There's joy to be found in every season of Animal Crossing - even those cold and dreary winter months we might wish to skip in real life. 🔗 https://www.eteogames.com/rhythms-of-the-everyday-in-animal-crossing/

Hi folks! I'm Alan and I run Draknek & Friends, where we make and publish lovingly crafted puzzle games. Draknek is on Bluesky at @draknek.bsky.social and you can check out all our games at www.draknek.org

Oh, to be enjoying the warm waters of the WIS. #SciArt #artbyjulio

Proud to announce the next game Vampirium: 1997 Dracula is king of the United British Empire. Kill his enemies and find your own path through a minimalist immersive sim sandbox. Wishlists and retweets massively appreciated (and, you know, massively helpful) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

Life above the clouds isn't all it's cracked up to be. Read our article on Apex Legends' city of Olympus, where utopian dreams fell apart in spectacular fashion. https://www.eteogames.com/the-doomed-floating-utopia-of-apex-legends-3/

This is a piece I had been wanting to write for literal years. So glad I finally got the chance to!

Winter brings many hardships - but it's an essential part of the seasonal cycle in farming sim games like Harvest Moon. 🔗 https://www.eteogames.com/winter-and-death-in-harvest-moon/

Persona 4's tourist town of Inaba runs to a strict seasonal schedule, encouraging you to use your time there wisely. 🔗 https://www.eteogames.com/seasons-bc-in-persona-4s-tourist-town/

New model completed

So happy that didn’t go to ET. Now I have 4 hours to somehow sleep

Immense performance

Who’d have thought we’d be better against teams that want to play

New model completed

Virtue and a Sledgehammer False Awakening (Demo Soundtrack EP) is out now on @bandcamp.com! a short collection of some of the tracks featured on the demo, featuring tracks that might end up different on the final release as the game is still a work in progress, AND the tracks from both trailers! ♥️

My talk from this year's @atlanticconf.bsky.social is now live on YouTube! If you're curious about some cool tech art behind Herdling, I think you're gonna find this really interesting ✨

Thanks to all the Ridge-heads who grabbed a copy of One More Win, my Ridge Racer Type 4 fanzine. Physical copies are now on sale permanently at www.rocketbooks.shop!

Communication Center Painting study

I'm laying the thingies out on a table to assess my inventory.

Gravity Rush 2 contains a special kind of clumsiness - the sort that "emerges from taking to a complex world at speed." 🔗 https://www.eteogames.com/flying-cities-achieving-the-addled-intricacy-of-gravity-rush-2/

Tests for the new slipcase have arrived and I’m really pleased with them,

Enjoying the summer weather? Here's something thematically appropriate: have a read of our very first Archetypes article, exploring the blue-sky optimism of Skies of Arcadia. vist.ly/58ryb

Sweltering

I wrote about level design readability: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

New #photogrammetry capture of Grain Dummy Battery, a 19th Century artillery fort. 3D: skfb.ly/pLt7z

Sweltering

Spikey Forest

one of the areas in our game, City of None

YOUR PATH HAS MANY DANGERS. FORWARD.

Can't wait for the first SD-2D game

HEY LISTEN 🦋 not only have we made a cool new 🚐TRAILER 🚐 but 𝕰𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖞 has a 💾DEMO 💾OUT NOW store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/...

Hey, pitches for September's PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct are open, and we're looking for cool unannounced games to unveil to the world for the first time. If you've got a game you think might be a good fit, give me an email on [email protected]

Finally finished this one up

The demo for A Line Held Tight has been out for a few days! Have you played it? What did you think? If you’ve not yet, why not give it a play now? :o) store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...

Ascenders is one of those games you see 5 seconds of and understand it immediately / wonder how it hasn't been done before. Great concept and it looks like some fantastic execution. They just put their demo up now: store.steampowered.com/app/4267860/...

very good vibes www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1d_...

Working through some of the model kits I picked up over the years

Spotted Bowser at the Kyoto Sanga game @liambme.bsky.social treated me to for my birthday last month

Tokyo in transit

Back in the studio after an extended Bitsummit trip and flicking through some books

NEW DEMO OUT NOW! 🦝Chill-Narrative-BMX-Japanese-Adventure! 🚲Experience first THREE DAYS of the game 🦝Over 2 hours of content 🚲Saves carry over 🦝New: BMX Challenges, Activities, Navigation, UI & Quests! TANUKI: Pon's Summer ready for business! DOWNLOAD & PLAY! store.steampowered.com/app/3218570/...

OUT TODAY! The vinyl of @luministmusic.bsky.social's take on the NES Metroid OST, featuring a cover fully designed by me. Get it at: manawave.co/products/met...

I'm really struggling to imagine a version of Ocarina of Time remake that I'll feel good about. Happy to be surprised but I replayed the original a few months ago and honestly it holds up for me. They really don't make 'em like that anymore

hmmmm

Revealing Signet City is a slightly vertigo-inducing experience because it's been hanging around a long time just waiting for me to let it back out to wreak havoc...

imagine if they 'focus link' OOT

My thesis “Archaeological Game Design: Video Game Archaeology as Interpretive Play and Play Preservation” is now online and open access! You can access the official version here, however this has some figures redacted: qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle...

4 years ago we set up our studio @bloomandgloom.bsky.social. Now we are 10 people, and announce our first game Into the Wind! Check it out (and wishlist if you want to) on Steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/2843060 #indiegame #gamedev #intothewindgame #indiedev

STEAM NEXT FEST DEMO THIS WEEK! 😊 We’ve got a new trailer for you and look how good our little TANUKI looks! Thank you to IGN for hosting our new trailer. This demo is the first opening 2 hours of the game and your save carries over! We can’t wait for you to join Pon! youtu.be/Qih7SZYgWXg?...

🟥 DEMO AVAILABLE NOW 🔨 Demolish your hometown in this first look at Virtue and a Sledgehammer. Destroy your past. Devour your memories. There's no turning back. store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/...