Nemo

I wanna run my fingers over this game.

That twist on the hard turns is so good

Absolutely.
Though even this framing seems to give many of these guys too much credit.

There’s “I’m willing to tolerate terrible things to get what I want”.

And then there’s “A space where terrible things are tolerated IS what I want.”

Enjoy some Fritz Baumgarten, the king of Little Guys.

I have a shelved game idea that’s a direct homage. In a “Cobbler and Elves” cycle you play a hedge witch in the day, growing a garden for remedies, and at night you guide the Little Guys who live there.

Programmers weren’t into it 🤷

Spreading the good word.
Everything is so delightfully procedural!
I guess when just getting an image to the screen was an elaborate shader trick, what’s a few more to make the cybercouple blend into each other in a psychedelic vortex.

Slept naked. Forgot my REM shirt at the water’s edge.

Games in pre-alpha

Take care of yourself.
This stranger on the internet hopes we get to keep reading, at whatever pace you care to share it.

Read Charger County!

Pick it up for the punchy, expressive style!

Stay for the tension looming between fragile teen friendships and pent-up teen self-determination!

Charming!

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Screenshot of the TrueRef Gesture Tool.

Remember, the TrueRef timed gesture tool is 100% free!
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Thank the idiosyncratic heavens!
This is the art my soul needs.

Pretty happy with this stylized flame shader!
It's just a fancy billboard, which lets me apply directional wind and faux 3D scaling while keeping it stylized.
The flame and smoke are part of a single shader, so that values like wind and intensity can affect them both consistently.
#indiedev
#techart

Gotta set the right tone when you're throwing a cannibal cult party!

Pretty happy with this stylized flame shader!
It's just a fancy billboard, which lets me apply directional wind and faux 3D scaling while keeping it stylized.
The flame and smoke are part of a single shader, so that values like wind and intensity can affect them both consistently.
#indiedev
#techart

Was the French title any better?
“Mars Express” ends up making sense to the plot, but a title that sounds like generic public transit really undersold the themes.

Haha, yeah! Though they seem to keep the puzzling pretty separate from the world (as we have!).

I’m intrigued by how Mythmatch integrates the puzzling in the world, a thing we tried a few times and bailed on as being A Huge Design Mess. Using the generous merge format there is a smart choice.

Seeing a game with a similar premise to your own is like visiting a Sliding Doors alternate universe.

Puzzle Wizards is multiplayer, and that one big choice shoved us away from so much of the satisfying single-player crafting progression Mythmatch is doing here.

It looks so good!

#indiedev

You know a concept is great when you're surprised you haven't seen it before.

"Oldschool PC dungeoncrawler in the style of oldschool TTRPG manual" is extremely good.

And deeply ironic from the guys whose whole plan is to deport the only people who actually are trying to gain citizenship.

Sneaking into a trophy room. This estate marinates the victims in blood for extra juice.

Every would-be victim you rescue joins your resistance as a playable. So rescuing them isn't just heroic, it's also a practical need for when your current character inevitably falls to The Feast.

#indiegame

We'll need a round of playtesting soon!

Sneaking into a trophy room. This estate marinates the victims in blood for extra juice.

Every would-be victim you rescue joins your resistance as a playable. So rescuing them isn't just heroic, it's also a practical need for when your current character inevitably falls to The Feast.

#indiegame

I should start sharing some images from The Feast, our survival horror labor of love

#indiegame

TRAILER TIME! Here is a VERY brief teaser trailer for my new animated short film, 'DUCKS'

Concept, Design and Animation : AJ Jefferies
Music and Sound Design : Megalithic Sound

#art #animation #shortfilm #ducks #trailer

A dark and spooky entrance to the grounds of an ominous manor. Its high windows glow from within. At the gate in the middleground, two hooded figures with lanterns made of human heads peer into the night. In the foreground, a woman in a gown crouches behind a prisoner carriage. She is facing the manor, ready to brave what lies within.

I should also use alt text!

Here's the same image of the approach to one of the ritual estates of The Feast, now with alt text.

A key shot of The Feast showing one of our nefarious aristocrats offering up a new victim for their cannibal ritual.

...a little artificial, since we don't yet have a system for squeezing up against cover like this, but this shot is my stake in the ground to get that feature in :)

#indiegame

I should start sharing some images from The Feast, our survival horror labor of love

#indiegame

I was very confused by this too.

Then I noticed:
There’s a VERY subtle break in your Follow feed that says something like “There are no new posts from your follows: below is your Discover feed.”

So maybe you’re in the same position of noticing the difference, but not noticing that break?