Are we there yet? #Art #Capybara #Moped #Scooter

Our target audience has been reached 👀

Calling all pet owners and pets! 🐶 We're giving you the opportunity to have your pets appear in our game as critters! ✨ Dock over at our Discord, show us some photos of your pets, and we'll pick a handful to add into the game! 👇 discord.gg/whalesandgames

Capt. Jawline is pretty much the face of Townseek, and he's been a fan favourite for a while now! ✨ Here's some of the amazing art that folks have made of him over the years. 🦈 Art credits to @mentitakirby.bsky.social @shoesbedrawin.newgrounds.com @amuerion.bsky.social and @umsey.bsky.social! 💙

Capt. Jawline is your friend, mentor and boss, in that order! Now retired from sailing, he's the merchant at Sharkdwell! 🦈 A descendant of Sir Reginald Sharkingston, he needs your help finding the lost pages of his journal. Could there be a secret reason for his request? 🤔

Pack your goods and gather around, explorers! We're going on a Townseek tour! 🦈 Each week, we'll be spotlighting one of Explora's colourful towns. We'll meet their locals, learn their trades, and see what makes each place special. ✨ Get on your airship, and let's set sail! 🧭

Demo? Demo, demo, demo! 👀

Okay #portfolioday , let’s have it! Hi! My name is Michelle and I’m a British artist in the UK who has worked for Metallica, Magic! The Gathering, Anchorage Brewing and many more! wolfskulljack.com

We'll have news about Townseek soon! 🦈 But while you wait, the lovely folks at @aonorte.com have added Capt. Jawline as a sticker in their game Tiny Garden! 🌷 The game is releasing tomorrow! It's a great time, especially if you're after a cosy puzzle-farming game! 🥰

#transdayofvisibility #tdov #trans

I've been wanting to share a project I've been working on. It's an embroidered iberian wolf, a gift for my dad and, honestly, practice. omw to change careers one day /jk 😛

Be a shark in a sea of stars! ✨ #pottery

pixelart without AI

Excalibara. #art #KingArthur

That Queer furry game 'Mars Vice' has a Release date! -March 6th, 2025- Want to play a cool 3D Adventure game set on a biopunk future Mars with a Transmasc Lion protagonist? Wishlist on Steam and Repost to help folks find out all about it! store.steampowered.com/app/1886910/... #Furry #Indiegame

Reposting this for no reason at all 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🫶 💙💗🤍💗💙

It's especially important for 🏳️‍⚧️ allies to show their support in the wake of the broligarchy. While I was tempted to quote "only a Sith deals in absolutes", as a kid of the 80's, "empathy is punk" resonates with me so much more. 💜 I don't know who created it, but this otter design rocks. 🤘

To close off the year, a big thank-you from our team to everyone who cheered us on this past year! ✨ We had an amazing GDC, Gamescom, and DevGAMM, earned two awards, and still love our seasonal artworks! Townseek's development continues going strong for release next year! 🧭 #cozygame #indiegamedev

Happy Holidays and Season's Greetings from all of our team and friends at Whales And Games! 🎄 Take it chill and enjoy the snow! ☃️ Whalechan got herself a huge snow globe of Stonehedge from Townseek, while Polite Whale went inside it to swim in the snow! ❄️ #digitalart #cozygame #indiegamedev

Whales And Games and Townseek won the awards for Studio of the Year at Game Dev Lisbon's Spotlight Awards and Best Game from Portugal at the DevGAMM Awards! 🏆 Whalechan, Capt. Jawline and Watt Zapp dressed their fanciest and were grateful to walk on stage to receive them! 💡 #cozygame #indiegamedev

Laaaaaast orders on our big bloody beautiful Outer Wilds: Design Works - Deluxe Edition! Campaign closes today! 🔥🔥

I lack words to express the gratitude I've felt the last few days. On Thursday, @whalesandgames.com was awarded Studio of the Year by Game Dev Lisbon. 💡 The next day, Townseek was awarded Best Game from Portugal at the DevGAMM Awards. 🏆 I'm very honoured to celebrate these alongside my team-mates.

Another announcement! Yesterday Will released an EP that I helped produce. We have been working on this album for many years, have a listen: willshelm.bandcamp.com/album/the-b-...

