AP Thomson

triple screenshot in horizontal stripes: despelote, Consume Me, and Baby Steps

THURSDAY EVENING in downtown Brooklyn I'm moderating a talk w/
julian cordero of @despelote.game !
@apthomson.bsky.social + @qdork.bsky.social of Consume Me !
@gcuzzillo.bsky.social of Baby Steps !

Come discuss the SHEER AUDACITY to release an indie game in 2025
alumnideveloperspanel.eventbrite.com

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: 149: Making A Meal Of It with Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson (Consume Me) Rob, Sarah, and Doug chat with Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson about Consume Me, an award-winning autobiographical resource-management RPG about the pressure cooker of young adulthood. We discuss the g...

new pod and it's a special one! we talk to @qdork.bsky.social and @apthomson.bsky.social about CONSUME ME, the multi-award-winning overachievement simulator that took me personally on a real ride through my own history with academics, pressure, and food. incredible game eggplant.show/149-making-a...

Two kids sit at a diner. text box: "Daniel shrugs. He can not possibly concern himself with these social fixations of yours, and his indifference is as maddening as it is aspirational."

Perfect Tides: Station to Station

store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...

Point-n-click adventure game with a TON of personality and great art, and a fun mechanical system where you use various verbs to learn more about topics so you can.. write better school papers about them?

pixel art drawing of a man shrugging with a quizzical expression. He doesn’t have any answers for you. He might not even understand the question.

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year!

As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

WHOA x COOL BALL x PIT is out now!!! i cant believe so many people are playing rn 🙉 but actually i can!! because the team worked so hard to deliver this beautiful juicy addicting game 💗

…don’t miss out on the next big roguelite ☝️😌

Save 25% on Perfect Tides on Steam Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called is...

While the demo for Perfect Tides: Station to Station is part of Steam Next Fest, you can get the original Perfect Tides at 25% off. Lots of time to play the hell out of it before the sequel's release in January.

store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...

Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...

Next Fest has begun! Please enjoy + wishlist the latest demo build of Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the coming-of-age adventure in production since 2022 - coming in January!

store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...

Consume Me review - anything but empty calories A teenage slice-of-life tale, an energy-management challenge and a satire of diet culture – this indie award-winner is a flavoursome treat

Played Consume Me. Loved Consume Me. www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...

The updated demo for Perfect Tides: Station to Station is available now ahead of Steam Next Fest! We're getting ever closer to the full release in January! store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...

i wrote about consume me for @theverge.com ✨

The artists who turned teenage obsessions into an award-winning video game To create an interactive autobiography, Consume Me's creators had to turn teenage memories into playable self-portraits.

Consume Me is a work of autobiography born out of its creator's real experiences growing up in NYC. I spent a day with the devs visiting real places that inspired the game and looking through boxes of high school memories. A chat about how to adapt reality to game. www.polygon.com/consume-me-j...

i’m still currently taking a break from responding to messages but i just wanna let you all know i am reading them and i really appreciate all the overwhelming love and support for the game 🥹💞 thank you playing Consume Me 🥺 #gaming #indiegames #indiegamedev #gamedev #videogames

Jenny is in the elevator with a hamper of laundry. Context clues indicate that the laundry machines are in the basement (people not doing laundry get off on another floor, presumably the lobby).

Jenny goes shopping at "the mall", a towering multi-floored maze of escalators that must surely be the old Manhattan Mall at 33rd and 6th. It closed in 2021.

Jenny and Oliver go on dates at the Egyptian wing of the Met, Coney Island, and on a rowboat from the Loeb boathouse in Central Park

Jenny reading in a subway car, the yellow and orange seats are unmistakably characteristic of the R46 & R68 cars, commonly seen on the B, D, Q and R lines.

One the things I'm really loving about Consume Me is how unmistakably it takes place in NYC, in subtle but detailed and grounded ways. Reading on the subway, going on dates at museums, the manhattan mall, doing laundry in the basement. I grew up here too, and I never see the city shown like this.

It will surprise literally no one to learn that I fkn loved Consume Me, the coming-of-age slice-of-life WarioWare-meets-Persona game about being an Asian teen (there's more to it than that I promise)

@qdork.bsky.social + @apthomson.bsky.social made something really, really good! You should play it!

Here's a brand new Dev Dive with the team behind Consume Me, the game that won the grand prize at GDC earlier this year. I had such a blast having a fun, reflective conversation with @qdork.bsky.social , @apthomson.bsky.social @frogfungus.bsky.social about the game!

youtube.com/watch?v=JoxW...

Save 10% on Consume Me on Steam did you feel stupid, fat, lazy, and ugly in high school? well i did...but at least i made a life-simulation RPG about it!

out now lmao

store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

actually i changed my mind store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/... #gaming #indiegames #gamedev #indiegamedev #videogames

You will not survive Baby Steps' open world, but you'll laugh QWOP goes open world in 2025's funniest game

Baby Steps starts as an elaborate shitpost before slowly revealing itself to be a sincere game about male insecurity. A deconstruction of the kind of idealized picture of manhood that video games helped create wrapped in a terrific slapstick comedy. My review. www.polygon.com/baby-steps-r...

it’s not like there are any other games releasing at the same time 🤡

store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

#indiegames #hades2 #gaming #silksong #cloverpit #babysteps

hello content creators!

you should play consume me because :
- funny
- mini-games
- will make you cry
- award winning

do you want to relive MY high school experience? well now’s the time to request a code to stream or review the game at launch!!

❤️09.25.25❤️

forms.gle/npXsYjN9LvSP...

play as a stressed teenager in Consume Me, a semi-autobiographical RPG out Sept 25 on Steam!
@qdork.bsky.social

🍕 slice-of-life drama!
🧩 mini-game activities!
🐶 there's a dog!
🥣 you'll laugh AND cry!

now's the time to request a code to stream or review at launch!

📝 forms.gle/npXsYjN9LvSP...

i stg this is the best video i have EVER made.. im gonna be PISSED if it doesn’t go viral 😡 WISHLIST CONSUME ME NOW 💗💗💗 💸 store.steampowered.com/app/3438190/...

process video for the caffeine crash random encounter in consume me

this scene took a million years to figure out but hopefully it was all worth it in the end 🥵 #gamedev

consume me yoga minigame all glowed up 💅

Baby Steps Demo on Steam Play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day he discovers a power he never knew he had… putting one foot in front of the other. Explore the first chapter in this demo ...

Baby steps demo!
store.steampowered.com/app/2460140/...

What’s cooking now? Why, it’s a release date announcement!

That’s right, folks: The highly-anticipated, award-winning, super-cool CONSUME ME comes to Steam September 25th!

@qdork.bsky.social

My next game is BALL x PIT, a ball bouncing, base building roguelite. It’s been almost a decade since my first commercial release and this one feels like the culmination of all of my effort. The demo is out now on Steam, I’m excited to finally be able to share it with you all!