I never doubted @smestorp.bsky.social's ability to make a good game, but I'm blown away by how good 868-BACK is. I'm 40 hours in, and the game *still* feels as surprising as when I first booted it up.

what's up ya'll, there is a very sophisticated hack going around now that has made it's way into the game audio space, hit one very prominent games-adjacent internet composer, and has gotten one of my friends If someone asks you to play minecraft, do not, that is not your friend, that is a hacker

What could possibly go wrong?

📢 OUT NOW!!! 🔎 What's the Password? is a minimalistic puzzle game where you decode 4-digit passwords. Featuring over 100 puzzles! Steam store.steampowered.com/app/4095490 iOS apps.apple.com/us/app/whats... Android play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Fun fact: 6 months ago, someone messaged me because they thought Genshin Impact was copying my game. My response was as follows:

Please recommend a good homepage for a creator. I’ll do one too. Please repost.

Huge thanks to Icely Puzzles for covering Parallel Dungeons! youtu.be/NPqRpLk5Dug

I made a small 1-level puzzle game about recursive bubbles! A variation on the mechanics of Patrick's Parabox, COCOON, Recursed, etc. I wanted to explore letting you easily visualize and modify the nested structure of rooms. Hope you enjoy! :) patrickgh3.itch.io/bubble-sort

My local game dev community helps make a zine, I think the most recent issue is fantastic. indyindies.itch.io/indy-indies-...

New blog post: a story about a sound effect and how it relates to culture. nuvobloggo.medium.com/monthly-blog...

Keep an eye out for my next monthly blog post. It's dropping in less than 24 hours and is definitely the wildest blog post I've written.

Sometimes when writing a Steam review, I worry that it's too short or isn't well written. But then I think "As a developer, would I mind if a review is too short?" and the answer is "generally, no."

Mixed feelings on this one. On the one hand, I'm sure that there's a lot of effort put into this game over the course of years by passionate developers. On the other hand, Level 5's attitude on GenAI tools make it hard for me to be excited for this.

The character artist for Parallel Dungeons just released a really fun game! (also, I wrote about ten lines of code for it.) In addition, people who own Parallel Dungeons can get a 10% discount on Jamhouse using the bundle we just launched.

I've been meaning to draw more, so I forced myself to sketch out a silly comic. It's also set in the 5/N Step Steve universe because why not.

Artist's first episode has been added to the free demo of Parallel Dungeons: epicpikaguy.itch.io/parallel-dun... In addition, the full game is 20% off on Steam right now as part of the Spring sale.

Pleased to announced that I am adding DLSS 5 to 5 Step Steve!

Parallel Dungeons is a very original take on the roguelike genre, give it a shot

Version 1.3 of Parallel Dungeons brings a new character: Artist! All four of his episodes are now available to everyone who owns the game. Players who don't own the game will be able to play the first Artist episode in the soon to be updated demo. store.steampowered.com/news/app/405...

The new update for Parallel Dungeons is done, but I need some more time to test and release it. Kind of awkward as we're now at the point where I said I was going to be taking a break, but I guess things like this happen.

New blog post, in which I talk about the upcoming new character for Parallel Dungeons. Also, how I made a "you can't lose" ability balanced. nuvobloggo.medium.com/monthly-blog...

The Ace Attorney series is in such a weird spot right now. Capcom is still supporting and promoting it, the audience for it is definitely still there, but we haven't gotten a new (non remake) game in years.

I feel this, and my advice for marketing is as follows: become the kind of person that is an uptick in the quality of life for as many people as possible. Then people might want to play your game.

Still working on 🐐💬🧩

In this unique roguelike with goofy enemies and abilities, you have to try to stay alive across multiple universes!

Seems like we'll need to get really good at recycling electronic components.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

I got an email, apparently from a streamer, asking me for a key for Parallel Dungeons to review. It linked to a Twitch channel, so I went to it, and...

Jamhouse finally got a Steam page! Let's gooooooooo!

Bad news: Notepad++ was hacked for a solid period of time and there's a chance you might have an infected copy. You might want to update. notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacke...

Doing some organizational work for my "review one game a day" challenge. I plan on keeping this going until I run out of Steam games that I want to leave a positive review on. Which... might take a while. But I think that's a good thing!

The game is finally out!

New daily challenge: Writing a positive Steam review for an indie game I like. Day 1: Gentoo Rescue by @jagriff.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/...

I legitimately wanted to play Highguard, but I keep getting an error whenever I try to start a match. The tutorial was pretty neat though! There's a nice, subtle painterly look to the whole thing, which *might* just be a result of my low graphics settings, but still.

I am proud to announce that Parallel Dungeons releases on January 30th!

As a child I remember thinking "when I grow up, I'm going to make a drag-and-drop-blocks interface for otherwise text based languages so I can use them like they're Scratch." I have long since abandoned this desire.

Thought: Fandom spaces have developed their own definition of "media literacy" that's very different from academic spaces, which concerns me. Not because I think academia is inherently above fandom, but because fandom is pulling from the aesthetics of academia without engaging with the substance.

The game is basically done at this point (minus the game trailer and getting a build approved) and will launch in a few weeks. But I heard (from myself) that creator/reviewer/streamers could potentially get a copy of the game early.

Apple: We need to gatekeep what you can and cannot install on your phones in order to make sure that only high quality apps can be on your phone. Also Apple:

Let me be clear.. EVERYBODY who has admin or mod privileges in ANY discord server that is even remotely adjacent to gamedev needs to @ everyone about what's going on, and they need to do it YESTERDAY. More ppl got caught up in this, coulda been avoided. Dont click links from ANYONE w/o interrogation

@dcellgames.com This is going to sound passive aggressive or whatever but I promise this is a genuine compliment: The overworld movement system in Unbeatable is *just* janky enough to be extremely funny. Truly the punk rock of movement systems.

The thing about how "pixel art was designed for CRTs" always kind of annoys me because: Pokemon wasn't. Pokemon was released on the Game Boy, which used a liquid crystal display. Nobody ever seems to think to bring this up. Drives me mad!!!

📢 NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT What's the Password? is a minimalistic puzzle game where you decode 4-digit passwords. Featuring over 100 puzzles! Coming 2026. 🔎 Wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4095490

New blog post. I talk about how and why I added item (card) removal to my roguelike. nuvobloggo.medium.com/monthly-blog...

I've barely posted on this kind of social media anywhere but I have a reason to now. I made a game!! It's called nuworm and you can play it for free in the browser. I worked on it over three years, it might take you three hours to experience. cubestudio.itch.io/nuworm

Developer of Bee Magic and N Step Steve, Ethan Clark, gave a multipurpose talk about making multipurpose puzzles! @ethanclark.bsky.social

A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

The demo for Parallel Dungeons is out! Even if you have roguelike fatigue (I know I do,) I promise this game brings something unique to the table. So please give it a try. bsky.app/profile/nuvo...

How it feels when you're doing last minute work on your demo and you discover that using bool(value) to cast to a bool basically crashes the game but ONLY on web builds and ONLY in Chromium.