Sextant Studios 🐑😈 Flocking Hell is now on Steam!

Wake up, sheeple! My debut game Flocking Hell IS NOW ON STEAM! 🥳🥳🥳 store.steampowered.com/app/3236280/... Flocking Hell is a deeply strategic roguelite where you defend your pasture from demonic invasion 🐑😈 Now go! It’s time to join the flock ;) #IndieGame #TurnBased #Strategy #Roguelite

I'll be demo'ing Worldbreakers in Simona Cafe, 2507 Franklin Rd, Arlington, VA, tomorrow (Sat Aug 8) from 9am to 2pm! Worldbreakers: Advent of the Khanate is a two-player card battler set in alternate 13th century. Come talk about the game, game design, and self-publishing! #IndieDev #BoardGames

After committing code where debug variables were at non-default value for the umpteenth time ... I finally added a pre-commit hook that make sure all vars are at default. It's a rather barbaric bash script with a hodge podge of regexps, but it does the trick. #Godot #IndieDev #GameDev

Changed the "hand" to one card, since it's an auto-battler and you can't choose card order anyway. Added explicit discard pile, and market is almost done. Progress! #Godot #Cyberpunk #DeckBuilder #Idler #IndieGame

Added three new cards! I'm starting to see how the different mechanics will weave together to make interesting combos and interesting gameplay decisions. 💠💠💠 Next update will be the market! 💠💠💠 #Godot #Cyberpunk #DeckBuilding #Idler #IndieGame

Noelle is one of my favorite pin designer, now with a new project on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/npa...

The Tides of Ys is a game in which you use the tides to solve puzzles, and make the bells of the mythical city of Ys ring once again. Visit Ombre Vives' website to read more about the game and the team! linktr.ee/OmbresVives #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

I've been building The Totemist for a while now & today it finally has a Steam page. Narrative occult shop sim. Craft totems & talismans, help people with their struggles, and try to figure out what's wrong with the town. Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4545470 #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

PARADROP IS OUT - Use tactical drops to win an island war in this micro RTS. Destroy bases while avoiding anti-aircraft guns and enemy air support. Take on 10 missions in an epic campaign, or challenge another player in battle mode! #paradrop #gamedev #godot #godot2d #indiegame #rts #browsergame

I recorded a gameplay video. I wanted to crop it to the game window + trim the timing. After failing with multiple open-source tools, I ended up using ffmpeg: `ffmpeg -ss 4 -i "input.mp4" -vf "crop=635:556:817:211" -to 10 output.mp4` Long live the command line 🤓 #IndieDev #GameDev

Day 21: Cards are working, ICE subroutines are working, we're damaging each other! We have a gameplay loop. Now time to make an actual game. #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot #Cyberpunk #Deckbuilding #Idler

Final hours of this year's #TurnBasedThursdayFest! store.steampowered.com/sale/turnbas... Thank you everyone who participated, found great games & spread the word! It makes a big difference for a ton of indie devs; helps the quality & innovation in turn-based games keep growing! For more…👇 (🧵1/2)

Day 6: Slightly improved UI. #Godot progress bar is percentile only, so I used a label to show actual HP and shield values. I cleaned up the code quite a bit. Lots of design work on ICE subroutines and how they work, stay tuned!! #GameDev #IndieGame #Cyberpunk #DeckBuilding #Idler

The kids are asleep. The house is tidy. The bourbon has been poured. Time to do some coding. #GameDev #IndieDev #GameDesign

RUNtime starting to look like an actual game 🎉 Bastion is the ICE you're hacking (grey block up top). Your cards tick down and fire automatically. The game sits in the corner of your screen—chip away at corporate defenses while you live your life! #IndieGame #Cyberpunk #Deckbuilding #Idler

Are starter packs still a "thing"? During the big #Bluesky migration last year, there were many of them popping up for a wide variety of domains. They were a great tool for finding new or smaller creators. I did some searches and they seemed to have died down, but I might be missing something.

an excellent starter pack for anyone wanting to keep tabs on upcoming games! #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Day 4: Game UX hasn't changed and yet I couldn't be happier!!! I decoupled game logic from the UX and tidied up the signaling chain. For example, hand mgr → game mgr → scene, INSTEAD of scene reaching into game_mgr.hand_mgr 😵 #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot #DeckBuilding #Idler

We're on the front page of Steam! 🎉🎉🎉 If you enjoy any kind of turn-based game, don't miss our massive festival featuring 450+ hand-picked games. From discounts on massive genre-defining hits to discovery of unique, innovative #IndieGames, we've got something for everyone.

