@buffalovision.bsky.social
games, VR, art, tech 🦬 director&CTO at Windup Minds @windupminds.bsky.social😸
8 bucks is hotly debated, but in real GDP terms, 7.99 bucks is unknowable bucks
20.02.2026 20:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
we have absolutely killed ourselves wrangling with making this play nice on Quest and I'm so excited to share it with more people on PC!
I cannot begin to express how complicated the animation engine is 🫠
store.steampowered.com/app/4385270/...
Please wishlist and help Ember grow into her new home on Steam and Steam Deck!
This feels like a homecoming after starting my indie career on Steam, then working in VR for 10+ years. Proud of the team -- a huge milestone for us!
store.steampowered.com/app/4385270/...
she belongs on steamdeck 🥹
18.02.2026 17:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Telling my future children that this is a cybertruck
14.03.2025 01:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0☀️Last hurrah for Summer! Bask in the fun with Ember :D☀️
We worked really hard on this - lots of improvements! We're also on sale for a limited time. It's a great time to jump in!
Very much worth your time!
15.08.2025 04:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉
The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.
Deadline: September 28th
More info 👇
grants.draknek.org
Stay: Forever Home – Update 2 preview 🎁💨
Coming Tomorrow!
Present Boxes! Unwrap surprises in a new satisfying way!
Here’s a video of the presents in action!
Want more update details and patch notes? Join our Discord: windupminds.com/discord
More cozy features are coming with the full update
If you've got a Quest 2, check it out! We poured ourselves into getting this out and have lots more updates coming!
10.07.2025 13:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm late for @windupminds.com highlight; we're exceptionally fortunate to work with Austin Grossman. Austin, Doug Church and I wrote a pitch for cyberpunk MMO, Nightside; 25 years later, a game I wish existed.
#VirtualPet #DigitalPet #SimulationGame #VRGame #MRGame #XRGame #IndieDev #IndieGame
How do you set up your room so you can play Mixed Reality games on your Meta Quest 3/3S? 🤔
It's a little more involved than Meta shows you, to get your couch just right! 🛋️
Then you can play our game: vr.meta.me/s/2aq2U7KEq2...
#VirtualPet #VirtualReality #DigitalPet #PetSim #IndieGame #IndieDev
The game sounds absolutely beautiful thanks to @drenmcdonald.com's tireless efforts. Players frequently mention it as one of their favorite parts!!
25.04.2025 01:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our cozy pet sim-game-experiment is now live!
meta.com/experiences/...
We've worked incredibly hard to make Ember lovable... and to love you back! 💗
a bit about our A++ team! 😻
21.04.2025 17:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We have a fancy new trailer dropping tomorrow!
03.04.2025 18:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0this boi
28.03.2025 16:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Shake off all the dirt!!
20.03.2025 01:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0lol, a glimpse of some 'advanced' cosmetics in our game, PLUS a preview of the 'trade board music' featuring 'mossling' vocals. Our little mosslings sing sometimes...
15.03.2025 22:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It's Ember's first GDC as her true self! (she was there last year in prototype form)
Wish I could be there too-- gotta finish up the magic! We're close!!
i have seen the inside of the potato mines🥔
13.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ember, a stylized magical wolf with purple and beige fur, bright blue eyes, and playful pink accents, is featured smiling happily in front of a colorful waterfall backdrop. Below Ember, the vibrant logo for "Stay: Forever Home" appears prominently. The image also announces an upcoming VR game show event scheduled as a YouTube Premiere at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 4pm GMT / 5pm CET.
Excited to share our pet game, Stay: Forever Home, will be in this VR showcase!
See what we've been up to and what's up with Meta Quest, PlayStation VR2, and PC VR titles coming in 2025! youtu.be/0wN0B5utUu4
#VirtualPet #PetSimulation #VirtualRealityPet #IndieGames #CozyGames
This was a REALLY interesting #gamedev problem to solve: A VR frisbee!
It has to only work when you use it properly. How would you implement this?
🐺💫
13.02.2025 05:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0polishing & bugfixing, so satifsying
sound on!
YESSS - love it!!
Huge feature for both comfort and immersion.
Big props to @jukibom.bsky.social for kicking butt on @stayforeverhome.bsky.social
Game giveaway! There's still a little time tonight!
04.02.2025 06:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A vibrant, cel-shaded virtual environment features Ember, a purple, wolf-like companion with bright blue eyes, intricate forehead markings, and a red bow tie. She stands on a sunlit dirt path surrounded by lush greenery, stylized trees, and distant rolling hills. In the foreground, a VR player's hand holds a cylindrical object, possibly a toy or training tool. Ember tilts her head slightly, gazing at the player with an expression that blends curiosity and playful mischief, as if waiting for the next interaction. The scene captures a warm, immersive moment from Stay: Forever Home, a VR game where players bond with and care for their virtual pet companions.
Join our #MondayMoodBooster giveaway for a chance to win a Stay: Forever Home game key, for Meta Quest!
Rules:
- Like & follow @windupminds.bsky.social and @stayforeverhome.bsky.social
- Post a pet pic with a fun, SFW caption
- Tag us and add #MoodBoosterMonday
- Enter Monday 9 AM–11:59 PM PST
Chart showing instances of wild animals using a hamster wheel left out in the wild, with visits dominated by wild mice, followed by slugs, rats, shrews and a few frogs and snails.
In 2014 Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside, to see if wild animals would use it like their domesticated counterparts.
The answer: hell yes! 734 visits from wild mice - plus rats, shrews, slugs ("running" being subjective here) & even frogs and snails.
The apparent reason: fun. Just fun.
"Common Side Effects" is coming this Sunday (Adult Swim / Max).
By the co-creator & the animation studio behind "Scavengers Reign".
