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Mercator (Demo out now!)

@mercatorthegame.bsky.social

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Run shops, make items, haggle for profit, and explore ancient cities from South West India to Rome. Early access on itch! Wishlist on Steam!

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Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Mar 13

Mercator now has a free development demo out: rudderbucky.itch.io/mercator
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1pp...

If you're into shop management games this might be the one for you! Let me know what you think about the demo. #indiegamedev #bevyengine

Mercator - Development Demo Trailer

YouTube video by rudderbucky

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Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · 8d

Mercator is coming out on Steam and itch.io on Nov 1, 2025, thanks all!
youtu.be/2MC5JJnA09k

Mercator - Release Trailer

YouTube video by rudderbucky

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Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · 22d

Great they juiced up everything in iOS 26 so now I can feel inadequate about my game animations while procrastinating.

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · 23d

Tiny Glade

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · 23d

Rooting for you friend!

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Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · 26d

Sorry for no game-related updates if anyone here is paying attention. Game is fully functional at this point, but running into some issues in the Mandarin localization. Hopefully will be out by year end.

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · 28d

Comfortably Numb got me comfortably numb

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · 28d

Why did Pink Floyd produce only mid until the midpoint of Meddle and then suddenly begin exclusively producing peak?

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Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Sep 5

Crazy that in 2025 entering the words "X birthday" on a day event in Google calendar does not automatically set the recur to every year.

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is hilarious to me for some reason

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 30

What is the best Abbey Road song and why is it Maxwell's Silver Hammer?

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 27

Starting to think the point of AI nonsense like this is to ragebait.

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 24

Almost made me log on again. A truly worthy successor to the scythe.

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 22

There's an AOE2 mission about this and it's my favorite one by far.

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Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 21

Accidentally Ctrl+Z'd in Shotcut and crashed the entire app instantly. I love C++.

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 19

In an arm world be like MIPS

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 18

r/gamedev does have some nice number cruncher posts every now and then. The rest is mostly sadism and pretentiousness

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 15

Mercator's almost done. It's quite bittersweet.

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 13

In my free time I've been playing a neat roguelike called Ancient Domains of Mystery that's years older than I am. I find medieval RPGs a little cliche these days but this one is great (plus it should be getting a pass anyway since it was early to the party)

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 10

STEAMWORKS

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Aug 2

In case Valve has been stalking me I wanna say I'm mighty happy with the new steam page video player.

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Jul 29

Wasn't this storyline 5th age/age ambiguous anyway?

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Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Jul 29

Haven't played the game since Aftermath for the same reason (though I was more a Zarosian). I still don't really see why they had to kick the gods out again - made the story way less enjoyable IMO

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Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Jul 24

Pokemon BW and B2W2 are the Undertale and Deltarune of Pokemon.

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Jul 23

My Microsoft hatred over the last few days still hasn't calmed down. I remember, maybe around 2018-2020, Windows 10 actually improving with things like WSL and Windows Terminal. Seems in 2025 there's been an about turn into enshittification and bloatware. Tragic. Will never daily drive Windows again

Mercator (Demo out now!) @mercatorthegame.bsky.social · Jul 22

I just realized the three dots on the steamworks logo are supposed to be an abstract representation of the steam logo.