christa 🌻

<333 grats on launch

it's a lot more wonderful 17 years later that's for sure!!

man they just really don't make cats like that anymore

So, uh, this is why I'll be at PAX East.

I'm giving the keynote!!

man

how are u doin in there

Developer Blog | Let’s talk about economy balancing! Pt. 1 We wanted to pull back the curtain on the state of the game economy in Spirit Crossing, how we got here and some things we are looking at in the future.  We really appreciate everyone who has put a…

in our most recent developer blog, we discuss the finer details (and challenges) that go into balancing a multiplayer game economy in its Alpha playtest stages.

if that sounds interesting to you, come take a look!
🧩 spryfox.com/developer-blog-lets-talk-about-economy-balancing-pt-1/

all focused on the ride and not me! couldn't really do anything for the people but unload them and then call maintenance for a "bio" 😅 closed for 45 minutes and then everyone came right back to ride it

one time in peak season I was operating a Spider amusement park ride at full speed when what I thought was rain started pouring down on my ride, but it was a family of raccoons in the pavilion netting peeing in unison

a digital illustration that shows a sketch of a cute monkey character with white fur & black marks. he's wearing a little floral red button-up t-shirt in island vacation style. he's jumping against a warm orange background and reaching out toward a small yellow butterfly

i know the new AC:NH update added a resort but i still want this tiny man from happy home paradise to know he's loved

30 Unicorns - watercolor
This is available as an original painting and as prints - www.inprnt.com/gallery/kness/

i needed cohost to win so bad

lmao i think about this a lot tho, like i used to judge how funny i was based on understanding the dry and niche humor in viral twitter shitposts. i think being less online makes me more funny!!!!

dang i love learning this kind of lore about people's dev journeys though!!

aaaaaa shayna i want to throw up

omg cool

you can find one of our little square bears alongside some other familiar faces in Pieced Together when it launches on March 6th! 🧡

🧩 store.steampowered.com/app/2891370/Pieced_Together/

❤️ you're gonna do wonderful but take care of yourself too!!

oh meg I think you'd LOVE the fashion potential in this game!! our players even put together a v-day fashion show 😭

you can tell I truly enjoy this project bc I can't shut up about it, but one of my favorite parts is the fashion choices the artists put together. everyone's running around in overalls and mullets and mustaches and glowing pink boots and leather jackets and rave pants and wolf ears. losing my mind

The cover image for The Strange Scaffold Cool Things Club. It features the Strange Scaffold Logo, which is a cube held up by, surprisingly, some scaffolding that adds a strange connection to the shape. The cube is now made of wood with moss and small planets growing on it. A sleeping rabbit sits on the top right corner, while a cute little bird looks down from the top left. A fox sits in the bottom left, smiling. There are also the logos for Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube and Amazon Music.

The text art the top of this square says "This Month..." and features pictures representing the Cool Things discussed on the show this month. Top left you see the poster for the Netflix show The Devil's Plan, which shows multiple contenstants looking towards the camera as dice fall around them. To the right of that is a screenshot from the Kairosoft game Dream Town Story, which features a pixel art city and a piece of text that says "James Shan got a treasure! They now have 58!". Below that is the album cover for Ziltoid the Omniscient, which features a Skeksis like creature wearing a cape, holding a cup of coffee and pointing a finger to the air as if he is making a point. This is drawn like a comic book. And to the left of that is a screenshot from the anime May I Ask For One Final Thing? This image features a person in a red dress, wearing studded leather gloves, punching a suited man in the face. People behind them are shocked but this guy totally deserves it.

Episode 8 of The Strange Scaffold Cool Things Club, our podcast, is OUT NOW!

This month @writnelson.bsky.social, Candace and @chrisslight.bsky.social are joined by @composerkirk.bsky.social to discuss

👹 The Devil's Game
☕ Ziltoid The Omniscient
🧤 May I Ask For One Final Thing?
🏙️ Kairosoft Games

you are welcome to chat message me here with a little blurb or if you'd prefer, there's a linktree in my profile w/ a direct email button! either works for me, very casual interest check :3 thanks for the interest so far

oh we're definitely doing some collecting and cooking up some plans! thank you though! <3

I feel very lucky there's so many kind and supportive folks following the studio who are interested in trying something new out

Working on the next Strange Scaffold Newsletter (which you can subscribe to over on strangescaffold.com) reminded me that in the last one (written by the amazing @christapaolucci.com) I wrote segment that it made sense for me to make this image.

There's nothing quite like waking up and checking a collaborative newsletter draft to find something like this, yknow. You can't get that just anywhere

also if that sounds cool but you aren't keen on content creation, you can still play it on PC later this year anyway!! our writers are deeply charming. I don't know if they'd tell you this themselves so I'll do it for them

hahaha it was in that beautiful phase of my online experience where i was typing "indie browser games" into google and looking up "indie folk" on last.fm feeling like i was the first kid to discover anything. i remember thinking "wow you can put a 2D animation on a photograph? you can do anything"

a screenshot taken from the game Samorost, which features photographs of tiny moss-covered hills, and a 2D illustrated tiny man in a white pajama suit in the foreground.

do any of you have a particular "game that got you into indie game dev" that's like.. not super well-known?? I credit this little weirdo heavily for pushing me toward game dev as a fixation

i myself am partial to HAPLESS SPUD

I know a fair share of streamers/tubers follow me – you should reach out to Christa if you’ve been curious about Spirit Crossing, the cozy online life sim where you can catch charming critters such as this rare angry goopy poop pig