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Ondrej from Charles Games 🐝
@charlesgames.bsky.social
Prague-based studio pushing boundaries of what games can do and say. Hidden-object Velvet 89 out now, new game We Grew Up in War in the works.

www.charlesgames.net
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We are so proud to officially announce our upcoming game We Grew Up in War in cooperation with War Childhood Museum. This narrative adventure explores the stories of children growing up during armed conflicts in Bosnia, Syria, and Ukraine. More at store.steampowered.com/app/3254380/...
And last, but not least, we had to document how Attentat 1942 depicts alcohol for the Indonesian regulators.🍸It can’t be helped – herr Sýkora drinks cognac when he’s insidously trying to seduce your grandma. #indiedev #gamedev #history #indiegame
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
New Indonesian rating system need us to upload the most "extreme" content from our games. And we can’t decide if angry gestapo dog from Attentat 1942 is, indeed, "horror"... #indiegame #indiedev #indiegamedev #history
January 25, 2026 at 8:04 AM
At our studio, we often like to do create games the evidence-based way, testing if our idea for a transformative game works – and love spreading our knowledge. So if you care about narrative games and their transformative potential, read the recently published paper about We Grew Up in War👇
Read “Promoting Positive Attitudes Through Narrative-Driven Digital Games,” by our partners @charlesgames.bsky.social & the War Childhood Museum, which explores how narrative-driven games can positively influence players’ attitudes.
diglib.eg.org/items/...
#gamedev #indiedev
Promoting Positive Attitudes Through Narrative-Driven Digital Heritage Games
Video games offer new ways to engage audiences with cultural heritage beyond traditional museum settings. However, can video games authentically replicate the narrative depth of museum experiences while promoting the positive attitudinal impacts museums seek to achieve? This study investigates whether a narrative-driven video game, We Grew Up in War, inspired by historical research and curatorial practice can positively influence players' attitudes towards the depicted topics. The game employs complementary multiperspectivity, a storytelling strategy that presents different but thematically aligned perspectives focused on the topics of refugees and migration. Using a pretest-posttest design with experimental and control groups (n = 116), we measured both explicit and implicit attitude changes. Results show that players who played the game exhibited significantly more positive explicit attitudes than those in the control group (d = 0.33, p = .037). Implicit attitudes did not significantly differ between groups. A more detailed analysis showed that there was a statistically significant change in players' affective responses between the pretest and posttest, whereas no such significant change was observed in the cognitive or behavioral components of explicit attitudes. Despite using a short prototype of the game (approx. 23 minutes), these findings suggest that video games can be effectively employed in promoting cultural heritage and attitude change to wide audiences across geographical boundaries.
diglib.eg.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:46 PM
New Indonesian rating system requires you to upload snippets of the "extreme" content of your game. Alas, Attentat 1942 has historically-accurate depiction of cigarettes, earning it "drugs" label. #indiegames #indiedev #history

The scene in question:
January 22, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Feedback time: Do you like our new, animated dialo-emotion options we just put into We Grew Up in War? ☁️ #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame
January 15, 2026 at 11:19 AM
The winter has come to Playing Prague alongside SEVEN new languages! 🌨️ Our city puzzler is now available in Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Italian, Spanish, & French!

Download the snowy update now (links below).

We can’t wait for new player to try the game and their feedback.
December 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is how anxiety looks like in We Grew Up in War. Melisa arrives in a refugee camp in Germany & even though she’s a teenager, it’s a scary place...

Our demo starts with her leaving Bosnia alongside her mum: partner.steamgames.com/apps/landing... #indiegame #indiedev #indiegames
December 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Another gem to discover? I'll definitely give it a look!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3743570

#gamedev #indiedev #steamdemo #freetoplay #newgame
There’s an unpacking level in We Grew Up in War!📦Anna & her sister are settling in a new Ukrainian home, away from the war in the East. But it’s 2022 and they don’t know what’s coming...

Our demo is still up, we appreciate any feedback: store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/... #indiegame #indiegames
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
There’s an unpacking level in We Grew Up in War!📦Anna & her sister are settling in a new Ukrainian home, away from the war in the East. But it’s 2022 and they don’t know what’s coming...

Our demo is still up, we appreciate any feedback: store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/... #indiegame #indiegames
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Here’s a little tutorial for Matej’s level in our Steam demo that will be up for a little while more.

If you like what you see, give it a try and let us know what you think: store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/...

#indiegame #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #videogames
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Here’s a little tutorial for Matej’s level in our Steam demo that will be up for a little while more.

