Star★Vaders - Tactics Deckbuilder | Balatro | Page 1

vivid kettle Jan 25, 2024, 7:33 PM

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Hi there! Imma go straight to the point haha

WHAT IS STAR★VADERS

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097570/StarVaders

It's hard to explain but it's like a wacky fusion of these three ingredients:

Roguelike Deckbuilding (Slay the Spire)
Grid-Based Tactics (Into The Breach)
Shoot-em-ups?! (Space Invaders!?)

We're trying to make one of the most polished and craziest tactics deckbuilders out there!

I can spend many many paragraphs explaining what could be unique selling points, but I would recommend just trying out the demo or watching a content creator video!

WHERE CAN I PLAY IT?

We have a demo right now on Steam - you can also join our Discord where we have a beta build with a lot more content too (including the second class)!

Please do let us know if you have any feedback or comments! We very much want to hear what you think!

I LOVE YOU

We're a small indie studio in Montreal made up of 3 friends and this is our first commercial project together! A WISHLIST would mean so much for us and makes a much bigger difference than you think!

I'm so proud of you localthunk, watching you make one of the best deckbuilders ever - highly appreciate it for letting us post here!

Hope y'all enjoy!

Steam

Star★Vaders

Want to play? Join our Discord to get access to a beta build!- Stay updated by signing up to our Newsletter!Taking the best mechanics of deckbuilders like Slay the Spire, fusing them with elegant grid-based tactics like Into the Breach, Star★Vaders is a strategic roguelike where easy-to-learn mechanics synergize to create a crunchy, jam-packe...

Release Date

2024

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LINKS

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097570/StarVaders/
Discord: https://discord.gg/bEETNGyGVE
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AxolotlStar

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I do know the Balatro demo also just came out today haha 😛 but feel free to check this out whenever y'all have time, the demo will stay live and will keep getting updated until release, sometime near the end of the year!

velvet pewter Jan 25, 2024, 7:43 PM

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If I had a properly sorted wishlist, this would take a top spot! Some of the coolest new mechanics I've seen in card games in forever. ❤️

vivid kettle Jan 25, 2024, 7:45 PM

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thanks Fabian! you're one of the coolest dudes i've seen in forever

winter marten Jan 25, 2024, 10:33 PM

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Looks awesome- downloaded the demo for later and wishlisted!

vivid kettle Jan 25, 2024, 11:26 PM

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woo thanks!

bleak eagle Jan 26, 2024, 4:42 AM

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I really love people being able to share their stuff around within same community like this, it helps the scene grow more

night pond Jan 26, 2024, 5:37 AM

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Sounds absolutely awesome! I'm definitely trying it and throwing a wishlist your way

vivid kettle Jan 26, 2024, 5:51 AM

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appreciate it! let me know how it goes

vivid kettle Jan 28, 2024, 5:39 AM

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just uploaded a major update for the demo!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2097570/view/3968301974640105844?l=english

icy raft Jun 21, 2024, 6:07 PM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HivwbuhdAno

YouTube

Aliensrock

Fantastic C-C-C-Combo Heavy STRATEGY GAME! - StarVaders

GET STARVADERS DEMO AND WISHLIST IT: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2097570?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=aliensrock&utm_medium=web
StarVaders First Look - the creator of Balatro has been hyping this game up, and I can see why! StarVaders sinks its teeth in with fantastic combo-focused turn based strategy, and I stand in solidarity with th...

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vivid kettle Jun 21, 2024, 9:31 PM

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that's us!!!

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the egg played it last week too

icy raft Jun 21, 2024, 10:15 PM

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Noice

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I played it myself, I thought I wouldnt like it because Im not much of a StS fan but surprisingly found it very satisfying with the bombs

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I was pretty upset when I had to be pulled away lol

icy raft Jun 21, 2024, 11:13 PM

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vivid kettle Jun 22, 2024, 1:47 AM

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awesome!! that's a huge combo haha

vivid kettle Jun 22, 2024, 1:47 AM

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icy raft I played it myself, I thought I wouldnt like it because Im not much of a StS fan...

