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Whelm 🐧

@lessergames.com

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Official account for Whelm. Wishlist: http://steampowered.com/app/2906320

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Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · Apr 21

Kickstarter prelaunch page.

Reposts greatly appreciated.

Coming soon: Whelm

A baby penguin, in over its head. Help other animals and restore the island to working order in this single player sandbox.

www.kickstarter.com

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 21h

You're right. I should have said he doesn't store any physics objects. The backpack is for all the hats and sunglasses he collects. They cycle with the dpad. There's no inventory UI.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 22h

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 22h

Yep, the whole game is based around the physics engine and all the jank it comes with. That's part of the fun.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 22h

If you ever played the board game Mouse Trap, then you know the level of reliability to expect from my game. The physics system just needs a little nudge sometimes.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 22h

I'm leaving it so the balls can be picked up through the tubes at any point. Just in case they get stuck. Otherwise good luck catching them.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 22h

I'm leaving it so the balls can be picked up through the tubes at any point. Just in case they get stuck. Otherwise good luck catching them.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 22h

Just regular colliders for the tubes and reusing the windboost from the fans. Only two boosts are needed here. Working well for how stupidly simple it is.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 22h

There's no inventory, but I couldn't make players carry everything one by one.

#gamedev #indiegame

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 1d

10k likes and I change the name to "Australian Penguin Simulator 2"

Text reads: Smash. That. Like.
Image: First person perspective of a person getting a beating from a penguin.

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Seb Downie-Blackwell 🔜 Games Ground Berlin @downieseb.bsky.social · 1d

Same, bin who's arse has fallen completely out, same.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 1d

Plus you can choose which subreddits you want to advertise in. Skip r/gaming etc and find something more genre specific. People appreciate relevant ads and it will be cheaper.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 1d

So they made another super long Daft Punk music video, but without Daft Punk?

two men are sitting in front of a crowd talking about strategy

ALT: two men are sitting in front of a crowd talking about strategy

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Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 2d

I'm not participating in Next Fest, but I will release a demo soon. It's best to wait a week or two after NF concludes correct?

#gamedev

Penguin stands on a grassy slope and a balloon flies into the air.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 3d

a poster for jaws shows two men sitting next to each other and says lifeless eyes black eyes like a doll 's eyes

ALT: a poster for jaws shows two men sitting next to each other and says lifeless eyes black eyes like a doll 's eyes

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Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 3d

Nothing to show right now. I'm going to finally put up a demo and I don't want to spoil it.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 3d

All causes eh? Because I know for a fact, eating porridge dramatically increases your chances of a bear attack.

A higher dietary fiber intake was associated with a reduced risk of death. These findings suggest that fiber intake may offer a potential public health benefit in reducing all-cause mortality.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 4d

Not in the mood for a documentary right now.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 4d

That's it. Shut down the site. No one is going to top this one.

Emma™ @cockremover.bsky.social · 5d

if you went back in time and showed a caveman an iphone they would shoot you with a gun

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Eternal Skies @eternalskiestcg.bsky.social · 4d

I really want to get to 1000 wishlists, just for pure motivational purposes.

We are getting there, slowly but surely.

A screenshot from Steam that shows Current Outstanding Wishlists at 898

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 4d

Beans, cheese and Tabasco sauce. That's right, American sauce. I'm trying to bring countries together.

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Jagriff - Gentoo Rescue dev @jagriff.bsky.social · 5d

Only 1.5 days left for Steam discount! Check the game and these bundles out if you're into deep puzzle games hiding many surprises.

Glowkeeper is another top puzzler of 2025.

Thinky Award winners Can of Wormholes (2023) and Maxwell's puzzling demon (2024) need no introduction.

#puzzlegame

Steam store page showing that:
- Gentoo Resuce is 15% off
- Gentookeeper (bundle with Glowkeeper) is 17% off.
- Gentoo'd Demon Wormholes (bundle with Maxwell's puzzling demon and Can of Wormholes) is 30% off.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 5d

It was me. I killed it.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 6d

You have to read it in his voice

a man wearing glasses and a blue suit is standing on a street and saying `` oh , behave ! ''

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a blue suit is standing on a street and saying `` oh , behave ! ''

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Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 6d

As always do a full backup before upgrading Unity versions. Even minor ones.

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 6d

Warning to #unity3D devs. Version 6000.0.58 has a ton of editor errors. Supposedly going to be fixed in .59.

This is the latest LTS version with the security patch, so I'd stay on an older version and use the patcher tool for builds in the meantime.

.50 is stable for me.

#gamedev

Whelm 🐧 @lessergames.com · 7d

"Sandra Bullock is so hot right now."

a man in a red jacket is holding a stuffed animal while sitting in a crowd .

ALT: a man in a red jacket is holding a stuffed animal while sitting in a crowd .

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