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IT'S OFFICIAL!! I can't express how excited I am to finally announce this! If you'd like to follow our journey, you can sign up for our newsletter here: organicmatters.games#signup

Every single hobby I love has has been infected by slopped up and unserious software. It's exhausting. aftermath.site/ai-slop-hobbie...

Northernlion (!!!) just ended his stream of our game saying "I THINK THIS IS REALLY GOOD" and lads.... what a Wednesday night!! 😭❤️

Haven't watched the whole clip yet but here's the proof: www.twitch.tv/videos/29006...

If you're a digital artist who's Irish or based in Ireland and loves game UI, send me your portfolio link. Wanna keep track of all the good folks for future funding opps. ✌️ Shares welcome!

We feel very strongly about this. In our view there is no place for GenAI in the art of making a game.

Is it even legal to play a demo this much??

We deeply care about human work and the amazing things humans are at the core of. We have no interest in engaging with works that forgo human creativity. Great video here by @euphoriaap.bsky.social . We can all do so much better for this world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYz5...

We at Organic Matters also stand with people and are against the use of generative AI in our games! We make games by humans and for humans.

Classic business expense

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Fellowship of the Onion Ring

Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, and to celebrate, we're launching a special Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY, showcasing 140 bird games dedicated to our feathered friends! It kicks off at 6pm CEST, so come check it out here: store.steampowered.com/sale/BirdsOf...

A chairde: So thrilled to have been interviewed for My Perfect Console. At the time, I hadn't announced our studio or game, so I was selectively vague, haha! We spoke about my adoption, racism, the #Irishlanguage, the spiralling games industry & more. What a delight Simon is! #gamedev

Just a month ago @sirbeans.bsky.social and I officially launched our indie Irish studio @organicmatters.bsky.social! And we're making something cool 🌱 Here's how we came to be youtu.be/A1bXyBitT64?... #gamedev #indiegames #ireland #irish

Here's a little something I've been working on. This is the intro to a foraging scene. I've been messing around with particle effects to bring some subtle movement to the scene. What do you think? (Work in progress btw!!) ~ DC

Hey folks! Not in a position to hire *yet*, but looking for folks to keep in mind who are particularly good at UI art/design! Must have previous XP in making UI for games (even jam games). So if that's you, please send me a link to your portfolio/work so we can keep it on file. NO AI. <3 🎨 ~ ÚMK

If you don't have enough pain and suffering in your life you should play @fallosophygame.com. 10/10 so far.

The FAI are making an absolute balls of this. The game should never be going ahead. Spineless from the FAI and spineless responses from the manager in yesterday's press conference. Fair play to Bazunu and the few other players that supported him in not playing the game.

Looking forward to the anger this game is going to bring out in me! If the demo is anything to go by there will be a lot of anger.

We're launching Sparrow Warfare on November 16th! Mark the date in your calendar. The birds will need you! The storyteller will hate you. store.steampowered.com/news/app/347...

Hey! Did you know we have an upcoming Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY celebrating 140 bird games? October 10th to 16th on good old Steam! No link until it's live, but in the meantime you can find details and assets here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Please support this fundraiser for Eoghan Sweeney's family. Eoghan was a pioneer in early digital journalism and gave back to many so generously and inspired so many journalists in their careers, including mine! Donate if you can, but please do share if you can't.

The FAI could really learn something from these artists putting their principles before income. #StopTheGame

I can vouch for all of this. Úna-Minh is a delight to work with. Nobody knows their way around a gantt chart like she does!!

Hey friends! I'm starting my part-time M.A. in Game Development in a few weeks, but I'm still available for some part-time creative work aside from my own studio. So please do feel free to hit me up. Ma stuff: unaminhkavanagh.com

We 🦅 will 🦢 release 🦆 the 🦜 birds 🐓 soon 🦩 so 🦚 here 🦃 are 🦉 all 🐦‍🔥 the 🐦‍⬛juicy 🕊️ little 🐥 details 🐣 about 🦤 our 🐧 launch 🐤 of 🥚Sparrow Warfare* store.steampowered.com/news/app/347...

We're trying different narrative tools for PROJECT TOGRA because we want one that fits our vision, but what's exceptionally frustrating is testing one tool that HASN'T DECLARED that it is vibe-coded and thus discovering that we wasted our time. It has been scraped. What an absolute pain. #gamedev

We are a lean video game studio focused on: 1. Making intentional games with a strong pull towards storytelling and tight game mechanics. 2. Being a craft-led studio that will always choose humans first. Sign up for our newsletter for dev logs, sneak peeks and more. 🌱

I'll have you know that my mom approves of both @sirbeans.bsky.social AND @organicmatters.bsky.social 🤭 #gamedev

if you'd like to give some wee Irish devs a boost on a Friday night, we'd LOVE it if ya headed over here to interact with our ORGANIC MATTERS announcement vid (or at least light us a candle!) www.tiktok.com/@unaminh/vid... #gamedev #ireland #irish

Played this demo this morning and absolutely loved it!

Yesterday was very exciting. Now that we have announced our studio @organicmatters.bsky.social, we just have the easy task of... making an entire game!!! Thankfully, we love that part.

Overwhelmed by the responses here, across socials and on our vid. We can't wait to show off more of PROJECT TOGRA. Very much still in prototyping phase but this week is juice week and boy did we add juice*! *not actual juice, that'd ruin our hardware.

ORGANIC MATTERS is a new indie Irish game studio by @unaminh.bsky.social and @sirbeans.bsky.social Its current flagship project is PROJECT TOGRA, a narrative-led deckbuilder based on a future vision of Ireland, shaped by community dynamics and wild food foraging. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1bX...

Two of my absolute favourite people in games are setting up shop!! You NEED to get your eyeballs on this cute as hell video and follow what @unaminh.bsky.social & @sirbeans.bsky.social are up to! ❤️

We're having some fun this week by pausing work on new feature development and focusing on how we can juice up what we already have. It's really nice to dedicate some time to just having fun with the project! (Which is already a lot of fun to work on btw)

Hey folks - I'm the writer on this game with the Not Here, Not There team! We're working on Good Folk Cafe, a game set in Ireland with delightful foraging mechanics and lots of folklore. Wishlist us today 🌱 store.steampowered.com/app/4369850/... #ireland #gamedev #irish

This!

Got my tickets. I'm really looking forward to this!!

I've just clicked release on my latest game and my first attempt at an interactive fiction game! It's called Project Rebirth and was made over 3 weeks as part of the Writing For Video Games course with @alphachar.bsky.social ealga-labs.itch.io/project-rebi...

My morning ritual @neonaurelius.bsky.social

I can highly recommend this course. I learned so much!

What can I tell you so far? It’s time to deck build your life. If you love strong narratives + card games + Ireland, my friend, this combo is FOR YOU.

So excited to be working on this with @unaminh.bsky.social!!! I can't wait to share more!