Saddle Up (hehe 🐴) for a VERY special edition of the Palia Palia.
We're sharing a sneak peek look at the Royal Highlands Expansion launching worldwide on May 12, featuring a massive new Adventure Zone, Mounts (!!!), and so much more. 🐎🌄
https://ow.ly/ct2450YMTb9
#Palia #PlayPalia
BIRB
ready to date Big Bird \o/
Who's ready for a mid-month update? 🙋
Lots of progress has been made so far in April. Step 2 has been fully drafted, and GB is currently writing the final part. The whole thing is nearly done, so let's take a moment to celebrate.
🎉 WOOHOO FOR STEP 2 ‼️ 🎉
Come check out Our Life: Now & Forever in this year's Backed by Backers Steam Festival! 🎊
We are so honored to be included in this fest, especially because it celebrates games that were created through crowdfunding!
In addition to OLNF, you can find a ton of other fantastic titles and demos.
So this is partly for me, but also partly for whoever's reading this who it resonates with, if you needed to hear it
You can make super-self-indulgent stuff and not tell anyone about it if you don't want to bc like. Whose business is it what you do with your creativity and your heart? That's yours
It can be hard when the society I grew up in makes some sort of grossly distorted ritual of shaming people for making themselves happy in small, harmless ways (people who find their own ways to be happy aren't dependent on buying as many things to fill the voids in their hearts, for starters)
Good enough = brought color and life to little me's little world. And as my world got bigger and will only grow as I age and learn and experience new things, that color's needed more than ever
Little me writing stories and poems about whatever, whenever, just because they wanted to, wasn't worrying about things like editing or if it was "good" enough for other people when they got started
As a creator of many very random hats (and a recovering people pleaser/perfectionist), the lines of what's for me and what's for other people can get blurred all too easily
Returning to the heart of why I create--for personal fun and joy--helps remind me where those lines really are for me
It's a beautiful day to make super-self-indulgent stuff that you never plan or frankly want to show anyone except maybe your nearest and dearest :D 💖
In case you missed it last week! ⛈️🌹💖
Ty to those who've downloaded, played, and added "Thunderblossom: Seedling Concept Demo" to your collections so far; I hope it's a fun time and look forward to bringing you more
#NaNoRenO2026 #VisualNovel #VisualNovels #IndieGames #IndieDev #IndieGameDev
I went in and changed the section headings based on the reference I found (I had no idea you could do that in Carrd, at least not without paying more) so hopefully it functions better now
A promo image consisting of the following elements: There's a photo showing a close-up of two hands, one resting on a transparent plastic table, the other on an assitive controller, the Byowave Proteus. On the table, there is also a Smpartphone and three colourful buttons. In the upper right corner of the image is the logo of our project inclusive game lab, at the bottom are the logos of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne, the Department for Youth Media Culture, and the Ministry, depicted on a white background.
I'm incredibly happy to announce that something me and my (former) team worked on for the past two years is now available: An archive of Open Educational Resources focusing on games and #accessibility!
www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/...
www.youtube.com/@InclusiveGa...
#GameDevelopment #OER
I also really appreciate you taking a look at my site; it's a relief that it's highly accessible now
and ty for the tip about heading levels, I'll make a note to look those up 👍
The points you bring up make a lot of sense, and are good to know as someone who's not techy and still learning about the wider aspects that can go into site accessibility alone
ty for the link, and yeah, I know what kinds of companies/etc you're talking about; I'm super sus about those XD;;
I was more referring to actual ethical accessibility options designed for and by the people who actually need those options, so they actually work as intended for whom they're intended
ty for weighing in; would you mind explaining more about what you mean by that? and/or pointing me towards some resources you'd rec so I can try to learn more 👍
We are so back! \o/ Support got back to us, er, me, and let me know that the game's now properly indexed in search and downloadable with no unwarranted warnings 🎉
You can read the devlog update and download it for yourself here: ⛈️🌹💖
glaiveofgold.itch.io/thunderbloss...
Happy bday Mhin!! 🥺 That sounds so adorable
Happy Birthday Mhin!
Today you’ll find them fishing peacefully along the river, accompanied by their favourite companions - the stray kitties! 🐾 Sounds like a purrrr-fect celebration 🐈⬛🥳
Those are so pretty 💖
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You can also hop directly to whichever theme you'd like to view my site in from these links:
💖 Pink - aka my brand™️:
glaiveofgold-pink.carrd.co
🖤 Black:
glaiveofgold-black.carrd.co
🩶 Gray:
glaiveofgold-gray.carrd.co
🤎 Vanilla:
glaiveofgold-vanilla.carrd.co
🤍 White:
glaiveofgold-white.carrd.co
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A screenshot of GlaiveOfGold's Carrd site's landing page. Text from top to bottom: In an effort to make my site more visibly accessible to a wider range of people, I made it in five different flavors! You can choose the color display theme you'd prefer to view my site in below. Upon picking a theme, you will be taken to my full Carrd site customized in the colors of that theme. You can then learn about my past, present, and future creative work and how to contact or work with me! You can pick a different theme directly through the site header and footer if the one you picked doesn't work for you for whatever reason at any time. Pink Display Theme - aka My Personal Brand. Bottom image: screenshot of GlaiveOfGold's Carrd site in the pink display theme.
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Thanks to my friends' extremely helpful feedback, my site redesign to be more visibly accessible to more people is done (at least for now)! owo
You can pick whichever color display theme is friendliest to your eyes from 5 flavors 💖
✨ Landing page to select a theme (in gray):
glaiveofgold.carrd.co
Next day reblog ICYMI! #NaNoRenO2026
🌹 Short-but-sweet fairytale #VN demo
🌹 Sassy-but-sweet (probably, beneath all those petals) flower person
🌹 Custom MC name + pronouns
🌹 Lots of dialogue options
Sound like something you might enjoy? Come on down! Or up ig, since it's set on a mountain ⛈️🌹💖
⚔️ APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN ⚔️
💖 Are you a part of a marginalised group in games looking for mentorship?
💖 Do you want to mentor & help level up the next generation of talented game devs?
Applications for both mentors & mentees are open until 20th April!
Apply now ⤵️
buff.ly/AeVJ15m
It's early in the month, so now's a great time to be a new patron!
Patrons at my highest tier have access to physical books/gifts 4x a year.
If you like #zines, #comics, #kaigaiidols, #youtaite, #nerdcore rap, or all of the above, my Patreon is the place to be! 💖
www.patreon.com/mounabat
Hopefully that will be a thing sooner rather than later
Meanwhile I'll do my best to at least not burn my friends' eyes out/strain their eyes/give them headaches with these color themes I'm going with 😅
