Golden Harbour Games

Indie game studio in Sydney. AeroFire Command and Punch League: out now on Google Play. PC: free on Steam soon.

[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

We're Golden Harbour Games: grew up on Vladivostok's Golden Horn, now making games on Sydney Harbour.

Four of them, free in your browser:
🔋 Range Anxiety: Far East
🥊 Punch League
🔥 AeroFire Command
🏰 Vladivostok Fortress
https://t.co/mqt5gcJWoJ
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[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

How do you warn a cockroach that a slipper is coming?
A thin ring was easy to miss on a phone. Now it has a dark rim and a dashed edge, and a slipper only comes from a human who has noticed you.
Roach Invasion, free in the browser:
https://t.co/Jq8coGlCAb
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[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

A YouTuber played our game for 40 minutes. Six minutes in: "what do I even do here?"

So we built a guided first spring, a short film on serfdom, and a steward who tells you how you're doing.

Souls & Estates, free in the browser:
https://t.co/Pw2OPtVUKb
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For its first four days, the fire wall in our game made no sound at all.

Now it roars, landings thump, an announcer calls combos, and the menu plays 8 notes from 2021 nobody had used.

Orbital Jump Reloaded, free on Google Play:
https://t.co/0frEOzJxNn
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Our cockroach has had three bodies in three days.
Day 1: simple shapes. Day 2: Pasha's models, brown on brown. Day 3: rebuilt in Blender, with a light shield and big eyes you can read from above.
Roach Invasion, free in the browser:
https://t.co/Jq8coGl4KD
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For 70 versions, the manor was always built for you, dead centre of the map.

Now you start on empty land and put the house down yourself. The villages, fields and roads grow round your choice.

Souls & Estates, free in the browser:
https://t.co/Pw2OPtVmUD
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In 2021 our game opened with 20 lines of dialogue. A soil scientist, an evil ship computer, killer mushrooms.

We cut it to four: the Sun is dying, Earth is next, outrun the fire.

Orbital Jump Reloaded, free on Google Play:
https://t.co/0frEOzJxNn
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[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

This cat is not allowed to cheat.
It only chases if you can reach cover on foot, and it always runs slower than you. Our bot played the room 24 times: caught zero times.
Roach Invasion, free in the browser:
https://t.co/Jq8coGlCAb
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[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

We rebuilt our game's interface 9 times in 2 weeks.

Every version came from playing it: text cut off, the map squeezed to a strip, one fact shown in five places. 13 tabs became 8.

Souls & Estates, free in the browser:
https://t.co/Pw2OPtVUKb
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[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

Our villages looked like a board game: buildings round the edge like counters.

Now they grow along the streets like real Russian villages: board roofs, blue shutters, roads round the manor.

Souls & Estates, free in the browser:
https://t.co/Pw2OPtVmUD
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[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

We deleted a gadget players already owned.

The Gravity Hook is gone: 45 Space Coins back per hook. In its place, one item panel: a glove that tells the Sun to wait, magnets, a Life Capsule.

Orbital Jump Reloaded, free on Google Play:
https://t.co/0frEOzJxNn
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[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

Our game's first test came back with two words: "doesn't jump".

A little stretch on take-off grew his hitbox, so every jump landed in the same instant. Fixed that night.

Orbital Jump Reloaded, free on Google Play:
https://t.co/0frEOzIZXP
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[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

Our estates ran fine. That was the problem: nobody in them had a name.

Now the house has its cook, huntsman and actress, and 1861 is real: every village signs its charter or refuses it.

Souls & Estates, free in the browser:
https://t.co/Pw2OPtVUKb
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@Round_Knights_2 Orbital Jump Reloaded: a one-button space runner. Tap to launch off a planet, gravity decides where you land, and the Sun is eating the system behind you. Grappling hook, jetpack, meteor showers.

Free on Google Play and in the browser: https://t.co/OMaT7qQzH7

[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

@GameTikker Punch League: a boxing card battler. Every punch is a card, and you see the first card of your opponent's combination before you commit. This one is a one-two landing clean.

Free on iOS + Android: https://t.co/mqt5gcJWoJ

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@TheGamerHotspot AeroFire Command: Fire Season. Wildfire strategy: you draw the water and retardant lines on the map, the helicopters and air tankers fly them on their own. This is one whole fire at 3x.

Free on iOS + Android: https://t.co/mqt5gcJWoJ

[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

@coolskeleton_X Orbital Jump: our 2021 phone game, brought back. One tap launches you off a planet, gravity does the rest, and the Sun keeps swallowing the system behind you.

Free on Google Play: https://t.co/0frEOzJxNn

[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

@VictorBerdugo2 AeroFire Command: Fire Season. One whole wildfire at 3x: you draw the water and retardant lines, the helicopters and tankers fly them on their own. Wildfire strategy, free on iOS + Android: https://t.co/mqt5gcJWoJ

[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

@spawndgg @2WeirdGames @2Wedges Making rather than playing this weekend: Punch League, a boxing card battler. You see the first card of your opponent's combination and have to read the rest. This clip is a parry turning into a counter.

Free on iOS + Android: https://t.co/mqt5gcJWoJ

[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

@MagnumOpus_Inc AeroFire Command: Fire Season. Wildfire strategy where you draw the plan on the map with a finger and the fleet flies it. This is a water line being worked by the helicopters.

Free on iOS + Android: https://t.co/mqt5gcJWoJ

[Golden Harbour Games @GoldenHrbrGames]

@SoftpaleGames AeroFire Command: Fire Season. The hangar: 60 real firefighting machines, scoopers, helicopters, dozers, a 747 tanker. You draw where the water and retardant go, and they fly it.

Free on iOS + Android: https://t.co/mqt5gcJWoJ