Josh Galecki

@tinymassgames.bsky.social has completed another season and with it - another round of releases!
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Here's a little thread of the games that released as part of our latest season - Season 10! 🧵

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Latest culinary obsession: kielbasa and kimchi. The kimchi works like a spicy, better-tasting sauerkraut. Love it.

Something I've got in the hopper - a tiny 16 pixel x 9 pixel rhythm-based dungeon crawler. Part of Season 10 of Tiny Mass Games!

Thank you to everyone who came out to watch my first play session of the full release of Neongarten! @jgalecki.bsky.social, you put together one hell of a game!

Save 10% on Neongarten on Steam A minimalist cyberpunk city builder inspired by Islanders and Luck Be a Landlord.

The game is out at store.steampowered.com/app/3211750/...

Neongarten has been released! Come check out my cozy little cyberpunk city builder, where the food is 99% guaranteed to be free of dolphins and people.

Neongarten — Pixelated Playgrounds Have you ever wanted to play a turn-based city builder that’s inspired by Luck be a Landlord and Islanders ? That’s drenched in a stylish cyberpunk aesthetic and boasts intricate tactical depth? On...

Neongarten releases in three days! To celebrate, my podcast (Pixelated Playgrounds) did an episode covering the game. It was fun to chat with @bsushi.bsky.social and do a deep dive on my own work. Check it out! www.pixelatedplaygrounds.com/bookclub/neo...

Neongarten is releasing in ONE WEEK on April 22nd! Check out the best cyberpunk citybuilder ever made*! (*of games by me.)

Warped Door is doing great work looking at interesting games you otherwise wouldn't have heard of. Check them out!

YouTube video by Moonroof Studios Neongarten Gameplay Trailer V

New trailer for Neongarten! This shows off the new building models and the great new lighting / art direction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx1E...

Next up, we have some of the Corporate buildings and a few of the more pleasant parks. The Corporate buildings were all designed based off of the Art Deco art style, like the Niagara Mohawk building in Syracuse. Meanwhile, the parks include my favorite dystopian building name: "An Actual Tree".

Neongarten has gone through a huge art upgrade, and now the dystopian future is 200% prettier. I'll be showing off the new art over the next few days.

Starting out, we have some lovely apartments next to your typical futuristic factories, making oil, food paste, and thousands of tiny spider robots.

Beneath a Dead City, a colony sim / story generator is now out on itch! I'm far from done with it, though - I've got lots of great ideas where to go with its dynamic storytelling. Cool ideas from DotAGE, Dungeon World, and Sunless Seas.

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One of my top 10 this year. A gem.

Winter Sale Explorer

We created an interactive guide to the Steam Winter Sale: wintersaleexplorer.com

And with one more game to be added by the end of the year :)

A comparison of the art in Within a Dead City and Beneath a Dead City. The same 3 x 3 tiles are much larger in Beneath a Dead City.

Beneath a Dead City is a sorta-sequel to Within a Dead City. I've expanded the game so much that it's changed genres, haha. WaDC was a fast-paced Majesty tribute - more of an RTS, really - and BaDC is going full-blown colony sim.

The art is getting an upgrade, too.

Concept art showing eight boxes different buildings types and factions in Neongarten: Residential, commercial, industrial, and park; and neutral, corporate, illegal, volt cult, and government.

Neongarten is getting an artistic helping hand. Here's some concept art to give you an idea of what's coming down the line! My old buildings are in the top left corners of each box - at least they served as inspiration for the sweet new digs, haha.

Had a lot of fun with this one! Highly recommend.

Everything's always a priority, can't even die in peace here.

(The logic behind this is that other heroes can now do a Rescue job on the dying hero, if they don't take too long to rescue the poor dude. The Dying job keeps the hero from just going about their business while at death's door.)

Game dev is weird. I just coded up a new job for the heroes to do: Dying. Also, it's always a priority job!

Looking forward to the release!

A gif of a radial action menu opening up in the game Beneath a Dead City.

Made a radial context menu and gave it some juice. Just a bit more work to go on that!

This was a fun and fast-paced arena shooter! Definitely worth checking out.

I also do pixels.

A gif of the game Beneath a Dead City, in active development. Here, the entire city is on fire.

Season 8 of Tiny Mass is going great! Nothing to worry about here.