It's Ponpai!

@ponpai.bsky.social

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I'm a solo dev making a funny little game about befriending weird creatures! Check out my prototype: https://ponpai.itch.io/ponpai-prototype She/Her

Screenshot from the game Froggonit. A pixelated frog looks surprised at the camera. They are surrounded by trees and a statue of a large bearded frog.
A tree creature with orange leaves and white bark with black stripes. The leaves part to resemble an evil-looking face. Two large branches come from either side of this face, resembling arms with pom-pom-like hands made of more leaves. Sorry if that was confusing.
A Medusa-like person with sunglasses and a bright, trendy outfit. She's walking forward, swaying her hips like on a catwalk.
Line art for 24 sprites of a Medusa-type character, in two different outfits, each one facing four directions. The colouring process is very early on.
A grey punching bag with a face and wiry limbs. They're wearing bright red boxing gloves and green shoes. They sport a black eye, and their nose is made out of stuffing.
A sideways acorn with eyes and green boots. The "bottom" of the acorn looks like a pointy nose.
A pale purple floating blob creature with metallic grey chunks attached to their body. They have a light blue tendril coming out of their left side. They're wearing a traffic light like glasses.
Plushie birds on display platforms. On the left are two kakapo, and on the right are three kiwis. They're all wearing blue shirts.
Icelug, a flat sheet of snow with icicles coming from their back. They're saying: "I used to be in the business of drug smuggling. That all went south when people started whining about "It's too expensive!" and "This isn't illegal you can find this at any pharmacy!" Narcs."
Their body resembles a cartoony submarine with a clear water-filled dome on the front. Inside the water is an eyeball (attached to something further inside) and some loose teeth. The submarine has a large duck bill hanging on the bottom, and two long legs coming out of a compartment in the butt.
Jasmine, the protagonist, laughing. Her teeth are showing in a smile, and her eyebrows are scrunched up with her eyes closed. Her arms are folded. Overall, she looks confident.
Godot's file search. I've searched the word "happy", and a handful of sprites labelled "[name]_happy_talk.png" are listed.
A 3x3 grid of indie game capsule arts. From top to bottom, left to right: BlobCat, Catgirl, Kabuto Park, Howl, Jamhouse, Hero Hours Contract, The Elephant Collection, #BLUD, and Socrates Jones Pro Philosopher.
The game logo, "It's Ponpai!" is in the center of the image, white text on a multicoloured cloud. A bunch of colourful cartoon creatures are scattered around the background. The bottom of the image reads "[Gameplay Prototype]".
An in-editor screenshot of a boring beige room filled with a simple maze of filing cabinets and loose papers. There's an elevator in the middle. In the corner is a massive spider web with some paper caught in it.
A beige creature that resembles a slipper. They have a blue shoelace (tied up, but still dragging on the floor behind them), a single yellow eye, and a fluffy lip.
The same image as the quoted post, showing an Indie Game Vibe Check triangle with the three points labelled [Enpoisoned], 'Misty Cube', and "Plumpy's Big Clumpy". I've added It's Ponpai! very heavily to the Plumpy point, right above Untitled Goose Game.
A Heathcliff comic. Heathcliff is riding a tank labelled "meat", with a matching helmet and flag that both say "meat". Children are cheering him on. Two workers at a "meat" store look on, one saying "Children love the Meat Tank."
A purple blocky creature wearing a blue sleeveless jacket. They have red fly-like eyes, and off-white horns and teeth. Their mouth is always open, and they have a sharp, jagged tongue.
A screenshot of Little Problems: A Cozy Detective Game. The player is in the middle of figuring out what's happening by filling in empty spaces with words. To the top, it reads: "Amber [blank] room [blank] for 2 hour(s). [blank] [blank] and Chris Hoffmann came to another group who reserved after 6 hour(s). They should [blank] his room [blank] instead. Sophie's phone was charged so [blank] shared it with his power bank." Some of these words are filled in by the player. To the right, we see different faces, each face with two blank slots to their side. The player has filled in a few names, such as Samuel Diaz and Chris Hoffmann. To the bottom, there's a selection of four video stills the player must sort through, titled "We finally finished the group project!!! Here are the chosen interview clips" Videos 1 and 4 are picked out, while videos 2 and 3 are still blank. To the left is a list of words the player has collected.
A woman with large circular eyes and greying hair. She has a pale yellow bowtie, pale red vest, and black pants. In one pose, she is bending her arms at the elbows with a perfectly circular mouth. In the other pose, she is gripping the sides of her head and sweating profusely.
A blue sea slug with many short and fat tendrils coming off their body. In the center is the largest and fattest tendril, coloured yellow. In the front, two of the tendrils are a bit longer than normal, with yellow tips, resembling eye stalks.
White rook from chess
Playable character from Twin Shot Deluxe. Its body is short and white with stubby limbs. It has a chicken head, as well as angel wings on the back. It's wearing a belt across its chest.
Drawing of a website. All the text is scribbles. The main article is a picture of a human and a creature that's mostly mouth, followed by two lines of actual article before getting cut off by another ad. This ad is mostly obscured by a box at the bottom asking about cookies. There are two banner ads to the sides. On the left is a sexy foxgirl with a mystical logo above her, and on the right is a grey house (helpfully labeled "HOUSE") for sale for $49,999,999.
Gastropaid, a yellow snail with a suit and tie. Instead of eye stalks, they have long hands, currently with their fingers interlinked. Dollar bills are falling out the bottom of their shell.
The far right end of the underpass. From right to left, the mural goes from space, to the clouds, to the birds, to the mountains, to a forest.
A pale insect with a flower pot for a head. The pot holds two yellow flowers with white pollen, looking like eyestalks. The rim of the pot lifts up to reveal sharp teeth and a long snake-like tongue.
A golden pole, with sort of a microphone stand for a head. Each end of their rod-shaped head has a single eyeball that can come off (attached to a string). They have four feet with black boots.
A creature rolling on a single wheel. They have a head styled after an American football helmet, with a giant spike on the top. They also have a blade coming from their chest.
Jumpy Ghostface from Hero 108. He is a humanoid white rabbit with black eyes and red pupils, and a scar over his head. He looks mortified.
Favourite game: Yo-kai Watch 3 Best story: Hypnospace Outlaw Favourite art style: Kirby's Epic Yarn Biggest personal impact: Yo-kai Watch Best combat: Cassette Beasts Overhated: Pikmin 3 Underrated: Yo-kai Watch 2 Overrated: Super Metroid Needs a remake: Zombies Ate My Neighbors Criminally overlooked: Catgirl Favourite protagonist: Pikmin Favourite antagonist: Plants vs Zombies Best soundtrack: Mad Rat Dead Best multiplayer: Snipperclips Not usually my thing, but...: Slay the Spire Turn my brain off: Puyo Puyo Tetris Best with friends: Sam & Max Save The World Best retro game: WarioWare, Inc: Mega Microgame$ Nostalgic childhood game: Wii Play Game everyone should play: Achievement Unlocked 2
A white circle with legs, dot eyes, and a happy open smile. They look particularly scribbly and adorable.
A purple space suit creature. Their head, with one eye and two antenna, is floating in a glass sphere. They have no legs, instead hovering above the ground using sci-fi-esque rings.
Jasmine is throwing up into a toilet, going "Hurk." Nico is rubbing her back sympathetically, and Pendle is holding up her hair.
Pendle, a small round penguin with a blue bowtie and hat, is now drawn in a vaguely 80's or 90's artstyle.
A golden humanoid, resembling an Oscar award. They are wearing a red cape and a golden laurel. They have no eyes, but very shiny teeth. They're holding small golden statues.
Digidoyen: "I'm running the simulation on how hot we can make the coffee before it melts a human's throat together!"
Litereen, standing next to some kind of alien computer: "I'll be honest, now that I've tried a keyboard and mouse, it's hard to go back to just a sploinky and some squididdles."
Two talk sprites for Litereen, a green humanoid frog-like alien. Instead of a face, they have a visor built into their head. The one on the left is scared and sweaty, while the one on the right is folding their arms and looking slightly downwards.
Oculot: I like to re-read all the safety instructions each time I go in here. Means I have to work less, and no one can complain!
A back sprite that is hard to parse. It has a red head with a metal spike on top, a pale red body, and a black bit at the bottom in place of legs.
Hemoman: I'm trying to see if they have any anti-goop seat pads. I keep leaving a stain on the seat, and I'm tired of using baking paper.
A strange ghost creature. Their head is light blue and bird-like, and instead of eyes they have open mouths with vampire teeth. They have a red collar leading into their slug-like body. Their back is covered in red polka dots.
Tweet text: My 3-month-old son is now TWICE as big as when he was born. He's on track to weight 7.5 trillion pounds by age 10 Pic ID: left photo, a man is holding a newborn. Right photo, the same man is holding the same (much larger) baby.
Leggly from Yo-kai Watch. He's a flat black blob with eyes peeking out under a straw hat(?), with long white legs coming underneath. He is wearing pink high heels and carrying a stick and bundle.
An orange flapjack octopus (octopus with short limbs). They have two yellow goat-like eyes. The upper half of their head is wrinkled in the same way a brain would be.
Two humans. There's a goth/emo human on the left, with a black hoodie and black hair. They have a red popsicle on their hoodie. On the right is a fat human in a grey argyle vest. They have poofy brown hair and green jewellery.
A drawing of a blue-haired girl making a silly grossed-out face.
Two black boards, from the first creature, stacked on top of each other height-wise. There are no neon lights. The top board's legs are repurposed as arms, still coming from the back of the board.
The neon woman from the previous creature is now without a backboard, instead put against a scribbly black blob. There are two of them, fused at the hip like CatDog. They are sharing a martini glass.
A neon light sign depicting a woman in a martini glass. She has yellow blobby hair, and the lower half of her body spills out of the glass like a liquid. The sign has robotic legs.
A round, squat humanoid figure that's entirely white. They have perfectly circular eyes, stubby limbs, and an oval on their belly.
Presepod: "Yeah, baby, I'm drawing a t-rex!" (In the background, we can see a cartoon of a brontosaurus and a tree in a drawing program)
A cartoony fairy with a green leafy dress and two leaves for wings. They have blonde hair peeking out of their red bonnet. They have a long, dark green tail, and two sock-like dark green feet.
A wide cat with a straight mouth. It has a clown afro and red nose edited on.
A slimy finger-like protrusion, coloured a very pale pink/lavender. Their lower end is extending into a portal in the ground. Their "face" is a single small dot.
Several characters from the mentioned upcoming indie games. A woman with messy hair and work clothes is discussing a nightmarish co-worker to a worm in a tie. A frog is serving tea, but is distracted by the chase scene to the right. A mermaid, a teal blob, and a woman with purple overalls holding a heart block are running from a multi-armed snake monster. There is also a snail with an acorn for a shell present.
A green mermaid with dark grey wings and gold piercings. They're holding a microphone, and making the kind of face you make when you tell a really corny joke.
A blocky woman in a crumpled white coat. She has a messy blue tie, goggles on her forehead, and a toothy smile. Her hair is in a beehive with a single black streak.