Nozomu
@nozomugames
I'm Ivan/Nozomu! Found joy in making games together with my wife and a couple of friends: nozomugames.com Currently creating a narrative deckbuilder filled with cozy dread and occult mysteries - Burn With Me:
...the walk was, indeed, not stupid: each time I'm in Alps I ask myself why I'm not here every day (or at least week) But I also need to work. But I can't work without properly ventilating my brain. Oh, the paradoxes!
They said we couldn't fit a giraffe on a card. Well. They were wrong! even paired it with a fitting card effect (which is a spoiler for now)
One of the characters from Burn With Me got a glow up! (actually all initial designs got an upgrade throughout the development, because their characters evolved, and so did Eva's skill)
Do you all have that one game that you feel like it was made for you specifically? One of those games for me is MONOMOON by @gentlegiantgames.bsky.social (very hyped for it) And I got in touch with them, and their artist graced us with a collab sprite for Burn With Me!!! We did not deserve this 😭
In Burn With Me, we still serve Art the old-fashioned way — with hands. #gamedev #godotEngine
Cooking up a bunch of new Hand animations for Burn With Me together with Eva, our artist and Owner of the Hand.
Continuing with collab project for Burn With Me cards - this time with art by @ce1estra.bsky.social! Featuring one regular creature, and even 2 sprites for one of the students. Hmm, I wonder what that's for?.. Also, sketches! Ohhh I wish we could have all of them in the game 😭
It's a thing I'm hesitant to talk about because people don't usually differentiate "inspiration" and "direct influence", but Twin Peaks was one of bigger inspirations for our Burn With Me! Some aspects are more prominent, like name of the game or dark jazzy soundtrack. Some are more... ethereal.
Attention! We're adding a Tibetan fox with a brick to Burn With Me. Thank you for the attention.
Robot Detour was my debut Steam game; and although it didn't seel that well, I have miriads of fond memories. Giving a talk at GodotCon 23, appearing in EDGE journal and on Aliensrock channel, even somehow reaching some consoles this year... And getting to know so many cool people! 💚
Robot Detour is -50% off during Steam Summer Sale! We've recently passed 2500 sold units, and are still sitting at 100% positive reviews. 170 of them! 😱 Meybe you'll be the next happy player? Or the first one to hate the game? Just $3 to decide our fate: store.steampowered.com/app/2666840/...
I love the duality of collab images for Burn With Me: all artists choose for themselves where they want to be on "cozy <-> scary" scale.
Sorry everyone, I thought it would just be a nice tiny ARG for Burn With Me...
Steam Next Fest is almost over, time to share some numbers. Burn With Me just reached 15.000 wishlists! 🥳 Unfortunately we didn't get much coverage, but what we did get was love from players! Eternally happy to see players writing reviews and words of love for Burn With Me demo. It's mutual 🧡
My studio has a discord server with all the news about Burn With Me, and our other games! And some extra on top. Also, it's the easiest way to discuss anything with us! And this is a blatant ad for it: I've posted there all 5 students you'll meet in Burn With Me 👀 discord.gg/gR9eYKKpsP
"One of the most intriguing deckbuilder games I've played recently!" "Absolutely amazed by this game!" And other heartwarming words we're getting this Next Fest. We're slowly approaching 100 reviews 🧡 store.steampowered.com/app/2954010/...
From time to time I stop in front of this Eva's painting, which was basically the first concept-art for Burn With Me (1 month before proper development start). A lot has changed since then, for us and for the game, but it's still as powerful as it was at that time.
Good start into the Next Fest, finally some quality reviews for Burn With Me
Burn With Me is part of Steam Next Fest! 🔥 If you're checking out game demos - maybe you have time for a narrative deckbuilder about animal university, occultic mysteries and deepest desires? store.steampowered.com/app/2954010/...
Would you get interested in a game - hear me out! - if it positioned itself like "one-of-a-kind game that you can't explain, only experience"? We're at this point with Burn With Me when players love the uniqueness, but any explanation of the game we or players provide doesn't do it justice... 1/3
Burn With Me is participating in Steam Next Fest! We've polished our demo, and are so ready. Our game is turning to be something special, and we're happy to see people falling in love with our eerie narrative deckbuilder - maybe you're next? store.steampowered.com/app/2954010/... #SteamNextFest
Big reveal: we're having a huge collab for Burn With Me! 🔥 30+ artists are drawing alternative sprites for all 100 cards (that you can unlock in-game)! Words can't convey how happy I am: talking to people, collaborating with other artists and our friends. People are awesome! I'm hyped :)