Nathalie Lawhead

Nathalie Lawhead

@alienmelon.bsky.social

i make experimental games, net-art, and software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia… 🔥 http://tetrageddon.com 🦄 http://unicornycopia.com 🐘 alienmelon@mastodon.social 🌈 they/them ⭐️🦜 (nonbinary, bi)

7,984 Followers 596 Following 3,405 Posts Joined Apr 2023
1 week ago
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"she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died"
is now available on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/4430780/...
You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil.
Explore brutalist ruins to collect memories of a dead world.
🥀
#GameDev #IndieGame

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Web 1.0 Hosting
web1.0hosting.net
"an advanced static hosting with some predefined most necessary ready-made scripts, a smallweb project that makes it possible to access static websites from old devices ... as part of an initiative to save the old web and support the smallweb movement."

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11 hours ago

less fear of missing out and more…
confidence of missing out.
like: “you want me to go to *that* what do you think i am? some sort of basic b-?” 💅✨

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11 hours ago
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she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died on Steam "The very last flower grew in concrete. She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." A short interactive poetry experience, and science fiction, about the end. Exp...

yes here store.steampowered.com/app/4430780/...
should also be on the epic store today if i set the release time right lol

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1 day ago
“Exploring brutalist ruins and collecting memories feels like walking through the remnants of a dying world the poetic atmosphere and haunting visuals make it a beautiful sorrowful journey I might need”

yay 🎉✨ at least one of the curators that asked for a key was actually a legitimate curator and liked “she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died” steamcommunity.com/groups/Indie...
doing a little happy dance every time someone says they liked it 💕🥰😌

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1 day ago
YouTube
Let's Play Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within YouTube video by Dia Lacina

Oh is it time for a reminder that you can watch @shirokumahi.me and I play through one of the greatest games of all time right here in one big video? Seems like it...

youtu.be/T7qwFEtWstI?...

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1 day ago

🥲🥰💕🌼🙏 i'm just... it means a lot to hear people say this. i think i put everything into this game poem.

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1 day ago
“Exploring brutalist ruins and collecting memories feels like walking through the remnants of a dying world the poetic atmosphere and haunting visuals make it a beautiful sorrowful journey I might need”

yay 🎉✨ at least one of the curators that asked for a key was actually a legitimate curator and liked “she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died” steamcommunity.com/groups/Indie...
doing a little happy dance every time someone says they liked it 💕🥰😌

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2 days ago

ok i needed it for the Epic store but it has a website now!
fwiw -> bluesuburbia.com/flower/
i'm always amazed by all the little things you need between these different storefronts.
publishing your game is almost as much work as finishing your game lol #GameDev
(⊙_⊙;)

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2 days ago
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The most Cursed Controllers in my collection YouTube video by Alien Bob

Hey, pssst, you like weird controllers?

youtu.be/dRyPY4T8NTc

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I just open-sourced a real-time datamosh CompositorEffect for Godot 4.4+ using motion vectors and temporal accumulation. Demo scene and presets included.

github.com/goosegarden/...

#Godot #gamedev

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🥲🥰💕🌼🙏 i'm just... it means a lot to hear people say this. i think i put everything into this game poem.

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3 days ago
Get your game features! Application link to submit your LGBTQ+ game to the Pride Parade, showing as part of the Summer Games Fest.

GAME DEVS!!!

Want to submit your game for the Pride Parade during the SUMMER GAME FEST? This is the spiritual successor to my Season of Pride annual campaign I did for half a decade.

Learn more and submit here:
gaymingfoundation.org/prideatsgf

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2 days ago

Electric Zine Maker beloved you are the only tool in the world for me i love you i love you i love you

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2 days ago

congratulations!! 🎉🎈🍾
(and my sincerest condolences, whichever you need more)

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2 days ago

ok i needed it for the Epic store but it has a website now!
fwiw -> bluesuburbia.com/flower/
i'm always amazed by all the little things you need between these different storefronts.
publishing your game is almost as much work as finishing your game lol #GameDev
(⊙_⊙;)

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2 days ago

i thought it was a happy hill but now that you point it out it does read as taco 🤔

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2 days ago

omg do iiit!! 🎉 this program is special. it encapsulates so much of what makes digital art tools unique. i hope more people discover it.

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2 days ago
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MOSS — A Painting Toy Where Every Brush Is a Tiny Program A 128x128 pixel canvas with programmable brushes. Code a brush, see what it does, share it with your friends.

Paint with MOSS
www.moss.town
MOSS is a painting toy where every brush is a tiny program.

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3 days ago

🤭 someone left a Steam review saying “beautiful game” and i gave it the “beautiful” 🌼 award.
wholesome awarding: they walked right into that one.

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2 days ago
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GitHub - alienmelon/straycat.js: A simple javascript file that makes your website appealing to stray internet cats. A simple javascript file that makes your website appealing to stray internet cats. - alienmelon/straycat.js

best github software
https://github.com/alienmelon/straycat.js

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2 days ago

this piece is my first challenge to create a short and abstract experience evokes specific slice of life feelings, which is inspired by the recent amazing works in the game poems scenes. how is my haiku vibes?

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2 days ago
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Hi !

I made another side project: It's called Paradraw !

It's a tiny web app to draw picture with a parallax effect !
I made it in just a few day to test VueJS.

Check it out !

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3 days ago

It gets dangerously close to approaching the idea that maybe too much emphasis is put on money spent/earned when it comes to determining which games (or I suppose most things) are important.

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3 days ago

🤭 someone left a Steam review saying “beautiful game” and i gave it the “beautiful” 🌼 award.
wholesome awarding: they walked right into that one.

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4 days ago
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she danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died

Jueguito-poema de ciencia ficción ubicado en unas ruinas brutalistas de un mundo ya muerto.

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3 days ago

when a random stranger contacts you to tell you how much your game meant to them 🥹🥲💕✨🙏

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1 month ago
a screenshot of a long winding brutalist staircase. there is a poem written on the wall. light comes through the windows. paint splats are on the stairs. a screenshot of a tree that looks like a human bowing. the tree is large and covered in dandelion whisps. there is a poem at the base of the screen. a screenshot looking up at old brutalist buildings. the buildings are abandoned. a screenshot of a desert filled with dead trees. the dead trees almost look human. there is a poem at the base of the screen.

🌼My new game is here!🥀
"She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died."
alienmelon.itch.io/flower
A game poem and interactive fiction about The End.
You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil.
#IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

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4 days ago

i’m amazed that it’s just been accepted as gaming culture and if you don’t like it then you’re not cut out for games. even people who don’t play games have the view that gaming is like this…
it’s so normal it’s not even questioned. if you challenge it THEN that’s actually considered controversial.

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4 days ago

how in the world does so much awful get normalized and passed off as just part of being here?
lol i'm tired of hearing the semi-excuses of "oh that's just THAT group, THEY do that, just ignore"... it's everywhere!
...but ok. i did it. we'll see what happens (probably nothing, but at least i tried!)

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