Yaa were definitely pretty close to StS but with more focus on chain reactions and combos

icy raft Jun 22, 2024, 2:23 AM

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vivid kettle awesome!! that's a huge combo haha

managed to squeak in a 29, I have gotten a bit addicted, though there isnt much content left for me to explore.

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Tbh I ignore combos most of the time, I just go for bombs, bombs, and more bombs, and then the freeze character I focuse flames a bit

vivid kettle Jun 22, 2024, 2:28 AM

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Nice!!

icy raft Jun 22, 2024, 2:32 AM

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Tmr Im about to tip as much money as I can

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oh also "My Little Frined" was a rlly cool concept, and my favorite was the final boss being Chess, but in more of a Battle formation and a little Advanced

icy raft Jun 22, 2024, 2:42 PM

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icy raft Tmr Im about to tip as much money as I can

Welp I did max tipping also, so Ig I beat the game

vivid kettle Jun 22, 2024, 4:02 PM

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hehe just beat the demo!

icy raft Jun 22, 2024, 5:25 PM

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true

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Btw is this character an Deltarune reference or just coincidence

vivid kettle Jun 22, 2024, 5:29 PM

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our artist is a huge delta rune fan, i haven't played it

so maybe?

icy raft Jun 22, 2024, 6:17 PM

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Ah ok, Im a fan of delatrune as well and one of the characters is named Noelle and has ice powers

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Either way its rlly cool

icy raft Sep 19, 2024, 10:09 PM

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Any new news on this game to report? I should probably check other social medias but Im being lazy and decided to see whats been happening

vivid kettle Sep 19, 2024, 10:09 PM

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icy raft Any new news on this game to report? I should probably check other social medias...

We're prepping for a huge next fest demo update!!

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will be live in October

icy raft Sep 19, 2024, 10:10 PM

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YAYYYY!

vivid kettle Sep 19, 2024, 10:10 PM

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we're adding the second class into the demo and a "challenge" difficulty

icy raft Sep 19, 2024, 10:11 PM

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I cant wait for october, its gonna be so much fun with Ballionaire, this game, and some new things popping up

vivid kettle Sep 19, 2024, 10:13 PM

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yeeeee always a ton of fun indies coming out

icy raft Sep 19, 2024, 10:14 PM

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Very true

halcyon needle Sep 23, 2024, 10:29 AM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCQprvM3NQQ&t=1117s the demo was indeed fantastic!

YouTube

GothicLordUK

Slime Slime Everywhere So Let's All Have a Bomb | StarVaders Demo

Defend the Earth from an alien invasion in the ULTIMATE fusion of deckbuilding and grid-based tactics. Pilot a mech, discover game-breaking combos, and protect the future of humanity in this endlessly replayable roguelike.

Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/gothiclorduk?sub_confirmation=1

StarVaders Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playli...

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vivid kettle Oct 4, 2024, 5:52 PM

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icy raft Any new news on this game to report? I should probably check other social medias...

PS: ||we stealth updated the game and is ongoing live testing, you can play it now!||

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"officially" the update is coming next week 😛

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 6:19 PM

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balatroheart

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Good thing I have all fall break to play it

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 8:23 PM

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Lol

vivid kettle Oct 4, 2024, 10:18 PM

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lol

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a exit and resume should fix that haha

velvet pewter Oct 4, 2024, 10:26 PM

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Welcome to the world of unexpected game breakage btw @vivid kettle

vivid kettle Oct 4, 2024, 10:26 PM

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this bug has existed for a while but i kinda love it haha

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 10:28 PM

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vivid kettle a exit and resume should fix that haha

I couldnt seem to click things easily so I alt + f4d

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Very goofy bug, anyways loving the new stuff so far

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I believe thats my 2nd full run with this and its been really fun, though maybe a bit to easy? might just be me though

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Oh also Bud's Factory you can crono token to get more cards if you do it right after confirming the 2 cards you want

vivid kettle Oct 4, 2024, 10:30 PM

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icy raft I believe thats my 2nd full run with this and its been really fun, though maybe ...

you can try the challenger mode in the difficulty selection if you want a challenge!

