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a tiny two-person game studio working on adorable yet deeply unsettling games
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love this use of parallaxing

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 14/20 - Frog Fractions (2012) A game within a game. My first encounter with this brilliant idea, and probably the one that made the deepest impression. Incredible game! #gamechallenge #promosky #indiedev #gamedev

a little cup of magic #pixelart #art #oc #artist #gamedev

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 13/20 - Papers, Please (2013) Very satisfying and diagetic experience - Every button feels so good to press. Unique, dystopian artstyle. Our biggest inspiration by far. 10/10 🔥🔥 #gamechallenge #promosky #indiedev #gamedev

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 12/20 - Pizza Tycoon (1994) Business sim during the golden age of the sim, but which stands out because of its delightful pizza designer feature. So tactile! Fantastic UX. #gamechallenge #promosky #indiedev #gamedev #pizza

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 11/20 - Ridiculous Fishing (2013) From visionary game designers Vlambeer, maybe the best mobile game ever made. Simple, addictive, flawless game feel. So, so good. #gamechallenge #promosky #indiedev #gamedev #vlambeer

Before you start your hectic day in Blackstar Trading Co., you can sit down, have a cup of coffee and read today's paper. The headlines and pictures are dynamically generated based on choices you've made on previous days. #gamedev #blackstar #godot #pixelart #indie #art #indiedev #tinydoom

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 10/20 - The Longest Journey (1999) A mind-bending cinematic adventure game by Ragnar Tørnquist, maybe the best Norwegian game ever made. #gamechallenge #promosky #retro #gamedev #norway #adventuregames #mindbending

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 9/20 - Freelancer (2003) Chris Roberts' masterclass in making a giant universe feel alive. Way ahead of its time. Amazing combat. #gamechallenge #promosky #retro #gamedev #freelancer #chrisroberts #spacecitizen #spacesim

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 8/20 - Katamari Damacy (2004) Na naaaa, na na na na na naaa naaa, na naaa naaa na-na naaaaa! Japan, you crazy. #gamechallenge #promosky #retro #gamedev #katamari #roll #shit #up

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 7/20 - Uplink (2001) Part game, part simulator. Made me feel like a real hacker. A unique experience unlike anything I had ever played. #gamechallenge #promosky #pcgaming #retro #gamedev #uplink #simgames #simulator #rpg

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 6/20 - The Dig (1995) Cinematic sci fi adventure by Spielberg and Orson Scott Card, featuring Mark Hamill! My first encounter with a game that felt like a good movie. #gamechallenge #promosky #pcgaming #retro #gamedev

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 5/20 - No One Lives Forever (2000) Proof that a game with mediocre mechanics can still be extremely engaging and fun with the right story, characters and writing #gamechallenge #promosky #pcgaming #retro #gamedev #indiedev

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 4/20 - Ico (2001) A masterclass in minimalist game design and indirect storytelling. #gamechallenge #promosky #pcgaming #teamico #minimalism #puzzlegames #retro #gamedev #indiedev

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. 3/20 - Gearhead Garage (1999) This game has such a visionary and tactile user experience, and was made by none other than Lucas Pope (!!) #gamechallenge #promosky #pcgaming #lucaspope #simgames #retro #gamedev #indiedev

Working on some tooltips. Actual art assets here are just placeholders, but that criminally Balatro-inspired text effect is probably going in the game. Built these using custom BBCode tags in 🎮 Godot 4.4 (whyyy @bsky.app can we not post this as a GIF) #indiedev #gamedev #godot #balatro #developer

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. --- Day 2/20 - Heart of Darkness #gamechallenge #promosky #playstation1 #ericchahi #adventure #retro #gamedev #indiedev

🎮 Choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. 1 game per day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. --- Day 1/20 - The Neverhood #gamechallenge #promosky #pcgaming #neverhood #adventure #retro #gamedev #indiedev

Just a tiny game dev studio in a big, scary world.