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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang)

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Developer of Doomsday Paradise!

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hi Bluesky!

I'm Shadi and I'm the developer of Doomsday Paradise.

Going to be using this account for game dev ramblings + random personal snippets.

Below's some screenshots of my game! It's on Steam and Nintendo Switch~

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 5d

HAPPENING NOW: Oregon asks Judge Karin Immergut (a Trump appointee) to block the Trump admin's federalization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to deploy to Portland. 🧵

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Mattibee 🐛 @mattibee.bsky.social · 26d

My very first Physical Merch Drop is now LIVE!!! 🎉

I have lotsa fun stuff leftover from old zines and collaborations, as well as handmade clay trinkets!!!

Hope they're cute enough to check out and share 💕
ko-fi.com/mattibeearts...

Merch photo of six colorful clay figures shaped like cicadas! They are having a meeting...

Merch photo of an enamel pin and sticker set featuring a pink cat creature gently holding a knife as big as itself

Merch photo of 10 Pokemon-themed mini-pins layed out on an artist palette. Pins feature a Pokeball, Great ball, Ultra ball, Love ball, Premier ball, Potion, Pokedoll, Max Revive, Moomoo Milk, and Substitute Doll.

Product photo of a vinyl sticker design with a horned, winged, many legged cat thing with a stinger with the word "WEIRDO" written underneath with hearts.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · 26d

Somewhere out there is an indie dev who just delayed their game after Silksong's launch just to immediately get hit by Hades 2.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 28d

why the fuck would you shoot Charlie Kirk of all people

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Sep 5

I was able to get my COVID vaccine yesterday, but they're now demanding my wife show up with a prescription today after "a message from headquarters."

Schedule your shots ASAP.

Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Aug 25

Every morning some new bullshit.

Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Aug 20

You can get away with architecting kind of shitty when it comes to coding but you absolutely cannot when it comes to narrative writing and it always cooks me at the start of every project.

Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Aug 12

IG will learn about your profile from the people who follow you and like your stuff, so if it's substantially mixed you can end up delivering stuff to the wrong cohort.

Doesn't apply if all your art fans are also game fans!

Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Aug 11

My biggest lesson learned is to just wait on the marketing until I'm way closer to launch. I started with Doomsday when I was ~2 years out, and I think it would have been better to wait until I was ~6 months out.

I gave your IG a look - make a new account for your game. It will help.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Aug 11

I like Reddit for city builders, survival games, etc., that might do well on r/gaming, but you have to put in a lot of time to get past the mod team and they absolutely play favorites.

Otherwise the time investment vs payoff is a bit awkward.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Aug 11

IG's poor with discoverability- they seed videos towards your following list and an algorithm change there can be pretty difficult to overcome.

I had decent results seeding it with a small ad buy first.

TikTok might be easier- their discoverability is much better and you can reuse videos.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Aug 8

New playmat who dis

Playmat of the Doomsday Paradise splash art

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Aug 8

New playmat who dis

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PracticalNPC @practicalnpc.bsky.social · Jul 28

My game just dropped and 10% of all profits will go to the Godot Foundation! #godot #gamedev #indiegames

store.steampowered.com/app/1712700/...

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 24

I wouldn't want some far right religious nuts from another country to be able to pull things from my storefront either- seems like kind of an easy political win.

Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 24

The US government is captured by the worst, dumbest people imaginable for now- but this is an issue that expands beyond just the United States and regulation by other large players like Europe can and has been effective with similar issues.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 24

Withholding payouts and deleting games from user's libraries is simply unacceptable.

Payment processors also look like they're in dire need of a political check on their influence.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks everybody who messaged me! I'm going to start filtering through the portfolios I've received some time tomorrow. 💪

Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 14

Do you want to draw evil little creatures?

Looking for some freelancers for an upcoming project. Experience with Spine / puppet animation is a big plus.

DM me your portfolio if interested.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm very early in development and prioritizing assets as I need them- so even though I'm only looking for 2 more people right now I'm still very much assembling a mental list for future work too.

Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thanks everybody who messaged me! I'm going to start filtering through the portfolios I've received some time tomorrow. 💪

Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 14

Do you want to draw evil little creatures?

Looking for some freelancers for an upcoming project. Experience with Spine / puppet animation is a big plus.

DM me your portfolio if interested.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 15

Yes. I'm the only person who works for free on my projects.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 14

Do you want to draw evil little creatures?

Looking for some freelancers for an upcoming project. Experience with Spine / puppet animation is a big plus.

DM me your portfolio if interested.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 15

I am stupid and had them closed. They are open now!

Mr. Escher A. Bug, MSc @escherbug.art · Jul 15

Hi there, are your DMs open? I can't seem to find a way to do so on your page.

Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 14

Do you want to draw evil little creatures?

Looking for some freelancers for an upcoming project. Experience with Spine / puppet animation is a big plus.

DM me your portfolio if interested.

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Shadi (Lemonade Flashbang) @lemonadeflashbang.bsky.social · Jul 10

Want to work on a cutscene instead? Jokes on you, spreadsheet.