What a sweet Xmas gift from a kind internet stranger!

To give an example of a strong premise, I recently played Misgiven, in it you steal an oxygen mask to survive a crash but that oxygen mask comes with an identity that you must maintain or throw off. Its immediate, understandable and creates so much interest store.steampowered.com/app/2997040/...

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

#TeaseYaGame hey kids you up for: 😶‍🌫️ story-driven 2D horror puzzles 😶‍🌫️ hand-drawn graphics 😶‍🌫️ esoteric science gadgets 😶‍🌫️ a dwindling crew of desperate individuals driven to their extreme? Wishlist Deep Fog Signals: store.steampowered.com/app/4100900/...

Some tips ahead of #TeaseYaGame 👀 1. Live 16th Dec 2025 (Starts 12PM GMT UK) 2. Open to all games 3. Schedule if needed 3. TYG = short punchy teasers 4. PYG = detail fuller pitches 5. GIFs/Short vids = Perfect 6. Post multiplatform 8. Try not to hit & run; Engage 9. Pin it!

If you didn't catch it live at the German Indie Showcase, here's the new story teaser trailer of our upcoming narrative-driven horror puzzle Deep Fog Signals ☣️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UOy... #indiegames

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Used one of the tracks in our Deep Fog Signals announcement trailer, banger stuff 🔥

Before being an indie game dev: oh wow they've been working on this for two years? That's so much of their life dedicated to one project! After being an indie game dev: oh wow only two years? And they finished it? Like, the whole thing, not a demo? Are you sure?

About 1 week left to submit!

Goodnight Universe. Available NOW on PC, PS5, XBOX, and Switch 2 💫 A psychic baby narrative adventure. Hone your powers. Mend a broken family. Take on an evil tech company. Nothing a baby can't do, right? If you’ve ever felt different...this story is for you.

And suddenly… Godot. @godotengine.org @godotfest.com #godot #godotengine #godotfest #gamedev #munich #münchen

Hey #PitchYaGame! In Deep Fog Signals you're stuck in an outpost deep in a sea of toxic fog & oxygen is running out. Choose which transmissions to decode with scarce bandwidth, coordinate unstable crewmates, do science with chunky devices & interpret strange signals from the deep 📡 #indie #horror

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The Ghibli offices right now.

Hey #PitchYaGame #PitchYaHorror! In Deep Fog Signals you're stuck in an outpost deep in a sea of toxic fog & oxygen is running out. Choose which transmissions to decode with scarce bandwidth, coordinate unstable crewmates, do science with chunky devices & interpret strange signals from the deep 📡

For Halloween and for research, we're playing #Mouthwashing live now! Come hang out and get absolutely traumatized with us at twitch.tv/ancastasia 🥲

Deep Fog Signals’ Steam page is live 📡 Stuck in an outpost in a sea of toxic fog, you're cut off from the outside world and oxygen is running out. Use scarce bandwidth to coordinate unstable crewmates, do research that could change the world and interpret strange signals from the deep 👁️ #indiehorror

Games Forged in Germany is live! store.steampowered.com/sale/games-f... If you've ever struggled with the morals of your choices, felt invisible while the storm raged inside, forced to put a mask on while you wished being yourself were enough, you'll relate to Cassandra in Misgiven. #indiegame

Bask in this kickass retro-futuristic Portal-y / Fallout-y puzzle extravaganza by our friends at @gamesbystitch.bsky.social 👷🧑‍🔬

click the link, buy the pack, tell your friends, share the post: moonanagames.itch.io/80-songs-pack #gamedev #musicsky #vtuber

VICE wrote about the Fair Play Collective - “Finally, a Manifesto I Can Get Behind.” We’re trying to build something better - for devs, for players, for everyone tired of crunch, burnout, and broken funding models. 📰 www.vice.com/en/article/f... #FairPlayCollective #GameDev #IndieGames

Last week we had the pleasure to host a laid-back meetup at our office, just look at all these cool buddies 🥹 @happytroutstudios.bsky.social @styraxron.bsky.social @shellyalon.bsky.social @reinke.bsky.social @pipapogames.bsky.social fox-assembly.com www.kieranmcauliffemusic.com ♥️ #indie #gamedev

If you loved a game but didn’t say anything, the algorithm assumes you didn’t care. Visibility isn’t just views — it’s interaction. Let ‘em know.

MISGIVEN is a sci-fi adventure about 🔴 the lump in your throat 🔴 ☠️ Stranded in a city veiled in toxic fog 🎭 Impersonate a stranger by wearing their mask to survive ⚠️ Find allies as a harbinger of doom 👉💭 Wrestle with your thoughts in an emotionally-weighted dialogue system Thanks #PitchYaGame!

