Gentoo Rescue will be in Steam’s Animal Fest! 🐧🦭🐟 Explore an open-world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles, and discover many surprises. It's 20% until November 17! Complete either bundle for more discounts: - w/ Can of Wormholes and Maxwell's puzzling demon - w/ Glowkeeper

People in the Gentoo Rescue discord are going crazy trying to create a puzzle that requires an insanely high number of moves. Look at this abomination! I love it 🐧 (it's very light on spoilers, so no worries if you haven't played yet) #indiegamedev #puzzlegame

Reminder that I'm going live early today in ~30minutes. I'm doing Silksong any% races with some friends. www.twitch.tv/jagriff #Silksong #AnyPercent #Speedrun #Race

Here's a few of my favorite comments from the video that released earlier today. This community has me grinning from ear to ear.

Going live now! Tonight: Devil Daggers, playtesting a friend's puzzle game, then ??? Tomorrow (noon PST): Silksong Any% Race! www.twitch.tv/jagriff

Hello #PitchYaGame! Discover mysteries, solve puzzles, and then solve meta puzzles in GENTOO RESCUE 🐧 🧩 Explore an open-world of nested puzzles 🔨 Break the rules with item interactions ♾️ Use infinity and recursion to save the penguins store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/... #indiegames

Thanks for tuning in to ThinkyCon 2025! Did any of the talks inspire you to make a game? If so, check out our game jam that just started!

Part 4 of Aliensrock's series is out! Another big reveal cliffhanger at the end 🐧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAt8... #puzzlegame #indiegamedev #content #letsplay #youtube

Draknek & Friends Official Podcast Episode 40 featuring @oolimry.bsky.social is out now! Topics include the development of Glowkeeper, designing a Metroidbrainia, and how to test secrets in game. draknek.org/podcast

Going live now for some chill gaming: www.twitch.tv/jagriff If anyone had questions that I didn't get time to answer during my talk today, feel free to ask me on stream!

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My talk starts in <90 minutes! Don't miss it! I just did a quick dry-run, and I afraid to say that I finished my ~24 minute talk in 33 minutes. I guess I'll be skipping some slides... Also, if you're put off by the title, don't be! It doesn't mean what you think :) #puzzlegame #ThinkyCon2025

We are live! 🎉 thinkygames.com/even...

Going live again for more of the same www.twitch.tv/jagriff

I made some decent progress on my talk tonight! I feel like I'm back in college with this recent procrastination cycle... In other news, there's been a crazy amount of Gentoo Rescue reviews today!

I'll be procrastinating for a bit and then working on my talk tonight. Just so we're clear, the "AI" here isn't gen AI or even machine learning. Just a basic puzzle solving AI agent. The talk is about using this for design, testing, and more.. www.twitch.tv/jagriff #ThinkyCon #Twitch

steam250.com/hidden_gems.... Gentoo Rescue is now rated in the top 250 "Hidden Gems" on Steam!

Only 2 days until ThinkyCon! 🎉 thinkygames.com/even...

Gentoo Rescue is 20% off for 2 weeks! This is in celebration of so many things: - Aliensrock's playthrough - ThinkyCon 2025 (my talk on Wed)! - DevGAMM, Metroidvania Fusion, and Animal Steam Festivals - ...and more, see the link below store.steampowered.com/news/app/283... #puzzlegame #indiegame

The US has now fallen back 1-hour. The best part about this isn't the extra hour of sleep, but now I won't have to fight my pedantic urge to correct people that use PST or EST year-round.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are actually the New York Yankees of baseball.

My heart goes out to all Blue Jays fans.

I love the editing!

Part 3 is out! Go do the usual: like, comment, subscribe, donate, and put Aliensrock in your will. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gazy... #puzzlegame #YouTube #LetsPlay

Going live now for bday stream! The usual lineup. Hopefully I get some energy after a long day of work to start my talk for Thinky Con 2025! www.twitch.tv/jagriff

It's my birthday! I'm too old for the appropriate number of candles, so we went with binary.

