#pelicanEmpyrean is part of #steamDeckbuilderFest from now until 11th May Check out our newly polished demo for minimalist magic cooking goodness #indiegame

#pelicanEmpyrean has a newly polished demo in Deckbuilder Fest! The gameplay's ever present lure of food is almost a cheeky sleight-of-hand, to provide a point of focus for your conscious mind while your subconscious does the deeper work of growing and managing magic. Check out the demo on Steam!

#pelicanEmpyrean has a newly polished demo in Deckbuilder Fest! The gameplay's ever present lure of food is almost a cheeky sleight-of-hand, to provide a point of focus for your conscious mind while your subconscious does the deeper work of growing and managing magic. Check out the demo on Steam!

I gave a game design talk at a local high school today. Was great to share 20+ years of my journey from Klik and Play to Flash to Construct, Game Maker and Unity. So many years of experiments and prototypes before ever releasing anything!

So happy to have someone share this on the #afterLightFades discord - that's 100% completion, all puzzles and collectibles, and close to 40 hours of play-time! Being the niche game that it is, it's only had a small handful of completions, so each one is so special for me

The lotus is the source of much power in #pelicanEmpyrean - both for cooking and magic #gamedev #indiegame

Continuing the great narrative game discoveries - I rediscovered Mutazione recently, a slow and quiet story rich game. Beautiful art and atmosphere, low key story so far. A good game to relax with.

After finally playing through Disco Elysium I was hungry for more unique narrative games. So finally played through Norco and now Kentucky Route Zero. Both take a lot of patience (esp KRZ), but deeply rewarding and artful experiences

This was a somewhat surreal moment for me as an old-school CollegeHumor enjoyer. Thank you @adamconover.net for having me on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_dI...

There's still time to submit your game to Tiny Teams 2026! We wanna see what all you talented solo and small team devs are working on 😈 #gamedev #tinyteams #indiegame

After Light Fades, the magical sokoban adventure, is 20% off now on Steam. A beautiful and very challenging journey into distant horizons of the mind. store.steampowered.com/app/1717940/... #afterlightfades #indiegame #steamsale

Joon Shining, the magical golf-like, is 70% off now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1552600/... #indiegame #steamsale

More progress on #pelicanEmpyrean. All the character art is done now, and these are WIP sketches for the meal cards. We've also built out the progression more, now each roguelike run type has unlockable variations - different rulesets for different flavours of play! #indiegame #gamedev

This is Mr Constellation - a new additional to Pelican Empyrean, and my all-time proudest achievement in naming a character. Mr Constellation... #pelicanEmpyrean #indiegame #gamedev

After Light Fades our sokoban puzzler is 15% off this week on Steam! A epic journey that will confound your expectations and open your mind to new and magical horizons! store.steampowered.com/app/1717940/... #afterlightfades #indiegame #steamsale

Joon Shining, the magical golf-like platformer, is 40% off now on Steam A wild and wonderful adventure through mysterious worlds, and an epic road to mastery! store.steampowered.com/app/1552600/... #joonshining #indiegame

Orchestral Super Metroid www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkfn...

More of the new characters in development for #pelicanEmpyrean If you haven’t played it yet check out the demo and wishlist on Steam! #indiegame #gamedev

Played the demo for Queen’s Domain today - it has a intriguingly unique atmosphere and flowing level design. Well worth diving into! store.steampowered.com/app/1799840/...

Project Shadowglass is looking cool. I was curious from their previous teaser what it was about, and now from this it looks like it's about being a modern take on Thief - definitely not a bad thing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOg8...

No Clip's Computer Worlds showcase looks awesome. Tons of compelling super-creative stuff here! store.steampowered.com/publisher/gi...

Some new character art in development for #pelicanEmpyrean by the talented Bella Field #indiegame #gamedev

Joon Shining is 2 years old! Our debut title, a magical golf-like platformer, has just turned 2. A real hidden gem, with a high skill ceiling and an epic 20+ hours across a diverse array of fantastical worlds! Check it out on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/1552600/... #joonShining #indiegame

Shopping for magical artefacts in Pelican Empyrean #screenshotsaturday #indiegame

On the dev side, Pelican Empyrean is now feature complete! The last step was building the save/load system so you can resume a game mid-run - a small but very complex system to implement. Next up we’re replacing the a.i. art with a real artist! #indiegame #gamedev

As a game designer Lemmings is one of the small handful of games I think about often and marvel at how completely unique it is. Docos like this are fascinating because there's no big story, magical inciting incident or confluence of forces, it just kind of happened www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulx0...

