Woah!🐭💥
We got too excited & forgot to post here!
But Pawsta reached 5000 wishlists on June 15th!
And it only took 9 days! 🤯
Ahhhh!
I always set my expectations low, so this was such an amazing surprise!
The whole team is so blown away with how many people our goofy game about a mouse making food has resonated with! 🥰
Sincerely, thank you all so much! 💖
Behind the Scenes
Let's dive into some behind-the-scenes stuff!
Recently, I was sharing how I plan game-making with some other cozy game devs & they thought my process was really clean & cool, so I thought I might as well share some sneak peaks in case it's useful or interesting to anyone here! ✨
Planning set design, branching recipes & minigames
I've used sites like Miro in the past, but I eventually discovered that Canva fits my workflow best for quickly making gameplay mock-ups & sharing my vision with the team. The best part is it's also presentable and editable, so it's easy for us to collaborate further 🧩
Claymation
In Pawsta, all of the claymation is actually.. simulated! Instead of painstakingly moulding things by hand, we use a plug-in for Blender to create our assets & then flick through models & renders in Unity to simulate a stop-motion effect 🪄
We also use a shader so that 2D elements like menu icons get a wibbly-wobbly feeling too! 🪼
Also, the weird blue-boxed image in the top-left shows off the stupid-simple 3D magic behind our environments. Though we're gradually incorporating more hands-on 3D models in the game, sometimes we've been layering 2D renders and setting up hitboxes manually in the scene. It's quite fiddly though, so we might eventually drift away from this..🤔
Sneak Peeks
Stay tuned, it hasn't been that long since the Steam launch yet 👀
But we're getting back to cooking up more content now! 🧑🍳
Be more involved!
If you want to follow Pawsta or my game-dev life a bit closer there's a few ways to do it:
Discord - more frequent community engagements & share food pics/ recipes 💙
Tiktok - silly Pawsta content, cooking & slice of life videos 🎵
Bluesky - our preferred microblogging social media site 🦋
YouTube - same as tiktok, but plan to post some longer-form devlog content too! 📺
The discord is especially starting to get more lively, and I would love it if we got more cooking and food pics being shared there! 🍝
Signing off!
It may be a little while until the next update, but we will try to do one per month where possible! So, again, feel free to check out the recommended socials above (and others below) to keep up-to-date in the meantime! ✨
The next big milestone will be 10k wishlists, but we expect things to slow down now that the wholesome direct buzz is over, so keep sharing if you want to help us reach this goal! 🤗
Thanks again for the tremendous support!
Harry (Creative Director of Pawsta) 💖
And, until next time,