Florent "Salty" Martinais

New lore video!
Meet these little guys! They are nice and peaceful!
But… they can only move in straight line!
How can they meet?!

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#IndieGame #gamelore #indiegamedev

Environnement et game design (English below 🇬🇧⬇️) Aujourd’hui je vous parle d’un point central de mon jeu What Surrounds Us : comment l'environnement nourrit et inspire son gameplay. Quand je parle d'environnement, j'évoque ici c...

I wrote an article on LinkedIn about environment / ecosystems and game design.
And it’s both in FRENCH AND ENGLISH! 🌱✨

Yes, from what I experienced, large companies tend to prefer custom engines as they better fit their needs and/or because they were already there before Unreal became that important (e.g Ubisoft's Anvil for open worlds). And also because UE is not free at all when you start selling millions haha

3- This is a competitive game and yet, there is no pressure, no agression, no bad move. Everything is positive and the goal is just to optimize better than the others, not to make them feel bad. It’s like a race you run alongside your friends. And I want to capture this nice feeling.

2- What I call “gameplay purity”. All the game mechanics are simple and work well together. There is no extra alternate or useless gameplay.
For example, having to much resources allows you to breed more, too many eggs allows you to draw, too many cards allows you to gather more resources. Perfect.

1- The relation between nature and gameplay, of course! The entire game revolves around actual birds, their physical distinctive features, habitats, breeding behaviors, feeding behaviors, … converted in game mechanics!
100% core design philosophy to WSU!

A photo of the boardgame WINGSPAN being played

Art box of the board game WINGSPAN

Let’s talk about my favorite board game of all time: Wingspan!

This is an engine-building game by Elisabeth Hardgrave and it’s all about birds! I LOVE this game for 3 main reasons and they are all a huge source of inspiration for What Surrounds Us. 👇

#boardgames

⭕Here is my November recap!

#gamedev #indiegamedev #wip #indiedev #unrealengine

Did you know there were indoor sections in my game?
Me neither until last week! 😅

#indiegamedev #devlog #wip

Also, as a game dev I found the game’s scope really well balanced. It feels reasonable in term of gameplay depth, asset to produce, game length, etc. 📝

If you want a short game that don’t use your brain too much and yet find some hope for a brighter future, it’s a good choice!

Some screenshot of the game Jump The Track with one of its many nice dialogues. It says "Now let's seal our friendship by destroying a state-of-the-art multi-billion dollar engineering masterpiece!", which is, I have to say, an tempting idea

Last week I finished Jump The Track by @seedbyseedgames.bsky.social ! And it’s a really nice game! I loved it!

My favorite part is the character cast: everyone is super endearing and fun! With the nice dialogues it makes the whole game kind of light while carrying a not-so-fun message.

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🤝 same philosophy, different approach. It looks incredible!

🇫🇷 Super heureux de pouvoir enfin révéler le jeu sur lequel je travaille : WHAT SURROUNDS US!

C’est un petit jeu d’aventure vous explorerez un monde abstrait et coloré pour rétablir l’équilibre de son écosystème.

N’hésitez pas à wishliter le jeu sur Steam !

What Surrounds Us on Steam What surrounds us? Come discover it to re-establish the balance of an abstract and colorful ecosystem where every individual maters.

⭕ Hey there! I’m very pleased to finaly reveal the game I’m working on : WHAT SURROUNDS US!

It's a short adventure game where you can explore an abstract world in order to re-establish the balance of its ecosystem.

Check it out on Steam!

#indiegame #indiegames #gamedev #gaming #WishlistWednesday

I was studying product design and I was bored.

The design school I was aiming also had a game design course. I applied to both entry exam, got accepted on both, and chose the stupidest but fumiest choice. ✨

They manage to bring a subtle mix of old and new, bringing solid references while innovating, navigating on multiple sub-genres from surf rock to shoegaze and still making their own cohesive sound.
Incredibly refreshing, strongly recommended if you like guitars, drums and those loud instruments.

YouTube video by Coast Arcade Coast Arcade - City Limits (Official Music Video)

And I will start with some music, just before the December trend of Spotify wrap hits us (please don’t use Spotify)!

Let’s talk about Coast Arcade, an indie rock band from NZ. They released their first eponym album last month and this is incredibly good. Album of the year, hands down. 👇

From now on I will try to share pieces of media or artists that I like. Some will be shady, some will be mainstream, it doesn’t matter, the point is just to talk about inspiring things.

Happy birthday to this legend!

I don't manage to figure out my favorite SNES game, but it definitely involve this cool green dinosaur. 🦖

SMW for its genius music and level design, Yoshi’s Island for the art direction. Both for never getting old.

Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse.

Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/...
or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays
before November 21th 9PM CET!

Haha thank you!! ✨

Thank you! ✨

Quoi? On peut apprendre blender avec autre chose qu'un donut ? 😐

Thank you! ✨

I'm disappointed but not shocked to see Blue Prince miss the cut, given that it's English only and many of the judges are outside of the US/UK.

Not much suspense here - Clair Obscur is the fan favorite and has the best narrative (ex-Ubisoft devs go indie), even if there are more interesting games

Hey! Are you interested in games about ecology, broken ecosystems and how to re-balance them?
Because I'm working on a short adventure game about that theme 😅(currently cooking the reveal stuff!)

I made a video of my process crafting some creatures of our game Alterfauna✨

I'm using watercolor and colored pencils, my scanner (aka my best friend), Photoshop and Spine

(sorry for the 1rst part's bad quality, I filmed with my shitty phone, I work at night and the light is horrible)

Thank you! ✨

Do abstract creatures (like ... weird circles) behaving together in a colorful ecosytem count as animals? 😏
Because if it does, I think I'm in 😀

Hey! Super interested in being part of it!
I'm now working on my first solo game and I'm almost ready to be quite talkative about it 😀