game when you're getting your money up. Does this sound adequately dopamine producing?

(Apologies to my neighbors for shaking jars of coins around all day)

#indiedev #sounddesign

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 17d

Witness the full power of deciding I can learn davinci resolve in a couple days and a couple game trailer editing blogposts I read over the weekend!

Woooooooo!

Raccoons to Riches 🦝 Next Fest Demo! 💰 @raccoonstoriches.bsky.social · 17d

Heya! We finally got a gameplay trailer ready for your eyeballs! Here's our official trailer for Raccoons to Riches! More exciting news to come Soon™️

#gaming #trailerthursday #indiegame #deckbuilder #cozygames

Raccoons to Riches - Official Gameplay Trailer

YouTube video by Raccoons To Riches

www.youtube.com

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Xandor @xandor42.bsky.social · 18d

Trivia: The filename on this is "hiiii.mp4"

Raccoons to Riches 🦝 Next Fest Demo! 💰 @raccoonstoriches.bsky.social · 18d

We've been cookin' up a lil gameplay trailer! Here's a sneak preview of a very short non-gameplay shot from it for one of the title cards:

#gamedev #indiegamedev

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