They happy about the snow

I went to meet the 'Rockstar 31', the developers who were suddenly fired from their work on GTA 6 for what the studio has described as gross misconduct. That's not what the workers call it though. They have another couple of words they prefer to use: union busting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

The #SteamAnimalFest starts tomorrow! 🐘🦍🐈🐕🐀🐁🐒🐅🐐🐎🦡🦆🦎🐜🦩🐟🐝🐄 But if you'd like to address the elephant on the beach, you can try out the demo for Elfie: A Sand Plan today! 🏖️ store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #IndieGame #GameDev #CozyGame

The #SteamAnimalFest starts tomorrow! 🐘🦍🐈🐕🐀🐁🐒🐅🐐🐎🦡🦆🦎🐜🦩🐟🐝🐄 But if you'd like to address the elephant on the beach, you can try out the demo for Elfie: A Sand Plan today! 🏖️ store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #IndieGame #GameDev #CozyGame

Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art. I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.

Hey #PitchYaGame! Familiar Findings Demo Out Now: 👾Creature collector and idler 🧙‍♀️Summon magical creatures 👻Sleepy Dragons, Grumpy Ghosts, Curious Cats and more ✏️Play while you study, work or over other games! #IndieDev #cozygames #idler Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3914780/...

It's #PitchYaGame! Elfie: A Sand Plan is game where you help a small elephant build sand castles! 🐘 🏖️ Relax at the beach! 🧩 Solve open-ended 3D geometric puzzles! 🏰 Build your own castles in sandbox mode! You can play the demo on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #IndieGame #CozyGame

I posted an update regarding the release of Elfie: A Sand plan. In short, I'm delaying the game to Q1 of 2026. Sorry! You can read it the full thing here if you're interested! store.steampowered.com/news/app/378...

This new players to new players who wishlisted ratio was almost 10% higher than the next best one I've seen floating around. And though I can't draw any major conclusions from it. I do think it shows that it's reaching the right audience at the very least!

NextFest might be over but the Familiar Findings Demo is still available. If you're looking for a Halloween game that's witchy but not scary it's a great way to enjoy the festive season. Find it here: store.steampowered.com/app/3914780/... #indiegames #idlegames #idler #cozygames #halloweengames

I would probably go watch it again if it wasn't in theaters for only one week in Canada. 🥲 Also no Pochita popcorn buckets or anything else but these fold & tear cards. 😅

Pretty good progress on the color coding and pattern settings UI today! Originally, I had specified the name instead of giving a number to the patterns but ran into space issues. Also, I do wonder if it could work with just the swatches. #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #IndieGame

Gacha mechanics make a game inherently un-cozy.

silent swimmer made another banger for Elfie. 🎼🐘 The positive feedback the demo's music has gotten makes it even more exciting. Since people have only heard 2 out of the 5 songs that are in A Sand Plan (so far 😉).

Still very happy with my "This IS fine" re-imagined drawing I included in Elephant Grass! 🌨️☃️🌨️

Testing out having patterns to the placement hints! I'm thinking having multiple choice for the patterns. I already made a few. Adding this, and the option to choose what represents the correct and incorrect colors, thanks to the feedback about accessibility I received! 🙌🐘 #GameDev

Thank you to all the new players who tried the demo and to everyone who wishlisted the game!! I got great feedback from first time players. And I added quite a few QoL and accessibility improvements to add! The diversity of players who take part in #SteamNextFest really helps with that!

I don't think I'll be able to livestream before the end of #SteamNextFest 😞 So I at least re-recorded a video of me going through the demo and talking about a few designs decisions to stream! If you're interested in some of the thought process come take a look! steamcommunity.com/broadcast/wa...

"Looking for a relaxing puzzle game demo to play in Steam Next Fest?"🗨️🐘 store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #SteamNextFest #Gamedev #IndieGame #PuzzleGame #CozyGames

This was Elfie when I told her that her game was sandwiched between a bunch of GenAI slop at the beginning of the event 😭 "Elfie knows what would cheer her up.."👉👈🥺🐘 *She says showing you this link:* store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #SteamNextFest #Gamedev #IndieGame #ScreenshotSaturday

Played some more #SteamNextFest demos! Familiar Findings I said I had friends who would love this game... but actually, me too. 👀 I hadn't tried any other idler games of this genre yet! And I really enjoy the fantastical nature of this one! store.steampowered.com/app/3914780/...

Played some more #SteamNextFest demos! Familiar Findings I said I had friends who would love this game... but actually, me too. 👀 I hadn't tried any other idler games of this genre yet! And I really enjoy the fantastical nature of this one! store.steampowered.com/app/3914780/...

