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David Szymanski

@duskdev.bsky.social

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Developer of Iron Lung, Dusk, Squirrel Stapler, Butcher's Creek, and other games. http://szymanski.games

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · Mar 6

SECRET AGENT WIZARD BOY

and the

INTERNATIONAL CRIME SYNDICATE

is

OUT NOW

in

EARLY ACCESS

Link below

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1h

Lightning McCum: "Seed... I am seed."

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New Blood Interactive @newblood.games · 19h

The gates to the aristocratic Hightown district, watched over by the statues of the old Queen's procession - who lit the way for the delegates of the noble houses when council was held.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 21h

Tbh sometimes you just need a nice 7/10 linear shooter. Especially now that everything is an open world rpg-lite live service everygame.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 21h

At some point I'll go through the Alien and Pred campaigns too.

Why hasn't there been a new AvP game since 2010?

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 21h

Finished the Marine campaign on hard with lowered expectations and had a good time overall. There's a lot you can criticize and some design is very "of its time" but the xeno combat can be genuinely fun in the same way as AvP1 and 2. Overall decent 7/10 experience.

The synth enemies suck tho

David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 5d

Time for my every-few-years check to see if my standards have fallen low enough yet to enjoy this game

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

It's a good reference

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

Yup!

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

Yup!

David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

tbh it's probably not as optimized as it could be, since I'm still using nav meshes. But basically it's just really careful about how often paths get recalculated, and none of the enemies are skinned meshes.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah

David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

It's a bit more like isometric EDF (or EDF-themed Alien Shooter) but with a lot of other random ideas. One of my concerns is that it doesn't fit neatly into a specific genre other than "action" so it'll be a little harder than normal to reach the prospective audience.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

For the most part I'm just working on it quietly until I have something more presentable to show (and a Steam page to direct people to lol GOTTA WISHLISTMAX), but it's fun to share random dev stuff every so often!

David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

Yup B.U.G.B.I.T.E is what I've been working on since shipping Butcher's Creek. But I haven't officially announced it and it won't be finished any time soon (soonest would be later half of 2026, maybe even longer). I'll do a YT video about it soon.

Dott Winial @dottwinial.bsky.social · 1d

Is this your new game? I failed to search for it 😓

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

There will be a level editor included with the game so people will be free to make Ants.wad and destroy their computers.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

Yup! Kind of. It's inspired by Alien Shooter and EDF but goes in its own direction. I'll do a video about it soon.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

In terms of actual gameplay there are significant diminishing returns after like a few hundred enemies onscreen and it works better to spawn less enemies over a longer period of time vs tons of enemies at once. Still though, it's cool that it's technically possible.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 1d

So for fun I decided to test how stable B.U.G.B.I.T.E remains while spawning an ant every frame with no limit on the number of ants.

It actually remains shockingly playable until you start reaching several thousand of enemies. Kinda proud of that, given these are all navmesh agents.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah that's kind of the main problem. AvP1 and AvP2 exist and are peak

David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 5d

I see Weyland Yutani found the argent energy

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 5d

who lit this candle lol

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 5d

Ok, so there's definitely still the 7th gen shenanigans I remember hating but I *will* say that playing this game on hard instead of normal makes the combat more fun than not at all. Idk what all it changes but I swear the aliens move faster.

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 5d

VERTEX SHADED BOXES

and DJ Sexy Time

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 5d

Running what

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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 5d

Time for my every-few-years check to see if my standards have fallen low enough yet to enjoy this game

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Dave NewBlood @dave.newblood.games · 5d

So after my Skibidi Toilet Tweets it appears that Bonkers *removed all the pictures* of the Ultrakill nailgun (and 40k chainsword) from toy listings on Amazon, Walmart, Target etc.

But I knew there was no way they removed them from the actual toys.

SO I ORDERED THEM FOR MYSELF.

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