James Coote

@jamesacoote.bsky.social

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Making indie games with Crystalline Green Ltd. https://store.steampowered.com/developer/CrystallineGreen

Animated image from a video game showing bird's eye view of temperate forest and grassland peninsula with snowy mountains at one end. The land is divided up into hexagons with drawn on black borders. Two of the hexagons contain board-game style tokens representing farm buildings in the game. Grey green gas clouds are shown coalescing over the peninsula, representing the spreading of the miasma (toxic gas cloud).
Picture of a video game UI: Background is a romantic-era oil on canvas painting of ancient greko-roman buildings. Foreground is a UI box decorated with beige doric columns. A triangular warning sign is at the top of the box, with a text description below warning of the effects of flashing lights on those with photosensitive epilepsy and other similar conditions and an option to disable flashing lights.
Footage from video strategy video game "Critias Empire". A birds eye view of a Mediterranean climate coastline divided up into hexagons with board-game style hexagonal tile markers. A bolt of blue lightning strikes one marker, spawning flames that spread to nearby forest and scrubland, leaving glowing red ashen landscape in the wake of the fires, wreathed in thick acrid black and grey smoke clouds.
Partial screenshot of a strategy style video game UI in a greko-roman style decorated with doric columns. Icons to represent in-game resources, such as a green apple for food and a grey stone block for stone, with their respective amounts next to each resource, are displayed along the top of the screen. Below and to the right is a picture of young women dressed in white togas and with flower garlands on their heads parading through an ancient greek city in an oil on canvas painted style. To the right is a list of boxes. Each box contains information on a different in-game festival that the player can choose. This includes a small square picture again in an oil on canvas classical painted style, as well as the name of the festival, a short description, various in-game bonus and cost stats related to each festival, a slider and a start button. The top festival is called Night of the Bull and features a bull parading through a greko-roman city at night. The second is called Farmers Feast and has a picture of a long white table covered in fresh food on platters and drink bottles of various sizes. Both festivals the start buttons are darkened to indicate they are disabled.
Steam 4X Fest written in orange on a black diamond patterned background. Below an inset image for the video game Critias Empire, of an ancient greek god looking down on a colonnade fronted temple with an erupting volcano in the background. At the bottom, the words "Demo Out Now"
Delightfully wonky looking strategy game tech tree