Stephan Hövelbrinks’s posts

Apr 4, 2019

Sometimes Steam reviews feel a bit wholesome. Reviewed game is Monster Hunter: World.

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Aug 6, 2021

Gotta be honest: That negative review feels a bit like a win.

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Mar 9, 2021

Doors #gamedev

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Apr 9, 2020

gamedev pro tip: Just don't add any bugs to your code. They take a lot of time to fix.

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Aug 14, 2021

Good news: Death Trash has sold enough now that it made back its development costs and we can finish it on our own. Apart from that we we'll have to see how it continues. So no change in plans for now. Forward, step by step! Thank you so much for helping making this a reality.

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Aug 2, 2021

This is the week. If at any point in the last six years you thought "I want to support this", "I want Death Trash to become really good": This is the week where support would matter most. Tell others about it, maybe buy it on 5th, maybe write a review. store.steampowered.com/app/941460/Dea

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Jul 6, 2022

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Mar 10, 2021

I love this game so much. Far from finished, but already so happy with it.

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Nov 23, 2017

Cool thing about being an artist is painting a custom wallpaper for your custom screen setup.

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Jul 5, 2021

It's not a bug, by the way, that you can look into some houses even though the door is closed. It's a window.

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Jan 30, 2018

Isn't it exciting nowadays that you only need a computer and internet to make your successful dream game and also years of experience plus years of development time, endless pool of motivation and figuring out selling in an oversaturated market? ^^

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Aug 8, 2020

I paint landscapes occasionally. That's a nice hashtag. #faceyourlandscape

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Nov 26, 2020

You wouldn't believe the complexity in small stuff like NPCs being able to open doors during combat.

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The review is about my own game called

which just came out (Early Access): deathtrash.com

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Jan 26, 2021

Wow. Game development happens so fast nowadays. One day you have an idea for a game and the other day you're an old man and still not finished with that game, but you made some progress.

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Apr 11, 2018

I'm Stephan and I love to paint messy pixelart. #artvsartist

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Aug 17, 2021

Look, maybe it needs to be clarified: I'm not interested in making a Fallout game. I'm interested in making Death Trash the best Death Trash game it can be. If you would offer me the Fallout license for example I would decline. I'm already working on my dream game.

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Nov 28, 2020

You cannot pet any dogs in Death Trash, but you can feed the worms. #screenshotsaturday

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Aug 5, 2021

Wow.

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Aug 5, 2021

I'm sure it will change soon, but for the moment at least, wow. Gonna go to bed now and pretend everything is fine.

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Oct 16, 2017

Hey there. I'm Stephan and I'm making art for my game as well as random stuff. People call me the Bob Ross of #pixelart. #artistsontwitter

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is a grotesque singleplayer post-apoc RPG where you can be a friend of monsters, shoot your shotgun at everyone, barf, curse, celebrate, sneak, blow up and ponder. Sign up: deathtrash.com Discord: discordapp.com/invite/deathtr #indiedev #madewithunity #pixelart

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Aug 19, 2022

Has there ever been a moment in the history of programming where someone didn't care for the build errors and preferred to run the last successful build?

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Aug 5, 2021

Wow!

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Dec 17, 2018

Games.

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Aug 7, 2021

It looks like Death Trash is #1 Bestselling on GOG right now? Wow.

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Aug 9, 2021

Wow!

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Nov 27, 2020

This is still my favorite door GIF though.

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Jan 16, 2018

New version of the Death Trash world map. (There should be more travel maps in games, by the way.) #deathtrash #gamedev

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Sep 10, 2019

Working on that world map

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Jun 2, 2021

Took me six years to get to this point. I hope you're ready for this!

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Six years ago, on this exact day, Death Trash was born. This month you'll be able to play it for the first time at Steam Next Fest: store.steampowered.com/app/941460/Dea Wishlist Death Trash and RT, please!

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Jan 30, 2021

Have to fix this talking meat maggot bug, I guess.

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Nov 7, 2019

As a gamedev, I can move mountains.

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May 17, 2018

Painting process. Once again, lots of messing around. #pixelart

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Jul 14, 2022

Fuck "monetization"! 1 game -> 1 sale That's all I want.

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Feb 12, 2019

The two most important lessons I learned about #gamedev: 1. Show your game early! Good for feedback and knowing if anyone's interested in it other than yourself. 2. Don't show your game early! People will naturally assume release is soon.

