The inspiration for our colour scheme in Sparrow Warfare was Purple Saturn Day, by the way, a game I've never played but always adored. store.steampowered.com/app/1255410/...

Excited to see PepperHead trying out the playtest build of Sparrow Warfare live in a few hours as part of their "Finding the Next Big Roguelike" series! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob4T...

#ScreenshotSaturday #GodotEngine #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGames Arson 666! Get wild with the tiles in Sparrow Warfare - our playtest is live on Steam right now!

1. "Negative Space" by BR Yeager 2. Commander Keen 4 3. The Garden of Eden as interpreted by Philo of Alexandria, Ibn-Ezra, and St. Ephrem

Our first look at so many games in last week's #TurnBasedThursday showcase! ◻️ Deep sandbox RPG in a living, procedural world ✏️ Whimsical hand-drawn dungeon crawler 🐦 Bird-filled deckbuilder w/ crazy combos 💥 Turn-based 80's action boomer shooter in EA & many more! ⤵ #Gaming #TurnBased #IndieGames

Ahhh, time to relax in the evening after working hard all day - and what could be more relaxing than the nonstop adrenaline fest of Black Rabbit?! I think, much like Ozark, a key draw is the feeling “I could be doing soooooo much worse” 😅

Take a look at this little talisman that we brought back from our trip to China earlier this year. We're doing it! And, every now and then it's nice to look back and see the path we forged to get to here. It makes looking ahead into the unknown jungle of the future a tiny bit less scary.

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Just realised today that it was almost exactly a year ago that @martinpi.bsky.social and I took a day off to have a mini creative retreat: we needed a new plan, we were so tired and burnt out from our AI work. We wanted to find our ikigai, to return to feeling joyful in our day-to-day.

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Really fun video of a Sparrow Warfare stream by @unaminh.bsky.social over the weekend! So many big boy bomb booms! www.twitch.tv/videos/25714...

@tanyaxshort.bsky.social We made this recipe last night with the maple syrup you brought and it was EPIC! So so delicious - thanks so much for this nectar of the gods! www.recipetineats.com/maple-sweet-...

14 hours in and this morning finally managed to claim top spot on Sparrow Warfare. Screenshotting for posterity because I'm normally rubbish at roguelikes (and until I'm knocked off my feathery pedestal). What a super playtest this is 🐦

Currently liiiiiiive on Twitch playing @alphachar.bsky.social and @martinpi.bsky.social's Sparrow Warfare (badly) www.twitch.tv/yunitex

Irish domination of the world went hard this week! @spookydoorway.bsky.social announced The Séance of Blake Manor is out 27th Oct @neonaurelius.bsky.social revealed Sparrow Warfare @outliersocial.bsky.social launched Mars Attracts @saltstonestudios.bsky.social revealed The Hearth &Harbour

We're on a dairy farm for the weekend! What time is it? It's cow time 🙌

The hubris is strong in us 🦜🕊️🦆🦢🦅🦉🦚

Always wanted to be Zero Cool but deep down I know I'm Joey

I heard "unfortunately you can't not do this thing in fiction" & have been determinedly not doing it since

Quite happy with how some of the backgrounds in our game have come together. All mountains are actual mountains I photographed in Yangshuo and traced by hand. This rainforest I've only been to virtually though.

Lovely article on our brand new playtest from Rogueliker!! rogueliker.com/sparrow-warf...

Watch @alphachar.bsky.social and me live demo our playtest build on Steam in 35 minutes. I plan to talk a little bit about an essential design goal for Sparrow Warfare: how to harness escalation as a game design principle. store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

I love to see our leaderboard slowly growing! steamcommunity.com//stats/39760...

It's time! Really excited to be pushing our little baby bird out of the nest today, and excited to see everyone flying high on the leaderboard 🦅

Yes. People think it’s strange that the villain of our game is called The Storyteller, but we live in a world where stories have become very dangerous indeed.

We're planning to open up our public playtest TOMORROW on Steam... but if you're super keen to hang out with the birds today, just reach out to [email protected] and we'll get you an advance key ❤️

Ooooooh hooooooohooooooooo! Steam approved our playtest build so we can open the doors for folks to play on Wednesday. I’m so excited to see the leaderboard filling up 🙌😁

We have a Steam page for our game! It's a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with A LOT OF BIRDS! If you have a Steam account and hit the wishlist button - you will have my eternal gratitude 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

We are a pun-positive games studio.

In an hour, @martinpi.bsky.social and I will be doing a live playthrough/Q&A broadcast on Steam of our upcoming playtest build (coming soooooo soooooooooon to Steam!). Join us if you're curious 🦜 store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

@alphachar.bsky.social and @martinpi.bsky.social's new game is finally on Steam! I've been playtesting it for quite a while and it's very addictive. HIGHLY recommend. Love all the birbs!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Two of the best game makers out there are making a very cool game, and you should wishlist it and then buy it: store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/... (Sparrow Warfare, by Neon Aurelius)

We have a Steam page for our game! It's a mahjong-inspired deckbuilder with A LOT OF BIRDS! If you have a Steam account and hit the wishlist button - you will have my eternal gratitude 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

what if wingspan kicked slay the spire's ass

We have a Steam store page for SPARROW WARFARE now so you can wishlist the game! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

We're on it! It's been a long time since we updated this account... but stay tuned, next week we'll share a little 👀

The LATEST! RU episode 359. renderingunconscious.substack.com/podcast On this episode @alphachar.bsky.social discusses a procedural generation game she and her partner created using AI, fine-tuning a large language model on Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth... @carlabrahamsson.bsky.social

Continuing my excellent summer of horror, @martinpi.bsky.social got me "I Gave You Eyes & You Looked Toward Darkness" by Irene Solà and I INHALED it over the weekend. Lots going on in a small amount of pages, highly recommended for my fellow horror homies.

G'wan Team Gambrinous! 🇮🇪

I'm making a card game about frogs which frog is the best?

@thoughtrise.bsky.social Thanks for the rec to watch "Evil" - really enjoying it!

Looking at my amazing heirloom Swedish tablecloth that I bought at a flea market, considering the frankly evil expressions on the faces, and listening to my favourite song (“Human Fly” by The Cramps). Good times 🙏

When asked if she felt nostalgic for the French New Wave, Jeanne Moreau responded: “Nostalgia for what? Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place. And I think: they’re dead before they die. That’s a terrible risk. Living is risking.”

Here are some things I'm really enjoying these days: - Ranged Touch podcasts about books - Collaging art for our game - Knitting a very over-ambitious shawl - Crosswords & sudokus & Blue Prince with Mar - Making my own pasta - Reading Joyce Carol Oates (yes, she fits in the Summer of Horror!)

I am partaking in @alphachar.bsky.social ‘s summer of horror books and Old Soul was really quite something. Excellent! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460569...

This is an absolutely fascinating article about a very bizarre event. Obviously from my perspective the most interesting angle here is the fact that ChatGPT is clearly just spinning SCP-esque containment documentation at Lewis

OK a few days ago I saw a post about a 90s thriller movie where the poster was saying something like “I love movies where people are too hot and things go wrong”. We’re in a mega 90s movie phase and I cannot find this post back!! If you remember it, please send it my way 🙏

On a real horror kick these days, and the last 3 books I've read have all been absolute bangers. I'm flying through the pages! In case you are looking for impeccable ✨summer vibes✨ too, here they are: - "Come Closer", Sara Gran - "Old Soul", "Susan Barker - "A Short Stay In Hell", Steven Peck