Mark Mayers

Desolus is now available on Steam and major platforms! Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in this first person puzzle game. This has been a 13 year journey of development and I'm incredibly excited for people to play it. store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/...

We’re headed down the black hole and into the world of #DESOLUS by @desolus.bsky.social! I found this discovery from #PAXWest and @seattleindies.bsky.social Expo to be surprisingly cozy. Check it out now on YouTube! youtu.be/dlkjcENS61s #DESOLUS #SeattleIndies #PAXWest #PuzzleGames

What releasing a game feels like.

Solve complex time travel puzzles in a fractured Gothic city when @desolus.bsky.social arrives tomorrow 🌀 Manipulate reality on #WishlistWednesday before it launches! #PuzzleGame #IndieDev ⏳ store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/...

Excited to announce Desolus will release on October 15th! Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structures whole and save the city from ruin.

🎻🎵 📢 Songs of Glimmerwick, the witch academy RPG where music is magic is AVAILABLE NOW! 📢 🎵 🎻 store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/...

Matt & Gen are joined by @sarahmoonen.bsky.social to discuss their time at @officialpax.bsky.social West. Amongst the titles on display were new surprises & old favorites with new demos. There were exciting updates from bigger studios & tons of great indies. funandgames.libsyn.com/special-pax-...

Less than a week left! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2R5...

PAX West 2026 felt like a true celebration of indie gaming. With hundreds of games vying for attention, it showed there is no shortage of innovative and engaging titles on the way. We were on the show floor, & in this article we highlight 15 games that we played that need to be on your wish list!

Excited to announce Desolus will release on October 15th! Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. Solve Escher-like puzzles through the use of black holes. Travel through time to make structures whole and save the city from ruin.

Shoutout to all the hard working indie devs that showcased their games in our Seattle event! 💪 and thank you to everyone who took the time to visit. We loved watching everyone play the incredible demos available!! ♥️ Next up is our Fall Online showcase - October 16th! 🤯

I'm in Seattle for Pax West to show off Desolus. This picture is definitely not photoshopped and totally real.

More of the awesome games you can catch at our Seattle in-person showcase, Sept 4th! 👀 🔸 The Mailroom - @TheMailroomGame 🔸 Voidwood - @VoidwoodGame 🔸 DESOLUS - @DesolusDev 🔸 N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO - @metanetsoftware ➡️ bit.ly/MIXFALL2026

I can't do everything individually so here's a whole list of demos I've been playing from Steam Next Fest- Over the Hill, FluxWerks, Hyper Detonator, Desolus, Spanky Bat-A-Swing, Blood Dungeon, Lazy Kickers, Moonbrella. Plus a pile of others mentioned in passing. hardcoregamer.com/a-small-sele...

Steam Next Fest is under way and we're in it! If you love big non-violent RPGs with lots of colorful characters and dense hand-crafted worlds, this is a great time to try out our 2 hour demo 😊 store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/...

It's the first day of #SteamNextFest and Desolus is part of it! Check out our new demo! store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/...

Desolus by @desolus.bsky.social is a state-based puzzle game as you explore a beautiful world and multiple dimensions store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/...

Desolus is part of the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! Come check out our new demo! You can find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/...

In case you missed it- an overview of Desolus from PAX East! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpL...

Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in DESOLUS, a 1st person puzzle game. Solve puzzles through the use of black holes, traveling back and forth through time to make architecture whole. Wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/... #indiedev @desolus.bsky.social

OUR NEW GAMEPLAY TRAILER! Check out Songs of Glimmerwick, our witch academy RPG where the magic of the world is music! Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/...

We’ve been nominated for best Indie Game at #PAXEast by @maroonersrock.bsky.social!

Desolus is being shown at #PAXEast you should definitely go check it out! We're at booth 20098!

DESOLUS is a stunning first person puzzle exploration game where you explore a city of Gothic architecture between the past and the future. #BIGSpringShowcase

It sucks to see a fellow dev get ripped off like this, but at least the revenge story is very satisfying. Got 'em! Oh and their game DESOLUS has a demo and you can wishlist it to help them out: store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/... #screenshotsaturday

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWv... Time to tighten up the graphics on level 3

Science: Weather forecasting is a large-scale state-estimation and numerical-simulation problem in which the atmosphere is treated as a high-dimensional, nonlinear, chaotic dynamical system governed by discretized PDEs; heterogeneous, noisy observations... Faith: Groundhog I say the odds are even.

Desolus is featured in #IndieCade! Very happy to be presented alongside all these amazing games! You can check out the Steam event here: store.steampowered.com/sale/indieca...

Excited to share the Battle for Croaker Command update to Sail Forth! 🐸 Help the Croakers in their hour of need ⛵ Sail the brand new Croaker Flagship 🦿 Do battle with giant Tekk Walkers Out now on Steam, Epic, and the consoles! store.steampowered.com/app/1031460/...

SpeedTree rocks

I was fortunate enough to catch golden hour on the way back to NYC. Took this picture from the train.

Some artistic reference pictures I took for a new area I'm creating in Desolus. It's a historic fort in New Jersey, this place is pretty neat.

Explore Desolus, a first-person puzzle demo where you navigate a Gothic city caught between past and future, solving Escher-like puzzles with black holes to mend time-fractured architecture. Play the demo: playtester.io/desolus #IndieGaming #GameDev #Gaming #IndieDev #IndieGame

Here it is, the supercut of all 40 games from the Seattle Indies community that will be featured at Seattle Indies Expo (SIX) 2025! Go to six.seattleindies.org for more information on the games. Mark your calendars for Sunday August 31st for a chance to play the games at SIX. youtu.be/8pirxbbWRvE

An Inside Look at Indie Game Dev with Ty Taylor of Quantum Astrophysicist Guild The world of indie game development is a unique mix of… https://seattleslice.org/2025/08/20/an-inside-look-at-indie-game-dev-with-ty-taylor-of-quantum-astrophysicist-guild/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Dropping a few of the awesome games you can catch during our Fall Showcase, Aug 29th! 💪 🔸 SacriFire 🔸 As I Began to Dream 🔸 Desolus 🔸 One Way Home ➡️ bit.ly/MIXFALL25

DESOLUS: Jogo de puzzle em primeira pessoa com portais é destaque no Smithsonian #GamerseGames Resolva puzzles temporais em uma cidade gótica com DESOLUS. Demo grátis na Steam (29/05 a 05/06). Criado por ex-dev de Outer Wilds www.gamersegames.com.br/2025/06/02/d...

4Gamer 🔗https://www.4gamer.net/games/911/G091129/20250520010/ 過去と未来に介在しながらゴシック式建築都市の風景を元に戻す。空間パズルゲーム「DESOLUS」を正式アナウンス “だまし絵”で知られる画家マウリッツ・エッシャー氏の作品のようなパズルを解き明かしていく。ゲームプレイは一人称視点で展開する