Gabriel Koenig

Wow, you've been cool for such a long time!

I love the vibe of the game audio overall. Feels good and retro from my fondest N64 days. Props to those responsible.

This kind of rotation stuff is always the worst part of development (until I get to porting to console). Good luck!

Cool! Are you making the tapes yourself? What's your process?

Really nice! Could have listened for 30 minutes easy.

For sure. Being zero-budget indie for so long I just have no sense of how much it costs to make games on the next level up. If I suddenly had a budget I'd probably have no idea how to manage it.

As someone who made about 10k last year I'm always floored by what affordable means in the creative industry. But maybe I just need to get a 'proper' job.

Having done some room modelling for a side-project recently, I can definitely say I wish I could afford someone to create reference drawings like this. I would draw it myself but my brain just doesn't work this way.

This is me, but for years now I've mostly been hooked on Zevia soda. Usually only on weekends, but for special occasions I will also allow weekday sipping. Treats like this make my world go round.

Wow, feels like I somehow haven't looked at the game since you were still doing early prototyping and it looks so complete and amazing. Very happy for you and your team!

True Stories (film) - Wikipedia

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It's full of talking heads music, but the lovely oddball style of the film might be enough to turn you.

It almost sounds like they LOTR'd too hard, but in the wrong way, because I never saw a toilet in any of those movies, and I don't even recall Tolkien ever mentioning one.

Test Tube Titans Unofficial OST, by Gabriel Koenig 68 track album

Turns out I made a lot of music for Test Tube Titans, but never released any of it. Five years later - here it is. gabrielkoenig.bandcamp.com/album/test-t...

It's bandcamp Friday tomorrow, and I'll be donating any sales from that window to support Palestinian people. Free Palestine.

Test Tube Titans Unofficial OST, by Gabriel Koenig 68 track album

Turns out I made a lot of music for Test Tube Titans, but never released any of it. Five years later - here it is. gabrielkoenig.bandcamp.com/album/test-t...

It's bandcamp Friday tomorrow, and I'll be donating any sales from that window to support Palestinian people. Free Palestine.

I really wanted to go deeper into Blue Prince, but I started dreaming about it in the worst way possible (repetitive tedium dreams) so I haven't dared go back to it since then because I know I'll get sucked in again.

You also won't ever go viral in a small discord server, which means it changes the way you think about what you share, and for me that's maybe one of the biggest benefits.

+1 for discords

I have a few that are very small to bring together friends from different places. Not a ton of action, but it's a very safe place to share.

I also don't ever feel like I'm sharing too much, which is very nice. I have a tough time posting on public social sites these days.

Sure! Thank you!

Oh that would be video games? Not once have I been proud of my game skills when compared to someone who plays less games than me. Don't mean to shame anyone who is good at video games, but for me all I can think of is how I could have been better at something more meaningful.

I've listened a number of times now and really love this one. Farewell Sea Friend is giving me some Drexciya vibes - makes sense with the maritime theme I guess.

I think it's worth normalizing talking about pooping. Keep it up!

I've developed a Friday evening ritual which involves getting stoned, eating cheezies with a sugar-free soda, then making nachos, and then some combo of movie/video games. It doesn't sound like much, but it's a powerful reset, and I look forward to it all week. I love a good ritual.

Oh rad, thanks for sharing. This should make for some good research for me as well.

Hello, @albertbirney.bsky.social and I are here too :D

Admittedly, I judged it much more as a film than a piece of art - it was difficult not to. I think I can also be hypercritical of procedural systems when I feel they lack effective and meaningful integration, largely because I've made those mistakes plenty myself.

Based on the format, I might have liked it to be more focused on the idea of creating using procedural systems and that specific process. There were too many scenes that felt tangential and belonged in a more linear biographical piece.

I watched one full screening and then tuned in to pieces of others. We had a household discussion afterwards and kind of came down hard on it in the end. It's an interesting experiment, but as a film/narrative the lack of direction really bothered me. I thought the content could have been tighter.

I’m sure of it Microwaves are just portals To hell How else do you think the food Gets so damn hot I just wish you there was A microwave Big enough for me So I could go home already

I hosted a poem-writing party with a group of friends and it ended up being incredibly fun. Highly recommended. Here’s one of my favourites that I wrote.

All your characters are frightening in their own way, but somehow this one might be the scariest of all...

I'm glad to hear the sale got some new eyes on the game! So hard to convey what the game really is - we need more people taking chances on it like this.