Pepijn Willekens 🌸 making Plum Road Tea Dream

🎉LUDOCENE LAUNCHED 🎉

So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world.

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Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.

The semi-autobiographical game I'm working on also reflects a lot on mourning and healing processes, in different forms.
Looking forward to listen the podcast episode!

What working on Plum Road Tea Dream in Art Residency looked like these past 3 weeks 🩵💙

Thank you C O R S O Berchem for having us!

S. & F. sleeping in Dream Garden / Asklepieion of Plum Road Tea Dream ✨

Beautiful plants modeled by sondi.online
Terrain modelling by Jenna van Wezenmael

Some good news to end the week:

Plum Road Tea Dream received subsidies to create a stage performance and expo!

🥳🥳🥳

That means this project will be reaching people via performances, exhibitions and hopefully many more in-between formats 🔥

Looking forward to a new chapter with the performance team

I played a recent testbuild of Plum Road Tea Dream this week - a truly intriguing work! It’ll be a while before it’s done but you’ll want to wishlist this already, trust me.

Plum Road Tea Dream on Steam Discover seven sanctuaries and delve into the pain & joy of S.’s life as a queer person of color. Create animistic gods through a futuristic machine. Embark on a quest to manifest the Sword of Sad...

- In Plum Road Tea Dream you explore seven sanctuaries created by the mysterious ‘S’, a young game designer who creates virtual spaces that reflect their own introspective journey as a queer person of color.

Written by Samuel Baidoo & Fran Vincent

store.steampowered.com/app/3206340/...

If you activate the lever the God Generator 3000 applies a kaleidoscopic effect on the image transforming the original collage into an animistic godlike figure.

The God Generator will translate tablets you put into it into 2D image which you can organise into a collage.

The God Generator 3000 is a machine loosely based on the original console for the game NIM, considered to be one of the first videogames ever.

For this chapter in Plum Road Tea Dream we sculpted a clay landscape, through 3D scanning it became an environment that you can navigate in-game.

We are working ‘New Gods Generator 3000’ 🦾

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In outer space, a human skull is invaded by colorful flowers. A title appears: Weird Games Manifesto.

Games Industry Is Broken. Weird Games Are the Answer!

This is the first part of a docu-manifesto about:
- A MAZE Festival
- What's wrong with the industry
- All the beautiful solutions that already exist in the alt scene.

It's our most important video to date! 🌺
youtu.be/34NVLRHsxSU

This weekend, we have showcased Plum Road Tea Dream at Playtime Festival in the Royal City Theater of Bruges 😊🌞✨

Lots of love to everyone who visited!
So many good reactions!

Yeah, we're also currently showing it at a festival 😊 busy times!

✨Announcement ✨

Meet Plum Road Tea Dream:

Explore 7 sanctuaries which hold stories, memories, the need for safer worlds and the potential for healing

We invite you into a beautifully crafted world of personal discovery, identity, and connection

Wishlist now
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Please, Touch The Artwork 2 van Thomas Waterzooi won de prijs voor beste gratis te spelen game op de Debug Awards! 🇬🇧
👏

Dit VAF Alumni-project, gefinancierd door
@cultuurjeugdmedia.bsky.social, zet Vlaanderen wederom op de kaart in de gamewereld.

Bekijk hier de ceremonie: t.ly/SAQ8Q

#DebugAwards

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Please back this kickstarter! People exploring game discovery is a VERY good thing. Not only because it has the potential to become a new platform for people to find games, but also because it can inspire existing storefronts to Fix Their Shit.

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Ludocene: Game Discovery From People You Trust A dating app that matches you with games rather than people. A deck-builder that profiles your gaming taste.

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brambl by cumulet! a 3d platformer about grief

our monthly game brambl is out there! ✨

it's available here
cumulet.itch.io/bramble

if you aren't a patreon yet you can become one and get the game and more
www.patreon.com/cumulet

we hope you'll like our game!

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Plum Road Tea Dream| Het Bos **Tijdens de eerste lockdown begon Samuel in het online computerspel Minecraft te bouwen aan een eigen wereld. Minecraft werd een virtuele ruimte waarin Samuel hun artistiek werk, verslagen van persoo...

This Wednesday we are having a free EXPO where you can take a look behind the scenes in the making process of our game and stage performance!

𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐦 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐚 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 - 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬
Location: Het Bos, Ankerrui 5, Antwerp, BE
Wed 18 December, 18:00 — 00:00
www.hetbos.be/programma/ev...

Hi sudden 500 followers, I'm Pepijn.

I might sometimes post random thoughts here. or I might not, because the internet can be a scary place.

Either way, I will also be posting big gamedev announcements here. Like a soon to be announced game announcement! 👀

At some point, you start to think about what is actually important to you, and be more critical about which things deserve your time and energy.

I was doing so many things these first years ^^
A lot of events and projects. A lot of social interactions and a lot of social media posting.

I don't have the same amount of energy anymore as back then. Which is okay, I'm just figuring out a more sustainable rhythm of life.

In 2017, young me wrote a post on facebook about my first three years in the field of gamedev.

Here is a little excerpt:

Apparently, I have been hanging out in the game industry for 10 full years now 👀
Oh boi, it has been a while.

ohh awesome! looking forward to it!

Feel free to add me as well ☺️

Guess what's on the horizon? Global Game Jam Antwerp in January!

We're in for an amazing 48-hours of creativity with a diverse group of devs, artists, musicians and creatives.

Here's a heads up – Super Early Bird pricing is just €29 (instead of €47) until 15 Nov!

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