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Aug 25, 2022

It's ouuuuut! I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is now available on Switch, PS4/5, PC, Mac and Linux. 🚀🍄 It has Deckbuilding! Choices that matter! Romance! Time loops! Dark humor! Teen angst! So many endings, and a beautiful planet to explore. store.steampowered.com/app/1148760/I_

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I'm still reeling from this:

@Exocolonist

has been nominated for Best Narrative and Social Impact in #GDCA23. This is incredible - congrats to all finalists and honorable mentions! 🫢😳💃

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GDC (March 20-24)

@Official_GDC

Jan 26

#GDCA23 Finalists for Best Narrative God of War Ragnarök I Was a Teenage Exocolonist IMMORTALITY Pentiment Return to Monkey Island

Independent Games Festival

So chuffed that Exocolonist is among this year's IGF narrative finalists, and honorable mentions for art. Congratulations all nominees!

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@igfnews

Thank you for joining us as we unveil this year’s finalists and honorable mentions for the 2023 Independent Games Festival Awards (#IGF23)—part of the longest-running festival, summit, and showcase celebrating independent games and their creators. #GDC23 #GDC2023

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@igfnews

#IGF23 Honorable Mentions for Excellence in Visual Art, Part 1/2 I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (

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) Melatonin (

) NAIAD (

) Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (

@niceplay_games

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Independent Games Festival

@igfnews

#IGF23 Nominees for Excellence in Narrative Butterfly Soup 2 (

@brii_u

) Citizen Sleeper (

@JumpOvertheAge

) I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (

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) IMMORTALITY (

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) NORCO (

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) South of the Circle (

@State_of_Play

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Vron!!

@anuanew

Jan 8

Children born amongst the stars ⭐️🌟⭐️ I care them!!!! #iwasateenagexocolonist #exocolonist

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Perhaps the most glorious and influential sim game ever made, and a direct inspiration for my career as an indie dev. Congratulations

@Bay12Games

@KitfoxGames

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Kitfox Games

Dwarf Fortress OUT NOW

@KitfoxGames

Dec 6, 2022

STRIKE THE EARTH!

The legendary Dwarf Fortress by @Bay12Games is out now for Steam and itch.io Steam: bit.ly/2PY0P0w itchio: bit.ly/3usRn5L

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Jumplight Odyssey - WISHLIST NOW!

@JumplightGame

Nov 17, 2022

Announcing our brand new game... ✨Jumplight Odyssey🚀 - the starship adventure sim! Keep Hope alive. Gather survivors. Repair & build out your starship. Navigate chaos. Lead your colorful crew. Escape to the Forever Star. 💕 Wishlist now: bit.ly/JumplightOdyss RT pls 🥰

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Polygon

@Polygon

Nov 4, 2022

The best time loop game of 2022 is a teen sci-fi gem polygon.com/reviews/234350

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‎The Besties on Apple Podcasts

Oct 24, 2022

The newest episode of

@thebestiespod

features a potpourri of games they're playing, including Exocolonist! Thanks for the shout out Besties!

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‎Leisure · 2023

An Indie Developer’s Guide to Publishers

Greg Lobanov

@GregLobanov

Oct 5, 2022

I get a lot of questions about dealing with publishers as an indie game developer. so I wrote up EVERYTHING I KNOW about getting your indie game published. I hope it helps you.

medium.com

I’ve made a bunch of indie games over the last 15+ years and have had my fair share of dealings with publishers, and I’ve also heard a LOT…

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Golden Joystick Awards 2022: Rewatch the live show and see the winners

Oct 7, 2022

Exocolonist has been nominated for Best Storytelling in the 2022 Golden Joystick Awards! We're up there with Horizon, Monkey Island, NORCO, Immortality, and Wayward Strand. What an honor and what a great year for storytelling in games! 📖🕹️💖

gamesradar.com

That's a wrap for another year. Read on to discover the winners - as voted by you

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Congratulations

on receiving all-time “Overwhelmingly Positive”! It’s very well deserved 🥳✨ 🥞 by

@Juengsuke

#exocolonist

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Matthew Wegner (Mastodon @matthew@mwegner.com)

@mwegner

Sep 30, 2022

Unity 2021 removed the "Recompile After Finished Playing" option Tell me you skip dogfooding without telling me you skip dogfooding

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GDC (panel: Content Warning Systems)

lindsay

@neomeruru

Sep 18, 2022

Hey friends, if you've purchased Exocolonist (thanks!), would you do me a favor? If we get 83 more reviews on Steam, the little deedly-doo next to its rating goes from 'Very Positive' to 'Overwhelmingly Positive', and I'd really like to see that happen.

store.steampowered.com

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist on Steam

Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine...

