Axel 'Vlad' Born

🎮 Indie Game Dev
🎉 Released Games : Snakeloop, Breaking Survivors, Skew Pong
🤝 Board Member of Toulouse Game Dev

📺🇯🇵 Watches way too many anime
🚴Cycling fan

2025-06-08

Some cool thing I received from @NIGHTEN

Photo of the cover of Nighten's book "Susie & the Blue Roof Witch"Back cover of the bookA double-page of the book with a picture on the left side and text on the right side
2025-06-06

Hey #PitchYaGame

Here's my latest game: Snakeloop

It's basically Snake but your goal is to form a loop by eating your own tail, turning the classic game into a minimalist puzzle game.

And it's available on Steam & Itch
store.steampowered.com/app/333

2025-05-29

Snakeloop is discounted for the first time since its launch as part of the #CerebralPuzzleShowcase

And there's more with a new update making the game fully playable with only Mouse or a Touch Screen as alternative to Keyboard / Gamepad.

store.steampowered.com/app/333

Axel 'Vlad' Born boosted:
2025-05-29

The #CerebralPuzzleShowcase is live on Steam now! Come join a celebration of the puzzle genre!

💸 300+ incredible puzzle games + discounts
🧩 50+ demos to try
📦 Exclusive showcase bundles
📺 4 days of livestreams

store.steampowered.com/sale/Ce

2025-03-28

My minimalist puzzle game, Snakeloop, is out!

It's Snake but your goal is to eat your own tail and form a loop.
Features 90 levels with multiple solutions (try to find the optimal ones), lots of emerging mechanics and workshop support.

Available now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/333

2025-03-27

Less than 24 hours left before Snakeloop's release.

Kinda feels weird not to busy with finishing the game right before release for once (improvement over previous games) but still there's so many things to do for the release...

Axel 'Vlad' Born boosted:
Mael DuinMael_Duin
2025-03-24

This week's stream comes with a pre-release and ¿¡Hatsune Miku!?
🐍 Snakeloop, by @axelvborn
💣 Hatsune Miku Bomb Squad, by Birdup

See you LIVE on YouTube❤️+💜Twitch

2025-03-13

Only 15 days left before release. I'm adding the last QoL features such as unlocking levels as whole chapters instead of one by one so they don't have to be completed in a strict order if you're stuck on one.

store.steampowered.com/app/333

#gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

2025-03-08

Only 20 days to release for my minimalist puzzle game, so it's time to go through all the levels I've got & make the final selection of the 90 that will be available in the game.

Find more about the game here : store.steampowered.com/app/333

#ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Cropped screenshot from Unity with the list of the ~150 levels within the project.
2025-02-24

My snake-inspired puzzle game Snakeloop is part of the Steam Next Fest!

The game's demo features 30 levels to showcase the game's main mechanics.

You can play it here: store.steampowered.com/app/333

#gamedev #indiedev #nextfest

Visual stating the game is part of the Steam Next Fest, happening from february 24 to march 3.
Axel 'Vlad' Born boosted:
2025-02-18

#notGDC 2025 is a free, online game dev non-conference for everyone!

This year it runs from March 10–14, one week before GDC.

Have some #gamedev knowledge you want to share with the world? Slides, articles, videos are welcome, and submissions are now open!

For more info: notgdc.io

Axel 'Vlad' Born boosted:
2025-02-17

Samedi, 11h, médiathèque de Toulouse, les devs locaux exposent leurs jeux et prototypes. On attend une quarantaine de jeux. 😱

2025-02-15

@midnightspire to be honest, I was quite surprised with how well Unity was handling this, especially as the optimization wasn't done for the purpose of running the video as fast as possible but making the levels as light as possible.

Ie. there's no pooling (which could make it faster, but would use more space in memory) and so 5-20k game objects are created/destroyed per frame of the video but as those objects are lightweight (only transform, mesh and renderer) it still runs fine.

2025-02-15

Loading time was improved 4-5x through mostly reducing the number of objects, generating lots of prefab variants for walls/floors & using more optimized collections (lists ain't it).
There's still some further optimization that could be done but would be pointless considering the game's needs.

2025-02-15

Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=nJWniATU0M

It runs in 80x60 30fps in realtime and with the same code as the game's normal levels (only with some overhead to extract frames from the video as it plays).

Levels in the game are already loaded at runtime from images so a video isn't much different.

2025-02-15

My minimalist puzzle game can now read videos just as if they were levels.

And as the game is about eating fruit, what better fit to showcase this than a video named after a fruit.

#ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #BadApple

Axel 'Vlad' Born boosted:

🕹️✊ GRÈVE BUNDLE / STRIKE BUNDLE : from you according to your ability, to our comrades according to their needs.

Thanks to multiple generous offers, we're offering you a way to support our strike fund by contributing to this bundle on itch: itch.io/b/2891/grve-bundle-gg2

Axel 'Vlad' Born boosted:

🕹️✊ GRÈVE BUNDLE : de vous selon vos moyens à nos camarades selon leurs besoins.

Grâce aux nombreuses offres généreuse, on vous propose de soutenir le fond de grève en contribuant à ce bundle sur itch : itch.io/b/2891/grve-bundle-gg2

Axel 'Vlad' Born boosted:
2025-02-12

Acheter des jeux vidéo pour tenter de sauver le jeu vidéo, moi je dis plan de fou. itch.io/b/2891/grve-bundle-gg2

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