Thank you Game Dev Lisbon for gracing Whales And Games with the award for Studio of the Year! It is wonderful to be appreciated by an industry so tight-knit, to show that we can overcome a difficult year, together. Thank you @jorgegamedev.com and @moskidraws.bsky.social for being the best teammates.

no matter the outcome of this election: organize, build local community, build strength in masses. elections aren't the only time politics happen, it also happens on the streets, in the community and by mutually supporting each other.

Btw we've got a Discord server, and we're still running a spooky server event! Yesterday we talked about carving pumpkins 🎃 Consider stopping by and saying hi, or boo (the 👻 boo, not the heckle one) discord.gg/whalesandgames

Happy Halloween! 🎃 On the outskirts of a mysterious town during a full moon, howls fill the night air! 🌕 For @whalesandgames.com yearly seasonal artwork, Capt. Jawline has taken a side-gig as a scoutmaster, bringing the werewolf pack with him for a camping trip! 🐺 #digitalart #indiegamedev

Happy Halloween.

Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines finally met the threshold to be ranked in Metacritic's top games of the year! It's the 38th best game of 2024 apparently! www.metacritic.com/browse/game/...

Townseek is competing in the DevGAMM Awards, an award showcase happening in Lisbon next month! 🏆 While we wait to see if we're nominated in any category, you can help us by voting for Townseek in the Community Vote through the form at form.fillout.com/t/hZWP7Kgy7Aus! 🦈 #gamedev #indiegamedev

Alright, here it is: I collected ~100 #GameDev starter packs and put them all on one Notion page! ✨ They're categorized by: 🍃 Location 🍃 Discipline 🍃 Game Genre 🍃 & more! It also includes tips / labellers / block lists that I've stumbled on. I hope this helps you settle in & reconnect! 😊 👉 LINK

I got three times the followers here than I have on the bird site🐦. Soon I will undergo the inevitable power-hungry transformation and post only sponsored content and create beef with random industry giants 😈.

Many fellow gamedevs are finally flying to these skies, so I'm sharing my tribute to over 150 indie games once again! It's a bit old, but I'm still stoked to have featured such amazing games from developers I look up to! 🌟 Can you name all the games? 🎮 #gamedev #indiegame #digitalart #gaming

I officially have more followers here than on the bird site! (so what starter pack was I put on?)

Happy Bandcamp friday! Feel free to give me a birthday gift🥳: johnelliottsound.bandcamp.com

Here's Townseek, our relaxing exploration-trading game where you travel the world, discover landmarks, trade with towns, fish, mine, farm, and more, as you seek the lost legacy of Sir Reginald Sharkingston! 🦈 We've been working on it as a team for almost four years now! 🐳 #indiedev #gamedev #steam

Photos from this Friday's monthly #gamedev meetup here in Lisbon! 🚋 It was really busy, with lots of students around, and a presentation about the upcoming DevGAMM event. 🙌 Also celebrated @zarcattack.bsky.social's belated birthday by having a sushi lunch with him and @johnelliottmusic.com! 🍣

Zinogre | ジンオウガ #pixelart #monhun #ドット絵

🚨🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME 🚨🚨 Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines is OUT NOW!! Available on Steam, Nintendo Switch eShop, and Xbox Series S/X !! Save the universe as Pablo and Luna in this epic platforming adventure!!

Here's some screenshots from my debut indie game, Röki...

Today is my 28th birthday! 🍰 Hopefully, it'll be over my next year that our team will finally ship our game Townseek. 🧭 As a birthday request, it'd mean a lot if you could share these screenshots of it! It's inspired by travels I've done and from meeting new cultures and people around the world. 🦈

There's this whale shark one too hehe 🦈✨

For me, the most defining and heart-warming moment of gamescom was to finally have a team photo of all three of us at @whalesandgames.com together, in front of our own booth at @indiearenabooth.bsky.social. 💖 Thank you so much for sticking with me, @moskidraws.bsky.social and @johnelliottmusic.com.

I now have a Bandcamp! To celebrate, I prepared two albums: Animal Music: an album about exploring the natural world and its fauna; Roll for Performance: a gift to my D&D party and its DM, an imagined soundtrack for events in the campaign. johnelliottsound.bandcamp.com