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Gilded Rune Games
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A group of three game developers working on various video games!
Currently making: Dupery

Join our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/WyTMhHTcrs
See our past games: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/GildedRuneGames
Meet the Role: The Spectre 👻

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Today’s spectral underling obscures their target’s information, except any numbers they stumble across. Numerophobia is no joke!

#gamedev #dupery #game #series #halloween #ghosts
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Meet the Hitman 🔪

A traitor that murders uninvestigated roles every few hours, not only removing valuable information from the board, but also lowering your precious reputation.

Think you can stop them? Download the Dupery demo now!

store.steampowered.com/app/3845070/...

#game #Dupery #traitors
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
# Meet the Role: Surgeon 💉
Meet the surgeon!
A meddler who may or may not kill their patient after enough time passes…
It’s 50/50 for these poor souls.

(Volume warning for this one lol)
#gamedev #series #game #indiedev #devlog #game #dupery #deduction #detective #noir
October 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Meet the Role: Preist ✝️

An innocent role that claims to be who they say they are, unless they are lying or tainted of course!

#dupery #gamedev #game #steam #demo #series #indiedev #deduction
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Meet the Role: Judge ⚖️

Check out the first of a new silly mini-series of shorts that introduces some of Dupery's roles!

Starting strong, we have the Judge: A traitor that forces you to arrest often or else!

We just released our demo so check that out if you haven't already ❤️

#gamedev
October 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
At the same time! Check out the Dupery demo’s trailer!
October 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hello everyone! 🔎⏳

I’m happy to announce that the Dupery store page & demo releases today at 18:00 BST (less than six hours from posting)!!!

Download the demo and try your hand at telling good from evil, as you try to put a stop to the evil syndicate!

We’d love to hear what you think!

#gamedev
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Matt shows off some of the new music for Dupery and explains how its made!

#makeagamewithus #dupery #gamedev #series #devlog #game #music #jazz #indiedev
October 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Last time we talked about how to draw lines, today let’s talk about how to erase them nicely!

Our old system use to let us delete whole lines at a time, but we wanted something better, so in this short we explain how we solved it!

#dupery #gamedev #series #devlog #game #pen #makeagamewithus
September 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Have you ever just wanted to draw all over your screen?

Today Matt talks about how and why we made a pen for Dupery! _____🖊️

I really love these tools and I’m sure once you get your hands on them you’ll love them too!
#gamedev #dupery #deduction
September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Today Lydia shows us how the art style of our upcoming deduction game Dupery has evolved!

#dupery #gamedev #series #indiedev #devlog #game
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A terrible syndicate has infiltrated society, explore cases, listen to what the citizens have to say and use that information to route out the good form the evil.

Will you uncover the head of the syndicate? Or will you be duped like the rest?
#deduction #game #indiedev #botc #devlog #series
September 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Moonshard development is on pause, thank you for all support with it so far.

We hope you like what we make in the meantime: A Clock-like deduction game inspired by BotC & Demon Bluff. #botc #gamedev #rpg

Thank you <3
August 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What makes a good combat system?

Today Matt takes a quick look at a few games to find out! ⤵️

It can be really useful to identify what mechanical patterns work well in various games when considering the design of your own, and hopefully soon we’ll be able to show you the fruits of that!

#gamedev
July 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today let’s take a look at social stats in Moonshard: Dreams & Delusions.

There are four personality archetypes you can gain points into as you play: Aura, Wits, Edge, and Real.

Increasing these stats changes how the world, and those within it treat you.

#gamedev #rpg #moonshard
July 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Today we’re talking about project 5- or should I say Moonshard: Dreams & Delusions.

Yep! We’ve finally named it.
In this short we hope you can pick up the general vibe of the world and get an idea for the story.

#gamedev #indiegamedev #series #rpg #darkfantasy
July 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Today Lydia shows us more of her wonderful art, this time in the form of UI! ☀️

We have quite a bit to polish here as we continue to iterate and refine what’s needed, but for now we are quite happy with how it’s turned out.

Hope you like it :)

Big news on the way!

#gamedev #ui #rpg
July 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
How do you store the data for branching narratives?

Well, we use custom node graphs! (Our favourite type of spaghetti 🍝) Matt talks more about them below!

#gamedev
June 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Matt talks about puppets?

In today’s short we discuss how we plan to solve some animation problems!

We want characters to perform a wide range of animations during our combat sections, which would be quite tricky with just one artist… unless we use 2d rigs!

#gamedev #animation #series
June 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
It’s time to change our style! 🕹️

In this short we finally swap aesthetics into something that better fits game 5!

#gamedev
June 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Hey Bluesky!
Why are we making an SRPG?
In today’s short we talk about it!

Trying to be unique and stylish is hard, so pick what you enjoy and try make it the best you can! ❤️

#gamedev #rpg
May 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Trying to refine a style for our upcoming RPG.

Would love to hear people’s thoughts!

#gamedev #rpg #indiedev #characterart #ocs
May 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM