Nick Quackenbush
@quackles.bsky.social
Associate Art Director @ System Era Softworks working on the next thing after Astroneer
Father of 2 and Husband to 1
Aliens Fireteam Elite, Star Trek Online, Rise of the Triad; He/Him
https://www.artstation.com/quack
http://linkedin.com/in/nickquackenbush
Father of 2 and Husband to 1
Aliens Fireteam Elite, Star Trek Online, Rise of the Triad; He/Him
https://www.artstation.com/quack
http://linkedin.com/in/nickquackenbush
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Nick Quackenbush
@quackles.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Hey new Bluesky followers!
I'm an Associate Art Director at System Era Softworks, doing cool things with cool people in the Astroneer universe.
I love all things video games, but proceduralism makes me super hot.
I mostly repost cool video game things from cool folks!
www.artstation.com/quack
I'm an Associate Art Director at System Era Softworks, doing cool things with cool people in the Astroneer universe.
I love all things video games, but proceduralism makes me super hot.
I mostly repost cool video game things from cool folks!
www.artstation.com/quack
Woooow. I have always wanted to to see the aurora borealis but could never catch a glimpse. But we got lucky tonight. What an emotional moment to get to experience them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Woooow. I have always wanted to to see the aurora borealis but could never catch a glimpse. But we got lucky tonight. What an emotional moment to get to experience them.
Anyone else's brain move faster than their fingers and thus have all of Slack's editing features shortcut keys memorized so you can make your sentences make sense ASAP after you write something that is supposed to be professional and informative? EVERY TIME. No matter how much I proofread...
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Anyone else's brain move faster than their fingers and thus have all of Slack's editing features shortcut keys memorized so you can make your sentences make sense ASAP after you write something that is supposed to be professional and informative? EVERY TIME. No matter how much I proofread...
Reposted by Nick Quackenbush
Something you might have missed from our Direct last month:
STARSEEKER has water + physics! You can use your tools to unleash or divert water sources while out on an Expedition! 🌊🚿💦
STARSEEKER has water + physics! You can use your tools to unleash or divert water sources while out on an Expedition! 🌊🚿💦
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Something you might have missed from our Direct last month:
STARSEEKER has water + physics! You can use your tools to unleash or divert water sources while out on an Expedition! 🌊🚿💦
STARSEEKER has water + physics! You can use your tools to unleash or divert water sources while out on an Expedition! 🌊🚿💦
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My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!
3D printed Mask in 3 parts (17 hour prints) plus a heavily modified cheap spirit Halloween cape. Easy peasy!
My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!
November 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
3D printed Mask in 3 parts (17 hour prints) plus a heavily modified cheap spirit Halloween cape. Easy peasy!
My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
My son was basically a celebrity trick or treating tonight. He was on cloud 9 from all the attention. Worth the effort!
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I made a few screens of what the game could look like using the first assets we have🌼
October 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I made a few screens of what the game could look like using the first assets we have🌼
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the team has made an important change to carrotling "relocation" 🏈🏉 🌪
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
the team has made an important change to carrotling "relocation" 🏈🏉 🌪
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spoilers but here's everything I made for QBJ3 (so far)
October 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
spoilers but here's everything I made for QBJ3 (so far)
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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
🌀 BALL x PIT
🛹 Skate Story
🤛🏼 Forestrike
🧟♂️ Quarantine Zone
🍄🟫 Shroom & Gloom
🐂 Minos
🦀 The Dungeon Experience
October 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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
🌀 BALL x PIT
🛹 Skate Story
🤛🏼 Forestrike
🧟♂️ Quarantine Zone
🍄🟫 Shroom & Gloom
🐂 Minos
🦀 The Dungeon Experience
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Hungry Horrors joined #SteamNextFest with a new updated demo.
Check out our indie game where you feed monsters from British & Irish legends with local food before they reach you and feed on you. This deckbuilding roguelite adventure is a blend of cards, food, mythology and British humour.
#gamedev
Check out our indie game where you feed monsters from British & Irish legends with local food before they reach you and feed on you. This deckbuilding roguelite adventure is a blend of cards, food, mythology and British humour.
#gamedev
October 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Hungry Horrors joined #SteamNextFest with a new updated demo.
Check out our indie game where you feed monsters from British & Irish legends with local food before they reach you and feed on you. This deckbuilding roguelite adventure is a blend of cards, food, mythology and British humour.
#gamedev
Check out our indie game where you feed monsters from British & Irish legends with local food before they reach you and feed on you. This deckbuilding roguelite adventure is a blend of cards, food, mythology and British humour.
#gamedev
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The demo of our folk horror card strategy game The Killing Stone is live!
We gots creepy characters and furry friends and so many animated figurines with sweet VFX. Also the enemy AI is pretty diabolical, that's on me.
Please check it out and leave a review!
store.steampowered.com/app/3987180/...
We gots creepy characters and furry friends and so many animated figurines with sweet VFX. Also the enemy AI is pretty diabolical, that's on me.
Please check it out and leave a review!
store.steampowered.com/app/3987180/...
