GinaCities Ginacities is the home of Gina Giannetti, Junior Software Engineer @ BBC News. Trying to make cosy, perhaps mystical games in my spare time.

My new page redesign is up!! I am so proud of this, 12 year old me would die if she saw this page. It is the 2000s again, I just decided. 💜👾 #webdev #gamedev #retroweb ginacities.com

The leaderboard on my game was inspired by the early internet, and getting some cloud experience is probably useful right?? 💜👾 #gamedev #indiedev #webdev

Potion Puzzle Shop by ginacities A potion puzzle game where you learn magical shapes to clear potions

I've given my potion puzzle game an online leaderboard! Adding a full cloud architecture to my free game is probably overkill but I have been meaning to learn some backend development 😶‍🌫️ please have a go at knocking me off the top spot 🧙‍♀️ ginacities.itch.io/potion-puzzl... #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Why do we crave the 2000s internet so much? Let's talk about the indie web YouTube video by GinaCities

Why do we crave the 2000s internet so much? Is it just pure nostalgia or something more? I discuss this in my latest long form video 💜👾 featuring @neocities.org @neopets.bsky.social and even @godotengine.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCfO... #indieweb #indiegames #webdev

Did you check the How to Play section? Because you’re the first person with that feedback, one person said it took them a while but nobody said it wasn’t obvious so I’m interested if you read that part because I did try to make it clear there and I didn’t use pop ups for re-playability.

What do I talk about when I’m not sure what to post about and it’s been a little while? Well tutorial messages of course 😂🙏🏼💜👾 #gamedev #indiedev

Hahaaa 1000%!!

Creativity is so strange nowadays. I built a whole (free) game, then had to go on social media to promote it, so then I made a long-form YouTube video about it, and had to go on social media to promote *that* like, sometimes it feels... endless? Luckily I'm enjoying it but still, oof. #gamedev

Making a Puzzle Game in Godot | Full Game Dev Journey | Cozy Comfort Vlog YouTube video by GinaCities

My first YouTube video is up! The full process of making my Potion Puzzle game. Grab a tea and get comfy, this one was really fun to make. 💜👾 #gamedev #indiedev youtu.be/QYRHYpf8C5Q

On bluesky I have one TENTH of the followers I have on TikTok and yet Itch says more people from Bluesky have played my free potion puzzle game than from TikTok. Soooo thank you, wow, you guys are the best and I should spend more time here. 🥹💜👾 #gamedev #indiedev

yes I've got exactly the same! I made this post after a couple of reddit comments saying it was a bit unclear what to do in my game, nobody else has said that so I don't want to reinvent anything but *wanting* to be hand guided through a game is baffling to me! Nobody guided you through tetris! 😂

Tutorials are such a hilarious hot topic in the game dev world and i do find people's takes so interesting! I generally dislike being forced to go through a lot of tutorial pop ups and like to just discover games for myself, but some people feel utterly lost without them. #gamedev #indiedev

Devlog covering how I built my Potion Puzzle Shop game, it’s come a long way in 2 months! 💜👾 #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Had a twitch streamer call my game “Candy crush if it was a smart game” and that kinda made my day 😂😂 #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Playthrough of my game, it gets hard lol 🧙🏽‍♀️💜 #gamedev #indiedev #godot #cozygaming

Thanks so much. I sent it out to a few people to test a few days before launch and the feedback was all good but I had to do a lot of tweaking to the difficulty before launch and ended up quickly adding in levels just to allow for different play styles.

I love the idea of having a cute little portfolio of free games that I built in my spare time that I can be proud of. Each one slightly more complicated than the last one. I see so many incredibly impressive games but you have to start somewhere 💜 #gamedev #indiedev

thanks so much! haha I have a few ideas and I am struggling to decide on one but I think I do want to keep it small because I do like having a little portfolio to build up. It is tempting to do a bigger steam release but even this game took a lot of energy!

I miss when the internet was a simpler time. So let’s go back and play some puzzle games. 💜👾 #retrogaming #cozygaming #gamedev #indiedev

Ah you nearly did it! There are 12 levels! Thanks so much 💜

My new free game Potion Puzzle Shop is creeping up New and Popular for Web on @itch.io! ginacities.itch.io/potion-puzzl... Give it a play and let me know what you think 💜 #gamedev #indiedev #godot

yayy thanks so much! 💜

Wow thank you so so much! Second try is great!

Thanks so much! You get progress from completing the cards and when the progress bar fills up you get a coin :) so many people say they don't like spending money on poisons haha! I think at later levels you may need the higher poisons 💜

Thanks for letting me know, I've just made a change please let me know if it's better.

Thanks so much, it was set in Itch to be mobile friendly and to make it fullscreen but I've also just added to force portrait, please let me know if that's better. I tried to find android users to test the game but I struggled!

What phone are you using? All devices I’ve tested on have loaded correctly. The Itch settings are correct 🙂

My new game Potion Puzzle Shop is now live and free to play in browser on @itch.io ! Let me know what you think! 💜👾 ginacities.itch.io/potion-puzzl... #gamedev #indiedev #godot

My free potion puzzle game is launching tomorrow. So here are my 3 extra tips for launching a game. P.S follow me on Itch to be notified when it’s out ginacities.itch.io 💜👾 #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Haha exactly!