🦌now we gotta make the rest of the game 😩

🦨for itch players, on top of our launch discount, if you already own Blobun on itch (even if it was through one of the charity bundles we did) you can get Fox Stamps even cheaper! This is only for a limited time though, sorry. you'll also get a Steam key as well

https://cyansorcery.itch.io/fox-stamps

🦨for Steam players, on top of our launch discount, we have a bundle with our previous game Blobun, as well as a bundle with the critically acclaimed Squeakross: Home Squeak Home. If you already own either of these games, you can get Fox Stamps even cheaper!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4802530/Fox_Stamps/

🦨Fox Stamps Early Access has now begun on Itch and Steam! We're creating a nonogram game that aims to be approachable for new players as well as enjoyable by long time fans! You'll get immediate access to 64 puzzles, with more on the way as we develop it further (links in reply)
#indiedev #gamedev

🐿️checking the sales more, maybe even we can get a yacht (a little lego one)

we're glad for the support so far! we weren't sure how many people would go for an early access game on itch

🐿️checking the amount of sales we've gotten on itch so far and it looks like gaben's not gonna be able to buy another yacht (but the itch guy leafo might)

🦨me: nonogram
the valve guys: no nogram? why did you submit nothing?

🐭they're over there trying to solve my 25x20 puzzles and they've been stuck on one of them for days 😏

🐿️why is valve software taking too long to approve our game, wrong answers only

🦨There is a launch discount available on Itch, with a bigger discount if you already own Blobun there. As the post says, Valve still has not approved our game. We will have Steam bundles with Blobun as well as Squeakross: Home Squeak Home, so if you want to take advantage of that, please be patient

🦨Fox Stamps' Early Access is now out on Itch! You can have immediate access to 64 nonograms, with more on the way as we continue development. This game aims to be casual and approachable, so everyone can enjoy!

Please see more details (+ about Steam) here:
https://cyansorcery.itch.io/fox-stamps/devlog/1770893/fox-stamps-early-access-begins-now

🐿️ today was the day we were gonna release fox stamps early access. we didn't tell anyone because we were waiting on valve approval and we're still waiting lol

🦊I'm also experimenting around with a UI scaler so that you're not getting TV sized UI elements when you're sitting all nice and comfy at your computer chair. results are promising but variable so far, it'll take a fair amount of time before this makes it in a build I think

🦊implementing a puzzle size limiter so that small 5x5 puzzles don't upscale to fill out your 4K display and make each grid cell like 1 cubic foot in real life. now those puzzles's grid cells will be about the size of a 10x10 puzzle and you dont have to go to the other room to look at them

🐭the experience was very much just like "well this thing can't be as wrong as everyone says" and then it was as wrong as they said lmao but being experienced enough in code meant we were able to look through the word slurry and see the functionality we were looking for. so yea, fancy search is all

🐭it's time to reveal so nobody can ever hold it over us: we used AI once, before it was widely known how bad it was, when we were trying to learn C# and getting nowhere with googling, to be like "hey I want to do this in C# what is it called" and looking through the sea of shit to find the answer

🦨now up to 58%, you guys are wicked cool

🐿️you pull out the steam deck to play a little bit and by the time it's done all this the battery is completely drained

🐿️playing games on steam on linux is like *wait for proton to update* *wait for game to update* *wait for steam to update* *wait for cloud to sync* *wait for shaders to compile* *wait for "delaying launch" (??????)* *wait for "launching game"* *wait for game window to show up* *no sound*

🐿️*hank hill voice* do I look like I know what a vulkan shader is?