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Tom Stephenson

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| Managing Director @freerangedevs.bsky.social : Making ROVA | | Solo Dev: making FEYGHT | ✨Wishlist ROVA!✨ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3147020/ROVA_Demo/

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ROVA - Early Access Release Date Trailer
ROVA - Early Access Release Date Trailer YouTube video by FreeRangeDevs

ROVA Early Access is out March 27th!🥳
A cozy space-rover photography game 📸🪐

Check out the New Trailer below 👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnuK...

#wishlistwednesday #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev #cozygaming

04.03.2026 11:47 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Today is the final day of #SteamNextFest !! It's been an amazing opportunity to get valuable feedback and reviews of our ROVA demo! Thanks to everyone for supporting and playing the game so far! #indiegamedev #cozygaming #madewithunity

02.03.2026 11:38 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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ROVA Demo on Steam ROVA is a cozy space-rover photography game. Help a new space colony conduct research on large spherical planets, by documenting elements of alien worlds through photography. ROVA is a game about disc...

Find the demo here 🫶
store.steampowered.com/app/3147020/...

27.02.2026 16:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If our cozy space-rover game, ROVA hits 4k wishlists by the end of the week, I'll add online co-op 😏

#indiegamedev #gaming #indiegame

27.02.2026 16:23 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Would you play this cozy space rover photography game? #cozygaming #cozygames #indiegamedev #videogame

26.02.2026 19:33 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

It's never too early to start blocking out your indie game's credits.

26.02.2026 12:48 👍 98 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 3

We're soooooo close to 4k wishlists!

Incredibly thankful for everyone that has played so far! 🥰

#indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #cozygames

26.02.2026 13:58 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Several key arts from different Steam games are pasted against a purple and blue background. Middle title text reads "Next Fest" "A Celebration of Upcoming Games" with the steam logo in the upper left. Upper left is for the game "7 Nights With Vroombi". Bottom left is "Dosa Divas". Middle is "Beast Breaker". Upper right is "Mayor May Knott". Bottom right is "Oddfauna". Many of my emotes are pasted near the different titles looking like a post from a 2000s blog.

Several key arts from different Steam games are pasted against a purple and blue background. Middle title text reads "Next Fest" "A Celebration of Upcoming Games" with the steam logo in the upper left. Upper left is for the game "7 Nights With Vroombi". Bottom left is "Dosa Divas". Middle is "Beast Breaker". Upper right is "Mayor May Knott". Bottom right is "Oddfauna". Many of my emotes are pasted near the different titles looking like a post from a 2000s blog.

It's time for day 3 of our Steam Next Fest demo extravaganza!! Yesterday we went off on a demo tangent so we'll try to get some of yesterdays games today, we'll see. First up we're checking out Rova by @freerangedevs.bsky.social !
Twitch.tv/ItsATreee
youtube.com/@itsacesire

25.02.2026 18:39 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 8 📌 0
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And after 2 years we're finally part of #steamnextfest !! What a journey its been so far. From a simple game jam idea @globalgamejam.bsky.social into a fully fleshed cozy game! Thanks for all the support along the way, we're so close! #madewithunity #indiegamedev #cozygaming

26.02.2026 10:17 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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In ROVA every... single... thing in this alien world is it's own discovery and influences your gameplay! 📸 🪐 Try for yourself in our brand new demo!
#madewithunity #cozygaming #indiegamedev #cozygames #fyp

25.02.2026 16:44 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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We're making ROVA, a cozy space-rover photography game and it's part of #SteamNextFest !📸

It's a chill game with an entire planet to explore in our latest demo! 🪐

Check it out here 🫶
store.steampowered.com/app/3147020/...

#WishlistWednesday #indiegamedev #CozyGaming

25.02.2026 10:51 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Steam Next Fest promo image.

The Steam Next Fest promo image.

📢 INDIE DEVS WHO ARE IN NEXT FEST!

If you're participating and would like your demo/store page reposted to 37K+ Bluesky followers then drop it in the replies below*

*No games that use Gen-AI please and thank you.