The final piece of key art for Pelican Empyrean! We’ll be updating the Steam page with this soon, and using a parallax version of the image for the game’s title screen Check out the demo on Steam #pelicanEmpyrean #indiegame #gamedev

The final piece of key art for Pelican Empyrean! We’ll be updating the Steam page with this soon, and using a parallax version of the image for the game’s title screen Check out the demo on Steam #pelicanEmpyrean #indiegame #gamedev

A couple of paint-overs of Dream of the Star Haven to hone in on the visual style and level-shapes #dreamOfTheStarHaven #indiegame #gamedev

We showed Pelican Empyrean at the SA Games Exhibition over the last two days. The response was awesome! So many players deeply entranced by the gameplay. #pelicanEmyprean #indiegame

Join me for the latest episode of Game Dev Journeys as I verbally improvise a game design from scratch! I imagine a concept for a new game and talk through the gameplay structures it could have and thematic directions it could take. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQf... #indiegames #gamedev #podcast

Also looking forward to seeing how the public responds to Pelican Empyrean when it's released - it's a roguelike with a focus on accumulating artefacts, but with an intentionally tightly-curated magic system, so it's almost as puzzle-ish as it is strategic.

On the dev side, Pelican Empyrean is now fully playable from start to finish! Lots of polish / balance still to go, but we have a great QA team helping out, so we can get that difficulty curve just right! #pelicanEmpyrean #indiegame #gamedev

So happy to finally have some help with Dream of the Star Haven. Level designer Jack Giles is helping whip the 2.5D platforming minigames into shape! #indiegame #gamedev #dreamOfTheStarHaven

Shopping for magical artefacts in Pelican Empyrean #screenshotsaturday #indiegame

Just updated the Pelican Empyrean demo with lots of little improvements, tweaks and fixes across the board. If you haven't checked it out yet now's a good time! 🔮 magical 🥘 cooking 🃏 card game store.steampowered.com/app/3438870/... #pelicanEmpyrean #indiegame #gamedev

The very talented up-and-coming artist Bella Field is creating some key art for our roguelike cooking card game #pelicanEmpyrean Check out this beautiful WIP Wishlist Pelican Empyrean on Steam! #indiegame #gamedev

Join me for the latest episode of Game Dev Journeys as I verbally improvise a game design from scratch! I imagine a concept for a new game and talk through the gameplay structures it could have and thematic directions it could take. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQf... #indiegames #gamedev #podcast

Finished Angeline Era on hard today. Very amazing and eclectic experience! Especially recommended if you’re a game dev cos it’s chock full of weird and wonderful enemy and boss behaviors!

Joon Shining, the magical golf-like platformer is 70% off now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1552600/... #joonshining #indiegame #steamsale

After Light Fades is 15% off right now on Steam 🔮 a magical 🧩 puzzle / sokoban 🌈 adventure to reconnect with life and love after loss store.steampowered.com/app/1717940/... #afterlightfades #indiegame #steamsale

After Light Fades is 15% off right now on Steam 🔮 a magical 🧩 puzzle / sokoban 🌈 adventure to reconnect with life and love after loss store.steampowered.com/app/1717940/... #afterlightfades #indiegame #steamsale

After a busy start to the year we're finally back on track to finish up Pelican Empyrean over the next few months. If you haven't seen it yet check out the free demo on Steam 🃏 roguelike cards 🥘 cooking! 🔮 magic!! store.steampowered.com/app/3438870/... #pelicanempyrean #indiegame

Check out this great episode of Psychology of Videogames where they talk about the fascinating "predictive processing" model of cognition and why it means that "uncertainty reduction" is a huge motivating factor for play podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p... #gamedev

This is the level I'm most proud of in Star Haven so far. It's a compact little puzzle box with Escher vibes, where you keep revisiting the same area but from different approaches and with different gravity orientations. #dreamofthestarhaven #indiegame #gamedev

A first pass at developing Star Haven's boss fights (and the first time I've ever made a boss fight for any of my games). Just using a placeholder model and environments for now, but the battle itself is so acrobatic and playful! #dreamofthestarhaven #indiegame #gamedev

A first pass at developing Star Haven's boss fights (and the first time I've ever made a boss fight for any of my games). Just using a placeholder model and environments for now, but the battle itself is so acrobatic and playful! #dreamofthestarhaven #indiegame #gamedev

Been having fun with Angeline Era over the last few days. It dives straight into great gameplay with no fluff, and the bumpslash combat gives it a surprisingly unique feel for such an unassuming innovation store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

Made some rapid progress on Dream of the Star Haven this week. ☠️ boss fights structure is done 🎶 new music to delineate 1st person, 2.5D platforming, sokobans, and boss fight gameplay 🧩 lots of tweaks and polishes to sokoban gameplay Check it out on Steam early access! #indiegame #gamedev

We’ve just updated Dream of the Star Haven on Early Access. 🏃‍♂️added a few more 2.5D platforming minigames ⏰ started rolling out a time-loop structure that overarches the whole game 🧩 more polish on the sokoban puzzles store.steampowered.com/app/2696080/... #indiegame #dreamofthestarhaven #gamedev