Michele Pirovano - making Dotage's Avatar

Michele Pirovano - making Dotage

@dotage.bsky.social

Indie gamedev, gameplay engineer, PhD, making a game about a grumpy village elder

4,280 Followers  |  100 Following  |  428 Posts  |  Joined: 03.07.2023  |  1.8239

Latest posts by dotage.bsky.social on Bluesky

Ok my balance tools tell me that animals do not produce manure with enough probability. Good to know, good to know.

07.10.2025 10:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love the smell of balance spreadsheets in the morning

06.10.2025 07:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Hello Elders!

This is just a quick post to celebrate with you all the second birthday of dotAGE! It has already been two years since release!

Thank you to everybody who purchased the game and all players who made this a reality!

04.10.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Hello Elders!

This is just a quick post to celebrate with you all the second birthday of dotAGE! It has already been two years since release!

Thank you to everybody who purchased the game and all players who made this a reality!

04.10.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
dotAGE - 1.8 - The Recall Update is live! - Steam News Hello Elders, This is it, the Recall Update is now out on Steam and GoG! Go play it! Soon also on Switch, as soon as the patch gets accepted! Thanks to everybody who gave feedback on the update during...

The Recall Update 1.8 is live on Steam and GoG!
- Recalls: a feature to re-select Buildings in the tree
- Starting village boons!
- Custom game modifiers!
- Research Previews and Research Queuing!
- Balance & Fixes
Have fun!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/638...

18.09.2025 11:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Version 1.8 (now on experimental) adds a new Boon choice step, at the start of each village!
This spices up early game, trying to make each village more unique from the start! New boons favour fishing, harvesting, and making many Pips!

15.09.2025 11:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Just got sent this by a player, love how the achievements already tell you a lot about the story! Congratulations!

10.09.2025 06:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
dotAGE - The Recall Update 1.8 is now on the experimental branch! - Steam News Hello Elders, Welcome back! After some vacation time, I'm excited to bring dotAGE to new heights with the next updates! Let's first take a look again at the current roadmap: We now are coming close to...

Hello Elders! Version 1.8 is now on experimental, with some cool changes!
- A Recall mechanic to re-roll buildings!
- Starting Boons to spice up early game!
- 'Clairvoyance' mode with whole tree visible!
- 'Infinite Recall' mode to select all buildings!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/638...

08.09.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

I'm back from vacation elders!!!

Which means that I'm releasing the new update soon! Time for a sneak peak of a cool new mechanic! :D

Enter the Recalls!! Soon on experimental with many more changes for 1.8, I'll be hinting at all the rest these days :)

05.09.2025 09:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Here's a cat litter in the meantime

01.08.2025 07:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Nightwatchers DLC is OUT NOW on PC, along with the Commons Update (1.8)!

Nightwatchers adds a new playable species, two new biomes, new world events, modifiers, buildings, mechanics, cornerstones, deeds, and more!

Re-share to help us spread the word! โค

Links and more info below โคต

31.07.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 64    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
Post image

It's bot name appreciation day, where I look at bot names and nod with a smirk!

31.07.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have fun! The game will be discounted up to the 10th of August so you are good!

29.07.2025 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My pleasure! I love dotAGE too!

29.07.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh yes house first!

29.07.2025 13:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Steam :: dotAGE :: v 1.7.2 and news about the Research Update! Hello Elders! I hope you are having a great summer, with as few burning Pips as possible! I just pushed patch 1.7.2 with some UX changes and more fixes, as always, thank you very much for the feedback...

Hope you are having a great summer! I just pushed a small update (1.7.2) with some small UX changes and new fixes, but I also wanted to share more about the work I'm doing under the hood! Here is a sneak preview on the Research Update coming this September. Happy vacation everybody!

29.07.2025 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I like to hold the kitchen knife like the right one

24.07.2025 08:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

Ok I've been revising other parts of the Agepedia, I'm moving all Elder details to separate areas as the new elders had a LONG list of stuff!
Much cleaner isn't it?

15.07.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The great devs at Eremite Games are at it again!!! Very excited about the new DLC, good luck on the release!

12.07.2025 06:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh I'm already halfway there with the grumpiness!!!

30.06.2025 08:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Hello everybody! How is it going? I've been quite busy with life lately (also trying to solve my workaholism problem) while working on the next update for after the summer focusing on improving the Research Tree, I'll be sharing some cool stuff in the coming weeks!

30.06.2025 07:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

1.7 is live on @gog.com!
Very happy to see this before the long weekend! ๐Ÿฅณ

05.06.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
dotAGE - dotAGE 1.7 - The Hyper Update! - Steam News Hello Elders, Version 1.7 is now up on the main branch, thank you for your feedback! We did some changes during the experimental period, let's see what new QoL features I added! Hyperlinks As I antici...

Hello Elders! dotAGE is part of the #TurnBasedThursdayFest for this week, with many discounted games!

And I just dropped QoL update 1.7 too!

- Hyperlinks in the Agepedia
- New and improved settings
- Advanced contextual actions
- Balance & Fixes

tinyurl.com/4nk3548s

02.06.2025 08:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Post image

Here is the new roadmap!!!

19.05.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
dotAGE - New Roadmap & Upcoming 1.7! - Steam News Hello Elders, First of all, let me thank you for your continued enthusiasm for Folkways! I am happy that many of you are enjoying all the new mechanics, events, and buildings introduced in the DLC. I ...

Hello elders! I have great news today!
- Version 1.7 is up on experimental with many QoL features!
- The Agepedia now has hyperlinks everywhere!
- Folkways is coming to Switch & GoG this week
- A new roadmap is here that shows what I'll be working on!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/638...

19.05.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Post image

I always wanted to add hyperlinking to the game... and so here we are, coming soon!

07.05.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

I swear adding a Vegan achievement to the game was the best choice that made dotAGE's emergent narrative flourish

28.04.2025 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Let's delve into cool stuff from the new Folkways DLC! Dad is one of the new elders, and he has one cool caveat: he can *work* like a bonus Pip! He also has a special icon in the UI where you can see whether he's busy or not!

24.04.2025 08:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Im reading the book in this moment don't do this to me it's scary

23.04.2025 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

This is what happens when you go into exile working on your game for 8 years!

22.04.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@dotage is following 19 prominent accounts