Kimmo Lahtinen

Kimmo Lahtinen

@gimblll.com

Indie games since 2014 (Sektori / Day Repeat Day / Barbearian / Drift'n'Drive / etc.), and 13 years at Housemarque before that (Resogun / Outland / Dead Nation / etc.) https://www.gimblll.com/

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After 1.5 years of pouring my heart into my very first game, I'm so excited to finally announce that... Drawquarium is coming to Steam on November 13! 🥹 Draw your own fish, bring them to life, and create your little underwater world, even as a live wallpaper! Like+RT = ♥️ #IndieGames #Cozygames

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If you’re wondering how it is for women reviewers out here, I’ve started getting emails telling me to kill myself for… a largely positive review

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Today, I tested Undead running on arcade hardware for the first time, and it performed well enough so that we can actually take it at to Zooparty next week, where audience can play it. There won't be a trailer for a long time, but here is a screenshot of me playing the arcade cabinet & 15khz CRT TV

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HOW? WHY? Seriously? What is wrong with you people?

Kotaku@kotaku.com

A source tells Kotaku that Gears of War: E-Day cost over $500 million to make. Sales estimates have been weak despite earning the highest Metacritic score since the original trilogy. If ... https://kotaku.com/the-case-for-exclusivity-when-gears-of-war-e-day-cost-over-500-million-to-make-2000747986

Rest in piece Bioware. Baldur's Gate 2 is one of my all time favourite gaming experiences. (Spent a summer with a friend going through it all in LAN coop mode.)

Based on today's Sektori customer feedback, I'm going to speed up the way too easy game catering to casual console players by let's say 50%. Any objections?

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I am starting to consider Sektori a threat to my ability to get anything done. It has hijacked my brain chemicals something fiercely.

Billionaires feeling threatened by free hand made assets...

Kenney@kenney.nl

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

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Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

Every day is a perfect day to play Rez.

It's the 10th Anniversary of Rez Infinite! Originally released on PS4, with optional PSVR compatibility (which launched the same day)! We thank everyone who has played the game over the years—and isn't this a perfect time to play it again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u7aZ64Gxr0

The truth of why we don't see any signs of intelligent life in space is that apparently evolution will eventually result in huge data centers that do nothing but trade stocks with each other while biological life withers away.

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what a fantastic all-timer thread on this phenomena and the psychology behind it I think about this all the time and not understanding this is the difference between successful liminal horror, and just horrorslop. liminal horror is about the baked-in hostility of public spaces we millenials saw die

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Let's do one more Sektori post-release tracking post to wrap things up. I'm beyond happy to report that we've hit 50k sales (all platforms combined)! I can't break that down per platform because of NDAs, but I also can't stop you from looking at the leaderboard entry counts... #indiegame #gamedev

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This post has been quoted back at me too many times, so I'm happy to now report that with the Sektori Switch 2 launch, I've pretty much recouped a living salary for myself too. Total sales are at about 30000. The Switch 2 launch has been very well received, so thank you everyone who's jumped aboard!

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Let's do one more Sektori post-release tracking post to wrap things up. I'm beyond happy to report that we've hit 50k sales (all platforms combined)! I can't break that down per platform because of NDAs, but I also can't stop you from looking at the leaderboard entry counts... #indiegame #gamedev

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This post has been quoted back at me too many times, so I'm happy to now report that with the Sektori Switch 2 launch, I've pretty much recouped a living salary for myself too. Total sales are at about 30000. The Switch 2 launch has been very well received, so thank you everyone who's jumped aboard!

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I need to go and find that single focus point again to get things going. But the success means that I am able to do that now for the next project pretty securely, and that's obviously a huge relief.

Still find it absurd that the game is currently sitting at the top of 2026 releases on Metacritic. That's something that requires an extreme amount of luck, but I'll gladly take and enjoy it as long as it lasts!

Let's do one more Sektori post-release tracking post to wrap things up. I'm beyond happy to report that we've hit 50k sales (all platforms combined)! I can't break that down per platform because of NDAs, but I also can't stop you from looking at the leaderboard entry counts... #indiegame #gamedev

Kimmo Lahtinen@gimblll.com

This post has been quoted back at me too many times, so I'm happy to now report that with the Sektori Switch 2 launch, I've pretty much recouped a living salary for myself too. Total sales are at about 30000. The Switch 2 launch has been very well received, so thank you everyone who's jumped aboard!

I have STILL not begun working on my next project due to multitudes of reasons. A lot of it is that it's been super hard for me to focus with so many post release distractions. And also the difficulty and pressure of following Sektori after putting so much into it. AND the state of the industry...

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Testing eyes on the flying creatures. They were supposed to look weird and scary but they are just.. goofy. I guess I'll have to scrap this idea. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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Thinking aloud: Buried Treasure isn't getting updated as much as I want it to, largely because my other income has gone down dramatically this year and I'm trying to stay afloat. This has meant Patreon subs have gone down too. But what I want most of all is to spend more time on BT. So...

For 20 years straight kids in my country have become worse and worse at reading, mathematics and natural sciences. Good times ahead.

I don't care for afterlife, but I would like a database interface to world data so I could make random queries like when was I closest to a bear eating me.

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If you've been loving our three new EDITIONS, take a browse through the other games we've brought to life including Easy Delivery Co. Sektori, Dread Delusion and SO MANY MORE! 🔗⤵️

Holidays are great. Comings back are not. Also. Life without having to sit on a computer all day is so much better. <end of pointless social media story posted for engagement>