Tolar Games

Good work is being made, don't worry!

Been awhile since we last uploaded, huh? Just been focusing on gamedev work! We promise to get some BTS out to y'all soon! Also thanks for all the support while we've been busy!

We do not have anything planned for April Fools this year. The whole crew's been busy focusing on DSOM, that it wasn't possible to do any goofs this year. Though at some point WAY in the future, we'll have our own kind of The Death of Sonic The Hedgehog or POOSTALL Royale type of April Fools game :p

Oh... what's this? Something new and something change...

Yes, we have returned to TikTok! But Bluesky is remaining our main spot!

It's okay... It's just a dream.

Here's a snippet of my anti-AI rant on Discord. I truly believe that being truly creative is the spirit of humanity. And once you stoop low enough to publish something that you didn't make, made from thousands of stolen bits. All to stroke your tech dick, you've lost the plot, and a bit of your soul

Very classy. Bearing it all on live TV. Today has confirmed our pullout from America was a good choice. Downt worry, we will still publish our games for American audiences, as we believe it is wrong tp punish the citizens for the actions of the government.

We stand with you Americans, stay strong.

RIP David Lynch.

He was a lengendary creative who has cha ged everyo e's lives in some way. Even if you didnt enjoy his work, you can not deny his impact on visual media as a whole. As well as being influental to so many. RIP a legend.

Some more peaks into our BTS!!!

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Now that it is officially 2025 for everyone, we want to thank you all for making our 2024 that much better! We promise that into the new year we will keep working on DSOM, and get it into your steam libraries...whenever itnis to come out...

From the Tolar Games, to you:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

You’re one line of code away from a breakthrough. Keep coding! 💡
// Follow @NXVRStudio for daily tips and insights to keep you going!

#GameDev #GameDesign #Unity3D #IndieDev #Breakthrough

End of year BTS! (We will post a proper New Years post in a bit!)

Steam :: Steamworks Development :: Age Ratings Mandatory in German Store Starting November 15 You can use our built-in ratings system for your game on Steam

The amount of #IndieGames on my wishlist that are "not available in your region" because of one small oversight is insane.

#GameDev PSA ⬇️

steamcommunity.com/groups/steam...

Donkey Kong Was Originally A Popeye Game Miyamoto says Nintendo's main monkey might not have existed Posted by Tom East on 25th Nov 2009 at 09:56 10 Donkey Kong is one of the most iconic games characters of all time but he may not have existed had Nintendo followed their original idea. In the latest 'Iwata Asks' interview, Shigeru Miyamoto admits that Donkey Kong was originally meant to be a Popeye game. "I sketched out a few ideas for games using Popeye," said Miyamoto. "At that point, Yokoi-san was good enough to bring these ideas to the President's attention and in the end one of the ideas received official approval. Yokoi-san thought that designers would become necessary members of development teams in order to make games in the future. And that's how Donkey Kong came about." "But originally it was going to be a Popeye game," Iwata continued. "That's right," Miyamoto responded. "But while I can't recall exactly why it was, we were unable to use Popeye in that title. It really felt like the ladder had been pulled out from under us, so to speak." "It was a really lucky break! So next we began to flesh out the idea for a game based on the concept we had come up with." Imagine a world without Donkey Kong. No Donkey Kong would mean no Jumpman. And without Jumpman we wouldn't have Mario! Tom East

jokes aside as popeye enters public domain a reminder we got mario and donkey kong because nintendo couldn't use popeye and bluto, like star wars happened because lucas was denied making a flash gordon movie

let corpos denying you recycling their stuff drive you to do better new stuff that's yours

The holidays are Among Us! Be sure and take some time to yourselves! Enjoy the festivities with those you care about! Us? We will also take care! Even if we don't wanna rest...

From the Tolar Games team. Cheers! And a wonderful holidays!

Festive Ophelia art by our wonderful @96porcent.bsky.social

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It's always fun finding unintentional future game features!

Oh for sure!

But luckily, the indie scene seems to be reviving games! And happy for it! Awesome to see peeps bond over indie games. Awesome that the community wants to make their own magazines, their own E3. People are excited to play amd talk about indie games!

People actually bonded over what new game was coming out, being genuinely excited to play something new. But the gaming industry headed south, pumping out slop, making players grow more discontent, companies stopped doing cool shit, alot of the magazines died out, E3 was our biggest loss.

Building upon this, I miss when games had culyure around them! Every company showing off the cool new quality game, Game Informer magazine, PC Gamer magazine, Nintento Power, Sega Power, cool ass trailers coopersted with shit like MTN DEW and promos with Dr Pepper. Peeps were hyped for mew game!

Ok, hear me out, an indie game magazine reminiscent of those old Nintendo Power magazines!
#indiegamedevs

Although I'm not the same person who you talked to on Twitter, I will share the same sentiment: We love the little dude! Would love to see the cute little comics on here! (Dw we are the same Tolar Games, just the other guy made me THE social media manager)

A little turtle shoots a basket into a double tall basketball net - it has two nets. The first is labelled "Encouraging yourself" and the second is labelled "Encouraging Others" - once it goes through the first it goes through the second.

I want to do something to help indie game visibility, especially for those that choose to self publish

So here's the plan: I made a list of self published indies. I'll add people to this

It will power a feed, of only MAJOR updates for your game. Releases, demos, sales, updates, etc

#indiegamedev

The key art for Mythwrecked and some laurels from events and awards it's been in

I must say, thank fuck for @bsky.app 💙

The boost of visibility we have for Mythwrecked on the run up to launch from posting here has been seismic.

ok ok i'll play some new games that are neither an Elder Scroll nor a Sim