Zag
@geoffkeene.bsky.social
Design Director / CEO of Deep Field Games 🌌
Lead on Abiotic Factor 👨🔬 abioticfactor.com
Creator, Designer, Writer of Unfortunate Spacemen 🧑🚀
In the far south 🇳🇿
Lead on Abiotic Factor 👨🔬 abioticfactor.com
Creator, Designer, Writer of Unfortunate Spacemen 🧑🚀
In the far south 🇳🇿
Pinned
my current PvP vs. Co-op stance on ARC Raiders
"Oh no, a guy being chased by 2 wasps!
Hey, friendly? ...
Oh, nevermind he's out of VOIP range."
*raises sniper rifle*
"Oh no, a guy being chased by 2 wasps!
Hey, friendly? ...
Oh, nevermind he's out of VOIP range."
*raises sniper rifle*
November 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
my current PvP vs. Co-op stance on ARC Raiders
"Oh no, a guy being chased by 2 wasps!
Hey, friendly? ...
Oh, nevermind he's out of VOIP range."
*raises sniper rifle*
"Oh no, a guy being chased by 2 wasps!
Hey, friendly? ...
Oh, nevermind he's out of VOIP range."
*raises sniper rifle*
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It’s time to be spooked… by how talented our scientists are!
The Halloween Peer Review 🎃
store.steampowered.com/news/app/427...
The Halloween Peer Review 🎃
store.steampowered.com/news/app/427...
Abiotic Factor - Peer Review #12 - Steam News
This October Peer Review is for scientific creations which fit a more classic spooky vibe.
store.steampowered.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It’s time to be spooked… by how talented our scientists are!
The Halloween Peer Review 🎃
store.steampowered.com/news/app/427...
The Halloween Peer Review 🎃
store.steampowered.com/news/app/427...
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Community Update #3!
Abiotic Factor goes into 1.1, with your feedback! So brawn up, brainiacs!
💀Hardcore Difficulty
⚔️Iron Mode
🔫Ammo Station
🏋️Exercise
🧺Farmables
🪨New Homeworld DLC
& more!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/427...
Abiotic Factor goes into 1.1, with your feedback! So brawn up, brainiacs!
💀Hardcore Difficulty
⚔️Iron Mode
🔫Ammo Station
🏋️Exercise
🧺Farmables
🪨New Homeworld DLC
& more!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/427...
Abiotic Factor - 1.1 - Community Update #3 - Steam News
Brawn up, brainiacs! More difficulty modes and more!
store.steampowered.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Community Update #3!
Abiotic Factor goes into 1.1, with your feedback! So brawn up, brainiacs!
💀Hardcore Difficulty
⚔️Iron Mode
🔫Ammo Station
🏋️Exercise
🧺Farmables
🪨New Homeworld DLC
& more!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/427...
Abiotic Factor goes into 1.1, with your feedback! So brawn up, brainiacs!
💀Hardcore Difficulty
⚔️Iron Mode
🔫Ammo Station
🏋️Exercise
🧺Farmables
🪨New Homeworld DLC
& more!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/427...
Slack seems to be down, I think this means I can go now
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Slack seems to be down, I think this means I can go now
I lived off a partner for years - essentially - while working on Unfortunate Spacemen. It makes getting up in front of a crowd and talking about "my journey to success" feel priviledged and fake.
But it's common and there is often no other option. Support structures matter, make sure you have one.
But it's common and there is often no other option. Support structures matter, make sure you have one.
Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.
When people hear that I'm returning to part time work they often ask "are things not going well with your art?"
The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
The problem really is things are going well, but the world is so unstable that I long for some consistency and income that I don't have to pay quarterly taxes on
November 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I lived off a partner for years - essentially - while working on Unfortunate Spacemen. It makes getting up in front of a crowd and talking about "my journey to success" feel priviledged and fake.
But it's common and there is often no other option. Support structures matter, make sure you have one.
But it's common and there is often no other option. Support structures matter, make sure you have one.
As I review game designer applications I can only ask game designers to do one thing: plz design games.
Don't design "experiences" (whatever that means), don't just design board games, don't only design card games.
Just make sure you actually design video games. For the video game design role.
Don't design "experiences" (whatever that means), don't just design board games, don't only design card games.
Just make sure you actually design video games. For the video game design role.
October 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
As I review game designer applications I can only ask game designers to do one thing: plz design games.
Don't design "experiences" (whatever that means), don't just design board games, don't only design card games.
Just make sure you actually design video games. For the video game design role.
Don't design "experiences" (whatever that means), don't just design board games, don't only design card games.
Just make sure you actually design video games. For the video game design role.
The ARC Raiders withdrawal has set in.
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The ARC Raiders withdrawal has set in.
Jealousy is not a good look
October 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Jealousy is not a good look
free idea after playing Megabonk for 37 seconds
Carmageddon 2 Vampire Survivors-like
Carmageddon 2 Vampire Survivors-like
October 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
free idea after playing Megabonk for 37 seconds
Carmageddon 2 Vampire Survivors-like
Carmageddon 2 Vampire Survivors-like
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Abiotic Factor has been nominated for both “Best Indie Game” and “PC Game of the Year” at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025! 🕹️
Get those scientific digits moving and vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: goldenjoysticks.com
#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
Get those scientific digits moving and vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: goldenjoysticks.com
#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
Golden Joystick Awards 2025: Voting is Live!