vivid kettle Oct 4, 2024, 10:31 PM

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icy raft Oh also Bud's Factory you can crono token to get more cards if you do it right a...

thanks haha

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 10:31 PM

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np

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 11:07 PM

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Pickups count as entitys

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Idk if that is intentional or not

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Actually I took up the card and moved away so Ig adjacent just also includes corners and I didnt know that

vivid kettle Oct 4, 2024, 11:14 PM

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Hmm shouldn't include corners

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 11:14 PM

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Actually it was none of the above and just showing the +1 doom for no reason

vivid kettle Oct 4, 2024, 11:14 PM

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dunno might be a bug but haven't encountered that before

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oh lol

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 11:14 PM

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it didnt give any doom

vivid kettle Oct 4, 2024, 11:14 PM

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Ah yeah when you hover over it

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it is showing what happens when it "activates", which is just a doom

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 11:18 PM

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Weird how it says RIGHT NOW! though

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 11:34 PM

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Welp thats all for the day

vivid kettle Oct 4, 2024, 11:39 PM

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thanks!

icy raft Oct 4, 2024, 11:43 PM

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No problem, I enjoyed it

vivid kettle Oct 5, 2024, 4:19 AM

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i just fixed those two bugs in the new patch!

icy raft Oct 6, 2024, 5:53 PM

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If I saw that right I used wanderer on the frozen card and the next round it didnt keep the less heat

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Yeah I got it again and it do be reseting the heat

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Also hand size go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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spam clicking the gacha machine and esc caused me to not be able to click anything

icy raft Oct 6, 2024, 7:08 PM

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I heard you liked movement 😂

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When moving whenever you hover over the mech the display on the right shows him in the direction you came from (ex. I went from the left of the mech then hovered over it by moveing right, now the display has the mech on the left of the tile)

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Also you can use chrono tokens after leaving the shop but it doesnt do anything, I just have a habit of clicking things on transitions lol

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casually wasting my tokens before boss since they refresh anyways

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This relic causes a random enemy to say its gonna die, but most of the time its not that enemy that is the random enemy that dies

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Sorry ik this is a lot of minor things lol

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Also that card picked the same immune ghost 3x in a row

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Time to make a bomb that covers the entire screen (unless thats not how it works I forget)

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To bad I didnt have any actually good cards and just had movement

icy raft Oct 6, 2024, 9:40 PM

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The card decimate says it places on auto bomb on a RANDOM TILE but it always picks a tile next to an enemy

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Actually it doesnt do it next to an enemy every time, but either I should go buy a lottery ticket after getting next to that enemy 3 times in a row or something fishy is going on

icy raft Oct 6, 2024, 9:58 PM

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🙂

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https://tenor.com/view/this-is-fine-fire-house-burning-okay-gif-5263684

Tenor

icy raft Oct 6, 2024, 10:26 PM

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Died because of a bug which is quite fitting
If a card has the fire bullet upgrade then my little friend and fire related attacks go of, even though its not in the cards title

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so I just shot 8 attacks into a wall with no upside

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and I had the 3 things I needed to win with for the repeator pack

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😭

vivid kettle Oct 6, 2024, 10:36 PM

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icy raft Actually it doesnt do it next to an enemy every time, but either I should go buy...

lool you got the lucky buff

vivid kettle Oct 6, 2024, 10:36 PM

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icy raft Died because of a bug which is quite fitting If a card has the fire bullet upgra...

Fire! upgrade actually counts as adding it to the title!

icy raft Oct 6, 2024, 10:37 PM

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Welp, atleast I know now

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I just realized how long Ive been playing

vivid kettle Oct 6, 2024, 10:41 PM

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RoxyWahaha

icy raft Oct 7, 2024, 1:41 PM

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^ that emoji describes this scene perfectly

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And that was before robo parrot so now I can get this every time theoretically

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actually I need another repeat but the idea is there

icy raft Oct 7, 2024, 2:01 PM

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triple Tornado was a bad idea 😭 also the enemy is activating even though they still have shield lol

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somehow survived 😎

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Tactical nuke imbound

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oh wait the next phase was the last one

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rip, I had 8 more nukes to launch 😦

icy raft Oct 7, 2024, 3:30 PM

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Lol

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I may have broken something

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Ok so I can skip fights now

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cool

icy raft Oct 7, 2024, 6:19 PM

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Goofy death screen

icy raft Oct 7, 2024, 6:49 PM

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Relics go brrrrr (I found a bug to get 2 of the same relic)

icy raft Oct 7, 2024, 7:13 PM

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-6800 stars 💀

vivid kettle Oct 7, 2024, 7:18 PM

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icy raft Relics go brrrrr (I found a bug to get 2 of the same relic)

lol can you tell me how you do that!

icy raft Oct 7, 2024, 7:21 PM

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So as you win, you hit esc and save and quit as fast as you can

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and if you time it right you will get the reward and hub on the screen

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then hit esc as you click continue run and you get 2x relic (be careful not to click or hit esc to many times because then it softlocks)

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There are also some side affects of the same repeated fight and stuff

icy raft Oct 7, 2024, 8:01 PM

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Any luck recreating on your end or have you been busy?

vivid kettle Oct 7, 2024, 9:02 PM

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thanks haha

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I've been busy today but will try to see what's up

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you like clicking around don't ya lmao

icy raft Oct 7, 2024, 9:02 PM

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Yes very much

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this is just like my 2nd big balatro bug (and 3rd and 4th since they were all similar, but mainly 2nd)

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My main source of bugs are
A. Autoclicking everything I see
B. Save and quitting during an action

icy raft Oct 13, 2024, 4:32 PM

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Yoooo aliensrock did a video!

vivid kettle Oct 13, 2024, 4:32 PM

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Yeeees

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next fest is tomorrow!!

icy raft Oct 13, 2024, 4:33 PM

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So is the end of fall break though 😭

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It would be funny if he did the mythical double relic bug that may or may not exist hypothetically

vivid kettle Oct 13, 2024, 4:36 PM

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axolotl

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shhh

icy raft Nov 4, 2024, 2:45 AM

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Almost 3 weeks, whats poppin

vivid kettle Nov 4, 2024, 7:00 AM

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just closed down the next fest branch last week, back to working on the main branch

pastel mural Dec 5, 2024, 10:03 PM

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@vivid kettle billion dollar idea btw make sure ur game doesnt fell off (overwatch)

icy raft Dec 5, 2024, 10:43 PM

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Im sure they are working on it

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tbf the game is still in demo

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Probably my favorite turn based game

icy raft Dec 31, 2024, 8:34 PM

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You probably would have already told us if you did, but just incase is there any new news about updates?

vivid kettle Dec 31, 2024, 9:10 PM

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icy raft You probably would have already told us if you did, but just incase is there any...

we rolled to a final demo build 2 months ago and now we're full steam on 1.0 version

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won't be updating the demo anymore

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but I can DM you a beta testing key in a few weeks

icy raft Dec 31, 2024, 9:16 PM

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Yippeee

pastel mural Jan 1, 2025, 8:56 AM

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vivid kettle we rolled to a final demo build 2 months ago and now we're full steam on 1.0 ver...

Nicee

icy raft Jan 26, 2025, 12:06 AM

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vivid kettle but I can DM you a beta testing key in a few weeks

Oh woops I thought this said 1 month, not a couple weeks

vivid kettle Jan 26, 2025, 12:34 AM

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still working on it!

icy raft Jan 26, 2025, 12:39 AM

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alright!

icy raft Apr 30, 2025, 2:18 AM

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Its almost time!

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Ive come over here to inform anybody that doesnt know that star vaders is out Tomorrow

vivid kettle Apr 30, 2025, 4:21 AM

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thanks haha

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tomorrow!!

halcyon needle Apr 30, 2025, 6:31 AM

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It's so good!!

icy raft Apr 30, 2025, 11:28 AM

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Yeah

plain cargo Jan 1, 2026, 12:05 AM

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@icy raft

icy raft Jan 1, 2026, 12:05 AM

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Hi

lilac swallow Feb 3, 2026, 11:44 AM

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icy raft Hi

bro jus pinged you to ping u

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