Is this trying to tell us something?

The Olympics involves a collision of The Power by Snap and bowling shirts. I watch it all through Eurovision-colored glasses.

Susasus is suspicious of Pegasus

Oh dear. Somehow monsters are on the brink of extinction in...Monster Hunter.

I can track my tiredness by how many typos I make in a single sentence. Today is an 'edit a response three times' day.

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we now have a subreddit for Spirit Crossing! this is a great place to share longer videos, write expressive fan lore, ask the community questions, or discuss the large knife strapped to Marj's back that you all discovered using camera mode. just normal stuff. reddit.com/r/SpiritCrossing/

"Demon rabbits are in, but we still need to work on occult reptiles" Blessed be cozy games.

As promised: Faces! 😁 Here's a thread about some technical details for how stylized faces get made in Spirit Crossing. 🧵 The game is inspired by media like Ghibli and BotW, but our faces are unique. There was lots of early discussion about face style & we landed on dot-eyes early...

This is an amazing story about why a whole decade of game devs thought demos were bad. jboger.substack.com/p/the-unfair...

I do enjoy the pre-dawn vibes Feels like bleary eyed waiting for the school bus hour

Hey folks so I’m not good at this but, I’m a Sr. Producer seeking work! 💼 20 years of game production XP across Netflix Games/Spry Fox, Bungie, Blizzard, Zynga, Riot Games, and more ⭐️ indie, AAA, PC/console/mobile, 8-400 person teams, internal and ex-dev www.linkedin.com/in/cuppycake...

"Rewriting the Player Contract" suggests 4 framings for managing high trust with your players: 1 - Tiered commitments (core pillars vs possibility spaces) 2 - Trust Reserves (over-deliver small promises) 3 - Provisional language 4 - Protect mysteries Read more: polarisgamedesign.com/2025/rewriti...

Reach the summit in Cairn! Climb anywhere as Aava and challenge deadly Mt. Kami. Choose your route carefully on the giant mountain. Explore for supplies to fill your pack and discover long lost history. Camp, rest, and prepare meals to recover. Survive and overcome!

"There are no games about friendship instead of violence" I don't know, man. There's an entire organization called Digital Thriving that is all about this. Papers. Examples. Conferences. Talks. So many games. So many designers. Literally a career. lostgarden.com/2025/03/22/w...

We are literally making this game. It is called Spirit Crossing. The main verb is 'befriend'. Friendship all the way down.

I worked with the irrepressible @jonremedios.bsky.social @tylermakesgames.bsky.social @rainysector.bsky.social @bravemule.bsky.social to write a paper on why permadeath (and other forms of loss in games) appeals, and what we lose when we try to paper over it with metaprogression. Check it out!

If you let them build it, they will come. (screenshot credits: Oof42, lobot, fefaware)

here's a peek at something special- our improvisation system for musical instruments! moving up\down\left\right adds improvised notes & shifts pose per instrument, expressing the deepest movements of your soul 🎵 And when accompanying others, we give like instruments varied tracks 👀

honest I’m not trying to do A Marketing right now but I am still so often pleasantly surprised with what our procgen environments produce. We are always working to make it better but it creates some wonderfully evocative spaces. (ignore visual glitching 😅)

Hooray! 🎉 This year's ✨@polarisgamedesign.com✨ papers are live! I'm super pumped because I got attend the retreat last year and help write one. 😊 It's about trust and wonder. Check it out here: polarisgamedesign.com/2025/rewriti...

It's the Polaris 2025 reports! They've come! They're here! It's a bumper crop of five, count'em FIVE papers! We got comedy, we got death, we got cringe, we got trust... something for the whole team. Piping hot game design knowledge and insight await: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

Waaaait for it....

oh yeah, the flying alpaca are called fluffalo you uh. you throw cookies at their face to get them to land nearby so you and others can shear their gnarly butts for wool

Hi!👋I've been leading character art on Spirit Crossing with @spryfox.bsky.social for the last few years and, as I'm new to BlueSky, I thought I'd try sharing some of the work that's gone into making characters for an MMO over the next few months! Follow if you like characters and lil tech details 😊

OMG. It is another sunny day 🌞

Want to dedicate a lifetime to making a single game? Read this article by @tanyaxshort.bsky.social first! kitfoxgames.medium.com/e9b916491afe

I had a good sleep for the first time in weeks. Wow. The future is bright! Feeling 10 years younger. Leapt down the stairs. Outside? Seattle, in the dead gloom of winter and the sun is shining like it got confused, "Oh, is this summer?"

at Spry Fox, we're interested in designing games that answer meaningful questions and inspire conversation. ..and sometimes that conversation is: what if there were little guys everywhere??

Announcement: STEAM DEMO OUT NOW! The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them. How badly do you wish to live forever? 👁️🩸 👇👇👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... Please wishlist and share - thank you! #indiedev

As of today, I no longer work for Netflix. 😮 Check out today's blog from Spry Fox, and then please... ✅ Wishlist / Follow on us Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2321960/... ✅ Sign up for our newsletter for beta info: playspiritcrossing.com ✅ Wish us the best of luck!!! #SpiritCrossing #GameDev🤞

Surprise, delight, and bewilder your fuzzy-eared friends with your OWN set of fuzzy ears. 🐺 Are you more partial to a set of horns or feathered antennae? Good news - we've got those too! 🦋 Express yourself with a variety of mythic animal accessories in Spirit Crossing. 🐾 → playspiritcrossing.com

Ever gotten kudos from a pigeon baker?

SURPRISE. 🥰 We just revealed a brand new trailer with an exciting announcement inside.. Spirit Crossing will be coming to Steam! 🎉 We’re SO excited to share this journey with you all, and we’d greatly appreciate it if you could give us a wishlist to help us spread the word. 🧡 s.team/a/2321960

This bit gets lost in the news. What if the people making your favorite game shared in any success? Wouldn't that be nice?

Spry Fox bosses slashed their salaries to buy out the studio and launch cozy MMO Spirit Crossing later this year

It's a cozy game, but without the aspect of infantilizing the player. The stories hit deep, and have even brought me to tears a few times. The graphics are beautiful, unlike any other game I've played before. The core community on the discord server is a great group of people ❤️ 3/4

Hey pals, I know I've been away for a good while now, but I wanted to tell you about a game I'm playing called Spirit Crossing, by @spryfox.bsky.social. It's a MMORPG currently in Alpha testing, free for anyone with a Netflix account and a smartphone/tablet. 1/4

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing. We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news. spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

Nature valentines. This comic is now available as a set of 6 Valentines cards: topatoco.com/collections/...

A piece of Spirit Crossing "key moment" concept art from about a year and a half ago; trying to capture the cozy contrast of storms, which push players together around bonfires

One thing I've always been fond of is our windows. Having contiguous exterior\interior spaces was important to us- but early on we realized interiors needed different ambient light from the exterior to feel properly cozy

i empathize so much with that guy

Little guys are one of the fundamental building blocks of video games. Verbs, Nouns, Little guys.

Social systems design is an elevated art.

Whenever someone gives an undeserved compliment, my wife and I look at one another and roll our eyes and say "Thanks ChatGPT" This is culture healing.

there are little guys everywhere for those who go looking for them

The world is complicated and I'm not interested in "cozy" as whitewashed escapism. I am more interested in appreciating what we have. Especially those small shared moments of beauty and caring we carve out in the middle of the storm.

Occasionally I realize the sun is still shining

genuinely one of the thrills of getting to work on a life sim is opening our playground\gymnasium maps and flying through them