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Hope everyone had an amazing gamescom and is now adequately resting! ☀ If you need something to watch while recouping (and speak German), check out our interview with Rocket Beans! 🚀🥒 Thanks so much to Animationsinstitut for making it possible, to Valle for being an amazing host, and to Beren Baumgartner and Marlis Fleischmann from Zeitland media & games for sharing their thoughts and new game: Black Castle! https://lnkd.in/eBJ_eGY9 Julius Dorsel, Luzie Kehle, Mucks! Games

Who’s as excited for devcom next week as we are? 🚀 Julius Dorsel and I are thrilled to be giving a talk on “Making Meaningful Games” on Monday, 4:30 PM, Stage 3! ⭐ At Mucks! Games, which we founded last year, our mission is to create beautiful and meaningful games—games that do more than just entertain. In our talk, we’ll dive into what “meaningful” truly means to us and how we aim to design experiences that resonate on a deeper level. We’ll also explore how transmedia storyworlds can be used to create content with a purpose beyond entertainment, using our award-winning mobile game, "The Bear – A Story from the World of Gra," as a case study. Join us to discuss how a focus on the end experience can guide every design decision, shaping games that truly matter. Check out the full program here: https://lnkd.in/ehbjKcEH Can’t wait to see you there! #devcom #gamedevelopment #gamescom #meaningfulgames

Last week we had a lot of fun filming with the crew of SWR Kultur in our office! 🌟 In the latest episode of SWR Kultur, the cultural program of a German public television broadcaster, Mucks! Games is featured as a games studio with a different approach to video games. 🐻 Our interactive bed-time story “The Bear” is highlighted as a soothing alternative to fast-paced, attention-grabbing games. “The Bear” is a poetic adventure, specially designed to be calming and relaxing in its colors, gameplay and music. It is meant to be the opposite of the endless feeds we interact with on our phones at bedtime that keep us awake. Instead, “The Bear” is created to reconnect you with that intimate emotional time, that exists just before falling asleep. A bedtime story, for anyone, at any age. 🐺 We also gave a sneak peek into our upcoming game, "Frieda is Changing," a feminist fun horror adventure that we're super excited about. At Mucks!, we want to create games with a social impact – and we are excited to have been able to share it with a large audience through this television feature! The team was absolutely wonderful to be around and we had a blast discussing our favorite game dev topics. A huge thanks to SWR Kultur and Steffen König for the opportunity! https://lnkd.in/e8V-BKN4

🚀 Big News, Game Dev Friends! 🚀 Mucks! Games just got nominated for Best Indie Developer at the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards! 🎉🎮 As a three-person indie team (Julius Dorsel, Luzie Kehle and myself), this nomination means the world to us! We started this adventure just a few months ago and are stoked to be following our dream: creating meaningful games with a social impact🌙✨ Now, we need YOUR help to make it happen! If you’re part of the game dev world, we’d love it if you could throw a vote our way! 👉 https://lnkd.in/ekxTXJie Thank you for all the love and support! Let’s make some magic happen! 💖✨

Mucks! Games is back from California! ☀ As Apple Design Awards Finalists Julius Dorsel and I had the opportunity to go to the World Wide Developers Conference 2024 held by Apple. It was an amazing experience to be welcomed into the Apple headquarters, seeing Infinity Loop and Apple Park, as well as witnessing their iconic keynote. We met an amazing bunch of creatives from all over the world: winners, finalists, app creators and game developers. We loved sharing the ups and downs of being a small studio with the many indies that were part of this years design awards and applaud apple for supporting up and coming developers. 🐻 🌟 Our game ‘The Bear’ was a finalist in the category ‘Social Impact’. Although we didn’t win, we highly recommend playing the game that did – ‘The Wreck’ by French indie studio THE PIXEL HUNT. It is a beautifully emotional experience and has earned its (astoundingly heavy) little square trophy. We enjoyed meeting their art director Alexandre Grilletta and talking about how we appreciate the recognition of meaningful storytelling in a category such as ‘Social Impact’. We only had a couple of days in Silicon Valley – and will need a couple of days to recover from the jetlag – but what an adventure it was! #WWDC24

Nominated for the German Computer Games Award: THE BEAR – A STORY FROM THE WORLD OF GRA! 🕹️ 🏆 Yesterday, the nominations for this year’s German Computer Games Award were announced. Among the nominees: our recent Interactive Media graduates from Mucks! Games with THE BEAR. THE BEAR is an interactive good night story for tablets. Two friends, the bear and the little one, go on a journey through a dreamy little universe, collecting stories and stars. A game about reconnecting to this intimate, emotional time that exists just before falling asleep. 🌙 THE BEAR is the first game within the WORLD OF GRA – a story world developed at the Animationsinstitut. The team behind the whole thing even produced this year’s trailers for FMX - Film & Media Exchange, Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and Animation Production Days (APDs). What an achievement! 👏 👏 Congratulations to Clara Deitmar, Julius Dorsel, Luzie Kehle and all the wonderful people who have been involved in bringing THE BEAR (and WORLD OF GRA) to life. We’re very much looking forward to the release in April! 🍀   CREW Director: Clara Deitmar Producer: Julius Dorsel Interaction/Game Design: Danilo Cedeño Vaughan Film Music: Jonas Vogler Sound Design: Stefan Erschig Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH   #indiegame #award #animationsinstitut Der Deutsche Computerspielpreis | Der DCP