More info about Deep Fog Signals coming soon 👀

At the @amazefest.bsky.social all weekend cause it's the best games fest ever, hands down! Say hi if you see us 🙂 Thanks @klngbhn.bsky.social for taking like 8 versions of this photo until we could all manage to not simultaneously have our eyes closed and make contorted expressions 😁

Watching @derdcp.bsky.social from @amazefest.bsky.social so we don't miss a thing 😅 (yes on that tiny phone) - with @ancastasia.bsky.social @janib.bsky.social Sophie Zeilfelder Soapbox Interactive @cheffmd.bsky.social

Chickensoft is a volunteer-run community that makes and maintains #oss packages to expedite your #godot + #csharp #gamedev experience. mentioning since #Unity is doing licensing things again… your #indiedev experience can be well-supported by wonderful people and state-of-the-art tools 💛

WO🕐🕙🕕O! Old Skies is OUT. Join ChronoZen agent Fia Quinn on a time-traveling adventure of spanning 200 years! Old Skies is a story of love, loss and legacy. And it is 10% off during the first week! Humble (includes OST)▶️ bit.ly/4cKaLQR Steam▶️ bit.ly/3FYho5Z GOG▶️ bit.ly/4i2fdvk

There is a bug in your game. If you don't find the bug during development, the testers will. If the testers don't find the bug, the reviewers will. If the reviewers don't find a bug, a prominent influencer/streamer will.

Go wishlist Elsewhere Electric and get ready to play it this summer with someone you trust 🤞

Indie game devs! Worried you don't have a good publishing deal? May I present my firm's 2025 Publishing Agreement Data Report! Taken from 100+ actual Publishing Agreements ranging from 2017-2025, providing averages for rev share splits, advances, IP ownership and more! indiegamepublishing.com

The @dames4games.org Spotlight is in 2.5h, grab your comfy seats and see you there ❤️ 👉 Watch at www.youtube.com/live/EyeDP_F... and keep an eye for our developer spotlight with Misgiven 😁 👉 Wishlist at store.steampowered.com/app/2475620/...

The Dames4Games Spring Showcase trailer just dropped and you can see Anca and some familiar creature legs very shortly hehehe cause GUESS WHAT WE'RE FEATURED! It was the first time we filmed an dev portrait format like this 🤞 So excited for all the dev interviews and game spotlights 😍

Not just an American issue obviously, despite how pronounced it is in the US. The huge imbalance of wealth and the exploit, abuse and existential dread of workers everywhere must end. What are we as humans freaking doing?

Not to alarm anyone 🥴

This is the kind of review you're asking for when you call your asset "tasty", I guess? 🤔😂 Anyway version 2.2.3 is out at tgs.symmetrybreak.com 🌿 #gamedev #vfx #shader #unity

Chris Zukowski published this chart in one of his recent blogs. It helped me really conceptualize how hard games are to get done. Our current model is small games, with deep gameplay loops -- and whacky mechanics. Make smaller games and MORE GAMES DEVS! #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

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A very weird little experiment for my first piece of 2025: “Beedle” 🪲 a sculptural mask made of gourds, driftwood, mountain laurel, paper clay, acrylics & gold leaf. Part of THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S CABINET group exhibition at Arch Enemy Arts! On display Jan 18-Feb 16

Misgiven is proudly part of The Storyteller's Festival 2025! 🥳 Celebrate this incredibly creative and varied lineup of narrative games on Steam, hosted by @twoandahalfstudios.com until Feb 25th! #TheStorytellersFestival #indiegames

We just received this "fan edit"... Now I'll never unhear it 💀 #misgiven #memes #gamedev

I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too. Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.

Yesterday marked our first time submitting an application to the Creative Europe Media: Video Games and Immersive Content Development fund. An ungodly amount of work over the last month for a new game concept 👀

We stan the melancholic malady that is Phoenix Springs

There's a petition to ban conversion practices (targeting LGBTQIA+ people) in the European Union. We need one million signatures, and we currently have 180,000+. If you live in Europe (even if you don't), spread the word ! 🌈🔥✊ eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Steam's kidding with how tiny and low vis this is, right? Who can even see that this is a link and know that the demo page is open for public reviews if they're not already aware of this new feature? Oof hope they improve this soon 😅 #gamedev

After half a year of hesitation, we finally opened up the review page for Misgiven's demo (thank you so much @hedapark.bsky.social for the encouragement)! If you played it and felt it, support the game by leaving a public review ❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/2997040/... #indiegames #adventuregames