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Aug 7, 2021

You have no idea about the amount of relief I'm feeling right now.

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Jun 6, 2018

The Tree. #pixelart

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Mar 8, 2021

My gamedev superpower is that I don't start any new side projects.

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Jun 17, 2021

All the experts in the Steam forum again with the "Why don't you add online multiplayer? It's a simple thing to add."

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Nov 9, 2018

Second "world map" for

. *slight spoiler* #gamedev #madewithunity

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Oct 27, 2021

Two and a half months into Early Access, updating the game every week: Practically abandoned.

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Jan 27, 2018

The Hanging Planetwalker. #pixelart #deathtrash

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Sep 22, 2021

Can we stop the silliness of saying PC version when meaning the Windows version specifically? PC = Personal Computer Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.

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Nov 28, 2017

Death Trash is an Action-RPG with shotguns and words in a colorful post-apocalyptic wasteland. Subscribe here: deathtrash.com

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Jul 22, 2021

Death Trash will be released in two weeks! After six years of work it's still unfinished, but I think it's fun to play already and mess around with, and hopefully some of you will join us with feedback and support to make this the best game possible.

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Sep 11, 2021

One of the things I love about PC Gaming. No need to dust off that old block of hardware.

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Aug 8, 2021

Still feels incredible. Thanks so much to everyone who bought it so far. :)

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Apr 1, 2017

Gonna need some volunteers for testing soon. Enter mailing list at deathtrash.com to not miss it. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Aug 30, 2018

Hey, #MeetTheDev, I'm Stephan and working on my own projects. I released lots of small games. My current project

has 100,000+ lines of code and I do the art, design, writing and marketing too. I'm not a real gamedev though because I don't have a game yet you can buy.

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Jul 30, 2021

On pricing Death Trash:

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Jun 29, 2022

I'm sad that the Pillars of Eternity series, hitting right in the middle of my old Black Isle heart, and so well made, wasn't a commercial mega hit to warrant a steady stream of more of its kind. It's 2022 and the list of games I'm looking forward to feels a bit empty.

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Feb 2, 2017

Takume is a short mystic | atmospheric | dramatic adventure game. It's free and it's out now. Please share! craftinglegends.itch.io/takume

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Mar 7, 2016

Death Trash is an upcoming post-apoc RPG in horror/cyberpunk/grotesque/trash-talk/sex world: deathtrash.com

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Jan 30, 2018

Death Trash. A post-apocalyptic world where cosmic horrors crave humanity but meet punks with shotguns. deathtrash.com #madewithunity

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Oct 13, 2020

How it started vs. how it's going

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Sep 28, 2021

Reminder that if you buy Death Trash you're getting an unfinished game. Don't buy it for the content per dollar you get right now. Buy it: - If you're happy with a few hours. - If you're waiting on the final game and want a bigger taste already. - If you want to support us.

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May 12, 2018

How to teach the player about dangerous mines: Use NPCs. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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Aug 23, 2021

I got asked why we have a strict "no meta references" design rule in place for Death Trash.

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Mar 15, 2018

Death Trash is hammering Lovecraft into Fallout, let characters be Conan with a shotgun, sprinkle Monkey Island dust everywhere while Death Metal is playing in the background, then add feelings and make it dead serious again, but post ironically about it. deathtrash.com

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Jun 4, 2018

I just love working on this world map. #gamedev

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Jun 28, 2018

The Bleeding Tree. (improved) #pixelart

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Aug 21, 2021

This is incredible! Thanks everyone who supported us by buying

, putting it on the wishlist or talking about it.

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Jun 2, 2022

It's been seven years now, working on

. It would be wrong to say we're approaching the finish line, but we have a playable game, many design questions answered, and have everything we need to finish this. I'm looking forward to see the full game.

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Jun 2, 2015

"Fallout 4? I'm gonna build my own Fallout. With Blackjack. And Hookers." #pixelart #PleaseStandBy #Fallout4 #gamedev

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Sep 24, 2019

Feels so good to have a store page now after four long years. store.steampowered.com/app/941460/Dea

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Apr 14, 2022

Imagine being able to quit a PC game from anywhere instead of having to go back to title screen and / or main menu...

