If you're some kinda music dork and want to know how we're handling the audio backend in OFFBEAT, here's a blog post! www.whetstone.games/blog-1/pure-... It barely scratches the surface :)

Have you made your first masterpiece yet? Send us your choons! We set up a record label to publish the best work created in the game. Maybe you’ll be signed by Pantaloon Records!

please play our demo!! I drew so many pictures to make it real!!

Shh listen, listen! You hear that!? It's the sound of people making glorious music in the FIRST public Demo for OFFBEAT, which is NOW LIVE exclusively on @itch.io Create music! Make money! Share your creativity with the world 🎵 pantaloon-io.itch.io/offbeat

Let’s Play – First Look – 1st Impressions of #Boxroom 🎮 youtu.be/hP9GpDKCO_o

Ever wanted your Steam library as an actual physical game collection? 🎮 In @pantaloon.io's #BOXROOM you design your own gaming den, organize shelves and fill them with your real Steam library. Such a fun and cozy idea for anyone who loves collecting and curating games. Vid here 👇

Missed our email bulletin? Is ok. We have it in video-form now, too. Here's five bold and bizarre games for May. Featuring @greyalien.bsky.social @nightsignalentertainment.com @bilgetbd.itch.io @futurefriendsgames.com and a bunch of other cool folks not on bsky. youtu.be/1ZDVQoVs3AA

📢 Mark your calendars! We're collaborating with Good Game Dev Club (and @patattiemurray.bsky.social!) for an 🎉 OFFBEAT PARTY🎉 !!! Join us at the Brighton Loading Bar from 8pm until late on Wednesday 15 July! Early bird tickets here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-game-... #indiedev #developbrighton

Missed our email bulletin? Is ok. We have it in video-form now, too. Here's five bold and bizarre games for May. Featuring @greyalien.bsky.social @nightsignalentertainment.com @bilgetbd.itch.io @futurefriendsgames.com and a bunch of other cool folks not on bsky. youtu.be/1ZDVQoVs3AA

This month’s Bold and Bizarre Games Bulletin goes out the door this afternoon - with a particularly brain-numbing puzzle for you to bag a copy of Centum in this month’s partnership with @serenityforge.com 📧 www.pantaloon.io

Steam's Ocean Fest has just kicked off, and Sub-Verge has 50% off to celebrate Pick up @interactivetragedy.com's conversational puzzler for less than the price of a coffee. Don't let the conversation get too deep... store.steampowered.com/app/3487020/...

Pantaloon Primo Subscribers! 📣 A little email has just hit your inboxes with a key to the OFFBEAT playtest. Play! Compose! Share the fruits of your labour with us so we can dance and be merry to your work (export tracks to .wav and share in a private Discord channel with us and @whetstone.games!)

Yesterday's BOXROOM release date announce (May 26th! Tattoo it on the inside of your eyelids so you are reminded every time you blink!) has pushed the game over the 50k wishlist mark. What a tremendously lovely number! TY! 📦 store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/...

BOXROOM will launch into Early Access on May 26th 📣 store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

oi oi, here we go! Our partner for May is the very wonderful @serenityforge.com - and we're going to put the enigmatic Centum into your inboxes (if you solve this month's puzzle) We also have 5 keys for Bluesky - follow & share and we'll pick five winners on May 28th Newsletter 👉 www.pantaloon.io

OFFBEAT is on Rock Paper Shotgun! Whoa!! Thank you @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/make-actual-...

going to reveal this month's partner game on the newsletter later today be excited www.pantaloon.io

A great insight into what can capture the attention of a video games journalist. And shoutout to the @pantaloon.io team for creating a great bit of video games PR!

ICYMI bsky.app/profile/pant...

Announcing OFFBEAT! This is our debut title, a music-tycoon game where you build a recording studio and record real, actual music using a variety of unlikely objects. WISHLIST IT HERE: store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/... #indiegame #indiedev #microstudio #musicproduction #diy

NEWS! You hear that!? That's the sound of OFFBEAT; a music-tycoon game from the fantastic @whetstone.games OFFBEAT allows you to hook up kids toys, garden ornaments and kitchen utensils to a sequencer to create glorious electronic music (and export to .wav!) store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/...

