❗ Art is a beacon Our #indiegame was always meant to have a community centred around #nonbinary and other #queer folks. With current events as they are, we will be louder about that. Our main character Wik is non binary, and that's relevant to their story and lore. Follow us if that interests you!

Posting again for the night peeps! #gamedev

🐿️ Endless You Here's an in-engine screenshot of our game with the new background and a new tile set put in. (WIP) #godot #indiegame

🐿️ Endless You Here's an in-process background of an abandoned factory interior. Each color is a layer that will scroll at a slightly different rate, creating a parallax effect. #gamedev #indiegame

🐿️ Endless You Going live with some #gamedev streaming. Our #indiegame will be getting a fresh coat of paint to its environment. See you there! www.twitch.tv/queen_an

Excited to be playing more of this! Come check it out #indiegame

🐿️ Endless You We've been doing some early takes on a particle system to add to the atmosphere of our #indiegame. We have fog and parallax scrolling to go along with it. #gamedev

This game is amazing! I've been thinking about it a lot since I last streamed it. Its central theme aligns perfectly with its central mechanic: If you want to create art, you must balance putting in the time to work, and spending time living life. Such a treat to experience! #indiegame

Going to be playing a charming Point and Click adventure game, Perfect Tides: Station to Station. Just came out today, but I've heard a lot of good things about it's narrative design! Come say hi www.twitch.tv/queen_an #twitch #perfecttides

Wanted more opinions on this: When you play a Steam game and it's done after less than 2 hours, you technically can return it. Even if you decide not to return it, does the knowledge that you could bother you? Would that subconsciously take away from your experience? #videogames

🐿️ Going Live Time for a #gamedev stream! We'll be adding score tracking to our Puzzle Platformer, with a little medal system! Come check in: www.twitch.tv/queen_an

🔴 Going Live Doing a #gamedev stream with some cozy vibes. We're adding contextual hints to our #indiegame www.twitch.tv/queen_an

🐿️ Endless You For our #indiegame, we're equally balancing cuteness with horror, with the hope of creating charm. Looney Toons does this! Characters are fairly cute, and being smashed into a pancake or exploded to bits is fairly horrific. But because they match intensities, it's very charming.

There's a lot of balance to strike for Endless You. The balance between cuteness and existential horror. The balance of constant death with the feeling of fairness. And the balance of having deep lore with being brief with words. A challenge, but one we shall solve gracefully. #indiegame #gamedev

Been working at creating a particle system in #Godot to add to the atmosphere of our #indiegame project. Aiming for something similar to how it's done in Hollow Knight and Silksong. As an initial step, I made this little guy: a dust particle. Say hello to Dustin!

Yall should check out Zayn's marvellous work over on his Bluesky :3

I took the survey about LLM use for SFWA, and I've been holding a particular response I gave in my mind: I'm not a reader because I want to simply experience interesting strings of words. I read to find connection with others. The author, other readers. It is a deeply human activity.

🐿️ Puzzle Design Going live! Will be making new puzzles through experimentation. Combining different mechanics until 10-15 new ideas are born. #gamedesign #gamedev #puzzle Come say hi! www.twitch.tv/queen_an

Here's a still of all the background layers for the abandoned power plant area in our upcoming #indiegame! Heat was produced through fusing hydrogen atoms together, and converted to electricity with great efficiency. Now, these structures loom silently over emerging foliage. #background #lore

Structurally, 2 of Portal's 3 hours is just well-disguised tutorial. And it rocks! Endless You will have 6 factories to explore, each with Portal's basic structure. But also, all the factories combined are like tutorial for the final area. It's like 6 Portals nested into one big Portal! #gamedev

🐿️ Level Design Stream Hey folks! Going to be making a few puzzle platforming levels for our upcoming #indiegame using #godot! Promising cozy vibes and a chatty streamer, or your money back! www.twitch.tv/queen_an

Fall Damage Deleting Fall Damage from a video game instantly improves it 99% of the time. Apologies to the 1% of games with fall damage that just got ruined.

If you need anything voice related in the next little while, you should definitely consider Tamara for it! She's a very skilled VA, whose power knows no bounds. Worked with her on REDACTED, and so I can also personally say she's lovely to work with! -An

🐿️ Wik (they/them) While Wik was growing up, a large energy dome isolated their village from the larger Ceyaquinn community. So Wik had rare exposure to other cultures that would normally be more insular. Wik became a linguist to study how different groups could be brought together. #lore #indiegame

🐿️ Playable Prototype Have you ever wanted to playtest an upcoming #indiegame? Enjoy being the first of your friends to catch wind of something new? Endless You is a puzzle platformer where you can make a staircase out of your own dead bodies. Play our early prototype on Itch! (🔗 in bio) #gamedev

This is where I watched my parents die, Charlie Brown.

