Purple Sloth Studio

Mixed media picture. A photo inside of a Berlin Tram with a black and white (and grey) drawing of a person sitting on one of the chairs and holding a small sailing ship with turbines between their arms on their lap. The photo shows a ticket machine and the doors of the tram on either side of the one person seat.

📱⛵ TRAILS is now available to go! ⛵📱

Get it on
iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/trail...
google play: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

* no ads!
* first 20 levels free!
* full game as one-time purchase!
* portrait and landscape
* dark mode

#indiegame #indiedev #mobilegame #puzzlegame

💜

Level 5 of our game TRAILS in portrait mode. Two sandships need to get to their goals. There are already paths drawn in.

Level 46 of the main path of TRAILS in portrait mode. A grey ship has already got a path through the red desert and the player needs to get two other ships towards their destination while bringing water to some villages and not crashing into each other.

TRAILS is a cozy puzzle game in which you guide sand ships across a crumbling desert to reach isolated outposts.

Draw paths for each ship across the treacherous sands, planning carefully to avoid collisions and ensure each ship reaches its goal.

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #puzzlegame

Mixed media picture. A photo inside of a Berlin Tram with a black and white (and grey) drawing of a person sitting on one of the chairs and holding a small sailing ship with turbines between their arms on their lap. The photo shows a ticket machine and the doors of the tram on either side of the one person seat.

📱⛵ TRAILS is now available to go! ⛵📱

Get it on
iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/trail...
google play: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

* no ads!
* first 20 levels free!
* full game as one-time purchase!
* portrait and landscape
* dark mode

#indiegame #indiedev #mobilegame #puzzlegame

A mixed media picture. A photo from the M13 Tram in Berlin in sunny weather. On top of the photo is a black and white chalk-like drawing of a person entering the tram. The person pulls a sandship behind them on a leash.

Take your beloved sandships with you in train, bus or ferry:

Our challenging pathfinding puzzle game TRAILS is coming to mobile on December 1st!

Follow us for more information.

#indiegamedev #mobilegames #puzzlegames

A mobile screenshot in portrait format of a night biom level of TRAILS. There are two sandships (a violet and a green one) and their paths across a desert in the purple of the night.

A screenshot of level 19 from the first biom of the game with two ships, some cacti and some water barrels.

The screenshot shows level 25 of the second biom of the game. The green ship seems to be sailing directly into the flames of a huge burner.

Level 42 in the third and red biom of TRAILS. There is a white path of an NPC ship already drawn in, some attachable wings, a settlement needing some water supplies and a green ship that has to find it's way to the goal.

Here's a preview on how the game will look on mobile! ⛵🏜️

#puzzlegames #indiegames #mobilegames #screenshotsaturday

A mixed media picture. A photo from the M13 Tram in Berlin in sunny weather. On top of the photo is a black and white chalk-like drawing of a person entering the tram. The person pulls a sandship behind them on a leash.

Take your beloved sandships with you in train, bus or ferry:

Our challenging pathfinding puzzle game TRAILS is coming to mobile on December 1st!

Follow us for more information.

#indiegamedev #mobilegames #puzzlegames

ALL HANDS is a couch coop sailing game that combines elements of games like Journey and Death Stranding.  
Work together to master everchanging winds in a post-revolutionary solarpunk world.

We are looking for publishing! Hit us up!

#PitchYaGame #Solarpunk #CouchCoop #WorkerOwned

We're cooking something #indiegame #horrorgames

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Page 22: Fan-AD for @gobadev.bsky.social Goba's Carter's Quest Act 2

Page 23: Fan-AD for @purplesloth.studio PurpleSloth's Trails

Page 24: 'The Testing Grounds' Title Page

Raffle sponsors: Rho Labyrinths, Purple Sloth Studio and Embracer Group

As is tradition, we have gifts for our participants at the end of the jam 🎁 Our game jams are not competitive, instead, we raffle the prizes for all participants 🎫🎟️

Special thanks to Rho Labyrinths, @purplesloth.studio and Embracer Group for being our raffle sponsors! 💚

Oh, true! Did you create levels yourself? Was there anything about that level editor that convinced you to do so more than those of other games?

a screenshot of the level editor of the game Skwish https://pawprints.itch.io/skwish

a screenshot of the level editor in the game Gem Setter

a screenshot of the level editor for the game What the Golf

a screenshot of the level editor for the game Bots are Stupid

So what do you think about level editors in puzzle games? Is that something you want or would use? Is there a game that you enjoyed more because of the level editor or community levels?

#indieGameDev #puzzleGames #levelEditor

Yeah, we are very much in the Kei range with our games 😅

Interesting to see in the article: even though the number of kei games increases rapidly, their total market share stays at about 25% of games sold. No wonder it's getting more and more difficult to sell small games...

#indieGameDev

a screenshot of the mobile version of TRAILS showing a level and the UI on a screen in 9 by 16 portrait orientation

We are currently finishing up the mobile release of TRAILS! 🎉

Not entirely sure all of it was worth it though - I mean does anyone even care about achievements on mobile? Just adding the translations in the terrible online interfaces was a good 5-6 hours...

#indieGameDev #puzzleGames #mobileGame

A stage is shown. The background of the stage is blue. 4 people are sitting on bean bags on the left. 1 person is sitting in a chair on the right side holding a microphone. In front of the stage a few people are listening.

We had the chance to introduce our game on stage today #gamescom with a few of our colleagues from the games accelerator program. That was super exciting to tell an audience in person about Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts.

#indiedev #gamedev #pitching #indiegame

PPU512 Releases its 2nd game today!!!

Huge congrats to our team, and I'm so proud of what we've made.

@m0zrat.bsky.social

@bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social

Y'all are awesome!!

A MAZE. Digital PlayGround talk program overview for the next days. #Amaze2025 #gamescom.

Screenshot of the tracklist of the album. It is written, with a "play" symbol before every track number : 1. Lonely Vampires in the Shade (feat Josie Brechner) 04:05 2. Vivre heureuse 02:35 3. Je m'endors contre toi 00:54 4. Onde (feat Exaheva) 03:01 5. Le dos noué (feat Bobo Fragile) 03:04 6. drowner (feat 4ngelf4ngs) 02:44 7. Horny Discale 02:21 8. Myrtille fraiche (feat Barbibitch) 01:51 9. 1, 2 + 3 04:50 10. i ate my fingers again 04:26

Cover art with the title "J'ai encore mangé mes doigts" hand written, a picture of Rose looking at the person holding the camera, hand on her mouth, plastic bag in the other. She is sitting in front of a bunch of pigeons. A text is written on the left of the picture going like this (it's long) and you know from time to time i'm just afraid of the power of my desire like when i'm trapped with myself looking at the ceiling and wanting wanting wanting and waiting for the time to pass really fast so tomorrow will be now and now will by with you, so i'm trapped with myself and the many seconds are sharped bladed fingers that dig rivers on my skin and my soul split for as many nails are caressing my chest, and the water flows and i'm horny and i'm tired and i'm longing for hours and hours for something that i cannot describe because i don't know what i really want, seriously, what do i fucking want in the end - therapy doesn't fucking end, doesn't it ? - so i'm drown in my desire of nowness feeling the urge of being able to perceive the now of all the things that surround me and i know i i i i i i i i can try to focus but it's harder than i always think to be here with you and everyone because i need to be here to begin with and not just a melted existing being that cannot endure any form of movement without bursting in tears of tiredness cause now this is a thing that i need to accept that i can't do the things i thought i could handle when i was young and not that type of socially exhausted person so i'm constantly afraid of myself so i talk a lot, to myself, for long period of time out loud to figure what i should do with all my being and the result is always that i still should try to exist because when i'm with you it's fucking amazing, that kind of amazing that makes me want to become the sun because i want to shine for you because this is one of your side effect on me, you are my sunshine and i'm a mirror of your smile, and as a happy mirror i smile back at you

can't wait to release that shoegazy grungy queerwave album 🥰💜✨

Come to the @amazefest.bsky.social booth to see these awesome indie games! 🎮

Booth (10.2 E030)

Thursday August 21
10:00 - 12:00: Swimpossible!
12:00 - 14:00: Deck of Memories
14:00 - 16:00: TRAILS
16:00 - 18:00: Later

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #gamescom

Photograph of the a maze playground area at gamescom showing one of the consoles that hosts TRAILS and other indie titles.

At #gamescom ?

Come by the @amazefest.bsky.social playground area (Hall 10.2 - E030) and 🕹️ try out TRAILS or 👋catch us in person tomorrow between 2 pm and 4 pm and say hallo :)

#indiegamedev

Go check out Frame of Mind at gamescom everybody! ✨

Join us at our A MAZE. Digital PlayGround #2 at gamescom. It’s a relaxing pink oasis filled with international arthouse and altctrol games plus indie games made in Berlin Brandenburg . We also have talks . Check the schedule and get more details here: gamescom.a-maze.net . #AMaze2025 #mbbfunded

Some Goodbyes We Made on Steam I have some memories of saying goodbye that I don't want to forget, so I turned them into 11 minigames and backed them up in this collection.

I want to also spotlight some of the other games that are part of the @amazefest.bsky.social booth at @gamescome2025

Check out Some Goodbyes We Made, by @joeyschutz.bsky.social

store.steampowered.com/app/2705820/...

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #gamescom #showcase

I'll be showcasing Rogue Voltage at gamescom on Aug. 20 at 2-4 p.m. at the @amazefest.bsky.social booth (10.2 E030), directly next to @indiearenabooth.de.

Come say hi, nerd out with us and learn about the steps forward!⚡

Excited to be here at #Gamescom2025!

Come play my indie game, Time in Place, today at the @amazefest.bsky.social booth, and say hi.

I'll be there from 16h to 18h 🎮
Booth (10.2 E030)

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #gamescom #demo #madewithUnity

Trails on Steam TRAILS is a cozy puzzle game in which you plot routes for floating sand ships. Deliver vital cargo to remote outposts - without collisions, dead ends, or backtracking. Every move counts in the…

More indie games to see at the @amazefest.bsky.social #Gamescom booth!

Check out TRAILS, by @purplesloth.studio

Thursday August 21
14:00 - 16:00: TRAILS
Booth (10.2 E030) A MAZE Booth

store.steampowered.com/app/3605120/...

🕹️ 🎮

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #demo #boats

We will be at Gamescom as part of the A MAZE Playground. Come and say hi!

Are you part of the press and want to talk to us about our latest game, puzzle games in general, cooperatives, queerness in games, the indie scene or anything else? Let us know so we don't miss eachother!

#indieDev #gamescom

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Hope you had fun! And feel free to let us know if you continue on stream some time, so we can share it! ✨

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