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Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · 1d

"It looks like a delightful, charming, and genuinely innovative take on the idle genre, prioritizing your relaxation over a constant grind[...] It promises a small, quiet, and satisfying kind of magic."

A lovely piece from @indieinsights.bsky.social.

#nextfest #indiegames #cozygames #gamedev

1st Look: Is Familiar Findings the Cozy Desktop Companion You've Been Waiting For?

If your Steam wish list is starting to look like a supernatural zoo of delightful creatures, then let’s introduce you to a new resident: Familiar Findings.

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Indie Insights, Your Indie HQ @indieinsights.bsky.social · 1d

1st Look: Is Familiar Findings the Cozy Desktop Companion You’ve Been Waiting For?

Read the full review here:
indieinsights.org/2025/10/08/f...

#FamiliarFindings #DesktopGame #IdleGame #IndieGame

1st Look: Is Familiar Findings the Cozy Desktop Companion You've Been Waiting For?

If your Steam wish list is starting to look like a supernatural zoo of delightful creatures, then let’s introduce you to a new resident: Familiar Findings.

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Matt de Carvalho @demeru.itch.io · 18d

In #FamiliarFindings we have a display mode where the game goes from being on your task bar to being in it's own window. The window background can repeat so you can resize to how you'd like it to be. I'm still working on the art, that's a WIP.

#cozygames #creaturecollector #indiedev

Screen window of game with familiars on the bottom and a bright, colourful pixel art background or a forest and a witch's hut.

The same game with the background on the right side of the screen with the ledt taken up by google docs.

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · 21d

So excited to be adding more little touches to #FamiliarFindings! What animations do you think'd be fun to see in the game?

Matt de Carvalho @demeru.itch.io · 21d

For #FamiliarFindings we're going to be adding little animations to Avia your little corner witch as you interact with the game. I've got a happy wave hello for when you open the game up in the works.

#pixelart #indiedev

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · 23d

The #FamiliarFindings team is super excited to show off our first trailer put together by the amazing @foxdriftstudios.bsky.social.

✨Wishlist the game on Steam!✨ store.steampowered.com/app/3914780?...

Watch out for the demo coming soon~

#CozyGame #Idlegame #CreatureCollector #GameTrailer

Familiar Findings - Demo Trailer

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Matt de Carvalho @demeru.itch.io · Sep 7

I always miss #ScreenshotSaturday so I'm sneaking something in for #FamiliarFindings. Did you know you can play this game while also playing Stardew? I'm excited about what we're bringing into the game!

#cozygame #creaturecollector #idlegame

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Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Sep 5

Been a while since I shared some of the Familiars in my game. This little guy is yet to be named but his animations have come in from @minlii-assets.bsky.social and I have to say I think he looks great! #creaturecollector #idlegame #cozygame #screensitter #secondscreen

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Sep 7

Who doesn't want a cute little calico Two-tailed cat on #caturday? I really love these little guys and love the next tiers in the fauna family line.

#indiedev #pixelart #cozygame

Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thought it might be fun to combine #caturday and #screenshotsaturday in one post. This is our two-tailed cat, the starting familiar of our fauna family. We've updated the summoning page recently to make the rarity reveal feel a bit more special.

#gamedev #cozygame #creaturecollector #irishdev #cute

A screenshot from the idle creature collector FamiliarFindings. It depicts a grimoire. The left page shows a selection window where the user has chosen to summon a familiar from the fauna family. The right page shows a tarot style card, with a two tailed cat in the center, and two filled gems at the top of the card indicating its rarity out of five. The cat is white with orange spots, and the gems are red.

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Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very excited to announce that our steam page is live for wishlists. It all starts to feel a bit more real when there's something for people to click on!

#cosygame #indiegame #pcgame #steam #FamiliarFindings #creaturecollector #wishlist #idlegame #pixelart #godot

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Familiar Findings on Steam

Summon and study witches’ familiars in this charming creature collection game. Gather dragons, spirits and more in your quest to complete your magical grimoire. Watch them enchant your screen without ...

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our game #FamiliarFindings Steam store page is live! We're working hard to get the demo up but a share and wishlist would to show your support would be amazing!

#indiegame #cozygames #pixelart

store.steampowered.com/app/3914780/...

Familiar Findings on Steam

Summon and study witches’ familiars in this charming creature collection game. Gather dragons, spirits and more in your quest to complete your magical grimoire. Watch them enchant your screen without ...

store.steampowered.com

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Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Aug 16

We've added functionality to Familiar Findings to allow players to scale the art up and down to best fit their needs while studying, working, scrolling etc. Which leads us to this meme from one of our devs.

#devhumour #idlegame #collectathon #irishdev #indiedev #cozygame #pixelart

A screenshot of a Discord chat. The sender has posted a screenshot of the game Familiar Findings. In the screenshot, there is two versions of the same character in different sizes. One is taking up a large portion of the screen and the other is only taking up a very small amount. The character is a white-haired, blue-eyed witch, with pointed ears and a navy, red and yellow cloak. The character is drawn in a pixel art style. The caption to the screenshot says "Don't talk to me or my son ever again."

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Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Aug 15

Really excited to share our Steam Store art by @demeru.itch.io. We chose yellow for the background to help it pop in the dark blue Steam interface. We went through a few iterations on the logo, check out @demeru's page to see the full process!

