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Games for Everybody. Indie game studio & consultancy.
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07/12/2022

✨Noble Steed Games 2022 Roundup! ✨
2022 has been one heck of a year! We rebranded, worked on heaps of wonderful projects that we can't really talk about (those pesky NDAs!), and hosted a bunch of exciting events!

To round up all of these moments, we thought to do things differently— So here's our 2022 Roundup Zine! Printed, handmade and folded, to cherish the things we accomplished this year from projects to game development events we hosted and participated in.

Zines are special, in that they're handcrafted self-publications. The print medium also meant there was an opportunity for playfulness, where flipping tactile pages and unfolding the many layers would bring a joy that a regular reel video could not! We think this format reflects our team well, as an indie team that loves fun and prides itself on doing things differently in the games industry.

What's next in 2023? So much and more! We look forward to striving towards greater heights with you as your friendly, Noble Steed 🐎 ❤️

06/12/2022

We're hosting a chill games club for the end of the year! ❤️ The theme for the evening is narrative games, so join us to chat about some of your favourite games or share your own projects! Hop onto our Discord today! https://buff.ly/3OIT34c

05/12/2022

We're hiring! We're looking for a Mid Unity developer to join our team. If you enjoy working on a variety of projects with a team of passionate game developers, say hello! Apply here: https://buff.ly/3F9ihFL

01/12/2022

✨Tank of Holding ✨
The last of our Sea-Monkeys DND Homebrew is a magical artifact you can use in your campaigns!

A tank that is innocuous in appearance, but withholds great potential. This tank is shaped similarly and measures the same to those of common Sea-Monkey Ocean Zoo tanks, but has an interior space considerably larger than it looks. Roughly 2 feet in diameter at the mouth and 4 ft deep, the tank’s water level replenishes itself, oxygenates itself, and magically maintains the perfect salt and mineral concentration for Sea-Monkeys to thrive.

This water cannot exit the tank, even if held upside down, but objects put in the tank will get wet, and be wet when removed. The tank can hold an extra 500 pounds of items, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet. Regardless of its contents, the tank will always weigh 2 pounds. Retrieving an item from the tank requires an action.

Breathing creatures inside the tank can survive up to a number of minutes equal to 1 + its constitution modifier, to a minimum of thirty seconds, after which time they will begin to drown. Water breathing creatures can survive as normal underwater.

Check out the full homebrew here: https://buff.ly/3guD11g

30/11/2022

Love playing narrative games? Want to talk about your favourites?

Join us in our relaxed games club on a chill Friday evening! Just like a book club, this is time for casual chit chat about some of our favourite narrative games and why we recommend them! TLDR: A wholesome time to appreciate games other people have made before!

When: 16th December, Friday, 4:15pm-5pm
Where: Our Discord server: https://buff.ly/3hYxws2

If you’d like to contribute, please let us know in the comments or up in Discord! We appreciate the heads up!

29/11/2022

Who's that horse? 🐎
With our recent rebranding, we've had to update our studio's brand name and identity. In the process was the creation of our brand mascot: your friendly noble steed, Horsey. But what equestrians came before them and inspired us?

In this image are just a couple of characters we drew from to create our brand mascot. Meet Horse from Centaurworld (On Netflix, watch it!), and Spirit from Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, every 2000s kid's beloved horse movie! We thought their personalities matched what we as a studio wanted to do: Be a group of fun loving people, with the courage and strength to lead people through difficult times.

You'll have to check out our full blog here for the full story!: https://buff.ly/3EVi4Gk

24/11/2022

✨ The Aurum Artemia ✨
Next up in our Sea-Monkey DND Homebrew is the Aurum Artemia! The rarest of its kind, almost ethereal in its appearance. This Sea-Monkey is brilliant gold from head to tail, with a shimmer that outshines the ocean’s.

All Sea-Monkeys preserve their viability for years through cryptobiosis, but the Aurum Artemia has been asleep for EONS. Gold deposits on earth are produced in supernova nucleosynthesis— the formation of chemical elements in SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS. Somehow, the Aurum Artemia’s eggs came in contact with the luminous explosion of a star and survived, sleeping in incubation— until today.

In a chance encounter with this ancient Sea-Monkey, its nobility and honour will humble you. Due to its age in hibernation, the Aurum Artemia is wiser than most, with magicks of yore at its disposal to help others and improve its own dexterity.

