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jagriff.bsky.social
Solo dev of 🐧 puzzle metroidvania Gentoo Rescue (steampowered.com/app/2830480/) Other interests: 1v1 AFPS, RTS, platform fighters, cs+math (PhD), ergo keyboards, PC hardware, baseball, piano, Esperanto, and cats https://www.twitch.tv/jagriff
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I'm excited to announce that the release date for Gentoo Rescue has been set! It will be available on Steam later this month: Thursday, May 22nd. store.steampowered.com/news/app/283... #indiegamedev #puzzlegame #Steam

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For #WishlistWednesday, here's a sneak peak of a level that should be solvable by demo players - assuming you can guess what the fish is for. 🐧Wishlist: s.team/a/2830480 🐧Demo: s.team/a/2883360 #puzzlegame #indiegamedev #solodev #sokoban #metroidvania

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> Wow - I have a ton of BlueSky notifications! Someone popular must have reposted about my game or something. > Oh, all notifications are from the same (bot?) account that went through my last 20+ posts to like and repost each one. Am I the only one?!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Here's a roundup of some upcoming sokoban games! thinkygames.com/feat...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Playing some Diabotical duel. Come hang out if you wanna talk about puzzles, or just chill. www.twitch.tv/jagriff

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Demo players will be surprised to learn this puzzle is solvable. I've tried to steadily feed "wait, you can do that moments?" in the game. This one appears after 20+ hours. 🐧Wishlist: s.team/a/2830480 🐧Demo: s.team/a/2883360 #ScreenshotSaturday #puzzlegame #indiegamedev #solodev #sokoban #Steam

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I just filled out the new Steam Accessibility info for Gentoo Rescue. I made a lot of effort to allow for both mouse only and keyboard only (while of course keeping m+k and controller), so it's nice to finally have it be somewhat "official" on Steam.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

For #WishlistWednesday, here's a heavily cropped video of an infinite loop in my #puzzlegame Gentoo Rescue. It's participating in the #sokoban #Steam #Fest! 🐧Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/... 🐧Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2883360/... #indiegamedev #solodev

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I'm glad so many people are discovering Oblivion for the first time. I played that game to death on release, and was actually pretty disappointed by Skyrim in comparison. I still want to go back and play Morrowind since still see it touted as the best Elder Scrolls game in some circles.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I got to work on some puzzle design tonight because I found a couple of puzzles that weren't up to the quality of the rest. I enjoy it so much more than all of my other game dev tasks.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Gentoo Rescue is #5 on popular upcoming of the current box-pushing (aka #sokoban) #Steam #Fest! Try out my #puzzlegame with inspirations from Ricochet Robots and Baba Is You (base and modded). 🐧Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/... 🐧Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2883360/...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Push, don't pull - that's the mantra of Steam Box-Pushing Fest that's live now until next Monday, April 28. Check out hundreds of nifty puzzling games and get your brain game on - from space to cats to peaceful monster islands, there's plenty to push around! store.steampowered.com/category/box...

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

My previous sound effect pipeline was: somewhat suitable freesound.org CC0 sound -> tweaking in Audacity But I just realized how much more powerful FL Studio is for processing (duh), so now I'm tempted to clean up and create some small variations of so many sound effects.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Gentoo Rescue is part of #Steam #BoxPushing #Fest! If you're into #sokoban or just #puzzlegame, checkout the demo for my penguin puzzler during the event. 🐧Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/... 🐧Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/2883360/... #indiegamedev #metroidvania

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I got some tragic news this week about a friend of a friend, which I can't stop thinking about. Please forgive any delay in updates for the time being.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

More random music. Maybe #vgm? It might work for a #puzzlegame but I'm not sold on it matching any of the environments in Gentoo Rescue.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Gentoo Rescue is a puzzle metroidvania with a focus on rule discovery. Explore a world of nested puzzles. 🐧Wishlist store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/... 🐧Demo store.steampowered.com/app/2883360/... #WishlistWednesday #puzzle #metroidvania #sokoban #discovery #indiegamedev #solodev

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I just pushed a demo update. It includes the new main menu, some Easter eggs, and some small bits of polish. Try it out if you're into #puzzlegame with: 🐧 sliding 🦭 rule discovery 🐟 meta mechanics store.steampowered.com/app/2883360/... #indiegamedev #solodev #demo #update #Steam #GentooRescue

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Don't miss my latest podcast with guest @jagriff.bsky.social as we talked about puzzle design and their upcoming game Gentoo Rescue youtu.be/SkxqywWR1tM #indiegamedev

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Another Gentoo Rescue Easter egg: It is possible to play a level using the camera angle from the menu screen. It makes me uneasy. 🐧Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/... 🐧Demo (update soon): store.steampowered.com/app/2883360/... #ScreenshotSaturday #puzzlegame #indiegamedev

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Today I learned that Googling "dutch angle" gives a dutch angled search result.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

As a gamer, I've always had silly ideas that don't make a lot of sense, but could work as a fun side mode. One of my favorite things about #indiegamedev is that I can just put these ridiculous ideas officially into the game as Easter eggs. It's an excuse to go wild!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I had to do something quick on what might be the most perfect place for my insane brain @thinkygames.com www.vice.com/en/article/i...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks for all of the feedback on my "should I remove the main menu?" post! I've decided to keep it, but with improvements from the demo. Here's what I have now (WIP): 🐧Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/... #WishlistWednesday #indiegamedev #puzzlegame #sokoban #metroidvania #penguin #UI

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment