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Yän
@yaengames.bsky.social
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Game maker from Berlin and game designer @paintbucket.de.
Check out my personal games on itch.io: https://yaen-games.itch.io/
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Yän @yaengames.bsky.social · Oct 20
Heya, glad to be here. Hope more people will follow over too!

Oh yeah, I'm yän by the way, and I make games, such as these ones, nice to meet you!
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gamesbavaria.bsky.social
🎤GAMEREI Open House – Games & History

Ein Abend voller spannender Einblicke 🎮
Mit begeisternden Talks von @yaengames.bsky.social (@paintbucket.de) und Hans Ippisch (HAIP GmbH) sowie Spielstationen des Videospielkultur e.V. 👾
Vielen Dank an alle Beteiligten und Gäste für diesen wundervollen Abend! ✨
Collage mit zwei Polaroid-Fotos vor blauem Hintergrund mit grafischen Spielelementen. Links spricht Yannick Pawils vor Publikum über historische Spiele, rechts hält Hans Ippisch einen Vortrag vor Zuhörer:innen. Unten ist das Logo „GAMEREI Open House“ zu sehen. Collage mit zwei Polaroid-Fotos vor lila Hintergrund mit Tetris-ähnlichen Formen. Links ein Foto des Eingangs der GAMEREI mit dem Schriftzug „Die GAMEREI – Open House“. Rechts ein Arcade-Automat des Videospielkultur e. V. mit Bildschirm und Joysticks. Daneben das Logo „Die GAMEREI“.
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
Hey that's me!! :D
gamesmarket.global GamesMarket @gamesmarket.global · 4d
Open House at @gamesbavaria.bsky.social's Gamerei in Munich: The topic is Gaming & History. Yannick Pawils of @paintbucket.de is presenting about making games with history as a topic. The second talk of the evening will be Hans Ippisch about his book.
February 4, 2026 at 10:41 PM
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paintbucket.de
#GAMES & #HISTORY

🗓️ When: February 4, 2026, 6:30 PM
📍Where: DIE GAMEREI, München

Our Game Designer Yannick will share insights into creating authentic historical game worlds.

Find more information and free tickets here: events.games-bavaria.com/event/gamere...
January 29, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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paintbucket.de
We are looking for a working student in Marketing & Communications to join us! 🎨

Interested? Find more information about the role here 👉 paintbucket.de/en/job/16
Graphic with text, reading: Job opening. Working Student: Marketing & Communications. Questions? Interest? Shoot us an email at jobs@paintbucket.de
January 29, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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clppng.bsky.social
I’m sure in the 30s there were some nervous Nazis who overcame butterflies to kick down doors in Jewish homes
January 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
If human rights matter to you at least a little bit, you need to see this.
December 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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gameswirtschaft.bsky.social
Die Hauptstadt-Studios waren in diesem Jahr besonders erfolgreich beim Deutschen Entwicklerpreis - unter anderem mit dem 'Studio des Jahres' @toukana.bsky.social und zwei 🏆 für @paintbucket.de.
Deutscher Entwicklerpreis 2025: Berlin holt 5 Auszeichnungen - GamesWirtschaft.de
Für die Studios der Hauptstadt-Region hat sich die Reise nach Köln gelohnt: Fünf Trophäen gehen an Spiele und Entwickler aus Berlin.
www.gameswirtschaft.de
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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paintbucket.de
We still can’t believe it! Last night was the #DEP, and we are so happy and grateful to have won in the two categories “Best Game Design” and “Best Game Beyond Entertainment” 🥳

Especially because the other contenders had such amazing projects! Thank you to everyone involved with the award show🎄
Picture of the Paintbucket Games team on stage, holding the awards for Best Game Design and Best Game Beyond Entertainment
December 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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gamesmarket.global
Moving on to Best Game Design: @paintbucket.de takes it home for The Darkest Files!
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
Drew some hand painted natural rock tiles for walls & floors

#seamlesstexture #gameart #digitalartist #gamedev
A seamless texture of rocky tiles in odd shapes, hand painted in a stylized manner. The rocks have slight colour variations but are overall set in a bluish dark grey. Flat art style with only three distinct shades applied to each tile. A bright version of the rocky tiles texture, this one appears in a light beige with the spaces between the tiles being filled with a lighter mortar.
October 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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darkestfiles.paintbucket.de
We're thrilled to announce that we have been nominated for #DEP in not one, but four categories!

Best Gamedesign
Best Game Beyond Entertainment
Best Story
Best Graphics

Thank you to the jury and congratulations to the other amazing nominees - we are looking forward to the award show 🧡
October 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
You can believe and do what you want. But science says: Renewables, though necessary, won't be enough. We need to change our food systems. #Vegan is the way.
Stop factory farming. Stop eating animals. It's not that hard.

#climatechange

www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
EAT-Lancet report: food systems breach planetary boundaries, transformation can deliver health and equity
03.10.2025 - Food production is the primary driver for breaching five of the planetary boundaries and accounts for around 30 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while billions still lack acces...
www.pik-potsdam.de
October 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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tuta.com
We are alarmed as well. If you are in Germany, write to your representatives. You'll find the email addresses here: 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...
Signalapp on X: We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.
October 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
Love Chris Schlarb and all his music. Please support if you can
tylerwilcox.bsky.social Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · Sep 10
The Big Ego label / studio has been having some very lame landlord / lease issues, resulting in $30K's worth of legal fees.

