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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

Trails is hitting mobile soon, and it’ll come with a limited free version to give you a taste.
So we thought it was only fair to bring a demo to our desktop platforms too.

A screenshot of the overworld map of the game TRAILS. Twenty levels have been solved, the others are greyed out. There is a rip across the center, everything to the right of it is in greys instead of colored.

We have just released the free #demo for our latest puzzle game TRAILS. You can now check out 20 levels (18 on the main path and 2 optionals) for free! Let us know what you think of them 😊

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3605120/...
itch\.io: purplesloth.itch.io/trails

#indieGameDev #freeDemo

the "just make it exist first" meme. In the first row of images a screenshot of a prototype of our game Trails using only unity buildin elements like simple cubes and spheres is placed next to the sentence "Just make it exist first" and a crudely drawn circle. In the second row a screenshot during a later phase of development with very rough outline shaders but somewhat final colors and some 3d models. In the third row next to a perfect circle and the sentence "You can make it good later" is a screenshot of our final game with a well balanced cartoon look, a background texture and refined UI.

Just make it exist first - you can make it good later!

When developing our game TRAILS, a lot of time was spent on improvements and polish, but the crucial first step was a prototype that was created in less than a week!

#indieGameDev #prototyping

Petition unterschreiben Save games from censorship

🎮✨ Stand Up for Creative Freedom in Games ✨🎮
Game creators are facing increasing censorship from payment processors and religious groups pushing personal agendas.

Sign the petition to stand up for our freedom of artistic expression: chng.it/6LnZdRYY5Y

#savegamesfromcensorship #gamedev

Diese Kampagne braucht deine Unterstützung Save games from censorship

It's supposedly about porn and abuse at the moment, but "adult content" will include any form of queerness soon enough!

We need to create alternatives - but in the meantime we also need to stand together and fight what is happening!
#sexWorkIsWork

Stealing a sloth from the local zoo?

i dunno why but i get the feeling when these people say "no no it's to protect kids" they're actually lying?

A screenshot of the color change menu from TRAILS. It has three ships with 10 color options for each ship and a possibiliy to choose the ship's background from all 5 backgrounds in the game.

A screenshot from level 20 of TRAILS with a turquoise, a red and a purple ship.

Choose your own colors! 💜🦥

With update 1.3 of TRAILS you are able to customize the ships' colors to make them stand out best for your individual needs.

Even though we are only a small studio, as neurodivergent devs we care about making our games as accessible as possible.

#gamedev #accessibility

Enge has a bow as of SoTo that has never been associated with with a spec, but they will probably not tie a spec to a weapon set tied to another expac?

Warmonger Weapon weapons spell skill icon

Well the icon does look similar to gw1 weapon spell skill icons e.g. wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Warmong...

But the core warrior helmet already has wings. Its generally far too close to the icon in question to be a good fit imo.

Especially since it would be so easy to find a better representation for a paragorn spec.

Paragorns didnt wear helmets in gw1 and the concept art doesnt show a helmet either.

Its pretty clear that warrior will get a paragorn spec, but it seems unlikely that the helmet is the symbol associated with that spec.

A whitewashed pub wall, with mortar standing proud of the stones.

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)

Cryptid Gardens by PurpleSloth, ente Play in your browser

Checkout 'Cryptid Gardens' our own
@entencomics.bsky.social and @radow.bsky.social s entry to the thinky puzzle jam.

Its a rule deduction game in which you place curious little creatures on a board in such a way that all their needs are met.

purplesloth.itch.io/cryptid-gard...

#gamejam

Accidentally setting up a collision course in Trails by ‪@purplesloth.studio‬!

musi Nana by PurpleSloth sina ken ala ken anpa e ilo lawa pi sona ale?

Another new Sloth game! 🦥
After working on the localisation of TRAILS to toki pona our own @fuchsi.purplesloth.studio has participated in the pali musi game jam and released musi Nana, a game entirely and exclusively in toki pona.

Check it out:
purplesloth.itch.io/musi-nana

#gamejam #TokiPona

This was really fun to make. And a lot less stressful than many other game jams.

