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Vote Cyclopean: The Great Abyss for "Indie of the Year!" https://www.indiedb.com/games/cyclopean

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Honored to be one of "The Nine"

Hmmm ... I may have to make a Uri Geller game.

06.03.2026 15:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My 9 games "to get to know me."

You can do this at my9games.com

Weirdly Capcom vs. SNK 2 wasn't in the database otherwise that would absolutely be in there.

Yes I did in fact put something as recent as Cyclopean: The Great Abyss from @mkschmidt30.bsky.social in there. It is very precisely my jam.

06.03.2026 13:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I hated that show so much โ€ฆ until I watched it

04.03.2026 18:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is it me or is this name staring back?

04.03.2026 18:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's all the weird artifacts at the edges. There were certain hardware limits of what the Apple II could draw, so these weird purple and orange lines would be

04.03.2026 12:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, for sure. More dithering is required!

04.03.2026 12:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is kind of ugly right now. But it is definitely triggering some nostalgia for me. I think I need to adjust it to allow for more patterns and less solid colors...

04.03.2026 05:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Experimental 3D game with Apple II style shader.
#AppleII #Hi-Res #GameDev

04.03.2026 05:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 41 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Female gnomes...

04.03.2026 04:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wait ... Trump has hired gnomes?

03.03.2026 22:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm just using Star Explorers to test a shader, I have no actual intentions to do this to the game ... but now I am wondering.

02.03.2026 20:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Okay this is getting interesting...

02.03.2026 20:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Star Explorers - Apple II edition.

02.03.2026 18:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Random question:
Is "All the travelers arrived, except their luggage." a valid sentence?

02.03.2026 16:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands - Some New Bug Fixes - Steam News Full Screen Fix - Revised Okay, the full screen bug has been worked around more completely. The underlying issue is still there, and I am working on figuring out why it's happening, as it did not caus...

Releasing a very early demo of the game has resulted in a good many bug reports, but things are improving rapidly. This demo will definitely be coming down right after #NextFest, so if you want to try it, now it that time.
#CRPG #Retrogaming #Dreamlands

store.steampowered.com/news/app/399...

27.02.2026 18:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

"I've fixed the full-screen fixed file"
I just wrote these words.

26.02.2026 15:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 14 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love the density of the layout!

24.02.2026 15:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!

24.02.2026 12:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This was the original. I was not happy with it, but it served as a placeholder until I had the time and motivation to fix it up.

24.02.2026 04:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 22 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ruin interior for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. I originally had a different image that looked really poorly executed, then forgot about it. I spend a couple hours giving it some love.

24.02.2026 03:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 58 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands is on there... bsky.app/profile/did:...

23.02.2026 22:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sometimes they choose us :)

23.02.2026 22:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Kitan is beautiful :)
A true orange.

23.02.2026 21:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is the stray my daughter adopted ... the cat not the fellow :)

23.02.2026 21:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How it's going:

23.02.2026 21:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How it started:

23.02.2026 21:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ˜…
I'm not *that* good

23.02.2026 21:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands on Steam Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands takes you into the dark fantasy setting described in H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath and other stories of his Dream Cycle.

Steam Next Fest is Live! I am streaming the game on Steam right now :) I am also terrible at it.
#NextFest #LiveStreaming #CRPG

store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...

23.02.2026 18:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 44 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Someone's got their eye on you...

22.02.2026 19:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

it is very compelling...

22.02.2026 12:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0