Your votes will pick the winners in an unpredictable contest
goldenjoysticks.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Abiotic Factor has been nominated for both “Best Indie Game” and “PC Game of the Year” at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025! 🕹️
Get those scientific digits moving and vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: goldenjoysticks.com
#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
Get those scientific digits moving and vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: goldenjoysticks.com
#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
Reposted by Zag
Abiotic Factor has been nominated for both “Best Indie Game” and “PC Game of the Year” at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025! 🕹️
Vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: www.goldenjoysticks.com
#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
Vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: www.goldenjoysticks.com
#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
October 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Abiotic Factor has been nominated for both “Best Indie Game” and “PC Game of the Year” at the Golden Joystick Awards 2025! 🕹️
Vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: www.goldenjoysticks.com
#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
Vote here by 5pm PDT / 8pm EDT / midnight BST on 31 October 2025: www.goldenjoysticks.com
#abioticfactor #goldenjoysticks2025
I have some concerns about the implications of all of society being a whale farm, which means everyone else is the content for the whales. If you understand free to pay ecosystems it is... Worrying.
things are getting more expensive because only rich people are spending. The top 10% of earners ($250k as a household) make up half of all consumer spending in the US. So, everything is being priced for them while Xbox leaves everyone else behind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Top 10% of Earners Drive a Growing Share of US Consumer Spending
Wealthy consumers continue to account for a growing share of US consumer spending, highlighting the lopsided strength of the economy as a slowdown in hiring and wariness among other income cohorts rai...
www.bloomberg.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I have some concerns about the implications of all of society being a whale farm, which means everyone else is the content for the whales. If you understand free to pay ecosystems it is... Worrying.
We were not made to know so many things at once.
I don’t know what the Bluesky controversy is about and I’m actually glad. I need a break from knowing things.
October 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We were not made to know so many things at once.
My favorite work status
September 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
My favorite work status
This bug report and social media have a lot in common.
September 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This bug report and social media have a lot in common.
Turns out it IS actually my circus, but I'm still not entirely sure where the monkeys came from.
September 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Turns out it IS actually my circus, but I'm still not entirely sure where the monkeys came from.
Conventions are such a cool little temporary world where we just live in a walkable city with all of our friends.
September 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Conventions are such a cool little temporary world where we just live in a walkable city with all of our friends.
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Exactly what you've been asking for - another survivor-like auto-shooter! Now drenched in early-2000's nostalgia, the way mother used to make.
Wishlist on Steam avs03.com
Wishlist on Steam avs03.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Exactly what you've been asking for - another survivor-like auto-shooter! Now drenched in early-2000's nostalgia, the way mother used to make.
Wishlist on Steam avs03.com
Wishlist on Steam avs03.com
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Abiotic Factor is 20% off as part of the Made In New Zealand Steam Sale!
Check it out, along with a plethora of genius Kiwi games.
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
Check it out, along with a plethora of genius Kiwi games.
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
September 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Abiotic Factor is 20% off as part of the Made In New Zealand Steam Sale!
Check it out, along with a plethora of genius Kiwi games.
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
Check it out, along with a plethora of genius Kiwi games.
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
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The Made in NZ sale is BACK for 2025 🇳🇿
Featuring 100+ games from devs all over Aotearoa
Deep discounts, new demos and plenty of upcoming games to wishlist.
Chur 🤙
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
Featuring 100+ games from devs all over Aotearoa
Deep discounts, new demos and plenty of upcoming games to wishlist.
Chur 🤙
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
September 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The Made in NZ sale is BACK for 2025 🇳🇿
Featuring 100+ games from devs all over Aotearoa
Deep discounts, new demos and plenty of upcoming games to wishlist.
Chur 🤙
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
Featuring 100+ games from devs all over Aotearoa
Deep discounts, new demos and plenty of upcoming games to wishlist.
Chur 🤙
store.steampowered.com/sale/nzgames...
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Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is like an infested Windows XP as a survivor-like bullet hell
#Gaming #Linux #PCGaming
#Gaming #Linux #PCGaming
Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is like an infested Windows XP as a survivor-like bullet hell
Retro Windows style as a survivor-like action roguelite? Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is giving me hilarious nostalgia.
www.gamingonlinux.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Check this one out - the team put lots of love (and I assume, alcohol) into it!
🍻‼️ BREWS & BASTARDS IS OUT NOW ‼️🍻
Descend into the Muneshine Brewery, grab a brew and battle your way through drunken hoards of demons to retrieve the stolen Brew Stone!
Steam - store.steampowered.com/app/2556240/Brews__Bastards/
Xbox - www.xbox.com/en-nz/games/store/brews-bastards/9ppr10s4jnlv
Descend into the Muneshine Brewery, grab a brew and battle your way through drunken hoards of demons to retrieve the stolen Brew Stone!
Steam - store.steampowered.com/app/2556240/Brews__Bastards/
Xbox - www.xbox.com/en-nz/games/store/brews-bastards/9ppr10s4jnlv
September 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Check this one out - the team put lots of love (and I assume, alcohol) into it!