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Toulouse Game Dev @toulousegamedev.bsky.social · 2d

Nouvelle production de @axelvborn.bsky.social, Rhombus est un jeu de puzzle non-linéaire à la 1ère personne où l'on doit créer son chemin à travers un environnement ouvert à l'aide de panneaux représentant des plateformes.

store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/... (6/6)

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Toulouse Game Dev @toulousegamedev.bsky.social · 2d

Cette semaine a lieu le #SteamNextFest d'Octobre, l'évènement de Steam qui met en avant les démos des jeux à venir.

Et une fois n'est pas coutume, on a plusieurs jeux toulousains qui y sont présentés et dont vous pouvez retrouver la liste dans le thread ci dessous ↓ (1/6)

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 2d

Steam #NextFest is starting today and my non-linear 1st person puzzle game Rhombus is part of it!

You can play the demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/...

#puzzlegame #metroidbrainia

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 4d

I've just uploaded an update to Rhombus' Steam demo before the upcoming #NextFest. Some visual improvements, a couple level design fixes, a bit of optimization and addition of graphics settings among other things.

steamcommunity.com/games/395995...

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 5d

I'm preparing an update to Rhombus' demo before Next Fest, and among other things, the game's panels got a small makeover, looking better in the environment.

Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/...

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

Screen of the game showcasing a panel in the foreground and platforms in the background.

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 13d

Rhombus' demo is out now on Steam!

It's a 1st-person puzzle game with an unique core mechanic to create your path throughout a compact non-linear environment with metroidbrainia elements.

You can play it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/...

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

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Toulouse Game Dev @toulousegamedev.bsky.social · 8d

🔥 Le premier "vrai" Meet-up de la rentrée sera le jeudi 16 Octobre ! 🔥

Ce mois-ci nous accueillons Ilaria Cislaghi , qui viendra nous faire une conférence (en Anglais) sur Godot : Ins and Outs of GODOT Engine

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 9d

Tu me rappelles que me faut prendre un billet avant que ça soit complet

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 13d

Rhombus' demo is out now on Steam!

It's a 1st-person puzzle game with an unique core mechanic to create your path throughout a compact non-linear environment with metroidbrainia elements.

You can play it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/...

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 16d

I've updated Rhombus' Steam page (store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/...), so here's a small gif showcasing the game's main puzzle mechanic.

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 16d

@realpercha.bsky.social tu confirmes?

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 17d

It's a first person game where you explore and build your way through this small map using puzzles, so quite far from a civ builder.

However, I can recommend you to check my sound designer @bycob.bsky.social's own game as he's literally doing an ant colony sim game: klayr.itch.io/the-glorious...

The Glorious Colony by Klayr

Simulation game with insect-like creatures

klayr.itch.io

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 18d

Alternatively, if we suppose that an arrow means you move out to another room (as we're seeing them on elevators). Then you've got a yellow arrow right next to the start that brings you to the bottom-left room instantly, skipping the maze.

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 18d

If a yellow arrow means a start position, then we've got 4 possible start positions to choose from in this picture. One of them is in the room below, I pick that one as my start and I'm out of the apple's room.

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 18d

I'd say it being compact actually helps a lot, as it limits the number of things you have to keep track of in your level design, making it easier to have everything tightly connected together.

Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 18d

The level design of my compact 1st person metroidbrainia Rhombus is finally complete with everything needed to reach the end of the game.

Steam demo will come in a couple days, in the meantime you can wishlist the game: store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/...

#ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Screenshot within Unity's Editor showing the whole map

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 23d

I've updated Rhombus' Itch demo. It now has menus, settings, save/load, a first draft of the audio from @bycob.bsky.social, a reworked 1st area and other stuff.

If everything goes well, Steam demo should be up next week

You can try it here: axelvborn.itch.io/rhombus

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

Rhombus by Axel 'Vlad' Born

non-linear 3d puzzle game

axelvborn.itch.io

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · 24d

Preparing the Steam demo for Rhombus right now and I've just remade the whole starting area to work better as a tutorial & be a bit more interesting (and it also looks a bit better too)

Wishlist the game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/...

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

One of 4 in-game screenshots of the 1st area of the game

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · Sep 15

Working on some simple but effective animation for my puzzle game's later panels.

Wishlist Rhombus on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/...

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · Sep 9

I've uploaded a first demo of Rhombus on itch with the first ~30 minutes of the game. It's still a bit rough on the edges (no audio or menu yet) but gameplay-wise it's roughly what the upcoming Steam demo should be

You can test it here : axelvborn.itch.io/rhombus

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

Rhombus by Axel 'Vlad' Born

non-linear 3d puzzle game

axelvborn.itch.io

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · Sep 13

Sharing another Snakeloop 'clone' which I missed during last gmtk jam: Cosmoroboros by NonDescript Games, bene-labs, Luane Kort, Nayuka & Johannes J Kross.
It got a post-jam version with a lot of levels available, and will apparently come out on Steam later.
bene-labs.itch.io/cosmoboros-p...

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · Sep 10

There'll be both Windows & Linux support. No consoles planned though (other than Steam Deck)

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · Sep 10

That's normal as there's no way to get to them in the demo. The demo includes all of the panels of the full game as a teasing. Except for a single one to block from progressing further and was replaced by the "end of demo" panels.

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · Sep 9

I've uploaded a first demo of Rhombus on itch with the first ~30 minutes of the game. It's still a bit rough on the edges (no audio or menu yet) but gameplay-wise it's roughly what the upcoming Steam demo should be

You can test it here : axelvborn.itch.io/rhombus

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

Rhombus by Axel 'Vlad' Born

non-linear 3d puzzle game

axelvborn.itch.io

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Axel 'Vlad' Born @axelvborn.bsky.social · Sep 6

Latest addition to Rhombus, a mysterious white panel blocked by walls of rhombuses in the middle of the map. What could it be?

Wishlist on Steam : store.steampowered.com/app/3959950/...

#ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev

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