brainfruit!

Rob Dubbin and Garrett miller are at gdc it’s true

the rumors are true! brainfruit is at gdc. look for us in the standard nooks, crannies, etcetera

A drawing of a bright green blobby goo friend with a cheerful smile who is waving at you, on a purple and white patterned background. The friend’s name is in the lower left corner: “plasm”, and the artist’s signature is in the lower right: Garrett Miller.

Meet my starfrand, Plasm! Drawn by the inimitable @garrett.bsky.social, my new buddy will keep me company as I play @brainfruit.bsky.social’s new social card game, Starfriends, that shows how well you know people, or teaches you about what you don’t!

starfriends is OUT NOW!

and if you got a deck and played, let us know how it went!

starfriends.online

A moss image of purplish space with stars. The prompt reads "In the deepest depths of the cosmos, our instruments have deteced something... unprecedented... "

we just received a signal from deep outer space... decoding now...

"there .. is... a.. new... moss... community.. challenge!"

play.moss.town/challenge/sp...

pixel art of a a yellowish green ray of sunlight across the top of a tree, looking down from above on a dark canopy

"sunray on treetop" by wordbug

moss.town

a cacophony of friends!!

pixelart made in moss of a knight turning to dust as a neon pink laser explodes from their chest #pixelart

pixel art made in moss of a grown-up watches a child play with a patch of grass as a retrofuturistic hovercraft zooms in the background

pixel art made in moss of a wacom-like cup of pens next to a laptop, short circuits patterns emerging above them

pixel art abstract drawing of pink, purple, and white plaid and some pixel pink dithering

MOSS is already growing some amazing art..

"Map of DefineAs" by DefineAs (linktr.ee/defineas)

"Look out for Jar" by sam (www.chapliboy.com)

"Cup of Wands" by ardy

"This Sleek Tape" by my daughter (age 5, awesome, downstairs)

🌱 draw your own: moss.town

The Starfriends are arriving!!!

be kind, rewind! these hoodies are so cozy

MOSS — A Painting Toy Where Every Brush Is a Tiny Program A 128x128 pixel canvas with programmable brushes. Code a brush, see what it does, share it with your friends.

we put out a new free thing at @brainfruit.bsky.social today, a pixel-painting toy called MOSS. i'm not a great or even good pixel artist but i love noodling on a cozy constrained canvas with weird brushes and infinite undos. it's at the centroid between asesprite, procreate, and pico8 www.moss.town

pixel art drawing of a happy boy, drawn in purplish red

pixel art of an early prototype of the "friednster" brush, which generates friends for you for FREE

MOSS lets you import any image and then totally mess it up. what an opportunity!

every brush in moss is code that runs its functionality on every cell you're interacting with on the canvas. its really, really neat imo!

made lots of happy doodles while developing MOSS - my biggest frustration has been not having other people making brushes for me to play with, so let's start to fix that!

moss.town

brainfruit's newest toy, out now, for free! make something wonderful

moss.town

screenshot of the interface of my pixel art drawing tool, MOSS

drawing made in the pixel art tool of a person and a donkey next to a stream

vhs-y glitch pixel art painting, blue and pink hues

kinda "nighttime city vibes" pixel art painting. broken purple vertical lines/grid and some hot pink triangles

I've been working on a new painting toy for pixel artists, and I'd love to find a few folks to test it out and give feedback. I'm already having a lot of fun with it. Message me here or email!

garrett @ brainfruit . studio

a hand-drawn one-eyed Starfriend named "allnighter" who really looks the part

some of you on here

we grew some starfriends today

what happens when you give 3 different authors the exact same TINY sprite sheet? you get 3 COMPLETELY different PICO-8 games!! it's...

adamatomic.itch.io/update-jam

🎰 A Jackpot of Skulls by @brainfruit.bsky.social
🐤 Bird Watcher by @curseofremy.bsky.social
🐸 Frogwell by @adamatomic.bsky.social

A JACKPOT OF SKULLS A real dial-turner. Made in PICO-8 for _update jam.

💀💀💀 new game out today! 💀💀💀

A JACKPOT OF SKULLS is a free slot-machine reignslike for the pico-8. you (the sunderer) have once again sundered your realm, and your rivals won't let you hear the end of it.

play it here, even on your phone brainfruit.studio/games/jackpot

A Disgusting Betrayal, with Mina Kimes & Katie Nolan | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

it’s no coincidence this incredible video of @minakimes.bsky.social playing starfriends with @pablo.show and @katienolan.bsky.social has the running time of a prestige drama, because there is a final twist that deserves its own for-your-consideration emmy billboard campaign youtu.be/EegAM-LuIFM?...

Our friend Mina took the Starfriends to work this week.

Preorders are live now!

shop.brainfruit.studio/products/sta...

Ruins of a farmhouse.
8”x8” oil on wood panel
Available on my website.

Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks A party game where you get into your friends' heads. Kinda like a blend of Wavelength and Letterboxd that fits into a deck of cards.

it's the last day of the starfriends campaign!

✨ grab a deck!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

🤩 join our discord livestream later today!
starfriends.online/stream

🤙 message a friend that you haven't talked to in awhile!
[this one's on you]

our friends at @kickstarterunited.org will be the VERY FIRST humans on earth (slash the galaxy??) to stream starfriends online. don't miss it!

10:30 pt/2:30 et TODAY

our first printed proof of the printed starfriends game, photographed against a pleasant neon orange. this was actually a very haphazard photo taken with my iPhone while I propped the paper up with my other hand, but you wouldn’t know it because that’s cinema magic baby

close up of the texture of the game cards. oh what’s that it says “⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” and “game” on the cards?? wow if true

close up of the box art .. we called this first edition run “starborn”

the friends have landed!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

it was especially generous of Tom to carve out a little space for @brainfruit.bsky.social on Toylike! he makes *incredibly* cool games in both digital and analog realms, so keep clicking those hyperlinks once you get in there

two starfriends talking in front of a kickstarter dashboard screenshot. Bernacle on the left is saying "almost at $5k! what will you do with your cut?" and Discount on the right is replying "probably buy more starfriends decks"

we're four decks away from hitting 5k in our kickstarter! we would love your help getting there today

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

starfriends is stretching even farther than the limited constraints of physical reality, journeying to the domain of the augmented - try it out now in tiktok!

vm.tiktok.com/ZTM54khCC/

I've never actually used tiktok but I am learning the language of its people

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

Goldeneye

we made a starfriend for the festival 🧡

two starfriends greeting a new, glowing yellow starfriend. the glowing one has text that reads "funded in 7 hours!" and the other two, floating in space under the "starfriends" logo, are saying "that's like nothing" "we are eon's old"

the starfriends have been on a journey for millions of years, but it only took 7 hours for them to find a home with you ✨ grab a deck or incept the campaign into your friends dreams today!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...