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Yawn Factory, Making Games Slowly on Purpose

yawnfactory.com ↗ · Personal Pages · score 84.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An independent game studio documenting the open-ended development of hoseboy, a climbing game about a boy, a fire hose, and a friend held at a mountain summit.

Why it surfaced

Yawn Factory has a strong voice and an unusually specific premise: point the water down and you go up. Its development notes are candid about unfinished systems, a pre-alpha status, and a protagonist who is currently a monkey—exactly the sort of small, strange project that benefits from being found early.

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