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If you have customised your #Godot theme, do you get a weird flicker when hovering over various areas of the GUI?

Also a great, quick read on postcolonialism in game design whynotgames.in/2023/02/11/g...

Decolonizing Play: Exploring Frameworks for Game Design Free of Colonial Values Modern video games often act out the values of colonialism. What if there were design tools that could help teams take their first steps into a broader, richer world of non-colonial mechanics?

Just finished reading Decolonising Play, good starter on how to start designing different (better) games polarisgamedesign.com/2023/decolon...

Sandwalkers on Steam Sandwalkers is a roguelike turn-based exploration game. Build your team, traverse varied hostile environments, face countless dangers, and gain knowledge that will help you find and resurrect the Moth...

Started playing Sandwalkers, love the art, waiting to see if the roguelite/strategy mix works for me store.steampowered.com/app/1639080/...

Vivaria and Vivaria 2 are beautiful, cute games about tending to tiny little ecosystems, go play

Oh cool! we briefly considered never letting anyone in the shop ever again so that the cat could be peaceful

Hey! beautiful games both of them, and thanks for adding the arachnophobia toggle (my partner appreciates it very much), one note, we didn't like that the cats in either one got upset by the ringing of the bell, other than that, can't wait for what you do next!

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Strange Antiquities is OUT NOW! 🛎️📚🐈

#indiegame #indiedev #cozygames #cozy

LOOK AT MY FLUFFY LITTLE BABIES (also, the music was beautifully interwoven with the landscape and the action, 10/10 for emotional narrative, no notes)

Save 20% on Herdling on Steam Guide a herd of mysterious creatures on a stirring and beautiful journey into the mountains… and beyond.

I finished Herdling and I don't think many games have played my hearstrings quite like that store.steampowered.com/app/3047750/...

Game Design Strategies to Support Nurturers Some players want to nurture.  These players enjoy the act of taking care of something or someone. They gain pleasure from seeing their efforts (appear to) cause their nurturing target to thrive, gro...

Started reading my way through the @polarisgamedesign.com papers on game design and they are very thoughtful and useful pieces of work polarisgamedesign.com/2023/game-de...

Finished playing Strange Horticulture and Strange Antiquities with my partner and we really liked them (Horticulture more than Antiquities)

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Welcome, new followers! We're a group of game designers trying to push our craft forward through deep thought, collaboration, and open minds. We think, we chat, we write, we experiment.

How do YOU explore and improve as a game designer, besides making games? (Reposts welcome)

I play games, watch films, read books, just generally stuff my mind with the beauty that others create, sometimes I analyse, sometimes I just play with things/concepts like I would with a set of legos, and I listen to people talk about their work, there is no telling where insight can come from

Reports REPORTS 2022 2023 2023 Understanding Systems Suspense Why is it fun to learn the rules of a videogame? Not just to play the game, but to learn it; to travel from the state of unknowing to knowing, to ...

Hi Bluesky! Polaris Game Design Retreat is an annual event where game designers tackle tough problems together, then write reports on their discoveries. If you're looking for our reports, start here: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

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YouTube video by Bean Bunny Let's Make A Visual Novel in Godot! Part 5, Signals For Branching Paths (Using Dialogic)

Today we’re working on branching paths in your visual novel and making them run using signals. Come build a visual novel with me: youtu.be/mTc4Sbr6aTc?... #godot #gamedev #indiedev

omfg, that looks exactly like one of my childhood dogs, 8/5 stars without even having watched it

I am now emotionally connected to my herd of fluffers and I will kill for them

Primordia by Wormwood Studios is 70% off in the Steam Autumn sale!

Life has ceased. Man is but a myth. And now, even the machines have begun to fail. Primordia is a fascinating journey through a crumbling world populated by robots.

store.steampowered.com/app/227000/P...

Ok but I played this game yeeaaaaars ago and loved it!

I usually forget about my one page rpgs about 3 hours after posting them so occasionally one comes back like a boomerang to hit me in the face and I'm like I have no recollection of this creation

I remember I laughed when you first posted it

:O that's gorgeous!

Save 20% on Herdling on Steam Guide a herd of mysterious creatures on a stirring and beautiful journey into the mountains… and beyond.

Started playing Herdling, did not know I was missing herding big fluffers from my life store.steampowered.com/app/3047750/...

Just finished watching the new Toxic Avenger and it was good, nasty fun. I loved it.

Tend by abbax a pixel art, procedurally generated, artificial life sea slug aquarium

I grew up on the Creatures series of artificial life games so I always wanted to explore creating something like that, that's what Tend is abbax.itch.io/tend

So far Hades 2 looks really good, I love returning to this world, the art is amazing and everything is SUPER snappy, this is such ADHD candy.