Veselekov

Veselekov

@veselekov.bsky.social

Ngāi te Rangi. Hi-octane third international universal donor O NEG. Made award winning video game Umurangi Generation & Penguin Colony. Making Corpse Over Huntsman

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Si ya Penguin Colony es toda una experiencia, poder hablar y descubrir lo que hay detrás del juego y la compañía @origamedigital.bsky.social ha sido aún más enriquecedor y gratificante. Thank you @veselekov.bsky.social for your time!

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Finished Penguin Colony and thoroughly enjoyed it. Beautiful, thoughtful and powerful. Go play it!!!

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Hey, you all should play Penguin Colony. Not just because it's a game where you play as Penguins in Antarctica, or that the hype being pretty well founded, or it's neck-deep in interrogating Lovecraft and it has Nazis go completely mad, although absolutely all those things.

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Replying to @jeremybjayne.bsky.social

its capacity to speak truth to power stands in stark contrast to so much of games writing which feels powerless to speak meaningfully against the status quo. it reminds me of an old mckenna quote: “The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.”

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Penguin Colony might be my game of the year, good god. please go play it. there is a spark of legitimacy and depth and insight in its narrative that is so so rare in games writing. it's so special.

I am kicking myself now that I should have been more explicit about the expedition results. Probably should have called them "Blakely's Expedition Results"

Veselekov@veselekov.bsky.social

Even the games name "Penguin Colony" is to play into this idea. A Colony? They are Indigenous. Almost every penguin in the game has a colonial name -- "King" "Emperor" "Magellan" "Gentoo" "Adelie" After the game we are shown all of this information as our expedition results.

Even the games name "Penguin Colony" is to play into this idea. A Colony? They are Indigenous. Almost every penguin in the game has a colonial name -- "King" "Emperor" "Magellan" "Gentoo" "Adelie" After the game we are shown all of this information as our expedition results.

Veselekov@veselekov.bsky.social

Having players begin to question the ever present colonial language in games was intentional. Even the game mechanic of "collecting" and "discovering" was something I wanted to challenge. You are shown what you found It is up to you to question the validity of. What you find has Nazi appraisal

Having players begin to question the ever present colonial language in games was intentional. Even the game mechanic of "collecting" and "discovering" was something I wanted to challenge. You are shown what you found It is up to you to question the validity of. What you find has Nazi appraisal

Veselekov@veselekov.bsky.social

Penguin Colony is now a "Very Positive" on Steam (9/10) thanks so much for everyone who understood it and left a review. We think that it will age like Alien Isolation. store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

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PLAY THIS GAME!!!!!!!

Veselekov@veselekov.bsky.social

Penguin Colony is now a "Very Positive" on Steam (9/10) thanks so much for everyone who understood it and left a review. We think that it will age like Alien Isolation. store.steampowered.com/app/3695930/...

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Exciting to see players starting to find the secrets in Penguin Colony! There’s a lot in there, including an audio Easter egg that I’m not sure anyone will find 🙂

Veselekov@veselekov.bsky.social

A player found something very very very hidden

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Who else is going to put "Penguin Colony" on their Hugo Awards ballot for Best Game next year? Anti-colonial take on The Mountains of Madness that's basically Penguins vs. Nazi Cthulhu. It does seem like a lot of people I know would be into this.

theguardian.comPenguin Colony review – an Antarctic odyssey of Nazis and Lovecraftian horrorsThis odd but absorbing adventure sends you waddling across Antarctica in search of an eldritch entity – uncovering a world far stranger than it first appears

A player found something very very very hidden

nardi@nardinardi.bsky.social

Penguin Colony 邸宅に入れた… 最後の浜辺にゲートのようなものがあって邸宅の前へ通じていた。 中には数体の影、たばこを吸う男、わんちゃん。 夜の地球儀、絵画には古のもの。 最後にペンギンは男の横に座っておわる。 絵画はジョン・ガストの「American Progress 」の女神が異形の者にかわったもの。 ヨーロッパ人が東から文明化して行き、徐々に明るい世界になる。 そして暗い西に逃げるパイソンや先住民が描かれてる。 追い立てられ植民地化されていった。 果たしてこの男は何者なのか? 徽章が微妙に見えるけど良く分からない。 そもそも人間なのかどうかもわからない。

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working on any% for penguin colony I think my penguin tier list right now is like: S) magellanic A) rockhopper B) baby emperor, adelie, emperor I was sleeping on magellanic, I'm sorry magellanic penguin, I did not know your game

Next week we will be streaming a livestreamed 'de-jank' session for Penguin Colony. Be sure to show up and let us know if you've found funny places you managed to jam the penguin into.

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We will have our launch patch to you soon. - Invert Camera Controls - Chapter 5 crash fix - Fixes to jank/performance - Windows handheld resolution support (1920x1200, 1600x900) - VSYNC Options

It should be abundantly clear by now that. If you work in AAA and you don’t unionise you will lose your job while the CEO gets a 38M bonus.

David Gaider@davidgaider.bsky.social

As much as it's not really a surprise, especially given the industry right now coupled with the Saudi sale, the news today still made me sad. BioWare joins other great studios of the past, with a legacy that will not soon be forgotten. 😔 www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

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Penguin Colony is amazing. Just finished it and what a game, truly some of the best writing I've gotten to experience this year.

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If there's one thing I'm certain of with the current landscape of the games industry is we need Unions more than ever. Join a Union.

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Replying to @veselekov.bsky.social

I've been slowly moving to Proton - the biggest thing is the incremental mindset rather than thinking you need to change all in one go. We've had Google accounts for decades so we're allowed to take a little time to leave 🤷🏽

I wanna move from having a google account because without warning I was “upgraded” to a Google AI subscription (i was just buying cloud storage)

PearForceOne@pearforceone.bsky.social

I deleted my linkedin/artstation/epic accounts not sure what the future of gamedev is gonna be like but i'll just clear up my mind by assuming that it's not good and move on towards building cool stuff on my own. my ass never wants to talk about ai on slack anymore lol