Good bug today fellas

Play something cold ❄️

Exciting things happening on the saltstone server

- Decorate your restaurant, design your menu, serve customers 🥧 - Develop relationships, build community, uncover the stories of the people around you 🫂 - Face hard choices as war looms, and the world changes around you ⛈️ What kind of person will you become in The Hearth and Harbour?

TODAY’S THE DAY!! Tune into the Fellow Traveller YouTube channel at 6pm GMT tonight to catch the STORY RICH SHOWCASE! There’s also a watch party in the Fellow Traveller Discord server! Indie games! Narratives! Cool devs! WOW!!

True Captain (a The Pale Beyond animatic, or, Ode to The Bathtub Scene) 🛁 ((Audio from True Detective!))

Come join us if you also like to be distracted from work and enjoy deploying emojis of cute little guys! ❄️ discord.gg/TX6XGyTmSC ❄️

Shaw: we’re so low on resources, Templeton, what do we do? Templeton: (images created by the incredibly talented and funny @niko-trash.bsky.social and @birbwell.bsky.social )

Templeton The Pale Beyond’s blindingly gorgeous blue peepers are the current topic of discussion on the discord and its really not helping our productivity 👁️👁️

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Our lovely handsome game director James Bruce is showing The Hearth and Harbour @londongamesfest.bsky.social ! Come check the game out if you’re about! 🍻

We hit 20k steam wishlists!! That’s incredible, thank you so much everyone! 🍻🍻🍻

We uhhhh agree !!

With everyone sharing their placeholder assets is this a good time to say some of ours made it into the trailer

Now hang on gang maybe we should hear them out

Introducing: ✨HER✨

We’re taking part in the Games From Ireland Steam event!! The Pale Beyond has a huge 80% discount until the 19th March, and you can support us by wishlisting The Hearth and Harbour! Make sure you check out tonnes of other great home grown games as well! store.steampowered.com/sale/Gamesfr...

Close ups ❤️

This month we’re sharing this lovely Yorensday scene on the Temperance by @birbwell.bsky.social ! This was made for Christmas but we’re late sharing it, that’s our bad hehe You can find Birbwell on tumblr as well!!

We definitely didn’t forget today is The Pale Beyond’s THIRD ANNIVERSARY! Happy birthday Pale! Thank you everyone who’s supported us! Friends and family and anyone who’s played the game and (hopefully maybe) thought it was good 💙

A little sneaky preview of a new* location in The Hearth and Harbour! ⛵️ *location may be familiar to players who have finished The Pale Beyond ❄️ #indiegames #indiedev

We’re so excited to be part of @rawfury.bsky.social ’s Global Foodie Faire! If you like games about food n cookin’ then this is for you! Wishlist The Hearth and Harbour! 🥘 bit.ly/HearthHarbou... Check out the event, there are so many great games! 👨‍🍳 store.steampowered.com/publisher/ra...

Debuted an early demo of our game last week

Heading to rendr today to get set up for the event! If youre in Belfast tomorrow and friday you can come and play a demo of The Hearth and Harbour! 🥘

“coldest place in the world is a great place to find love :]” We are very into this ship and this beautiful art by @niko-trash.bsky.social 👀

Now he’s ready to be implemented into the game, where he can be tired of the players antics as they get up to no good in The Hearth and Harbour. (10/10)

Then, after the colour pass, one final step - when I’m happy with it, I flatten the whole thing, and keyframe distort transforms onto it to add more squash and stretch. Because transforms can tween, this pushes the animation further and hides that he only has 9 frames total. (9/10)

This is also when we’re animating the fabric to help sell the overall motion - it follows a frame or so after he does, which adds weight to the animation. (8/10)

The next step is tie-down - tightening anatomy and making sure each part of Cyril moves in a smooth arc and doesn’t jitter around. (7/10)

We use anticipation and overshoot frames at the start and end of a movement to imply the characters are moving a little more than they actually are. (6/10)