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BlueSpruce
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Social scientist, data scientist, cozy gamer, solarpunk, game dev. 40-something biracial woman, she/her.

Solo developing Cave Oasis at Shylake, a hopeful futuristic […]

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I just read Sim Kern’s novel The Free People’s Village. It was captivating and thought-provoking, think it should be on any #solarpunk reading list.

It’s speculative fiction set in an alternate present-day Houston, if Gore had won the US presidency in 2000 and […]

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The image is a photo of a paperback book, stacked on top of another barely visible dark-colored book, on a dark-colored table. The book on top has a deep salmon color, almost red, with an ink drawing of an anarchist/punk on the left, swinging a baseball bat at a machine on the right, which looks like a robot dog with sharp blades on a pincer claw. At the top of the screen (the book cover's top right), the book title is shown in black block letters: "The Free People's Village", and below that (to the upper right in the image) "a novel" and then the author's name, "Sim Kern".
January 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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I've opened up the underwater lake scene in my game's demo! You can now swim and forage for seaweed and aquatic fungi in the lake depths. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3689220/Cave_Oasis_at_Shylake/

#indiegame #pcgaming #videogames #gamedev #underwater
December 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The free public demo for Cave Oasis at Shylake is now live!

“So it’s like stardew but weird?” (from TikTok) Pretty much! Or as I like to put it, “eco-socialist alien Stardew”.

Or, with a few more words, it’s a sustainable moon town farm/life sim, with […]

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Screenshot from the game Cave Oasis at Shylake, showing the main character walking along a path through town under a large dome ahead at the top of the screen. On the right there's a snack shop with outdoor seating, and on the left there's a ramp to an outdoor elevator going to the lower level of the cave. A tree root bridge is visible ahead, along with other plants and buildings. The player character is shown walking between two rows of hydroponic planters in the game's greenhouse. On the right, the planters have fully or partially grown crops, including several planters full of corn. An icon appears above one of the planters, showing that the player can "Open Control Panel". On the left, the planters are freshly planted with seedlings, and several of them have glowy exclamation points hovering above, showing that they need nutrients. The player character is walking along a path down by the lake at the edge of town. Several extraterrestrial NPCs are visible ahead, and one is calling out "Hi Lou!" to great the player, with an icon indicating that the player can respond ("Say hi to Finnly"). There is a building on the right, with grasses and wildflowers at its base, more plants and buildings ahead, and the lake is on the left with a couple pillars of the boat dock just visible. The player character is approaching the bar in the town's lounge. An extraterrestrial NPC bartender is behind the bar, available to chat. Several other NPCs are sitting in chairs talking to each other. The lighting is low, since it's nighttime outside, there are boxy chandeliers hanging from above and a few extraterrestrial potted plants are visible. There is a shop tablet on the bar, and drinks visible behind the bartender.
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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There’s a Steam charity event going on right now called Games Against Living Miserably, raising money for suicide prevention.

A lot of wholesome indie games are participating, many of them on sale, with a portion of proceeds going to fund a hotline and related […]

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This is an event poster, with a large icon of a game controller on the right, and words on the left that read "We're taking part in Games Against Living Miserably, 8-15 Sep 2025" and the logos for the two hosting organizations, "Campaign Against Living Miserably" and "Curve Games," below.
September 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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New #gamedev blog post about crafting and cooking in my game: https://bluespruceinteractive.com/blog/5-crafting-cooking-mix-match/

The idea is that almost everything needs to be growable, harvestable, reusable, and compostable, to keep up a self-renewing cycle […]

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The top half of the images shows 3D art for various baked goods. Left to right, there are three different colored loaves of bread, then three trios of muffins or cupcakes, then three trios of different colored cookies, then three slices of pie. The bottom half shows 3D art for a variety of craftable tables, some sharing the same design for top or legs, all in different colors.
September 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I’ve added bikes, scooters and skateboards to my solarpunk video game. You can even ride the bikes on high wires strung between the cliffs overlooking the main cave!

There are root bridges and pedal-powered outdoor elevators too, trying to get around the 3D […]

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July 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM