apehardware
apehardware
ApeHardware
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That monkey that makes weird games sometimes.
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
apehardware · 2 months ago
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Anti-capitalist as fuck game jam project
A few days ago I found out Itch.io has a "fuck capitalism" jam.
And there's a controversy going on in my province about a corporation wanting to build a highly polluting factory.
So my entry for the jam was a merciless critique of said company.
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To be precise, this is about the Altri corporation's project build a cellulose mega-factory in an area of Galicia (northwest region of Spain, the bit above Portugal to be precise) in an area that was supposed to be under environmental protection.
This mess of a game I cobbled together in 4 days does more than just show the company's CEOs as the rotten human-shaped leeches that they are.
It promotes and links to a real protest movement against Altri's project:
Hopefully this can attract a few international donations.
I'm going to spam the tag section like there's no tomorrow, just in case.
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apehardware · 4 months ago
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Sayonara Sigil Sentry has been released
Bullet hell meets "Connect the dots" in an unhinged boss rush game with Evangelion inspirations...
...you know what? Screw the usual indie game marketing. Let's be real and tell the Tumblr crowd the main reason they are going to be interested in this:
It shits on Techbros and GenAI. Blatantly.
Also it's free.
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apehardware · 4 months ago
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Sayonara Sigil Sentry Steam page is up!
A while ago I made a small bullet-hell/"connect the dots" mix for a game jam. It did fairly well so I'm making an expanded version for Steam.
Introducing "Sayonara Sigil Sentry", a rune-em-up boss rush about eldritch monsters, poorly-interpreted folklore and the evils of capitalist deregulation.
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Pilot the amazing Celtic combat tower with legs and defeat 10 massive creatures while uncovering unhinged lore.
Coming March 26, for free.
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apehardware · 6 months ago
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New game jam project
Enter "Sayonara Sigil Sentry", or "Connect the Dots" meets "Evangelion".
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Draw fae runes to banish 6 eldritch kaiju.
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Uncover vague lore about how generative AI is going to cause Legally Distinct Third Impact.
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apehardware · 7 months ago
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Winter 2024 sale
Some discounts to celebrate the birthday of that guy whose innards we eat on Sundays.
-VERTIGROWL AKA "vent art about entry level jobs" is 100% off on good ol' @itchio
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-Everything else is 50% off on Steam
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apehardware · 9 months ago
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Time to scream into the void again about the Steam Sale
Screw being subtle.
"Fatal frame with a Stand", 75% off.
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Playable misophonia, 75% off
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-Everything else, 50% off.
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Happy Halloween, may the imaginary horrors provide a nice break from the real ones.
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apehardware · 9 months ago
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Updated an old game for spooky month
So sometime around a year ago I made this small point-and-click horror, "Sick Monkeys". It was an odd take on the FNaF formula in which you directed a nanobot to fight small critters inside your own body.
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The game had a spin on the genre's obsession with lore in which your own choices determined the backstory, which in turn introduced new obstacles.
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There was a n attempt to publish a mobile port with an extra backstory option, but it was a complete failure. So I decided to just bring the third path to the HTML and PC ports.
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apehardware · 11 months ago
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VERTIGROWL has been released
I proudly present this totally-not-a-vent-art-about-entry-level-jobs:
Input a sequence of movements, then watch how your "elevator" crashes into the biblically accurate flesh angels.
Ascend through an eldritch tower, and admire the graphics created by the advanced rendering engine "photos of doodles, stock images and editing in GIMP".
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And if that wasn't enough, two of my older games will be 100% off this week on @itchio:
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apehardware · 11 months ago
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DETUNED is 50% off for the Steam Rhythm Fest
The world's (possibly) first ant-rhythm roguelike, half the price:
Basically it's playable misophonia.
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Move between rooms to dodge a randomly generated song that may or may not be an eldritch abomination.
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Reach enough endings and you'll get to make your own audio-based tortures:
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apehardware · 1 year ago
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Maybe one day I'll reveal that this
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started with a fucking kinkmeme fill on this very site.
Maybe.
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apehardware · 1 year ago
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VERTIGROWL release date.
02 / 09 / 2024
Hopefully Murphy's law doesn't screw me over.
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apehardware · 1 year ago
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Small gamejam project done!
Managed to get my submission for @horrorvisuals 's "Anomalous Entity Jam" done before the deadline.
The jam was about simply making a game about an anomalous entity. The monsters I came up with are basically necromorphs / The Thing re-imagined in a Wuxia setting.
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The game is a short minute Punch-Out clone with Dead Space’s dismembration mechanic and a bit of resource management.
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apehardware · 1 year ago
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New VERTIGROWL devlog
Plenty of progress + 2-week break
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apehardware · 1 year ago
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All of my games are discounted for the Steam Summer Sale
"Fatal Frame with a Stand", 65% off
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"Anti-point-and-click in eldritch rural Galicia", 20% off
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"Misophonia: the game", 50% off
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"Body dysphoria: the game", 10% off
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apehardware · 1 year ago
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The VERTIGROWL pages are up!
A programming workplace horror comedy.
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Ascend through an eldritch tower. Input your movements ahead. Dodge unknown entities. Complain in the private chat. Get back to work.
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apehardware · 1 year ago
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The dysphoria game is 100% off
A little something for the gay month.
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apehardware · 1 year ago
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Pseudo-Haunting has been released.
It’s been 6 months of figuring out how 3D works and facing the overwhelming dread that civilization might collapse before I finish this game, but it’s done. Making a retro survival horror was much more traumatizing than playing it, but here we are.
Fatal Frame with a Stand Pseudo-Haunting has been released.
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-Explore an eldritch haunted house. -Fight ghosts with an astral projection. -Good ol' retro survival horror fixed camera angles and resource management.
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