Link to the rest of the homebrew is up over on our blog: https://buff.ly/3tt0QcM

Let us know if you're using our homebrew in one of your campaigns!

23/11/2022

What goes into sorting out a brand's identity? In this blog, we go through the design process we went through when rebranding the studio! Everything from research to experimentation and iteration, have a look at the early sketches of our brand mascot, Horsey!

Link to blog: https://buff.ly/3tp0vb8

22/11/2022

It's this Friday! If you've ever had trouble absorbing the information/knowledge from watching Youtube gamedev resource vids, or have trouble getting started in the first place, come hang out with us over lunch!

In this brief session, join our team in a Discord watchparty for an online resource over lunch, with a "book club-esque" discussion session to make sure what you learnt is absorbed better. Bonus is that it'll be a very relaxed chat opportunity with fellow developers! (No awkward ice breaker things! Woo!)

Join us over in Discord! Link here: https://buff.ly/3URljDC

18/11/2022

✨ Summon Artemia ✨
Next up from our Sea-Monkeys DND Homebrew is a special spell you can use in your campaigns!

By infusing magic into a body of water no larger than a 5ft cube, you draw together the latent energies in the water to form an Artemia Nyos. The summoned Sea-Monkey is friendy to you and all its companions in its tank, and is formed as an adult. It has a normal lifespan, but will disappear if this spell is cast again while it is within 600ft of you.

Check out the full homebrew here: https://buff.ly/3WtHktS

16/11/2022

🛠️Tools We Use to Make Games 🛠️
Some months back, we made a handy list of tools and plugins we use in our studio! Check it out here if you haven't already over on our blog: https://buff.ly/3DVtGIH

*Disclaimer: Cat not included 😸

15/11/2022

Want to hang out with fellow game developers over lunch and learn something new? Join us for Lunch and Learn on Discord!

How it works is that the host will host a watch party for a publicly available and interesting game dev resource/video. After the watch party, we'll move into a "book club-esque" discussion, and it'll be a wholesome way to connect with other developers!

There are a lot of existing valuable resources out in the interwebs, but not as many opportunities to discuss with fellow devs and digest all that knowledge! If this sounds like it'll help, grab some lunch and come hangout with us!

Join our Discord community here: https://buff.ly/3UAg5ww

14/11/2022

What goes into setting up a game studio? For us, rebranding meant more critically assessing how and why we worked. We've drafted our rough process in setting up our studio's cultural objectives and policies, have a look if you're curious!

Link to blog: https://buff.ly/3hFJnLo

11/11/2022

Happy Friday! Here's Shia LaBeouf watching Shia LaBeouf watch Shia LaBeouf 😎(Yes, Marty's cat's name is Shia La Beouf)

10/11/2022

✨ The Artemia NYOS ✨
Next up in our Sea-Monkey DND Homebrew is the humble original Sea-Monkey! The most common of its fellows, but a miracle of nature nonetheless. Like all Sea-Monkeys, it emerges from its egg after a long sleep— sometimes lasting YEARS!

Its body is a bright pink, with four webbed limbs— as nimble and capable as any regular human, and a strong tail for shenanigans. Upon its head are three dark pink fronds that look like a crown, the hallmark of any Sea-Monkey. It is of friendly disposition, extremely playful, and enjoys a special diet of micronized food and vitamins, but also bananas as treats.

Let us know if you're using our homebrew in one of your campaigns! Link to the rest of the homebrew is up here: https://buff.ly/3U1jTGR

09/11/2022

With our recent rebranding, we've had to more strictly assess our studio's cultural objectives and policies! We've decided to document a little bit about our process in establishing our work culture, specifically how and why we work. To back this up, we've also drafted tangible and actionable policies and measures, keeping ourselves accountable for doing what we say.

Hopefully, this resources is helpful or insightful to fellow studio leads or people hoping to change things internally! Feel free to let us know your thoughts or feedback too ❤️

Blog link: https://buff.ly/3A16t5z

08/11/2022

🐎 Who is the Noble Steed?🐎
With our rebranding, we have made a knight chess piece our studio mascot, endearingly called Horsey. The reason why we did so was because we thought a horse best reflected our studio's values: Horses are loyal, great friends, steadfast, and graceful. As a knight chess piece, Horsey moves to defend, their long luscious hair giving them a little more personality as a fun-loving and friendly Noble Steed.

