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Max Di Fraia

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Freelance game dev @ www.baraonda.eu Also pianist and composer.

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I felt the need to make my own games when I was a teen, using MS-DOS and Turbo Pascal (ages ago).
Later it wasn't hard to find a job: in the early 2000s good programmers were in high demand.

23.11.2025 10:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stateless

Since making videogames wasn't enough, today I released an album! Solo piano music I composed over the years and that I finally managed to record and publish in an album called Stateless.

open.spotify.com/intl-it/albu...

15.11.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I just wanted to freeze this moment in which our game has 100% of positive reviews. I know it won't last forever, but as long as it lasts it's beautiful.

#IndieGame #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #GameDev #Volleyball

10.11.2025 10:06 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thunder Spikes lands on Steam this Thursday, October 30th!

#thunderspikesvolleyball #volley #volleyball #steam #indiedev #pcgaming #videogames

store.steampowered.com/app/3907880/...

27.10.2025 18:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I never thought I'd be able to write this one day: our game in the popular incoming games on Steam (not the home but the dedicated section, but well... just WOW). 🀯

store.steampowered.com/explore/upco...

#IndieGame #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #GameDev #MadeWithUnity

29.10.2025 11:54 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This. Sorry Ninja Turtles, but our game is much more important!

24.10.2025 08:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thunder Spikes Volleyball on Steam Control every move of your players on a 2D volleyball court. Spike, block, defend and use every open space. Face national teams in Arcade mode or challenge a friend in local and online multiplayer.

For people who love sports we have something in fact! 🏐

s.team/a/3907880

14.10.2025 08:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're almost there! Tomorrow we will be part of the #NextFest with Thunder Spikes Volleyball.
You can try it here (the demo is already available by the way!):
s.team/a/3907880

#IndieDev #IndieGames #GameDev

12.10.2025 08:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Very cool time-lapse by my colleague Manuel that shows the process of creating one of our stadiums: from the early sketch to the level design of every single element. The stands are generated procedurally.

#IndieGame #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #GameDev #MadeWithUnity

10.10.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Unisciti al server di Discord Thunder Spikes Volleyball! Dai un'occhiata alla community di Thunder Spikes Volleyball su Discord: spassatela con altri 11 membri e goditi la chat vocale e testuale gratuita.

Ehi many thanx! Let me know how the family beta testing is going :-)
Reach us on Discord if you want: discord.gg/sZFyC3kY

10.10.2025 12:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New generations (I have two children aged 11 and 7) are the most digital connected but still the most disconnected from reality.

10.10.2025 11:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thunder Spikes Volleyball on Steam Control every move of your players on a 2D volleyball court. Spike, block, defend and use every open space. Face national teams in Arcade mode or challenge a friend in local and online multiplayer.

The demo version of our vollleyball game, Thunder Spikes, is now live on Steam! Try it!

store.steampowered.com/app/3907880/...

#IndieGame #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #GameDev #RetroGaming #MadeWithUnity

02.10.2025 13:15 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Thunder Spikes Volleyball: An Innovative Take on Traditional Arcade Games Fast-paced action, easy controls, and the type of competitive pleasure that kept players returning for β€œjust one more match” were the hallmarks of arcade sports games of the 1990s. The goal of Thunder...

Very cool articles are coming featuring our game, Thunder Spikes!🏐

techbullion.com/thunder-spik...

www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/2785837...

#IndieGame #IndieDev #IndieGameDev

21.09.2025 11:58 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very cool music! I like the way you use FM synth sounds.

07.09.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I've been working on this volleyball game for almost three years now. Lot of work to tune the gameplay and adding new tricks but well... if it can bring some good old fun (arcade style) to some people, it's worth it! β€οΈπŸ‘Ύ

s.team/a/3907880

#IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #RetroGaming

07.09.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is cool!

20.05.2025 13:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mine: I never played Skyrim. Not because I didn't like it, but to avoid a deadly addiction and save hundreds of hours that I could have spent on game-dev.

08.05.2025 08:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Save 30% on A Thousand Years on Steam Real time strategy, auto-battler and city management game. Organize and equip small squads of angels and devils in a procedurally generated world. Conquer and expand your cities in a campaign against ...

Here we are! Indie Assemble is now live on steam, with literally hundreds of indie games to discover 🀩

Steam page:
store.steampowered.com/curator/4471...

A Thousand Years πŸ‘Όβš”οΈπŸ˜ˆ
bit.ly/atysteam

#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

05.05.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Indie Assemble 5-11 May on Steam

Indie Assemble 5-11 May on Steam

Proud to be part of the upcoming Indie Assemble. With 1000+ indie games from 63 countries, it's a great opportunity to discover new games and hidden gems. On Steam from May 5th!

#indiegames #indiedev #madewithunity

02.05.2025 20:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep, I would love to have an audience!😭
But I like to use the Steam news anyway like a kind of dev diary. Also yep, I like to work on long projects, that you can improve little by little, instead of many small projects.

21.12.2024 10:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This doesn't need explanation indeed!

21.12.2024 10:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I use a super old version of PhotoshopπŸ˜†
But I like it because now it's super lightweight on modern PCs.

21.12.2024 10:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Thousand Years - Update v0.7.0 - Steam News Many improvements in this update and useful additions (like the "move all" buttons), thanks to feedbacks from users and fellow devs. The highlight on pratically all elements of the UI turned...

It is amazing when, despite 1000 other things to do, you manage to make a MASSIVE update to your beloved project😎

store.steampowered.com/news/app/114...

#gamedev #indiedev

19.12.2024 17:53 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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For my game we made a double UI "skin", one for the angels and the other for the devils. We had to make a double version for every control, but the result was nice!
#GameDev #IndieDev

01.12.2024 17:45 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

GameDev here, using Unity since version 2.1 way back in 2008. So I deserve to be added 😎

22.11.2024 14:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Ricardo, please add me too. I'm 46, indie dev, and still writing a lot of code. πŸ˜€

21.11.2024 09:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie with a white shirt ALT: a man in a suit and tie with a white shirt

Me, trying to follow all the content posted by the #GameDev community these days

21.11.2024 08:19 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are you using Unity 6? I also planned to give a try to the Lobby service. Is it stable enough? 🀨

21.11.2024 08:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly! The best IDE ever :)

20.11.2024 21:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

These persons really changed our lives, even if few people know them. ❀️

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_...

#GameDev

20.11.2024 10:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0