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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 16/05/2025

May's game club was ENA: Dream BBQ 💥 some liked it some did not like it but we all can agree it was 10/10 weird, the art was very diverse, & the animations were really polished. it made us ask 'what is a game?' and we also talked about Aslıhan Tece Bayrak's presentation on Compassionate Game Design

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 10/05/2025

we are not making games we are playing in the dirt

more dirt, in garden boxes and in a wagon with a shovel in it

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 18/04/2025

To celebrate hitting 1k followers, we've made a Frog Bard @signal.org sticker pack! 14 stickers with various expressions that you hopefully use frequently!!!!!!!!! Grab them at the link below 🐸⬇️ signal.art/addstickers/... #frogbard #makeprivacystick #signalstickerpack

emoji of our character Frog Bard smiling with the mouth open and big eyes

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 11/04/2025

April's game club was Betrayal at Club Low by @cosmoddd.bsky.social 🍕 Good art funny writing frustrating dice silly animations and a weird experience overall 10/10

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 09/04/2025

why yes.....Frog Bard has cute profile avatars you can use on your steam profile

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 08/04/2025

This time of year the woods are full of sparks of inspiration... 🎶 leave us a steam review to support your local traveling frog bard! 🎶 store.steampowered.com/app/3490420/...

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 01/04/2025

*sigh* okay I'll get my 2012 macbook out and make a mac build 🫵 for you

screenshot of steam wishlists that says Mac 2 (!) your game is not available

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 28/02/2025

we kickstarted our team game club!! like book club but for games. this month we played and are discussing MOUTHWASHING

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 22/01/2025

once i got my license i practically lived up here back then kids just drove whatever they had and we just made due, no one bothered us no past no future no problems just the moment #gamedev #indiedev #bardfrog #tokyodrift

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 22/01/2025

we used to come up here when we were kids even before we could drive we'd cut class, sneak out come up here and watch the older kids drift ...things were different back then...

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 20/01/2025

POV: an untextured frog asks you what you're up to today #gamedev #indiedev

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 23/12/2024

12 DAYS OF #DEVMAS! 🎁🎄DEV TEAM SNAP This is our team ❤️ and this is the last of the devmas posts. thank you for listening and for engaging with us ~ we'll be on break over the next couple weeks so SEE YA IN THE NEW YEAR! #gamedev #indiedev

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 20/12/2024

12 DAYS OF #DEVMAS! 🎁🎄ELF ON THE SHELF Our team would like you to know that the elf is the police state #indiedev #gamedev

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 18/12/2024

12 DAYS OF #DEVMAS! 🎁🎄ENDLESS LOOP If you close your eyes it loops #indiedev #gamedev

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 16/12/2024

and finally the result! we still have a lot that we want to add, and to break up the landscape and make it more interesting, but gameplay-wise it's structured and balance-able. we found it's easier to start structured and add randomness than the other way around. thanks for reading! <3

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 16/12/2024

then the last step is to render the whole graph into a texture using an SDF shader. this, along with the final positions of the buildings, get passed into our terrain generator plugin (we use Map Magic 2) to affect the heightmap and road material placement

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 16/12/2024

this part was actually inspired by mancala! we iterate over all the nodes in semi-random order, dropping gameplay locations until we hit the desired total number

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 16/12/2024

12 DAYS OF #DEVMAS! 🎁🎄 TRUST THE PROCESS: Creating a procedural open world! Getting an organic & varied result while still having enough high-level structure to support our gameplay is a tricky balance to strike #indiedev #gamedev

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 15/12/2024

12 DAYS OF #DEVMAS! 🎁🎄WHAT IF... Feature that didn't make the cut you say... 🤔well our whole game. our whole game may not make the cut. we’re trying to make a procedurally generated open world vehicle combat ga- #gamedev #indiedev

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 14/12/2024

12 DAYS OF #DEVMAS! 🎁🎄FAVORITE VIEW The space elevator <3 because it's gonna get me off this fcking dying planet <3 #gamedev #indiedev

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 13/12/2024

12 DAYS OF #DEVMAS! 🎁🎄BEST PLACEHOLDER Our whole game is a placeholder tbh but our favorite is that our team members are placeholder crew members <3 #gamedev #indiedev

Screenshot of our game with the hover vehicle in the center and the crew list on the left with “Ben” and “Izzie” listed as crew members.

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Moon Candy | Frog Bard 🐸 poetic drift @mooncandy.games · 13/07/2024

as we get closer to our 'playtest ready' deliverable, we wanted to share one way we are preparing...by beefing up the team's knowledge via our internal test kit. Our team is spread out and will be conducting playtests separately, so we're ensuring we approach playtests the same way

Screenshot of our notion page with the title, "Test Kit: The toolkit to learn about different types of testing, how to conduct them, and resources on user research."

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