Currently working on: Debriz - Retro Homebrew Shooter Ruby: Huntress of Vale - RWBY Fangame Synthetic Onslaught - 2D RTS/RPG
Joined September 2011
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I have 3 projects I consider 'Active'. I bounce between:
Debriz - A Gameboy Homebrew Shooter/RPG
RWBY: Huntress of Vale - A 2D Beat em Up based on web series RWBY
Synthetic Onslaught - An RTS/RPG hybrid
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
🎮 GAME DEVS, THIS ONE'S FOR YOU.
15 years in games. Here's the community + social media stuff I wish someone had told me before I spent years posting 'New update! #gamedev' into the void:
✅ Followers aren't an audience until they've talked to you. Reply to people. 300 real conversations beat 30,000 impressions.
✅ Post the game, not the patch notes. Nobody in history has wishlisted a changelog.
✅ The first 3 seconds of your clip ARE the clip. If it opens on your logo, congrats, you made an ad people scroll past.
✅ A Discord isn't a community until someone besides you posts in it. 20 people who care beat 2,000 who joined for a giveaway.
✅ Hashtags are seasoning, not the meal. Eight in a row reads like a ransom note.
✅ Other devs aren't your competition. They're coworkers in the world's least organized office. Share their stuff. They'll share yours.
✅ Viral is a lottery ticket. Showing up every day is a salary.
✅ When someone says something nice about your game, screenshot it. You'll need it at 2 AM in month 14.
Got questions? I'm around right now. Ask me anything below 👇
I'm also open for contract work (community, social, launch strategy). DMs open.
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
生成AIを使わない“人の手で作ったゲーム”を集めた世界規模のインディーゲームショーケース「Games Without AI」始動！11月25日配信へ
gamespark.jp/article/2026/10…
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
✨ New Playtiles Season, New Dev Lineup!
Biscuit Locker is back for their third Playtiles Season, showcasing a NEW EXCLUSIVE GAME!
Use code "BISCUIT" for a discount on any pre-order & directly support the dev!
👉 limited.playtil.es/campaign.…
#indiedev #retrogaming #gb #gbc
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
Weiss Schnee leak for the upcoming ZZZ X RWBY collab!
(Source: my imagination)
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
One of the best things about indie games is that nobody asked for them. No meeting of people in suits decided your game should exist. You just wanted to make something cool that you love. Never forget that's your biggest strength
You're indie. Be weird, be raw, be authentic! ❤️
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
I was in a very dark place before doing all this. I was not well at all. But helping others, meeting new friends, and just seeing the joy I can bring to devs gives me something to wake up for
I am very grateful I get to do this. Thank you guys, truly ❤️
Congrats on getting greenlit!
Looking forward to another adventure!
Maybe time to work more on this fangame prototype! :)
Progress on my Gameboy Color Beat-em-Up. I think im really cooking with the look of the game. :)
What do you think?
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
A U.S. congressman wants to change how we legally “own” video games.
Rep. Ritchie Torres has announced plans to introduce the Power To The Players Act, a bill that would direct the FTC to create rules protecting consumers who buy video games.
The proposal would give players three basic rights:
>The right to own the games they purchase, rather than simply receiving a revocable license
>The right to keep playing games after online servers are shut down, through an offline mode
>The right to transfer or resell games they own
Torres argues that if a company can take a game away simply by shutting down its servers, then the consumer didn’t really buy the game in the first place.
Torres also hopes the legislation could eventually establish a precedent for ownership rights across other parts of the digital economy:
“If you pay for it, you own it.”
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
Ruby Rose joins BlazBlue Entropy Effect.
Crescent Rose, recoil dashes, four kinds of Dust. Playable now in public alpha through Redux, an unofficial fan mod.
Get it in the official BBEE Discord: discord.gg/2s8sQbmtpE
#BlazBlueEntropyEffect #RWBY #BlazBlue #FGC
youtu.be/J_qYu5dr-Uc?si=uFlq…
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
If this proposal passes as written, it is the end of SuperTuxKart in the EU — and possibly the end of the project.
We need to be serious for a moment.
We cannot "block the EU market." We cannot prevent private servers. The code is GPL. Anyone can run one.
That is not a loophole — it is the entire point of open source.
We could not detect EU players on VPNs without tracking our players. We will not track our players. Not for Brussels, not for anyone.
A law written for tech giants is about to outlaw free and open source software made with love.
All hands on deck! This is the biggest threat to Stop Killing Games yet!
The EU #KidsAct could end #StopKillingGames by collapsing the EU gaming market and making private and community servers illegal!:
youtu.be/mQRcK9nYg9g
"The best thing you can do is spread the word...The people who write this crap do not like it when the public at large knows what they're trying to do to you" - @accursedfarms
Don't just take our word for it, here's the EU Kids Act to see for yourself. Ross also has more links in the description of his video:
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont…
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont…
Ishmaru Game Dev Hobbiest retweeted
We just can't catch a break, can we?
The EU Kids Act is nightmare fuel, if you look beneath the honorable surface claim of "protecting kids online". The breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9nY…
#StopKillingGames #StopKillingTheInternet
