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🖥️ Solo Indie Dev working on The Oily Depths [Ex-Blizzard Ex-Ubisoft] 🎮 https://s.team/a/3113030 <- Wishlist on Steam ✉️ https://ryanrburns.com/ <- Newsletter

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · May 20

🎉 [DEMO LAUNCH!] 🎉
The Oily Depths demo is out now! If you'd like to play 'Day 1' of this undersea psychological horror adventure go check it out on Steam!

I may be biased, but it's friggen awesome-sauce!

Download and Wishlist here!
store.steampowered.com/app/3113030/...

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Aug 28

I don't normally do film rants here.

But "F1 The Movie" is the biggest PAINT BY NUMBERS sports movie of all time.

No originality.

Rough around the edges old timer comes back. Training montage of old-school vs new-school. Tensions rise between young upstart and old timer.

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · Aug 16

little rodent mage by Lily Seika Jones
“you must learn to proceed without certainty”

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Jul 30

Great talk by Dorian (Doot) on making small games successfully!

If you dont speak French, put on the Closed Captions, then go to settings and change the auto-translate language to English. It worked really well on this video!

Doot 🪲☀️ Kabuto Park OUT NOW 🪷🐝 @dodoot.bsky.social · Jul 30

[FR] Voilà ma conférence au GAME CAMP FRANCE ! J'y raconte ma vie et essaie de montrer que faire des petits jeux, ça rend heureux 💌

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI5H...

Froggy’s Battle, Minami Lane, Kabuto Park, ou pourquoi et comment faire des petits jeux | GCF 2025

YouTube video by Game Camp

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · Jul 22

Tired of manually matching collision to a mesh in #GodotEngine? Or constantly creating new nodes with the built-in collision generation feature? I made an addon that automatically syncs collision with meshes, with lots of neat features. Grab it here: github.com/CozyCubeGame...
#gamedev #indiedev

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Deepnight Games ⚔️ @deepnight.net · Jul 15

How Tenjutsu actually plays

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Deepnight Games ⚔️ @deepnight.net · Jul 1

Tenjutsu devlog 1: an Action Scene which became a Game
deepnight.net/blog/tenjuts...
It’s been ages since my last blog post, so here’s some behind-the-scenes content! Starting with the origin story of Tenjutsu gameplay. And next time, I’ll dive into deeper, more advanced stuff 🤿

Tenjutsu devlog 1: an Action Scene which became a Game

It’s been a while since I last posted new content here. As you may already know, I’m hard at work on my second solo-dev title, Tenjutsu. Well, not so solo actually, as I’m working with Daniel aka Dni...

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Doot 🪲☀️ Kabuto Park OUT NOW 🪷🐝 @dodoot.bsky.social · Jul 11

[FR] DOOT TINY GRANT 🧋💖💶

Pour aider à développer des petits jeux, nous avons créé Doot Tiny Grant! 5 personnes recevrons un don de 2000€ et un mentorat ⭐

Vous souhaitez candidater ? Toutes les informations sont en commentaires ! Candidatures ouvertes du 14 au 20 juillet.

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Jul 3

Anti-Union CEO blames employees for layoffs seen at Microsoft.

Absolutely disgusting engagement profiteering and bat-shit views from him in the comments. Oh and BIG suprise, he runs a Web3 company now...

My god. It's like if all the worst things in the Games Industry got rolled into one person.

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Jun 15

Thanks for all the suggestions! I've considered and tried some but others are new and I'll give them a shot!

Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Jun 14

Wow, that's so kind! Thank you 😭

Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Jun 10

Just "Get to work, maggot!" :)

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Jun 9

Demo is LIVE already! Go play, drown, suffocate, whatever!

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Jun 2

❤️

Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · May 27

Uhh, that is the nicest thing anyone has said about anything I've ever created. Even my mom.

So.... THANK YOU!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Henke @henrikhermans.bsky.social · May 23

physics based pogo stick platformer
POGOPPL is out on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1640220/...

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Pale Moth Reviews @ubuu-yt.bsky.social · May 20

Today I played the demo for The Oily Depths. You pilot, operate, and maintain an oil-drilling submarine for a mysterious corporation. You must meet your quota but beware something is lurking below... * Developed by Ryan R. Burns @burnsdesigns.bsky.social #indiegame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=30o2...

Sustain The Vessel - [The Oily Depths]

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · May 21

Thanks for playing! I saw your video this morning!

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · May 20

It's fixed. None of you noticed. (Unless you clicked the wishlist button inside the client and nothing happened. Then you did notice...)

I sweat through my shirt already.

Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · May 20

THERE ALREADY A BUG! kldfjklfpoijspiojsgjpisgjkl!!!

It'll be fine. No one will notice. This is fine... 🔥💀

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · May 20

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Best Indie Games @clemmygames.bsky.social · Apr 2

It's #TrailerTuesday!

Show me your indie games!

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Mar 16

Yeah, they can keep that hellhole.

Strangely, I think the next one I'm going to deactivate is LinkedIn. That place is WEIRD these days.

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Mar 16

Sorry it took me so long, y'all.

I feel disappointed in myself I kept it even this long.

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Mar 14

UPCOMING BETA (for the demo...)

My newsletter subscribers will be able to test the demo for The Oily Depths starting next week. If you want to join in, sign up here...

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Ryan | The Oily Depths @burnsdesigns.bsky.social · Mar 14

I hired an artist. It paid off.

This game looks so bad ass, I often forget I'm the one making it.

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