In early iterations, we thought about using a unicorn instead. The issue with that was that unicorns are largely thought of as solitary or overly unique. Horses, on the other hand, belong in herds and collectively care for each other.

Thus, we thought it appropriate for the Noble Steed to be our studio's mascot, guiding fellow peers through difficult times and reflecting our practice as a game studio and consultancy!

We hope you enjoyed this little snippet of our studio's story, and share our excitement for the future!

If you'd like, you can check out our culture book here: https://buff.ly/3Dp2sJa

07/11/2022

GIT 101 recording is now up! 😊
Thanks for dropping by the online session! If you missed out, you can check out the recording for Marty's GIT 101 session here: https://buff.ly/3DWaxq2

In this session, Marty introduces the concept of Version Control, how to set up repos, and how to use GIT! If you're new to game development and using version control for your projects, this is the perfect resource for you. Let us know your thoughts and feedback if you have any, else we have our community Discord for questions!

Join our Discord here: https://buff.ly/3fyhch2

03/11/2022

✨ Introducing: The Sea-Monkeys DND Homebrew!✨
What's this? We thought it would be fun to celebrate Sea-Monkeys through play! In this case, if you're a DND player, we have a couple spells, magic items and monsters for you to use in your next campaign! If you're not a DND player, perhaps this is a sign to give it a go 😉

Lovingly crafted by Ann and Maddie, check out the full homebrew here: https://buff.ly/3h8kWWT

Let us know if you used these in your campaign too!

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👑 The Diadem of the Artemia 👑
A lustrous and legendary golden crown for Sea-Monkeys keepers, with a shape that resembles the iconic three antennae of all Sea-Monkeys. If a keeper is beloved by their colony, the Artemia may graciously gift this fine invention in order to bridge communication gaps with their human keepers.

The crown parses the wavelength and frequency of the Artemia’s underwater voices and translates them into human language— allowing wearers to understand and speak to these strange creatures for the first time.

31/10/2022

We helped port A Tale of Paper: Refolded onto Xbox Series S/X and several other platforms recently! 😍It's always incredibly exciting to help make games reach more people through a variety of platforms, and our team's always excited to expand our reach!

Check out the game here: https://buff.ly/3gEgjDu

27/10/2022

✨We made a new game!✨
Reuben and Ann teamed up to join over on Itch.io! It's basically bingo, but with the words you're reading in your book, along with a cute horse to mark where you left off 🐎 It's great fun making these little and cute games 😍

You can download the bookmark to print it for yourself here: https://buff.ly/3N7vnG9

26/10/2022

Missed out on Survivor Game Jam at and curious about what went down? Here's the full recording! 😎 Ft. the fine folks from Chaos Theory Games and DragonBear Studios!

Link: https://buff.ly/3sjpLix

25/10/2022

✨ 🐎 Spiffy New Website! 🐎 ✨
With our rebranding, we've launched a whole new website! Full of gorgeous horseys as well as some slick previews of all of the projects we've worked on in the past! Check it out and let us know what you think!

Link: https://buff.ly/3z7QNwU

24/10/2022

We'll be kicking off our GIT 101 workshop with Marty later in the week !

It'll be a session covering the concept of Version Control, as well as some step-by-step setting up + use of GIT/GIT clients. It'll be especially useful to anyone involved in game development! That means anyone from the art side of games to audio and more 🙂

When: 28th October, Friday, 2-3pm AEDT
Where: https://buff.ly/3VTrIzw

See you then!

17/10/2022

It's next week! Join Marty in a informative one hour session on the concept of Version Control! Specifically, we're talking about using GIT and GIT clients for games you're making! This is also helpful for folks working in the industry without a programming background or any formal education on game development! Drop by if you can. 28th October, 2pm 😊 Youtube live link: https://buff.ly/3RPnwh5

14/10/2022

It's been a busy past few weeks, hope everyone takes the weekend to relax and recharge! Have a wonderful weekend ahead! 😍

13/10/2022

Some time back we shared this simple comic explaining the basics on version control and using GIT! Besides this, Marty is hosting a GIT workshop! Join us on the 28th of October, 2:00pm, online here ✨: https://buff.ly/3rKKhrT

12/10/2022

As promised, here's Reuben's e-book on Production for Indie Gamedevs! It essentially covers all the points in his recent talk, and should be especially helpful if you digest text better than video content 😊 Here's the link: https://buff.ly/3CpcJ7w

10/10/2022

Phew! We had a wonderful and hope the rest of you did too! What a lovely time to meet people old and new, share our love for games, and making them! Hope y'all feel as inspired as we do 😊

Safe travels to those making their way back home, too! 🥰

06/10/2022

Survivor Game Jam 2.0 is happening tomorrow! Here are the hosts + teams! We have folks from Chaos Theory Games, Innchanted devs from DragonBear Studios, and devs from our own studio!😍 It's going to be a hectic 1 hour of fun!

