The Fox Knocks

Kin and Quarry logo with a fox miner in a mining helmet standing on a drill while a rabbit and mole work in the background

Foxes and other critters guide the drill through layer 1 (209 blocks remaining, dpeth 25.93. Record: 27.93) Time remaining: 50.8

Uncovering goods at the surface under the drill launching platform. New common Artifact! Cassiterite. It has been donated to the Museum automatically, granting you 1 Permits(s) for use in the Shop!

Kin and Quarry by @thefoxknocks.com, an incremental mining game, is out now! [PC]

The magical essence of your sacred Evertree has been stolen and buried deep underground. As the land's steward, guide your people to dig deep to save it.

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Every single publisher has a number of flops under their belt. Baffling that people think their game would somehow not be thrown into that pile. It's almost like the publisher doesn't decide the trajectory of your game whatsoever.

Definitely one of the biggest ongoing scams in the industry atm.

I hate it when someone picks up a publisher and their game does well, so they shout out their publisher for doing such incredible work, as if that wasn't going to be the outcome without them.

It's akin to someone surviving surgery and the patient saying "thank God". What about the surgeon?

When this is brought up, there's always some publishers that rush to imply that they're not like "those other guys" when, in fact, they are. By virtue of being a publisher, they are.

not a roguelite

Kin and Quarry on Steam An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree. Mine, drill, and blast your way to the deepest depths, discovering rare artifacts and rec...

The demo for Kin and Quarry is up. If you like incremental games, you should try it.

store.steampowered.com/app/3505770/...

Kin and Quarry Trailer YouTube video by The Fox Knocks

Been working on a new incremental experience all about mining. A good friend of mine just finished up the trailer:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNxx...

You can wishlist it here. I plan to have a demo sometime this month! store.steampowered.com/app/3505770/...

Checked in on Twitter out of curiosity. Yep, still have the blue checkmark. I paid for it for one month for advertising purposes then blocked them from charging my card ever again because I couldn't find out how to cancel.

It's apparently coded so badly that I now just get to have it for free.

Deep voice, huh? Must be fake! Nobody ever changes the tone of their voice unless they're faking it to impress girls. Come on, Olexa. Everyone knows that. You can tell because I'm typing this with a deep voice to impress any girls who may happen to read it.

"I’ve found that the best way to dominate a market is to create it," said Sneaky Panda CEO and co-founder Ron Rejwan.

Motherfucker, you didn't do literally any of the things you're gloating about. You are absolutely doing the thing you say everyone else is doing, and you know it.

What a bitch.

The smugness and utter insanity of some of the quotes in the article is maddening.

"The mobile gaming market is saturated with companies that are trying to make better versions of existing products, but our approach at Sneaky Panda is to introduce the ‘luck-puzzler’ genre, a completely new genre"

I challenge all game devs to play their games at default settings with 100% Windows Volume. If it's too loud, you now understand what people suffer when they open your game for the first time so please for the love of everything, start with your game volume being low by default instead.

I don't think to include this because it feels like a given. Most games aren't using AI, but now you have me wondering if I really need to start going out of my way to mention it as an aside or something.

I haven't had poor success reaching out to content creators as is, but I wonder all the same.

PR company SLAMS man who sends e-mail.

He movin'.

It's also not why it's selling badly. You don't see any change in sales until Mixed. A lot of people think Mostly Positive is better than Very Positive, even, just because of how it's worded.

@wanderbot.bsky.social Just saw this thumbnail and it cracked me up. The world needs more smileybots. Just amazing.

Gnomes just reached Overwhelmingly Positive with a score of 98%

store.steampowered.com/app/3133060/...

Looks cool. I like the variance. You could've easily just done generic hallways with a different coat of paint with not much going on in them, but you've went above and beyond and that's awesome.

Equally annoying is feedback in the form of a negative review. If that feedback is then addressed, the negative review often stays regardless. Pretty cool stuff.

PSA: Nomad Idle will never be available on mobile (Android/iOS). Some bad actors have stolen the game and uploaded. If you bought the game on mobile, leave a review saying it's a scam and reach out to Apple/Google for refund.

Apple is pretty much refusing to take them down. Terrible company.

Nomad Idle on Steam Face waves of enemies automatically and create builds by distributing stat points, leveling up equipment, choosing passive skills, summons and more. An idle game about killing hordes of enemies, becom...

Nomad Idle is now released! Check it out!

store.steampowered.com/app/3042190/...

Hah, thanks! That's awesome.

It's happening! Made it onto Popular Upcoming.

Hey, I was trying to find a way to reach out to you privately but couldn't find one. I'm releasing Nomad Idle on April 4th and was wondering if you'd be interested in doing a bundle.

I didn't realize Raid Auctus was coming out so soon!

If you really wanted to be fancy, you could change your bluesky handle to your website, as well.

Nomad Idle Demo on Steam Face waves of enemies automatically and create builds by distributing stat points, leveling up equipment, choosing passive skills, summons and more. An idle game about killing hordes of enemies, becom...

#PitchYaDemo

Bullet Heaven + Incremental Game = Nomad Idle, an idle game spinoff of Nomad Survival.

store.steampowered.com/app/3488310/...

Hey, thanks for sharing! Always glad to see people enjoying it.

@wanderbot.bsky.social grats on hitting 500k subs, brother. That number looks super clean on you!

--certified officially would be a nightmare, especially as AI improves and becomes harder to detect. What if Steam got it wrong? Or what if Steam certified a game, then a dev added in AI stuff later? It's impossible to maintain on the sheer scale of games that exist on Steam.