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Pawn of the Dead is released on #Steam ! It's a chess variant. When a Black (undead) piece captures a White piece, that White piece turns into a Black one! We have a campaign mode and a random level generator. #indiegames #madewithunity #indiegamedev store.steampowered.com/app/890130/Paw…

Enjoy! store.steampowered.com/app/890130/Paw…

Pawn of the Dead has a Steam demo now! Available for Windows, Mac (Intel + Apple Silicon), Linux. Chess variation in which Black infects White to themselves. Random level generator mode can be played in the gloomy coldness of the Graveyard environment. #Steam #indiegames

Pawn of the Dead will be a part of Steam's Remote Play Together Fest, which will be held during Feb 12-19. Our Steam live stream is on Sunday, Feb 18 2024 GMT 16:30 (TSİ 19:30). We will celebrate the anniversary of Pawn of the Dead's Steam release, as well. #steam #indiegames

Keeping cutscenes realtime didn't help the size of the build, by the way. The scenes needed their own lightmaps and textures if they include non-in-game environments.

I'd consider publishing a lite version of Pawn of the Dead without the cinematics if I was publishing it on App Store today. 724 MB is a high download size, with ~300 MB pre-rendered cutscenes. We'd get a better conversion rate with a smaller size. #gamedev

Some more App Store feature news: Pawn of the Dead is currently being featured on Games Tab across the Middle East, Türkiye and Africa on App Store. #MobileGaming #mobilegames

@CodeRed_dev Pawn of the Dead store.steampowered.com/app/890130/Paw…

@AslanGameStudio What game is this?

Pawn of the Dead is released on #Steam ! It's a chess variant. When a Black (undead) piece captures a White piece, that White piece turns into a Black one! We have a campaign mode and a random level generator. #indiegames #madewithunity #indiegamedev store.steampowered.com/app/890130/Paw…

Valve announced it loosened the policy against Steam games with AI generated content. A reason why I shelved ChatGPT Ouija board game was the mud in the water, the legal uncertainty. I still don't regret that shelving decision, though, to be honest.

Nice to see Pawn of the Dead featured in App Store's "New Games We Love" section. #indiegames #indiegamedev

Happy New Year! Aslan couldn't reach the targeted milestone this year, to be honest and transparent. I'd wish to have opened the Steam page of an exciting game, at least. But I'm still glad that I am able to pursue this passionate ambition in health. It matters most for me.

@SaraSecoraVO I am glad that he's okay now. Merry Christmas!

@nazimadakli Thanks!

@AslanGameStudio I give it approx 2 years until you can ship a game that can run simultaneous instances of an open source lightweight language model as performant as gpt 4. The market will saturate fast after that. But you can have a successfull game if you time its launch right. Good luck!

We are shelving Presence, the one we were making this year, and start a new game project. Presence would be a game that you could talk (with your own voice) with randomized spirits powered by ChatGPT. The system did really work. But at some point, +

I talked about why ChatGPT was discarded in this blog post in this September. aslangamestudio.com/some-thoughts-… About our new project (a multiplayer horror game), I'll start sharing content once it reaches a mature phase. Stay tuned! 🎃

+ we needed to discard ChatGPT (or any other LLMs). Well, it was possible to create dialogues for spirits with pre-determined questions and answers, but the game became rather bland without its USP. It's necessary not to fall in love with your projects and know when to shelve.

Aslan Game Studio is a sponsor for HUJAM'23 and I'll be a jury member for this jam. I look forward to being a part of the event.

A Ouija board and planchette working with C++ in Unreal Engine 5. Work in production, especially the lighting. I'm convinced that C++ becomes a necessity once you reach a certain complexity in UE. #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #indiegamedev #UnrealEngine5 #horrorgames

Literally me #indiegames #indiegamedev #horrorgame #horrorgames #gamedev

Enjoy! apps.apple.com/tr/app/pawn-of…

Update for Pawn of the Dead's iOS port is live! Visual quality is improved, considering how performant the modern iOS devices are. Pawn of the Dead is a chess variant with a unique mechanic: Black (undead) pieces turn White pieces into themselves #MobileGaming #indiegames