VIDEO GAMES ARE THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD!!! Watch this video and tell me if you agree!
And then come see all these games & meet the devs March 8 in SF!
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And while it's not visible yet since we don't have anything discounted right now, the discount capsule customization options are 😔👌
Saw the new Steam developer pages were customizable and I'm a visual creature at heart so you know I had to jump on that.
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This was harder than I thought to narrow down, but this feels fairly representative.
Our fancy shmancy new NSE business cards came in today! We almost never need these since we’re such introverted vampires but for our first GDC I figure we should have some!
Forbidden Solitaire is taking part in the London Games Festival!
This year's lineup will be playable at New Game Plus on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 April, plus there's a Festival Steam Showcase online 🤩
Pinball RPG?? 👀
Getting ready to hand these out at Day of the Devs. Gotta spread the word about this evil filth!!
Oh damn, Yahtzee's about to play Forbidden Solitaire! As a longtime ZP fan I admit this is cool as hell. 👀
Meet the fantastic actors featured in Forbidden Solitaire!
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Yay Forbidden Solitaire got a mention.
"That's an insta-download from me!"
Lolll someone on r/Steam posted a screenshot of a broken link on their wishlist to ask about it, but the presence of Forbidden Solitaire in the screenshot causes several commenters to immediately wishlist it.
Our capsule game is 💪💪💪
It is indeed! Just slow going since we're balancing multiple projects, but development will be back in full swing once Forbidden Solitaire launches!
Reminder that David and I will be in San Francisco for GDC next week, hit me up if you wanna meet up, chat, summon otherworldly horrors together, etc. ☺️🤘
BIG NEWS! Forbidden Solitaire is going to be at Day of the Devs in San Francisco! Feel free to come and chat with @davidjohnsen.bsky.social and I there in-person! 🥳
A solitaire game styled after a 90s FMV horror game with an IM window and a video player of a protest laid over the game window.
Forgot to post about playing Forbidden Solitaire.
Forbidden Solitaire is extremely cool.
That's it, that's the post.
Hellloo I'm about to ~announce~ my side project and I'm looking for journos and press interested in cozy horror/fake OS/visual novel/set in the 90s style games. If that's you hmu! Or if you know of folks pls lemme know!
I'm building my own list but I'm bound to miss the perfect person.
When I was a teenager I used the editor to recreate 2Fort and play against bots. Saw this game on the PlayStation store and figured it’d a fun use of time to do that sort of thing again. There’s something very satisfying about recreating levels using primitive tools like these.
Tell me why I spent several hours recreating part of the Bioshock Medical Pavilion level inside Timesplitters: Future Perfect’s level editor. It’s barely capable of such a thing and yet I can’t stop myself. Sent me straight back to the 2000s.
"Meta Haunted Video Game" is thoroughly tread ground for independent titles, but Forbidden Solitaire manages to be charming by leaning into the absurdity of the idea while also just being a really good example of a lo-def card game. Fun time.
Getting to the point in the project where some of the most exciting stuff coming together is the stuff we CAN'T talk about yet, and I wonder how people with NDAs do this for years on end without going mad. You're all such troopers.
Be careful what demos you play this weekend. 👁️🩸
💿FORBIDDEN SOLITAIRE DEMO: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj
Yes it's true, we added some STEALTH LEVELS to Forbidden Solitaire. We joked about it once, but then I realised how it could be done, so we prototyped it, and it's fun!
Thanks Westin! The period audio work is all thanks to @davidjohnsen.bsky.social and @greyalien.bsky.social's combined efforts!
Creepy Classifieds: Bird Mentor 🗞️
Jake and Callum at @greyalien.bsky.social were stealthily brewing up Forbidden Solitaire's stealth mechanics(!) and had me record a blind playtest for it!
Those crazy bastards did it. How they perfectly translated MGS style stealth mechanics into turn-based solitaire gameplay is beyond me.
Thank you all for helping our cursed 1995 CD-ROM Forbidden Solitaire reach 50 THOUSAND WISHLISTS! We are eternally grateful. 🗡️❤️
💿PLAY THE DEMO: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj
Our next game is Verminsteel!
You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun
PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
I love the success of this campaign because it shows how effective just a little attention to narrative tone and aesthetic texture can be even in genres people don’t think of as “narrative.” Lovely to see
