Drowning meme, showing Bluesky leadership paying attention to AI while the codebase drowns, and why's phone dead at the bottom

Hype intensifies

Grundislav Games Dispatch Occasional updates and announcements from Grundislav Games, the studio of indie adventure game developer Francisco González. Creator of Rosewater, Lamplight City, A Golden Wake, and more.

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It's true!

AGS Awards 2025 ceremony (Adventure Game Studio)

Really enjoying taking part in these whenever I can!

Screenshot of the AGS Awards client

I'm flabbergasted: ROSEWATER won 4 of the 7 Adventure Game Studio Awards it was nominated for!

Best Programming
Best Visuals
Best Audio
Best AGS Game 2025

I can't express how much being recognized by the AGS community means. Thanks to all who voted, and congrats to the other winners and nominees!

Looking forward to the AGS awards today, 9PM BST.

It's held in a multiplayer AGS game / chat which I love.

www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/adven...

Actually, not enough podcasts talk about the Super Mario movie

There’s already a date for the AGS Awards 2025! This year features major titles like Old Skies, Rosewater, Carnival, and The Beekeeper’s Picnic. It’s going to be a very exciting ceremony!

Oh, and The Dark Rites of Arkham is nominated for Best Demo!

Could I get some support from fellow devs and creatives? We got a negative review on Steam for AI use... despite there being absolutely *no* AI use in our game.
TL;DR? Give a chance to show that AI wasn't used, or you'll be harming the very same artists you claim to be helping.❤️

Backed it on Kickstarter but never played it

Is that in Notepad? I'm on Windows 10 so maybe I'm spared it

I use Notepad++ for serious stuff, this was just dumping some temporary clipboard stuff - I didn't need help but if I did, I'd like a manual or direct link to their site

I accidentally clicked View Help in Notepad

It bings 'get help with notepad in windows'

FML

apropos of nothing

Can't believe it's been almost 2 weeks since the last time I reminded you to wishlist our game, so: WISHLIST OUR GAME, it's weird and pretty and bleak and requires you to use your brain. A bit at least. Please and thank you.

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Some facts for your Friday:

1) Rosewater is a wonderful Western adventure told through the lens of an alternative history of the United States

2) It features a branching narrative that lets you be sinner or saint.

3) @grundislav.games is an amazingly talented writer and designer.

Buy the game.

Yoon Suk Yeol: South Korea's ex-president jailed for life over martial law attempt Yoon Suk Yeol's December 2024 martial law bid fundamentally damaged South Korea's democracy, a judge told the court.

It felt really odd being in Seoul while all this was going in December 2024

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Work on The Many Sins of House Ocampo continues, little by little, scene by scene.

It is now 1915, middle of who knows where, and MR MIRAGE is about to give a performance you'll never forget.

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, step right up and wishlist now!

store.steampowered.com/app/4102890/

Perfect Tides: Station to Station - Release Trailer YouTube video by Meredith Gran

It's time. Perfect Tides: Station to Station is out on PC and Mac.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUK...

Maybe once opening it, don't automatically highlight / pick up the screwdriver? Let the player have to rummage a bit?

Nominated Rosewater 19th IndieCade Festival January 16-30th

The IndieCade Festival has begun! ROSEWATER is up for Best Performance in tomorrow's awards ceremony.

In the meantime, you can grab it for 25% off on Steam!

store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

@indiecade.bsky.social

If you're on Windows, I *think* PowerShell is installed by default, so it should just be a case of copying and pasting the line under Installation if that helps

GitHub - bquenin/interpreter: This application can translate text captured from any application running on your computer. This application can translate text captured from any application running on your computer. - bquenin/interpreter

I saw this recently for translating game text

github.com/bquenin/inte...

Grok's new "feature" that allows users to undress women in photos posted to X is a new low for the platform. If you're somehow still active over there, I urge you to let this be your final straw.

Not the ordinary autofire while you walk around ala Vampire Survivors, but it just plays for you in full - walks around, picks upgrades etc.

My favourite bit in Ball x Pit was when there's an autoplay character, so I didn't have to play anymore

A Golden Wake - 80% Lamplight City - 40% Rosewater - 20% Grundislav Games Steam Winter Sale

Adventure games make great gifts, especially when they're discounted!

Grab 3 of my games for less than $30 and gift someone hours of entertainment!

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