DancingEngie

I make small freeware games when I have free time & post weirdass experiments sometimes

קצת שלווה בבקשה / قليل هدوء, من فضلك

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

@TheLotanos If you aren't going to give me a shiny sword, give me a good story or a permanent change, preferably both. Either way I think the jump from platformer to imsim is not only simple but allows you to have more reactivity and lore quests. Hell, have you considered a pivot?

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

@TheLotanos Players want tangible rewards for their time, sure. But some of the most memorable quests are entirely lore- and character-centric. The quest I mentioned before is Volare! from F:NV. When you beat it, the bomber stays floating. You have made a tangible change in the world

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

@TheLotanos Every quest requires context to justify 'attack this' or 'use this' multiple times. It can be as simple as "this door needs a powerup" and as complex as "these folks found a plane underwater and they need you to plant explosives to pull it up". >>>

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

@TheLotanos bro realized how fun it is to randomize positions for player feedback (he is right)

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

oof, that compression. have a still, too

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

Started work on the prologue and the first Big Visual - the fallen Mirage (which may or may not be God's)

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #madewithgodot

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

@DoctorWho_90250 Yeah pretty much. Also some Douglas Adams in there.

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

Esoteric Ebb is the closest thing to a D&D play session with a hilarious, professional, yeah-sure-you-can-do-that DM. Reactive, funny, mysterious and genuinely smart with its worldbuilding. The first truly great Child of Disco.

[Christoffer Bodegård @chrisbodegard]

After writing 1,25 million words, after spending years pitching this mix of my two favorite games of all time: Planescape: Torment and Disco Elysium...

ESOTERIC EBB is FINALLY FINISHED!

Go play the full FIRST DAY now in the Next Fest demo, then bring your SAVE FILE to launch!

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

While we're at it: Eternal Afternoon is an incredibly atmospheric timeloop game set in a nostalgic Israeli neighborhood. The amount of interactions you can do, big and small, is super impressive and varied.
Incredibly heartening stuff, absolutely nailed the aesthetics

[Alex Klexber | Play Eternal Afternoon @Klexber]

🌊🕢 20 minutes left before the world ends.
How would you spend them?
#gamedev #solodev #indiegames
#EternalAfternoon

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

@dotpixel3d Haha, it's not your fault - I just got a little carried away. Still, it's super interesting to us on the team that the game got a lot of traction with you guys in Japan. Can you maybe guess why?

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

@dotpixel3d EDIT: Wow we didn't realize the original post made the rounds. I know about shows being finalized in the last week but didn't know this was such a common nightmare. All you behind-the-scenes folks - godspeed. You're all underappreciated. I wish you luck and great fortune

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

@dotpixel3d It'd be cool*
One dev did cinematography & lighting, and I designed video art for a few local theatrical shows. We really like theater and just set out to make a funny jam game about it. I hope we didn't touch an actual nerve, that was never our intention. (2/2)

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

@dashimaruJPN Thanks for the feature! And yeah, it is a very game-y job.
One of our programmers was a cinematographer and lighting guy, and I designed video art for a few theatrical shows. Also all of us *really* enjoy physically taking something and moving it around in first-person games

[Warp Door @WarpDoor]

Enter Stage Light (@DancingEngie, @EyesOfTheSkyDev, @IndieChattie, @nadavshef)

"Give the spotlight to the right actors, and change its color according to the script - all in real time."

Free - Windows: https://t.co/EKuocsXlOo

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

It's the depression era. You're the only gaffer around. Read the cabaret's script and give the right actor the right spotlight - all in real time.

Play it on @itchio here:
https://t.co/nNdUl8YCnT

Wonderful #GGJ26 teammates: @nadavshef | @IndieChattie | @EyesOfTheSkyDev

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

https://t.co/MBKpnlamZe

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

Nothing could have prepared me for seeing a Flash animation I made when I was 10 in a random video essay about Mario parodies

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

I can only sheepishly hope 2026 will bring the start of some goddamn quiet. This year taught me how much I love learning and reading about history, but not living in it.

It'll all be funny eventually, you know. Unfortunately, 'eventually' is not right now.

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

Things I did this year:
- 2 short films
- 2 game jam games
- made a working proof of concept for a giant-ass imsim
- put that imsim in haitus 'cause oh god
- sent 200+ resumes
- finally got a full-time job
- did video art for an original musical
- finally beat persona 3 reload

[DancingEngie @DancingEngie]

When it comes to actual global events, never have I experienced such blinding heights and such harrowing lows.
"There are decades where nothing happens, and years where decades happen", or so goes the quote.