If you like what you see, give it a try and let us know what you think: store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/...

#indiegame #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #videogames
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We’ll be at GDS Prague!🎤Lukáš , alongside Melisa, Mak and Anna, will tell you all about challenges of making a game about children in war and give you a behind-the-scenes look.

Come say hi! You can prepare by playing the demo: store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/...

#gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
What it’s like to be a kid in war? We asked Jasminko, founder and director of the War Childhood Museum, who’s working with us on We Grew Up in War that also takes place in Sarajevo. Give our free demo a try and tell us what you think. store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/... #indiegame #gamedev #kids
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reposted by Ondrej from Charles Games 🐝
Excited to discover this studio and their new game (featuring writing by @yourkyotowife.bsky.social!) <3
We are so proud to officially announce our upcoming game We Grew Up in War in cooperation with War Childhood Museum. This narrative adventure explores the stories of children growing up during armed conflicts in Bosnia, Syria, and Ukraine. More at store.steampowered.com/app/3254380/...
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Meet Valerie from #Ukraine who dreams of being a singer. Her level is all about musical puzzles, composing the most harmonic melody. But can Valerie’s dreams survive the harsh reality of the Russian invasion?

Demo for We Grew Up in War out now: store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/... #indiegame
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Today is a big day: demo for We Grew Up in War about Ukrainian and Bosnian kids is *out*! 🥁 After years of development, meet Melisa, Valeria & Matej in 3 levels about displacement, fantasy, dreams & tragedy. Can’t wait for the feedback.

Play, review, share:
store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/...
November 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Important demo time. Our game shifting perspective on war (games), centering kids and their resilience, imagination and stories is now playable. Give it a go, let us know if we did it right. store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Today is a big day: demo for We Grew Up in War about Ukrainian and Bosnian kids is *out*! 🥁 After years of development, meet Melisa, Valeria & Matej in 3 levels about displacement, fantasy, dreams & tragedy. Can’t wait for the feedback.

Play, review, share:
store.steampowered.com/app/3743570/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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I worked on this!
Big News 🎉 Our hidden object Velvet 89 is 1 year old and just got an anniversary update: New city & major new content! So welcome to our in-game Brno & hunt for 18 new items that unlock exclusive archival materials.

Live now, mobile & desktop:
www.charlesgames.net/velvet-89-en

#indiegame #indiedev
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Reposted by Ondrej from Charles Games 🐝
🎮✌️Co se dělo v listopadu 1989 v Brně? Zahrajte si poslední aktualizaci hry Velvet 89, kterou vyvinulo studio @charlesgames.bsky.social @unikarlova.cuni.cz ve spolupráci se společností @peopleinneed.bsky.social
📌 www.ukforum.cz/rubriky/aktu...
Novinky hry Velvet 89: Když revoluce začala bujet v Brně
Hra Velvet 89 vzdělávacím způsobem připomíná události revolučních dnů v Československu od začátku listopadu roku 1989. Hru vyvinulo studio Charles Games, spadající pod Univerzitu Karlovu, ve spoluprác...
www.ukforum.cz
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
It’s Czech & Slovak Games Week and that means we have several We Grew Up in War streams scheduled. One is ongoing just now! Tune in and see our game in action, including the first look ever on the Ukrainian part of story.

-> store.steampowered.com/app/3254380/...

#indiegame #indiegames
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Big News 🎉 Our hidden object Velvet 89 is 1 year old and just got an anniversary update: New city & major new content! So welcome to our in-game Brno & hunt for 18 new items that unlock exclusive archival materials.

Live now, mobile & desktop:
www.charlesgames.net/velvet-89-en

#indiegame #indiedev
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Whoa, an unexpected surprise! 🎉 The city-building, heritage-based Playing Prague has just won the *best* mobile game award at Central & Eastern European Game Awards😳Thanks so much for this, thank you our dear partners and everyone who played it.
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Warm, sunny memories from Blon festival and Lithuanian Klaipėda ☀️ Our programmer Tereza travelled there to showcase Velvet 89 as part of Aware Game Awards! Thanks for inviting us, and check Blon out for a selection of great animated films and impactful games (including more Czech ones 💪).
October 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Congrats to @charlesgames.bsky.social ‬on their Gee! award win. The GEE! award recognizes excellence in educational game design.

"Velvet 89 is hidden-object game tells the story of ordinary people taking part in the peaceful demonstrations that changed the course of history."
August 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM