Cave Oasis is one of the games featured in the Women's Day Sale right now on Steam!

There are also a ton of other great cozy games by women-led studios, including Sally, Ritual of Raven, The Wandering Village, Loddlenaut, etc.

My game's free demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3689220/Cave_Oasis_at_Shylake/

Women's Day Sale: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/womensdaysale2026

#WomensDaySale #Steam #videogames #cozygames #indiegames #indiedev

I just read Sim Kern’s novel The Free People’s Village. It was captivating and thought-provoking, think it should be on any #solarpunk reading list.

It’s speculative fiction set in an alternate present-day Houston, if Gore had won the US presidency in 2000 and launched a “War on Climate Change”, and everything else in our world was the same, so the rich and powerful controlled that war, greenwashed their own actions and used the climate mandate as a new form of exploitation.

But it doesn’t give in to cynicism, it breaks down economic and social consequences while examining the steps needed to rectify them. It’s kind of like KSR’s Ministry for the Future, except it’s a local story from the point of view of the people not in power. So it doesn’t glorify carbon credits, it depicts where they go wrong and the struggles to address underlying systemic problems, in an emotionally fraught journey that pulls you along with just barely enough hope to keep going. Just barely, but enough.

#books #climatefiction

I've opened up the underwater lake scene in my game's demo! You can now swim and forage for seaweed and aquatic fungi in the lake depths. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3689220/Cave_Oasis_at_Shylake/

#indiegame #pcgaming #videogames #gamedev #underwater

The free public demo for Cave Oasis at Shylake is now live!

“So it’s like stardew but weird?” (from TikTok) Pretty much! Or as I like to put it, “eco-socialist alien Stardew”.

Or, with a few more words, it’s a sustainable moon town farm/life sim, with hydroponics, food forests, futuristic biomass 3D printing, a circular eco-economy, and lots of supportive and inclusive extraterrestrial community.

Find it here on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3689220/Cave_Oasis_at_Shylake/

Discord server: https://discord.gg/TnGPeKHWhR

Play on Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck (no fancy gaming PC needed, most laptops from the last 5 years or so can probably handle this game, give it a try and let me know if it doesn’t work great for you)

Made with Godot and Blender!

#videogames #gamedev #indiegames #cozygames #steam #scifi #solarpunk #godot #blender3d

There’s a Steam charity event going on right now called Games Against Living Miserably, raising money for suicide prevention.

A lot of wholesome indie games are participating, many of them on sale, with a portion of proceeds going to fund a hotline and related services provided by the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM).

There are also a bunch of upcoming games to explore and wishlist, including mine, with all of us participating devs making donations to the charity.

You can explore the full event on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/curvedigital/sale/GALM25

More info about CALM, the hosting org, and their support services: https://www.thecalmzone.net/

And the link to my game’s page on Steam is here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3689220/Cave_Oasis_at_Shylake/

#indiegames #cozygames #suicideprevention #galm

New #gamedev blog post about crafting and cooking in my game: https://bluespruceinteractive.com/blog/5-crafting-cooking-mix-match/

The idea is that almost everything needs to be growable, harvestable, reusable, and compostable, to keep up a self-renewing cycle in a closed ecosystem. And using all of those sticks and leaves should be fun and interesting too!

So there's wood, plant fiber, mycelium, seaweed, algae, chitin, and calcium carbonate. There are 3D printers, electric looms, cardboard makers, mycelium incubators, etc.

Furniture has mix-and-match-able tops, legs, seats, backs. Colors are determined by which biomass you choose. Disassemble a table to swap in a top or legs from another one.

Cooking works similarly: grains/beans grind into different colored flours for cakes and breads. Fruit mixes in, or makes filling for cakes and pies. Nuts/seeds blend into different colored plant butters, used as spreads or frostings.

You can wishlist on Steam, demo coming soon! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3689220/Cave_Oasis_at_Shylake/

#cozygames #indiegames #godot #blender3d #solarpunk

I’ve added bikes, scooters and skateboards to my solarpunk video game. You can even ride the bikes on high wires strung between the cliffs overlooking the main cave!

There are root bridges and pedal-powered outdoor elevators too, trying to get around the 3D space in fun and sustainable ways.

I’ve been trying to make more videos lately highlighting features in the game, and have posted a few on PeerTube: https://tube.fediverse.games/c/cave_oasis_at_shylake/videos

I’m not sure how many people are on there at this point, or if the search functionality isn’t great (or I just haven’t figured it out yet). I’d welcome recommendations for good solarpunk and indie gaming channels!

I’m also now on PixelFed (@bluespruce on pixelfed.social), and more traditional video-sharing platforms (other links in profile) just trying to reach people where they are. (No X though, obviously.) I have almost no followers, but I’m trying, would love to connect with whoever’s on any of those!

#videogames #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #solarpunk #scifi

I finally have a Steam page and trailer for the video game I’ve been solo developing for almost 3 years! It’s a cozy small town life sim set in a cave on a moon in a nearby star system.

The game’s heavily shaped by #solarpunk and hopeful #scifi. It’s full of hydroponic farming, sustainable biomass crafting, a circular eco-economy, and a lot of story around local environmental stewardship.

Made with #Godot and #Blender. More info on the Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3689220/Cave_Oasis_at_Shylake/

I’d love to hear any feedback/thoughts!