2023 RECAP

During 2023 Mellow Minds released 4 games!

Ticked Off!, an April Fools Day game we had planned to release on April 1st but couldn't quite meet the deadline and had to release it on the early April 2nd. You play Minesweeper but you always lose.

(First appearance of Ticked Off! and Ticky)

Into the Crabyss, a game that was made for the Kaijujam 2 over on itch.io. You play as Crabulore, a little crab with a dream of becoming a city destroying kaiju! Originally it was uploaded to itch but was later updated and uploaded to Newgrounds.

(Progress Shot of Into the Crabyss)

Hauling Ass, a game where you play as 2 coworkers competing in the ass hauling factory for a raise. This game has become the most successful and popular Mellow Minds game at release! It was also the first Mellow Minds game to hit the frontpage! (Thank you for playing the game!)

(First appearance of Rump and Cheek for Hauling Ass)

Attack of Mechaningale, a game made for the Mechjam held on itch.io. You play as Mechaningale to destroy a city. It's a classic arcade style high score game. This game was originally posted to itch months ago but Octopus updated the game which helped it become the official second Mellow Minds games to hit the frontpage! On Christmas no less! (Thank you for playing the game!)

(Front facing Mechaningale by Octopus)

2024 PRECAP

In the year 2024, we at Mellow Minds have plans to continue to improve our games!

Pixel Day 2024, over the past year we have been working on a game for Pixel Day. Originally we had planned to release it on Pixel Day 2023 but we found out we had too much work to do and eventually we missed the deadline, but, this Pixel Day 2024 we plan on releasing it! Keep your eyes peeled for this Pixel Day 2024.

(Teaser for the Pixel Day 2024 game)

4/20, we hope to release another game this 4/20! We've already got a lot planned out for the game and hope you guys will enjoy it's release!

(Teaser for the 4/20 game)

Squirrel Game, this game doesn't have a release date yet but we're aiming for a 2024 release.

(Old drawing of the squirrel from the Squirrel Game)

UNRELATED TO MELLOW MINDS

Confetti Man, I have plans to release a full 16 page web comic of my super hero Confetti Man! I hope to make a full series of comics out of this Confetti Man character. I wanted to release this comic for the #sweetsixteencomic comic here on newgrounds but couldn't quite finish it.

Art, I plan on continuing to improve my art and I want to branch out to other mediums of art this year and try out some new programs.

Music, I'd like to get into music this year but i haven't done much looking into it so who knows we'll see.

THANK YOU ALL FOR A GOOD 2023 AND HAVE A HAPPY 2024!!!

I have officially reached 100 fans! Thank you to all 100 of you!!! 💋

It has OFFICIALLY been 1 year since the release of the first Mellow Minds game, Tomato Clicker. This post serves as a way for me to post some other behind the scenes development doodles that I never shared on my Twitter.

TOMATO CLICKER

Originally Tomato Clicker was going to be in a collection of 52 microgames (some of our future games might also have been from this collection). We had started working on another game as a class project but the development of that game was rather slow, so, one day after work I decided I wanted to release something soon and began working.

First ever sighting of Tomato Clicker

I figured Tomato Clicker wouldn't take more than a month or 2 to develop but my work ethic is fairly abysmal so it took about 5 months.

Cut Harlequin Tomato made by The Red Weirdo

I would like to thank all of Mellow Minds for helping me with the process of making Tomato Clicker that includes Ape Jones, The Red Weirdo, Octopus, and Mighty Oreo

Concept drawing for the credits before we added fan made tomatoes

The idea for the Tomato to change each click was taken from Pico Clicker by Jack. The idea for funny cartoon sound effects was just because I thought it'd be cool, originally it was going to just be a clicking sound but I thought sound effects would be more interesting.

Photo of Tomato Clickers first form

Some behind the scenes for the Newgrounds Direct Trailer. I forgot to do 1 part so we didn't end up submitting the trailer until the fairly last second. LUCKILY the directors of that direct were quite lenient on submission so we were perfectly fine.

Tomato Clicker thumbnail sketch

The rest of this post will be dedicated to various behind the scenes things but I'd like to thank YOU for either playing Tomato Clicker or reading this. Mellow Minds wouldn't be possible without freaks like you!

Accidentally made it +2 when it's supposed to be +1

Concept of the hard mode teaser (still working on the hard mode)

First sighting of the iconic "From the creators of" by The Red Weirdo

Mspaint sketch of the tomatonomicon

I am the user of the day official :D

Was working on this game all day yesterday and wanted to release it for April Fool's but was too late

Play the game here

We made a new game for the Mid Jam hosted by NinjaMuffin99

Our new game Web Surfer is out now!

GO PLAY IT also FOLLOW @mellow_gamesLOL ON TWITTER FOR UPDATES ON FUTURE GAMES

Mellow Minds has officially released our 2nd game

GO PLAY IT STUPID

TOMATO CLICKER UPDATE 2 IS OUT NOW

We added medals, reading, and a teaser for the future hard difficulty GO HAVE FUN

PLAY THE GAME HERE STUPID

HOLY CRAP!!!

If you've been paying attention to my (or the Mellow Minds) Twitter you'll know,

TOMATO CLICKER IS GETTING AN UPDATE

BUT that's not all, it's getting 2 new updates

We hope you enjoy the new updates to come :)