A development screenshot of the game "Clever Girls". A poacher in armor stands in front of a table of hunting and capture equipment. A gun and a camera turret stand on tripods on either side of him.
We wanted to make battles a bit more challenging... so we've been gearing up the poachers to cause problems.
An image of "Daisy", a character from the game Clever Girls. She's featured showing various expressions. Also listed in text in the image are some of her character traits: "Strong but gentle", "Empathetic" and "Principled".
Look at this adorable banana of a dinosaur! You can read about her, too! We've put out the first part of our second Character Profile on our dev blog, and this time we're talking about the Clever Girls' heavy-hitter, Daisy! #clevergirls
Read on here: clevergirlsrpg.tumblr.com/post/8071215...
We released a small update to the demo, focusing on performance optimization, settings autodetection and bugfixes. We're getting our dinos in a row for the new year!
Details on Steam: store.steampowered.com/news/app/284...
This is one of the things we're working on right at this moment, in fact!
We've been working hard on Clever Girls! We're focusing on the full game, but we ported some new changes back to the demo! Animations, battle rebalances, world dialogue... and physics-y dinosaur tails!
All kinds of stuff!
Details on Steam: store.steampowered.com/news/app/284...
#clevergirls
A collage of images of Sawyer, a character from the game Clever Girls. She's featured multiple times in the image in various expressions, ranging from happy and enthusiastic, to downcast and confused.
The third (and final) part of Sawyer's character profile post is out! Featuring concepts + design notes! There's this expression collage, too!
You might also find out some tidbits about what's coming next for the demo and the full game. 👀🦖
Read here: clevergirlsrpg.tumblr.com/post/8000584...
Bonus front facing view:
A screenshot from the development of the game Clever Girls. It features the Utahraptor Sawyer, with a before and after image. Sawyer's eye texture has been adjusted to be less bewildered.
We did some painting to make one of the demo's most requested changes. Sawyer's switched to decaf!
"I figured there’s probably a big interest in dinosaurs that extends beyond having them be these big murder creatures."
@alyssawejebe.bsky.social talks to @ossifragegames.bsky.social about their upcoming tactical RPG/visual novel starring sapphic dinosaurs, Clever Girls:
Part 2 of Sawyer's character profile series is up! (It's like the first one, except it has completely different stuff inside!)
This time we chat about Sawyer's tactical battle role and some juicy character interaction dynamics...
Read it here: clevergirlsrpg.tumblr.com/post/7975130...
Wanna read about dinosaurs? This dinosaur, specifically!
We've posted the first entry in our Character Profiles series featuring Sawyer, the leader of the pack in Clever Girls! Check it out for some dino details. More parts to be posted soon! #clevergirls
clevergirlsrpg.tumblr.com/post/7961458...
A screenshot of the game Clever Girls. Daisy, a large dinosaur, has tears in her eyes. She is crying over a broken wooden camp mascot standee. The dialogue in the image reads "Nooo! He kept the forest safe! His slogan could even make the humans behave..."
Also, check out a screenshot of a VN event that was previously disabled due to a bug. See if you can find in the new build!
We've updated the Clever Girls Demo! We've made a Steam community post detailing the changes, and also shared a bunch of information for future plans for the demo and more (including some exciting upcoming combat changes) #clevergirls
Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/284...
Hotfix is up! Update the demo if you haven't.
We've discovered a crash that's fairly common when an enemy in the second phase of the second battle takes their turn under certain conditions. Working on a hotfix!
The Clever Girls Demo has released on Steam! It's out now! Check out our release notes for version 1.0.2: store.steampowered.com/news/app/284...
Play the demo! Leave us a review! Let us know what you think! If you stream it or make content, show us! #clevergirls #indiegames
A visual-novel style screenshot from the game Clever Girls. Prati and Shade, two dinosaurs, are speaking. Prati looks shocked. Shade looks smug. The dialogue in the image reads as such: SHADE: "There are skeletons within all of us, Prati. Us dinosaurs should be especially aware of this."
The Clever Girls Demo releases tomorrow! To share our excitement, have a no-context screenshot from one of the demo's scenes:
Guess what! Our game and demo has also been OFFICIALLY selected by the Tiny Teams Fest 2025, @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social! Our little turn-based "DinosauRPG" has our first demo releasing right around the start of the fest! #TinyTeams2025
Here's a dev blog post with more details: clevergirlsrpg.tumblr.com/post/7905332...
Wishlist on steam and you'll get an email reminder when the demo's playable! We're so excited! It's almost time!
DINOSAURS REAL!!! Demo release date: August 7th!
The Clever Girls DEMO will be playable on Steam Aug. 7th! We're calling it a "Dress Rehearsal", so it won't have every mechanic the full game will, but it should have enough for you to find out if you're interested! #clevergirls
A colorful ornithomimid stands on the snout of a much larger yellow-green and orange megalosaurid, reaching up to the top of a warehouse shelf to grab a plush ceratopsian. In the foreground, a dromaeosaurid struggles and fails to jump to reach the same plushies.
Lending a helping (and not so helping) hand...
Concept art for Clever Girls !
We made our dinos look at whatever the player targets! Really makes them feel more lifelike, no?
Just answered a very interesting question on our development blog! (Did you know we have a development blog?) It concerns the "player character" and relationship systems. And also, another Prati sketch.
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We’re polishing up our UI, VFX, and other little details in order to make the stealth and enemy knowledge systems intuitive (without overloading the player with information)
Getting closer to a demo release, bit by bit!
The simple game dev joy of adding new foliage models to the terrain and then going “ooh” and “aah” at all your outdoor levels. 🌱
A screenshot from the game "Clever Girls". The character Daisy, a large dinosaur, stands victorious above a defeated enemy.
Daisy had to do it to 'em
A screenshot of an early version of the videogame Clever Girls, including game UI. The character "Daisy", a large dinosaur, stands in the center of a greenhouse.
The demo for Clever Girls is coming along! We're currently working on polishing up our battle UI. We just added rebind-aware control prompts, that can also detect if you switch between gamepad or mouse+keyboard.
We have a new progress report update on our steam community page, including some newly-revealed gameplay details! Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/284...
We’ve been working on replacing our rough, early animations for our upcoming demo. Big improvement, don’t you think?
Stand by for more demo-related updates very soon! 🦖 #gamedev #indiegames #clevergirls #paleoart #dinosaur
They've got places to be! 🐊🐔🛶
