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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · May 10

Hablet, the daily-habit-city-builder is coming to a #Playdate Catalogue May 20th!
#indiedev #screenshotSaturday

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 2d

Untitled Witch Game
Pico8, 4 colors

[ #pixelart #art ]

Caramel the witch visits a tower on her broomstick #pixelart #art

a few enemies (Griffin, Frankenstein's monster, werewolf, mummy, zombie, knight, pumpkinhead, gargoyle)

a few bosses! evil tree with acorns, spike pendulum, ghost, tiny mushroom, mr and mrs Dracula

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 19d

youtu.be/SI3vzCNtVQY?...
Wow this looks incredible

Melkhiors Mansion - Windows PC Release

YouTube video by BitGlint Games

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Richard Jordan @ericretro.bsky.social · 19d

Still playing with this, but going in no particular direction. It's just fun seeing the Melkhior's Mansion characters come to life on the PlayDate.

#melkhiorsmansion #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

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Oatcup @oatcup.bsky.social · 23d

My game is out today 🚛! Haul cargo, meet other truckers, and live the adventure of the open road in Cherry Hill: A Trucking Adventure Simulator on @play.date Catalog: play.date/games/cherry...

🍿 To see more, check out the full trailer! youtu.be/_oECyEonn4U 🍿

#gamedev #playdate #indiegame

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Throwing your kid in a river was the og class mobility

piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tonight I’m rewatching Dreamwork’s Prince of Egypt wowie never realized how stacked this cast was

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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · Aug 15

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France.
So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness.
There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time.
Good luck, and love as always
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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · Aug 6

I BREAK MY POSTING SABBATICAL TO BRING THE NEWS THAT HABLET HAS PASSED 1000 COPIES SOLD!!!
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHOS AGREED TO MAKE A DEAL WITH THE CONCIERGE!

piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thank you! 🫡will do

piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thanks for the heads up! Hmm if you’ve just started please try deleting the save data and start a clean save, maybe something got corrupted when the save was created, lmk if that fixes, and if you have a crash log on the screen send a screenshot if you get a chance

piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · Jun 29

Hablet patch 1.15:

Fixed duplicate buildings appearing and disappearing.

Fixed placing a building too fast causing a crash.

Entropy system update, if one building is dilapidated, it will continue to erode until it is ruined before a new building will erode.
Submitted to catalogue and Itch!

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snub-nosed monk @smelting.bsky.social · Jun 28

if i do sufficiently thorough people watching, i'll finally figure out how to be

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Daily Pac-Man @dailypacman.bsky.social · Jun 21

In an old interview once featured on the Pac-Man fansite, Pac-Land, Toru Iwatani expressed interest in creating games that make people cry.

He elaborated that he would like to envision a dramatic game that would provoke emotions beyond what gamers (at the time) were used to.

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · Jun 17

Unpopular personal take.

Given the, like, hundreds of great looking indie games I want to play, I'd happily pay the same asking price of the longer version of the game for one that is no more than 4 hours long.

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aoiti - Imperial Ambitions @aoiti.bsky.social · Jun 16

Working on adding more info to the town labels...
Now you can see how many turns before babies are due! in a 4X game!!🤪
#IndieGameDev #tilesettuesday #gaming

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · Jun 9

arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...

The return of the $70 video game has been a long time coming

Top-end game pricing has never been lower when measured in constant dollars.

arstechnica.com

piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · Jun 9

Indies would love, (and be exponentially more impacted) by your 60$ ^^ vote with your wallet.

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tami lam @cuppy.bsky.social · Jun 9

- games are more expensive now to make than ever
- Obsidian doesn’t really do layoffs or crunch. They treat their employees well and find new projects for them.
- Game Pass is always an option
- Game studios are in HCOL locales
- $80 should be the norm for full-length AAA-budget games.

Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · Jun 9

Outer Worlds 2, the explicitly anti-capitalist roleplaying game developed by Obsidian, being the first Microsoft game to cost $80 USD (or a STAGGERING $100 CAD) is just too on the nose for me. Jesus fucking christ.

There are MAYBE 5 AAA games released in that past 5 years that could justify that $

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snub-nosed monk @smelting.bsky.social · Jun 4

did not buy a treat and was richly rewarded with free office cupcake

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Richard Jordan @ericretro.bsky.social · May 31

Back on this PlayDate project. Graphics are starting to appear from pixel supremo @craigstevenson.bsky.social and I've started work on the robot interface sub game. The game is called Zyphatron.

#zyphatron #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · May 27

Yay Hablet mention!
Saturday edition should really be on here too, one of the all time greats for sure

Playdate @play.date · May 27

"I’ve really appreciated the range of adventure games showing up on the Playdate over the last year, as the range of options gets diverse, engaging, and inclusive."

www.siliconera.com/playdate-is-...

Playdate Is Proving to Be a Home for Adventure Games

Playdate adventure games seem to be getting more diverse, engaging, and inclusive as people realize how to use the handheld.

www.siliconera.com

piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · May 23

In the meantime you can try deleting your save data and restarting and see if that fixes if you dont have too many days to lose!

piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · May 23

Hmm I’ll take a look, thanks for the feedback! No pressure but if you want to send your save data that would be incredible.

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Playdate @play.date · May 22

ONE week to go until Season TWO.

🐣 Make sure to pre-order so you're there from the very first moment: play.date/s2

🏋️‍♀️ Then, update your Playdate to be 100% ready for all the new goodness: help.play.date/update

🐎 LET'S DO THIS

One week to go. Season 2. Prepare yourself (and your Playdate)

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · May 22

Visual development art by Paul Felix for Lilo & Stitch (2002), dir. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

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