Boss: You get that new batch of screenshots for the game? Me: Yep, got 'em right here! Boss: You have done a great job and didn't veer from my instructions in a silly/humorous fashion at all. I'm proud of you. Me: 😌

Hey, here's that new video! I had the privilege of sitting down with @kaittremblay.bsky.social, narrative director for Soft Rains, about Ambrosia Sky! We explore death positivity, consent, and more in a fascinating chat about a fascinating game. Let me know what you think! youtu.be/iJrHtAnyHx4

Proud to share more of the work that folks are putting into Ambrosia Sky with this story trailer.

The Easter (egg) Bunny showed up today

Finally, I have THE chase card for Lorcana

If you think I can talk your ear off about mycelium, just avoid getting me started on ska! (thanks for the writeup on Ambrosia Sky, @dominguezf.bsky.social) store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/a...

I'll be on the floor at PAX alongside the game and some other Soft Rains folks. Come say hi! Play our game!

Well said by @bryantfrancis.me - getting to make an original game as personal, weird and genre-breaking as Ambrosia Sky is something that's hard to imagine accomplishing in any context other than as an independent studio. www.gamedeveloper.com/design/what-...

Video games are uniquely helpful for thinking about death. They'll hold us by the waist as we gaze into the abyss, without letting us fall in I chatted with the legit expert on "games and death" and learned why and how the hobby teaches us to process where we're all heading

Big fans of Scavengers Reign over here at the weird space game factory - so feeling pretty pleased to be interviewed about it in a piece like this. 🍄🪐 gizmodo.com/scavengers-r...

The toolset we've made for Ambrosia Sky is Very Fun and a bit gross

Red Faction: Gorilla

Game development is crafting precise messages like "okay she had to undo my merge, and then needed me to undo that undo, but now I have to do the redo, not revert the undo"

Thanks for the coverage of Ambrosia Sky here ‪@sirlarr.bsky.social‬ - was great fun to sit and play the game with you last month. youtu.be/11eGJ658UsQ?...

Hell yeah

Do you want to feel feelings while cleaning hostile fungus out of space habitats, putting the dead to rest and occasionally getting electrocuted and set on fire? Well that is an extremely specific thing to want but boy howdy do we have a game for you

@astroscout.ca with the content

When folks are kind enough to write about the work, there are the pull quotes you want on your trailer, and then there are the quotes you want to hang on your wall. Thank you @platanoranger.bsky.social

Ambrosia Sky was one of the most remarkable games I saw at SGF. A small team making something truly poignant about the nature of death and how we process it, set to the fascinating backdrop of cleaning up a sentient fungus (PowerWash style). Can't wait to see more. www.inverse.com/gaming/ambro...

"Sus-ssigned" Bug or task that is bounced around a project management tool because nobody's really sure who owns it.

Floored and flattered that "there is too much coverage for me to have read it all yet" is a problem I'm having right now. I've had this issue with big AAA announcements, but for a new team, new IP - and without a big, dedicated marketing team or publisher backing us up.

Enjoyed this playthrough of our demo - thanks for playing @wanderbot.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVmC...

Our next game, Dosa Divas. Battle an evil fast food empire in this spicy narrative turn-based RPG. Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities, and reconcile with loved ones. youtu.be/jzOKSPSVYwY?...

Finally treating myself to Skin Deep, now that our announcement is done. And wow, I just love it. Amazing work yet again from @blendogames.bsky.social and friends. Absolutely inspired and inspirational throughout. WONKY SPACE store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

Here's how you can support Ambrosia Sky: 📃 Wishlist the game on Steam! 🎮 Play the demo and leave us your feedback! 💛 Join our community Discord! 💌 Follow our socials and sign-up for our newsletter! You can find links to all of these here: linktr.ee/softrains

Concept art for our protagonist, Dalia. She is a Scarab, a deep-space disaster clean-up specialist. Scarabs are a loose outfit of self-trained scientists, whose specialties are a blend of biology 🧬, engineering ⚙️, and religious mysticism. ☄️

Lots of the folks who played with us at Summer Game Fest Play Days were interested to learn more about Scarabs - the death cleaning group your character belongs. Well, here’s a devlog about just that!

