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@teamlazerbeam.bsky.social

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Yr new fav game-band! 🌈✨🍦💖🎸👽🍑🐈🛹✨🌈 Currently making: Shroom and Gloom 🍄 link below! Past hits: Teenage Blob, Snow Cones 1 & 2, Wrestling With Emotions. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3602770/Shroom_and_Gloom_Demo/

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · May 15

Oh my Blob! Amazing news!

🎸 @devolverdigital.com are publishing our game!
🔮 Shroom and Gloom Wishlists are now open!
🍄 Free demo up on Steam!
✨ We're so stoked!

Grab the demo! Roast some shrooms! Leave us a review!💖
store.steampowered.com/app/3271280/...

#indiegames #gamedev #shroomandgloom

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 7h

Card game alert. Think I'll check out the demo today seeing as we are makinga dungeon card game too!

Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 8h

If you're a fan of:
🖍️ Games with hand drawn art
🍄 Game-breaking turn-based cardplay
🔥 roasting and eating your enemies

And you're looking for a deeply replayable demo this Steam Next fest: this might be your next indie game obsession!✨

#indiegames #steamnextfest #steamdemos #roguelike

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 13m

Wishing you all the best on the homestretch to launching this awesome thing!

Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 14m

Thanks for the share, and thanks for giving the demo a spin! So glad to hear you had such a good time with it!

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · Feb 3

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!

A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching.
Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.

store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

With @slicknicklives.bsky.social

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 4h

Instantly so hyped for this!

Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 4h

Woah, this looks incredibly cool!

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 5h

I guess we should get better and linking people to our games! Here's the demo for this one!

store.steampowered.com/app/3602770/...

Shroom and Gloom Demo on Steam

The Shroom and Gloom demo drops you into a weird and moody double-deckbuilding roguelike. Build two distinct decks, battle through 26 handcrafted tunnels, and face off against spore-swarming enemies a...

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks for the share. Stoked to catch up on what dungeon card game you're cooking up on your side!

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 5h

Thanks for the share! Glad to hear you think our little mushroom game looks interesting!

Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 5h

So glad to hear you like the look of what we're doing with the game!

Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 8h

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Ben Sears @bensears.bsky.social · 16h

Dog

A drawing Jake the dog looking at a purple caterpillar on a hollow tree stump

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 1d

You heard Daddy Devolver! Go play the Shroom and Gloom demo!🍄🔮

Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 1d

Devolver Digital's own Volvy has put every single #SteamNextFest demo through rigorous testing and found the best ones just for you!

🌀 BALL x PIT
🛹 Skate Story
🤛🏼 Forestrike
🧟‍♂️ Quarantine Zone
🍄‍🟫 Shroom & Gloom
🐂 Minos
🦀 The Dungeon Experience

Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 1d

So appreciate it! Thank you!

Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 1d

Hungry Blade? One of the best early game finds you can dig up!

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 2d

We're so grateful to be part of this amazing community, and proud of what all the Superfriends are doing.

So stoked to see people playing with all our new creations!

If this sounds like your jam, come through to Makers massive on the 18th, play some totally unique games and get some high fives!💖

Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 2d

An amazing new crop of games and controllers will make their public debut at this next arcade.

Memebers of Team Lazerbeam have been involved in:
🎂 breath activated birthday cake controller
🥠 Giant fortune cookie
🐶 Co-op dog balloon pumper
🧈 competitive butter churning sim
🔮 2 button dungeon crawler

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 2d

Over the last few years our biggest annual event has been our arcade inside the beautiful @playtopia.bsky.social, Africa's biggest indie games and immersive arts festival.💖

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 2d

We've built some amazing things over the years, and SFA games and controllers have been exhibited far beyond South Africa, appearing at parties and festivals in countries like Japan, Germany, Australia and USA.

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 2d

SFA started up in 2014 as a way of growing the South African game dev community, and change how people think about games.

Our controllers and games are designed to be super accessible, bringing people together through the magic of play and creativity.

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 2d

🕹️What is SFA?
Super Friendship Arcade are a collective who host jams, share game dev skills, create weird multiplayer games and build crazy controllers.

Then we throw pop up arcades in unexpected places, showing off the creations from our amazing community.

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 2d

🇿🇦Anyone here from Cape Town and into indie games or alternative controllers?

Well then you need to be at the new Super Friendship Arcade!

Pop up arcade with:
🐱 Homemade indie game!
🐸 Weird alt controllers!
🐶 Awesome people!
🐯 Loads of high fives!

18 Oct at Makers Massive - home of CT Game Dev!

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 2d

Haha! Glad that someone appreciated that!

Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 2d

Love to hear it! Thanks so much for checking out the demo!

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the share! So grateful that people are stoked!