Star
@starlightskyes.bsky.social
Been in the game industry for a while.
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wholesome content + gamedev thoughts*:･ﾟ✧*:･
📜 http://discord.gg/mabjWT5
📷 https://www.instagram.com/starlightskyes/
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🎙️Mike & Rami Are Still Here🎙️
The new podcast from me & @ramiismail.com
Listen to two old men from the video game industry ask the real questions, like "why am I so tired all of the time", and "who the heck are Ant and Dec?"
Listen on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, or wherever you want
mikeandrami.com
The new podcast from me & @ramiismail.com
Listen to two old men from the video game industry ask the real questions, like "why am I so tired all of the time", and "who the heck are Ant and Dec?"
Listen on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, or wherever you want
mikeandrami.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🎙️Mike & Rami Are Still Here🎙️
The new podcast from me & @ramiismail.com
Listen to two old men from the video game industry ask the real questions, like "why am I so tired all of the time", and "who the heck are Ant and Dec?"
Listen on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, or wherever you want
mikeandrami.com
The new podcast from me & @ramiismail.com
Listen to two old men from the video game industry ask the real questions, like "why am I so tired all of the time", and "who the heck are Ant and Dec?"
Listen on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, or wherever you want
mikeandrami.com
In Japan now for Tokyo Game Show. Throwing a party called Video Game Prom with some friends 💙
September 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In Japan now for Tokyo Game Show. Throwing a party called Video Game Prom with some friends 💙
An example of why you never ever rely on any 3rd party to do the work for you. Market your own games!
Doesn't matter if it's a publisher or platform. no one cares about your game as much as you do
www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...
Doesn't matter if it's a publisher or platform. no one cares about your game as much as you do
www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...
9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game
Planet Centauri suffered a bug that's affected less than 100 game releases since 2015.
www.pcgamer.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
An example of why you never ever rely on any 3rd party to do the work for you. Market your own games!
Doesn't matter if it's a publisher or platform. no one cares about your game as much as you do
www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...
Doesn't matter if it's a publisher or platform. no one cares about your game as much as you do
www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...
Heading to Tokyo! 🇯🇵✈️
September 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Heading to Tokyo! 🇯🇵✈️
It's my birthday ❤️ This has been a year of growth and stability in my personal life. Looking forward to seeing what comes next
September 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It's my birthday ❤️ This has been a year of growth and stability in my personal life. Looking forward to seeing what comes next
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Indie devs -- there is nothing for you to learn about the success or launch of Silksong. Do not try to extrapolate from extreme outliers and then think you can follow some predetermined formula for success. It doesn't exist. It didn't exist for that team the first time around either. Stop it.
September 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Indie devs -- there is nothing for you to learn about the success or launch of Silksong. Do not try to extrapolate from extreme outliers and then think you can follow some predetermined formula for success. It doesn't exist. It didn't exist for that team the first time around either. Stop it.
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It's been a while.
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Australia Did It - Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by MysticForge
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's been a while.
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Situations like this are part of why I quit doing marketing consultations. Some devs ignore all reasonable advice and do whatever they want. They think they're are the exception and can get away with it 🙄
Later, they even apologize for not listening to me. Thinking I was personally attacking them 😮💨
Later, they even apologize for not listening to me. Thinking I was personally attacking them 😮💨
meanwhile I'm patiently explaining how not to do game marketing to them
August 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Situations like this are part of why I quit doing marketing consultations. Some devs ignore all reasonable advice and do whatever they want. They think they're are the exception and can get away with it 🙄
Later, they even apologize for not listening to me. Thinking I was personally attacking them 😮💨
Later, they even apologize for not listening to me. Thinking I was personally attacking them 😮💨
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This is exactly what the internet is for.
July 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This is exactly what the internet is for.
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In Paris I see people hanging out in the evenings, going to cheap art galleries, valuing fashion, enjoying food and talking about ideas. Meanwhile in the US we're devising "hacks" to not engage with art, ingest the bare minimum to live, and become the most efficient personality-free drones possible.
Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
June 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
In Paris I see people hanging out in the evenings, going to cheap art galleries, valuing fashion, enjoying food and talking about ideas. Meanwhile in the US we're devising "hacks" to not engage with art, ingest the bare minimum to live, and become the most efficient personality-free drones possible.
When writing a visual novel or RPG is there any good software to keep track of the story?
June 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
When writing a visual novel or RPG is there any good software to keep track of the story?
Someone just told me indie games aren't mainstream
June 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Someone just told me indie games aren't mainstream
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Indies have been doing “solo dev who’s not really solo” for a long time. There was a period of time where articles about auteurs were THE thing.
We’re a core team of 11 right now.
Roughly 100 people had hands on Bugsnax including us and we thanked about 200 others in the credits as well.
We’re a core team of 11 right now.
Roughly 100 people had hands on Bugsnax including us and we thanked about 200 others in the credits as well.
June 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Indies have been doing “solo dev who’s not really solo” for a long time. There was a period of time where articles about auteurs were THE thing.
We’re a core team of 11 right now.
Roughly 100 people had hands on Bugsnax including us and we thanked about 200 others in the credits as well.
We’re a core team of 11 right now.
Roughly 100 people had hands on Bugsnax including us and we thanked about 200 others in the credits as well.
I actually rested today and it felt amazing
June 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I actually rested today and it felt amazing
Here is an updated version! Thank you to everyone who gave feedback.
June 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Here is an updated version! Thank you to everyone who gave feedback.
I can't believe some people dont know what scritches mean
June 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I can't believe some people dont know what scritches mean
I usually don't have much luck getting feedback, but would really appreciate it! I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to animation. #animation #2d #indiedev #gamedev
any animators out there? 🙏
any animators out there? 🙏
May 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I usually don't have much luck getting feedback, but would really appreciate it! I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to animation. #animation #2d #indiedev #gamedev
any animators out there? 🙏
any animators out there? 🙏
Finally got a day off from my day job. I should be napping today but instead I'm gonna work on my game.
Doing a little animation and figuring out UI
Doing a little animation and figuring out UI
May 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Finally got a day off from my day job. I should be napping today but instead I'm gonna work on my game.
Doing a little animation and figuring out UI
Doing a little animation and figuring out UI