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Transgenderrific game animator. She/her. I worked on Dungeons of Dredmor. Currently at Ivy Road.

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hey yall heads up to anyone who has me on linkedin. my account was compromised this morning. I'm working on getting it back but dont' trust anything you see on there rn

MOOMANiBE, to random
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A collection of clips from from the Independent Games Festival awards last night:

Chairperson Shawn Pierre discusses the industry layoffs: https://clips.twitch.tv/FaintEagerShrimpFrankerZ-1afNqq2OXnPuLEIf

Audio winners Rhythm Doctor explicitly call out the situation in Gaza: https://clips.twitch.tv/MuddySpoopyLorisTBTacoRight-mP-vvt8Bf64ZaYPI

Nuovo winner Anthology of the Killer does the same: https://clips.twitch.tv/ApatheticPeppyGiraffeCharlietheUnicorn-QqzEuZz70Xqdb2mx

Grand Prize winner Venba as well: https://clips.twitch.tv/EagerIncredulousWolfPicoMause-tiDMI1n_BPwHIqpq

Narrative winner Mediterranea Inferno on platforms' lack of support to indies: https://clips.twitch.tv/InnocentOddGoshawkCharlietheUnicorn-pL8oyoTiUPMrii-a

MOOMANiBE, to random
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Today on posts I would enjoy it if you read: I wrote 11,000 words on Hitman's Mission Story design: https://cohost.org/MOOMANiBE/post/4646472-deconstructing-hitma

MOOMANiBE, to random
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so am I drunk or does the blusky post about opening up to "federation" basically just work out to "you can host your account on your own site and save us bandwidth but we maintain total control of the service and your ability to interact with it"

MOOMANiBE, to random
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I feel like mastodon is the right place to ask this so: what's the word in flexible gif compression these days?

Whenever I'm posting a gif to socials I need to keep it within the size limits most sites impose and this usually means I need a "quality" slider when compressing what I've got so I can get it juuuust under that bar with good quality

I used to use photoshop for that but paying a subscription just to compress gifs is :/

what's a decent windows thing for this specific use case?

MOOMANiBE, to random
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Final Profit

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1705140/Final_Profit_A_Shop_RPG/

I'm amazed to say an RPG Maker game was my fav this year - A surreal, parodic shop sim, Final Profit's premise - you play a queen who feels she can only root out corruption by becoming a shop owner herself and bootstrapping her way to the top - makes it clear from moment zero that you are in for a silly ride.

The game could have contented itself with being very funny (which it is) but it's managed to be really, really addictive in the process as well.

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A simple-seeming first shop gives way to an endless pile of gameplay twists - a massive tax and loan burden will see you selling loot boxes, commiting postal stock fraud, selling your blood to a vampiric owl, traversing an apple-based skill tree, and fast traveling around using the terrifying Horse Dimension, whose effects are so upsetting there's a setting to turn them off.

Everyone I know who's tried this game ended up saying "I meant to play it for 30 mins, but somehow 6 hours had passed."

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Price of Flight

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2636710/Price_of_Flight/

What if you took Mario Party, and made it into a surreal, horrifying and comedic singleplayer game about birds resisting an oppressive human regime via a game show? And it had RPG combat? Such is the absolutely bonkers premise of Price of Flight.

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I'm kind of unsure how to describe this game, other than to say that it is GREAT and WEIRD.

Equip your party of four birds with a variety of moves and equipment. Decide whether to spare or kill your human enemies - or your bird friends - for power, money, or what morals you have.

Roll on a variety of upsettingly-themed game show implements. Fight a boss fight, lose, and play a sequence where you play as the boss mourning your deaths? ??? ? ??? that actually happened to me

GAME'S WILD

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Reality Break

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1473060/Reality_Break/

Speaking of odd premises: Diablo. Spaceship shooter. With... idle-game style reset progression mechanics?!

A looter-shooter where every so often you'll reset the game and use the points you got from "breaking reality" to reshape it, granting you buffs, new game mechanics, and who knows what else. And then you restart the game. But maybe this time things will be different?