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

@eggplantshow

Sep 17, 2022

Ep. 99: Charting the Future w/ Sarah Northway

(

@northwaygames

) joins us to discuss her sprawling new narrative RPG I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. We discuss juggling a huge script, deckbuilding as storytelling, and some of the wilder places its time looping can go.

I really LOVED my first run on the narrative deckbuilding rpg.... I was a teenage exocolonist (

@exocolonist

) ♥ Soooo meet the new perfect emo boyy (all characters are SO LOVABLE) #exocolonist My heart has skipped some beats... Thanks for bringing games like this to life ♥

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Lucky - they recorded the PlayStation Indies panel I was part of at pax!

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PAX

@pax

Sep 5, 2022

See @yosp, @DMullinsGames, @sarah_northway, @StudioSaiGames, @TeddyDief, & @_Teejay5 about the creative processes behind PlayStation's Indies! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1

Sep 7, 2022

Still physically and mentally unpacking from Pax West. Best was meeting

@bkomei

and

@FinjiCo

folks in person for the first time, and so many others for the first time in a long time. Great way to celebrate a release, so much love from both friends and Exo fans! 💜

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

@eggplantshow

Sep 6, 2022

On our next episode: We'll be joined by

Northway Games makers of Exocolonist

to discuss her new sprawling narrative sci-fi RPG (with card-based battles!), I Was a Teenage Exocolonist. We'll be recording this Sunday, so check it out and get yer questions in!

exocolonist.com

Northway Games

David Gaider

@davidgaider

Sep 5, 2022

Met one of the writers from

@northwaygames

tonight, which means I am going to dive right into "I Was a Teenage Exocolonist" as I sit in my hotel room! This sounds like fun. Definitely going to romance someone I shouldn't and aim for a terrible, heartbreaking ending. 🤠

Shuhei Yoshida

@yosp

Sep 3, 2022

I was a Teenage Exocolonist is playable at FINJI booth!

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Come visit us at PAX West! I'll be there all weekend showing Exocolonist at the Finji booth!

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Made an exosona!!! #exocolonist

I think this is a life milestone for me.

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Ruu

@Ruutuli

Aug 30, 2022

Made an #exosona lets go #exocolonist

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Ruu

@Ruutuli

Aug 30, 2022

Made an #exosona lets go #exocolonist

bkomei

@bkomei

Aug 26, 2022

I hope you're enjoying #Exocolonist 🥰🫂

@exocolonist

Young Dys and Tang begrudgingly sharing a shirt with the words "Our Get Along Shirt."

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Aug 25, 2022

It is ridiculously cool to see our characters being cosplayed today 😭

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arborealkey

@arborealkey

Aug 25, 2022

And here is the video version of the @exocolonist project. The game has just launched, and it was a pleasure to work on a costume for the release. #ad #exocolonist

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Aug 19, 2022

Join me and the team for the I Was a Teenage Exocolonist soundtrack premiere and listening party! Chat with us while we listen together for the first time. Starting... 🎶now🎶! youtube.com/watch?v=6bD1YO

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Aug 17, 2022

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist launches next week on Aug 25th!! Get ready to live (and die, and re-live) your teenage years on an alien planet.🚀 exocolonist.com

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Harris Foster

@HarrisFoster

Aug 11, 2022

Are you a content creator who enjoys visual novels/character building RPGs/relationship sims? I want to talk to you! I Was A Teenage

@Exocolonist

releases in two weeks and I'm putting together my outreach list for day-one codes. DM me your info! exocolonist.com

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Northway Games

@northwaygames

Aug 9, 2022

Join us next Friday Aug 19th at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 5pm GMT for the Exocolonist soundtrack release 🎶Listening Party!🎶 Come chill with us in the chat while we listen together. youtube.com/watch?v=6bD1YO

Aug 9, 2022

Announcing the Exocolonist soundtrack artists

and others! Here's how it all came together: 🎵🎹🎛️ northwaygames.com/exocolonist-mu

Kim-Joy (@kimjoy) • Instagram reel

Kim-Joy

@kimjoyskitchen

Aug 1, 2022

Close ups of the cake I made for a beautiful new video game called ‘I Was a Teenage Exocolonist’ 🥰🍰 I loved making this so so much!

@FinjiCo

#ad

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Cake! 🚀🎂🍄

Jul 7, 2022

We announced Switch today! Exocolonist is🚀launching🚀August 25th! Here's me playing the very first test build when I got it running last winter. Even then it felt soooo good to play.

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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist- Narrative Thread 2

Finji

@FinjiCo

Jun 30, 2022

Chapter Two of the I Was A Teenage Exocolonist interactive Twitter experience is now live! 5 years later, you're a bit older, a bit wiser, and stakes are a bit higher. Okay.. *much* higher. PLAY NOW *ON TWITTER*:

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@Story2Exo

Jun 22, 2022

I Was A Teenage Exocolonist Interactive Narrative Thread- Part 2

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