Aaron Koss - "TOWST: The One Who Sees Things"

“Have mazes gone too far?” I love it. Is this a maze or a woman, 90% of users guessed wrong!

I wonder how the performance will be on handheld. On the steamdeck.

One slot available for character commissions, delivery in February, need to pay an urgent bill! $199
Send me a chat or Discord(2dchaos) if you'd like to commission! 🖤🖤🖤

Forest nymph Alruna drawn as an Art Nouveau pinup, similar to the art of Alphonse Mucha. She has light green skin, very long pink hair, and large flower petals as a collar. Her high heeled shoes are pink and very elaborate. The background is abstract and intricately decorated.

Alruna Art Bomb! I'm rejecting AI and blowing my whole marketing budget on paying artists to draw Alruna!
This one is by RisuRisu (@risurisurisu.bsky.social) who rendered Alruna in an Art Nouveau style and gave her very long hair. Truly a spring-time flower-nymph!

Compression killed it, so here's a proton drive: drive.proton.me/urls/TA6FAR5...
I first made it with hair but I disliked what I did, so removed it. Then I wanted one with the pink since it was missing so I improvised freckles.
Cheers!

@hallinniklas.bsky.social I saw your "Alruna Art Bomb",
so wanted to do my part, even if I am not an artist.
Fuck AI.

Cerebral Puzzle Showcase Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is a celebration of the most wonderful puzzle games available on Steam, organized by Draknek & Friends.

We're excited to announce that the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase will be returning this summer!

📅 Thurs May 28th - Thurs June 4th

If you have a #puzzlegame you'd like to be considered, please submit it directly here:

www.cerebralpuzzleshowcase.com

The deadline for submissions is 23:59 PDT Mar 31

I don't think a game could "fail or succeed" based on the curator program, with some 1% exceptions.
You'd want people to make videos or streams or clips or talk in the forums about your game, not "a curator told me not to buy the game and they didn't gave a reason, so I won't buy it".
Hämis 👍

Steam Curators

It is a curator review.
store.steampowered.com/curators/cur...

Loved the level design. Finding shortcuts or "movement techs" to bypass certain sections/need for certain items early on was both confusing and fantastic.

Alruna NPCs: industry is rot, heaven is spring, destiny become. The skies, the skies...
Me:

Oni mentioned 👀
Loved that game, retried it some years ago and was a bit rough, but still awesome.

"When our methods kills our employees, it is for the best, because then new, fresh, not-dead employees will flock to us. We can also pay them less and give them less rights and benefits because they are new and starving. Win-win!"

TOWST: The One Who Sees Things - Project on Hold + "how to avoid scams" - Steam News Personal issues placing the project on a break, and how to avoid being scammed.

Made the official announcement on steam too, plus some tips to avoid scams, just to be safe.
store.steampowered.com/news/app/324...

"Seems to work as intended".

I had heard that using the share link also allowed google to collect data on where the link was clicked and "by whom".

I am way too used to just copy the url in the top bar. No hidden surprises. Reading a 4 page long url is like "seeing the matrix".

Glad to hear it!
Here is the SVG file I had promised
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bs2m1...

-seems like can't really share a svg file here
-the mouse itself is not centered in my version, because I recentered the whole as one
-just the base version
-still CC0
-would be great if someone with more skills did it
-also noticed a mistake(?) in the mouse wheel bottom bend

This reminds me as a thumb mouse button user I wanted to have the icons for it too, so I finally went and edited your mouse icons to add M4 and M5;
It's quick and done poorly (on top of me not having good skills) but just wanted to share as a thank you for all you have done.

Not sure what is worse, getting instantly rejected, or having to go through AI job interviews.
Good luck to you Mark!

Any% job rejection

The rented apartment I have been living in the past 6 years need to be emptied (owner want to give it to their grandson).
I have until February 16th.

Development for TOWST is now halted until I found a new accommodation or change country and settle in, and perhaps even longer.

Happy new year.

I had a story I wanted to write for a book, before realizing that since I play more games than I read books, a videogame could be a better approach.
My hope is to someday bring this story into a JRPG-like game.
I should focus on finishing my first project first, tho'

Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, had a long and successful reign.

Wholeheartedly agree. I even made placeholder (or final?) easter egg drawings. It's just so fun and fast, and add so much love.

I am still flabbergasted someone would, with a sane mind, spend 100 money a year only to get the rights to publish/develop for apple devices/stores.

Smol update: the small issues found in the latest playtest have been fixed; working now on bigger issues.
Tutorialization, settings and keybinds QOL, refactoring things that are not working.
I have a long list and already the possible solutions, but time is lacking.
Cheers and happy holidays!

Go weird, go wild. Start shouting at your monitor and see what coms out of it.

If only "Epic Games" put more effort into improving what they have rather than complaining about the "competitors"...

I feel weirdly proud when instead of procrastinating by doing something stupid I procrastinate by doing something stupid and fun.
Bonus points for screaming at the recording, hoping the message can go back in time and reach the player.
(At least I don't need to restraint myself in these scenarios)

I don't know why, but having to read individual numbers vs actually visually seeing the number of dots seems like a downgrade in readability, but it might boils down to each person's personal preferences;
maybe that other suggestion on reddit on using radials + numbers is a good compromise?

I preferred the dots, but that's also because it reminded me of Isles of Sea and Sky metal boxes, those one's also fill up and then count down, as your original design;
maybe changing the sprite/color of the bomb instead of having it only flash could help as indicator for countdown?