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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 17d

Dude how the fuck am I supposed to post my dipshit thoughts about videogames when there are people on here frantically posting about loved ones unlawfully abducted by masked agents. This is the cyberpunk dystopia, we’re living it.

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 21d

Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on! More info about the session and where to submit can be found on our NEW website here www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

Experimental Games Showcase

SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 21d

YES! Huge recommendation. Big congrats to Bennett, Maxi, Gabe, and team. bsky.app/profile/devo...

Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 21d

Baby Steps is out now on PlayStation 5 and PC!

Put one foot in front of the other as you stumble and tumble through an expansive world full of unexpected challenges and hilarious inhabitants.

Baby Steps is out now! Put one foot in front of the other on PS5 and PC.

YouTube video by DevolverDigital

www.youtube.com

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · 27d

not sure what the original message was, since I can't see it, but it should work now.

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Armadillo Stock @armadillostock.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Armadillo Kickstarter is LIVE!

Help us launch a community-built, free-to-use platform for licensing human-made art directly from illustrators!

Find out more: kickstarter.com/projects/dialmformichele/armadillo-stock

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 19

Oh wow!

Die Gute Fabrik @gutefabrik.bsky.social · Aug 19

#Mutazione GAME OF THE DAY, US App Store. ✌️

Game of the day screenshot of Mutazione.

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Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · Aug 17

the girl who uses AI because she doesn't want to draw plant still lifes just makes me sad. That's ... that's not what drawing is.

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · Aug 4

Super psyched to publish this interview!

Showrunner of my favorite show! Possibly one of his only English language interviews ever? Wouter and team are some of my favorite living game designers
bsky.app/profile/eggp...

Eggplant Show @eggplantshow.bsky.social · Aug 4

Eggplant TV Plays De Mol - a very special new episode!

Laura, Jey, Doug, and Melisa sit down with De Mol showrunner Wouter Verstichel to talk about the recent 2025 season, and more. Lots of funny anecdotes, don't miss it!
eggplant.show/eggplant-tv-...

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: Eggplant TV Plays De Mol (2025 season) - Interview with Wouter Verstichel

We're recapping the 2025 season of our favorite tv show, Flemish De Mol (Season 13).  In this very special bonus episode, Laura, Jey, Doug, and Melisa sit down with Wouter Verstichel (Director/Sh...

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

Links to episodes 2-4 of the eggplant podcast about the music of #mutazione:

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Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: Into the Depths: The Music of Mutazione - Part 2

The second installment of a special miniseries produced by developer Die Gute Fabrik, an examination of their wonderful 'mutant soap opera' told through the lens of its music. In this episode, they di...

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

If you’re curious to learn even more about the soundtrack, check out the eggplant podcast, where Doug, Alessandro and I did a deep dive on all the different aspects of the Mutazione soundtrack in a miniseries of four episodes (below link to episode 1):
eggplant.show/into-the-dep...

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: Into the Depths: The Music of Mutazione - Part 1

Introducing a special Into the Depths miniseries produced by developer Die Gute Fabrik, an examination of their wonderful 'mutant soap opera' told through the lens of its music. In this first installm...

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

With it's 36 tracks, the digital #Mutazione soundtrack is quite meaty. And there's an additional four-track EP of Trailer Music on Alessandro's @millogameaudio.bsky.social personal bandcamp page:
alessandrocoronas.bandcamp.com/album/mutazi...

Mutazione - The Trailers EP, by alessandro coronas

4 track album

alessandrocoronas.bandcamp.com

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

Next to the daily town music, we had music that the NPC characters were listening to, like Miu’s riot grrrl tapes, or made themselves, like Spike’s lovesong, or the concert of the band on day 5. Plus a lot of custom-made music, for dream sequences, menus, trailers, etc…

Kai, Mutazione's player Character and Mui in Miu's home. Kai is standing behind Miu, who is listening to records. The room is split between a kitchen area and a living area. Baroque paintings and a collection of feathers on the wall, a head of a deer and and poster that reads "hang in there, kitty!"

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

The music would ebb out and become more calm in sections, especially at night. This is one of my favourite tracks:
akuparagames.bandcamp.com/track/at-night
You can get the whole soundtrack on Akupara's bandcamp page. (Also this seems like the only place where the vinyl is not sold out yet)

At Night, by Alessandro Coronas

from the album Mutazione (Original Game Soundtrack)

akuparagames.bandcamp.com

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

Each in-game day of Mutazione has a different track, that varies where you are in the game, and which time of day it is. Each track is made up by different soundclips and loops, that would get play randomly, so the music never feels repetitive.

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

We added all the town gardens as an update to #Mutazione 's Garden Mode a few months after we launched the game in 2019 (Platforms have changed since then, the game is not on Apple Arcade anymore, but on the App Store instead).

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

Alessandro @millogameaudio.bsky.social said: “To mimic the un-evenness of nature's motion, we needed extremely subtle sound design for the gardens. Each plant sounded slightly different from clip to clip for each growth stage. In the end we had more than 7000 individual clips of plant sounds.”

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

#Mutazione has its own “garden mode”, which lets you use the gardens as a ambient music generator, which evolves in time as new seeds plant themselves and mature plants die and make space for new ones.

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

Music and musical ambience takes a front seat when experiencing #Mutazione. There were the musical garden, in which the players were able to plant plants that each emitted ambient music clips. The key of the garden music would change depending on which plant “mood” dominated the gardens.

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Aug 1

Welcome to Alessandro Coronas @millogameaudio.bsky.social on Bluesky, so let's talk about the music and audio design of #Mutazione:
Music direction and composition was lead by Alessandro in close collaboration with Douglas @doougle.net designing and implementing the audio systems: a 🧵...

Screenshot from the game. The cast of the game is gathered at Spike's Bar. Miu, Tung and Spike are on stage playing a concert. You see the band from the back looking into the crowd in the Bar. Kai, the player character stands in the middle of the crowd.

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Nils Deneken @nilsdeneken.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you so much, I will send the regards to Alessandro. If you're into the trailer music, he has also released a Trailer EP next to the official Mutazione soundtrack: alessandrocoronas.bandcamp.com/album/mutazi...

Mutazione - The Trailers EP, by alessandro coronas

4 track album

alessandrocoronas.bandcamp.com