LOOK OUT! IT'S ESCAPED! It's Friday! Inform your local civil defence authorities immediately! It's time for Friday @ Second Half #64! #indiegamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev secondhalf.games/news/2026-05...

Engine bits! We just gained support for in-engine text blocks for labelling things in-game. I'm surprised we've waited this long for such a simple (and useful!) feature #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev

Greetings, heroes! Friday is upon us once more. Summer beckons, and the heat with it, but things are heating up at Second Half too! #indiegamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev secondhalf.games/news/2026-04...

Well met, friends! Undoubtedly, it is Friday again! 8 out of 10 dentists say Friday is the most whimsical day of the week. The other 2 really need a break. #indiegamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev secondhalf.games/news/2026-04...

Howdy, it's been awhile! We're back and ready with Saturday @ Second Half #42 - #58 — Ground Control to Major Tom! #indiegamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev secondhalf.games/news/2026-02...

Saturday! Robots have taken over the world! They're new, shiny, untextured! Also, get a sneak peak at MEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80: THE MUSICAL. Two truths and a lie only in Saturday @ Second Half #36 —Rigor Vitae! #indiegamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev secondhalf.games/news/2025-09...

Saturday! Robots have taken over the world! They're new, shiny, untextured! Also, get a sneak peak at MEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80: THE MUSICAL. Two truths and a lie only in Saturday @ Second Half #36 —Rigor Vitae! #indiegamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev secondhalf.games/news/2025-09...

Lucien's Zoo scene expands, as it must! #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev

Watch out for drills!! #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev

You ever play a game where your character hitbox is detailed enough to get stuck like THIS? #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev

‪ Happy Saturday! Come visit the wonderful trashfront vistas of Florida IX! Smell the freshly imported air and NEW! towering condominiums. It's Saturday @ Second Half #35 — Visit Beautiful Florida IX! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday secondhalf.games/news/2025-09...

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Happy Saturday! The team has been hard at work on the game and hiring for the studio. Read about all that AND MORE in Saturday @ Second Half #34 — Active Activatables Actively Activate! #screenshotsaturday #indiegamedev #gamedev secondhalf.games/news/2025-09...

Happy Saturday! We've been feeling nostalgic and reflective this week. If you want to read about a game that is NOTHING like Silksong, then check out this update about OUR GAME! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev secondhalf.games/news/2025-09...

Two weeks ago, we posted an opening for an environment artist @ms80.space. As of today, we've had 1,270 applicants. There are so many talented artists applying to our little indie team. It's inspiring to see interest in our team and also heartbreaking to see how rough the industry is right now. :(

YOU GET AN ENERGY SHIELD! AND YOU GET AN ENERGY SHIELD! AND YOU— Ehem. Excuse me. It's Saturday! And that means it's time for Saturday @ Second Half #32 — The Anti-Attrition Campaign! #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday secondhalf.games/news/2025-08...

YOU GET AN ENERGY SHIELD! AND YOU GET AN ENERGY SHIELD! AND YOU— Ehem. Excuse me. It's Saturday! And that means it's time for Saturday @ Second Half #32 — The Anti-Attrition Campaign! #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday secondhalf.games/news/2025-08...

Hey if you're any kind of director on a team and you *have* to lay someone off, maybe be a human about it and talk to them and express your thanks for their incredibly hard work and wonderful art Why do I have to say this

Hiring, scheming, and the team trapped in an eternal Wednesday! All that, and more in Saturday @ Second Half #31 — Not Wednesday. secondhalf.games/news/2025-08... #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 ARE YOU 🫵 A 3D ENVIRONMENT ARTIST? WE ARE HIRING: 🖼️3D ENVIRONMENT ARTIST 🚀STYLIZED SCI-FI GAME 📜FULL-TIME CONTRACT 🌎REMOTE, NA/EST TIMEZONE 💵$25/HR - $35/HR USD APPLY TO THIS JOB OPENING! APPLY! APPLY! #hiring #gamedev #indiedev secondhalf.games/jobs/env-art...

Harry wrote us all a wonderful summary on SATURDAY of the warpath we've been on and nobody ever put it onto social media. Whoops! Here's Saturday @ Second Half #30 — Let Me Paint You A Picture #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday secondhalf.games/news/2025-08...

I woke up today to a folder on Harry's desk labeled "SSH29: DO NOT PUBLISH". He's on a train right now, though, so no one can stop me!! Here's Saturday @ Second Half #29 — Trash Planet, Population: You #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday secondhalf.games/news/2025-08...

Offering publishers free rides on the horse we’ll buy after the game sells one trillion copies #gamedev #incredibletipsforindiestryingtofindapublisherthatlikeshorses

Did you know that the developers of Valheim bought a horse after the game's success? I bought us a horse, too! Just kidding. I lied. I'm sorry. To make it up to you, here's Saturday @ Second Half #28 — Gift Horse! #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday secondhalf.games/news/2025-08...