#indiedev #gamedev #collectathon #irishdev #cozygame

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Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Aug 10

Sometimes game dev work involves a let less coding and a lot more researching for world-building purposes #indiedev #familiarfindings #fantasy

A screenshot of a youtube documentary that reads: Why Dragons Appear in Every Culture - From Asia to Europe uploaded by Hazards and Catastrophes. The screenshot depicts a scene from the documentary where Reena Poeschel, a linguist, discuss the roots of the word dragon.

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Aug 11

Cooking up new art for the #FamiliarFindings!

#Digitalart #ClipStudio #indiedev

Matt de Carvalho @demeru.itch.io · Aug 11

Working on new art for #FamiliarFindings! Just our cutie witch summoning a new familiar friend.

Sketch of Avia holding her grimoire to the left with a baby dragon peeking over her left shoulder and a new cat-like familiar coming out of the book.

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Aug 9

Here's the work put into getting our logo for #FamiliarFindings done! Wild how the book design changed from the sketch.

Which one do you like best?

#indiedev #branddesign #idlegame

Matt de Carvalho @demeru.itch.io · Aug 9

Working hard to get the logo done for #FamiliarFindings. I like being able to have fun with a logo, nice break from the corporate branding I got so used to doing. Here's my process from sketch to colours. Which one's your favourite?

After choosing 2 I made 3 variations of each to chase the design further.

Once we again chose the variations we liked I made loads of colour variations! They're all very pretty to me.

Finally we landed on these two versions, bright purple and pink monster shapes with orange flames and stars, and an outline of a book with the name inside with sparkly yellow stars for the 'i's dots, but haven't decided which one we like best yet.

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Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Aug 9

Sharing a page of our grimoire for #screenshotssaturday. The Familiars Tab shows you your familiars. This one is a bit special because it was translated into Dutch by my father who's Belgian. Hoping to launch with 8 languages including Irish

#indiedev #gamedev #cozygame #idlegame #fantasy

A screenshot of art from the game Familiar Findings. The screenshot shows an open grimoire with tabs along the top of the book. It is open on the Familiars Page with images of different fantasy creatures like ghosts, slimes and dragons. On the righthand side is a stats page translated into Dutch.

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Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Aug 6

No magical fantasy collectathon would be complete without dragons, so of course we've included a dragon family in #FamiliarFindings

With 23 different familiars so far, our playtesters have lots to choose from... but one player has clear favourites

#indiedev #gamedev #cozygames #pixelart #irishdev

A screenshot of my idle game FamiliarFindings. It shows our grimoire, open on the familiars tab, which shows the player's collection of familiars. The page resembles a page in a book, with a grid of 17 slots, showing four different kinds of dragon.

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Aug 6

I will never get over how cute this little one is. I'm building my army of kittens.

#pixelart #indiedev #cozygames #FamiliarFindings

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Aug 2

You know we're going to find a way to get our pets in this game.

blush-of-the-dawn.bsky.social @blush-of-the-dawn.bsky.social · Jul 31

The real life cat in question

A tuxedo cat curled up on an orange couch

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Aug 2

Volewick just too cute 🥲

#familiarfindings #indiedev #pixelart #mouse

Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Jul 30

Y'all seemed to enjoy Volewick in isolation, so here he is again as in the game.

#FamiliarFindings sits at the bottom of your screen and allows you to click around it, so you can always have your cute companions with you even while you're doing other things!

#pixelart #cozygames #indiedev

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Aug 2

Here's some of the art I've done of Avia and some of the familiars you can find in #FamiliarFindings 🚶🐈🌀🐉👻! The Nekomata is a newly added familiar so they get their own interaction with their witch.

#digitalart #creaturecollector #idlegame #indiedev

Avia smiling with the nekomata in her hands.

Avia leading three familiars, slime, baby dragon, and shade, off to the left of the screen. They're all roumb and smiling except the shade who looks annoyed they're not paying attention to it.

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Jul 29

Look at this little guy. This is Volewick the candle mouse familiar which you get for fusing two baby familiars together.

#FamiliarFindings #pixelart #monsterart

Idle Researcher @idleresearcher.bsky.social · Jul 29

Meet Volewick, one of the fauna-dragon hybrids from our upcoming idle game Familiar Findings.

This is a little rest animation I did for him for when he's too tired to keep wandering around the bottom of your screen.

#pixelart #cozygames #FamiliarFindings #indiedev

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Jul 28

We're an indie studio working on our first game together, Familiar Findings, a desktop idler where you play a witch trying to find new familiars to fill your grimoire with. After summoning them your familiars hangout at the bottom of your screen! Here's a sneak peak:

#idlegame #pixelart #cozygames

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Cliffa Games @cliffagames.bsky.social · Jul 28

Here's a few of the familiars we have as they were a while ago! They've been a bit edited to make them even cuter than I made them before ❤️

Matt de Carvalho @demeru.itch.io · Jul 2

Been working on sprites for an idle collectathon game I'm helping with. The idea is to fuse these guys together and get new critters from them.

The spirits are my favourite, love their personality. Some of these have been updated like the old dragon is sleeping on a hoard.

#PixelArt #IndieDev

A line up of four dragons that get darker as they grow. It starts with a small light red baby and ends with a sleeping purple dragon.

A line up of slimes that have little ears. The smallest are blue, and as they get bigger they go green then yellow.

A line up of four green ghosts, it starts out with a little sheet ghost, the next is slightly bigger and holding a lantern, the next is more like a poltergeist with a skull mask also holding a lantern, and the last looks like a reaper holding a lantern like a scythe.

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