Give what you can — and check out an @aquariumdrunkard.com baker's dozen of amazing Big Ego releases from over the years. aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/09/10/a...
September 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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paintbucket.de
Hurra! \o/

unsere Visual Novel "Max Mannheimer – Ben Jakov – Eine Holocaust-Geschichte" – wurde von der Deutschen Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur zur App des Monats gewählt!

apps.apple.com/de/app/max-m...

play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Illustration: Max Mannheimer mit Pinsel, im Hintergrund Menschen und ein Lagergebäude. Auszeichnung „App des Monats“.
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
I made a new song! It's about diving beneath the surface, deeper inwards and discovering something new.

Listen here on my #bandcamp:
yaenmusic.bandcamp.com/track/discov...

#artist #music #newmusic
Discovery Delve, by Yän
track by Yän
yaenmusic.bandcamp.com
September 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
yaengames.bsky.social
How to do a capitalism 101

#gameart #digitalart #gametextures #indiegame
A whiteboard sits on a concrete wall drawn in a stylized art style. The whiteboard is full of exaggerated corporate graphs and plans for infinite growth and scribbles from the perspective of a big tech company seeking market domination. Next to the whiteboard is a sticker with a company logo of THE FORUM and a nametag sticker for a character called "Greta K. Süngerswöerd" Several whiteboard markers and sponges rest on a shelf at the bottom of the whiteboard. The whiteboard has a blue frame.
September 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
How it's going

#indiedev #gameart #indiegames #uidesign #digitalart #bigtech
Artwork image of a dystopian operating system dashboard, visualising many current trends of monopolistic internet tech giants. Around the central logo of the fictional company THE FORUM, there are various modules related different topics. There is the TF Finance section labeled EmoteBets where emoji-usage is traded like stocks. A TF Shop app which sells nonsensical NFT "investments", useless products, and even friends. A music module "TF Tunes" which is based on a constant stream of Computer Generated "Moods", sidelining human made music to a tiny, submenu. A TF Home module poking fun of useless Smart Home devices and the "Internet Of Things" hype. A TF News section with a word cloud where the most sensationalistic and banal articles are promoted while important information is almost vanishingly small. A TF Games section, but it's integrated into work with a microtransaction system where you can sell your overtime hours for pointless ingame rewards. A TF Chat section where you are highly incentivised to reply to everything with computer generated premade responses, even if you get a heartfelt personal message. And a TF Community Tab which displays various algorithmically selected and advertised user groups, some of which cultishly following tech leaders. On top there is a task bar with THE FORUM'S text-logo, a profile icon, and a settings icon. The whole UI design is made in a slick, white-and-blue corporate flat design. This image is a satirical reflection of where we are headed with the domination of late stage capitalist internet monopolies dominating most online spaces.
September 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
How it started

#indiegame #gamedev #gameart #digitalart #retro
Artwork image of an imagined old school retro computer OS desktop with a big planet earth in the centre and various nodes coming out of it, related to places on the planet. There's a finance-module tracking stocks. A connections module which tracks social connections across other programs. A dubious emote-sending module with integrated gambling called SendSmilesAndBli.ng. A public news blogging module called Open Reports. A remote-controlled desktop module. An error message about a frozen program. An ice tracking module from an organization called PoleWatch. Various pins with social contacts can be seen around the planet in the middle and even one on the moon displayed on top of it.
September 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
The cathedral of The Creator

#digitalart #gameart #art #indiegame
A low angle painting of a polygonal skyscraper modeled to look like a sort of clerical church building. On it there is a logo of the fictional internet company "THE FORUM" as well as various rectangular windows all across the glass walls. In the background, a dithered gradient of blue pixels can be seen. On top of the poster, there is a text saying "ALL HAIL THE CREATOR" and another THE FORUM logo.
August 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
Our fellow indie game developers are under attack by a targetted harrassment campaign right now. Please help out by bringing some balance to the discourse and showing this brave and talented team that they're not alone and have our support.

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #takeusnorth
freejsf.paintbucket.de Jörg Friedrich 🕹️ @freejsf.paintbucket.de · Aug 29
I just backed Take Us North on because it's a great project—but also because the team is currently being harassed by a Gamergate mob who are donating $1 en masse to fill the comments with their toxic garbage, which I want to counteract.
Feel free to do the same.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tak...
Take Us North
A narrative adventure/survival game that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border
www.kickstarter.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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saftladen.bsky.social
As we all know the game industry is going through very turbulent times, unfortunately this has also affected several members of our collective. The silver lining is that one of the largest rooms in our coworking space in Berlin will be available from September 1st.

More info in thread...
The Saftladen logo. It's an organge holding a gamepad.
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
yaengames.bsky.social
You see this, quote with a title screen that’s iconic to you
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia Title Screen, a moody picture of a gothic castle lit by moonlight in the fog at night.
August 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
My friends and I made a tower defense / idle game hybrid for #GMTKJam!

Try it out and see how fast you can beat the boss!

#gamedev #gamejam #indiegame

PLAY THE GAME:
rugbugredfern.itch.io/die-candy
August 3, 2025 at 7:38 PM
yaengames.bsky.social
POP!

#gameanimation #gameart
August 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM