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The Sonar Summit Sonar Summit: a global conversation about building better software in the AI era In March 2026, join us for Sonar Summit, a one-day, global virtual event, bringing together the brightest minds and mo...

Tomorrow, I will speak at Somar Summit about how we at Sonar "Map the Multiverse" of your codebase. Tune in, if you want to hear me geek out about Symbolic Execution for 15 minutes!
events.sonarsource.com/the-sonar-su...

02.03.2026 11:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My tactical fantasy PBTA roleplaying game is out now with new art and a new name.

Presenting Cleave!

Cleave is about bonds that both tie us together and rip us apart. Download now to navigate a world of politics and magic and try to keep your principles in tact.

thedevteam.itch.io/cleave-rpg

01.03.2026 00:07 👍 72 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 4
Thinky Dailies
Now everyone can play!
thinkygames.com/dailies
The image shows all our thinky characters with puzzles floating over their heads.

Thinky Dailies Now everyone can play! thinkygames.com/dailies The image shows all our thinky characters with puzzles floating over their heads.

Thinky Dailies is now available for everyone to play — no sign-in needed!

🧩 Every day, a new handcrafted puzzle with different rules.

📖 Catch up on the adventure so far before season 2 begins next week!

thinkygames.com/dail...

26.02.2026 17:52 👍 62 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 9

I never noticed a sound queue. Need to turn up the volume, I guess.

20.02.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love how creative you are with your buffs and nerfs!

19.02.2026 19:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Everyone is John Everyone is John is one of the shortest, most fun Table-Top/Pen-&-Paper Role-Playing Game (RPG) around.

Have you ever heard of Everyone is John?
rtwolf.github.io/Everyone-is-...

17.02.2026 06:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Same, I always struggle with coming up with an interesting response in the first place. Making me find a second one on top of it? That's even harder.

16.02.2026 19:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

08.01.2026 18:02 👍 1845 🔁 576 💬 51 📌 65
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Why does Scroll & Steel use 2d8? One question I imagine most people will ask about Scroll & Steel when they read it is why in the world does this PBTA game use 2d8. After all, Apocalypse World uses 2d6, and most games in PBTA have fo...

Big news! I'm starting a newsletter/blog. This will be used to share updates on Scroll & Steel and also my general design insights.

There's already a couple posts up. This one is discusses what I imagine will be a common question about Scroll & Steel. devin-developing.ghost.io/why-does-scr...

07.01.2026 16:31 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Removing 10+ makes sense to me. But taking away 6- would always give you an out. Not sure I'd like that.

05.01.2026 07:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Er sagt "Money for the country". Ich lese das als "Geld für Venezuela".

03.01.2026 19:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I consider it more co-optional. Expect a lot of friendly fire, intentionally and unintentionally :)

31.12.2025 09:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you have an example?

23.12.2025 15:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think it's just the way you write moves, not this playbook in particular.

20.12.2025 07:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I like how these moves very clearly give you power over the narrative instead of over something in the world.

19.12.2025 21:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Save 35% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...

This season, give yourself the gift of giving us less money:

🧙‍♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 35% off!
store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...

🕵️ Gunpoint is 75% off!
store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...

🚀 Heat Signature is 75% off!
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18.12.2025 18:13 👍 74 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 4

Nf3, Qc4, Ne5 maybe?

11.12.2025 17:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It feels like it's Nd2 but I don't know how to continue after Qd3

11.12.2025 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Das ist genau die Art von Antwort die mein 10jähriger zur Zeit gibt, wenn er lustig sein will.

01.12.2025 13:19 👍 49 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Then please say "I miss ticket systems" but not Jira *shudders*

01.12.2025 07:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't fully understand this. If you reduce Phil to 0 attack, it will not attack and respawn infinitely. How do 0 health play into this?

30.11.2025 08:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Did you play the demo? I think you might find the main character's voice quite amusing :D

09.11.2025 07:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

All three are amazing games!

08.11.2025 21:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Save 40% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...

Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off in today's Daily Deal! The cheapest the wizards have ever allowed us to price them.

To celebrate, we've added a community missions pack, featuring some great ones players have made since launch.

store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/... .

02.11.2025 19:31 👍 227 🔁 83 💬 4 📌 32

My dreams make more sense than this!

26.10.2025 21:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha I should have known this was too easy

20.10.2025 18:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rxf6

20.10.2025 10:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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12.10.2025 11:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Use night mode instead of dark mode

04.10.2025 17:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So if we have less than 12 cards unlocked for a captain, unlocking another card will be kinda pointless because we'll get it end of October anyway?

01.10.2025 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0