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APICO

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APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, + conserving bees!

Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture + floriculture.

#casual +#simulation +#sandbox

Snacktorio is a factory-cooking simulator where you must satisfy the appetites of unspeakable horrors... with food!

Build and manage sprawling networks of machines + pipes to mass produce delicious meals that can satiate the endless hunger of the beasts that are invading your home. Order Up!

#casual +#simulation +#management

A 'player-cedural' sci-fi dungeon crawler where YOU choose the next room. Options are rarely beneficial, with random traps, puzzles + enemies lying in wait.

Act quickly, for failure to manage your situation will cause a rapidly-spreading merciless threat to the entire facility itself - a Rift Breach

#action +#roguelike +#dungeoncrawler

Mudborne is a casual nature management sim about discovering + breeding frogs!

Awoken from hibernation you find your pond abandoned. Through the genetic keys of new species you must unlock the paths between the waking & dreaming worlds, and embark on a journey to restore lost populations.

#casual +#simulation +#sandbox

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TNgineers are a tiny UK-based indie studio run by Ell (ellraiser), with a passion for making niche menu management sims. Started in 2020, Ell always wanted to make video games - thanks to COVID of all things, a shift in working life meant they could actually make that dream a reality.

Ell works on the development and art for the games, while their brother, Jamie (metakitkat), works on the design and writing for some of the games. Their first game,APICO was released in 2022, with their second gameSnacktorio having a demo released in 2023. Ell is currently getting distracted by makingMudborne (a spiritual sequel of sorts to APICO) that had a new demo released in 2024 and is scheduled to release in early 2025, after which Snacktorio's full release will be worked on.

A chunk of all game sales is given to charity - for APICO it's bee, pollinator, and conservation charities, for Snacktorio this will be food-bank and homeless charities, for Mudborne, wetlands and marshland conservation.

If you have any issues, you can email them tosupport@tngineers.com. If you'd like to talk to Ell directly, you can message them on Discord (@ellraiser), or email them atell@tngineers.com

We want to try and do some good with our platform even if it's teeny tiny! As such we will be donating a chunk of all game profits to various charities.

Donations will be made sporadically, there's a bunch of charities we would like to work through as well as various charity events / streams / GDQ! ForAPICO, donations are made to bee, beekeeping, pollinator and conservation-based charities.

ForSnacktorio donations will be made to various food charities and foodbanks. ForMudborne it will be amphibian, wetlands, and environmental charities.

You can view all the donations made along with receiptshere.

Total money donated so far:34,131.53 USD

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Writing + Designmetakitkat
SoundtrackMothense
Game EngineGameMaker
Published ByWhitethorn Games

APICO - stylised 'APICO' - is inspired by our love of old Minecraft mods, as well as casual and crafting simulation games. We wanted to make something relaxing, intriguing, and semi-educational - just don't think about the Water Bees!

Development was started in June 2020, with a first demo being released at the end of August 2020. The game was released onMay 20th, 2022, to coincide withWorld Bee Day. There are3 major content updates planned to be released. The first of these,I Can't Beelieve It's Not Butterflies!, was released at the end of 2022.

Bees are integral to our gameplay, as they are to our real-world ecosystem. As part of ourcharity efforts we will be donating a portion of the money we make towards national and international bee, beekeeping, pollination + conservation charities.

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Development + Artellraiser
Writing + Designmetakitkat
SoundtrackMothense
Game EngineLOVE
Published ByTNgineers

Snacktorio - is inspired by our love of old Minecraft mods, as well as factory games like Satisfactory and Factorio (who actually blessed the name choice!). We're obsessed with automation games but hated that the theme was also just generic sci-fi, so instead decided to make the theme about mass-producing food so you could literally 'feed the beast'.

Development was started in 2021 on and off alongsideAPICO, once APICO was finally released focus shifted fully to getting a demo finished. In 2023 the game was moved to the LOVE engine, and a demo was released in the fall.

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Game EngineGameMaker
Published ByTNgineers

Rift Breach is a 'player-cedural' sci-fi dungeon crawler where YOU choose the next room. Options are rarely beneficial, with random traps, puzzles + enemies lying in wait. Act quickly, for failure to manage your situation will cause a rapidly-spreading merciless threat to the entire facility itself...

Rift Breach was asmall game made in 3 weeks as part of a personal game jam by Ell. Taking inspiration from roguelikes, dungeon crawlers, and metroidvanias, they wanted to experiment with having the player themselves decide the layout of the dungeon, and how that would effect 'keys' being a resource.

Currently there is just ademo available, but Ell might revisit the concept in future!

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Game EngineLOVE
Published ByFuture Friends

Mudborne started as asmall week-long gamejam for #FletchFest, originally as a joke about 'what if APICO but frog'

It has since turned into a spiritual successor of sorts to APICO, with a similar menu system and 'collect them all' style gameplay - however Mudborne instead focuses on genetic manipulation and generational puzzles to create and discover all sorts of frog species, who's genetic keys unlock paths between the waking and dreaming worlds...

The game is still in development, with a release aimed for March 20th 2025 (World Frog Day!). You can play the demo on Steam or Itch.io.