Cookiecrayon

Meet just a few of our adorable night critters from Mingle, a casual game that’s a little bit like Where’s Wally (or Waldo if you’re in the US). We’re working to get a demo up on Steam ☺️ store.steampowered.com/app/3782840/...

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People must really like packing bags! Thank you everyone for helping us achieve 1000 Steam wishlists on Snug!

If you like playing cozy games like Unpacking and A Little to the Left we think you’ll like Snug too ☺️ store.steampowered.com/app/4017680/...

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Thank you for playing and for sharing! I like your description of the game 😄

Adding adorable little outfits to our game Pikwip ☺️

If you’re keen to be part of our dev journey we have a discord:
discord.gg/NAreGExMMW

And if you wanna play the original prototype:
cookiecrayon.itch.io/pikwip

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Our current setup ✨ straight back into it the day after Christmas #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev

1 year in 1 minute! Big thank you to everyone who’s followed and supported our journey so far! Have a wonderful holiday and see you in 2026 👋 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #2025recap

And a huge congrats to all the winners, nominees and everyone who entered the awards, thank you to everyone who made the event happen, and huuuuge thank you to the players and supporters ✨❤️

Thank you so much to everyone at the Indie Game Awards for selecting us for this year’s Indie Vanguard ❤️ #indiegame #indiedev #indiegameawards

Huge congrats to Nex on doing so well❤️‍🔥!!!

And we’re stoked that @ign.com mentioned our game Mingle (they didn’t say anything about the game itself but still, it’s a mention on IGN so we’re ✨🤩🤩✨)

The NEX Playground, a "box that looks like the OUYA and Kinect had a kid," outsold the PS5 in the US the week before Thanksgiving. https://bit.ly/4iHf02P

Where we lived and played games and made games for about a year 😄 this van was our home and studio. We even had a tiny desk and an even tinier power bank that was barely capable of charging our laptops at the time 😆 #indiedev #gamedev #gamedevelopment #vanlife #gamedevlife

Snippets from our time at WePlay in Shanghai! We had an amazing time and loved seeing everyone have so much fun playing Neon Knives ☺️✨! Huge thanks to Chromacon and Code for setting this up and to all the amazing nz devs that made this such an awesome experience! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Chromacon & CODE to host NZ Games Pavilion at WePlay 2025 For the second year running, Chromacon in partnership with NZ CODE and Disc 2 Games, will host the New Zealand Games pavilion at WePlay expo 2025 in Shanghai, China (Nov 22-23).

Super excited to be a part of this 🤩!!
www.nz-code.nz/post/chromac...

HELLO FELLOW GAME DEVS - do you want to force yourself to make social media posts about your game??? Then you should try the:

🎄 12 DAYS OF #DEVMAS 🎄

Join us from December 13th-24th in making posts based on these 12 prompts~

⬇️ MORE INFO BELOW ⬇️

One of the most exciting parts about making games is having an excuse to make fun merch 😄 WePlay is our first expo and we’re super excited for it!!! #indiegame #indiedev #gameexpo #gamemerch

Thank you !!

Building designs for our game Aeon Guard. We wanted the world to feel dark, extra terrestrial yet familiar, and somewhat dangerous. We drew everything with silhouettes, not really pre planning anything, just experimenting and having fun with it. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #gameart #gamedesign

For our cozy packing game, Snug, we added the option to choose a second language to learn the names of the items you pack. Could come in handy for that next trip ☺️!

store.steampowered.com/app/4017680/...

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We made a quick little video that shows our art 👉 rig 👉 animation pipeline in Unity for Mingle ☺️

Would love any tips on other methods of animating 2d in Unity that don't involve sprite sheets or parenting to nulls!

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These are very helpful! We haven’t quite been in that type of interview situation yet, but now we’ll be more prepared when it happens! Thank you!

YouTube video by cookiecrayon Snug - A satisfying game of fitting things neatly into place

Snug teaser is up on our YT channel ✨! We added some new things to the game since the prototype on itch and are excited to share them with you ☺️!
youtu.be/DJg6F0DWGaM

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Two characters from the Pikwip game stand atop a snowy mountain beneath the texts “cookiecrayon” and “discord”

✨We’ve launched our Discord✨
It’s a space for players of Pikwip, Mingle, Neon Knives and Snug to chat, share ideas, give feedback, and help shape our games together ☺️

We’d love to see you on the Cookiecrayon Discord: discord.gg/NAreGExMMW

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We’ve hit 1,000 wishlists on Steam! Thank you to everyone who has supported Mingle, from the early prototype on itch, to the special motion controlled version on the Nex Playground, and all the future players on Steam 💯✨🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/3782840/...

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Dino, Dingo, and Darjeeling enjoying the autumn vibes 🍂 bit of fan art for Steam’s autumn sale ☺️
store.steampowered.com/app/3317170/...

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Games made in New Zealand Steam Event has begun!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3782840/...

We’re super stoked to have Neon Knives, Snug, and Mingle alongside so many other awesome games made in Aotearoa 🫶!

You can find our 3 games here ☺️
store.steampowered.com/developer/co...

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Your birth month = you as a Mingler 😆 #indiegame #mingle #characterdesign

Aeon Guard got mentioned in a Polygon review!! On one of our birthdays!!!!! So stoked!!!
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We’re super excited about Mingle coming to the Nex Playground soon!!!

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Are you a game developer? Try these 4 fun exercises! Forward Lean (picture of a man leaning forward in his desk chair somewhat depressingly) Backwards Lean (picture of a man absolutely and completely deflated in his desk chair) Knees-to-Chest Stretch (picture of a man in the fetal position with tears welling up in his eyes) Egg Rolls (picture of a man lying on his side, clutching himself, sobbing, and a small puddle of tears forming)

Here's an exercise routine that I recommend to game developers in 2025. Stay healthy 💪

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Throwback to one of the funniest struggles we had when making our first motion controlled game 😆 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #motioncontrols