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As part of our pilot project to develop an impactful serious game with a social
enterprise we collectively further developed the workshop format "It's MY Life" by Die Traum-Schmiede gUG from different game design lenses, aiming to give adolescents the orientation and self confidence needed at the beginning of their lives.

We are looking forward to implementing the prototype in November and to hopefully be able to offer similar formats to many clients in the future!

#SocialEconomy #SeriousGames

By the way, this is part of a bigger concept, where you orchestrate a rebellion against an oppressive regime from the (relative) safety of an underground radio
station.

Let us know if this is interesting, we still have some idea on how to turn this
into a proper game somewhere down the line.

This little experiment from last year took only hours to implement, but the playtests yielded encouraging feedback: a bit of audiovisual feedback and a goal to work towards engaged for longer than anticipated.

Some testers proudly sent back screenshots reaching a score of 100!

https://myonenpixel.itch.io/toy-radio

#gamedev #indiegames

Mia is now live on Twitch working on the visual character design for our upcoming visual novel!

Check out her stream here:
https://www.twitch.tv/mia_zumi

#indiegames #art #characterdesign

RE: https://mastodon.world/@paninid/117346226558370906

Oh, yes… this reminds me of the biology teacher who called me the laziest student she had encountered in her entire career, after I failed to answer her question regarding a worksheet I had not been able to focus on during class.

Good way to nudge me into ditching biology in favor of physics and chemistry.

Still undiagnosed by the way 😜

I habitually select text on websites with my mouse to keep my fingers busy. So these little context menu popups that trigger on text selection are one of the most user-hostile "features" I encounter on the web. Right up there with cookie banners and straight up ads.

Lea
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gothnotimeleftart/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP0QzZeS8yyPMYjRXL_4mbQ

Mia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mia_animating/
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mia_zumi
YouTube (animations): https://www.youtube.com/@justMiaAnimations
YouTube (gaming): https://www.youtube.com/@Miazumi_Gaming

We are happy to announce that two artists, Lea and Mia, have joined us in the development of our upcoming game!

Over the next months they will be working with on illustration and design of our upcoming sapphic romance visual novel.

We are aiming to announce the game around November, so we will be busy with game design and visuals until then.

The drawing attached is by Lea ;)

Check out more artwork on their social media profiles in the next post!

#art #artist #indiegame

If you have an author named Al on your site, these days it is very crucial to use a font that clearly distinguishes lowercase L from uppercase I.

The default Mastodon font does not do that either xD

Anyway, Please Be Happy is really cute. Highly recommended ;)

#yuri #visualnovel

ooh! I just noticed my sibling writing a review of Sonic on stream. such a retro nerd…

https://www.twitch.tv/tara_aka_phael

Kitty coop!!! 😻

The game I didn't know I needed…

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4096780/The_Missing_Tail/

At some point, I need to finish migrating all my #Nix flakes to npins. I have already started new repos using npins and it is so much less unnecessary cruft to use it. I can highly recommend it.

We went live with our new studio website designed by Jenni Moss (see https://trulyxd.com) 🥳
Thanks to her design system we had all the building blocks we needed. There are still a few kinks to sort out, but better to go live sooner and iterate on it than delaying it again and again!

Check out the website here: https://codepergola.eu/en

#uidesign #indiegames

Seen in #Heidelberg earlier and I like the vibe. I wonder what inspired this.

I'm finally done layouting most of the @codepergola website, so now I will keep randomly clicking between its handful of pages admiring its beauty. 🤩

https://codepergola.eu/de/

RE: https://neckarwie.se/@codepergola/117190328787793465

The four of us met up for a kick-off yesterday and had a blast! The concept for our lesbian romance visual novel is taking shape. We'll share more details very soon.

Feel free to join our Discord for more infos:
https://discord.gg/XzdwXNb8bn

#indiegame #visualnovel

"What is my theme? Am I using every means possible to reinforce that theme?", Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design.

Surely, this is how to apply that advice to code comments for a yuri visual novel.

#indiedev #godot #yuri

RE: https://mastodon.art/@inkscape/117196158757512003

hm, maybe… 🤔

In other news, we are currently talking to a few visual artists to find a partner to turn this project from prototype to fully-fleshed out game.

We intend to post updates more frequently, so follow us to stay up to date!