hi! i make KO_OP stuff and some projects like wooloofarm, palettes.me🔜, and Elliot & Ko, a paper RPG w animals & low-poly aesthetics
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thinking about how hedges aren't green and soft and fluffy all throughout the inside but instead look like this
it's fucked up !
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a friend and i made a trading website for #PokemonSwordShield! swap exclusives, held items/fossils, cute little alcremies, shinies, or give away some free gifts🎁!
we worked hard on it & it's non-profit so please like & RT!
oh and the name is the best: wooloo.farm🐑
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we just launched nook.market ! after our pokémon site, @im_roryl made a cute, free, no-ads #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons trading exchange! it works a little different than the others, so i think they work together nicely? we worked hard on it, likes & RT appreciated💙
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it was because "0.9" was being parses as "9" in regions that don't use . as a decimal point, im going to kms
so there's a gvh zoom bug (zooms too much) that only affects a tiny portion of users that has never come up in QA and has never been encountered by the team
BUT after more hours than i ever expected i finally have a lead on what it might be lol
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so! the wholesome direct is here this saturday
excited but obviously shaking like a life given the discourse to come etc
but! this time around we made a little faq that i think speaks to a lot of our values, some often not known!
i thought it was nice
wholesomegames.com/faq/
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🎵 u ever make a thing that reads a 🎸melody + bpm, processes it, records it as a song w no clipping, renders its as an image, combines them both into a video AND uploads it to the chat in like 5 seconds 🎵
(bonus if u recognize both songs!! arranged by brian)
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wow hello huge news! im so excited to announce im joining @KOOPMode full-time to help w technical direction! 🌸✨🦖🎵
everyone is so caring and fun and supportive there, i truly can't wait to see what we'll make together
also please enjoy this extremely ironic flashback to may
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i genuinely learn more about graphics programming in games talking for a few hours with jasper than i do everywhere else combined
and they made a quick lil 60 second dive into botw rendering techniques ! please check it out (vid below)
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wanted to share some tools i made for gvh's rhythm gameplay! beatmaps are editable in-game & let you quickly sync everything to beat: gameplay, animations, lipsync too! so reed accurately drums along with the song
if you've used unity's audio api, you'll know how tricky this is!
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press Y to hold hands 🦌🤝🐑💕 (in-game preview next)
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #animation #aftereffects #motiongraphics #cute #deer #sheep #unity3d #ゲーム制作 #イラスト #絵
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can finally reveal this! over 40 of us from @_wholesomegames got together to show our love & support for @perplamps & @nonplayercat when all of the terrible stuff went down
i know our industry could really use some positivity and im so proud of everyone
weloveooblets.github.io/
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why play cyberpunk (transphobic, bad worker conditions, lame) when u can talk to cyberhunks (me)
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today somebody made an angry thread wondering what our "corporate bottom line" was as Wholesome Games and why we're so opaque about our company and relationships w/ publishers and i cannot stop laughing
it was all voluntary
there is no company
we're just friendly folks! say hi
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meet Elliot, a sleepy sheep boy in this little game 🐑💤
- recently learned to count to 50
- 12 hour naps
- easy on others, hard on self
- doing his best!
- give him your credit card #
#indiedev #gamedev #animation #aftereffects #rubberhose #motiongraphics #cute #unity3d #sheep
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“surely no one would go to the effort of creating an entirely fictional scenario with actors, make a set, and film it all in an attempt to amuse people for attention and call it a skit?”
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hey friends!! positivity is SUCH a nice a trend in games. a few of us got together to make a hub for finding really cute, wholesome games!! a lot of v creative people are involved, come have a look/share it around! & lmk if you're interested as a creator!
discord.gg/JjjBSz9
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didn’t even get a galaxy light spam request but instead go check out our rad gay dinosaur game (also conveniently at dinos.gay bc of course )
🦕 Goodbye Volcano High 🏫
☄️ It's the end of an era...
and the start of a love story. 💕
Coming 2021 to PS5, PS4 & Steam.
goodbyevolcanohigh.com/
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hi i made a really cute site for our Wholesome Direct on the 26th!! we're featuring so many cute games and exclusive footage including way to the woods, chicory, ooblets and more! im so excited
u can see it here! wholesomegames.com
and @_wholesomegames for more info!!
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remember you can find all games to wishlist from this year's direct on wholesomegames.com !
i added a little randomness over alphabetical order just now to help spread out visibility
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anyone who mistakenly tweets that wholesome games is a business or has sponsors during this year's direct must immediately a) donate $100 to an issue that matters, or a creator of your choice b) venmo me $5 for having to endure you
this is now twitter law no take backs
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hii its my bday !!
and this week after putting it off for 1.5 years im finally figuring out my moving plans to chicago !
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so there's a gvh zoom bug (zooms too much) that only affects a tiny portion of users that has never come up in QA and has never been encountered by the team
BUT after more hours than i ever expected i finally have a lead on what it might be lol
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♀️art on #InternationalWomensDay💙
@Mari_n_Artworks gorgeous colors
@mewdokas @passionpeachy lovely chars & lighting
@lemyawn @rawrsei @TookiPalooki the cutest OCs
@lowpolycurls @osidinum @Courtney_Fay_M @enralis @pkkaos @harmil_art @oliviahns 3d joy!
@olivebrinker 🦌comic!!
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a quick edit in support of some friends 🦌
check out posts under #TransCrowdFund for a lot of folks in need 🐑
small donations make big differences 🐰
#ThanksGraham 🐸
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my goodbye volcano high pitch is that it has me as a deinonychus in it ! it me
by our lovely character artist max
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my EXTREMELY talented dog is now canonically in TWO games and i’m so proud :') please check out Posey Picks by @derekachoy at derekachoy.itch.io/posey-pic… !!
it’s really cute and the charm and humor is incredibly my brand i really hope people discover it!!
(2nd is @TookiPalooki !)
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cozy #lowpoly winter aesthetic ❄ a small work in progress that will likely feature quite a bit more detail
#lowpoly #indiedev #gamedev #origami #cute #papermario #AnimalCrossing #blender #Blender3d
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im tearing up so hard thank you for watching the direct!!😭
a games list is going up now!!
if you missed it: piped.video/watch?v=AwCNzOPR…
thank you so much @matthewtc @jamesdevstory im so glad we did this together!!
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a friend & i would dig holes every day after school in 5th grade. not sure how it started
meet in the woods between us, dig for hours, say night & head home
it became a massive project w/ tunnels that we almost died in when they'd collapse. 2 dumb kids in unusually great shape.
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thinkin' about how botanists define berries in the most cursed way possible today
✅berries
grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, bananas, chili peppers, watermelons 🍉 (??) and pumpkins🎃(!!!)
❌not berries
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries
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this is so ridiculous, if the cw indicates it’s a game that upsets you, they’ve given you the ability to not play it
universally sanitizing (rather than warning) all content is just right wing puritanism rebranded
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i think the best of both worlds is animated but with b to complete it
so many paper mario jokes landed because of the dynamic pacing
actually while writing this tweet i remembered the perfect example: god damn it in deltarune piped.video/watch?v=Hda86VDo…
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collecting and naming pokemon is by far my fav part so i made a little tool to share them !
reply with yours?🔥🍃💧⚡
nicknames.please.rest/
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hi nothing about this is okay
drops the gaming branding (finally!) but has made up in spades with whatever the fuck this is
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with so much horrible predatory behavior within the game dev industry and so much toxicity among the audience you really have to wonder what the hell it's all for
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Another look at one of the underground cities in Elliot & Ko! There are a number of platforming puzzles here I can't wait to show off ✨
#screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #cyberpunk #Cyberpunk2077 #gamedev #indiedev #cute #papermario #AnimalCrossing #blender #Blender3d
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the artist🐑 the art
(i had an animated gif before remembering you cannot.. add gifs and stills together ahhhhh)
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they quite literally are talking about irish counties and irish reunification in an independent nation called ireland
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a little personal, but my family just dug this up! tomorrow is liberation day in the netherlands, and here's a commemoration to my grandfather's efforts to shelter people during the resistance, ultimately being captured, interned and liberated. all this, only 75 years ago...😮
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An origami world with little paper planes and paper sailboats you can pilot in Elliot & Ko! ⛵ The rainbow flowers were a happy mistake born from a distorted texture.
#lowpoly #indiedev #gamedev #origami #cute #papermario #AnimalCrossing #blender #Blender3d
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🦕so with @KOOPMode we're making a TON of fun little community experiences for Goodbye Volcano High and i wanted to share this one!!
a way for staff to write engaging dialog w the cast in the server with "Fang is typing..." & all
come check it out! discord.gg/ko-op
#GVH
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last rt this was a really wonderful piece on the #WholesomeDirect and also touches on some nice thoughts regarding the current discussions and stuff
ty @Kotaku and @ethangach this really felt great to read
kotaku.com/fans-make-e3-styl…
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i habitually say “ok! you ready boy?” to my dog bluey before walks and i just subconsciously said it out loud before half-asleep getting in the shower… to myself
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so july 17th was when i committed (and mostly followed through! outside some work deadlines) to working out regularly again and i think i’ve put on some ok size ! and strength
my goal is, of course, zagreus
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there’s rly interesting talk around the word, label, branding (god forbid) & implication of ‘wholesome’! in this essay i will,
sleep bc im still tired 😴 but i do think later it’d be nice to talk about our thoughts & fears we have + maybe share w such an umbrella & loaded term
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since new years i started as tech lead on a new project, delivered a multiplayer prototype, managed hiring for 3 positions and learned to ski ! ⛷️🦌 taking some rest days now but feeling accomplished 😴
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i think whether or not wholesome games persists, or i stay with wg, the past 48 hours were insane, same as last year. meaningful reflections (usually w actionable change in mind) are great, but i think the way the industry approaches these things online is just so... weird.
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also look @ this absolutely gorgeous key art by @/Lemondaurora
wholesomegames.com/faq/
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Little deer boy going for a walk 🍂 Re-worked Ko's design into something ice & something nice ❄
#animation #aftereffects #rubberhose #motiongraphics #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev
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(and sorry, this was remarkably hard to fit into a single tweet! can certainly offer more details if need be. we're huge fans of your work and just feel we have to do something!)
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