I showed this to @zandra and she ended up getting hideously addicted for like 25h

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Isles of Sea and Sky (formerly Akurra)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1233070/Isles_of_Sea_and_Sky/

Sporting a Baba-Is-You-esque difficulty curve that teaches you new mechanics with every single puzzle and makes you feel like an absolute genius when you solve something that feels unsolveable, Isles of Sea and Sky adds to the dynamic with a zelda-esque dense overworld that means some puzzles won't be doable until you enter from the right direction or find the right item, and features a ton of secrets to boot.

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In Stars and Time

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677310/In_Stars_And_Time/

I've played a lot of time loop games over the years but what sets In Stars and Time apart - aside from its INCREDIBLE character writing - is the way it feels like it puts you in the protagonist's shoes.

MOOMANiBE, to indiegames
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Welcome to "Aura's IGF Games I Want To Talk About" thread, 2024 edition.

For those who don't know me, I'm Aura - I've been an artist in indie gamedev for over 10 years and I've been an Independent Games Festival judge for almost as long.

Each year, I like to post a thread highlighting 10 or so games from the competition that I think are interesting, overlooked, or otherwise worth talking about; that's this thread!

( Meg said I should add hashtags so idk here: )

MOOMANiBE, to random
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I've just posted my IGF Games I Want To Talk About post for the year over at cohost! Come check out a bunch of games I thought were really cool from this year's Independent Games Festival competition: https://cohost.org/MOOMANiBE/post/3503993-igf-games-i-want-to

MOOMANiBE,
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Do people think it'd be interesting/useful for me to post a truncated version of the post as a thread here? It didn't get a ton of traction last time but idk, haha, yall know this site better than me

MOOMANiBE,
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@glassbottommeg oh god idk what the fuck to hashtag

MOOMANiBE, to random
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A bunch of peeps at my studio are participating in this walkout on thursday; it'd be cool to see more of games get in on this!

https://www.answercoalition.org/nov_9_palestine

MOOMANiBE, to random
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2-weeks-into-IGF-Judging reminder:

devs who have submitted: PLEASE keep an eye on your emails for support requests!

I'm watching a number of games right now where people have either hit bugs, can't get the build to work, or the game has ran out of steam keys and it's putting a stopper on people checking it out further. Don't be that person who never responds to support requests! Check your email!

MOOMANiBE, to random
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whenever I see a bunch of posts about people being like "so many artists aren't moving to masto" and listing reasons I'm always surprised to see the omission of the most obvious one to me: a bunch of them did and then their instances shut down

MOOMANiBE, to random
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casual note that judge applications for this year's igf are open

IMO they've historically been pretty permissive so if you are a game dev who has released something, a press person, or in games-adjacent academia, you can probably get in if you want!

Responsibilities include mostly "play a shitton of games and try to give thoughtful critique of them for other judges/jury" over oct/nov

https://igf.com/article/be-judge-2024-igf-awards-heres-how

MOOMANiBE, to random
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Hey yall: Independent Games Festival submissions are open for the year, (https://gdconf.com/news/its-time-submit-your-game-2024-independent-games-festival-awards) and that means it's time for my IGF Submissions Advice thread! I've already posted this in full on Cohost but I'm going to try and crosspost it to here (trimmed for length) as well.

MOOMANiBE, to random
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damn. wait til streaming services find out what happens when you're a nonessential service raising prices during a cost of living crisis

MOOMANiBE, to random
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casual reminder to go play Time Bandit b/c it's incredible and underappreciated and barely has any reviews on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/1481910/Time_Bandit__Part_1_Appendages_of_the_Machine/

patrickklepek, to random
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Hi folks, I haven't used this platform much since making this account, but I'm going to, at least, cross post my work here, if you happen to follow me here! At some point the dust will settle one way or another. 😩

MOOMANiBE,
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@patrickklepek oh hey. Mood, this isn't my main either, but yeah it sure is like that rn

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TIME BANDIT IS OUT

Please play this game, it was one of my favs of igf this last year and I suspect it's going to go entirely unnoticed without some serious word of mouth because it's basically a solo dev'd game

It's an amazing almost reverse take on animal crossing, where realtime (playing or not) waits push you to you to think before taking action, and consider the value of your own labour and time. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1481910/Time_Bandit__Part_1_Appendages_of_the_Machine/

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