In 2 days, the Merlies nest at Gamescom! 🪺

Build, explore, and thrive with a tiny bird community in a world rebuilt from scraps.

Play the demo at @indiearenabooth.de and make yourself at home.

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Each merlie is distinguished primarily by its role: gardener, architect, grappeler... On your adventure, you'll come across more than a dozen merlies with different roles.. Among them, 4 are playable characters in your merlies team! We'll introduce each of them to you soon!

You'll meet many different merlies in our game!

Some of them like to swim, fly or craft things...
We can't wait to introduce each of them to you 🫶

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a merlie running underground (with lots of fruits and mushrooms in the background) meeting an ant.

In #theMerlies travel the world and discover the different animals that live there!

Some of them will be delighted to meet you on your journey, like this little ant 🐜

Let's add her to our frend circle ❤️

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picture of a pile of books with a wooden bird prototype on the left. We will highlight each book in further posts.

We're starting a series of #BooksThatHaveInspiredUs ! You'll be able to discover some amazing and inspiring books we keep in our offices and that mean a lot to us and the Merlies’ world. 🌿🐦

Stay tuned birbs!
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Hello Bluesky ! ici Cosmo, Art & Game Director à Paris. Je suis à l’origine des jeux #TypeRider (2013), #Vandals (2018) et #TheMerlies (2025) et de l’émission #JourdePlay (2021).
Et je bosse actuellement sur #RageQuit, un documentaire expérimental sur l’industrie du JV 👀

Did you know? - Learn something new about the Merlies' universe! Merlie (noun), plural : merlies. Inspired by Japanese and Scandinavian fairytales, the Merlies are fictional little creatures who populated the Earth after the human civilisation declined and disappeared. They have both human features (feet, shoes, hat, scarf and poncho) and bird characteristics, such as chirping to communicate. The Merlies are very cooperative, they like to live in groups and always help each other out when the situation calls for it.

The Merlies can't wait to share their adventures with you...

Until then, let's find out more about them and their world! 🐦🌱

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