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Hi! I’m Romy 
a game dev from Cape Town. I hope this is an okay place to post this. Last year my boyfriend and I took a little break from our 9-5s to make a game. I’m an artist and he’s a developer and we have always wanted to make a little game together.
We both played geometry wars a lot when we were younger and love sci fi stuff so that was our starting inspiration. We also thought “What if South Africans were the first to colonise space?” We hardly ever get to see Southern African influence in games and movies and this is even more true when it comes to the sci fi genre! (shoutout to District 9!). So we started work on Hadley’s Run.
You play as Hadley, the pilot of a mining craft from New Jozi (a South African space colony complete with slap chips, space taxis and company called Eishkom). You meet Nia Keplar. Nia hires you for a once off job with hefty bitRand payment and that’s when things go completely pear shaped.
It's a quirky little roguelite twin-stick shooter adventure and the soundtrack slaps (other people’s words, I swear hehe) Along the way you make friends with a host of weird and wonderful aliens and each combat area offers different enemies, interactable elements and a variety of environmental challenges to overcome. Going through a portal may take you to a different area this run than it did last time. There are over 100 upgrades to unlock, install and experiment with, different weapons and abilities to try out, bosses to defeat and a story to uncover.
The combat is challenging, fast paced twin-stick shooter vibes but we have also built in some features that help people who prefer a more forgiving experience. Like special portals that allow you to skip some combat areas (for a price) and an easy mode that scales based on how often you die.
This is a small self published game made with a lot of love. We know it's not the most bombastic, high budget production but it's got a lot of heart. Every bit of support we get helps us grow and in turn helps the industry grow in South Africa so that more developers can start making great games!
We still have a demo up (and will be keeping it up) if you want to test it out free of charge, share it with your friends, listen to our soundtrack It will take you up to the first boss fight. And the game plays nice with Steam Deck!
If anyone does play I really hope you enjoy it and would love to hear any feedback you have.
Steam link:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2855990/Hadleys_Run_A_Starship_Saga
A track from our OST (this one is a drum and bass banger and one of our boss fight tracks)
Thank you! Have a great day!
If you read through all of my ramblings you deserve something in return Here is a picture of Meepo, the bestest boy and our Fart Director.
a game dev from Cape Town. I hope this is an okay place to post this. Last year my boyfriend and I took a little break from our 9-5s to make a game. I’m an artist and he’s a developer and we have always wanted to make a little game together. We both played geometry wars a lot when we were younger and love sci fi stuff so that was our starting inspiration. We also thought “What if South Africans were the first to colonise space?” We hardly ever get to see Southern African influence in games and movies and this is even more true when it comes to the sci fi genre! (shoutout to District 9!). So we started work on Hadley’s Run.
You play as Hadley, the pilot of a mining craft from New Jozi (a South African space colony complete with slap chips, space taxis and company called Eishkom). You meet Nia Keplar. Nia hires you for a once off job with hefty bitRand payment and that’s when things go completely pear shaped.
It's a quirky little roguelite twin-stick shooter adventure and the soundtrack slaps (other people’s words, I swear hehe) Along the way you make friends with a host of weird and wonderful aliens and each combat area offers different enemies, interactable elements and a variety of environmental challenges to overcome. Going through a portal may take you to a different area this run than it did last time. There are over 100 upgrades to unlock, install and experiment with, different weapons and abilities to try out, bosses to defeat and a story to uncover.
The combat is challenging, fast paced twin-stick shooter vibes but we have also built in some features that help people who prefer a more forgiving experience. Like special portals that allow you to skip some combat areas (for a price) and an easy mode that scales based on how often you die.
This is a small self published game made with a lot of love. We know it's not the most bombastic, high budget production but it's got a lot of heart. Every bit of support we get helps us grow and in turn helps the industry grow in South Africa so that more developers can start making great games!
We still have a demo up (and will be keeping it up) if you want to test it out free of charge, share it with your friends, listen to our soundtrack
It will take you up to the first boss fight. And the game plays nice with Steam Deck!If anyone does play I really hope you enjoy it and would love to hear any feedback you have.
Steam link:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2855990/Hadleys_Run_A_Starship_Saga
A track from our OST (this one is a drum and bass banger and one of our boss fight tracks)
Thank you! Have a great day!
If you read through all of my ramblings you deserve something in return
Here is a picture of Meepo, the bestest boy and our Fart Director.