2d Keyart of our game TRAILS. A white sailing ship with a turquoise sail is moving over the dunes of a stylized desert, leaving a dust trail behind it. The red mountains in the background are lit by a setting sun. The logo "TRAILS" is set in front of the sun.

We have two exciting events for TRAILS today(ish):

First the joyous @kaemsi.bsky.social will stream the game at 8pm CEST. 👑

And after this at 1 am CEST you can join the Moonlite Madness Showcase by @nevermoreniche.bsky.social
The event tonight will feature a variety of indie game trailers. ✨🎮

From the developers of Chronescher, a new line-drawing puzzle game about guiding sand ships through a Dune-like sci-fi world. The twist in Trails is that your sand ships all move simultaneously, so you have to find paths that allow them to complete their objectives without colliding into each other. Guide your sand ships safely through the desert in these line-drawing puzzles (Trails)

We checked out Trails, a cozy game about guiding your sand ships through the desert!
www.youtube.com/watc...

Our friends @randwerk just announced their second game a week ago! ✨

Go check it out and wishlist it on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/3624140/...

Kaemsi - Twitch 18+ | Is me, Kaemsi! Indian South African variety streamer - it's not only games, promise! Let's face it though, you're here for the spice. And laughter... So much laughter! || she/her | ENG only | CC...

Thu 6pm #Trails @purplesloth.studio

Fri 6pm #Sedapi @isolated-games.bsky.social @pressengine.net

Sat 11am #LoveAndDeepspace #Rafayel #LemurianSeaGod myth

Livestreams on #twitch at twitch.tv/kaemsi

Pitch your game... But..
No Media. Only words. 📝

Bonus Challenge #1: under 20 words. 🏅

Bonus Challenge #2: From someone else's perspective; protagonist, antagonist, NPC, narrator, consumer... 🏅

Image showing partial title Chronescher and Trails title art assets.

Checkout our dev log discussing our approach to designing the difficulty curve of trails.

We look at our last two puzzle games Chronescher and TRAILS and how to bridge the gape between approachability and challenge.

purplesloth.studio/blog/trails_...

#indiegamedev #gamedesign #devlog

Title Art of the game TRAILS in the colors of the non-binary flag. In the foreground a purple and white sandship glides through a yellow desert. In the background there is a rising or setting yellow sun in front of a purple sky and behind black mountains. The title TRAILS is inside of the sun.

Did you know? 3 out of 4 devs of this game are non-binary.

#PrideMonth is important for us not just to show visibility but also as a month honoring the fight of those that came before us and paved the way for the rights we have & which are currently under attack. Pride means continuing the fight

A Castle on Wheels...

We are excited to announce our second game:

WANDERBURG 🏰

musi Talise la mi ante toki tawa toki pona a!

tenpo ni la musi li jo e sona len wan. sina sona e toki pona la ni li sona pi len ala li sona taso. sina lukin ala lukin e ni?

kin la musi li jo e nasin lukin kepeken kule pimeja, e ijo ante mute.

o lukin e musi!

#TokiPona #indieGameDev #secret

A screenshot of the overworld map of TRAILS in dark mode. There is a foldable map with a path winding through it on which pins show the locations of levels. The map also has height lines and text in sitelen pona.

A level from the night biome which always has the dark mode colors. There are three ships in it and some breakaway tiles.

A secret hidden amidst dunes! A new language! More accessibility! ⛵🏜️

For TRAILS v1.1 we included a dark mode, improved performance, translation of the full game to toki pona and a hidden twist.

now on
store.steampowered.com/app/3605120/Trails/
purplesloth.itch.io/trails

#indiegames #indiedev

Our partner studio Purple Sloth Studio have released a patch for their freshly released game Trails. Go and check it out!

#indiegame #gamedev #games #gaming

Tomorrow Joe will be playing Drop Duchy, Trails, and Shrink Rooms on stream (10am BST, 11am CEST, 6pm JST)!

Watch on Twitch: twitch.tv/thinkygames