Alex Kane | Pawsmonaut Games

After three years of work, AETHUS is out... NOW! 👩‍🚀⛏️ This is my love letter to survival-crafting games, and it's a full 1.0 package - no EA! $15.99 at launch for 30+ hours of proper story-driven gameplay. Can you help me spread the word about my little indie game? #AETHUS #GameDev #IndieGame

👻 The Samhainn Update is now live for Tidy Up the Town! 🎃 🧙‍♂️Head-to-Head Multiplayer! 👻A whole new spooky stall and 100+ goods to tidy! 🎵 Brand new music! ✅ Six new achievements! And much more! Check it out! 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/519...

👻 The Samhainn Update is now live for Tidy Up the Town! 🎃 🧙‍♂️Head-to-Head Multiplayer! 👻A whole new spooky stall and 100+ goods to tidy! 🎵 Brand new music! ✅ Six new achievements! And much more! Check it out! 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/519...

I find it so weird that all these AI outreach spam mails start the same way - telling me about my own studio or my own games, as if it's news to me. Yes, I wrote my website straplines, I know what I do. Does this crap ever actually work? Who replies to this junk?

I can't quite believe it, but AETHUS is coming to consoles! I've partnered with @makingport.bsky.social to bring the game to all major consoles, add several text localisations, and make a bunch of gamepad improvements! Check out the full announcement👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/254...

I can't quite believe it, but AETHUS is coming to consoles! I've partnered with @makingport.bsky.social to bring the game to all major consoles, add several text localisations, and make a bunch of gamepad improvements! Check out the full announcement👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/254...

🧹 Tidy Up the Town is OUT NOW! 🧙‍♂️ store.steampowered.com/app/5190030/... Power up and upgrade your magic to collect and sort hundreds of different items into their correct market stalls and shelves, and bring life back to your town! This has been a really fun wee game to make! #IndieDev

Super proud to get 'Masterpiece' status from the wonderful @lydocia.com, 'queen of tidy-up games'! Tidy Up the Town is out right now, go check it out! ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/tidying-ga...

Another five days have passed, so I played another five games. Of course. ramblingreviews.substack.com/p/cabinstoto... dev ping: @beacondev.bsky.social

🧹 Tidy Up the Town is OUT NOW! 🧙‍♂️ store.steampowered.com/app/5190030/... Power up and upgrade your magic to collect and sort hundreds of different items into their correct market stalls and shelves, and bring life back to your town! This has been a really fun wee game to make! #IndieDev

We at @ahwoo-official.bsky.social and RocketWerkz have made the BRUTAL Framework, that Ludeon have used to make their engine to power RimWorld, and us Kitten Space Agency, open source and free to use. Our industry is rotting from the core out. We plan to change it. www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...

I remember seeing Project Americas while I was working on GTA Online back in 2016, can't believe that it's ten years since then and what it's become now is finally going to see the light of day! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

✨New sci-fi game in the directory: Outer Wilds by @mobiusdigitalgames.com, published by @annapurna.com exothermic.co/outer-wilds/ If you like exploration and puzzles and time loops, this is for you.

Big Les still getting his million quid a year salary though :)

Announcing my second solo-indie game - Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 - Tidy up the medieval marketplace stalls, - Regain and use your magical powers after a... mishap. - Restore the market to life! store.steampowered.com/app/5190030/... Wishlists and shares hugely appreciated! 💖

Thank you so much for the lovely review! 💖

Damn, you've got to imagine Rockstar never envisioned a speech like this one happening when they fired those 34 workers, huh?

Announcing my second solo-indie game - Tidy Up the Town! 🧙‍♂️🧹 - Tidy up the medieval marketplace stalls, - Regain and use your magical powers after a... mishap. - Restore the market to life! store.steampowered.com/app/5190030/... Wishlists and shares hugely appreciated! 💖

My wee indie game just passed 2,000 reviews on Steam, and at 94% positive no less. I put three years of my heart and soul into this game, so to see it resonate is absolutely humbling and I'm incredibly grateful.

My wee indie game just passed 2,000 reviews on Steam, and at 94% positive no less. I put three years of my heart and soul into this game, so to see it resonate is absolutely humbling and I'm incredibly grateful.

