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Shawn Clapper

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Lifetime coder Made Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams : The Flight Simulator of Jigsaw Puzzle Games Support us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/thatsnicegames Play for FREE! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1653970/ Press Kit: https://shorturl.at/mgkvs

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · Nov 14

Still blown away by how many other indie game devs agreed to collaborate with us for our sticker pack!

59!

59 indie games as stickers in Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams.

Everyone is so amazing 💙💙💙

Puzzle with friends and decorate your room with sticker!
Check it out here
store.steampowered.com/app/1653970

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 18h

Players are having fun with the new Halloween Event!

#indiegame #spooky

Try it out, it's free:
store.steampowered.com/app/1653970

Screenshot of game Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams. Shows two carved pumpkins on a shelf and one pumpkin decorated with stickers.

Screenshot of game Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams with a room full of ghosts and candles.

Screenshot of game Jigsaw Puzzle dreams showing a bed with halloween cookies, a voodoo doll, skulls, and stickers.

Screenshot of game Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams showing a foggy room filled with ghosts and candles and a floating mask face.

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween Event live for Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams!

Free for all, have fun!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/165...

#indiegame #halloween

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams - Haunted Dreams Halloween Event - Steam News

Haunted Dreams Halloween Event is live! Features player masks, spooky decorations, moody room fx, and more!

store.steampowered.com

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween Event live for Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams!

Free for all, have fun!

store.steampowered.com/news/app/165...

#indiegame #halloween

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams - Haunted Dreams Halloween Event - Steam News

Haunted Dreams Halloween Event is live! Features player masks, spooky decorations, moody room fx, and more!

store.steampowered.com

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 1d

It's coming.

#indiegame #halloween

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GameMistresss @gamemistress.bsky.social · 3d

I love love LOVE this game! Please do me a favour and support this dev. This is the ultimate puzzle game that even allows you to upload your own puzzles ( once a dlc pack has been bought.)
Incredible controls, fun customisations, there are plenty of fun puzzles to try before you upload your own.

Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · Nov 14

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 3d

Working on a special update for Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams.

#indiegame #Halloween

(Check out our game here store.steampowered.com/app/1653970)

Screenshot of Unreal Engine with abscured text reading Haunt and a partial scary face shown.

Screenshot of Unreal Engine showing the interface editor with some words partially shown like Stutter, Tense, and Punishment.

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 8d

Yea I feel like overwhelmingly positive is near impossible with a free game. We will get like 20+ positive reviews in a row and then a random troll joke negative one and it ruins all our progress.

Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 8d

I've always felt the way we display percent should be with larger numbers. You always have to use numbers like 99.99999% to show actual rare things.

It's hard to explain if a disease kills "only" 2% of people then every plane ride a few of the passengers would be dead from it which is a lot.

Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine trying to explain the Monty Hall problem to them.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_H...)

Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 9d

So the people involved are going to jail right? Right?

Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 9d

Btw if you are one of the few that does not have to worry about paying for healthcare please take a look at our patreon :)
www.patreon.com/c/thatsniceg...

A longshot because we would need a LOT of subscribers to pay for her care but it can't hurt to ask.

(plus we'd make an awesome game for all)

Creators of Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams + New Unrevealed Game

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 9d

I can't be the only one that spends every waking moment worried about when the big beautiful bill cuts medicare/medicaid.

When this happens my mom is going to die.

We have no way to pay for her medicine and doctor visits. She is just going to die and there is nothing we can do.

Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 11d

If an AI was only trained on art you are familiar with you would instantly recognize what it took for where.

This is the trick it pulls, like expecting you to have memorized every image from an image search...if you haven't seen it before it must be "new".

Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 11d

The question should never be "Can AI replace artists?"

It should always be "Can stealing art from artists replace paying artists?"

AI does NOT "generate" art. AI steals art and displays the stolen work. It fools you because the database is so large you don't always recognize the stolen art.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 11d

Don't worry about not fitting in, because fitting in isn't an important part of your life.
Be proud of being different♡
Your life is shining🌈

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Tron: SCARY @asterionhex.monster · 15d

Geralt died

A bowl with a skeleton sitting in it like Geralt in the tub

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 16d

The new gradient puzzles in our game look so pretty on the walls!

Check out the new gradient puzzle maker in Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams. Gradient puzzles created with shaders for infinite detail!

store.steampowered.com/app/1653970

#indiegame
#free

Screenshot of the game Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams. Shows a wall in a virtual room with gradient color puzzles hung on the wall. A bunch of puzzle pieces are captured in motion falling on a lamp in the room.

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 16d

Man, BiSH is one of my best music finds in awhile. Their album CARROTS and STiCKS is great!

Love how purposefully they record the quick deep breaths before a chorus.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevH...

If you like this, I recommend checking out the full album (and their other stuff)

BiSH / DiSTANCE [OFFiCiAL ViDEO]

YouTube video by BiSH

www.youtube.com

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 20d

So Say We All!
Here comes an upcoming behind-the-scenes book: Battlestar Galactica: The Untold Story of the Revolutionary Drama

The plan is for this book to come out in 2028, the 50th anniversary of OG BSG and the 25th anniversary of the reboot.

Day one for me. 🖖

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Ian MacLarty @ianmaclarty.com · 21d

Mars First Logistics 1.0 comes out on Friday! Here are some of my favourite builds from Steam Workshop:

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Trapped Chest @trappedchest.bsky.social · 21d

Coming up with a name for a new game has got to be one of the most frustrating parts of game design.
I can come up with plenty of names, but all the good ones are already trademarked.

#gamedesign #boardgame #indiedev #tabletop #gaming

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 21d

Yes. The annoying part for me is having to come up with a name before we have most of our game. We need to get exposure right away but a better name will probably come to us late in development.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 23d

we're coming into just about the last 10 days of the sale!

Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · Aug 23

hey hey! i'm doing a sale of my packs of moody, atmospheric, amateur photos of Maine, "A Place Without Bodies", on sale for 2/3rds off! for just $20, you get over *600* photos, great for projects of all kinds, *with* license for commercial use! lasts till 9/30, midnight! ko-fi.com/s/bc50ecb11f

a late night shot of a gas station pump, with the yellow and orange neon lights particularly strong

a photo of a rusty green bridge and a distant building over a river, caked in fog

a photo of a graveyard, covered in snow, the sky blotted out in white, with a blue tint to it all

a late night winter road, with deep red street lamps lighting everything

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Shawn Clapper @shawnclapper.bsky.social · 23d

Wait, my brother and I JUST got done watching this. Then this was the first thing on my feed. WTF!

Love the part at the end where the bad guy is like "Oh no not going to get me" and then shoots himself.

Also the Dead Heat song they found for the end credits.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 23d

DEAD HEAT!

It's like a movie people would make up to mock 80s movies. Is it any good? No. Is it entertaining? Treat Williams plays a cop called Roger Mortis who whilst investigating a series of crimes by seemingly unkillable crooks, gets zombified himself, and this happens...

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