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📣Uncle Lee's Cookbook is now available in German! Translated by a real human™ (@marcelweyers.bsky.social). As a present for our German-speaking friends, we're having a 20% discount! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3777930 Gog: www.gog.com/en/game/uncl... itch: dionous.itch.io/uncle-lees-c...

🎮 Indie X 2026 Finalist Uncle Lee's Cookbook made by @relativelypainlessgames.com One of the 50 games selected for the Indie X 2026 showcase! 🌍 🔗 Play it / wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3777930/... #indiedev #indiegames

This is the first Next Fest in ages where I just haven’t downloaded any demos. Normally I love demos, they teach me a lot about exposition. But I do not have the time or energy to sift through working out what’s AI. I’m not alone in this, and it’s going to harm devs who’ve never even touched AI.

It's fall sale 2: electric boogaloo and Kitsune Tails is 35% off! kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails Or help our queer studio survive by getting four games bundled for $17.99 on itch (itch.io/s/204320/kit...) or $18.75 on Steam (store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673...) Bundle contents in the reply 👇

I was 42 when I decided to learn game development. We shipped The Roottrees Are Dead when I was 45 and it changed my life.

SUCH a good game, reminded me of the old Discworld point-and-clicks

Uncle Lee's Cookbook is now available on #NintendoSwitch! And it's on sale! Uncle Lee promises the risks of fire are minimal. Probably. Better keep that fire extinguisher handy, just in case. www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...

We've know for a few days but now we can finally tell you: Uncle Lee's Cookbook has been selected as one of the 50 finalists for this year's Indie X showcase! Woohoo!

🎮 The Indie X 2026 Top 50 are here! After receiving 1,548 submissions from around the world, we've selected the 50 games joining this year's showcase. Meet all 50 finalists, listed below Congratulations to all our finalists! 🎉 See you November 2–6! 🌍🎮 #indiedev #indiegames

We've know for a few days but now we can finally tell you: Uncle Lee's Cookbook has been selected as one of the 50 finalists for this year's Indie X showcase! Woohoo!

What a splendid bundle. And (with absolutely no bias whatsoever being that I happen to be in it) the 8th down looks particularly super-duperatious.

Just cleared the last approval hurdles: Uncle Lee's Cookbook is coming to #NintendoSwitch in less than to weeks, on October 10th!

TRY-IT-DAILY #3: UNCLE LEE'S COOKBOOK (@relativelypainlessgames.com) is a collection of point-n-click adventures caused by a reality scrabbling uncle. Chunky pixels, bright colours, and full voice acting really shine in this simplified take on the PnC formula. Puzzles are interesting, and the-

I've solved Uncle Lee's Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster by @relativelypainlessgames.com! Great game with 5 chapters. The last chapter is the AdventureX jam 2024 entry Ines in: Triple Trouble, but this time with voice acting. 😎 #retro #pixelart #indiegame

The best kind of collector.

Hurrah, now you can hear me voice Uncle Lee (and all the other super-duper VA's) on the comfort of your mobile telephone!

The mobile ports of Uncle Lee's Cookbook are ready! Get it now on Android or iOS! Or both! play.google.com/store/apps/d... apps.apple.com/app/uncle-le...

A reminder that if you're a #noAI kind of person, you may want to avoid taking part in the $110 Adventure Game Challenge. If you still feel like joining ("it's fine, *I* won't use AI"): have you looked at the kind of games the organizer makes, and how they use genAI? ...you might want to do that.

Loco Motive is today's Daily Deal on Steam! At *55% OFF* it's our deepest ever discount, meaning you can grab the game today for like eight bucks! 🎉 🗡️ Solve a murder aboard a steam train 🎨 Beautifully animated pixel art 📣 Full voice acting! ✅ Verified on Deck 🧠 100% Human Made 🔗 s.team/a/1709880

A reminder that if you're a #noAI kind of person, you may want to avoid taking part in the $110 Adventure Game Challenge. If you still feel like joining ("it's fine, *I* won't use AI"): have you looked at the kind of games the organizer makes, and how they use genAI? ...you might want to do that.

Quick update on the status of #ProjectKALE: just had a team meeting and almost figured out the whole story of the game. Most of the many characters have names, backstory, and personality. Everything still subject to change. Still no actual kale involved.

