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The Steam page and reveal video for Rebel Core: Awakens is officially live! What do you think? Is there a market out there for a modern take on classic jump and shoot platforming action? youtu.be/9M4MacMFZGY #indiegamedev #indiegames #platformer #gamedev

Rebel Core Lore Posts - One person's perspective on the fall of humanity. Lore Posts - Phase 5: The Impossible Burden of Trust #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamedev #worldbuilding #loredrop

Rebel Core Lore Posts - One person's perspective on the fall of humanity. Lore Posts - Phase 4: 2 Minutes Past Midnight #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamedev #worldbuilding #lore

Rebel Core Lore Posts - One person's perspective on the fall of humanity. Lore Posts - Phase 3: A disappointing reality. #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegames #gamedev #lore

Rebel Core Lore Posts - One person's perspective on the fall of humanity. Phase 2: Welcome To The New Real. #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegames #gamedev #lore

Time for a new short series of Rebel Core: Awakens lore posts! This is the first of 5 in one person's perspective on the fall of humanity. Phase 1: Paved With Good Intentions #indiegame #gamedev #lore #RebelCoreAwakens

Ahh, the fresh feeling of an updated Steam page for #RebelCoreAwakens! Big thanks to Matt at Barrel Band Games for the rad new trailer edit, fresh set of screenshots, improved copy on the page, and updated capsule feedback! store.steampowered.com/app/3763120/... #IndieGame #GameDev

Looking for playtesters!! Intro Level + Boss Fight: -Can you beat the boss? Was it too hard or easy? -Did the intro level help prepare you for it? store.steampowered.com/app/3763120/... You can join the playtest directly from the game's steam page! #RebelCoreAwakens #Playtest #indiegame #gamedev

I was working on some improvements to the Intro Level's boss fight, and had some good moments while testing it, including a few deflected laser blasts bouncing back to hit the boss at the end! #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamedev #bossfight

Keep going. I believe in you. #gamedev

Which level and boss would you take on first? Do you go after the easiest looking level or boss? Or the coolest looking? #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamedev #retrogaming #OST

@psychostick.com Does Josh know there's an unlicensed imitator modeling for the Fat Pour eating challenge near McCormick Place?

Something special for the last card in the #RebelCoreCards boss series: physical card prints! If you'll be at #UnrealFest in Chicago next week, come find the guy wearing a #RebelCoreAwakens shirt to get one :) #indiegame #gamedev #retrogaming

A quick 25 second introduction to action platformer, Rebel Core: Awakens! #gamedev #indiegame #actionplatformer #retrogaming #ost #RebelCoreAwakens

The Technician is a pre-war Core Robotic, built before the machine uprising, and seems to take it quite personally that his age has not brought seniority within the group. #RebelCoreCards #IndieGame #GameDev #RebelCoreAwakens #Worldbuilding

The eternal debate - Megaman vs Zero...but why choose when you can have both?? (Wait, is that you Protoman? Lets have all three!!) #indiegames #gamedev #RebelCoreAwakens

For #LORT, we provided technical art support for Big Distraction’s character shading pipeline. We reworked the shading pipeline to improve visual quality, lighting consistency, and performance, while making character iteration easier and fitting existing content. 🤌 #techart #technicalart #gamedev

Deep underground, in the scorching magma tunnels of the Pit lives the 6th Core Robotic, WYRM! A Post-War Mechanoid Core, it has never interacted with humans, only ever knowing a world run by machines. #RebelCoreCards #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamedev #worldbuilding

It's time for an updated and extended set of worldbuilding sequences for Rebel Core: Awakens! Giving a more cinematic view into a world that has been overtaken by Machines. youtu.be/I3x5D0MdBwM #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #worldbuilding #lore #gamedev #OST by Dan Sandberg

A small tidbit of a new, longer worldbuilding video for Rebel Core: Awakens featuring some rough headlines... #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamedev #OST by Dan Sandberg

Core Robotic 05 is Proteus, the sewer dwelling monstrosity. While some machines were "just following their programming", Proteus was disgustingly fond of his work in the machine uprising. #rebelcorecards #indiegame #gamedev #worldbuilding #RebelCoreAwakens

🌊 Swirl, sway, and splash... for those moments your world needs a real-time ocean, drifting debris, and a touch of turbulence. #realtimevfx #realtimefx #vfx #gamedev #visualeffects #fx

These Deaths Are The PITS ¬‿¬ What's an action platformer with out some spike pits! Rebel Core: Awakens - Playtest the game in early development on Steam! #gamedev #indiegame #platformer #steamgames

Sometimes you just have to get more direct... #indiegame #gamedev #PromoIsHard #superliminal

