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Alexander Smith
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Game Developer 🎮 alexandersmith.ca
Founder of Maplelike Games 🍁 maplelike.com
Creator of Rogue Cell 🦠 https://store.steampowered.com/app/3602010/Rogue_Cell/
Owner of one cute pupper 🐶
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These past 2 weeks since releasing Rogue Cell have been a blur. I even forgot to post about version 1.1 with New Game+! Of all the positive feedback, the biggest compliment has been seeing friends try again and again to beat their best times. 🦠

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June 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I'm now officially a published developer. Time to enjoy some cake! 🥳

Rogue Cell is available now: store.steampowered.com/app/3602010/...

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June 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Incredibly satisfying to see Rogue Cell running on a Steam Deck, can't believe how easy it was to set up. And it feels great to play it on a portable device!

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May 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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2 more weeks until I release Rogue Cell! 🦠😁 I hope you'll forgive some self promotion, but if this is your kind of game, wishlisting and sharing helps tremendously! store.steampowered.com/app/3602010/...

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May 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Working on a custom LOD system for Rogue Cell, mostly just for "fun" while I wait for the release date. As cell radius or camera orthographic size increases, the mesh is regenerated to include more perimeter vertices.

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May 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I can't believe how much fun I'm having with what was meant to be a quick, post-game mode

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May 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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When you need to be absolutely sure that you haven't missed a localization hook: (>'.')> <('.'<)

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May 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Very excited to finally have a finished trailer for Rogue Cell! And equally as excited to finally have a release date of June 4th! It's happening! 😄

🦠 store.steampowered.com/app/3602010/...

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May 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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For today's #ScreenshotSaturday, progress on a new arcade mode! Paying homage to "Agar.io" with this single-player, "grow as big as you can" mode, competing against fake players with frustratingly good enemy AI, and high scores to beat.

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April 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Been playing around with cell behaviours for a new arcade mode, and it's strangely entertaining watching the cells swim and dash around in the debug view at 5x speed.

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April 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Spatial audio makes such a difference, even in 2D games, in tracking where events are happening relative to the player. What a difference it makes, I can't believe I didn't set this up sooner.

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April 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Having more options is better than fewer, right? I'm curious to see how many players will prefer the "pixelated" look, and how many will prefer the "clean" look.

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April 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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It's a little surprising (not really) how few quality of life features are included for UI navigation in #Unity3D. But it's very satisfying to get auto-scrolling and dynamic navigation maps (for gamepad support) working! Now to actually make the options menu...

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April 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Working on something fun/different today!
✨ Cinematics ✨

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April 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Rogue Cell was originally inspired by Agar-io's squishy cells and absorption mechanics, which were fun to replicate in #Unity3D. Procedural meshes with "dynamic vertices" that I could displace with spring-like dampening.

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March 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Tweaking some hostile cell behaviours in Rogue Cell, and having some fun at their expense. #gamedev can be fun sometimes!

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March 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Been working on the upgrade tree for Rogue Cell, both the layout, order, and rough pricing, to help create a sense of progression for players as they evolve and get bigger. 🦠

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March 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Didn't realize we can't upload gifs! :(

Well, here's one more #ScreenshotSaturday screenshot to make up for it, showing the player dashing to absorb a cell for some sweet, sweet DNA points. 🦠

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March 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Oh hey, it's #ScreenshotSaturday! Might as well post a sneak peak at what I've been working on. An arcade-inspired project about absorbing cells, upgrading, and getting larger. Excited to show some more of this in the coming weeks!

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March 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM