Pierrec - Wednesdays

30 Birds and Wednesdays are nominated for the @indiegameawards.gg!

Congratulation @coline-ramram.bsky.social and @wednesdays-game.bsky.social ✨

See you on Dec 18th for the final event 👀

S19E13 - Se jouer du réel, avec Leslie Astier, Pierre Corbinais et Emeric Thoa | Silence on joue !

Si vous avez raté notre table ronde avec @lesli-e.bsky.social et @emericthoa.bsky.social à @silenceonjoue.bsky.social, vous pouvez la réécouter par ici! shows.acast.com/silence-on-j...

HORSES cover with a banned from Steam logo

Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Someone sent us this
Apparently you can vote for Wednesdays for the "outstanding story-rich game" steam award
How cool is that?

Game developer Stanley loved playing The Sims as a child, not because of what happens in the game but because, in simulating life, it allowed him to concoct his own narratives for the varied characters within its fantasy world. One Games Design & Production BSc later, Stanley has been channelling that love for storytelling into his own authored games. Creating the writing, art, coding and almost everything else himself, often on the micro-est of microbudgets. Stanley’s breakthrough project, LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST (2024), is as provocative and explicit in discourse as it is in title. A beautifully written, transgressive work of interactive fiction, it leans into Stanley’s own experiences of the trans masculine and online space and its multi-layered narrative earned him the 2024 New Media Writing Prize. He’s currently a PhD student at the University of Salford and working on his next solo game, CHILDREN OF HELL. In their own words… “Because I’m trans, I thought I would be overlooked for BAFTA Breakthrough, because we always are, but I decided to do the application anyway. I didn’t think it would go anywhere, and now it’s a reality I want to make the most of it. But I want to stress how I am, in many ways, an exception. I wanted to strike out and do my own thing against what the mainstream is doing, and I was just fortunate enough to be born middle class and have a support network that let me do that. We should be here and we’re often not, especially because we’re making weirder, more experimental games than mainstream gaming, and hopefully I can champion and elevate the people who brought me here. That’s how I want to make the most of it.”

hi everyone. while the industry's still hellbent on calling anyone who makes /weird/ games "not a real dev" @baftagames.bsky.social decided that maybe people making things with three quid and a piece of string know what they're talking about, actually

i'm part of bafta breakthrough 2025

LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST by LITHOBREAKERS SEXTUPLE L

and you might be asking, stan, haven't you not worked at a studio in over a year (because no one can get a job anymore)? what could you possibly have done to get onto breakthrough?

this lithobreakers.itch.io/latex-leathe...

Wednesdays - Wednesdays is at Steam Awards 2025 - Steam News Check the Outstanding Story-Rich and Outstanding Visual Style Categories!

Mandatory post about asking you to help nominate Wednesdays at the Steam Awards (we went with outstanding story-rich game in our post but any help is welcome):
store.steampowered.com/news/app/274...
Didn't write a single word of it so I can say it: it's the best written thing you'll play this year.

A Week in the Life of Asocial Giraffe on Steam A Week in the Life of Asocial Giraffe is a point-and-click adventure game about a Giraffe attempting to live his day-to-day life while not talking to anyone.

A Week in the Life of Asocial Giraffe was pretty funny too, I wonder how far they can go with this idea (a point and click where the goal is to NOT talk to anyone) store.steampowered.com/app/3071440/...

Panthalassa on Steam Panthalassa is a Point and click and visual novel set in an underwater alien world. You play as an AI trying to uncover the memories of their body's previous owner. The game makes you experience the w...

Panthalassa by @meiacalca.bsky.social also was very intriguing. Keep an eye on this! store.steampowered.com/app/2955720/...

DOLOS: Your Best Future on Steam A sci-fi political thriller. Live the life of an operator of DOLOS, a social regulation system predicting everyone's future. Analyze applicants' profiles and decide about their lifetime career. Apply ...

DOLOS by @dolos-inc.bsky.social
Honestly the demo was A LOT and it took me some time to figure everything out, but that made me feel clever and eager to play some more
store.steampowered.com/app/2371240/...

Chance's Lucky Escape for Playdate Chance, the luckiest dog in the world, is called to the rescue by the evil genius, Snowball. But on the way, to his misfortune, a tire on his car bursts. Stopped in the middle of the fast lane, pursu...

Chance's Lucky Escape by @golosogames.bsky.social
& @juliaminamata.bsky.social
If you've got a playdate (I don't) this one seems like a must have! But it will also be released on pc eventually play.date/games/chance...

(Don't get me wrong, I love The Case of The Golden Idol, I love it despite the fact that I don't like its graphics nor its story, THAT's how good it is)

City of Voices on Steam A short Golden Idol-like deduction game about a young girl who is catapulted from her suburban life into the mysterious world of the ancient Maya. Investigate a series of moments frozen in time. Exami...

City of Voices Kini Games by @kinigames.bsky.social & @mattfrith.bsky.social
The Case of The Golden Idol, but pretty, and with a story I actually care about.
store.steampowered.com/app/3342470/...

Frieda is Changing on Steam Frieda’s fourteen, furious, and sick of secrets. Uncover the real reason for your sister’s disappearance: Snoop through an isolated village, crack puzzles and stir up trouble. But hurry - monsters are...

Frieda is Changing, by @mucksgames.com Frieda has hit puberty. Also her sister has disapeared. And her parents don't want to talk about it? Honestly I'm not sure where this is going but it is really stylish and an instant wishlist
store.steampowered.com/app/2802730/...

The Midnight Barber on Steam A narrative ASMR adventure about a supernatural barbershop in late 70s Barcelona. Trim and style your supernatural clientele, gain their trust, and uncover their darkest secrets.

The Midnight Barber, by @omaetgames.bsky.social
Coffee Talk, but it's at a vampire barber shop in Barcelona, and also it's a rythm game?
Sound weirds. Feels great!
store.steampowered.com/app/2809250/...

The Dark Queen of Mortholme on Steam You are the final boss, the Dark Queen of Mortholme, unrivaled in power. A hero invades and is easily crushed. Yet, they keep returning. A short-form indie game about an unusual bond, perspectives, an...

Here are a few of my favorite games from @adventurex.bsky.social (keep in mind I haven't played them all):

The Dark Queen of Mortholme
Clever idea, great dialogues, I only played 5mn and I want more (lucky me: it's out!)
store.steampowered.com/app/3587610/...

These are the games that I loved this year so far. I am a person of simple tastes.

I'm buying the Valuable Vial of Viral Venom #DiceTheDemiurge

I don't have the strength to watch it, but our (me+ @thepixelhunt.bsky.social )talk at @adventurex.bsky.social titled "The Delicate Art of Making Depressing Game" is already on youtube!
Some people told me it was good
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAIp...

Haven est un autre exemple cool dans le style (avec du doublage !)
youtu.be/CRdXuQAq7tA?...

Someone sent us this
Apparently you can vote for Wednesdays for the "outstanding story-rich game" steam award
How cool is that?

The AdventureX 2025 key art featuring characters from notable adventure video games from the last year or so.

I'm at the airport waiting for my flight home from AdventureX 2025, so here's a thread of the games that were exhibited at this year's event.

Yesterday, @adventurex.bsky.social was mad enough to give @wednesdays-game.bsky.social and I (Florent) the floor, letting us spend a full 30 minutes trying to depress an otherwise awesome, sweet and enthusiastic crowd of gamedevs and games enthusiasts. Having spaces like that is priceless.

It was the joke I was refering to haha

Twitch Twitch is the world

Next up! The Delicate Art of Making Depressing Games with Florent Maurin & @wednesdays-game.bsky.social

💜 www.twitch.tv/adventurexpo/
🔴 www.youtube.com/@AdventureX

Out Of Index - Experimental Game Festival OOI is an experimental game festival in South Korea. The goal of the festival is to inspire the game industry with new ideas and experimental energy.

Atuel will be at Out of Index 2025 in Seoul, Korea in December! 🎉🙌✨

Out of Index is an experimental games festival that focuses on "the ideas and experiments of game creators, rather than on the popularity or marketability of their games."

www.outofindex.org

a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

I didn't realize what day it was yesterday when I had to remind my mother for the third time that I was sexually abused and who did it. For the third time. Because she just forgets I ever say this. Being heard is the hard part.

This is incredibly important. I'll gather the courage to play soon.

Nichole Goodnight (The Princess from Slay The Princess) played Wednesdays last night ❤️
Here's the VOD if, like me, you were busy sleeping 😴
m.twitch.tv/videos/26237...