Panic Art Studios

Hero Siege is a live service action rpg with 22 character classes, made by a small independent studio in Finland. #indiegame #arpg #herosiege #pixelart #gamedev

Suomalainen työvoima on liian kallista ja usein laiskaa, epämotivoitunutta ja tehotonta, huomioonottaen riskit joihin suurimpana kuuluu se ettei huonosta työntekijästä pääse eroon. Me pyrimme palkkaamaan etätyöntekijöitä ulkomailta tästä syystä, maista jossa motivaatio ja kiitollisuus on korkeammalla tasolla.

Ihme kun kukaan suomalainen ei tule 8€ tuntipalkalla ja 0-tuntisopparilla töihin - tai vaihtoehtoisesti voit työskennellä kevytyrittäjänä 13€/tunti.

@JoshuaKhane how does safeguard of an account mean all your data is just deleted 😂

Microsoft DELETED my account AND OneDrive!!?? After ACKNOWLEDGING that I’m the owner of the account and that it was compromised??? 25 fucking years of data, thousands of euros spended on games?? My son’s baby pictures? GONE! All because MICROSOFT couldn’t bring back a compromised account?? One of the biggest companies ever coulnd’t do that so they just deleted that shit like it was nothing?? Fucking shame on you!! @microsoftnl @MicrosoftHelps @MicrosoftHelpt @Microsoft #microsoft #hacked

@KuuTuber my work pc has been on for years.

Wait people don’t like.. shut down their computers every night before going to bed…? why

Many people have asked me this, so to clarify, the Killing Spree passive stacks up to 100 times!

In the Ebontharn expansion, not only are we adding 24 new items, but we're also reworking or rebalancing some outdated items to make them more exciting and desirable!

@zerothoughts_22 🫡

@panicartstudios Super new to the game and very excited to check it out when the new update comes out!

Hero Siege - Ebontharn.. The Act IX Expansion is coming in mid/late august. All hands on deck! As promised, the expansion is free for anyone who owns the base game. Our future plans revolve around cosmetic monetization and quality content! #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #pixelart #herosiege #arpg

We have invested a lot into a better server infra, we now have 2 people instead of 1 on the servers. The plan is to shard main servers in each region, add more load balancers between machines and manually migrate people from overcrowded servers to new ones we open. This costs a lot of money, but we are ok with spending a lot of money to make it a better experience for our players!

@panicartstudios No. Fix your server. And don't give us the 'we weren't expecting this many players ONLINE' excuse AGAIN! Gonna skip 100% this season.

Are you ready to dive into Hero Siege again?

@evgeniy_ivan спасибо

@panicartstudios Ты лучший. Я буду строить.

Here's an example of how we're giving you more options to farm things you need, or diversify what content you'd like to profit from. There will be many more things like this! Want codexes? Now you have a direct way of going after them instead of being completely reliant on RNG. In Inferno, these are always infernal codex pages. Not only that, but we're going to make sure that when you heavily invest into a mechanic, it will be a guaranteed spawn.

@JLRway Yes!

@panicartstudios season in late August?

@Dump3r4 Currently planned for mid to late August

@panicartstudios Wheb we can expect the new season?

@_Roeb I have been on the indie grind for the past 14 years, and I love it. There is not a single complaint from my part, its a blessing and it makes me happy.

see its hard for me to wrap my head around making $434,000-$725,000 in a span of a year doing ur passion and then complaining about it

@MattCouture5 Your top athletes cant even win the hockey world cup, all they can do is ram into each other, a sport not a single other country cares about. Relax buddy.

Soccer is America’s like 5th prioritized sport… if the top athletes in the country focused on soccer, USA would be the best team in the world

@evgeniy_ivan Thy shall build and undying wargod 🫡

@panicartstudios Мы хотим не терять опыт после смерти. Игра хорошая.

@shaban_shaame Meanwhile an AI therapist is suggesting meth as a reward for a recovering addict. AI will always create worthless slop, eventually when everything is AI it will just go in circles devouring it self like oureoboros.

Are game developers doomed? Claude Fable 5 just did 6 years of my work in an afternoon. I don't think game developers are doomed. But our industry is about to change faster than almost anyone expects and I just watched it happen with my own game. Let me give you a concrete example. I started building Moonga when I was 17. After high school, I took a gap year before university and spent the whole year building the first version an online trading card game, back when web games were still in their infancy. It wasn't perfect. It was the work of a young developer. But it worked, people played it, and it proved the concept. In 2008 I rebuilt it from scratch, created a company, hired a team, modernized rules, redesigned experience, and we spent about a year and a half of work for an iPhone version. We launched on the App Store in 2010. Over the years we invested close to a million dollars. The game became especially successful in Japan and developed a loyal community. Ironically, our biggest challenge was never creating content it was maintaining the technology. Back then, iOS and Android meant separate codebases. A web version meant a third. Every feature, every bug fix, every improvement had to be duplicated across platforms. The maintenance cost was enormous. Fast-forward to today. I gave Claude Fable 5 the complete source code of Moonga roughly 500 cards, each with its own abilities and gameplay logic. It's years of accumulated game rules, edge cases, and design decisions. Five or six hours later, I had a fully playable version running on a modern multiplatform stack. One codebase. Web. Mobile. Modern architecture. A few more prompts and I was polishing interface and gameplay. It's not production-ready I could spend another week on animations, UX, and visual polish. But that's not the point. The point is this: years of accumulated development knowledge were enough for Fable 5 to recreate the entire game on a modern stack in a single afternoon. That doesn't erase the original work. Someone still had to invent the mechanics, balance 500 cards, design the systems, create the assets, ship the first implementation. But once that knowledge existed, rebuilding it became almost free. That's the real shift. The cost of implementing software is collapsing. The value is moving toward ideas, game design, content, world-building, community, and taste. We're entering an era where a small team or even a single developer can build what used to take dozens of engineers. For game developers, that's both terrifying and exciting. The question is no longer "Can I build this?" It's "What should I build, now that implementation is no longer the bottleneck?"

@PoprostuPL Not quite, but I can see how it would resemble that!

@panicartstudios Poe abyss 😀

Wonder what this is

@TheRefundPolice If people refund your game its probably not very good, the vast majority of people dont think like this.

I do not condone treating indie games like free rentals. Indie devs pour years of work money, and actual love into these games. Steam takes a large cut making many of them not financially rewarding enough to support development as a full time endeavor. Short games should not get punished because somebody decided that under two hours should mean free entertainment. Refund when a game is broken or misleading. If it did what it promised and you enjoyed it please support the people who made it.

@scumgrifter Season mechanic :). Normal turns into nightmare once you complete it, and nightmare is fully unlocked and has satanic zones in it. Hell is the next difficulty you get to beat now.

@panicartstudios curious if this is part of the expanding of zones for the 1-100 experience, i always liked farming lvls and gear in FOB on nightmare to lvl/ prep for hell before dungeon spam kinda got meta, looks like a juicy chest id spam run 🤑