Tired of slow, OUTDATED shipping? Tired of your products WITHERING on the VINES of SPACE?! ACCELERATE your logistic ops with BASILISK WORMTUNNEL, the latest Mercury Energy Conglomerate-approved wormhole travel catalyst! Visit a showroom TODAY! #gamedev #indiegamedev #space

A wormhole has opened in the middle of our office and threatens to swallow our studio staff. Saturday is more important than our lives though, so enjoy Saturday @ Second Half #27 — Yeet Into Wormhole before it's too late #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday secondhalf.games/news/2025-07...

Wow! Look at that 'load game' screen! Doesn't that make you want to save a game, and then later, load it? MEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80 might be the game for you! #gamedev #indiegamedev #amazing

Time marches on! Though it isn't Saturday anymore everywhere, you can still pretend if you come read our newsletter! Here's Saturday @ Second Half #26 — Setting Boundaries secondhalf.games/news/2025-07... #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday

Time marches on! Though it isn't Saturday anymore everywhere, you can still pretend if you come read our newsletter! Here's Saturday @ Second Half #26 — Setting Boundaries secondhalf.games/news/2025-07... #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday

By the way, if you enjoy these updates, join us on Discord! We share game updates multiple times a week, and it's a great chance to peek behind the curtain and bug our team. discord.gg/A9GHQGNhJX

Saturday’s back, ALRIGHT! Following last week’s on-time holiday photo intermission, we’re here on Saturday with news about our game! That’s right, it’s Saturday @ Second Half #25 — Sky High #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday secondhalf.games/news/2025-07...

A special edition of Saturday @ Second Half, not just because I published it on Monday, but because it's got nice pictures from the trip I've been on for the last week! Here's Saturday @ Second Half #24 — Intermission IV #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiedev secondhalf.games/news/2025-07...

Saturday! It's Saturday! Tell the world, it's Saturday! It's time for Saturday @ Second Half #23 — Sector 80 Play Place. #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday secondhalf.games/news/2025-06...

Hey! We're YES-IX and we're pleased to announce new units for sale at our EXCLUSIVE Dowijuya condominium complex! Nestled in the heart of the neotropical planet Florida IX, there's nowhere better to be! Book a tour before it's too late — these units won't last! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Hey! We're YES-IX and we're pleased to announce new units for sale at our EXCLUSIVE Dowijuya condominium complex! Nestled in the heart of the neotropical planet Florida IX, there's nowhere better to be! Book a tour before it's too late — these units won't last! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

From KrillTech's founder, Vanadium Krill, an aspiring rapper: Capacitors have the capacity to incapacitate your carapace! Their capacitance capitulates to no captains; even the courageous fear their concussive capability! Buy a new KrillTech brand Capacitor now! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Do you like Jumping? MEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80 will feature Jumping. Here at Second Half Games, we are big fans of Jumping. The Jumping will be very good in MEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80. Get ready to get Jumped! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamdev

Do you like Jumping? MEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80 will feature Jumping. Here at Second Half Games, we are big fans of Jumping. The Jumping will be very good in MEANWHILE IN SECTOR 80. Get ready to get Jumped! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamdev

Welcome to the Third Schwartz-Mocker Friendship Dam! Here, you can learn all about the Schwartz-Mocker War of 3171, the Schwartz-Mocker War of 3179, and the Schwartz-Mocker War of 3190! Don't forget to checkout the galaxy-famous DMZ Deliberation Room (oooh!) #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Welcome to the Third Schwartz-Mocker Friendship Dam! Here, you can learn all about the Schwartz-Mocker War of 3171, the Schwartz-Mocker War of 3179, and the Schwartz-Mocker War of 3190! Don't forget to checkout the galaxy-famous DMZ Deliberation Room (oooh!) #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Come join us on Discord to: - Chat with us extremely cool developers! - Get multiple updates a week about the game - Shower us with praise and love because making games is hard discord.gg/A9GHQGNhJX

Happy Saturday! Listen, if you're reading this — there isn't much time! Before it's too late, you need to— OH NO. NO NO NOOO, IT'S HERE It's Saturday @ Second Half #22 — In Which Our Heroes Have a New Steam Page #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #rustlang secondhalf.games/news/2025-06...

Our team has started experimenting with procedurally generated trash piles! That's right, one of the things humans are best at — accumulating trash and ignoring it — is now being automated. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Happy First Saturday of Pride Month! We've got a fresh new post for everyone: Saturday @ Second Half #20. secondhalf.games/news/2025-06... #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday

Saturday! Check out our latest post, Saturday @ Second Half #19 — Playing in The Junkyard Check out the playable prototype of our game's intro level that we built this week! secondhalf.games/news/2025-05... #gamedev #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday

Happy Saturday! THIS IS Saturday @ Second Half #18 — Wake Up and Smell Trash Check out some sick new concept art and read about some progress on our enemy AI! secondhalf.games/news/2025-05... #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

An item appears! #gamedev #indiedev

waking up in the trash heap #gamedev #indiedev #scifi

Becoming a killing machine with GIMBALLED LASERS #gamedev #indiedev

Saturday @ Second Half happened — but I forgot to give anyone else the keys to the Bluesky account to talk about it! Here it is: secondhalf.games/news/2025-05... #indiedev #gamedev