Ludwig Squirrel 🍂Get LUDWIG! on steam 💸

🌲PLAYTEST OPEN!🌲
All right, the playtest has now officially opened, so get in there and play! And tell me if you liked it please 😍

store.steampowered.com/app/3832200/...

#indiedev #gamedev #playtest #roguelite #tactics

I got my first Steam review! 🤩

Thanks Andre!

Ooooo check this out! With the "StringSyntax" attribute, I can create a method that gets my IDE to highlight my string literals with HTML syntax! That's gonna make this a lot easier lol

The cover and track listing for my game Ludwig!

I bundled the game and soundtrack together on Steam! You can now get both items for $9.99!

store.steampowered.com/bundle/69529...

I like the idea of structuring my website with json and markdown files since I could reuse that data for a proper web app down the road!

I wanted to make a new portfolio website, and that’s turned into me making my own content management system! Essentially I run a C# program that takes a config.json and creates a set of html files for static hosting on GitHub Pages…

About done with these flying fellas!
#gamedev #indiedev

Someone, somewhere is going to use your art to soothe themselves or renew their spirit - I think that’s invaluable!

The cover and track listing for my game Ludwig!

I bundled the game and soundtrack together on Steam! You can now get both items for $9.99!

store.steampowered.com/bundle/69529...

I like adding the sorts of questions that I WISHED people would ask me, but yeah, no one’s ever asked me any of my FAQs lol

Glad someone else also appreciates the skunk squirrel synergy 😁

Cute!!

A grey-furred fox with pink hair and glasses, the entire picture holding a pink hue from ambient light

@kitakettu.bsky.social 's new sketches inspired me to try some experiments with new pens, and I love the way it came out. Check out their art!

#furry #furryart

I was always planning on adding or supporting this, but I didn't expect it to be as easy as it was. So, once the game releases, this should be ready to play!

#archipelago #indiegame

And i luve garbino :3

GARBANZO LOVES YOU

Working out of San Jose​, I fell in love with hiking in the Sunol Wilderness, the land of the Ohlone people for over 5,000 years. I felt like I was back in Scotland or Ireland, checking out the fifty shades of green, through craigy trees and rock formations to open pastures with views for days.

I love little Yosemite! When I was in high school, me and my friends would climb and jump across the rocks all the way up the river! Good times! Though I did twist my ankle pretty bad over there once lol

Oh no, the Fungus Among Us beetle band are at it again... This time they are playing their favourite K.K. Slider song, Bubblegum!

Please wishlist my buggy game - store.steampowered.com/app/4305260/...

#indiedev #gamedev #beetles #animalcrossing

I think the satisfaction comes from finally being allowed to effortlessly traverse what used to be cramped and restrictive corridors - I'm sure many sokoban fans can relate to the claustrophobia of getting stuck in corners! I like that it also allows players to feel like they're "breaking" puzzles.

But my game does feature a "checkerboard" jump maneuver, which is still very very satisfying to do! You get this power towards the end of the game, and it comes at the cost of "merging" all the other characters into one - that means you lose the benefit of using their unique powers.

I don't know if I can comment on whether the puzzles have "aged" necessarily - the game is a sokoban type puzzler, and to me, the basic premise of "I want to get my character/this object here, but there is hardly enough room to do it," is timeless 😁

Any devs ever play one of their old puzzle games, and suddenly realize you forgot the solutions to all your puzzles, and you now get to experience your puzzle game from the perspective of a new player?
#gamedev #indiedev

Cerberus Unleashed! by Phischermen Play in your browser

Someone played my abandonware game and left a comment on it! It felt really nice to hear someone say something pawsitive about the project, since I've always been a little disappointed that I couldn't finish it.
phischermen.itch.io/projectcerbe...

Okay fine, you made me laugh with that one lol

TWIFO I can upload builds to Itch.io via a cli tool called butler! I added it to my powershell script I was using to build and publish my game on steam. It’s very satisfying to just run a script and have every platform updated at once!

So you may not realize this if you dislike this card, but in its history Magic has been a bit of a morality play as well as a card game. That is to say it wants to show life lessons sometimes.

Sometimes unplayable cards get made to showcase positive things in life not just be good or cohesive

Twitch Twitch is the world

My friend OboTolken streamed my game!

www.twitch.tv/videos/26987...

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Ludwig is now available for purchase on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/4313060/...

It's hard to believe this all started 10 months ago with a little bouncing purple cube :)

Thank you to everyone that helped make this possible! 💖
#gamedev #indiegame #steam #furry #gamerelease