One final glamour shot. If any indies out there are looking for help with merchandising, I’d really love to help! At this point I’ve accrued quite the portfolio. If you ever have any questions, I’m also open to point you in the right direction so you can DIY something cool. 💖

Proud to share what we’ve been creating at Soft Rains. Let us know what you think, and wishlist the game if you’re interested to know more.

It's been a while. For those of you who already know us, here's a recap of what the studio has been up to over the past 4 years. We are 17-BIT. An award-winning #indiegame studio working out of #Kyoto, #Japan. Here's a primer for what drives our passion for #gamedev.

Oh, and in case the “pup of chaos” moniker failed to come through, here’s what I saw when I checked on her via webcam at the doggy daycare.

Meet Willow: pup of chaos. She’s been in our care since last January, when it came to my attention that she was trapped in a dangerous situation. Here’s a bit of her story, with requisite puppy tax paid in photos.

FYI: hey we're doing stuff over here www.pcgamer.com/games/sgf-20...

[!WARNING!] Incoming Transmission... [ERROR] MESSAGE CORRUPTED REBUILDING DATABASE... CORRUPTION LEVEL HIGH, EST. TIME OF COMPLETION: 8.6.25

> run enhanceimage.exe 👀🐸

Need reading material? We've started publishing some on medium. Follow the studio account and/or hit the newsletter to be kept up when new pieces drop. There's some interesting stuff in the pipe.

gamedev dictionary: "Clown Car" Workflow problem when a particular feature/level is getting touched by seemingly everyone in the team.

0 days since fixing a minor bug by flipping an asset upside-down.

20 years and... eight days ago... I flew to Bethesda for a job interview, where I was shown the WIP E3 trailer for Oblivion. Two months later I was on the job. So it's incredibly wild to wake up to an uncanny version of that trailer dropping today. BRB, crumbling into dust

🎉 LAB RAT is out now!! 🎉 - A comedic puzzler that satirizes your favorite games - Over 100 puzzles - At least 10 good belly laughs 👇 Check it out Here 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/1304610/...

A new scout report is coming in... 🚀 I am happy to announce that I am working with @softrains.bsky.social to support the studio and their upcoming title! ✨ I'm very excited to help this (also Toronto-based!) team share what they've been working on.

We've been pretty quiet about our work since starting up, so it was fun (and scary) to chat a bit about the dynamics and ambitions of our studio at GDC last week. www.gamesradar.com/games/there-...

For some reason, something like 10% of the time I send a text, my thumb slips and hits "b" on the way to the send button. That 10% seems to almost always happen when I send something very serious, earnest, etc. Thanks for reading b

Travel for work and use Google slides for presentations? Avoid relying on an iPad as a presentation device. Decks randomly drop assets and certain things like image format adjustments just don’t work in the Slides app. Available offline doesn’t seem reliable.

OUT NOW (3x) 🎥 - Rift Riff's new trailer! youtu.be/M79VZIUvhHA 🕹️ - Rift Riff's new demo! store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/... 👀 - Rift Riff's influencer version! (⅔ of the final game) Get access through: [email protected] Jump a rift, pick your towers, and fight off monsters!

I don’t get it. Who spells “frob” with five letters?

2024 was the year I first realized that shift+scroll is a surprisingly-common shortcut for scrolling sideways. It's definitely not 100% but I've found it works more often than I'd have imagined. For anyone else late to this discovery, please enjoy the little holiday software treat.

it's a good morning to boot up the editor and put Toots & the Maytals on the turntable

Celebrating the anniversary of the first commercial game I worked on: Bloodrayne 2 came out twenty years ago? Sheesh💀 It's a very campy B-movie romp, with elements I still think really fondly of. But more than anything, I'm grateful for the skills I learned and the folks I met on that project.

I am so confused right now