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

you, me, right here, 4pm, little bit of news if you fancy it x

Oh! And it's time to close this out. Congrats to @emperoru.bsky.social @blackbeardxiii.bsky.social, @colasso1.bsky.social, @cptsr.bsky.social and @mzfour.bsky.social Will sling a DM your way with keys - make sure I can message you 👍

ok people, we've got a chunky week ahead: 💯 pantaloon partner announce for May! 🙉 ...a brand new original game we're revealing. ⁉️ other stuff probably, I don't know newsletter gets it all first: www.pantaloon.io

congrats to our solitaire-chums @greyalien.bsky.social and @nightsignalentertainment.com on the release of Forbidden Solitaire -- been avidly following this one since it was announced. Great to see it not only out, but doing some solid numbers. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

This is hitting inboxes now btw. Good luck and Godspeed x

LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT! Forbidden Solitaire is officially launching NEXT WEEK, on April 30th! We unearthed a new trailer from the archives - an advertisement that originally aired in 1995! Wishlist on Steam and GOG: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... www.gog.com/en/game/forb...

Oh look! Titanium Court - our partner game from back in February with @fellowtraveller.games - is OUT NOW. go play one of the freshest, dopest and most interestingest games you'll likely play this year. 'grats on the launch @apthomson.bsky.social ! store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...

BOXROOM mascot fan art! Loving your work, @froot-gummii.bsky.social

for those eagerly awaiting tomorrow's puzzle as part of our partnership with @bithellgames.bsky.social, know this: It's our most obtuse yet. It's mathsy. You're going to hate it. Seeya tomorrow x www.pantaloon.io

> fetch headlines --category=events --since=24 It Takes a War and Acolyte are taking part in #InterfaceX26 - a steam showcase for games that play with a fakeOS or similar meta features. Some mad innovation and novel narrative in this space. interfacex.net

The final BOXROOM Demo Update is here, with a plethora of player-requested features, fixes and other improvements. Fill yer boots - the Demo will be taken down before too long as we make way for the Early Access release (we'll have a date to announce soon!) store.steampowered.com/news/app/433...

our planet will rotate on its axis a mere twenty-one more times

ICYMI! This month we've partnered with @bithellgames.bsky.social & @nictringali.bsky.social to bring you the wonderfully cerebral The Banished Vault. Keys will drop Apr 30, and we'll have a new puzzle to guarantee your key on the 23rd. Ready up at: www.pantaloon.io www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3Ni...

In a small room with a box full of endless steam games, changing the room with a hammer, adding some shelves, putting a bed, dropping joysticks, making games into posters and just leaving things on the floor in Boxroom by @pantaloon.io youtu.be/hqfDqh6WIsE

SPACE MATHS! Yes, this month Pantaloon has partnered with @bithellgames.bsky.social & @nictringali.bsky.social to bring our newsletter subscribers The Banished Vault. We have 4000 keys & a new puzzle for you on April 23. We also have 5 keys for Bsky - share & follow to enter! www.pantaloon.io

Did you know you can do THIS to the beds in BOXROOM? Play the demo! Show us what you’re doing with your duvet. store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/...

BOXROOM players are creating beautiful, aesthetic and faithful recreations of their childhood bedrooms. Then there’s these folk.

A second update to the BOXROOM Demo went live earlier on Steam, with a host of fixes and QOL improvements. Enjoy! store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/...

Boxroom is a part of Steam's larger House and Home sale event, which features chill simulators and games that pull off making chores fun

BOXROOMデモ版を触ってみる。自由に部屋をデザインし、Steamライブラリーにある作品を並べて遊べるハウジングゲーム。パッケージを手に取って中を見ることもできる(画像はSteamストアページから取得している模様)。現状日本語非対応で強制的に海外版のパッケージになる。デモ版ではできることは少ないが今後の機能追加次第で面白くなりそうな予感。 #BOXROOM

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thanks roomies for playing the demo and getting BOXROOM to this nice little spot 📦

BOXROOM wishlist update less than 48 hours from reveal

BOXROOM is a game that will display your actual personal Steam library of games as physical games in a room you can fully curate and decorate. Wonderful stuff. (Wishlist it on Steam)

thanks for checking it out, arepee-ess! 📦

The BOXROOM Demo is now also live on @itch.io for those of you that might want to curate, arrange and display your game collection via there (just make sure you're still logged into Steam) pantaloon-io.itch.io/boxroom

Boxroom is an upcoming home designer game that turns your actual Steam library into physical game boxes you can browse and arrange on your shelves. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/boxroom...