tatu heinämäki

if you can't find a way to make works that are artistically compelling, challenging, and advance the form in some way feel meaningful - then that's your failure, and the larger market's failure. but it's not the failure of people making the games. i wish more people understood that.

i made a cabbage tshirt on a whim (also i'm looking for gigs. please hire me.) thenomi-shop.fourthwall.com/en-eur/produ...

YOU DON’T WANT TO GET LEFT BEHIND, DO YOU? --> stuffedwomb.at/you_dont_wan...

Sakurai explains his opinion on originality and AI in a new interview: TLDR familiarity sells, but “___likes”, games with simple mechanics, etc are at most risk of being imitated by AI because their mechanics already exist originality, however, comes from creating something no one knows exists yet

American indie devs: Aw geez... I hope I have the game design of this perfectly balanced out. Maybe I should do more bug testing? Oh I hope I don't give off the wrong messages in my game. European indie devs:

Psst. Skin Deep is 40% off for the next week. Sneeze, crawl on your belly, argue with severed heads, mishandle firearms, commit digital mischief. store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

”let’s go to the zen place”

prompts and hints: sometimes it’s like modern indie games are afraid of being misunderstood. like they over-explain themselves a lot. it would be nice if they also allowed the player to figure things out. if you need to explain it this much maybe the design is too esoteric…

Every game set in an urban environment needs a vending machine right (ignore the guy sleeping)

Looks like i've broken leaning in a surprisingly hilarious way lol #gamedev #immersivesim

This electrician immersive sim i’ve been making has shifted to be more about delivering packages and it’s taking shape nicely 📦

soon

*murder most foul bob dylan voice*

Always such a happy surprise when a game like this pops up from somewhere ✨

OUT NOW on Steam! Step into the boots of a wild west bounty hunter, grab your gun, saddle up. The Bounty Trail awaits. store.steampowered.com/app/4126530/...

Trying something different with my electrician imsim.

Found a Finnish lifestyle magazine piece about Alan Wake from 2010 and it has wonderful goofy+charming pictures of the devs posing with Alan Wake.

Top 5 Simpsons lines - Oww my ass! - Eat ass bald ass bald eaters! - That's the guy! That's the guy from my dream! - Thanks for bringing me my model of the digestive system. - (Say the line Bart!) My work exists at the intersection of art and technology.

Upcoming games to watch for (1/2): * The Detective's Apprentice, by @darqwerful.bsky.social * Compress(space), by @b-deshidev.bsky.social * LogiGolf, by @guidomeo.bsky.social * Aether-07, by @probob.bsky.social

Big Walk is BIG fun! Puts to shame any other friend coop i’ve played.

Reconfigure playtest can now be downloaded freely. For a limited time only before I limit the access again! Join playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/...

Someday i hope to put into my games something as beautiful and mysterious as the overgrown gardens in my neighbourhood.

I liked this, it's well put together, clearly made by someone who knows and loves imsims. Based on the title i was half-expecting some kinda ragebait but i was really pleasantly surprised!

You COULD adopt a POV that all this happened because the secret of video games leaked. And you might blame "games for change, improve broken reality!!" rhetoric for that... but no. It was the intl. spread of mobile games followed by money idiots mistaking bigger studio = even bigger $ than mobilie

Went to a ’game exhibition’ thing today and they had Doom there which was broken and unplayable. Sad and hilarious, what a heavy handed accidental metaphor.

”Try to take out all the ’gameplay’ to just have it somehow be pure art, and you've just dug down to whatever your default assumptions of gameplay are. […] These gameplay models provide the structure for the art to happen in.” Yes!! I think gameplay is out of which the art comes out.

Reading this memo, all i can think of is them doing search-and-replace Xbox -> XBOX now that it’s the branding..

i love frobbing, unfortunately i cannot unhear it being said like this: youtu.be/G0beVkxu--M?...

Show me a cool physical game

June is the perfect time to buy our christmas game, now 50% off on itch! 🎄

Emuurom will tickle your metroidbrain, cover you in esoteric Finnish lore, make you question why we need violence in videogames at all. Emuurom is beautiful and you should play it now! 💚

Emuurom is also very Finnish, in the vein of Noita, Void Stranger, Baba Is You, etc. Whatever they're putting in the water over there is giving indie devs All Of The Ideas.

I'm looking for new subjects for PC Gamer's Weird Weekend column. Are you making a PC game that's odd as heck? Are you part of an unusual gaming community? Does your work intersect with games in a curious way? Is there a gaming-related mystery you'd like explored? Get in touch at rick@ricklane.co.uk

Filcher just got its biggest update ever: mid-mission saves are now in. If it felt too hardcore before, now is the time to try it. It’s also 50% off right now. 🤏💎 store.steampowered.com/app/1355650/...

Always out there helping Finnish drinking culture conquer the world !!

Building the diorama boxes with the game art from our Gardener game😅🐌

It’s hard to stop playing this game !!

Showed Alien Taxi at @tokyoindies.com tonight. Spreading the word of Dream Disc to anyone who'll listen!

Happy to see a game developed in my hometown top the Steam charts. Set in Finland too, doesn't get more local than that! Looks fittingly post apocalyptic, and beautiful on a CRT. @roadtovostok.bsky.social

I wish big game companies would hire indies to make small & cheap games based on their big IPs. Local example comes to mind: horror coop set in the Oldest House from Remedy's Control. Wow that would own...

Inspired by this post i read the book in one sitting. So captivating was the description of this bygone era. Props to Jordan Mechner for not editing his past self even when at times he comes across v annoying lol, i couldn’t do that.

Fishing minigame this and that but where are all the indie games with phishing minigames in them?

post non religious photo you think of as holy

Praise to Karras... and the builder.

trying to put into words of my increasing kind of alienation from the gradually coalescing Weird Game Aesthetic from Critical Reflex published-games and the Haunted PS1 ilk is it's really increasingly hard to tell if something is actually good or worthwhile or not based on vibes alone.