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Indie game studio - Primrows is available now! 🌼 LGBTQIA2+ and Women Led 🏳️‍🌈 linktr.ee/tursiops

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Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · Apr 17

The Day has ARRIVED! 🎉🙌
Break out your gardening gloves and get ready to dig into our cozy, grid-based puzzle game where dice games and sudoku rules bloom together. Try a different challenge every week with new flowers and seasonal surprises that keep things fresh 🌼
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Primrows Launch Trailer

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Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 20h

While we don’t have any real-world Primrows board game pieces to play with, we do hope that all of these secondary cues will make it easy to imagine yourself moving flower-shaped tokens on a physical game board!
#Primrows

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 20h

The sound design was crafted to elevate the tactile vibes of the game and reinforce the fictional board game concept. Pruning flowers is accompanied by satisfying thunky clipping sounds, and the water animation is accompanied not only by a splash of water but by the sound of rolling dice.

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 20h

The flower pieces are designed with shapes that look like they might have been wooden game tiles, the backgrounds would not look out of place on the background of a premium European board game, and even the quick reference card in the game rules evokes classic board game iconography.

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 20h

For The Day We Fought Space, we wanted players to feel like they were holding a playable comic book in their hands.

For Primrows, board games filled that role.

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 20h

At a deeper level, it’s about the tactile experiences that our art and sound design are meant to evoke. Both games opt for a more handcrafted, painterly look meant to invoke experiences the audience might have once held in their hands.

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 20h

On one level, it’s literally about touch: touch input and gestures were an important part of the experience for The Day We Fought Space, and we’ve designed Primrows from day one with touch-friendly controls that you can enjoy on a touchscreen device like a Steam Deck or a Surface.

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 20h

Despite the difference in town there’s an important aesthetic similarity running through the core of both games: these are both games meant to invoke and appeal to your sense of touch.

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 20h

At a glance, you might think it’s the furthest possible thing from a cozy little game about doing sudoku so well that it makes flowers bloom.

That game had expressive plants, too, but they NEVER smiled. Not even once.

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 20h

If you’ve been following our team for a while, you might be familiar with our last project, The Day We Fought Space! It’s a fast-paced game about making spaceships slam into other spaceships with an escalating array of absurd weaponry.

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 2d

New #Primrows weekly challenge today and it’s a tough one!

Rocky Start mixes a bunch of obstacles into your garden on the first round that you’ll have to move out of the way before you start.

Try it and see how well you do: linktr.ee/tursiops

#indieDev @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social

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Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 1d

Cathy, our lead dev, makes getting prize gardens look easy! Here's what she has to say about score testing for this challenge:

"Trying to get a representative sample of the scores for a very difficult challenge but I keep getting ridiculously lucky...."
#Primrows #Unity

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know about these new Primrows updates? 🤯
#Primrows #Unity #Achievements #MobileGame

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 5d

This is looking so cool!!

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 5d

Post a mage!

(A rough test animation from an upcoming trailer for our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends!)

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Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 5d

WOW- that must have been a killer prom 🤩

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 5d

We miss YOU! Hope all is going well in your corner - always rooting for you both! 💚

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 5d

Call us Bob Seger, cause this week's challenge introduces some Night Moves- erm, no it's actually called KnightBlooms but the joke was right there so I went for it

ANYWAY- If you like chess, you're gonna love this one 💚
#Primrows #Unity #WeeklyChallenge

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Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 6d

Notice any improvements while playing Primrows lately? 👀 Version 1.3.0 brings you smoother transitions, performance enhancements, brand new challenges and more!
#IndieGameDev #Primrows #GameDevelopment

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 6d

Want to be the first in the loop about convention appearances, game announcements, and updates? Join our newsletter! Just scroll to the bottom of this page to sign up 💚
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#Primrows

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Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 7d

Did you know that our flowers' expressions have a whole slew of purposes? 💐 😜
#Primrows #Unity #StrategyGame

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bug @evillittlebug.bsky.social · 7d

this lesbian day, you will play this lesbian's video game. you will like it whether or not you are lesbian, but it helps. and you're going to play it anyway.
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of the Devil on Steam

Immerse yourself in neon, smoke, and high-stakes legal gambles as a Defense Attorney with uniquely Killer insights in this episodic, diabolically stylish visual novel adventure game.

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Jojo Foxgirl @legopikmin.bsky.social · 7d

Gaymer girl night!
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#vtuber #twitchstreamer #gaymer #lgbtq+

JojoFoxgirl - Twitch

JojoFoxgirl | gaymer puppy girl night!

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Cathy Kimport @purpleninjagrrl.bsky.social · 9d

New #Primrows weekly challenge today! This one is Knightblooms, challenge that asks, “what if Primrows was based on chess instead of sudoku?”

Give it a try! linktr.ee/tursiops
#indieDev @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social

Primrows screenshot

Game Complete
knightblooms
2 of 3 stars
205 points

4x4 garden with the following flowers:
violet, blue, blue, blue
orange, pink, pink, violet
violet, orange, violet, pink
blue, violet, orange, blue

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Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 12d

Happy October 🍂
A lot of playtesters asked what Primrows would play like on a full 9x9 sudoku board - here it is! I won't lie to you, the gameplay on this bad boy is INSANE 😂
#Primrows #Unity #MonthlyChallenge

Tursiops Studios @tursiopsstudios.bsky.social · 14d

Wait for it 🤩
#Primrows #Satisfying #Gaming