David Maletz

This is it, folks... After 4 years, we just released Aground Zero! store.steampowered.com/app/1795570/Ag… 🏗️Sandbox base-building & automation 🍅Post-apocalyptic survival shenanigans 🐉Cute baby dragons and magic spellbooks 🚀Visiting the moon & planets in your spaceship #gamedev #indiegame

Whoohoo! 🎉Online Multiplayer is out of beta! You can now play Aground Zero with your friends and complete quests together! How to play multiplayer & update info: store.steampowered.com/news/app/17955… #AgroundZero #gamedev #indiegame

@TheLaRueShow Uncertain - I'm not happy with some of the anti-developer practices Apple has been doing lately, and I wouldn't get the app verified, but I might make a non-verified version you could start if you bypass gatekeeper.

Here's a sneak peak of the surface of Aground Zero! After surviving underground and building a base, you finally reach the surface only to find... #indiegame

2nd of October 2023, the three people dev studio @fancyfishgames launched their newest narrative game "Stardander - School for Witches" on Steam in Early Access. You're diving into a magical school setting. It has turn-based combat and other gameplay. fuwanovel.net/2023/10/starda…

I wrote another blog post - and this one is a long overdue post-mortem of our previous game, Aground, on the value of Early Access: david.fancyfishgames.com/2023/10/agroun… #gamedev #indiedev

✨Welcome to magic school!✨ Stardander School for Witches is available NOW in Early Access: store.steampowered.com/app/1733050/St… 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Yay! We are so thrilled to share this game with the world. 💗Try the demo, share, repost, pls💗 #gamedev #visualnovel #RPG #spooky #witchy #IndieGameDev

I made a new blog post! Making a Game from Start to Finish: david.fancyfishgames.com/2023/07/making… The blog post covers my process, along with thoughts and stumbling blocks along the way! #gamedev

GUESS..(guess..) WHAT? (What)? I've officially released the STEMS + MIDI for the main theme of #agroundgame ✨ ! So, if you want to study, remix, or learn how I made the theme you can grab the assets here 👇 More assets coming soon from the soundtrack. chasebethea.gumroad.com/l/agroundmaint…

@Thewolf69645275 While I haven't integrated modio support (and I'm holding off until the codebase gets more stable, as changes might break mods), it is moddable and someone already made a mod: youtube.com/watch?v=0i8cvE…

@DavidMaletz Can't wait for it to become moddable

Thank you for playing the demo! It was great to see you try the updated version of the game! The save you were loading in the beginning was actually your old save (I tried to keep them compatible, but starting a new save was definitely the right choice)!

Happy #SteamNextFest!!🎉The demo is out and we will be streaming live✨4 hours from now!✨(4pm EST) 📢Have a question about #AgroundZero?? Drop it in the replies and we'll answer on stream! #gamedev #indiegame #basebuilding

To celebrate #BaseBuilderFest, the Aground Zero demo is now public for the first time ever!!✨🎉 Check it out if you like... 🏗️Base-building 🧊Sandbox RPG goodness 🤖Silly robots 🍅Finding ways to not live solely on tomatoes #gamedev #IndieGameDev

Someone has the zoomies today! 🏃💨 Each navigation, you can move around #Stardander castle to talk to professors or your fellow witches-in-training, brew potions, cultivate plants, investigate mysteries, study, or battle fae in the forest! #indiegame #gamedev #Witchy

This cave needed a bit of color...

#Stardander will be in the #Turnbasedfest and @fancyfishgames will be doing a livestream of the game tomorrow 11 AM PST / 1 PM EST #gamedev

Thrilled to announce we'll have nearly 300 games in #TurnBasedFest! Excited to show the huge variety in turn-based video games, all united by fun based on smart choices & clever planning instead of reflexes & reactions. 🔁RT if you love these kind of games!

#PitchYaGame, welcome to Stardander School for Witches! 🧙‍♀️ 🪄 Become a magical witch 🏰All-girls school shenanigans 💕Make friends or💀enemies 🦊Fight (or tame!) fae monsters ...pet the talking demon-cat headmaster??🙀 ✨Wishlist✨store.steampowered.com/app/1733050/St… #gamedev #turnbased

Happy #screenshotsaturday !! Here is our brand-new trailer for #Aground Zero - 🏗️A base-building and survival game 👨‍🍳where the NPCs help you ☝️Together, can you reach the surface? 🚀And what will you find there? youtube.com/watch?v=AeJj_M…

@damndanielle87 Honestly, I kind of got burnt out near the end of Aground and wanted to move on to something new - so I doubt I'll do more updates. However, I am working on a spinoff game: store.steampowered.com/app/1795570/Ag… (I really need to update the trailer... that's old haha).

@DavidMaletz idk if you'll ever add more updates to Aground in the near or late future but I hope you do. I love Aground, I have it on my Switch and Xbox. it's a blast to play it through everytime. I currently have 5 saves across both platforms.