Some new character art in development for #pelicanEmpyrean by the talented Bella Field
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03.03.2026 05:51
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Joon Shining on Steam
Master the elements. Explore mystical worlds. Harness ancient powers. Joon Shining is an enchanted golf-like platformer with a fantasy twist. Use magic to bend physics, influence environments, and mak...
Joon Shining is 2 years old!
Our debut title, a magical golf-like platformer, has just turned 2. A real hidden gem, with a high skill ceiling and an epic 20+ hours across a diverse array of fantastical worlds!
Check it out on Steam
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03.03.2026 00:18
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Shopping for magical artefacts in Pelican Empyrean
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31.01.2026 00:30
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On the dev side, Pelican Empyrean is now feature complete! The last step was building the save/load system so you can resume a game mid-run - a small but very complex system to implement.
Next up we’re replacing the a.i. art with a real artist!
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20.02.2026 06:33
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And as a game designer Lemmings is especially humbling because, for any given thing I'm making I can say "is my game as unique as this? Does it do something no other game does?". So far none of my games have passed that test, but I'm certain asking the question makes me a better designer
16.02.2026 07:59
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The Making of Lemmings (1991) | 35th Anniversary Documentary
YouTube video by onaretrotip
As a game designer Lemmings is one of the small handful of games I think about often and marvel at how completely unique it is.
Docos like this are fascinating because there's no big story, magical inciting incident or confluence of forces, it just kind of happened
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulx0...
16.02.2026 07:59
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The final piece of key art for Pelican Empyrean!
We’ll be updating the Steam page with this soon, and using a parallax version of the image for the game’s title screen
Check out the demo on Steam
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11.02.2026 12:09
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The final piece of key art for Pelican Empyrean!
We’ll be updating the Steam page with this soon, and using a parallax version of the image for the game’s title screen
Check out the demo on Steam
#pelicanEmpyrean #indiegame #gamedev
11.02.2026 12:09
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A couple of paint-overs of Dream of the Star Haven to hone in on the visual style and level-shapes
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09.02.2026 06:01
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We showed Pelican Empyrean at the SA Games Exhibition over the last two days.
The response was awesome! So many players deeply entranced by the gameplay.
#pelicanEmyprean #indiegame
07.02.2026 07:44
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Game Dev Journeys: Improvising a Game Design from Scratch
YouTube video by Lamplight Forest
Join me for the latest episode of Game Dev Journeys as I verbally improvise a game design from scratch!
I imagine a concept for a new game and talk through the gameplay structures it could have and thematic directions it could take.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQf...
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26.01.2026 09:34
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Also looking forward to seeing how the public responds to Pelican Empyrean when it's released - it's a roguelike with a focus on accumulating artefacts, but with an intentionally tightly-curated magic system, so it's almost as puzzle-ish as it is strategic.
05.02.2026 05:14
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these still hold up so nicely. Such a distinct look!
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On the dev side, Pelican Empyrean is now fully playable from start to finish!
Lots of polish / balance still to go, but we have a great QA team helping out, so we can get that difficulty curve just right!
#pelicanEmpyrean #indiegame #gamedev
05.02.2026 05:09
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Thanks! 🍃✨
03.02.2026 07:50
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So happy to finally have some help with Dream of the Star Haven.
Level designer Jack Giles is helping whip the 2.5D platforming minigames into shape!
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03.02.2026 07:19
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Shopping for magical artefacts in Pelican Empyrean
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31.01.2026 00:30
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Pelican Empyrean on Steam
Food is love! In this fantastical roguelike card game share the magic of abundance by cooking delicious meals for all who come to Pelican's kitchen.
Just updated the Pelican Empyrean demo with lots of little improvements, tweaks and fixes across the board. If you haven't checked it out yet now's a good time!
🔮 magical 🥘 cooking 🃏 card game
store.steampowered.com/app/3438870/...
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29.01.2026 06:00
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The very talented up-and-coming artist Bella Field is creating some key art for our roguelike cooking card game #pelicanEmpyrean
Check out this beautiful WIP
Wishlist Pelican Empyrean on Steam!
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28.01.2026 07:28
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Thank you!
26.01.2026 20:18
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Game Dev Journeys: Improvising a Game Design from Scratch
YouTube video by Lamplight Forest
Join me for the latest episode of Game Dev Journeys as I verbally improvise a game design from scratch!
I imagine a concept for a new game and talk through the gameplay structures it could have and thematic directions it could take.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQf...
#indiegames #gamedev #podcast
26.01.2026 09:34
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Finished Angeline Era on hard today. Very amazing and eclectic experience!
Especially recommended if you’re a game dev cos it’s chock full of weird and wonderful enemy and boss behaviors!
25.01.2026 10:42
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Pelican Empyrean on Steam
Food is love! In this fantastical roguelike card game share the magic of abundance by cooking delicious meals for all who come to Pelican's kitchen.
After a busy start to the year we're finally back on track to finish up Pelican Empyrean over the next few months. If you haven't seen it yet check out the free demo on Steam
🃏 roguelike cards
🥘 cooking!
🔮 magic!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3438870/...
#pelicanempyrean #indiegame
20.01.2026 04:37
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Hi! Yes happy to share more info. Please DM me and I can give you additional details there. In a nutshell it’s freelance work-for-hire, negotiable hourly rate, on an early access indie
16.01.2026 23:18
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This one also stood out to me: they said that players are driven more by expectation than by observation - and thus helping to set your players expectations can have a huge impact on their engagement!
14.01.2026 11:07
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Episode 97 - Why We Like Really Hard (and Really Easy) Games
Podcast Episode · Psychology of Video Games Podcast · 01/09/2024 · 46m
Check out this great episode of Psychology of Videogames where they talk about the fascinating "predictive processing" model of cognition and why it means that "uncertainty reduction" is a huge motivating factor for play
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/p...
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14.01.2026 11:07
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This is the level I'm most proud of in Star Haven so far.
It's a compact little puzzle box with Escher vibes, where you keep revisiting the same area but from different approaches and with different gravity orientations.
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13.01.2026 22:00
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