Good review

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

Early slide from @alexaray.bsky.social and @adamdolin.bsky.social’s talk on telling stories in a “media illiterate world” is good—making a point about understanding priorities and values (without sacrificing your own).

If you feel like playing cozy games with a strong narrative and a female protagonist, you might want to check the bundle we created with @glowfroggames.bsky.social @katekillick.bsky.social 💖 Both games were released last week and are on sale atm! store.steampowered.com/bundle/69406...

Almost forgot! At the museum there was also the death mask of one of the core characters: Mère Angélique Arnauld. When will I ever witness the death mask of a character I have written!

My historical gardening game is out on Steam! If you're feeling for spy plots, queer romance, discovering plants and caring for real plants, you can now join the Abbey and embody Agnès! 🌿 store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/... Launch trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Ev... #cozygame #indiedev

Today we release a game. This is the real chestnut tree where the main characters fall in love. And this is the real Abbey where the whole thing takes place. The last picture is the king that dies in it. Wishlists are ok, buying better, reviews even better. store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/...

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Will be in Tokyo from next week. Suggestions? Considerations? People that happen to be there and want to hang?

Marigold's out of the bag: release in March. Now I better go finish these dialogues.

Shit

Horses' only sin is that its broad themes don't entirely pay off its loaded imagery. Otherwise, it's an effectively uncomfortable games that turns life's mundane humiliations into surreal horror. If anything, its bans fill in its thematic gaps for it. My review. www.polygon.com/horses-banne...

Friend made this. Tried early build, kept me up all night. If you like Lynch and expressionist cinema, play this. Santaragione are also good eggs and for this to have happened is pretty shit. Can pre-order here: www.gog.com/en/game/horses

C'est toujours un plaisir de participer à l'écriture de ce jeu et de lire les supers dialogues de mon collègue @gioborrows.bsky.social ❤️ En plus avec les nouveaux chapitres c'est la saison des fleurs et des premiers amours

I shall be coming to Adventure X btw... If I'm allowed back in the country. We got that ticket

We got a demo!

We have an open beta!

Very happy to announce that The Abbess Garden will be part of Indie Assemble (store.steampowered.com/curator/4471...): a large Steam festival with a lot of hidden gems you probably never saw before (I know about max 5% ^^) My game: store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/... #indieassemble #indiegames

New devlog on Steam for The Abbess Garden :) store.steampowered.com/news/app/341... Talking a bit about what we are up to recently! :) #indiedev #cozygame

Hey :) I am working on my content creators list for The Abbess Garden's demo (in June 😳). If you are an interested streamer, please LMK! If you are a #cozy gamer, ideas are welcome too :) #indiedev if you could recommend someone you liked working with, it would be fab :) Sharing is appreciated 💖

Looks like Gmail bundled their normal event extraction that had been working well for years, with useless Gemini AI services. Can only get one if agreeing to the other. Aggravating.

Join award-winning game creators in developing a unique pseudo-3D stealth-adventure game set during the Palestinian Nakba of 1948 💻 Programming Lead (Unity, C#) 🎨 Art Lead 📆 Contract (8-16 months) 🌍 REMOTE 👇

In less than 2 weeks, we got more than 1000 wishlists for The Abbess Garden 🎉 We are extremely grateful! We did it notably thanks to @dames4games.org's showcase and @wingsfund.me's Women's day sale 💖 Next step: closed beta! store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/... #gamedev #indiedev #cozygame

Has anybody made a spreadsheet of spiritual successors of Disco Elysium yet?

Ah! My dialogues. Here's hoping I didn't miss no typo

Indie game devs! Worried you don't have a good publishing deal? May I present my firm's 2025 Publishing Agreement Data Report! Taken from 100+ actual Publishing Agreements ranging from 2017-2025, providing averages for rev share splits, advances, IP ownership and more! indiegamepublishing.com

Today is the day! The @dames4games.org Showcase is coming 🎉 It will air at noon PDT (12 PM) and 9 PM CET :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Yw... (also on IGN channels, Gamespot...) The Abbess Garden will have a Developer Spotlight there 💖 store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/... #WishlistWednesday

Open source wins Oscars

The Abbess Garden will be in the Dames4Games Showcase this Wednesday!!! It is presented by cool streamers, will have a special guest, and includes developers' spotlights 😱 It will be on IGN Youtube and Switch channel at 12 PM (noon) PDT/8 PM GMT :) Thanks D4G 💖 #gamedev #indiegame #womengamedev

Happy #ScreenshotSaturday to all! I released the Steam page of The Abbess Garden yesterday, if you think it looks cool, please check it out! 💖 store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/... #gamedev #cozygame #indiegame

I am super proud to present the Steam Page of The Abbess Garden, a cozy & historical gardening game! 🌿 store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/... It includes real plants, spies, court drama and queer romance 💖 Please check it out and add it to your wishlist ✨ #cozygame #indiegame #followfriday

Here we are! Wishlist and repost greatly appreciated. Wonderful project by Edwige that I'm fortunate enough to be writing. It's got real historical characters and plants. All sprinkled with spy drama, queer romance, and monologues equating blooming calendulas with class struggle.

Announcing a game today. Be prepared for loads of posting, reposting and all that.

Yay! The showcase date has been announced and The Abbess Garden will be part of it! I'm so happy and excited!🌿 We will have a "developer spotlight": present the team annd share gameplay videos of the game! Thanks #dames4games 💖 #indiegame #cozygame

I'm testing the winter vibe in The Abbess Garden! I didn't want to cover everything in snow as it would make gardening very difficult ^^ What do you think? #cozygame #indiegame

Worse part of moving is having to admit I probably won't need all these boxes

Dinner

To start the year peacefully, I went back to The Abbess Garden by drawing plants for the in-game botany book this morning ✨ (and some programming ;)) The book fills itself when the player discovers a new plant's stage over their exploration and months🌿 #gamedev #indiedev #gardeninggame #abbessgarden

I don't care it's the 2nd of Jan and we supposed to be "back at work". Stop writing me emails and messages and demanding my attention!

On one hand I'm sorry life bullshit and slowing down on socials got me to lose touch with mutuals not in my area. On the other I'm quite happy not to know what all the fuss is about yellow, beyond being used in games obnoxiously, sometimes.

So what I'm gathering is that this Mangione trial is a gender-flipped version of Chicago.

I don't suppose anybody remembers how to speed-run nook points in Animal Crossing NH? The 5yo niece is enjoying it, but I'm not gonna force her through dealing with the exploitative racoon just so they can live in something nicer than a tent.

Violence is never ok, even toward billionaires that are destroying society, we must rely on our democratically elected leaders to address the underlying issues that caused such figures to reach politically influential positions. Say no to violence. 1/2

Working on the gardening gameplay, adding some watering animation. Very WIP, but it's progress! The plants on screen are calendula (marigold) and senecio (groundsel) 🌿#indiegamedev #gamedev #abbessgarden

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba. I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share! 🔗 launchgood.com/1948

Lyla and the Shadows of War was one of the games that convinced me to get in the industry in the first place. Happy Rasheed is back at it. If only it was under better circumstances. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

Started Arcane. Profoundly in love with them VFX.

Wicked was wicked

Taps the Desk, as he's read this a couple of times in the last week.... If someone says writing barks is easy... they are doing it wrong. It's such a kneejerk thing to say and it just isn't true. I have read bark sheet after bark sheet that's derivative and unengaging. Where the writer has gone-

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