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what should your magical pet do while hanging out on your desktop? ✨🦊✨

Happy Monday!

Here’s a quick peek at exploring the world and collecting items 🌿

Anyone else love wandering around grabbing things “for later”?

Make sure to wishlist the game here!

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1995 dos style blue setup screen text list says: Select Music Card General MIDI Sound Blaster AWE32 Sound Canvas WaveBlaster Gravis UltraSound Pro Audio Spectrum Sound Blaster Adlib NO MUSIC ESC=Abort ENTER=Accept.

if you don't hear music in your heart maybe you gotta open the configuration program to randomly try switching music card options until it comes through

Cooking for Ember YouTube video by Windup Minds

Hope you had a great Easter weekend! 🐣

Gameplay peek: cooking for Ember 🐶🔥 (placeholder visuals)

What should we add next?

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⭐ Wishlist Today!
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Ember is not looking too thrilled about being brushed this morning. Check out this work in progress!

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wait for the glasses! dogs in glasses 🤌

Want to pet ember? We are currently looking for testers for upcoming features.

Take a look at the dev post on our steam page below!

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Belly rubs? 🐾

Here’s an early look at belly rub visuals from our “Care Mode.” What do you think?

We’re building new ways to interact with Ember, more coming soon.

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she used to be DRAGONWOLF

8 bucks is hotly debated, but in real GDP terms, 7.99 bucks is unknowable bucks

Stay: Your Forever Pet! on Steam Meet Ember, your furry magical companion! Bring her home, care for her, and discover the extraordinary world of the Otherlands together. Stay: Your Forever Pet! is brought to you by the team behind th...

we have absolutely killed ourselves wrangling with making this play nice on Quest and I'm so excited to share it with more people on PC!

I cannot begin to express how complicated the animation engine is 🫠

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Please wishlist and help Ember grow into her new home on Steam and Steam Deck!

This feels like a homecoming after starting my indie career on Steam, then working in VR for 10+ years. Proud of the team -- a huge milestone for us!
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she belongs on steamdeck 🥹

Telling my future children that this is a cybertruck

☀️Last hurrah for Summer! Bask in the fun with Ember :D☀️

We worked really hard on this - lots of improvements! We're also on sale for a limited time. It's a great time to jump in!

Very much worth your time!

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉

The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans.

Deadline: September 28th
More info 👇
grants.draknek.org

Stay: Forever Home – Update 2 preview 🎁💨
Coming Tomorrow!

Present Boxes! Unwrap surprises in a new satisfying way!

Here’s a video of the presents in action!

Want more update details and patch notes? Join our Discord: windupminds.com/discord

More cozy features are coming with the full update

If you've got a Quest 2, check it out! We poured ourselves into getting this out and have lots more updates coming!

I'm late for @windupminds.com highlight; we're exceptionally fortunate to work with Austin Grossman. Austin, Doug Church and I wrote a pitch for cyberpunk MMO, Nightside; 25 years later, a game I wish existed.

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How do you set up your room so you can play Mixed Reality games on your Meta Quest 3/3S? 🤔

It's a little more involved than Meta shows you, to get your couch just right! 🛋️

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The game sounds absolutely beautiful thanks to @drenmcdonald.com's tireless efforts. Players frequently mention it as one of their favorite parts!!

Our cozy pet sim-game-experiment is now live!
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We've worked incredibly hard to make Ember lovable... and to love you back! 💗

a bit about our A++ team! 😻

We have a fancy new trailer dropping tomorrow!

this boi

Shake off all the dirt!!

lol, a glimpse of some 'advanced' cosmetics in our game, PLUS a preview of the 'trade board music' featuring 'mossling' vocals. Our little mosslings sing sometimes...

It's Ember's first GDC as her true self! (she was there last year in prototype form)

Wish I could be there too-- gotta finish up the magic! We're close!!

i have seen the inside of the potato mines🥔