24.02.2026 12:09 👍 549 🔁 228 💬 133 📌 19
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Making a small thread of every demo I play during Next Fest and some initial thoughts on them.

Please make sure to check out the store page for each of these demos and give them a wishlist if they sound like something you'd like - it helps the developers a lot! ❤️

24.02.2026 20:39 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 33 📌 0
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Thanks Alex! We're making ROVA, a cozy space-rover photography game 🪐📸

Just released a fresh demo, ready for NextFest :
store.steampowered.com/app/3147020/...

25.02.2026 07:56 👍 22 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

That's fair! Your game looks awesome btw - the world needs more local co-op games! I've wishlist and I'll leave a review once I've given it a go :)

25.02.2026 07:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sugar Shatter Demo on Steam Smash through your competition in Sugar Shatter, a breakout fighting game where you have to hit a candy ball to break more bricks than your opponent. Meet a variety of characters in campaign mode, or ...

A little embarrassed to ask, but could anyone who's tried my game and liked it leave a review on the demo page? I'm 2 days into next fest with no reviews, and could really use the boost 🥺

store.steampowered.com/app/4364720/...

24.02.2026 22:42 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you!

We've been making short form content too, which has definitely helped a bit!

I ought to start reaching out to more streamers / content creators. Have you had much luck doing that?

24.02.2026 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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ROVA Demo on Steam ROVA is a cozy space-rover photography game. Help a new space colony conduct research on large spherical planets, by documenting elements of alien worlds through photography. ROVA is a game about disc...

You can find ROVA's demo here 🫶
store.steampowered.com/app/3147020/...

24.02.2026 22:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Any tips from #indiegamedev 's on getting your game noticed during #SteamNextFest ?

24.02.2026 22:39 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Hey look, it's my voice 👀

Or should I say listen?
Anyways.. try our new demo 🫶

24.02.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks mate! 😁

24.02.2026 19:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#steamnextfest is well underway! If you enjoy chill exploration and research, we'd love for you to check out our cozy space rover photography game, ROVA! 🪐📸

#indiegame #madewithunity #indiegamedev #cozygaming

24.02.2026 15:57 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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ROVA's latest demo just came out, and it's part of #SteamNextFest !

Expect to find new creatures, layout changes and plenty more objects to photograph / research 📸🪐

store.steampowered.com/app/3147020/...

24.02.2026 08:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's finally out!🥳

It's been a massive undertaking, but y'know what I'm most excited about..?

Unlockable costumes for colonists 🥸😎🤠

24.02.2026 05:52 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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It's #SteamNextFest, which feels like the perfect time to drop ROVA's latest demo update! 🪐

Document alien worlds in ROVA, a cozy space-rover photography game 📸

👇Link Below 👇

#madewithunity #indiegamedev #cozygaming

24.02.2026 05:38 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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🪨🌕🦴

#indiegamedev #news

22.02.2026 20:05 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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A collection of #polaroids taken at our first ever GlobalGameJam site #GGJ26 !🎮

13.02.2026 10:30 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Last weekend I took part with other members of @freerangedevs.bsky.social at Llanfairfechan's very first @globalgamejam.bsky.social site for #ggj26 !

Massive thanks to
@developertom1.bsky.social @gazthomas.com & @charlesgershom.com for helping organise the event!

#indiegamedev #gaming

05.02.2026 11:33 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Made this little tool for some workshops. Supports Make ode Arcade. Cleaned it up a bit, #Unlicense on github if you want a laugh at some rough code and self host. Bilingual If you're from Cymru ❤️❤️

pixel.realityboffins.com

#pixelart #gamedev #madeinwales #cymru #lofigames

30.09.2025 17:15 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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First ever @globalgamejam.bsky.social & first ever game created☑️ What does a heritage illustrator make? A game about museums😂 Representing the paper prototype/tabletop creators out there😇

Thanks to @freerangedevs.bsky.social for inviting me along to join in!

#museums #tabletopgames

02.02.2026 18:25 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0