The Killing Stone Demo on Steam
Beat the Devil at his own game. The Killing Stone Demo lets you try out the deckbuilding card battler wrapped in a 17th century folk horror narrative. Clean the sins of a cursed family by bargaining a...
store.steampowered.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The demo of our folk horror card strategy game The Killing Stone is live!
We gots creepy characters and furry friends and so many animated figurines with sweet VFX. Also the enemy AI is pretty diabolical, that's on me.
Please check it out and leave a review!
store.steampowered.com/app/3987180/...
We gots creepy characters and furry friends and so many animated figurines with sweet VFX. Also the enemy AI is pretty diabolical, that's on me.
Please check it out and leave a review!
store.steampowered.com/app/3987180/...
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We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game
So he flipped his positive review to negative
Still totally worth it
So he flipped his positive review to negative
Still totally worth it
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game
So he flipped his positive review to negative
Still totally worth it
So he flipped his positive review to negative
Still totally worth it
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normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following
October 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following
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STARSEEKER is an action 💥 game at it's core.
Learn more about all the new ways crew members can manuever around the world in our STARSEEKER Direct on October 7th.
🏃💨🚀🏊
Learn more about all the new ways crew members can manuever around the world in our STARSEEKER Direct on October 7th.
🏃💨🚀🏊
September 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
STARSEEKER is an action 💥 game at it's core.
Learn more about all the new ways crew members can manuever around the world in our STARSEEKER Direct on October 7th.
🏃💨🚀🏊
Learn more about all the new ways crew members can manuever around the world in our STARSEEKER Direct on October 7th.
🏃💨🚀🏊
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All of my games are 20-65% off for the 2025 Steam Autumn Sale! Please check them out especially if you like RPGs because that's what most of them are (and leave reviews if you can, most are at barely over 10 reviews)
store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...
store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
All of my games are 20-65% off for the 2025 Steam Autumn Sale! Please check them out especially if you like RPGs because that's what most of them are (and leave reviews if you can, most are at barely over 10 reviews)
store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...
store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...
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Early 2020 in a diner somewhere having breakfast with Brendan went something like: "I really want to make a game about being the Astroneer crew of a space station where you embark on missions with your friends."
October 7th, 2025👇🏻
October 7th, 2025👇🏻
The wait is over. Learn all about what it takes to be a member of the crew during next week's STARSEEKER Direct gameplay reveal livestream. 🚀📺
📅 October 7th - 10AM PT
📅 October 7th - 10AM PT
September 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Early 2020 in a diner somewhere having breakfast with Brendan went something like: "I really want to make a game about being the Astroneer crew of a space station where you embark on missions with your friends."
October 7th, 2025👇🏻
October 7th, 2025👇🏻
Reposted by Nick Quackenbush
September 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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The wait is over. Learn all about what it takes to be a member of the crew during next week's STARSEEKER Direct gameplay reveal livestream. 🚀📺
📅 October 7th - 10AM PT
📅 October 7th - 10AM PT
September 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The wait is over. Learn all about what it takes to be a member of the crew during next week's STARSEEKER Direct gameplay reveal livestream. 🚀📺
📅 October 7th - 10AM PT
📅 October 7th - 10AM PT
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Alright let's go through some of the tips I've shared with this project! 🧵👩🏫
Soooo apparently Project Lepidora is out? ⛲🦋✨
... With all the project files free to download?! And a handbook???
👇👇👇
www.artstation.com/artwork/XJX6x3
... With all the project files free to download?! And a handbook???
👇👇👇
www.artstation.com/artwork/XJX6x3
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Alright let's go through some of the tips I've shared with this project! 🧵👩🏫
Helluva a weekend for Pit-based games
September 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Helluva a weekend for Pit-based games
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I reworked the camera to work better with all the verticality the game’s building tools creates.
Really fun flying through rock arches and up cliffs now!
#indiegames #gamedev
Really fun flying through rock arches and up cliffs now!
#indiegames #gamedev
September 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I reworked the camera to work better with all the verticality the game’s building tools creates.
Really fun flying through rock arches and up cliffs now!
#indiegames #gamedev
Really fun flying through rock arches and up cliffs now!
#indiegames #gamedev
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Possessor(s) dazzles PS5 and PC players on November 11!
Heart Machine's Metroidvania is soaked in stylish combat, weird demons, and sexy interdimensional beings.
Wishlist now and follow @heartmachine.bsky.social for more news and stay updated!
Heart Machine's Metroidvania is soaked in stylish combat, weird demons, and sexy interdimensional beings.
Wishlist now and follow @heartmachine.bsky.social for more news and stay updated!
POSSESSOR(S) Gameplay Overview | PS5 and PC on November 11
YouTube video by DevolverDigital
youtu.be
September 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Possessor(s) dazzles PS5 and PC players on November 11!
Heart Machine's Metroidvania is soaked in stylish combat, weird demons, and sexy interdimensional beings.
Wishlist now and follow @heartmachine.bsky.social for more news and stay updated!
Heart Machine's Metroidvania is soaked in stylish combat, weird demons, and sexy interdimensional beings.
Wishlist now and follow @heartmachine.bsky.social for more news and stay updated!
Reposted by Nick Quackenbush
September 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM