"Ithaca: A Narrative Road-Trip RPG About Climate Resistance" *now* on Kickstarter - by the dangerous, unstoppable Florent & enemies & friends & pets & kids & co. @thepixelhunt.bsky.social 😍

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Absolutely over the moon to say that our next game, Ithaca, will be part of the @dayofthedevs.org Summer Game Fest edition this Friday. And we've got a TON of things to reveal, so stay tuned!

#homer #features #updated #storyeditor #floweditor #narrativedesign #gamedev #videogame #gameflow One Homer feature is copying a dialogue from your text editor and pasting it into Homer. The dialogue is automatically transformed into nodes, making your workflow faster and smoother. in seconds now!

Found out about Loan Shark by @studioortica.bsky.social . Just amazing store.steampowered.com/app/3751730/...

It's brewing. Generative puzzle towns, deterministic, turn-based, tactical, strategic, create optimal solutions, silly, about revolution, historical, tragi-comic. And people's assemblies that may revoke your control. "Revolt Of The Commons" #gamedev #strategy #turnbased #historical

I wonder how many realise that if you use Homer for your game content, you basically don't have to do any technical localisation work 😊 - homer.open-lab.com @pupunzi.bsky.social #gamedev #unity3d #unity #homer

The ludology vs narratology debate 😅

Steam, deciding on their new store tags:

Venerable storyteller @edstern.bsky.social joins us to talk in great detail about understatement, and the craft of putting material in versus holding it back. Turn to www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope... to begin!

A reel of our studio work 😊 We design and build websites, applications, and games. We are available for collaborations and bespoke projects, just write us at [email protected] 😎 Full reel: youtu.be/JrM2pvVH08I

A reel of our studio work 😊 We design and build websites, applications, and games. We are available for collaborations and bespoke projects, just write us at [email protected] 😎 Full reel: youtu.be/JrM2pvVH08I

Our *Narrative design for Video Games* course with @peterpunk.bsky.social is starting this Wednesday, May 6. 🎓 Find out more & enroll here: www.d6learning.com/course/narra...

Narrative design for Video Games with @peterpunk.bsky.social 🎓 Course starts May 6 Find out more & enroll here: www.d6learning.com/course/narra...

further thoughts on this: when Brendan discusses that eg musicians have always been a type of ‘artist entrepreneur’ like devs it lets me think about the teaching work I do in games and how to grow that muscle of bringing work to an audience into new developers. this entire presentation is so useful

Join us today at 17:30 for a live presentation of our *Narrative design for Video Games* course, and a discussion with @peterpunk.bsky.social. Secure your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1986404759...

Early prototype design of a strategic & narrative medieval rebellion sim “Revolt Of The Commons” - turn-based, deterministic, tragi-comic, inspired by the Ciompi’s popular revolt (14th century in Florence) 😝 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #strategygames #historygames

Check what's new in Homer 1.3.2 open-lab.notion.site/Version-1-3-... #homer #features #newfeature #updated #storyeditor #floweditor #narrativedesign #gamedev #videogame #gameflow

Meet game & narrative designer and indie #gamedev Pietro Polsinelli (aka @peterpunk.bsky.social) and ask him about writing for games and his upcoming *Narrative design for Video Games* course. Join him line on April 29! ✒️ Secure your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1986404759...

More than 3 years since its release and Flat Eye has never felt so relevant when it comes to the way we use technology to work, to live, to get lost, and to find ourselves.

Oh yes please do review!

This week on the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast: Historian and game writer @hollynielsen.bsky.social talks about building plausible deniability into your world-building by pinning lore on sources. Check it out here: www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope... ... or any-podcast-place!

Interested in learning how to write short stories at the video game concepting stage? Join @iamleyeti.bsky.social tomorrow (April 9) for a live presentation of our *How To Prototype Video Game Narratives with Short Stories* course. 🎓 Secure your seat here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1981846573...

Spent quite some time setting up several @d6learning.bsky.social live events for this week. Here they are (a thread): 🕹️ Narrative Design for Video Games -- course presentation & intro by @peterpunk.bsky.social [April 7]: www.eventbrite.com/e/1869026361...

The wise and wonderful @peterpunk.bsky.social is back and ready to introduce you to his *Narrative design for Video Games* course; live on April 7! 👾 Secure your spot here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1869026361... #gamedev #narrativedesign #gamewriting

Becoming Saint: An Indie Tale of Creation with Pietro Polsinelli 🪽 watch the video here ⇢ www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT...

