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Idle😴Tidal🌊Idyll📙
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Weaving folklore and fairy tales into an interconnected retro-RPG landscape.
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Having a cat who is hungry in the morning before you are awake be like:

(Actually a Persian demon from a book of #magic and #astrology) #folklore #mythology
A Persian demon licking sleeping people’s feet in bed
October 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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A byse (or bysen) in Götland is the gnome like spirit of someone obsessed with possessions and who acquired them unjustly. They wander the forest chopping wood and obsessing over property boundaries.

#LegendaryWednesday

Artwork by okpwka on DeviantArt

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A gnome like forest spirit with a red cap and a green beard
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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That gratifying moment when it starts feeling real. Really, really, real.

#retrogame #gamedev #indiegamedev #RPG #gameasset #idletidalidyll #skurugata #newlogowhodis
September 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Screenshot!
September 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Man, rocks are the worst. Anybody see a way around?

#retrogame #gamedev #indiegamedev #RPG #gameasset #idletidalidyll
September 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Website update today with a new, #free #eBook

Today we have the Life of Saint Guthlac, an 8th century hermit. Who amongst us hasn't wanted to get away from it all and live in a plundered barrow in an East Anglian swamp?

ebooks.idletidalidyll.com

#folklore #england #history #medieval #saint
A rocky landscape with a hermit
September 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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“No nothing is wrong, just walking the dog. Bugs? No, not a mosquito in sight 😅”

#retrogame #gamedev #indiegamedev #RPG #gameasset #idletidalidyll
August 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Well - in the course of being a #gamedev / #indiegamedev - I have been reading a lot of #fairytales and not all are widely available. So I'd like to do my part to make some of these grand old stories more widely available. People like #free #ebooks right?

ebooks.idletidalidyll.com

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The cover of an eBook, "The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains" by Friedrich de la Motte Foque
August 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Looks like a nice place to rest your weary bones. Should this gravesite have some flavor text or an encounter with a ghost?

#retrogame #gamedev #indiegamedev #RPG #gameasset #idletidalidyll
August 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Oh yeah. This guy is totally going to give you a quest. Good thing you brought a cat.

#retrogame #gamedev #indiegamedev #RPG #gameasset #screenshot #idletidalidyll
August 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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So what do we call this… half-cannibalism? Because I do believe the eldest kid means to eat those fish.

“The Mermaid Family” by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

#mermaid #fairytale
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Agnodice is the legendary first female doctor and midwife of Athens who disguised herself as a man. When her gender was discovered, the women of the city came to her defense because of her skill. The law against female physicians was then revoked.

#LegendaryWednesday #Folklore #Mythology
Agnodice, lifting her outer cloak to reveal that she in fact a woman
August 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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A snippet of "Balsam and Pure Wax" from the "Hundeprest" soundtrack! Composed by Guillaume Dufay, arranged by  #idletidalidyll

#gamemusic #gamesoundtrack #retrogame #gamedev #indiegamedev #RPG #gameasset
August 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I can almost make out Tom Hiddleston with flaming hair here as #Loki

"The Rhine's pure-gleaming children / Told me of their sorrow" by Arthur Rackham

#fairytale
August 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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It is true that a #goblin can be Good, Neutral, or Evil. But no matter who you are, if your designer forgets to give you a neck? You’ll probably end up being evil.

#pixelart #pixelartist #retrogame #gamedev #indiegamedev #RPG #gameasset #idletidalidyll
July 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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“Taking the Kids to Costco on a Friday, circa 1415.”

(Actually: Sir Isumbras at the Ford by John Everett Millais)

#HappyFriday #FolkyFriday #fairytale
July 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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What might you find in an abbey's tithe cellar? Well, vermin of course. ...wait! Can it still be called 'vermin' when it is this stinkin' cute?? 

#pixelart #pixelartist #retrogame #gamedev #indiegamedev #RPG #gameasset #idletidalidyll
A 16x16 pixellated rat!
July 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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“Little niece,” said Kühleborn, “forget not that I am here with thee as a guide”
Art by Arthur Rackham from Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

#fairytale
A young woman is riding a horse beside two-wizened old men
July 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM