Key Fairy is stylish bullet hell with hand drawn art, not about fighting but moving to exactly the right spots #parallels

Get creative with Shape Sender Deluxe, no lose, no soft lock you just send those shapes ⭐️ heaps of different solutions which is cool. #parallels @deadteapot.games

The Device Strikes

The Parallels crowd is like the best collection of homies I could ask for at my first live demo talk 🥰 thank you all for turning up and making some noise for Shape Sender Deluxe!! ⭐🟥🟠

Can't wait to see all of you tonight at @free-play.bsky.social Parallels tonight 🥰 I love to yap about design so if you see me after my talk, pls hit me up!

Know someone who missed out on Parallels tickets? We rummaged around and found a few more in our pockets - but they're very limited! events.humanitix.com/parallels25

Shape Sender Deluxe wouldn't exist without assistance from @nz-code.nz, and now, once again, they're helping us bring you circles, triangles, squares, and Sendy!

Big news: Shape Sender Deluxe received one of the four Start Up grants this year! Thanks so much @nz-code.nz for such an awesome opportunity 🤩⭐🟠🟥

Just made my last-minute submission! Here's my closing statement.

Hi MIGW homies, I don't have a GCAP pass because I'm a poor indie dev now (and I forgot to submit a talk) but I'll be hanging around the area anyway 👀

I swear every time I get off the airport bus into Melbourne, it's raining at southern station but I'm here now 😎 🦘

Indie will have you muddling through a billion different things, forever So when you finally get to do your Original Specialism you're blasted with what feeling competent actually feels like

latest @bandcamp.com friday acquisitions 🎵

I'll be in Melbourne next week hanging out, with my main event being speaking about Shape Sender Deluxe at Parallels - otherwise I'm mostly just there to hang out! Hit me up 😎 Also after that I'm also showcasing the game at SXSW in Sydney on Wednesday and Saturday 👌👌

NZGDC was such a pleasure this year, after not being able to go two years in a row! Simply love to hang out with the many, many cool game devs in Aotearoa 🥰

Announcing... DOGPILE!!! ✨🦴 Dogpile is a roguelike deckbuilder about merging DOGS. Play dogs, get money, customize your dogs with special traits, refine your deck, PLAY MORE DOGS! Free demo is live on Steam, WISHLIST NOW!!! store.steampowered.com/app/3839300/...

FOOKIN EMBARRASSING THE LOT OF YAS

Today I learned about the "fast-salad bread question of judgement" today after asking an American what the fuck this meant

Check out all of these amazing demos from New Zealand! 🇳🇿🥝 store.steampowered.com/sale/NZGames...

Please repost and share this around, and if you know of an event or are attending an event during MIGW, please share it to the mailing list for the upcoming send! It helps me A Lot. <3

Survived the 30+ hours flying home from Europe by watching all five Pirates of the Caribbean movies back to back 🦜

Survived the 30+ hours flying home from Europe by watching all five Pirates of the Caribbean movies back to back 🦜

A "one of the worst guys you know did something good" moment for New Zealand trains

Me every day I'm in London: "wow I remember this from Watch Dogs: Legion"

Three Dave Dobbyns plucked from different eras, brought to the distant future to save the world from demons! Singing songs and slaying hellspawns, it's Dave Dobbyn: Demon Hunter! You can also grab a print of this poster here: danielvernon.bigcartel.com

Here's what I'm up to at MIGW: speaking about Shape Sender Deluxe at Parallels!!

do you think I can write off the ticket price of the swedish post museum as a business expense when Shape Sender Deluxe is also about moving things from A to B?

I realise posting this on a Saturday is not ideal, but, hear me out. We are trying very hard to keep Frosty alive, and even grow it into something more helpful for ANZ based devs, long term 🍦

update: I subscribed to the jazz club and the first album is a New Zealand band (The Circling Sun) lmao

thinking bout how cool this was tbh

Any absolute legends wanna get me a ticket so I don't have to wake up at 3am to get one?

We’re a small indie dev team creating BEGRAVED. Explore deadly, dark places as grave robbers trying to get rich. Think Lethal Company × Phasmophobia with a dash of Content Warning. Atmospheric horror. Co-op madness. Err... cozy vibes? Coming soon to Steam Early Access.

Gamescom was super busy, impactful, and fun, and it was awesome to be able to go along!

"In a world where most music is delivered by algorithms, Bandcamp Clubs take the opposite path: every selection is handpicked by curators who have spent countless hours immersed in their scenes, tastemakers who live and breathe music and musical culture." This is awesome

I'm transitioning into the "making cool shit I can't show because its spoilers" part of the game dev cycle

I got a sneak peek at this and they're cooking big time 🔥

we had a professional photographer at the booth and he made everyone and their games look soooooo good!!

I started film photography this time last year and I just hit my 1000th photo: a cat by the canal in Utrecht 🥰

We've been quiet over the last week but it was an absolutely huge week with Gamescom, Representing Games and everything that surrounds that. We haven't seen an appetite for our fine NZ product like that since the pandemic! #gamescom

Dante this, saja boys that - demons are too sexy these days and we need to go back to just the most fucked up lads ever

Cosplayers are the coolest peeps ever - they let me (even encouraged me to use more) props for the #HD2Cologne event photobooth 🥰🥰

we had a professional photographer at the booth and he made everyone and their games look soooooo good!!

I got asked for directions in German last night and when I said I only spoke English, she tagged in her friend to ask like it was an JRPG fight sequence

Day 2 of Gamescom part 2: I saw @rtgame.bsky.social hastily making his way past my booth and he possibly saw Shape Sender Deluxe 🤩🤩

Day 2 of Gamescom: someone asked if I wanted to replace the hand written Sendy dialogue with AI

Absolutely glowing review of the demo 😭😭 thank you so much!!!!

Shape Sender Deluxe from NZ-based studio Dead Teapot released a demo on Steam that offers a glimpse at the title, and what I played was an imaginative and inviting puzzle game that offers more than meets the eye. @deadteapot.games @tanamakes.games gamesnight.nz/shape-sender...

Wondering what sort of "thinky puzzle games" we'll be looking for in the New Voices Puzzle Grant application process? You can check out and play the games by previous grant winners by heading to the grants page 👇 grants.draknek.org

good morning european friends! I'm going to Gamescom next month but also visiting Hamburg, Amsterdam & Utrecht, Copenhagen, Malmö -🚂> Stockholm in Sweden, and London if you'd like to hang out! Happy to make detours to come visit if it fits so lemmie know :)

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic