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Taylan K - Indie dev

@taylank

Solo indie dev making Eilands, a game about creating and exploring your own islands. Likes to support fellow devs. Occasionally a music composer.

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What I love about Oliver, our new pup: his excitement is off the charts when any one of us returns home.

What I love a little less: he pees on us in his excitement.

05.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I felt attacked for a second, then realized it's for gamers and not game devs. Then I felt attacked again.

05.03.2026 22:22 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My Game of Thrones adaptation will focus on events taking place 10^150 years after the HBO series, during the heat death era of this exciting universe.

03.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What?! Why? What's the news source?

03.03.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Picture of a sweet pup having a nap

Picture of a sweet pup having a nap

Guess who got a new puppy

02.03.2026 04:25 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Me: I could go for a colony sim if it didn't have too much grind...

Game dev: Here's our game SPACESLOG!

27.02.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

... the very next day

27.02.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Key art for the video game Eilands, a game where you create and explore your own islands. The art depicts a female character on a clifftop overlooking islands in the distance, where each island is in the shape of a letter of the word "Eilands." The islands have various structures on them such as houses and a lighthouse.

Key art for the video game Eilands, a game where you create and explore your own islands. The art depicts a female character on a clifftop overlooking islands in the distance, where each island is in the shape of a letter of the word "Eilands." The islands have various structures on them such as houses and a lighthouse.

The final capsule art for Eilands. Now I have no excuse for not getting my Steam page up and running.

Artist: Francisco Landa (patxi_landa.artstation.com or @patxiarts on insta). He has been a pleasure to work with.

#gamedev #indiegame

27.02.2026 17:25 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œMay all food squeak between your teeth.”
- Ancient curse

27.02.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Steam needs a retro nostalgia fest.

27.02.2026 07:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Underkeep Demo on Steam Explore a dangerous fantasy world in this role-playing dungeon crawler with tactical, turn-based combat. Assemble a party of adventurers, upgrade your gear and descend into the depths of the Underkeep...

And then there is this:
store.steampowered.com/app/4346510/...

27.02.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Machiavelli the Prince on Steam This award-winning 4X strategy classic lets you explore the Old World, exploit risky trade routes, expand your political and military power, and rise to dominance in the Renaissance. Every move can me...

Omg I used to play this game so much back in the day! Didn't expect to see it on Steam "Next" Fest.
store.steampowered.com/app/1297570/...

27.02.2026 07:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hunting for an apartment in Vancouver would give anyone a sad face.

26.02.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wish the western world would understand that without immigration to cancel out our collapsing pop growth, we are demographically cooked. But no, let's appease far right wingnuts instead.

26.02.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You know you're getting old for realz when you accidentally dial people while trying to figure shit out on your device.

26.02.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kinda trying to do this. Or at least empowering the player to populate their world with cool stuff. It’ll be better once I figure out how to let players explore each others’ worlds.

25.02.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Money isn't everything, you know

23.02.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I maintain my assertion that Sam Altman should have been type cast for door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman roles and nothing else, for his entire career.

23.02.2026 06:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Make enough money for me to go full time doing my own thing. Even better if I have enough to hire other devs and artists.

22.02.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hoping it will rebound once the AI bubble pops.

20.02.2026 21:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, this is just wild

20.02.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can relate. Any time I'm doing art or level design, I feel like I'm just dicking around

20.02.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Overlay_vertices is a quantum collection. You meant to collapse the wave function of every element by observing them, but decided against it at the last moment.

20.02.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What's the most popular Discord alternative now? Where are you all going? So that I can make sure to fail at community building there too.

19.02.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! Yeah I'm really happy with how that idea turned out. Might need some extra shoreline foam or something to make it more readable as text, but this is so on the right track.

19.02.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Work in progress key art for the game Eilands: a game where you create and explore your own islands.

Work in progress key art for the game Eilands: a game where you create and explore your own islands.

Check out this work-in-progress Eilands key art, by Francisco Landa (www.artstation.com/patxi_landa) !

Hire real artists, folks!

19.02.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThrowing the one ring into the fires of Mount Doom will not work, and is wrong in principle.” - Saruman the Economist

19.02.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gun who unintentionally becomes best friends with the bullet in its chamber: β€œHold Your Fire Tight”

18.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah but there is still room for Asexual Guns with Feelings. Guns with job dissatisfaction, guns with performance anxiety, guns with daddy issues. The field is wide open!

18.02.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At that point my body will likely be too broken to make games anymore, possibly euthanized to save rations for younger people in a dust bowl earth. Maybe one day human kind will recover and make the games from the sacred Kojima scrolls.

18.02.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0