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On this day 5 years ago, I made the very first commit of my first game, Crazy Critters Attack! Its been a very fun journey working on this project and making games in general, I'm really proud of how far I've come.

"How do you find all these small/weird/indie games??"

Ask your friends for recommendations

Follow forums/blogs/youtubers whose job is to talk about videogames and play the games they talk about

If you play a game that you like, look up the developer and play whatever else they've made

MOST IMPORTANTLY: ACTIVELY browse storefronts like steam and itch.io YOURSELF and play/buy the games that seem interesting to you. Relying on bloggers and youtubers should only be the start of your exploration

Post about the games you play

Attempted to animate a scene from Crazy Critters Attack in Gartic Phone.

Check it out! I’m very proud of it!

New game is out! Go to itch.io to play Portallusca - a game me, @smallbuggames and MachineSelf made in 72 hours for Mini Jam 175!

A short puzzle game about black holes, which you use to travel through space. To do so, you must construct superstructures around black holes to siphon their energy and create a wormhole that will take you to the far reaches of space!

(I’m too lazy to take screenshots right now so enjoy some asset art instead)

Made a mod for the Outer Wilds New Horizons mod jam, The Machine. It tied for second place!

store.steampowered.com

Underspace on Steam

The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe that includes online multipla

Want to play Underspace?

NOW YOU CAN!

We've got a demo out on Steam for Next Fest, and more so we've got a livestream coming today at 3PM CST/1PM PST. Come chat with the developers and watch an extended deep-dive into the many many many many many many many many many many many aspects of the game!

Redid all the level backgrounds for my game Crazy Critters Attack!

Finally working on this project again after 7 months! I think I'm committing myself to finishing this now, I've put everything I have left to do into GitHub issues and I've started working through it all.

Rah I forgot to post this last week. These are some of my favorite monsters that I had the pleasure of designing for the 2023 Winter Melon Jam. The theme was “charm” and we ran with the idea of making a monster parlor, where your objective is to make these creatures more charming.

Our game “Monster Parlor” was made within 72 hours by me, @puddleorganism , cobyte, and smallbuggames!

(From left to right: Squid, Rug, Hera, and the Vinegar Twins) there are 9 monsters total!

On another note, I’m superrrrr interested in the idea of making speculative biology/species out of some of these guys tbh.

Below there is the link to our game if you’d like to check it out.

https://metaphysicalmonsters.itch.io/monster-parlor

itch.io

Monster Parlor by MetaphysicalMonsters, Small Bug Games, Twelve Pens, CoByte

Make monsters beautiful

We’ve redone engines to be shader based meshes. Given them much more animation and similar while also optimizing them a fair amount.