Of course! And awh I'm so glad it was on your mind already ๐ฅน
๐ฆฆ Freelance Games Producer โข IGDA-F Next Gen Leader '24 ๐ฆโโฌ Volunteer for brIGDA & IGDA-Foundation ๐ฆญ Hobby Artist, Cosplayer, and Zinester @UncannyTitans ๐ She/Her โข ๐ฉท๐๐ ๐บ๏ธ Meeanjin ๐ค๐โค๏ธ (Brisbane, Australia) โข AEST
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Of course! And awh I'm so glad it was on your mind already ๐ฅน
If you'd like Tempopo in it hmu if there's anything you need from us, and I'll see if anyone I know would be keen too ๐ It's just nice to see people enjoy and talk about indie games tbh
What criteria do the games need to meet to be in it? (like do they need a .pdf / physical Instruction Manual ?)
I feel way to observed bc of that last post, observe this instead youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...
Why are so many AI people trying to get into hobbies they absolutely despise? "Fuck reading just give me the summary", Fuck art just make it for me", "I got ideas but fuck actually writing" like??? Maybe just find something you enjoy doing and do that?????
They're raising child soldiers ๐ฑ
'Home Ice Cream' really Pavlov's Dogged me, always feeling the urge to run when I hear that specific bell ๐๐คค
I think that as an indie game dev without a large publisher, your target audience is not gamers in general, it is sickos. It's hardcore sickos that will be diving the depths of your genre and finding your game, and it is sickos who will be spreading it. Please the passionate, not the masses.
'Isle of Feathers' is launching on Kickstarter September 28th - less than 2 months!! It's been a wild ride over the last couple of years, and @junobanuno.bsky.social couldn't be more proud of what we've made. Beyond excited to share it with you ๐๐ฆ Follow us on KS here! ->โจ rb.gy/j6ykf0 โจ
genAI is morally wrong and disrespectful to the creatives in your life as long as the models are built with material stolen from unconsenting and uncompensated writers and artists there are a bunch of other reasons why it's bad - it's a rich tapestry - but that first one should be enough on its own
Drฤculeศti is LIVE on Kickstarter Play as Renfield, survive the terror of Castle Dracula, and find love in the darkest night in this seductive romantic horror narrative game. Starring Ray Chase as Dracula. Voice/Casting direction by @jennyyokobori.bsky.social ๐ค www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...
Every day I wake up ๐ญ
Around an international flight we decided to do this year's GMTK Game Jam. Our neighbours powerhoused it because we were so wiped but I'm glad we could still make stuff together ๐ฅบ chinwizard.itch.io/puricutie @kobikai.bsky.social @heypuffs.bsky.social @anguscoolan.com
It genuinely happens to so many people so why not you?
If you see this, post a castle
Maybe the trademark caused the X to have to be anywhere else for the others?
The X on PS controllers only make sense in Japan where they have the X and O flipped, O being select and X being cancel. The system is such a good design I wish that was ours. Square being menu and triangle being like a point of view.
something I'm surprised gen AI discourse didn't hit yet is the attitude "I asked for it to be done, so I made it" has always been how rich people view using workers who have trained skills and do the technical side. they see themselves as creators for having an idea, we were just a means to that end
It truly is Bluey's World and we are just living in it ๐
Can add "Toilet Guide" to my resume since the out of order sign on the flight was weirdly worded, only in English, and I was near enough to get people's attention. Like well over 3 dozen in the first couple of hours. I got y'all go piss girl ๐ซก
The latter was the awakening, the former came after.
PERFECTION OF COURSE
Me: I'll wear it all if I have to [be under the weight limit for suitcases] Angus: BOOKS?!
Thank you queen, I need to see yours now though (even if just DM) ๐
Reskeet with your first crush.
This but Steam reviews.
Oh I absolutely must! Thank you for the heads up!
Live?! I missed the actual stream BC we're road tripping ๐
Is it June because HAPPY PRIDE ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Suddenly trapped in the Higurashi Shrine as a huge storm sweeps through Shirakawago.
Was a bit too busy to post much BitSummit stuff but we are in the best town in Japan and I have to show it ๐ฝ๐ธ #Hakui #RoadTrip
Thanks for coming to see Tempopo and chatting, I'm so glad you liked it ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ
CONGRATS OMG ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐
Have you collected your @denkiworks.bsky.social trading/business cards? #BitSummitThe13th
We're at @bitsummit.bsky.social this weekend! If you're here, please come by and play, we also have stamps!
Sending y'all hugs back and keen to see love for Fishbowl when I walk by ๐๐ and of course ๐ฅบ๐
I saw the booth today and was gonna message sobs when I could sit down, aaahhhhh wish you were here (but also good luck on the milestone!) ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐
Hello. About a year and a half ago, some guy called Ralph asked me if I wanted to make a new videogame website. We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.
I wish we could spend BitSummit together again so you could get them ๐ฅบ
Have you got your stamp books ready? ๐น๏ธ
Safe flight! Keen to see you over the weekend!