⏰ : Friday, October 7th, 1pm
📍: , Fruitbat Theatre

30/09/2022

✨ 🐎ANNOUNCEMENT 🐎✨
You might've been wondering why we've been sharing so many images of horses lately... today we unveil this mystery! We are excited to share that we're rebranding to Noble Steed Games!

We're doing this to better reflect our goal as an indie game studio and consultancy. That is, to continue supporting wonderful people and projects. Alongside this is a spiffy new brand identity, which is reflected in our spiffy new website! Check out Reuben's update about it for further details and let us know your thoughts!

New website: https://buff.ly/3SJc2fM
For text versions of the letter, check out the blog here: https://buff.ly/3flKNtn

29/09/2022

It's always fun to look back at past projects, and see the little bits of love put into the games we work on! Here's some of the lovely Magpie sprites in My Magpie, where you tend to an injured magpie and feed it snacks. It's free to play on itch if you're curious!

Link: https://buff.ly/3QO1YRz

28/09/2022

Tada! The final team joining us for Survivor Game Jam 2.0 are the lovely Innchanted devs, Paulina and Dan from DragonBear Studios! They'll be joining in the hectic 1 hour of fun, where devs are pitted against each other to make a game with prompts from the audience! See you at !

When: 7th October (PAX Day 1), 1-2pm.
Where: Fruitbat Theatre

21/09/2022

Meet Team Chaos Theory Games , Nico and James 👐They'll be participating in Survivor Game Jam 2.0 at , hosted by us 😄 In this short 1 hour game jam, participants will have to make a playable game on a topic chosen by the live audience, with suggestions taken as the hour progresses! It'll be hectic, but fun with good vibes all around!

When: 7th October (Day 1 of PAX), 1-2pm
Where: Fruitbat Theatre

We'll be revealing the third team who'll be joining us soon! Stay tuned 😍

19/09/2022

Hey all! We'll be postponing Marty's Version Control workshop to next month, 28th October instead! Sorry for any inconvenience caused 😥 If you have any questions though, please feel free to reach out on our ask-a-dev channel on Discord 😊

Join us there: https://buff.ly/3S70mna

16/09/2022

We have quite a number of events coming up, so here they are in a neat little list! In text form:

✨ GCAP: Game Production for Indie Teams : 5th October, 11am- 12pm. GCAP, Room 104, 1 Convention Centre Place South Wharf, Victoria.
✨ PAX: Survivor Game Jam 2.0: 7th October, 1-2pm. PAX, Fruitbat Theatre.
✨ Git 101: Version Control for Games (Online): 28th October, 2-3pm. Youtube Live: https://buff.ly/3qID6Qp

Hope to see y'all soon!

PS. if you'd like more regular updates, we do have a newsletter to keep you posted: https://buff.ly/3QRraXc

14/09/2022

Introducing.... the first team for Survivor Game Jam 2.0! It's our own studio's devs, Grant and Shell! 🔥They'll have an hour to make a game, and will be competing against two other teams. (All will be revealed soon!) We're so excited for , and hope you'll swing by to watch the chaos!

When: Friday, October 7th at 1:00pm (PAX Day 1)
Where: Fruitbat Theatre

13/09/2022

Some of our new UI buttons and icons took a while to get right, but aren't they just adorable? 😊 Flat, simple and easy to read was our rationale for these, and we already had a limited palette in mind in the sketching phase. In the following pic are some early hand drawn sketches and iterations! We fiddled around with stranger looking buttons before settling on simple and to the point in the end, working to the finished buttons in Adobe illustrator!

PS. For the Sea-Monkey fans, that spoon of growth food is red, not yellow like the iconic feeding spoons, for visibility! The food is also yellow, because the greens we were using throughout the game were maybe a little too green 🙈 Or maybe our design choices were purely fuelled by aesthetic and understanding over real-life accuracy 😂

PPS. If you enjoyed the game, please review it on the playstore! Every little bit of your feedback helps us improve the game ❤️

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