🐿️ Cozy Level Design Stream Going live with some #gamedev, working on level design for our upcoming #indiegame Endless You! Come say hi: www.twitch.tv/queen_an

Remember that story about two people wanting the same baby, and someone goes: We should cut the baby in half, as a middle-ground solution?

📣 Quick Announcement We pushed a new update for our prototype #indiegame, Endless You, for people to try out. It's got cuteness and horror in perfect balance. If that sounds like your thing, solve some #puzzles by dying: aurorastorialis.itch.io/endless-you-early

Seems people are unfairly writing off Metroid Prime 4 due to the companions. That being said, many enjoy Metroid for it's atmosphere, and chatter works against that. Our studio looks to evoke that atmosphere in Endless You. You can play an early build: aurorastorialis.itch.io/endless-you-early

So they added a yapping, comic relief sidekick to #Metroid Prime 4, to tell you what things you missed and how to open doors. People value Metroid for its atmosphere of solitude in an alien environment, and this inclusion goes against that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=192P...

Here's a still of the backgrounds for a level in our #indiegame. Each color is on a different layer, moving at a different rate. We call this: Parallax Scrolling, and it creates a sense of visual depth in the level. #background #gamedev

We're putting together visual assets for our upcoming #indiegame where you solve puzzles with the help of your own dead bodies. Here are two early passes at a visual title for Endless You. We chose a retro futuristic font to match the hologram tablet that our main character uses. #retrofuture

🐿️ Video Game Lore Streaming now: Writing #lore for our upcoming #indiegame, Endless You. We will be drafting up this little guy's inner monologue for the vibe check areas between level sets. Come say hi! www.twitch.tv/queen_an

Here's #conceptart for our upcoming #indiegame, Endless You! It's a view of the abandoned factories from the Ceyaquinn Village, our main character's home! They find safety high up in the trees. Concept done by: @thesignpainty.bsky.social

Remember WarioLand? This offbeat platformer had you solving puzzles by giving Wario status ailments. Our upcoming #indiegame Endless You is a darker take on the concept - dying to solve puzzles. Get frozen, set on fire, electrocuted, crushed, vaporized, and so much more! #gamedev #wario

Endless You takes place inside 6 giant factories abandoned long ago by aliens. The machinery has been overtaken by plant life, and broken objects make the spaces quite dangerous. We took inspiration from settings like The Last of Us and Metroid to shape these spaces. #gamedev #indiegame

🎃 Happy Halloween! Endless You is a game that seamlessly combines charming cuteness with existential horror. Our adorable main character, Wik, is able to revive from death, and use their previous body as a platform or weight to solve puzzles. #indiegame #gamedev #existentialhorror

In #gamedesign, knowing what kind of head space you're asking your players to be in is so important, but rarely considered. Some games are best learned passively, while others require active learning. Both are good! But switching between these game styles can be disastrous. Here's how we learned 🧵

How it started ........... How it's going #gamedev #characterdesign

You'd be surprised how well a background in script writing applies to #gamedev. And not just narrative design! Characters in a story have tactics, ways they approach problems. When these tactics fail, they must adapt to overcome the problem. This is a basic building block of stories.(1/2)

🕊️ Level Design Stream Going live with some #gamedev! Making some levels with electrical hazards for our #indiegame Endless You. Come chill out: www.twitch.tv/queen_an

🐿️ Character Design Our main character for Endless You, Wik (they/them), is a squirrel-like alien living in another galaxy. This is their look, from concept art to current art. More details in the alt text! #gamedev #conceptart #indiegame

🐿️ Endless You Our #Indiegame may be 2D, but it has the depth of 3D light through an awesome feature in #godot. By combining different maps of a sprite, you can define how the light shines off of it. 1) In game result 2) visual texture 3) normal map 4) specular map More detail in the alt texts!

🐿️ Endless You 🐿️ We've been doing some #gamedev lighting tests for our upcoming #indiegame , and are loving the results! The light reflecting off the broken glass is looking spicy!

💡 Here's a Dynamic Lighting test for Endless You! 🐿️ It's the upcoming indie game where you solve puzzles by dying 🎤 All feedback is welcome!

🐿️ Indie Game Stream 🐿️ Going live to make levels for Wik to get through! Come see what tricks and traps await them. #indiegame #gamedev #leveldesign www.twitch.tv/queen_an

🎉 Next level design stream is now! Come join me :D #gamedev #indiegame

🕊️ Level Design Stream 🕊️ It's time for another stream from An, as she continues to put together levels for the upcoming indie game, Endless You. Come chill and ask some questions! #indiegame www.twitch.tv/queen_an

🐿️ Going Live! Going to be adding platformer puzzles to this blank level! In Endless You, dying is how you solve puzzles. Find out how fire adds to the mix! #indiegame www.twitch.tv/queen_an