The awesome @wearemuesli.bsky.social's most recent game is out! It looks like a gorgeous little set of character explorations. store.steampowered.com/app/3608120/...

Discover narrative design, and let @peterpunk.bsky.social introduce you to interactive narrative design, game writing, and their relationship with production on April 7! 🎓 Secure a seat for the live *Narrative Design for Video Games* intro & course presentation ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/1869026361...

Will do a free online presentation of my Narrative Design course for the amazing @d6learning.bsky.social "Narrative design for Video Games - Introduction & Course Presentation" on Tuesday, Apr 7 from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm CEST, www.eventbrite.com/e/narrative-...

Narrative Design for Video Games 🌀 A course presentation & introduction to the craft by game and narrative designer @peterpunk.bsky.social. Join us live on April 7! Reserve your seat here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1869026361...

Peter Thiel should be forced to play Becoming Saint until he becomes a liberation theology supporter 😇😅

Wednesdays now on #AppStore and #GooglePlay !!! #mobileGames

In Italy we have an absolute cretin as Minister for Culture 😓

This wonderful graphic novel game, In Their Shoes by We Are Muesli, was created using Homer. #gamedev #narrative #narrativedesign #storyeditor #homer store.steampowered.com/app/3608120/...

In Their Shoes would simply not exist if it hadn't been for the lovely story flow editor Homer homer.open-lab.com by @peterpunk.bsky.social & @pupunzi.bsky.social If you're planning to make a dialog-rich game (even if you aren't), you should definitely check out this gem of a #NarrativeDesign tool!

Soon in Homer: a new feature for conditional content directly inside nodes: [IF xxx] text [ELSE IF xxx] text [ELSE] text [/IF] Supports unlimited ELSE IF conditions. homer.open-lab.com #homer #features #newfeature #updated #storyeditor #floweditor #narrativedesign #gamedev #videogame #gameflow

The @AssetStore is doing a bundle sale, and both my bundles are 50% off as part of it. - All Editor Tools: bit.ly/editorassets... - Essential Bundle: bit.ly/essentials_as #unity3d #gamedev #tools

A collection of 49 short interactive stories. A fragmented diary of modern-day Milan. A mumblecore narrative game. Call it whatever you want, but In Their Shoes is OUT NOW on Steam, with a special launch discount! store.steampowered.com/app/3608120/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #newgame

Becoming Saint, our strategic and tactical medieval game, is now also available for iOS and Android. open-lab.com/games/becomi... If you also wish to play with Football Drama & Roller Drama, get them all with the iOS Bundle: apps.apple.com/us/app-bundl... #strategygames #indiegames #gamedev

I had recently a nightmarish technical/bureaucratic issue with Google Play for devs ("Google Play Console") and their whole interface and "automated" "process" perfectly expresses this www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

If you have an iPhone or an iPad, you can now get all our three games in a very convenient bundle! Football Drama ⚽, Roller Drama 🛼 and Becoming Saint 😇 apps.apple.com/us/app-bundl...

What is this book? A wonderful little pile of secrets.

This anthology presents narrative design & writing for games in their full glory. Demonstrates how such a uniquely multi-dimensional medium can be approached with an open variety of ideas and solutions, just as any other medium. In 118 (!) (brief) chapters! Thank you @inkle.co & kudos to Jon Ingold!

I love writing short stories. I love writing for games. Why not both??

Becoming Saint is now available on mobile! A small, replayable strategic and tactical medieval game with a rich, evolutive and generative narrative component. Define your set of beliefs and convert the whole of Italy to your heretic creed! Get it here: open-lab.com/games/becomi...

Becoming Saint is now available on mobile! A small, replayable strategic and tactical medieval game with a rich, evolutive and generative narrative component. Define your set of beliefs and convert the whole of Italy to your heretic creed! Get it here: open-lab.com/games/becomi...

If you’ve ever been curious to try out Pendragon, the least well-known of all the inkle games, it’s on sale to support the fight against Type 1 Diabetes for a few more hours!

my take on game industry finance is any analysis of dev time, dev cost, sale pricing etc. is pointless without acknowledging the role of big capital in systematically acquiring and extracting all of the wealth it‘s like giving someone diet and exercise advice while Dracula is actively killing them

For ages @peterpunk.bsky.social tried to convince me that microwaving tea was bad, and now that I stopped I see he was right... and that he could've easily convinced me by saying: "It's like putting pasta in the pot before it boils." How did you not think of that, PP!

"Every day a Voight-Kampff Test" peterpunk.substack.com/p/every-day-...