Viewfinder Is A Mind-blowing Perspective-based Puzzle Adventure That Does Things You Won’t Believe

Completely reworked the in-game UI of my game Crazy Critters Attack! I chose a more industrial style for the UI with big metal buttons, caution tape and LCD screens. I also docked the level progress to the left side of the screen instead of leaving it as a weird tab below everything else. Lastly, I picked some new fonts! Before I was just using one of my computer's built-in system fonts, and now I'm using Rubik and IBM Plex Mono.

Me and Meta did another game jam! This was the MechJamV, for which we made a game about repairing mechs after battles.

This was very experimental on my part because of the massive control panel. I've never drawn anything animated of that scale before and it was a real challenge. Meta drew the mechs of course.

This project somehow ended up unfinished, despite the fact that this jam was two weeks; game dev has a weird way of spilling out to fill all available time.

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Rogue Knight by Small Bug Games

Welcome, recruit

Attempted to animate a scene from Crazy Critters Attack in Gartic Phone.

New update for Monster Parlor! Added a bunch of QoL improvements including particles, transition screens, and a new end sequence!

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Update!! - Monster Parlor by MetaphysicalMonsters, Small Bug Games, Twelve Pens, CoByte

We added a bunch of quality of life changes to make the game more fun and less annoying! Added particle effects Added day transition screens

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Underspace on Steam

The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe that includes online multipla

Want to play Underspace?

NOW YOU CAN!

We've got a demo out on Steam for Next Fest, and more so we've got a livestream coming today at 3PM CST/1PM PST. Come chat with the developers and watch an extended deep-dive into the many many many many many many many many many many many aspects of the game!

Redid all the level backgrounds for my game Crazy Critters Attack!

Finally working on this project again after 7 months! I think I'm committing myself to finishing this now, I've put everything I have left to do into GitHub issues and I've started working through it all.

"How do you find all these small/weird/indie games??"

Ask your friends for recommendations

Follow forums/blogs/youtubers whose job is to talk about videogames and play the games they talk about

If you play a game that you like, look up the developer and play whatever else they've made

MOST IMPORTANTLY: ACTIVELY browse storefronts like steam and itch.io YOURSELF and play/buy the games that seem interesting to you. Relying on bloggers and youtubers should only be the start of your exploration

Post about the games you play

Here’s that game I mentioned finishing yesterday!

From its Itch page:

Monster Parlor is a game in which you run a beauty parlor for monsters, where you have the privilege to make them into something a bit more charming! Strike up a conversation, convince them of your ways, and earn some charms of your own.

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Monster Parlor by MetaphysicalMonsters, Small Bug Games, Twelve Pens, CoByte

Make monsters beautiful

Made in a 72 hour game jam (2023 Winter Melon Jam) by me, @cobyte @smallbuggames and dogoryx!

Bonus fanart for my own game

Rah I forgot to post this last week. These are some of my favorite monsters that I had the pleasure of designing for the 2023 Winter Melon Jam. The theme was “charm” and we ran with the idea of making a monster parlor, where your objective is to make these creatures more charming.

Our game “Monster Parlor” was made within 72 hours by me, @puddleorganism , cobyte, and smallbuggames!

(From left to right: Squid, Rug, Hera, and the Vinegar Twins) there are 9 monsters total!

On another note, I’m superrrrr interested in the idea of making speculative biology/species out of some of these guys tbh.

Below there is the link to our game if you’d like to check it out.

https://metaphysicalmonsters.itch.io/monster-parlor

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Monster Parlor by MetaphysicalMonsters, Small Bug Games, Twelve Pens, CoByte

Make monsters beautiful

On this day 5 years ago, I made the very first commit of my first game, Crazy Critters Attack! Its been a very fun journey working on this project and making games in general, I'm really proud of how far I've come.