Neat Creature Studios

A few neet creatures making neat games https://neat-creature-studios.itch.io/

[neat-creature]

Who We Are:

Neat Creature is a duo of indepedent game developers out of the American midwest. After working on our first game jam Slide Bar, we decided it would be really fun to continue making games together, and created Neat Creature. The main idea of our little group is to work on whatever we're motivated to in the moment. Whether that be smaller projects like game jams, or collaborating on our own personal projects with each other. We're only improving with every project, and we hope everyone who plays our games enjoys them and they inspire everyone to try creating something of their own.

Links:

Website: https://neatcreature.com/

Itch: https://neat-creature-studios.itch.io/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neatcreaturestudios/?hl=en

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/neat-creature.bsky.social

[neat-creature]

What color would you make your mech?

[glugslove]

what is this evil freak goblin doing in my fluid simulation >:[

[neat-creature]

Nothing of note to show yet but we have been working on overhauling the movement for Trance Resource Race as well as starting to add in some of the weapon mechanics

[neat-creature]

We are in the process of making the first racetrack for the race mode of trance resource race. Lots of inspiration has come from wipeout and episode 1 racer.

[neat-creature]

It's been quiet in the Neat Creature studio lately, but little things have been happening here and there. No progress updates to report but hey we made cool business cards so check those out. Hopefully we will see you all soon with some game updates in the near future.

[neat-creature]

Added a rough ship model to Trance Resource Race (working title) to demo the movement model so far. The movement is a lot of stupid math due to trying to mimic a transmission and switching between a mech and ship movement mode but it is coming along!

[strivy]

trying out new shaders in godot

[neat-creature]

Very early stages of our mech/racing game mash up. Using twin sticks a shifter and pedals. Hectic setup but fun.

[strivy]

mech ass mech ass

i'm normal

[strivy]

anyways here's aster: the player character in steel seraphim

early in the game (left) and later in the game (right)

i wonder why they're happier...

[puppytruck]

now what's this all aboot

[neat-creature]

Showing off Illegal Space Trucking and Changing Places at LTUX went really well. We got lots of good feedback from players and most people liked both games. Lots of players actually completed Changing Places which we were happy to see. Our main takeaway definitely seems to be to make things less ambiguous. After working on a game for so long, you tend to tunnel vision on things like the controls (Especially with Illegal Space Trucking's controls being so hyper specific to one gamejam).

Despite that, it was very refreshing that people actually liked them. It's very encouraging for us to keep working on things knowing that we can create things people enjoy. We definitely hope to show more in the future at other events when possible. Thanks to everyone who came by and gave the games a shot!

[neat-creature]

New build and new controller! Showing it off at LTUX in Detroit/Southfield tomorrow if you want to try to play with our controller! #ltux #game dev #indie dev #indie arcade #illegal spacetrucking #neat creature

[strivy]

trying some graphic design work of our various pilots who totally have free will

maybe i could put it on a shirt...

[neat-creature]

The new update of Illegal Space Trucking is done and will be live on our itch.io page midday tomorrow.

[sainguinpixels]

I might be having some fun drawing potions lol

So far Ive added 9ish new styles, might do a few more before I start coloring them.