This was Elfie when I told her that her game was sandwiched between a bunch of GenAI slop at the beginning of the event 😭 "Elfie knows what would cheer her up.."👉👈🥺🐘 *She says showing you this link:* store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #SteamNextFest #Gamedev #IndieGame #ScreenshotSaturday

「Elfie: A Sand Plan」 @solsatelier.bsky.social まんまるなゾウさんのエルフィーちゃんと、ビーチで砂のお城を作っていくパズルゲーム🐘 まず、グラフィックが昔の携帯ゲーム機の画面を思い出す粗めなドット調で、懐かしさと雰囲気がすごく良い！ 操作はシンプルで難しくなく、けれど立体的に解くパズルなので意外と頭を使う良きバランスな作品。 特に後半の、前から見る形と横から見る形の両方に合うように組み立てるステージがやりごたえあり！ 日本語翻訳も読みやすいのでありがたかったです✨️

"Looking for a relaxing puzzle game demo to play in Steam Next Fest?"🗨️🐘 store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #SteamNextFest #Gamedev #IndieGame #PuzzleGame #CozyGames

Should I be promoting Elfie for #SteamNextFest? Yes. Are there some demos I really enjoyed. Also yes. So here are some of them! Egglets - The Long 10 Days Loved it. With a cute aesthetically pleasing atmosphere, it tackles some relatable heavy topics. store.steampowered.com/app/3788900/...

Should I be promoting Elfie for #SteamNextFest? Yes. Are there some demos I really enjoyed. Also yes. So here are some of them! Egglets - The Long 10 Days Loved it. With a cute aesthetically pleasing atmosphere, it tackles some relatable heavy topics. store.steampowered.com/app/3788900/...

Oh? Did anyone else's Steam Next Fest Home page seem to not entirely be random anymore, and consequently sending most of the AI Slop to the shadow realms? 👀

Another #TranslatorsInTheCredits victory under our belt! This time, we've teamed up to help #Elfie, @solsatelier.bsky.social adorable elephant, to build her sandcastle. Sun, sand, elephants, and #LatamSpanish. What's not to love? 🐘💜

Indie devs! Time for another #ShowCasey DEMO EDITION! Do you have a demo in the Steam Next Fest? Do you need some eyeballs? Reply below with a link to your steam page and a brief description of your game, and let's see if I can't GRANT YOU EYES! (As usual, no GenAI)

It's #SteamNextFest and demo now has more languages!! 🎊🐘 @silverlancerloc.bsky.social for the Latin American Spanish! @quandtuniverse.bsky.social for the Brazilian Portuguese. And Natalia Moreno for the Spanish of Spain! store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #IndieGame #GameDev

Do you think GenAI users ever ask to make the image "less like a picture you'd find in the room where someone has been chain-smoking for the past 30 years yellow"?

The amount of AI slop capsules I've been subjected to while looking through Steam Next Fest is insane. The bare minimum would be to have a filter to hide games that have disclosed having AI generated content.

Ah. Found a line of dialogue that I was sure I had updated but apparently not. 🥲 v1.1.1 soon I guess. 😅

I feel like this makes sense, but I can't find the words to describe why right now.

Oi gente, vamos relaxar na praia e construir castelinhos de areia? Eu traduzi essa demo pra PT-BR, então corre lá jogar!

It's #SteamNextFest and demo now has more languages!! 🎊🐘 @silverlancerloc.bsky.social for the Latin American Spanish! @quandtuniverse.bsky.social for the Brazilian Portuguese. And Natalia Moreno for the Spanish of Spain! store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #IndieGame #GameDev

Elfie: A Sand Plan is taking part in #SteamNextFest!! And though the demo is already available, there will be an update for it to include a few more languages and some QoL improvements!! 🏖️🐘 store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #IndieGame #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday

The Runtime Fee Returns

Elfie: A Sand Plan is taking part in #SteamNextFest!! And though the demo is already available, there will be an update for it to include a few more languages and some QoL improvements!! 🏖️🐘 store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #IndieGame #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday

My new open world precision "batformer" Vampire's Best Friend is out now on Steam and itch with a 10% launch discount! Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day!

Psychonauts fan art

I wrote a postmortem about the release of the demo for Elfie: A Sand Plan! It's been almost two months! 🤯 itch.io/blog/1064053... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot #Devlog

I think the Steam Community Discussions tab is growing on me. It reminds me so much of forum boards.

I wrote a postmortem about the release of the demo for Elfie: A Sand Plan! It's been almost two months! 🤯 itch.io/blog/1064053... #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot #Devlog

Oops. I guess the Godot Showreel submission deadline time was not end of October 1st EST or PST. 😅 Next year maybe I guess.

witching hour 🌕🐈‍⬛✨ #art

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My timezone has officially entered spooky season. And to celebrate, the Elfie Halloween coloring pages I made 2 years ago are going to be free all of October! It's also a nice look into how Elfie's design has evolve since then! ✨🎃🐘✨ pressedelephant.itch.io/elfie-hallow...

I managed to implement a pretty big QoL improvement!! 🎉🐘 Now the rotation and movement when using double sand blocks feels more fluid. I was afraid of how hard it would be to get it working, but it wasn't toooo bad haha. Just took a day! #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame