Shadowsnog

[Alex Nichiporchik - play Sand Raiders of Sophie @aNichiporchik]

Launched @sandthegame on Monday

By Wednesday early morning beat crippling DDOS attacks

Grossed $2m by Friday

Holding steady online pop

Everything is on fire but it’s Friday

Peanut and hundreds of other phenomenal streamers playing the game

What a week

[The Refund Police @TheRefundPolice]

People act like having 900 games wishlisted on Steam is excessive.

Brother, Steam is an infinite haunted flea market where 40 interesting games spawn every day.

The alternative is seeing a game once, forgetting it exists, and spending six months trying to find it again.

[Tim Hertel @TimsAssets]

Hi, I'm Tim. I'm solo developing a psychological horror game where you wake up trapped in a chair with nothing but a desk full of strange objects in front of you.

-You cannot get up, run, or hide. If something is in the room with you, you are forced to face it from your seat.
-Survival relies entirely on closely examining items, uncovering hidden details, and manipulating your immediate surroundings.
-A complex, supernatural story where every decision you make at the desk shifts the narrative.

It’s called A Story of Questions. Think you could find a way out? 👇

[CowardlyKnights @CowardlyKnights]

The lands of Transylvania are getting more detailed every day!
Here's a quick environment update for your wallachian RPG of choice!

#indieGame #rpg #demo #wallachia #orderofwallachia #environment #level #design

[Arma Platform @ArmaPlatform]

25 years after the release of Operation Flashpoint, we're releasing Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered, now with widescreen support and updated code for better compatibility with modern hardware.

Currently available as a demo on @Steam, the full game will be released at a later date.

To mark the occasion, we're also releasing the source code on GitHub for all of you to take a look under the hood of the military simulator that started it all.

We can't wait to see what you will do with it!

#CanItRunArmaCWA #OFP25

[Eva Navratilova @EvaBalikova]

A little peek into how we created this character for Scarlet Deer Inn. 😊

[Ashborne Games @AshborneGames]

Thanks to everyone who played our demo for The Guild - Europa 1410! 🏰
The demo will remain available after Steam Next Fest and beyond Early Access - try it here: https://t.co/83FOQ3ZM7K

Meanwhile, here's a peek at the improved interior lighting and ambience we're working on! ✨

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.

[Shadowsnog @Shadowsnog]

@IsaiahToth_Dev It will be directed by Serkis. He deserves the benefit of a doubt

[Warhorse Studios @WarhorseStudios]

@DailyKCD Let us recommend The Guild, by our friends over at @AshborneGames!

https://t.co/sjTHWeHCyH

[Shadowsnog @Shadowsnog]

@XorDev im on a forum that is still active for over a decade now. unfortunately even there the owners are trying to shift to discord. which is not even a good substitute...
forums are underrated and underappreciated.

[Shadowsnog @Shadowsnog]

@Ahwhwh2740394 idea
draft
game design document
engine selection
tutorials
first steps
basic mechanics and design
depression and anxiety
abandonment and discardation
repeat
:'D
but! even falling flat on your face is still moving forward, they say... ^^

[Shadowsnog @Shadowsnog]

@DevLand95213410 ahoj and salut from Slovakia <3

[The Banner Saga @BannerSaga]

An embroidered character animation technique?
Check out this unique game on Steam. It's @ScarletDeerInn

[Shadowsnog @Shadowsnog]

@BananaJuju_ its not exactly the same, but it reminded me of something ive heard a while ago and im incorporating it into my life.
world will not fall into damnation by the actions of evil people, but by the inaction of the good ones.

[SaikingS - Verho & Bonehold Developer @KettuGames]

New version of Bonehold demo is now live!
We added the Leveling System and Secret Walls, and the next fest started!

[Shadowsnog @Shadowsnog]

@KromlechGame

[Zlin City Game @zlincity]

Game development is TOUGH 🤪

Zlin City is mostly self-funding the project, but I would love to involve you more, give you a behind-the-scenes look, and show how the game is being created and what the entire development process looks like (link in comments).

#gamedev #indiedev #patreon

[Eva Navratilova @EvaBalikova]

Scarlet Deer Inn isn't part of the festival, but our demo is up on Steam and ready to play. ☺️

#SteamNextFest

[Bohemia Interactive @bohemiainteract]

The demo for Space Tail: Definitive Edition is out now. 🐕‍

Step into the paws of a brave space-traveling dog, explore mysterious planets, solve puzzles, and forge bonds with alien civilizations in this 2.5D story-driven adventure.

Trailer below. Demo link in the replies.