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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)If you're making an indie pixel art game, tag me with a screenshot and I'll boost you!
Little Girl in Monsterland@grumpygamer Here's my screenshot-- And now I've got your attention, please do Thimbleweed 2 😭 🙏
nichtsicher@litgirl_inmo @grumpygamer This looks very beautiful! How's it going?
@nichtsicher Thank you! Art is 50% ready. Still too early for predicitons 😏
Pablo SB@litgirl_inmo @grumpygamer beautiful pixel art! And yes to having to find another bunch of specks of dust around Thimbleweed!
Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)@grumpygamer we're making Kitsune Tails, a platformer in classic style with a queer romance plot. People can learn more at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
Ertain@eniko Looking good.
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Javi Fontán (The VaW)
Echedelle ⚧@eniko @grumpygamer is it floss?
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oshy@eniko @grumpygamer This looks lovely~!
@ocean thank you 😊
@grumpygamer I have something that's pixely, but I doubt that it's in a state that people could play.
Andrew King@grumpygamer I'm working on a story-driven retro racing game for PC/Mac/Linux called "Outer Transmission." Hope to finish it one day.
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Jared Newman@rewrking This looks cool!
Gugames@grumpygamer oh, you know I am 😁 The Will of Arthur Flabbington, a pixel art point and click adventure game (soon available on Steam, Gog and Itch)
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC@gugames @grumpygamer Hey, that's the old font from Lucasfilm Games, isn't it?
@LordCaramac It's actually inspired by the font in old Nokia phones 😄
Devlin 
@grumpygamer Hello! I'm working on Action Parrot (working title that kinda stuck) and it's a platform shoot-em-up.
a short YT clip of the first level in Action Parrot. (needs more enemies and hazards still) https://youtu.be/geth1jsAscs
if you want to support development, I am always accepting donations to keep me in coffee and biscuits and medication
https://ko-fi.com/magicbane
Action Parrot shortplay r049
Carnivius@devlin Looks great. :) Like an old DOS platform shooter.
A friend of mine did a purposely DOS style game like that in 2013 called 'Muri' which is worth a play if you haven't. :)
@Carnivius I have Muri! It is one of my inspirations for this.
@devlin Cool. :) I helped out on it a bit and one of my past projects was apparently an inspiration for it. :O One I never bloody finished but of course Daniel Remar made Muri in almost no time at all, because unlike me, he's a very competent and efficient game maker. :P
@Carnivius yeah, Dan is amazing at getting stuff done. Ludosity//D R Games are awesome. Love a lot of their work.
Thierry@devlin @grumpygamer That's a great name!
[AFK] Mario@grumpygamer Making Don Salmon, combat platforming adventure about a small bird fighting his way back home
Alex Bezuska@mario_afk @grumpygamer this looks rad, I love the art style and colors!
Brianna Townsend@grumpygamer I'm working on a dos-like roguelike in my free time called Chronicles! It combines classic dungeon crawlers with Into-the-Breach-inspired tactical turn prediction. Devlog on my bio!
Yin@grumpygamer Here's Awakening Sarah, a 2d platform / adventure game where you explore weird dreams!
Jörgi@yin
Weird dreams reminds me of Figment 😍
Dr.Hackenstein
Joel Auterson@drhackenstein love this CRT effect(?)
@joel thanks!
It was done using Unity's Universal Render Pipeline PostProcessing Effects
It was done using Unity's Universal Render Pipeline PostProcessing Effects
Kyle Kukshtel@grumpygamer making a large scale isometric tactical strategy game called Cantata!
soldan@grumpygamer
Looks very nice!!!!
JSON@kkukshtel @grumpygamer Love the art and name. Looks like cosmic horror themed?
@cornickj @grumpygamer more Anne leckie / Jeff vandermeer type scifi than cosmic horror, but there’s some sprinkles of that!
Forcen@kkukshtel @grumpygamer That looks amazing, edit in that steam link so people can wishlist it.
@Forcen @grumpygamer oops, good idea and thank you!
hey @grumpygamer the game is released into 1.0 as of today - any chance for another boost? 🙂
Giuseppe Sellaroli@grumpygamer Currently making "Ines in: not enough time", a short pixel art point & click adventure game.
We have been working on it for the 2023 Adventure Jam, but we were only able to release a (very) incomplete version. We're working on it and plan to submit the full version soon 😀
@grumpygamer The game is finally out!
@apicici I'm stuck, is there a hint guide? Loving it so far.
@grumpygamer We didn't have time to put one together yet, but I can provide hints of you'd like. I think I know where you're stuck—one particular puzzle was a bit of a design challenge, and even though we went through a couple of iterations I'm still not sure we implemented it in the most clear way.
By the way, we're truly honoured that you tried our game (especially since itss very existence is in large part due to the impact that your games had on our lives 😄).
@grumpygamer Also this is probably a good time to let you know that the whole team loved what you and @thatdave have done with Return to Monkey Island, and that Thimbleweed Park is my second favourite game of all time (and it would probably be the first if I didn't see Monkey 2 through nostalgia-tinted glasses) 🤓
CrabmanI might have gotten stuck at the same bit. Maybe if it was highlighted a little more that it's walking alerting her?
Also felt like a dialogue option or two would've been great for things that were obvious I need to do, but then couldn't talk to the relevant people about, even if they'd been unhelpful. Made me wonder a while if there was a bug until I figured it out because nothing else worked, that was the only part that felt a little frustrating, otherwise it was great!
Anders@apicici @grumpygamer Very cool game, but I'm also completely stuck, a hint would be nice :)
Kevin McAllister@apicici I can’t wait to try this! After seeing @grumpygamer on here and remembering how much I loved all his games I want to try and do what you’ve done here and make my own point and click adventure.
How did you get started?
@mclazarus @grumpygamer I participated in a game jam a few years ago and made an (unreleased) adventure game prototype using AGS (it was a 3-day jam, so I had to use something already set up for the genre).
After the jam ended I decided to make my own engine, using LÖVE as the underlying framework. After a couple of years of working on and off on the engine I teamed up with two friends to make a game for last year's LÖVE jam—the first game of the series.
@mclazarus @grumpygamer we really enjoyed the experience, and we decided to keep going! Future plans involve rewriting the engine from scratch in C++, and making a full-size game.
@apicici thanks! And good luck with your plans! Is there a reason you chose Löve over things like Unity? Just because it was free and open?
@mclazarus I tried to use unity at the first game jam but it was just too bloated for what I wanted to do. AGS is nice, but I wanted more freedom to code the way I wanted. I decided to go with LÖVE because it provides just the basics, and allowed me to shape the engine in the direction I wanted. It did take me a looong time to program the pathfinding algorithm, though!
@apicici thanks for sharing all that!
@mclazarus you're welcome!
On a related note, should you want to use LÖVE as well, I released my pathfinding library publicly here: https://github.com/apicici/pathfun
Dan Q@apicici @grumpygamer I screencapped the moment when I realised that yes, this was a game for me.