Distant Meadows

We are among the TOP 100 out of 401 entries in the Rising Tide Trailer Challenge! 😍🎉

The final round is open for voting now up until October 24th! All votes reset! 👈
You can support us once more! 👀
Voting's even more accessible now: blueoceangames.com/challenge 👏

Stay hyped and hydrated! 🚰 🤩

Last week we've entered a new production phase for the next months! Demo is calling! Excitiiing 😍
#feelslikesandsurfing #screenshotsaturday

(Also, until Monday you can still help us make the Top100 cut in the first week of voting in the Rising Tide Challenge blueoceangames.com/challenge/vo... 😉 )

Last Saturday we had the opportunity to showcase our prototype at the Games&Future Festival in Fürth. We had a lot of fun spending the day at the festival, as you can see in the pictures! 🙌💚

Blue Ocean Games A new way to validate your game, get feedback, and secure funding.

We are back participating in the second RISING TIDE TRAILER CHALLENGE by Blue Ocean Games with 2 really pretty new trailers! blueoceangames.com/challenge/vo...
And check out our RTC raffle on our Discord server (discord.gg/ApRu8TNypq) and win the chance to leave a footprint in Waters of Sal Naména!🎉

Link to our Discord server itself: discord.gg/ApRu8TNypq

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

We are looking for a Marketing/Social Media Intern (f/m/d, remote or local)

You are currently studying, still looking for an internship for the upcoming semester and want to experience everyday life in a small indie game studio first hand?

More infos on our Discord!
discordapp.com/channels/134...

Games&Festival | Das regionale Festival der Spiel(e)kultur Das Festival für digitales und analoges Spielen

Tomorrow, Saturday 27th, we will showcase Waters of Sal Naména again! Join us at the Games&Future Festival at the Jugendhaus OTTO in Fürth (close to the train station). Festival program starts at 10am and runs the whole day. Have a look: gamesandfestival.de
We'd be happy to see old and new faces! 😊🙌

Here are some impressions of our visit at the Gamescom two weeks ago. We definitely had a lot of fun, good conversations and a great time trying out new games! 🎮💚

Playtiles: Physical Buttons + Weekly Indie Games for your Phone Stick. Scan. Play! Playtiles turns your mobile into a tactile gaming handheld with a curated library of bite-sized indie gems. Launching Q4 2025.

Temporary or permanent exclusivity, one thing’s for sure: When you get the Season, the games are yours.

Play them on Playtiles, or export the ROMs to use on your favorite emulator or flash cart, it’s your call.

🎮 Grab Season 1: get.playtil.es

How some of the best puzzle games are a lesson in magic and misdirection · Thinky Games Puzzle games don’t make us feel smart, nor inspire us to 'be smart', but quite the opposite. They make fools of us. Dazzled, starry-eyed fools. And with ignorance comes bliss. Well…most of the time.

The best puzzle games are like magic! They use misdirection…and sometimes make us feel like fools.
thinkygames.com/feat...

Next Indie Outpost Nuremberg: Sep 1st, 6 PM! Talks by:
- @distantmeadows.bsky.social about: Open Source in Game Dev
- Florian Fischer: Community Management @gamedevrgb.bsky.social
Thanks, to our fantastic sponsors, @cipsoftgmbh.bsky.social and @gamesbavaria.bsky.social, for supporting the event!

GodotBarn + GodotFest

Remember to order your tickets for the upcoming GodotFest later this year if you haven't already!

Exciting talks, great venue and a chance to meet tons of other devs ✨

godotfest.com

Retro-inspirierte Pixelgrafik zum Spiel „Waters of Sal Naména“ von Distant Meadows. In grüner Gameboy-Ästhetik zeigt die Grafik eine meditative Szene mit einem sitzenden Charakter auf einer Wasserfläche. Der Spieletitel und „A Game by Distant Meadows“ sind in verschnörkelter Pixel-Schrift zu sehen. Unten steht: „Play me at Hall 04.1 | Booth C057“ und es ist das Label „We leveled up!“ von Games/Bavaria abgebildet.

🎮 Games/Bavaria @ gamescom 2025

At the Games/Bavaria booth in the Business Area (Hall 4.1, C057), we'll show 4 titles from our LEVEL UP accelerator. The last one:

🌊 Waters of Sal Naména by @distantmeadows.bsky.social

A Game Boy-style Metroidbrainia in a desert world full of secrets & puzzles.
🏜️🧭

On this Sunday we want to #showcase a great partner of ours: Games Bavaria supports a lot of Bavarian games studios with networking events and other great advice, especially with the Level Up Accelerator Program we participated in. Us showcasing at GG Bavaria and gamescom? Thanks to them! 🤩

Values such as diversity, anti-discrimination and a harassment-free work environment are still not as self-explanatory as we would wish them to be. That's why we put our name on the list of the initiative hier-spielt-vielfalt.de. Showing colors is becoming more important every day in these times. 🏳️‍🌈🎮

Morgen ist es soweit ich freue mich schon auf euch.

We got so much nice feedback from our booth visitors when we exhibited Waters of Sal Naména for the first time at the GG Bavaria in Munich. 😊 We wanna share some more quotes with you! 💚 #feedbackfriday

Today's #ShowcaseSunday: the unusual job simulator game "That's not my Neighbor". It combines the popular gameplay concept of Lucas Pope's "Papers, Please" (2013) with humor, horror and bizarre aesthetics and was entirely developed in Godot 4.

(Screenshots by Nachosama Games)

It's #TreasureTuesday and today's pick is one of Programmer Michelle's favourite game series: Portal - the iconic puzzle and platform games with one of the best antagonists ever. Have you played it?
(Logo, Art & Screenshots by Valve Corporation)

Featuring this #ShowcaseSunday: Our main co-working tool Nextcloud! We built our own custom workshop aided by the integrated app store: messenger, mail, tasks, video calls, calender, contacts, files and many more. And ofc: It's all open source! We love our cloud! 🥰
Maybe you'd too: nextcloud.com/de

Blue Ocean Games wrapped up its Rising Tide Challenge: We weren't chosen as one of the winners, but we placed in the top quarter and we're pretty happy with that result for there were some pretty awesome entries. 🥰 We are eager to compete again with a better trailer and rank even higher next time!

Weiße Grafik mit rosa Rand und großem Text: „So bringst du dein Game auf Erfolgskurs“, wobei „dein Game“ rosa hinterlegt ist. Unten rechts das Logo des Accelerators: Level Up – Der Games/Bavaria Accelerator mit stilisiertem Aufwärtspfeil.

Türkise Kachel mit weißer „1“ und Glühbirnen-Symbol oben. Text: „Hab eine starke Spielidee“ Darunter: „Etwas, das du mit Leidenschaft entwickelst – und das andere begeistern kann.“

Rosa Kachel mit weißer „2“. Text: „Werde Teil von Level Up“ Darunter: „Bewirb dich beim Games/Bavaria-Accelerator.“ Das Level-Up-Logo ist mittig eingefügt.

Türkise Kachel mit weißer „3“. Text: „Versteh dein Spiel und dein Publikum“ Darunter: „Genre, Plattform, Markt: Kenne deine Stärken und deine Zielgruppe.“

🎮 So bringst du dein Game auf Erfolgskurs – in 6 Schritten.

LEVEL UP, der Games/Bavaria-Accelerator, begleitet dich mit Mentoring, Netzwerk & Know-how.

🚀 Bewirb dich jetzt – Frist verlängert bis 6. Juli 2025!

👉 games-bavaria.com/level-up

✨Next Indie Outpost Nuremberg: July 7th, 6 pm ✨
With talks from:
- Johanna Czerny: about localisation in Games
- Jascha Gerhardt: about the craft of concept art
As always, the talks are followed by pizza and drinks, sponsored by @cipsoftgmbh.bsky.social and @gamesbavaria.bsky.social

🌊 DAY 8 of public voting for the #RisingTideChallenge and we're still discovering hidden gems in these 1000+ submissions!

Blue Ocean Games is taking a different approach - every vote validates concepts that traditional funding might overlook.

9 days left to shape the future - blueoceangames.com

(Screenshots: Lucas Pope, 3909 LLC)

Time for another #TreasureTuesday, where we present games and other stuff that shaped us and brought us to game dev.
Today's Turn: Robin (Narration & Management) with Return of the Obra Dinn (2018). A metroidbrainia-like murder mystery on an old sailing ship. Beautiful art style. Captivating OST.🎶⚓

Rosafarbene Grafik mit dem Titel: 'LEVEL UP geht in die zweite Runde'. Darunter der Hinweis: 'Jetzt bewerben!' Rechts oben Banderole mit dem Text: 'Der Games/Bavaria-Accelerator'. Links unten Banderole mit dem Text: 'Deadline: 30. Juni 2025'. Oberhalb des Titels oben befindet sich das Logo von Level Up: zwei stilisierte Buttons mit einem aufwärts zeigenden Pfeil dazwischen. Unten rechts ist das Logo von Games/Bavaria zu sehen.

Indie-Devs aufgepasst: Unser Accelerator LEVEL UP geht in die zweite Runde!

Du willst dein Game auf ein neues Level bringen? Bewirb dich für 6 Monate Workshops, Coachings, Feedback & Netzwerk.

🗓 Bewerbung bis 30.6., Start: August 2025

🔗 Infos & Bewerbung: www.games-bavaria.com/level-up-der...

The Rising Tide Challenge is now
🌊OPEN for public voting🌊

For the past month, thousands of indie devs from around the world have been working on concept trailers for their dream games. Now they need YOU to validate their concepts for a chance to win up to $300k in funding!

Could be chilling at the beach right now… but instead, it’s all about the grind at the Blue Ocean Rising Tide Challenge! 🌊
Voting just started, and this first week really matters — Your support shapes what’s next on the gaming horizon! 🫵
#watersofsalnamena #blueoceangames #risingtidechallenge

🚨 The #RisingTideChallenge by @blueoceangames.bsky.social is live! 🌊 Cast your vote and join our raffle by spotting our trailer! 🎥👾 More info on Discord: discord.gg/sPpPyP7cff
Rising Tide Challenge: blueoceangames.com?referrer=38c...
#gaming #WatersOfSalNamena #Metroidbrainia #PixelArt #RTC #games