A better time of year to go to World Expo too if before it ends in October. Much less intensely hot at least ๐ฅต๐
a pleasure to catch up with @fuzzyg.host to chat all things janet demornay, and how rental horror stories may bring us all together (and also about how they fled sydney)
Me too! I'll DM you.
Oh there's an IGEA event? We're leaving on a road trip that day so it wouldn't have worked out if we could be invited. It's a chaotic process but it's been a fun event.
Wonderful! Are you around before or after BitSummit? I'd suggest going after BitSummit if you do.
Not even 24 hours after leaving Australia and we were back in Australia (Pavilion, Osaka World Fair, Japan)
๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ I miss hangs with y'all, if you're ever in Brisbane for some reason you all have a free place to stay ๐
One day we'll be back in Japan together ๐ฅบ๐ฅบ
YOOOOO YESSSS ๐ฅน๐ฅน๐ฅน
Oh this looks great, thank you! Hope to see you there then, good luck with the event!
We're in Kyoto from Wed 16/JUL to Tue 22/JUL if anyone is around for BitSummit. Keen to see people around the before the event, at it, or at the river ๐ Who's going to be around? ๐๐
ไปๅนดใ @tempopogame.com ใจไธ็ทใซ @bitsummit.bsky.social ใซๅๅ ใใพใใฎใงใๆฏ้ใ็ซใกๅฏใใใ ใใ๏ผใฆใใฝใฝใฎ่ฃฝๅ็ใ้ในใพใ๏ผใใใฆไปๅใฏๅใใฆใชใผใใผใกใคใใฎในใฟใณใใๆใฃใฆใใใพใ๏ผใใใใใฎใฒใผใ ใใจใซใใถใคใณใใใในใฟใณใใใใใฎใงใในใฟใณใๅธณใๅฟใใใซ๏ผๅ จ้จ้ใใฆใญ๏ผ
We're returning to @bitsummit.bsky.socialโฌ this year with @tempopogame.comโฌ! Come and say hi to the team, check out our finished game, and bring your stamp book because for the first time ever we're bringing ๐STAMPS๐! There's a design for each of our games, collect them all!
I'll do my best ๐ซก
I've never done a career talk before so I did a Lightning Talk about my Production career (how people might find themselves in games, retrospectives, and process flows). Thank you @technicallygames.bsky.social for having me! How did I go? ๐ซฃ๐ณ youtu.be/8NTJyTWYVGs?... #LightningTalks #CareerTalk
Reading the softcore cost of progress PR statement somehow made it worse My heart goes out to everyone impacted, to your families- itโs not fair and no amount of โthank you for your workโ platitudes from the ones doing the axing will ever make it sit right
I'm taking selfies with the photo cards as soon as I shake whatever virus I've been rattled with for 2 weeks now you better believe ๐ค
It feels unreal to be holding a game I worked on but @origamedigital.bsky.social's Umurangi Generation is here ๐ฅน๐ฅน I'm so stoked we got to do the character cards and disc the way they are too, @gaiakuaoz.bsky.social did such wonderful art again for them! #IndieGame #PhysicalRelease
Tim will be there in spirit (though he would have been regardless) as we were able to do something very cute for Witch Beam booths from here on. I'm keen to see what people think ๐
BITSUMMIT ATTENDEES! Introducing "Ponโs Friends!" โ the official Denkiworks BitSummit 2025 t-shirts! If you're interested, please fill out the form linked here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS.... (NOTE: T-Shirts will only be available to order for 2 days - closing July 3rd)
Cheesy action is just so much more fun too, like isn't that why we love DMC? One day there will be an M:I II reckoning and I'm so ready for it ๐ค๐ซก
That's what I'm saying! The middle is probably the part that could be changed as the pacing is weird and the shots are just so odd at times but the action scenes are GLORIOUS! THE DOVES!!!!!!!
A friend made me watch all of them in a week (as I've never seen any except half of 6 on said friends laptop in a hotel room) so we could all see 8 together when it came out and it was A LOT. 2 stuck with me the most. In exchange he finally watched RRR for me so apparently... M:I series = RRR GL ๐
SURPRISE โผ๏ธ my online store is now accepting orders!Bunch of new product photos too (taken by my partner!). Check it out at www.crowlees.com โจ Shares are v v appreciated ๐ซถ๐ซถ๐ซถ
Excited to say we'll be at BitSummit this year, my favourite Indie Games Showcase event in the world ๐ Who else will be there?
Ah thankyou ๐ฅน
A huge thankyou from @junobanuno.bsky.social and I to everyone who came and said hello at #queenslandgamesfestival last week! ๐ QGF is one of the highlights of the year - so wonderful to join in the excitement for all the new and upcoming games Photos by the splendid @funwithstuff.bsky.social!
keep seeing supposedly smart people give genAI benefit of the doubt by going "it's obviously useful for certain applications" even though those applications are always just behind that wall over there or go to a different school or something like we didn't just do this dance over blockchain
I'll let you, in fact I'd encourage it!