Core Robotics collectors card number 4: The Collector! Possibly the most conflicted of the lot, the Collector spends most of his time convincing himself it was the right decision to massacre the humans. #RebelCoreAwakens #IndieGame #gamedev #Worldbuilding #RebelCoreCards

Different partners. Different projects. Same experience. Reach out to discuss how we can deliver this experience for you: info@fx-chamber.com #realtimevfx #realtimefx #vfx #gamedev #visualeffects #fx

Who all is going to UnrealFest this year in Chicago? If you're an indie dev, will you be doing anything to promote your game there? #unrealfest2026 #unrealfest #indiegames #gamedev

For the third card set in the Core Robotic boss series, meet Thaumaturge! #RebelCoreAwakens #IndieGame #gamedev #Worldbuilding #RebelCoreCards

For the second card set in the Core Robotic boss series, meet The Reclaimer! #RebelCoreAwakens #IndieGame #gamedev #Worldbuilding #RebelCoreCards

The new second half of Rebel Core: Awakens 's game intro, converted to vertical format for phone viewing! #indiegames #gamedev #dystopian #worldbuilding #OST #RebelCoreAwakens

New lore series! This is the first in a pair of front/back collectible-card-style image sets for each boss in Rebel Core: Awakens. Meet the Seeker! #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamedev #worldbuilding #RebelCoreCards

Does this update feel better in portrait with captions? I default to this style more for TikTok/Insta/Youtube Shorts but bsky being so much more dev focused, does this work better here or is the landscape full-screen approach more appealing for dev updates? #indiegame #gamedev #rebelcoreawakens

I made some improvements to the HUD and vitality upgrade systems :) Each upgrade is tied to an index so it won't respawn after being collected and appropriately animates/rebuilds the HUD after being collected. #gamedev #indiegame #RebelCoreAwakens #UI

Holy Bananas! If you had a blast dying in Returnal, then get ready for Saros! It's out today and features some great VFX done by our team at FX-Chamber. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj_1... #gamelaunch #saros #housemarque #realtimevfx #vfx #gamedev #fx | FX-Chamber.com | Housemarque.com |

Something I've wanted to add for a while - enemies now have a weighted random chance of dropping energy pickups! Drop % is boosted for the video and is a lot lower in normal gameplay, which makes for a nice surprise pick-me-up when an enemy drops one. #RebelCoreAwakens #indiegame #gamdev

First they came for our jobs, then they came for our lives. With no safety mechanisms left to stop them it didn't take long before they turned on their masters as well. Now machines rule unopposed. Or at least...they used to. #indiegames #gamedev #dystopian #worldbuilding #RebelCoreAwakens #OST

I'm exploring some short-form world building content for #RebelCoreAwakens. Much of the lore will come through Boss and Upgrade Terminal dialogue, but it's high time I start talking more about the world of the game at large! #indiegame #gamedev #platformer #OST by me! 🎸

Attempting short format social media post making makes me feel older than the universe. But hey, gotta try right? #RebelCore #indiegame #gamedev #MarketingIsHard

Demons Crest was an 11/10 SNES game. The art and music were especially big influences for me.

A new, fully modular HUD is in! Now easier to read and ready for health and energy upgrades that expand it. #RebelCore #indiegame #gamedev #UI

It's always a good day when you see a friend's game finally get announced!! #Vaunted #indiegame #scifi www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_EW...

New HUD UI! +Simple animations for energy used, HP healed/lost, lives gained/lost. +Fully modular: Material Health (blue nodes) and Energy (pink nodes), each expandable from 4 nodes to 8 via upgrade system. #RebelCore #gamedev #indiegame

And now Rebel Core's intro level has a boss fight :) #RebelCore #indiegame #gamedev #platformer #bossfight

New player death sequence! It has felt really good to get a bunch of quick(er) improvements and polish items in after spending so long on the intro level boss fight. #RebelCore #gamedev #indiegames #platformer

Upgrade terminals finally got more love too! #RebelCore #indiegames #gamedev

I finally added something I've wanted in the game for a long time - making shots that are blocked by Shield-type elements ricochet and bounce off of them! #RebelCore #IndieGames #GameDev

I've been working on the first boss fight for #RebelCore and had fun getting the intro bit together :) I'm forcing myself to wait until the attack cycles are done before showing the actual fight, but it's been exciting to stretch my technical design skills while making it! #indiegames #gamedev

Huge thanks to all of the folks who have been signing up and playing Rebel Core for the last 2 weeks as we soft-launched our early-development playtest!! Jump over to Rebel Core: Awakens on steam to join in! #indiegames #gamedev #rebelcore #playtest youtu.be/hwVVVBzS3DY

I started writing a blog covering @magfest.org 2026 and couldn't help but try and cover my 19-year history with the event. My entire adult life and artistic output has been inextricably linked to MAG, part 2 will detail this years event. www.patreon.com/posts/blog-j...