Really loved Ines and her social, life-affirming character ❤️ we‘d get along well I think. 🤭 Also the game was BIG fun and deserves more reviews!! It‘s one of the funniest PnC Adventures I know! Game by @relativelypainlessgames.com

More Ines cosplay! Yay!

Our team will be boycotting the upcoming $110 Adventure Game Challenge. We refuse to be part of a jam that openly allows genAI use (with a frankly ridiculous justification). We encourage our fellow indie developers to join our boycott. Let's leave them with nothing but slop submissions. #noAI

Our team will be boycotting the upcoming $110 Adventure Game Challenge. We refuse to be part of a jam that openly allows genAI use (with a frankly ridiculous justification). We encourage our fellow indie developers to join our boycott. Let's leave them with nothing but slop submissions. #noAI

Wow! Or first Ines cosplay (as far as we know)!

A note on the GOG version: the game WILL have the German translation if you buy it there, even if the store page currently doesn't list it as a supported language. We're just waiting for the store page to be updated, but the latest build is already available.

There, we're all out of announcements. To recap: if you're German, own a Nintendo Switch, and like kale and/or like adventure games this is your lucky day.

Fourth announcement: we're starting to plan our next game! Codename: #ProjectKALE 👀🥬 Details are secret. What we can tell you is that it will be another #pointAndClick adventure, and that it will NOT be episodic. Also it has nothing to do with kale or any other leafy green. #gamedev #indiedev

Third announcement: we're also making a #NintendoSwitch port of Uncle Lee's Cookbook! The engine is already ported and we already had full controller support, so we just need to do some testing and go through certification. No pictures this time, because of those pesky NDAs.

Second announcement: we're making mobile ports of Uncle Lee's Cookbook! The engine has already been ported to both Android and iOS, we just need to do some work on the touch controls.

We've been a bit quiet lately, but a lot of work has been going on behind-the-scenes and now we have quite a few updates/announcements to give! First of all: Uncle Lee's Cookbook is getting a German translation, done by @marcelweyers.bsky.social!

I'm on a panel at Develop next week! Wednesday 15th at 4.30pm "Developing Characters For Performance - A Writers’ Panel" alongside Sagar Beroshi, Vicky Wheeler, Daniel Bowditch, and Amy-Leigh Shaw! @sagarberoshi.bsky.social @diveamydive.bsky.social www.developconference.com/conference-p...

I had a fab Disk Cleanup interview with @ricklane.bsky.social for @pcgamer.com! We chat about what I’m playing now, the mechanics I love, and what my desktop looks like!

Voice Actor demo pull/casting call: I'm casting a short animation, which is a pitch for a larger TV show. Yuri is 51, male, Russian accent, understated gravitas and directness. Paid role. Looking for authentic accents or VAs with Russian heritage. drop demos below (with accent) and studio details.

Voice Actor demo pull/casting call 2: I'm casting a short animation, which is a pitch for a larger TV show. Xu is 52, male- born in Beijing, speaks Mandarin+ English with barely perceptible accent. Rich, confident, cheerful. Paid role. Looking for asian VAs only. Drop demos below + studio details.

La última crítica de mi blog va de una aventura que me ha sorprendido especialmente (para bien) en su diseño de puzles, no os la perdáis:

On the BAFTA website: me and my fellow Breakthroughs talk about the future of our respective industries! www.bafta.org/stories/in-c...

Ya podéis leer mi crítica de la aventura/recopilatorio Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster, de @relativelypainlessgames.com y @dionous.bsky.social: aventurasrojo.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/u...

A really lovely review - "Every character is fully voiced and done well." (such an amazing cast, imho), and "Uncle Lee has that old, mad scientist sound." (a sound I achieved through obsessively watching Hammer Horror films and being old).

“Collection of snack-sized, retro-styled comedy adventures has the right mix of ingredients”- Serena Nelson Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster adventuregamehotspot.com/review/6621/... #adventuregame #indiegame

Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster: Uncle Lee has done it again. And again. And again. And again. And again. dionous.itch.io/uncle-lees-c...

Five recipes for disaster. Uncle Lee's Cookbook is out now. Relatively Painless Games made something genuinely funny and full of puzzles worth chewing on. Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3777930/ #ScreenshotSaturday #UncleLeesCookbook

Uncle Lee is still 20% off for a couple of hours! If that doesn't convince you, here's a report of my experience with the game!

Just a few more hours to grab Uncle Lee's Cookbook at 20% off!