Also I love being a Producer and got reminded at QGF how energised I get talking to Devs and people keen on getting into Games Development about things they wanna make ๐ฅน๐ฅน๐ฅน
It felt great, really energising! I'd be happy to take over for @danvogt.bsky.social any time he needs a break again ๐ซก It would be good to get you up there next time too, but I might have to make it a bit harder ๐
The Queensland Games Festival 2025 was wonderful and I'm so glad we got to exhibit Tempopo again now that it's out. I hope y'all enjoyed the day including our year putting together and hosting END GAME. Getting to show the game and chat to Devs and players all day made my heart so warm ๐ฅน๐
Seb has done a great recap (with game dev interviews) of the Queensland Games Festival that was on this weekend. Check out some cool new games here on his channel! youtu.be/6iBZFodidU8?...
When you think you're about to eat a bag chip but it's just a loose onion ๐
If you're around Brisbane, @tempopogame.com will be at the Queensland Games Festival tomorrow! I'm also hosting END GAME this year with my opposite, Lee May! And I'm ALSO also stoked my Goa gets to surf their way through the city this year ๐โโ๏ธ
Wah thankyou I'm glad they're noticed ๐ฅน
Step into this hand-drawn, folkloric, pacifist bullet-hell forest and take a new look at @soyoudontneedto.bsky.socialโฌ's Key Fairy! Announcing the first ever public demo, now available on Steam. Just premiered in Frosty Games Fest, watch the trailer:
โก๏ธ Power Sink, @winterwiregames.comโฌ ๐ถ Tempopo, โช@witchbeam.com.auโฌ ๐ Which Way Up, @whichwayupgame.bsky.socialโฌ
From @sbug.gamesโฌ the studio that brought you Webbed, comes Isopod: A Webbed Spin-Off! Launching Oct 2025. Just premiered in Frosty Games Fest, watch the trailer:
A selection of games with demos you might have missed! โฌ๏ธ Shape Sender Deluxe, @deadteapot.gamesโฌ ๐ง Snow Cone, @hungrysky.comโฌ ๐ Rollick N' Roll, @crayonixgames.comโฌ
Get a first look at the stupendously detailed arm customisation in 2D stealth-comedy, My Arms Are Longer Now. What a flex! Just premiered in Frosty Games Fest, watch the trailer:
Puzzles with cats? Puzzles with cats! A brand new gameplay trailer from @abandonedsheep.comโฌ Schrodinger's Cat Burglar! Just premiered in Frosty Games Fest, watch the trailer:
WE MAKIN!!!!
That's all folks! Thank you for tuning into the very first Frosty Games Fest ๐ Please make time to visit our website for a complete list of all the games showcased today, and a link to our Steam event where you can wishlist your favourites and find demos to play! frostygamesfest.com/showcase2025
Make sure you check out the Frosty Games Fest Steam Event! Add your faves to your wishlist and snag some cool demos: store.steampowered.com/sale/FrostyG...
Also I just got back from holiday and I am already so busy ๐ญ but big achievement, I swam the full way around an island (2km give or take) on our last full day! Kid me would be stoked ๐ฅน๐งโโ๏ธ Now that we have internet again we have SO MUCH to catch up on ๐คฏ
Second year in a row of making the poster art for the Queensland Games Festival. I'm really proud of this one as I was able to do something I wanted to do the first year: A full poster illustration featuring our mascot, Goa, and the Brisbane Powerhouse. #Art #QueenslandGamesFestival
A GREAT Barrier Reef that doesn't whiff off when you're diving ๐คฟ
Hundreds of fish bigger than my hands swimming in a school, when I tried to follow them they started looping around me in a circle, no pic ๐
Oh happy Pride, I almost got the hat that said: ME WANT WOMEN ME FEAR FISH ๐ฉท๐๐
We're hoping for wind so we can really get sailing โต
I'm fully leaning in to the lifestyle
Will seeing the Great Barrier Reef with my bare eyeballs make me not have depression? Stay tuned ๐โต
We've got a brand new demo for you in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! ๐ฌ Whole new level! ๐คฏ New item splitting mechanic. ๐ฅ Play drop-in/drop-out coop. Go check it out on Steam this weekend ๐ฑ
It takes as long as you need, and as long as you wanna be there ๐
It gets so hard! With no urgency to finish or limit on time it really helps get into that comfort level to just keep trying ๐ฅน
The eye watches you play Tempopo. The eye does not judge how long it takes to complete a level. The eye just cares that you try ๐๏ธ
also! we'll be selling stickers!! come get em! they turned out so well, working with genius artists bring me so much joy
Not one but TWO games I've been Producer for are showing tonight ๐น๐ฑ I'll be showing @tempopogame.com but nearby @abandonedsheep.com will be demoing 'Schrodinger's Car Burglar' as well! Two cool games by two lovely teams ๐