The Aliensrock effect is in full force: There's been a burst of Gentoo Rescue reviews recently. Hopefully we can reach 100! That's 100, not 100 factorial (although I'll accept 100!). #puzzlegame #indiegamedev #factorialjoke

The Gentoo Rescue community continues to amaze me. Once again someone found a bug and built a levelpack around abusing it. Unfortunately I might have to fix this one Here's the levelpack: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... Here's my playthrough: www.twitch.tv/videos/26056...

I did it! Here's my sub-45s speedrun: www.twitch.tv/jagriff/clip...

Another surprise (short) stream! Agenda: ~20 minutes of Devil Daggers Then will check out a new Gentoo Rescue custom levelpack Then will finish with some Witch Cauldron speedruns for sub 45s. Say hi @ www.twitch.tv/jagriff #puzzlegame #twitch

I'm excited to see a lot of new Steam Workshop community levelpack uploads for Gentoo Rescue! I play every levelpack on stream and will be curating my favorites here: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... #puzzlegame #community #custom #levels #steam #workshop

I just spent 30 minutes speedrunning Witch Cauldron. My best time was 0:48.753. But then I found a skip that will save a few seconds, so next time I get to stream I'll try to get a sub 45s run.

Now that the #ThinkyCon lineup is out, I quickly made an annotated list of all the #metroidbrainia -related talks! www.reddit.com/r/metroidbra...

ThinkyCon 2025 talks are announced. Lots of very interesting topics! Be sure to checkout my talk on Wednesday: "Making a puzzle game with AI" Or the non-clickbait title: "Leveraging a puzzle solver for design, experimentation, testing, and more"

Happy Gentoosday to all who celebrate! I've really enjoyed watching Zenonyra's stream and VODs today. They're fun to watch and really speeding through a lot of my puzzles www.twitch.tv/zenonyra

I've had many streamers joke that the difficult puzzles of Gentoo Rescue make it scarier than any horror game.

One downside of really small and elegant puzzles: Gentoo Rescue spoilers www.twitch.tv/dnavidude/cl...

Going live now with more of the usual. I might speedrun Witch Cauldron (that's the game I released today, in case you missed it) www.twitch.tv/jagriff #twitch

I pushed an update for Witch Cauldron. It makes the janky room a bit easier and shorter. Now sub 1-minute is a lot easier.

jagriff.itch.io/witch-cauldron It's out for FREE! #puzzlegame #platformer #metroidbrainia #metroidvania

Part 2 from Aliensrock is out! Go like, comment, and do whatever else YouTubers always order you to do Also: He discovered the thing. Major spoilers past the 24 minute mark 🐧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvPZ... #puzzlegame #indiegamedev

My spooky themed puzzle platformer will be releasing tomorrow for FREE on itch. You'll be able to find it here whenever I roll out of bed tomorrow morning: jagriff.itch.io #indiegamedev #puzzlegame #platformer #metroidbrainia #metroidvania

i dislike cozy games because gaming is already *inherently* low stakes. within that framework I prefer that (simulated) moral risk exists; that you could actually fuck up badly in the game world.

Going live again. I'll start with DD and see what I feel like. Candidates are: RoA2 Hades Silksong Steel Soul attempts ??? www.twitch.tv/jagriff

Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...

It's Friday! Going live @ www.twitch.tv/jagriff I'll start with Devil Daggers. There's a new Gentoo Rescue custom level to check out! Then maybe some RoA2, or maybe making some music for witch game?!? Come say hi :) #Twitch #Stream

America needs a Canadian team to save us from the Dodgers.

Nothing warms a game dev's heart more than seeing fans (respectfully) praise and spread their work around. Full context in alt text. #indiegamedev #puzzlegame

I have a genuine fear about what my life would be like if any of my games ever became super popular. I am addicted to watching all playthroughs on youtube/twitch, and for now there aren't so many so it is manageable. Does Team Cherry spend all day watching Silksong streams?

Gentoosday begins with Fyda's stream: www.twitch.tv/fydatech #twitch #puzzlegame #stream #chill