Torfi

Torfi

@torfi.bsky.social

Little friends inside the computer http://mylittlecomputerfriends.com/ πŸ“Tokyo

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Torfi
@torfi.bsky.social

Having simultaneous knowledge of all of human output (even if blurry) makes models good at programming and math but bad at art because there is no perspective. Good art is always about subjective experience and the negative space of your subjective experience defines it just as much as the positive.

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My Little Computer Friends
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Hi friends! Today I'd like to share a peek behind the scenes of A Firm Handshake! Like Klifur, A Firm Handshake has very simple physics behind the scenes. The characters are actually just floating boxes. Each character also has a left and right foot target.

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My Little Computer Friends
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Hello friends! We've been quiet for a while but thank you for waiting if you're still here. We are working on new stuff I'm excited to share soon but for now I'd like to show some new perspectives on our past releases! Klifur has very simple physics behind the scenes. I'd like to explain briefly.

Torfi
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Changed my profile picture because people kept thinking I was Neil Armstrong (or that Neil Armstrong was me). I'm not Neil Armstrong!

Torfi
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Walk is very cool! A little game poem made up of a bunch of even smaller game poems. Very satisfying to play and gorgeous to look at.

bilge@bilgetbd.itch.io

walk is out now on steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4563880/... hope you like it <3

Torfi
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Making games that are not just for gamers has really shown me how high of a barrier to entry Steam is. I'm trying to reach a wider audience by releasing things that were previously only on itch on Steam but a web playable game on itch is so much more accessible to most people than a Steam game is.

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Torfi
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I really vastly prefer watching or listening to stuff that is sponsor-free and instead supported through something like Patreon. Those just seem like such unicorns, though, and game productions operate on such a different timeline (unless you're sokpop)

Torfi
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That being said, I'm also interested in trying to make smaller games and releasing things more often. Maybe I should just be yeeting things online and giving people ways to pay me to keep doing that. Or see if squarespace wants to sponsor my next game.

Torfi
@torfi.bsky.social

Making games that are not just for gamers has really shown me how high of a barrier to entry Steam is. I'm trying to reach a wider audience by releasing things that were previously only on itch on Steam but a web playable game on itch is so much more accessible to most people than a Steam game is.

Torfi
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Really makes me want to figure out a way to make more things for web sustainably. One thought that came to mind was some kind of sponsorship arrangement. YouTubers and podcasters have figured out how to keep their work highly accessible while still making money. It's a huge tradeoff, though.

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Freyr MagnΓΊsson
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🚨Announcement🚨 I'm embarissingly excited to announce our game Bee Space! A cozy rougelike deckbuilder with cute space bees. Please check us out on Steam! 🐝 store.steampowered.com/app/3462780/Bee_Space/ #cozy #cozygaming #gamedev #indiegames

store.steampowered.comBee Space on SteamPlant flowers and deploy tech from orbit in this roguelike deckbuilder! Terraform tiny hex grid islands as advanced space Bees. Contend with fickle weather, strange creatures, mysterious artifacts and...

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Joi
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Our board game-esque life simulator, Walk of Life just released out of Early Access!! πŸŽ‰ Get a job only to get fired from it because you had to take care of your cat and tourists got in your way... Go check it out, it's really fun, 95% positive reviews, aaaaaggghhh! #gamedev #indiedev #majorupdate

store.steampowered.comSave 30% on Walk of Life on SteamWalk of Life is a competitive life simulator for up to 6 players! Choose from a cast of unique roles and duke it out with your friends, bots, or by yourself, in this wacky and ever-surprising party ga...
Torfi
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A weird thing happened to me recently. I've almost completely lost any desire to play video games. I haven't played a video game other than my own or games of friends and students for feedback purposes for the past year or so.

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Maybe the desire will come back. I have a long list of games I've been meaning to play that look really cool and interesting and are made by people I respect and want to support. Part of it is maybe feeling stuck with my own work. Maybe releasing my next game will unlock something.

Torfi
@torfi.bsky.social

Anyway. I'm not sure why but I suddenly had the urge to post about this. Maybe someone who reads this has also been having these feelings and feels a little bit better hearing about it like I did.

Torfi
@torfi.bsky.social

A weird thing happened to me recently. I've almost completely lost any desire to play video games. I haven't played a video game other than my own or games of friends and students for feedback purposes for the past year or so.

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He didn't say it to imply those films aren't worth his time or anything like that. He just said it very matter-of-factly. He spent most of his life watching a lot of films but now he prefers to walk or spend time with his dogs when he's not working rather than watch films.

Torfi
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Maybe spending time doing these other things lets him bring something new to his work rather than letting other films influence him too much. I hope that I can do that with my work, too. I've played many games over the past decades and I know I tend to be very influenced by games I like.

Torfi
@torfi.bsky.social

A weird thing happened to me recently. I've almost completely lost any desire to play video games. I haven't played a video game other than my own or games of friends and students for feedback purposes for the past year or so.

Torfi
@torfi.bsky.social

I want to keep making them. It's still deeply satisfying to me to make a playful interactive thing and watch someone react to it. It's become very hard to imagine other people wanting to play my games, though, when my interest in playing games generally is mostly gone.

Torfi
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I feel really bad about it. I don't like being a game developer who doesn't play games. Last year I went to a Q&A with one of my favorite film directors, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and he said he hadn't watched a film other than his own in 10 years and it made me feel a bit better.

Torfi
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Hey! I've started a new label for my personal work called My Little Computer Friends and the first game under that label is coming out on Steam soon! Check it out!

My Little Computer Friends@computerfriends.bsky.social

I'm very happy to announce that the first My Little Computer Friends game: Klifur, a casual 2D climbing game, is coming to Steam soon! Give it a wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/4573210/...

store.steampowered.comKlifur on SteamCasual 2D bouldering. Make your way through 60 hand-made campaign routes or use the level editor to make your own routes and share them with friends!