RUNtime day 2: we have some cards, they fire sequentially, and they're on cooldown! Huzzah! #IndieGame #Godot #Cyberpunk #DeckBuilding #Idler

Time for a new game, I suppose. #Godot #IndieDev #GameDev #Cyberpunk #Netrunner Wish me luck 😼

#TurnBasedThursdayFest is NOW LIVE!! Go check it out on Steam for some of the based turn-based #IndieGame out there 🥳🎮

Our Featured Reveals Show trailer showcase is starting now!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtaT... 25 exclusive game announcements kicking off our 7-day festival celebrating all kinds of turn-based video games! Come watch live on @turnbasedlovers.bsky.social's YouTube. #TurnBasedThursdayFest #Gaming

🚨 #TurnBasedThursdayFest's Steam Sale is LIVE! 🚨 store.steampowered.com/sale/TurnBas... 🎮 450+ featured games 💎 Hand-curated selections & hidden gems 🤑 Great deals up to 90%-off! RPGs, sims, grand strategy, deckbuilders, 4X, roguelikes, puzzlers, city builders… find your next favorite!

Haha! Just saw two indie games by fellow devs I know from BlueSky featured on a YouTube channel. Love seeing that! =] Flocking Hell by @sextantstudios.bsky.social Iron Village by @mgruar.bsky.social Links to the videos below. Go check them out! ^_~ #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGameDev

Check out this article! It talks about my feelings on the Trump administration (I don't hold back), and why I decided to take the plunge to full-time design & dev work, even in light of tariffs & the current economy.

Flocking Hell by @sextantstudios.bsky.social Levels in this #roguethingie #deckbuilder #indiegame take 5 min. Incredibly fun & very "just 1 more game!" Play as sheep defending against demons. Don't forget to check the cheeky system requirements! #roguelite #indiedev #gamedev #strategy #citybuilder

I've been promoting our next DMV tabletop game event, but this morning it feels wrong to post without comment. 🌸 Local communities belong to a place, and our place contains Washington, DC. Many game designers are federal employees or contractors by day. During a government shutdown, many of us 1/▶️

My indie video game Flocking Hell is now on sale! Defend your pasture from the invading demon legion. Now available for -30% on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3236280/... Also check out this excellent guide from mondsemmel: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

Endless RPG: Untold Tales, by my friend Kezarus, is now on sale! The demo is also available. Go check it out 🥳 #Roleplaying #TurnBased #IndieGame

It's time again for GodotStream Thursday: www.twitch.tv/vested404 I play a different indie game made with Godot every week. This week I'm looking at Flocking Hell store.steampowered.com/app/3236280/ by @sextantstudios.bsky.social Stream will start around 5:00 PST.

Anddddddddddd we're off to the playtesters! This latest patch is mostly bug fixes + quality of life changes, so hopefully I didn't break anything 😅 #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame

Patch almost done. I haven't touched the code in a couple of months, so I was pleasantly surprised to find my deployment checklist in a very prominent spot! Well done, past Elli x2 #Programming #IndieDev #GameDev

Four cards in Flocking Hell use a hack where they skip the game manager and go straight to the campaign. This led to an exploit where players can cheat out resources by playing the card, saving, then loading the game 😬 Fixing this with proper access controls ... #Programming #GameDev #IndieDev

Getting back to the Flocking Hell codebase after a couple of months hiatus to develop the next patch. It's surprisingly accessible and clean. Well done, past Elli! #Programming #Godot #IndieDev #GameDev

Player informed me of a really weird bug where current level directly updates the campaign (= the save file), allowing players to cheat by exiting the game. Found the offending code ... # HACK: This REALLY should be managed locally instead of calling campaign. 🤦‍♀️ #GameDev #IndieDev #Programming

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Gogogo! Check out Sunken Stones, a #TurnBased #Strategy #IndieGame where you recruit your pirate crew and deploy them to defeat monsters and collect treasure.

If you like Flocking Hell, I strongly recommend Sunken Stone from my friend @spritewrench.com: store.steampowered.com/app/2601810/... #Strategy #IndieGame where you place your pirate crew on a 5x5 grid in order to defeat monsters and collect treasure. Hits the same deep + whimsical vibes as FH ^.^

Gahhhhh helpppppppppppppppppppppppppppp #RetroGames #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot

Oops. Gravity. #IndieDev #GameDev #RetroGames #IndieGames #Godot

Talking to a colleague about how #IndieGame devs are not competing with *each other*. We're not even competing with AAA. We're competing with YouTube ... and Netflix ... and other effectively free forms of entertainment. The more #IndieDev work together, the higher we rise together! #GameDev

Step 1: Recreate classic #retrogames using #Godot. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit! (... I promise that there's step 2, but it might not actually lead to profit 😝) #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame

I have a zany new game idea which I am prototyping. Step 1 is to re-create certain #retrogames classics using #Godot ... #Arcade #IndieGame #GameDev