twitter has been deserted for good so i suppose i will post here too: i am currently open for work! hit me up if you know of openings that i'd be a good fit for 🫡 i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on polclarissou.com/hireme/

What are your favourite implementations of console game virtual cursors? ...do you think they can ever feel elegant and intuitive?

Its a pretty simple and straightforward decision to avoid actively degrading the creative process by using genAI.

We're excited to announce that the Frosty Mini showcase will premiere on December 10 starting at 8am AEDT / 10am NZDT (that's December 9, 1pm PT for our USA friends)! Tune in for exciting news and surprise announcements from 20+ of the coolest games made in Australia and Aotearoa NZ.

...now everyone can bask in the elaborate pun I managed to jam into my talk 😈

I'm just so tired in so many ways

Grow new connections in the middle of nowhere with this bittersweet cozy story. Delphinium is now LIVE on Kickstarter 💙🌿

Light your candles, stack your deck. Malys is imminent. 🔥 Now is your LAST CHANCE to get Malys at a heavily discounted price for early access! 👛 See below for when we go live in your timezone with our global 1.0 release tomorrow! 🕯️ bit.ly/playmalys

Hello bluesky, we're Intarsia Interactive! We're a video game studio based in Naarm/Melbourne. We reckon making games should be fun, weird & authentic. This year we've been working on a secret project (!!! you'll hear more soon) and now we're working on something strange & new intarsia.studio

Yeah @ghoulish.com.au is making something special! (Parasensor)

"Adorable Hand-Drawn"?!?! Could that be Key Fairy??? The world's only Key-type game! I guess you'll just have to find out.... store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...

🟡Winnie's Hole is in Steam Next Fest!🟡 🦠Play a virus in the body and mind of Winnie ↔️Place tetrominos to explore 🧬Mutate and evolve ➕Combo-driven deckbuilder

I'm holding out on adding Noibs to steam until we have an announce trailer which kinda sucks when people ask for the steam page... Turns out you can just follow @oddlark.com on there instead and you'll get a notification when we press the button!

Had a blast showing Noibs on stage last night, thanks everyone for your support - @oddlark.com is just getting started 💪✨✨✨👍

My last two brain cells as I playtest and fix our alpha build before Monday #MIGW

Catch Wyrmspace at #migw this year! We've got our playable prototype set up at the following events: 👔 GCAP Screen Australia's Local lounge - Oct 8th 📐 Parallels (we've on stage too) - Oct 9th 🎮 Pax at the Kirrip Wilam room - Oct 10th - 12th Come say hi and get your thinky tactics caps on!

Mars First Logistics, our open world physics game about building rovers and delivering stuff is coming out of Steam Early Access in 2 days with a big update! Tag your favourite influencial person who you think might enjoy it!

Paralells is my forever highlight of every Melbourne Games Week and I am beyond excited to attend this year as a speaker! There will be a bunch of behind the scenes stuff+design notes on NOIBS, but even better - the entire night is STACKED with incredible creators: www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25

General tickets for Parallels 2025 are now on sale 🎟️ Speaker and playable showcase line-up on our website 📺 www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25

First time painting since... honestly no idea! It was nice to be away from the computer 🐩

Hey pals! Here's another job hot off the press for ya! Live now on our careers site. Get in on the ground floor for our next title! 🤖 Technical Artist 🎨 Check it out at leagueofgeeks.com/careers#tech...! RTs appreciated. Share with your (tech art) friends! 🙏

See ya Japan 👋👋👋 - overwhelmed with the lovely people and great conversations at BitSummit. Exhaused but can't wait to get back and focus on getting our game into shape!

After over a year in development and a port from #GodotEngine 3.x to 4.x, the excellent free and open source Substance Designer alternative Material Maker is nearly here! Check out the release candidate of this awesome project. gamefromscratch.com/material-mak... #gamedev #indiedev

The Drifter comes out in less than a week :O

We're so keen for Bitsummit!! The @oddlark.com team before vs after attending: 🪩👄👍

Hello, I may have a level of involvement in this! Including but not limited to the trunk pig

An incredible thing:

BITSUMMIT ATTENDEES! Introducing "Pon’s Friends!" – the official Denkiworks BitSummit 2025 t-shirts! If you're interested, please fill out the form linked here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS.... (NOTE: T-Shirts will only be available to order for 2 days - closing July 3rd)

...can someone PLEASE help me work out if Body Parts count for carry on ✈️ ?!

10,000+ Steam wishlists in 7 days since our reveal at Frosty Games Fest! 🤯 We are blown away by the response, thank you so much everybody. We’re a tiny studio doing this for the first time, so your support means the world to us! 💕😈 #indiegame #indiehorror #horrorgames #indiedev

The Drifter is part of #SteamNextFest right now! Go play the demo and see why Vice said "In just 30 minutes, ‘The Drifter’ showed me that it has what it takes to be among the best in the point-and-click genre." :D store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/...

Mars First Logistics, our silly little game about building rovers and delivering stuff, will be coming out of Early Access on 26 September 2025!

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Join us for a tour around our new game. Coming 2026.

Big News! The Drifter is coming to Steam on JULY 17! A pulp adventure thriller where you play as a drifter trying to solve their own murder. 🔪🔪🔪 Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/...

Been attending some Melbourne Beyblade tournaments recently and have been surprising myself!! Two 2nd place finishes each against a field of 60+ and one absolute crash out last week to keep me humble 😙

I truly think my jumper-stunned child is the best

Discover the secrets of alchemical processes, the hidden secrets of world and even deeper secrets hidden within us… All Living Things has a steampage, wishlist to be notified for the upcoming early demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3681340

We're at over 30k on our Crescent County Kickstarter now???? Can we hit fully funded within 12 hours?!?!?! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

We are officially into the last two days of the Malys Kickstarter! If you've held off committing, now's the time to either do it or forever hold your peace! In the meantime, an update that includes an early advance look at some actual Malys gameplay! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sum...

It's the FINAL WEEK to get in on the ground floor of Malys, our unholy roguelite 🙌 We simply couldn’t bear all these detestable demons going nameless so we’re dropping our Name a Demon After Your Ex tier from $5K AUD to $3K AUD. C'mon, let's go fight Josh 🥊

Today I'm doing some good ol' fashioned character art. (Cel-shaded model + paintover tweaks). #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev #空想家

being 90% ready and then cancelling

We're officially at the halfway point for our Malys Kickstarter!🕯️  We've been blown away by your kindness and generosity so far, having reached a third of our total funding goal 🙌 We still have a ways to go though before we can make Malys the best game it can be so we need your help!

I'm looking for full-time work in Melbourne 🇦🇺 (fast remote start possible). I provide - 2D game art: stylised concepts, visual development, illustrations, motion graphics, icons & painterly UI - Art direction, art management Happy to do tests or freelance work. 💕 ruthbosch.com [email protected]

Time to UNLEASH HELL because our Malys Kickstarter is OFFICIALLY LIVE! 🔥 Follow the link to join the hunt and and help our hellish roguelite deckbuilder reach its full infernal potential! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/summerfallstudios/malys-exorcise-demons-on-your-hunt-for-an-ancient-evil

Okay so @winstonoftang.bsky.social mentioned Beyblade X to me in passing a few weeks ago and oops I'm now deep into it 🦣💫💫💫💫🐲

The level of game design imposter syndrome I'm getting hit with lately is massive, when do I get to feel confident in my ideas?

There is a free-use mirror of the KidPix, that runs in your browser! This delight was originally created in 1989 for Mac by Craig Hickman and has seen many versions over the years. As mentioned by Rebecca (@beccabeean.bsky.social) you absolutely need to turn your sound up. 🧑‍🎨 kidpix.app

Introducing: Malys. A hellish new roguelite deckbuilder from David Gaider and Summerfall Studios. As Noah, former priest turned exorcist and demon hunter, exorcise the infernal and exact vengeance. We're launching a Kickstarter later in April! Get updates via bit.ly/kickstartmalys

We are at Supanova today giving a sneak peek at our upcoming game! 1pm on the Seminars Stage!