Tursiops Studios

Is it bad that I'm kinda hungry now... 😋

Spring has sprung in #Primrows! Our ambient spring background and soundscape has made its way back for another limited run in the game.

Pro tip: If you get the Premium version of our game, you can change the seasonal background to WHATEVER you want 😉 #SCreenshotSaturday

Ooooooh boy, this week's #Primrows challenge is one of my favorites!

Take Direction assigns even more specific rules for each new flower, corresponding to individual rows, columns, and quads instead of abiding by all the rules at once!

Mewsletter!! That's so lovely 🥺

the nostalgia!! 🤩

Todays on Game Development… Made a map and a ”company logo” and what not…

Many players considered the game ‘beaten’ after getting 3-star scores in quickplay and journal, rather than being prompted to push their scores to new heights and really dive down into the deeper levels of strategy. Also, you’ll have achievements to strive for to guide you towards higher-level play.

In addition to adding a snapshot feature, we’ll have full leaderboard support so you can measure your score up against other players around the world and see just how far you can take the game.

That’s why we’re adding a snapshot feature in our upcoming 1.2 update- to hopefully pique the interests of people who haven’t tried the game yet.

Without a proper leaderboard to use to compete, we noticed many players took to sharing screenshots of their final score screen. While we’re happy that people are sharing, the current score screen doesn’t do a great job of showing new players what kind of game Primrows is.

Some of our guesses were right — weekly and monthly challenges have been a hit with everyone who has talked to us about the game — but other guesses were way off. Perhaps our biggest fumble was the lack of online leaderboard support at launch.

These can be useful to see what’s drawing people back to the game, and how they’re interacting with the game in general. Without having run those kinds of tests, we were just guessing at what would keep long-term engagement up.

Hopefully the “Through the Pavement” challenge didn’t end up too frustratingly difficult to 3-star!

One big thing we missed, in part because it can be hard to conduct, was longitudinal playtesting: self-guided playtests that last for a couple weeks or more.

We may not have gotten either of those things perfect, but they wouldn’t have been anywhere close if not for the contributions from our playtesters.

Occasionally a playtester would get super lucky on a difficult challenge and throw our whole spreadsheet off.

We put a lot of hours into playtesting. There was a mix of one-on-one sessions, self-guided play, and interacting with attendees at Midwest Gaming Classic and GDEX as they tried out Primrows. Playtests were focused on two things: onboarding (tutorials, etc.) and challenge balance.

Now that Primrows has been out for almost a year (WOAH), I’d like to share with you some lessons we’ve learned from watching players post-launch, how those lessons are shaping our ongoing updates, and what we (and other indie developers) can carry forward to the next project.

Screen time? I hardly know her! #Primrows #IndieGame

Primrows Screenshot round 2 of 3 - 50 points a 4x4 grid of the following flowers empty, empty, empty, rowflower coluflower, boxflower, coluflower, rowflower rowflower, boxflower, neutral, empty empty, coluflower, neutral, rowflower 2 waters left

New #Primrows weekly challenge today: Take Direction

This is one of the strangest challenges we have, with NONE of the “normal” flowers. You have to take cues from the flower shapes to build a garden.

try it this week: linktr.ee/tursiops

#indieDev #puzzle #logicGame @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social

A screenshot of Primrows On the left is a 4x4 square garden, and the four corner tiles are golden. Round 3 of 10 - 110 points The following flowers: Azure, azure, azure, azure violet, pink, pink, pink blue, shiny violet, pink, pink blue, pink, shiny pink, violet On the right is a scoring journal with the following line items rows - not recorded columns - 4 of 4, 40 points quads - not recorded sets - not recorded blues - 4 of 4, 70 points pinks - not recorded violets - 3 of 4, 50 points (selected) oranges - not recorded azures - not recorded flowers - not recorded prize garden - not recorded total score 110 points

New #Primrows monthly challenge: High Roller!

This gives you two separate power-ups that boost your score, and you can stack them to hit a 4x multiplier.

Try it this month at linktr.ee/tursiops

#indieDev #puzzleGame @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social

Tomorrow's the last day to play the Five by Five Challenge! Adding diagonals to the mix spices things up a lil more than youd think 😜 #Primrows #IndieGame #ScreenshotSaturday

WAAAAH this is so pretty!!

Shifting Sands - "a singleplayer extraction roguelite set on a storm-lashed desert world". play as a scrapper heading out onto a desert planet, searching for scrap and adventures before the storms roll in! maps reset each day, and WHO KNOWS what you'll find out there in the desert #SteamNextFest

really digging the colors in this!

screenshot from all will rise

screenshot from all will rise

screenshot from all will rise

screenshot from all will rise

Welcome to Muziris.

A vibrant city under pressure from powerful corporate and political interests. Mix with ecoterrorists and godmen, capitalist overlords and construction workers, conspiracy theorists and hacker seeresses.

Every decision will test you.

#IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame #SteamGames

exactly!!

Primrows Screenshot. A garden of flowers against a wintery background Round 2 of 3 - 110 points A 4x4 square garden of these flowers: pink, orange, jasmine, pink blue, violet, pink, jasmine violet, jasmine, jasmine, jasmine jasmine, blue, jasmine, orange 2 water remaining harvest for 50 points

New #Primrows weekly challenge: First Light!

This one has a new special flower for you to grow. Jasmine *only* grows on your first watering, which can give you a huge strategic boost if you know how to use it

Try it this week: linktr.ee/tursiops

#indieDev #puzzleGame
@tursiopsstudios.bsky.social

even after you worked SO HARD 😩 #Primrows #indiegame

Version 1.6.0 is now available on all platforms!

Our newest patch has a handful of bug fixes, some accessibility improvements, and extends support for more challenges with new flowers and new board shapes 🍄

Luckily ours is actually pretty relaxing 🥳 #Primrows #indiegame

Been there! 😪 #Primrows #IndiegameDev #PhoneGame