Team Lazerbeam

We are so stoked to share that we'll be participating in PC Gaming Show this year! We're using our slot in the showcase to finally unveil or release window, and share some other exciting news! Tune in this Sunday! High fives to ‪‬@pcgamer.com for putting this awesome show on!

🚨Special release date announcement announcement announcement!🚨 Based on community feedback our release window reveal will now be be happening on ✨7 June✨! #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev

Announcing the release date for our release date!🎉 Shroom and Gloom just hit 175K wishlists. Celebrating by delivering on the much joked about idea of a release date for a release date! Stoked to share that we’ll drop some big news on the 6th of June. ✨ #gamedev #indiedev #steamgames #indiegames

Making a thing. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Kinda weird that we're even getting asked this, but here's our answer to the question of if we're using generative AI to make assets for our game: #gamedev #indiedev #illustration

Some of us started a little side project at a game jam: Alt control 4 player party game where each player sees a tiny holographic view of sea creatures battling for control of a rock! 🦐⭐🐟🦀 Showing it off for the first time at a pop up arcade this weekend! #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam #altcontrol

Building a video game diorama one layer at a time. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #illustration

It’s a work in progress, but we couldn’t wait to share how cool our prologue chapter is looking! Is anyone else a fan of intuitive tutorials that only use gameplay to teach you how a game works? #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #devlog #indiegame

Added a character selection screen to our game! 🍲 #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev

"What is this game called?" and why we might be the worst indie devs. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

I don't want photo realistic video games! #gamedev #indiedev #gameplay #indiegame

The moment we discovered that our programmer has been tagging our art assets: #gamedev #indiedev #streetart #indiegames

Kicking off another week of making the game. #gamedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

Absolutely slammed on this side, but here's a little glimpse of how our first person card game looks in engine. #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign #illustration #gamedevelopment

🐸 Imagine quitting your animation industry job and then spending your days drawing frogs and molemen for a game. #gamedev #indiedev #animation #indiegames

Wanna crawl through our hand drawn dungeons? Good news - you can! We have an epic demo live on Steam and Itch! #gamedev #indiegames #newgames #gamedevelopment

Drawing a new weird little guy for our game. Please send name suggestions, we can't keep calling him "Eyeballer". #gamedev #indiegames #illustration

Imagine getting into work and finding that one of the programmers on your game had made this! He was supposed to be implementing a system for players to save their games, but instead we got this. Please never change, Ross Lazerbeam.💖 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #animation #proceduralanimation

This weekend we made something special for one of our players: 🍪🐱 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

Snapshot of a random Friday in our little studio, working together on our dream game. #indiedev #gamedevstudio #indiegame #gamedev

What went wrong with our game?🔥 🔮Breaking down one of the most dramatic and weirdly beautiful bugs we've hit while making Shroom and Gloom. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames

Release date schmelease date.

We love 2.5D games. We love that our game is reaching people that like what we're doing out here!💖 #gamedevelopment #indiegames #indiedev #shroomandgloom

Are we crazy for making a game like this? We're building a game entirely out of hand drawn illustrations, layered thousands of times in 3D space.🎨 #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #illustration

Playtesting at a Cape Town game dev meetup! So grateful to be part of such an awesome community! #gamedev #indiegames #gamedevmeetup #gamedevelopers

We're out here making a nice looking game. #indiegames #gamedev #gamedevelopment

If you're a fan of cute and weird punk games, might we recommend our 2 entries in the Snow Cones Saga? 🍦💖🍦 #indiegames #gamedev #punkgames #indiedev

🎉Celebrating 150K Wishlists on our indie game, #shroomandgloom How high can we get this number before we launch this game? 🍄✨🔮 #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames

"I feel bad for the game devs". #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedev #devlog

Can you roast the marshmallows?

Happy to share that you can now light a cozy fire and take a nap while exploring through our hand drawn dungeons. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

1 month of game dev in 1 minute:

How great does this sound? Our composer has been making a new batch of songs for our game. They're already sounding so good! #gamedev #indiegames #videogamemusic #composition #indiegamedev

You're developing a game and something goes horribly wrong but it looks kinda sick: #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames #gamedev

Is everything in our game drawn by hand? 🧑‍🎨 #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames

1 year of game dev in 30 seconds. 🔮 #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment

Are we crazy for doing this for a little South African indie game festival? Showed our game at Playtopia last weekend. Might have gone a little overboard with our booth. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment #shroomandgloom

Making a game with 1000s of illustrations: in engine vs gameplay. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment

Bad at social media but turns out not so bad at making games! Bungled posting this yesterday, so let's try again: 🥳 Our demo is now OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE on Steam! #indiegames #steamgames #gamedev

Wanna help some indie devs out! Our demo almost has an "Overwhelmingly positive" rating, but we need a few more reviews! #gamedev #indiedev #steamgames #indiegamedevelopment

🎉Unveiled some new things:

🔮Cool surprise on the way... Don't miss out on @galaxiesshow.com!✨ #galaxiesshow #gamedev #indiedev

Anyone feel like having their eyeballs melted? #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #madewithunity

If you've been dreaming of playing a first person, fungal punk dungeon crawler with hand drawn art and a lot of flies, this might be the game for you! #indiegames #gamedev #indiegamedev

Cape Town! Come play the weird new party games and controllers we've been making! Here are 3 upcoming game dev events, that we're super grateful to be a part of! #gamedev #capetown #playtopia2025 #indiedev #southafricangamedev #africangamedev

No one will see this in our game going forward, but we might as well share this version of The Gloom with you here: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #shroomandgloom

If you're a fan of: 🖍️ Games with hand drawn art 🍄 Game-breaking turn-based cardplay 🔥 roasting and eating your enemies And you're looking for a deeply replayable demo this Steam Next fest: this might be your next indie game obsession!✨ #indiegames #steamnextfest #steamdemos #roguelike

Game Dev achievement unlocked!✨ First time playing our game with a controller. So much work ahead to get this feeling awesome, but a lovely moment for us!🎉 #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment

What kinda game is this? Here's a 39 second intro to the game we're lovingly developing! #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames

Incredibly rare that there'd be any gameplay reason you'd ever want to do this, but yes, you can walk backwards in our game. #indiedev #gamedev #gamedesign #shroomandgloom

People have said we're crazy for making a game like this, but we love it. Ever level of Shroom and Gloom is created with 1000s of layers of illustrations. Don't think folks understand how fun it is to building a world this way! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #shroomandgloom #indiegames

ICYMI: There's a demo out for this weird thing we're making. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #shroomandgloom

Cooking up a really nice little surprise that we'll unveil later this month! Can't wait to let this cat out of the bag!🐈‍⬛ #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment