☀️Last hurrah for Summer! Bask in the fun with Ember :D☀️ We worked really hard on this - lots of improvements! We're also on sale for a limited time. It's a great time to jump in!

Very much worth your time!

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Stay: Forever Home – Update 2 preview 🎁💨 Coming Tomorrow! Present Boxes! Unwrap surprises in a new satisfying way! Here’s a video of the presents in action! Want more update details and patch notes? Join our Discord: windupminds.com/discord More cozy features are coming with the full update

If you've got a Quest 2, check it out! We poured ourselves into getting this out and have lots more updates coming!

I'm late for @windupminds.com highlight; we're exceptionally fortunate to work with Austin Grossman. Austin, Doug Church and I wrote a pitch for cyberpunk MMO, Nightside; 25 years later, a game I wish existed. #VirtualPet #DigitalPet #SimulationGame #VRGame #MRGame #XRGame #IndieDev #IndieGame

How do you set up your room so you can play Mixed Reality games on your Meta Quest 3/3S? 🤔 It's a little more involved than Meta shows you, to get your couch just right! 🛋️ Then you can play our game: vr.meta.me/s/2aq2U7KEq2... #VirtualPet #VirtualReality #DigitalPet #PetSim #IndieGame #IndieDev

The game sounds absolutely beautiful thanks to @drenmcdonald.com's tireless efforts. Players frequently mention it as one of their favorite parts!!

Our cozy pet sim-game-experiment is now live! meta.com/experiences/... We've worked incredibly hard to make Ember lovable... and to love you back! 💗

a bit about our A++ team! 😻

We have a fancy new trailer dropping tomorrow!

this boi

Shake off all the dirt!!

lol, a glimpse of some 'advanced' cosmetics in our game, PLUS a preview of the 'trade board music' featuring 'mossling' vocals. Our little mosslings sing sometimes...

It's Ember's first GDC as her true self! (she was there last year in prototype form) Wish I could be there too-- gotta finish up the magic! We're close!!

i have seen the inside of the potato mines🥔

Excited to share our pet game, Stay: Forever Home, will be in this VR showcase! See what we've been up to and what's up with Meta Quest, PlayStation VR2, and PC VR titles coming in 2025! youtu.be/0wN0B5utUu4 #VirtualPet #PetSimulation #VirtualRealityPet #IndieGames #CozyGames

This was a REALLY interesting #gamedev problem to solve: A VR frisbee! It has to only work when you use it properly. How would you implement this?

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polishing & bugfixing, so satifsying sound on!

YESSS - love it!! Huge feature for both comfort and immersion. Big props to @jukibom.bsky.social for kicking butt on @stayforeverhome.bsky.social

Game giveaway! There's still a little time tonight!

Join our #MondayMoodBooster giveaway for a chance to win a Stay: Forever Home game key, for Meta Quest! Rules: - Like & follow @windupminds.bsky.social and @stayforeverhome.bsky.social - Post a pet pic with a fun, SFW caption - Tag us and add #MoodBoosterMonday - Enter Monday 9 AM–11:59 PM PST

In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts. The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails. The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.

"Common Side Effects" is coming this Sunday (Adult Swim / Max). By the co-creator & the animation studio behind "Scavengers Reign".

To our @stayforeverhome.bsky.social community members impacted by the fires in LA, our hearts are with you as you work to ensure the safety of your family, friends, and pets. If you need assistance, please use these mutual aid resources for support in the affected areas: (1/4)

Sadly, our VR friend and collaborator at Wevr lost his home to the Eaton fire in LA. So much destruction. www.gofundme.com/f/battfamily

✨ she's very pettable ✨

this can't be right. video games can't possibly be good for you

· · · ··--==≡ ● DUBIO - OUT NOW ● ≡==--·· · · · Our game of tiny puzzle parcours. Developed by @ajkolenc.bsky.social and me. Available on Steam, iOS and Android. (Links in profile) Have fun! AJ and Richard

I hear you want non-corporately owned games writing that doesn’t just focus on whatever the current best-sellers are www.pastemagazine.com/games

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Announcing our cozy virtual pet experience, Stay: Forever Home! (Yes you can and should pet the dog) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyU7...

relevant

Old but still useful I think, here's a little breakdown I made of the procedural duck movement I built for A Waddleful Life! 🧵 #indiedev #gamedev #procedural

killing me with cuteness 🫠

Big moment for us tomorrow! ✨🦊✨ Tune in to @UploadVR's Winter Showcase to see what we've been cooking up! youtu.be/1JWpDySAGjc December 5th at 10:30 AM PST #gaming #indiedev #VirtualReality #WindupMinds #virtualpet

Oculus was at a crossroads; my team split to support PC VR & Monterey (Quest). We took the character+rig from Farlands & built a virtual pet demo, proving the HW to Zuck and the world. 4th highest user hours all time for any Unreal app on the store. Tomorrow we're going to finish that promise!

I recently started trying to keep plants alive and I didn't realize that eventually I'd have to punish the plants by hacking off the parts that were growing too well. What kind of sick hobby is this

Time for my promised thread on indie games social marketing! A couple disclaimers first: I come from Xbox, and that’s a whole different ballgame with budgets, teams, spreadsheets, and marketers. Also, I’ve been learning by doing and watching how other team members at Chronicler do it. (1/9)

A peek at our prototype! @windupminds.bsky.social