Giving an indie game a "thumbs down" negative review is LITERALLY a punishment. In many cases due to how the Steam algorithm works, it is a capital one. If a game just wasn't for you, or you have some feedback, please just post on the forums! Save the "thumbs down" for AI slop and other offenses.

Was this... always just a black box? Have you all been retweeting and liking the black box?! 😭 That is supposed to be THIS!

Experience a 30-hour-long, fully voice-acted storyline where your crafting, exploration and building always have an actual story-driven purpose! You can grab AETHUS right now for just $14.99 - find out why the game has 94% positive reviews! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2541530/... #IndieDev

New dev diary is now live! 👀👏🏻🥳

Frictional are absolutely cooking as usual with ONTOS. Incredibly excited for this one.

Hey! Are you an indie dev who doesn't use gen AI and have a game you're currently promoting? I'm looking to make a starter pack and you could be in it! Reply below with a link to your game 👇 go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y

Ambrosia Sky is now complete. I hope you find it as compelling and complex to play as it was for us to build. Act Two is a FREE update, and the base game is 20% off this week. The full-game price goes up soon, so now is the best time to grab or gift a copy! store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...

Game workers protested outside the Build A Rocket Boy offices on Saturday, as the studio hosted a playtesting event for fans. BARB has laid off 250-300 employees over the last 13 months & has been accused of installing surveillance software on workers' PCs to root out "saboteurs" within the company

Prototyping THREE new games at the same time right now. It’s incredibly fun. They might not turn into anything but it’s so wonderful to have the studio runway to be able to spend time in this phase, while being able to be a dad whenever I need to be during the workday. Really thankful.

I did this too for my recent launch and one of the pirates actually interviewed me for a Russian online games website afterwards (he had since bought the game) and it was 100% the right way to go. Always better to lean into it.

Super thankful to @orbitalpotato.bsky.social for putting AETHUS in the #1 spot in his new video of all the awesome recent survival-strategy games! 💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GQ2...

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

Super thankful to @orbitalpotato.bsky.social for putting AETHUS in the #1 spot in his new video of all the awesome recent survival-strategy games! 💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GQ2...

First batch is up! Ten fantastic-looking new or upcoming indie games you'll very probably want to stick on your Wishlist asap: kotaku.com/indie-penanc... Please repost this to get these games as much attention as possible. Especially *you*, person with a squillion followers.

Last call! Starting to put this together now.

AETHUS received a 'phenomenal' review from @debugmag.com in their latest issue! 👩‍🚀⛏️ So chuffed. Thank you for the lovely words, my physical copy will be going up on the wall!

AETHUS received a 'phenomenal' review from @debugmag.com in their latest issue! 👩‍🚀⛏️ So chuffed. Thank you for the lovely words, my physical copy will be going up on the wall!

We're still a bit too close to launch for me to have an objective view of causes etc, but safe to say Into the Slimy Mines has 28 100% positive Steam reviews, but hasn't done nearly what we hoped sales-wise. So any shares are massively appreciated store.steampowered.com/app/3639440/...

Finished Subnautica 2's first EA version after 14 hours - thoroughly enjoyed it! Really excited to continue the story and progression, it's been very compelling! Please though, give me glass habitat roof pieces?! 🙏

The AETHUS Gamepad Update is live now, featuring full support and an entirely bespoke quick interaction scheme! 🎮 The game will also be on sale for 20% off tomorrow, so if you've not picked it up yet there's never been a better time! 👩‍🚀⛏️ shorturl.at/LKyND

The AETHUS Gamepad Update is live now, featuring full support and an entirely bespoke quick interaction scheme! 🎮 The game will also be on sale for 20% off tomorrow, so if you've not picked it up yet there's never been a better time! 👩‍🚀⛏️ shorturl.at/LKyND

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

Happy May! Here's another thread of freelance writing, full-time and mock review job opportunities for games, tech, and entertainment 💛 Please share it with your pals 👍🏾

At least Leslie and Mark can still go on work trips to luxury English pubs for a week to vibe code :) Shameful stuff. kotaku.com/ex-gta-produ...

New trailer (and a release date)! Please share this around and get ready for dwarf-y tower defence-y goodness at the end of the month