Bad news everyone

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Clocking in to Papaya Plaza like it’s my second job (it is, I’m the mayor of the town.)  Play the demo on Steam! 🍋🍋‍🟩 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4580030/Papaya_Plaza/

someone on tumblr said it better than i could

10,000 WISHLISTS, BEEP! 🥭 As a tiny indie team, we’ve put a lot of heart & soul into Papaya Plaza. We’ve been listening to your feedback & are working hard to create the best possible Papaya Plaza! We appreciate your support more than you know. Thank you for playing the demo!

We only get 4 screenshots to convince you to play our cosy bite-sized slice of life building sim, Papaya Plaza 🥭🍉 #WishlistWednesday

the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

Nothing quite kick starts your morning like the sound of your dog tottering into the room for the express purpose of getting sick on your bedroom floor.

Demo is LIVE now if you'd like to give it a try!

The Papaya Plaza demo is now LIVE! We’re so pleased to have announced our playable demo as part of @wholesomegames.com’s Wholesome Direct 🥭 We can't wait for you to play our little town sim 🍍 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4580030/Papaya_Plaza/

I often think about this when I read about super low games budgets. "Made X from a budget of just 100k" etc. The blood comes from somewhere. The sweat comes from somewhere. Just because you didn't pay for it doesn't make it free.

be sure to tune in to the wholesome direct tomorrow! 👀

Its true. Lots to say.

We're excited to announce that our upcoming cosy town building sim Papaya Plaza will be included in @wholesomegames.com’s Wholesome Direct, taking place on June 6th! 🥭✨ Make sure you tune in... or Beep will have something to say about it 🐥

Me, being served a firehouse of hand tool woodworking shorts:

Did I mention we took the plunge for @biscuitfactorygames.com and made a discord? Its true. We even made a public viewing dev chat channel. Come watch us work like some sort of bizzare digital ant hill. discord.gg/y7qVXkRUYH

We're so excited to announce Papaya Plaza! @biscuitfactorygames.com have created a wonderful slice of life game and we can't wait to be publishing it alongside them 🥭

Announced a new game with @biscuitfactorygames.com this afternoon! @weekendgames.bsky.social will be publishing Papaya Plaza: ✨ cute af slice of life 🍉 curious characters 🏡 town decorating pure goodness for these dark times. Steam link in 🧵! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iSs...

Welcome to Papaya Plaza - a snackable and stress-free village building sim! 🏘️ Build a lovely little town and decorate to your heart’s content 👋 Meet a host of weird and wonderful characters ⭐ Provide a great experience to visiting tourists Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/4580030/...

remember that game i was working on? well, papaya plaza is now available for WISHLISTING on steam!!! if you could give us a share or wishlist i would be forever grateful 🙏

Here it is! Our newest game. For this one we paired up with the wonderful @thesecretsauce.uk folks under their @weekendgames.bsky.social label. Check it out yo!

I've been quiet on the old @biscuitfactorygames.com front a bit lately - but thats all about to change again, mark my words!

Just read a substack about hosting parties in which the writer/host had surveyed the party goers "Google forms" style and compared data across different other parties It was a weird hollow maximalist approach to just fucking hanging out. Easily some of the grim-est shit I've read recently. Awful.

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

Jus a lil guy. Did we mention we've got a sale coming up this weekend? its true! Starts tomorrow!

I'd like to take this opportunity to propose "Slop lord" - building on the original idea, but with a nod to the more rent-seeking and extractive tendencies of some of the platforms and the people to strive to be like them

Fight Club - but instead of fighting they do radical community projects under the cover of night. At the end of the movie, they blow up a bunch of data centres instead of a credit card company.

Even in a world where LLM never existed this is solid mentoring

Surely the measure by which all things should be judged.

My heart goes out to the poor bastard who had to write a platform-alert email containing the following line: "Just to avoid any confusion: This is not an April Fools’ joke and the data is actually gone."

yeaaaaaaaaaaaa lets go @lithiumproject.bsky.social !

I'm once again looking for streamers of cozy / wholelsome / narrative games! ⭐ Recs and suggestions pls? 🥰

You know what I've never seen? A games publisher website that says "We're *exactly* like all the other publishers - and you'll LIKE IT." Almost every publisher website seems to have a real "not like the other girls" energy in their about us page. A niche to be had I think.

Check out this cute lil thing @blunderjack.bsky.social made. store.steampowered.com/app/4507780/... Top running for "most adorable UFO"

Opened this app only to be promptly firehosed with awful things. Tell you what I'm excited about though - just got a message from my local library that the book on tree pruning I ordered is now available. I'm growing pears and cherries this year.

This is a very neat little cover image. Clever.

Stop what you're doing and watch this deranged video @enigmastud.io made www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBr_...

The Game From Ireland Steam Event is now live!! Go to the Steam Page and join us for the Games From Ireland Showcase which starts at 5.15pm!! store.steampowered.com/sale/Gamesfr... #GamesFromIreland #IrishGames #Imirt #SteamEvent

Yesterday, I watched a video by an American living in England and I can't get it out of my head. He was rating the worst biscuits. Brits: PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR THIS LIST. The list was as follows: 3. Cadbury Fingers 2. Weetabix (yes, really) 1. Jaffa cakes

Hey, any games press want to cover our big upcoming steam event with Irish games?!? www.imirt.ie/news/2026/3/... Reach out via dm or [email protected]

Its me! With actual real people!

Are you heading to #dublincomiccon this weekend? You might just get a chance to check out a little project we've been quietly working on with the wonderful @stefscribbles.bsky.social @meowniiart.bsky.social and @codebirduk.bsky.social We're looking for feedback! Come tell us what you think!

🎶 Hello mah baby 🎵 Hello mah honey 🎶 Hello mah rag time-gal

My new shirt design is so powerful that part of it had to be redacted for the preview image roryblank.bigcartel.com

My daughter hitting me with the real hard hitting questions at bedtime like - "why do they call it *MY* little pony? Nobody owns them. Why not Wild Little Pony?"

update on the little game we've been working on! building my perfect town ❤️

I want that gif, you the one? Of the lady getting hit in the face with loads of hotdogs? Only if someone edited it to be Next Fest demos instead of hotdogs

🐎SURPRISE🐎 🚨TÖLT - Steam Horse Fest Demo is LIVE 🚨 🎨NEW! CUSTOMISE YOUR HORSE. 🧢PLAY NOW TO CLAIM YOUR EXCLUSIVE PROPELLER CAP, ALSO WEARABLE IN THE FULL GAME. CLAIMABLE *ONLY* DURING STEAM HORSE FEST.

I look forward to a future where wishlist trailers have become so unhinged and nonsensical as to be unrecognizable to today's casual steam enjoyer.

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