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Ana Opara

@anopara.bsky.social

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Procedural art nerd, ½ of Pounce Light with @h3r2tic.bsky.social, co-creator of #TinyGlade a diorama doodling game 🏰🌿 s.team/a/2198150 🏳‍🌈💟

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hi, everyone 👋 I'm Ana, and I work on Tiny Glade, a small relaxing diorama building game 🏰🌿 We've just released it a month ago together with @h3r2tic.bsky.social @lydmartin.bsky.social and @odaodaoda.bsky.social 🙌

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 @pouncelight.bsky.social · Jul 29

I'm so happy to share that the stairs update is liiiiiive. This is by far our biggest update that we've been cooking since *checks calendar* omg, since March x_x Huge thanks to everyone who helped us test it while in beta <3

Now lemme walk you through some of the new shinies 🧵

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 @pouncelight.bsky.social · Mar 13

This is pretty insane 😳😳

BAFTA Games @baftagames.bsky.social · Mar 4

The nominees for Technical Achievement are…

ASTRO BOT
BLACK MYTH: WUKONG
CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 6
SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II
TINY GLADE
WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2

#BAFTAGamesAwards

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thank you!

Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Mar 8

Finally fixed wooden supports getting out of the way for windows, and added slimmer overhangs :3

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Feb 10

Super happy to hear you're enjoying it! Thank you for playing :3

Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Jan 29

heh ^^ seriously doubt we gonna win this one, but thanks!

Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Jan 29

Omggg Tiny Glade is there too!! Kinda surreal :DD

GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · Jan 28

GDCA 2025 Finalists: Best Technology

Astro Bot
Black Myth: Wukong
Helldivers 2
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (@xbox.com)
Tiny Glade (@pouncelight.bsky.social)
#GDCA2025

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Dec 20

Congrats!! 😸

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Dec 18

My adult advice would be to substitute all the furniture with CDs!

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Dec 17

this makes me wanna make a colony sim so muuuch 🥺

📌🍉COMM CLOSED TILL NEW YEAR @ranituran.bsky.social · Dec 16

A tavern specialized in Barometz Stew and Minotaur Milk
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#DungeonMeshi in #TinyGlade

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 @pouncelight.bsky.social · Dec 16

Hey, y'all! Hope you're well and feeling festive ⛄ We've just released a winter update for Tiny Glade, lifting the light count limit and adding the ability to move clutter 🧵

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thank youuu 💜

Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thank you ^^

Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thank you! :3

Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Dec 12

Oh my, Tiny Glade got into BAFTA's longlist for Debut Game and Technical Achievement! We're in quite the company, especially for the latter category 😄🐑

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Tomasz Stachowiak @h3r2tic.bsky.social · Dec 5

Here's a recording of my Tiny Glade presentation from the Graphics Programming Conference 2024:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusW...

It's an any% speedrun of our GPU-driven rendering, shadows, global illumination, water, and DoF, involving a few weird tricks.

Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching

YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference

www.youtube.com

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Tomasz Stachowiak @h3r2tic.bsky.social · Dec 5

Hey, y'all! 👋 I'm Tom (or Tomasz if you enjoy Hungarian Notation or Klingon)

I cause graphics devices to become lost, and generate all sorts of technical, design & artistic debt in Tiny Glade, together with @anopara.bsky.social, @lydmartin.bsky.social & @odaodaoda.bsky.social

A screenshot of the video game Tiny Glade, showing two cozy cottages on an elevated stone foundation, surrounded by water, in an autumn setting.

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Nov 28

Ommmggg we crossed 10k 💘 Thank you all who left a review!

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 @pouncelight.bsky.social · Nov 26

We're back to tinkering on Tiny Glade 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 and we've just posted a new dev diary about the upcoming update 💌

store.steampowered.com/news/app/219...

Tiny Glade - Dev Diary - we’re back to tinkering 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 - Steam News

Hey everyone! How have you been? Hope all is good? Seems like nothing has exploded while we were away *looks around*. Mostly intact I see! Phew, good 😄 Tom and I are finally back from our semi-break, ...

store.steampowered.com

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Nov 23

Oh, wow, a nomination for "Gameplay Design" out of all things :DD Unexpected, but cool! Thank you @indiegameawards.gg <3

The Indie Game Awards @indiegameawards.gg · Nov 19

🏆 Gameplay Design 🏆

🔸 Balatro, @localthunk.bsky.social
🔸 Grunn, @sokpop.co
🔸 Minishoot Adventures, SoulGame Studio
🔸 Nine Sols, RedCandleGames
🔸 Tiny Glade, @pouncelight.bsky.social
🔸 Victory Heat Rally, @skydevilpalm.bsky.social & @playtonicgames.com

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Asher Zhu @vuthric.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hi, you may have seen my concept video of the physically correct slime before

I'm releasing a new trailer about the slime's game designs this month - I quitted my job to turn the idea into a real game

Just moved to bsky, follow me to keep up with the journey of the 🟢!

#gamedev #techart #indiedev

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Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Nov 22

"wanna get back to game dev [..] what if we make a 3D modeling tool instead". I don't see a problem 🤭

Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Nov 9

😍😍

Ana Opara @anopara.bsky.social · Nov 8

Cuuute!~

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Oda Tilset @odaodaoda.bsky.social · Nov 5

Got to talk about the music in Tiny Glade for this year's #saveandsound ✨️
If anyone wanna hear me blabber, here's our segment:
youtu.be/M4yNfh38luY?...

Tiny Glade: Behind the Music with Oda Tilset | Save & Sound 2024

YouTube video by NokNok Audio

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