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Cel Davison @celdavison.bsky.social · 24d

testing out subtle animation in the backgrounds

hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Sep 11

You'll get to meet some of our main characters, fight in your rig, and get a feel for the world. We're excited to see what you think!

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Sep 11

We’re excited to share some news: the demo for our new project, A Line Held Tight, is available today! You can get access by joining our aptly named ‘Demo Access’ tier on Patreon!
www.patreon.com/posts/demo-a...

A Demo Arrives | humble grove

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Cel Davison @celdavison.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Bear

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Aug 11

The game is now called A Line Held Tight. It's a sci-fi visual novel about a miner's strike. Here are some of the portraits from it

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Aug 11

In our latest Patreon post Cel talks about appropriating Frank Auerbach's process of repeatedly erasing and drawing over his portraits.

Text and video versions can be found here for $1+ Patrons: www.patreon.com/posts/drawin...

Drawing Until You're No Longer Ashamed | humble grove

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Digital Poppy Poppy Zone @poppyzone.bsky.social · Jul 22

doing a bit of marketing bear with me. HEY GAMERS! 🎮what was YOURE 🫵 favourite part of ⭐LOVELY LADY RPG👻 - the exciting game about not really doing anything of consequence now available on steam dot com???? let me know down below in the replies👇👇👇👇👇👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3567040/...

Lovely Lady RPG on Steam

Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you. After waking up with a hole in her ceiling, a cosmic space Orb embedded in her chest an...

store.steampowered.com

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Steam edition of Lovely Lady RPG is out now!

(made by member @poppyzone.bsky.social & @miacain.bsky.social)

Pay rent, get hormones, meet women and go for a walk

Digital Poppy Poppy Zone @poppyzone.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ok fine. Eat up, hogs. store.steampowered.com/app/3567040/...

Lovely Lady RPG on Steam

Lovely Lady RPG is a visual novel about wandering around and just sort of seeing what life has in store for you. After waking up with a hole in her ceiling, a cosmic space Orb embedded in her chest an...

store.steampowered.com

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Digital Poppy Poppy Zone @poppyzone.bsky.social · Jul 17

Lovely Lady RPG 'Ok fine, it's on Steam now' Edition is out TOMORROW check it out if you like any of the following
1) walking in the woods
2) the house snake
3) making out with armpits
4) the GIC
5) giving me money
store.steampowered.com/app/3567040/Lovely_Lady_RPG

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Cel Davison @celdavison.bsky.social · Jul 15

The Gorilla

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Cel Davison @celdavison.bsky.social · Jul 15

the people at Fellow Traveller are always lovely to work with. if you think you'd be a good fit for the role you definitely should apply!

Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · Jul 11

We're seeking an Associate Product Manager to join our travelling party!
Help shape the journey of unique, story-rich indie games, and support go-to-market plans that resonate with indie players. You can find out more details here: bit.ly/4lk7FXf

Job Opportunity - Associate Product Manager — Fellow Traveller Games

We have the rare opportunity to join the Fellow Traveller marketing team as an Associate Product Manager. Help our developer partners bring unique, story-rich indie games to life! As Associate Produc...

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SUPERJUMP @superjumpmagazine.com · Jun 26

"It is worth trying to pursue your dreams no matter how the world fails you"

Review by Priya Sridhar

➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/no-longer-home-has-a-queer-romance-and-kitty-mystery-drafting/

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · May 12

i can't believe @artifixor.bsky.social would say this :-O

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · May 12

New Patreon exclusive post and video on our approach to world building 🌍

www.patreon.com/c/humblegrove

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Mar 25

Lastest Patreon post:

The Final Boss of Game Development... TEXT

$1+ Patrons can read or watch here:
www.patreon.com/posts/final-...

Final Boss of Game Development... Text | humble grove

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Feb 19

Our next project is a Visual Novel.

In a mine, deep in space, workers, each in their personal mechanical rigs, tunnel in search of a rare and valuable ore.
After a recent union merger a strike looms...

Watch/read more about it
📝 www.patreon.com/posts/were-m...
📼 youtu.be/IoJRx8L5kcM

We're Making a Visual Novel

YouTube video by humble grove

youtu.be

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Feb 19

We're making it in Narrat: a free and open source interactive fiction, visual novel and point and click engine made by @true-liana.bsky.social narrat.dev

Here's a peak at a mockup

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Feb 19

Our next project is a Visual Novel.

In a mine, deep in space, workers, each in their personal mechanical rigs, tunnel in search of a rare and valuable ore.
After a recent union merger a strike looms...

Watch/read more about it
📝 www.patreon.com/posts/were-m...
📼 youtu.be/IoJRx8L5kcM

We're Making a Visual Novel

YouTube video by humble grove

youtu.be

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tori-lynne 🧙🏽💫 @transitoriii.bsky.social · Feb 14

Kudos to @humblegrove.bsky.social for their work on No Longer Home! If there was any game I could've been playing while in a liminal state, I'm glad it was this one.

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Feb 17

Thank you so much for playing it! We're glad it resonated with you.

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Jan 17

The companion video has lots of juicy extra art and footage not in the post! It also took us a long time because we flubbed most takes. Two reasons for you to watch it.

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Jan 17

Hi there, remember Twilight Array? A while ago we wrote about our design process for the environments, and recently we decided to polish it up and make it available on Patreon.

Patrons can check out the post and watch the companion video here: tinyurl.com/585rtbs9 pic.x.com/LdLpgEBPuP

Designing Environments by Iterating on Failure

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Narrat @narrat.bsky.social · Feb 2

Anyone making/made Narrat games? Post about them here so everyone can find your games

(I also need to update the narrat.games website so if you want your game to get visibility there, reply to this)

narrat.games | List of narrat games ready to play

narrat.games is a directory of games made with narrat that you can play right now!

narrat.games

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Digital Poppy Poppy Zone @poppyzone.bsky.social · Jan 30

The Lovely Lady RPG artbook is now available seperatly, since people kept asking for it... eat up pigs... das-kunstkollektiv.itch.io/lovely-lady-...

Lovely Lady RPG - Artbook by Das Kunstkollektiv

The artbook of Lovely Lady RPG

das-kunstkollektiv.itch.io

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · Jan 17

And if you saw me link the video in the body of the post accidentally: no you didn't.

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