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"Legbreaker" is a wonderful pixel art puzzle platformer with an amazing sense of style!?!🐸💜✨ #indiegames

📺: youtu.be/tcwquvL7jxU

The Contradiction Underlying The Witness "The Witness is a game all about perspectives." – Joseph Anderson I love The Witness. Typically, this sentence would be followed by "I also...

"The Contradiction Underlying The Witness"

i love The Witness, but i've always felt that there was a contradiction between what it *wants* to convey and what it actually *does*.

maybe.

maybe not.

it depends on how you look at it.

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In Stars and Time Broke My Heart and Grew It Back... Again... and Again... and Again... Sometimes, I get bored and I pick out an interesting looking game to pass the time. Most of my selections don't end up sticking with me for ...

"In Stars and Time Broke My Heart and Grew It Back... Again... and Again... and Again..."

a post about one of my recent favorite works in the genre of "RPGMaker game that will break your heart and change your life"

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Siffrin's glow up! 🤍

#isat #instarsandtime

Siffrin's glow up! 🤍

#isat #instarsandtime

i moved The Indie Gaming Cookie to Blogspot! check it out!

from now on, this is where new posts will be. though the existing posts in WordPress will stay.

theindiegamingcookie.blogspot.com

An Incredibly Broad Dissection of Pizza Tower’s Level Design Pizza Tower levels have so much PIZZAZZ. But how? Let’s discuss how this beloved indie game’s levels are handcrafted and created based on their four basic cornerstones: mechanics, layou…

ARTICLE: "An Incredibly Broad Dissection of Pizza Tower’s Level Design"

Pizza Tower levels have so much PIZZAZZ. But how? Let’s dissect how Pizza Tower’s levels are handcrafted based on their mechanics, layout, flow, and visuals.

(~36 mins. read)
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Using Balatro to Explain Structured Programming Even this silly, addictive deck-builder roguelike can provide a meaningful analogy to the basics of structured programming. Let’s see how.

ARTICLE: Using Balatro to Explain Structured Programming

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SAME HAHAHHA

mahal kita, my medicine.

happy valentine's ! 💚

(P.S. The title is "I realized, I like you~ 💙" in Filipino)

(P.P.S. Here's the timelapse for the creation of this piece!~)

Napagtanto na, gusto kita~ 💙

Psychological Traps in “High Seas Hero” Have you ever spent hours grinding a mobile game, eager to receive that all-so-compelling 5-star reward, without realizing you’re not actually having fun anymore? Modern mobile games are buil…

ARTICLE: "Psychological Traps in “High Seas Hero”

Have you ever spent hours grinding a mobile game without realizing you’re not actually having fun anymore? Well, it may not be entirely your fault. Let's see why.

(22 mins.)
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ARTICLE: "Awkward Looting Mechanics Can Worsen Even a Classic Game’s Pacing"

I love Lego Star Wars, but its pacing has always felt rather odd. If you’ve ever felt the same, then the game’s looting mechanisms may be partly of blame.

(18-minute read)
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picking these wasn't easy! but i hope you come to understand why i picked them.

enjoy reading!

My Favorite Indie Games I Played in 2024 What a year it’s been, huh?

ARTICLE: "My Favorite Indie Games I Played in 2024"

I wanted to show my joyful appreciation to the many high-quality indies that I played this year, but particularly to these 8 which really left a mark on me. 💚💚

(14-minute read)
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(games in the image): A Dance of Fire and Ice, Everhood, OneShot, Cave Story, Until Then, Hylics, Bioshock, Risk of Rain 2, Geometry Dash, Balatro, Stardew Valley, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, and Cuphead

Katana ZERO, INSIDE, and TOEM are my favorites not in the artwork!

2024's been a rocky year, but if there's one thing that kept me going: it's great games. here is a collage of some favorites i played throughout the year!

merry christmas and happy holidays, everyone! 💚❤️💚❤️

- cookiejar

thank you so much!

How Risk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm Misunderstood Its Own Game The best art and music team will not save a DLC from the consequences of rushing it.

ARTICLE: "How Risk of Rain 2: Seekers of the Storm Misunderstood Its Own Game"

The best art and music team will not save a DLC from the consequences of rushing it.

(21-minute read)
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alternatively:

GUP? yes,

GUP! 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🍊🧡🧡🧡🧡

#riskofrain2 #pixelart

bordered!

one truck, two styles! 🛻🛻

#pixelart

no, but seriously, this is one of the best games i've played in recent times. i plan on writing and making a video about it!

i wanna praise particularly its pixel art department, which i'm sure already gets a lot of love, but it *is* really beautiful.

just finished playing Katana Zero!!

(ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND)

uhhhh yeah, it's pretty good i guess.

the same is true for the player as well, who naturally has lower standards for a free mod than the base game they paid for.

CookieJar

you can check out my games on cookiejargaming.itch.io

:OOO i don't have that many yet though,,