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Mar 9, 2020

Wishlist my small indie game, please:

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Apr 13, 2022

General reminder: Don't buy unfinished games clearly marked as such when you might get annoyed about the unfinished state of the game or how long the development of that game takes!

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Jun 11, 2018

📣 Attention, please! 📣 Here come's my full E3 press conference: I'm still working on

@deathtrash

. And it's over. Thanks for listening. See you again next time.

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Sounds like we got quite a few sales through this review alone. I think the Steam review system is working pretty good?

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Jan 25, 2021

Game design is the only discipline I know where you can decrease sight, make it slower and more arduous, and it will feel better.

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Dec 3, 2020

Still a fan of this simple effect.

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Mar 4, 2021

I may be biased, but I think Death Trash is pretty cool and you should buy it when it's released: store.steampowered.com/app/941460/Dea

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Apr 16, 2021

Among my notes I found the worst design idea: "What if the player just dies at the end, what if the game is not winnable?"

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Sep 26, 2019

Feels like yesterday that I had some dumb idea and now, just four years later, it already has a coming soon page on some store.

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Jun 2, 2015

"Fallout 4? I'm gonna build my own Fallout. With Blackjack. And Hookers." #pixelart #PleaseStandBy #Fallout4 #gamedev

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Feb 21, 2018

Life is pretty much like an Open World RPG nowadays: Quest Log always full, orcs everywhere, the next distraction right around the corner, and the nagging feel that you should have spent your skill points more wisely.

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Sep 23, 2019

It's about time we push this forward. Please read this, share this, and wishlist the game on Steam.

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Sep 23, 2019

Announcements! We're gonna self-publish Death Trash. It's coming to Steam Early Access in early 2020 and when it's done also to Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch and other PC stores. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/941460/Dea More infos and explanations: deathtrash.com/blog

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Jun 13

Feels sometimes to me like game engines are the most talked about topic in gaming with the least amount of actual knowledge. twitter.com/lizardengland/

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It's happening, after six years... Some kind of release date!

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Death Trash enters Early Access on August 5th! store.steampowered.com/app/941460/Dea

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.I'm developing

, a grotesque post-apocalyptic roleplaying game where you can make your own character, talk to monsters, explore, fight, sneak, puke and bleed. It's multi-platform (controller + mouse) and it's gonna be released when it's done. deathtrash.com

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Apr 1, 2018

But the Machine God was corrupted. #deathtrash

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Jul 25, 2022

Dear game developers: Make that Esc key work in menus. Thank you.

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Apr 6, 2021

Hey, I'm Stephan, an #OriginalContentArtist in #pixelart and working mostly on this game and nothing else because I love working on it.

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Jul 24, 2019

Help me brainstorming quest ideas. Just reply with any associations / single words that come to mind when seeing these images (doesn't need to make sense), so my head can work in new directions.

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Apr 21, 2018

Knock, knock. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

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Oct 30, 2020

The amount of opinions I have to endure, is, to be honest, the hardest part of this long journey.

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Jun 12, 2021

I don't want to get too sentimental, but six years is a really long time, and I appreciate it so much that there are some people here since 2015, supporting, and still interested in the game, to this day. Thank you.

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Sep 30, 2020

Soon. store.steampowered.com/app/941460/Dea

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Dec 17, 2019

Game development is 10% ideas 70% execution 40% Twitter 20% fixing wrong numbers

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Oct 9, 2018

Surprise! I'm working on a new game. It's called

and it's about shooting punks, traveling the post-apocalyptic wasteland and meeting flesh titans plagued by midlife crisis. Website: deathtrash.com Discord: discordapp.com/invite/deathtr

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Nov 27, 2021

I feel like it's about time for a new Deus Ex.

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Jul 27, 2022

Please don't buy unfinished games clearly marked as such if you don't want to play or own unfinished games. Thank you.

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Aug 1, 2021

Added an accessibility setting, I guess.

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May 8, 2018

Parsing the words of the ancients #pixelart

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Jun 16, 2021

Today is the day. I've been waiting a long time for this to happen. And maybe some of you have, too.

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Feb 26, 2018

The rise of the copycats. This one has a Steam page and they don't even bother to come up with their own game description. ... Whatever you do in life, don't be as shitty as these people.

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Oct 4, 2020

Thanks for all the positive feedback in the last days.