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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer

@coconutmilkf.bsky.social

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Game Writer & Narrative Designer. Solo-developing a card-based RPG-lite inspired by Finnish mythology. Previously The Tribe Must Survive, Surviving the Aftermath, etc. www.nikonikkilanarratives.weebly.com

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · Jun 4

In my May Dev Blog, I go over switching from technical work to pure design, and the challenges I faced in turning ancient Finnish spellsongs into playable cards.

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#SoloDev #IndieDev #KalevalaseuranTuella

May 2025: So This Is the Hard Part, Huh?

May 2025 marked a significant pivot in Project SLF's development process. With the prototypical version of the core systems done, it was time to switch from tech to design. I needed to draft more...

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Fancy Raven Games @fancyravengames.bsky.social · 2h

Release is finally happening! And sooner, rather than later! store.steampowered.com/news/app/356...

Interstellar Espionage Inc. - Release 15th November - Steam News

Dust off your hacking distros - Interstellar Espionage Inc. is releasing!

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Essi Taino @essitai.bsky.social · 2d

It's here! 👀 The PEGASUS research project is ending soon, so we made a small publication outlining our research and developed tools. Illustrations are by the amazing Tuuli Hypén.

This will be available tomorrow at the Game Culture Strategy day, and online as a PDF a little bit later.

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Pepperbox Studios @pepperboxstudios.bsky.social · 3d

Dice of Kalma is currently featured on Gametrailers YouTube page! How awesome is that 💀🎲

Go and drop a comment, that would help us heaps!!

#indiegame #GameTrailer #gamedev #viral #gaming #game #pcgame #mobilegame #trending #pixelart #indiedev

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Dice of Kalma - Official Release Date Announcement Trailer

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 4d

Fucking soul-crushing when you run into an issue and have no way to ask for help.

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 4d

Still not sure if I'm going to keep at this or give up on the project...

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 4d

Redoing my game's card game system, carefully adding additional functionalities as to not destroy the current game logic...

F*CK IT

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Studio Grail @studiograil.com · 5d

Happy Halloween, folks! Perfect time to help us hit 2k followers (we're this close 🤏) before the official announcement of our spooky visual novel featuring cute girls and slow-burn horror 🖤

#indiegamedev #horrorgame

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Visual novel screenshot of a cute redhead police woman looking through the car window.

Visual novel screenshot showing a sad pregnant woman and three dialogue options: "Reveal what happened", "Shift focus on the promotion", and "Deflect".

Cropped visual novel screenshot of an ominous man with a big knife.

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Kirjolintu @kirjo.bsky.social · 6d

Teen kuvituksia ja pienimuotoisia sarjiksia tilaustyönä!

Lisäinfoa tilareista ja hinnoista löydät täältä: hltilarit.carrd.co

#tilaustyö #tilarit

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 6d

I still have to play both games, this is definitely increasing my motivation to do so.

Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 7d

"Follow your ambition,
Learn and thrive and grow,
You don't need permission,
To find your fortune's flow..."

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 7d

Songs like this always get me pumped up, especially when it feels like nothing's worth trying. Man, Gavin just doesn't miss.

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 7d

To any Kingdom Come: Deliverance fans, I can highly recommend listening to this absolute banger: youtu.be/sijZT4NS1Ec

'FORTUNE'S FAVOUR' | Miracle Of Sound - Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Feat @anniehurdygurdy.official

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Natasha Skult @natashaskult.bsky.social · 9d

This is a BIG one! So proud 😭❤️

Willow Guard @willowguard.bsky.social · 9d

FINALLY sharing the exciting news! 🔥

We could not be prouder to have @victorsantos.bsky.social, collaborating on Willow Guard graphic novel "The Letter" 👏👏👏

You can still pre-order the limited edition through our website:

www.willowguard.games/product-page...

#graphicnovel #comics #willowguard

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 10d

New try, does this make sense as a card battle system? A thread:

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 10d

That could certainly be possible, nice catch to point out! Probably would be more dependent on if that would work with the balancing, and if the amount of possible choices would grow too big that way or not.

Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 10d

New try, does this make sense as a card battle system? A thread:

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Tursake @tursake.bsky.social · 13d

Hupsista vaan, on se kumma miksei kukaan suomessa tykkää voittoa tavoittelevista tapahtumista!

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Zeikko @zeikko.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Astro Protocol is a fast-paced and challenging space 4X game where every move matters.

Demo is available in Steam.

Or if you want to play the full game before it is released you can join a playtest: nullvectorstudios.com/playtest

#gamedev #indiedev

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 14d

It was worth a try, thanks for letting me know! 😅

Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 14d

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Niko Nikkilä - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @coconutmilkf.bsky.social · 14d

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