@leandrosntolas
Founder & Creative Director of @afternature.bsky.social | Interdisciplinary artist | Game Developer | Creative Consultant Creator of BENIGN LAND 🌀 OUT NOW on STEAM: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3345970/Benign_Land/
From my experience sending press releases as a translator, I want to tell all indie game developers to consider the day you implement languages as a "second launch day"
For non-English speaking gamers, the addition of their native language can feel just a new game release. #indiegame #indiegamedev
Received an email informing me of the AI-generated podcast about the master's thesis I wrote 7 years ago. Of course created without my consent, and of course kinda cringe; but still weirdly entertaining to listen to.
The 'speaker' was mind-blown; at last some enthusiasm for my theoretical work!👍🤖
Proud to have my game featured in the Games From Ireland Steam Curator List! ✨
Thank you so much @vinicius-marino.bsky.social for this excellent and in-depth analysis of Benign Land! 🙏👌
#BenignLand #gamesasart #indiegame #portoguese #Samhain #mythology #Ireland
"If we wish to have an inhabitable future for us and our children and their children, then might I quietly suggest we stop electing and tolerating obvious fascist buffoons because we think they're entertaining characters, as if they were housemates on Big Brother. This isn't reality TV. This is reality, or what's left of it. Let us instead protest and rail at these dribbling Nazi idiots to our last breath, rather than beam stupidly as Elon Musk 'sends his heart out to us' Nuremberg style. Let us point out that they are suicidal cretins when they insist that climate change is a Chinese hoax. Let us not give these witless fuckers an inch."
Alan Moore from a new interview.
alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2025/05/long...
The million-dollar question then becomes: how do you get to that point; to have the funds and creative freedom to gather (and pay) the right group of people and do that specific thing that needs to be done?
Now I’m just waiting for the day he notices how much money the games industry pulls in each year (spoiler: way more than film)—and how much American game development has quietly shifted overseas, through outsourcing and offshore studios, just to dodge the sky-high costs back home.
Looks like he finally realized that Hollywood isn’t what it used to be, that movies actually cost money to make, and yes, that other countries offer incentives that attract filmmakers to produce their films outside of the USA.
So Trump just slapped a 100% tariff on films 'made in foreign lands', seeing them as a 'National Security threat'? 🎬
Wonder how long until he starts throwing tariffs on 'foreign pixels'. 🎮💼
#filmindustry #Hollywood #gamesindustry #films #games #tarrifs #Trump
Looks like he finally realized that Hollywood isn’t what it used to be, that movies actually cost money to make, and yes, that other countries offer incentives that attract filmmakers to produce their films outside of the USA.
Now I’m just waiting for the day he notices how much money the games industry pulls in each year (spoiler: way more than film)—and how much American game development has quietly shifted overseas, through outsourcing and offshore studios, just to dodge the sky-high costs back home.
What if you could walk through history as a ghost? 👻
🕯 Benign Land is part of #LudoNarraCon 2025, via @fellowtraveller.games
Celebrate narrative games and explore the past of Ireland!
🔗 Benign Land: tinyurl.com/55hahvwy
🔗 LudoNarracon: tinyurl.com/4yf767xr
Join us in the Epic for Indies Discord server in a few hours! 📢✨
I'm thrilled to present AFTERNATURE and the creative vision behind our projects, followed by a discussion with Joshua Baldwin, Project Creative Director of
@thechineseroom.co.uk
t.co/rRFmp35Sf3
Check this project out, the kickstarter just launched! 💯✨🌃
@konstantinosd.bsky.social has been one of the first people to support me in my journey into game development. He has been a worldbuilding consultant for our upcoming game, and his contribution has been truly invaluable 💯🙏
If you want to learn from one of the best, this is your chance! ✨👌
Excited to share that AFTERNATURE productions has been selected for EVA 25, the European Video Game Accelerator by Spielfabrique! Honored to join 21 amazing studios and take our studio and upcoming project to the next level!
Looking forward to meeting everyone! ✨
#EVA25 #GameDev #GamesAccelerator
Looking forward to this amazing opportunity! ✨
🌿 Steam Spring Sale is here! 🌿
From now until March 20th, you can experience Benign Land at a discounted price!
🛒 Grab it now: tinyurl.com/55hahvwy
#BenignLand #SteamSpringSale #IndieGame #WalkingSimulator #NarrativeGame #GameArt #SteamDeals #IndieDev #STEAM
An atmospheric, ethereal piece with minimal interaction with the environment. Reminded me of interactive experiences one might find in a museum, in terms of it demanding your attention, requiring you to follow its pace and with a confidence and ability to hypnotise & pull you deep into it.
The environments you are walking through are breathtaking, and stumbling and gliding among them was a super interesting experience.
Thanks @balthuk.bsky.social for the kind words! 🙏✨
Me after submitting 2 funding applications for 2 different game projects within the span of 2 days.
#nopain #silenthill2 #gamedevlife #screenshotsaturday
📰☘️🗞️
Thank you @controlmagazine.bsky.social for covering Benign Land! 🙏✨🌀
Hey, want to know what marketing really is?
Making it as easy as possible for people to know what your thing is and that it exists. Bonus points for if you can help them understand why they might want it.
Marketing people reduce the friction that keeps this from happening.
Hi Leon! I’m not 100% sure, but considering it. If I see there’s enough demand I’ll go for it
Have you read this book? If not it’s a must! It deals with many attempts in urban design & futurism, and their often magnificent failures
Thanks Mohammad!
