Shape Sender Deluxe used to have a scoring system to use as few tools as possible. BUT it stopped people just creatively *playing* with the systems and instead changed it to be about optimization which was less aligned with the game vision.

Penguin Colony is ALSO supremely excellent. "A faithful re-imagining of H.P. Lovecraft through the eyes of a penguin" in 1939 Antarctic like. what more do you need. #SteamNextFest

enjoying the penguin simulator part during Penguin Colony knowing cosmic horror is involved

Screenplay final edit this week. Been a lot of fun with this one. [this image will make sense when the game comes out]

Last week Toroa: Skycall won the Digital and Interactive Award at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto!!! 🤯 We are so humbled and honoured to get to take this home and are still in awe of being recognised by our international Indigenous whānau 💞 ngā mihi nui ki a koutou!

Nah fuck that the audience is wrong

Damn

Listening to a ton of Link Wray ⚪️🔴🟡⚫️

Neofeud 2 is my #cyberpunk 90's-style game where an ex-robo-marine and a rebel hacker struggle against CEO-King trillionaires & an empire on its last legs. And it's RELEASED on #Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/... #indiedev #visualnovel #indiegame #retrogame #NoAI #scifi #art #artist

Check out Denari as well

Hello new followers! If you know my music from DREDGE I implore you to check out the demo for the CRIMINALLY underrated hack-n-slasher DENARI, which is buried deep within the steam next fest algorithm. Here's some of the boss music I've written for it: 🔊🎵

Check out Shawns new game

As if it matters (it doesn’t because its a movie for children). The main issue with Toy Story 5 is that it is carefully worded PR statement about “tech” rather than an actual screen play. The iPad frog isn’t even the villain at the end

Working on this has been a real way to consider and engage with my own grief after these catastrophic years…in a way, I hope the experience of playing as our Death Nun and Tattoo Historian protagonist, will allow others to also work through their personal or collective grief as well. Stay tuned 💜

so, I kept waiting for a "quiet" day to post about it, but considering *everything* I'm realizing that day isn't coming so I might as well just start talking Some friends and I, including @slothysunday.bsky.social and @valkwise.bsky.social, are making a game. store.steampowered.com/app/4462890/...

If you want to play a fun game about (the not fun thing) what happens when your home town wants you dead, check out Beatdown City Survivors! Also Treachery in Beatdown City is on a massive sale, and you can get both for less than $15!

SML 1144 is HERE and we've got @shawndoublea.bsky.social of @nuchallenger.com joining to chat all about @beatdown.city Survivors alongside @ladymagritte.bsky.social @gunplagirlfriend.bsky.social & @mrfreight.bsky.social! Over 100 minutes of awesome chatter! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVvM...

How the critics gonna feel writing “the real main character of GTAVI is Leonida itself”

Fave demo during this Steam Next Fest has been Penguin Colony. Shits fun, haunting and has a shitload of dead nazis

STEAM NEXT FEST HAS TOO MANY GREAT GAMES So we dug through dozens of them to give you at least 10 we think you need to know about. WATCH: youtu.be/9qFJmCaJroc

Galactic Workers of the Worlds Unite! Neofeud 2 is a #retro 90's-style game where an ex-robo-marine and a rebel hacker struggle against an empire on its last legs. Now RELEASED on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/... #artist #art #scifi #visualnovel #indiegame #noai #scifiart #steam

Stoked that Truck-kun and Penguin Colony made this list by @noclipvideo.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Replaying GTAIV (on PS3) and think it captures the vibe of low level street crime.

4/10 for me 10/10 for her

If you're wondering why Rockstar is going all out on the GTA 6 cover art reveal its the poisoning news results about them losing their union busting suit

GenAI is basically a dictionary. Which is why AI slop is empty of all meaning to the arts. Its like going to a comedy club and instead of performing comedy you define the rule of 3. Thats the tone of GenAI.

Today has been by *far* the best day in sales for Silver Spook Games in the decade I've been on Steam as a solo-dev! Thanks everyone who picked up Neofeud 2! #indiegame #indiedev #Steam

Haloid Metroid X Halo

Heading to a packed theatre today to watch Toy Story 5 with my 4 year old

Tonight's theme for Free-stream Friday is "friend demos." I'll be playing demos by friends! First up, TANUKI: Pon's Summer by @liambme.bsky.social, second up is Penguin Colony by @veselekov.bsky.social! After that, it's a wildcard stream! 7:30pm US Eastern @ twitch.tv/superbunnyhop

It's been a busy month, but that's not stopped us from putting together a chunky list of Steam Next Fest demo recommendations you still have time to try over the weekend 🔥

Ukraine locked the fuck in

New video: an HOA lawsuit update! We helped changed the laws for 2 million people! We got an investigative story in the city's legacy newspaper & the city council! But a new HOA policy disproportionately hurts the elderly & handicapped. More fundraising is still needed: youtu.be/RXdlsHGOpro

Announcing... Asymptotes. Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection. On Saturday July 18th, we're running a showcase of abandoned games, with talks and panels on non-commercial and difficult to commercialise game-making. 👉 asymptotes.au

Atari should basically just be a clothing company at this point

Joguei Penguin Colony e achei um jogo surreal, interessante, criativo. Nao entendi nada mas fiquei intrigadissimo. Wishlist agora mesmo. Nota 9/10

Having your game slow down and a giant dialogue box pops up is definitely the silent movie captions of game design. There is a reason it was retired.

Toyed with a little thing this afternoon to get back into the prototyping rhythm.

if you scrolled past this with sound off, you missed out

"ff7 remake is a little political" i say, staring directly at a hand-modeled shinra spoof on an obscure israeli occupation forces armored vehicle that i know about because i spend too much time on wikipedia

We've tried... need a BMX to get around it... but, it's not bad! We will see when the game releases if we succeeded. It's an "open-island", which is maybe slightly smaller. But, still a very sizeable footprint.

One of the questions I want to answer with Penguin Colony is "can you make an indie open world game" and probably not answer it at all. lol

Antarctica can be very beautiful. The main thing I noticed about it with Penguin Colony is it is like a minimalist painting.

Did any of those “pivot to crypto/nft” AAA games ever get made?

Did Unreal Engine hire Riccitiello? This shit is Install fees level of out of touch.

Steam Next Fest is on, and a bunch of hugely anticipated Yarn Spinner games have demos available! Check them all out! That's an order!

Tons of new followers. hi. Our demo is out. If you want to hear me do a mini directors commentary go watch the stream on the store page. It won't be up forever. store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

Try not to irritate this dude... But if you do... You can use Sekiro-like perfect-timed blocking to return damage to him, then catch his big swing with a chunky slow-mo parry! ⚔️😤 Try it out on our Steam demo right now! #steamnextfest #gamedemos #indiegames

Jam for Visual Novel creators to make Silent Hill clones would fucking rule.