I'm not gonna have time to make anything with this but I started on a tiny interactive web thing for Vancouver Game Garden using @pietepiet.com's art and LDtk (arrow keys): vangamegarden.com/events/02/ga...

I only just figured out that the little melody shakra sings is a piece of the rest area theme......... that's good shit

played beastieball for the first time last week and it reawakened my love for critter collectors its SO fun

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available September 4 on all platforms and day one on Xbox Game Pass! Watch the release trailer: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

My team i took to the final in #Beastieball !!!! GOOD JOB EVERYONE!!!!!🎉🎉😭😭✨️✨️💕💕 (*sob* my babies are so good at ballin'!!!🥹🏐💕)

I finally pulled the trigger on Beastieball a week ago and it has been excellent so far The gameplay itself is awesome but the best surprise is that the villian is the sports commissioner who cares more about entertainment than the sport itself Truly a very Jake coded game

me melting down while watching someone play beastieball and i see the best creature of all time, the goat, the fella, the squisher TRAT

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Our new album Anyway is free RIGHT NOW on our website, @bandcamp.com & @polyvinyl.bsky.social 24-bit WAV / 320kbps MP3 We spent the last year making it. It's different than anything we've done before, but feels like it's been part of us all along. Hope you love it too <3 anamanaguchi.com

Our next session on Aug 26 is revealed! We will be hosting @blacktabbygames.com - devs of Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow Adam "Crashtroid" Caflisch, composer of Peglin and our very own @ehjaredj.bsky.social, who does marketing and publishing things Tickets are just $10 and include pizza 🍕

[Beastieball-Cherrily] little painting of my fav little bug for practice <3

Yo yo yo Vancouver Game Garden is giving a little extension to Game and Artist submissions. You will now have until this Friday, July 25th to submit for the show! vangamegarden.com/submit.html

really adored this piece on atmospheric perspective in games

#beastieball last ones i need to sleep uugh

Hosting @vangamegarden.bsky.social at THE ROUNDHOUSE this year…. Pretty surreal, it’s like a real event! Can’t wait to look at the game submissions ☺️

Vancouver Game Garden is BACK for 2025! 🎮🌱 This year's showcase of local indie games & art will take place on September 27-28 at the Roundhouse Community Center! If you'd like to exhibit your game or join this year's LOW SPEC-themed Artist Alley, check out this page ➡️ vangamegarden.com/submit

apropros of nothing, a mini comparative analysis of wandersong and deltarune, because while turning it over in my head i realized there are a lot of fun similarities and differences...

The Milestone update is LIVE! 🥳🎉 ✔️ALL starters and Spreckomorphs now fully animated ✔️A new music track 🎵 ✔️Feed your beasties junkfood! ✔️Tons of new unlockable team titles ✔️Language support for Chinese and Russian Full patchnotes here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/1864950/view/520840848816997802

🍄 SPORTS MATCH AGAINST GOD www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmzs... the new track is now up on youtube AND added to the Beastieball OST on bandcamp: radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/album/beasti... if you haven't played the game yet: don't worry about it (but you can also play it like, right now, if you want)

Our major milestone update drops this Thursday! You might see some familiar faces look a bit different than usual...😳 ✏️: @musclewing.bsky.social

Wheel World is the game I’m most anticipating this year. 100% a dream game I’ve always wanted to exist. store.steampowered.com/app/1497460/...

I’m not really the kind of guy to get excited about tote bags but this one looks REALLY GOOD in person

got into BeastieBall last week and i have been OBSESSED ever since, best creature collector game ive ever played in my life the designs slap the music slaps talking isnt enough you need to play it

🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)

Someone pointed out that beastieball was high on the “top hidden gems” on steam and I have been watching it curiously. We’re in a weird spot where the score is better than many games placed higher, but it’s getting pushed down because it’s too popular (not really “hidden”).

i don't believe a game can be perfect, but thanks nonethless to "i love game design" for the kudos :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Ob...

sorting my steam library by best review score

i am just so pleased about this

An interesting watch... I'm biased as a creator to assume industry trends are creatively influenced ("Games should be bigger" -> more people hired) when reality is mostly driven by finance (growth is expected -> more people hired -> "we need bigger projects!") www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HM9...

occasionally throughout my day i'll have a flash of awareness of how ridiculous my work is. like. why did we invent a sports lizard named bongus. but then the feeling subsides and i resume patiently adjusting the parameter's of bongus' volleyball spikes or whatever.

This giclee print is by @irischroma.bsky.social ! It’s pretty awesome 😳😳😳 and it could be Yours….😏

The Bigmoon Bash has started in game! This one will last a whole 48 hours!! Have fun everyone ☺️☺️

While you're waiting for Switch 2...play some Bugaboo? Out now on Steam!

GameMaker announces support for Nintendo Switch 2 🔗 gamemaker.io/en/blog/game...

We’d strongly encourage you to take the time to check out the game today and enjoy Beastieball as it always should have been, with HUMANS playing 🏐🏃 Happy April Fool’s Day! store.steampowered.com/app/1864950/...

@beastieball.bsky.social sending the best patch possible out there today

We owe our players an apology. We released Beastieball with a critical flaw, namely that ANIMALS played sports and HUMANS coached them. Thankfully, we've finally fixed everything. Please enjoy the full game & free demo today the way they always should have been store.steampowered.com/app/1864950/...

something is coming to beastieball tomorrow. including the free demo.

rift of the necrodancer is out TODAY on switch! (and still available on steam) ...why am i posting about this? well, the CELESTE MUSIC PACK is also available today!!

Rift of the NecroDancer (a big BOSS thread) 1. Harmony Harmony's inspirations were 90's jpop idols and magical girls, a treat to concept! She is the only boss whose body faces away from Cadence when talking, to emphasize her haughty dismissiveness

For some reason, Beastieball is now an official partner of the Federation of Madrid Volleyball. Somehow, it seems Sports have become real. Now they're still telling me that the Beasties WILL NOT become real. But I'm waiting for further data on this. bsky.app/profile/beas...

There was a lot of good game animation in 2024, and I found ALL OF IT. #animation youtu.be/eD_dYrVFTEY

I've always been mystified by the process of balancing a PvP game, making balance patches, dealing with community feedback, etc. And now it's my job! So I wrote about our process and tried to answer the questions I used to have about it greglobanov.substack.com/p/balancing-...

Quick(ish) model of Bildit from Beastieball Really big fan of this thing #fanart #blender #art

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

game genres are so strange. looking at other sports games, it feels like beastieball is a game about sports in the way that mario is a game about italy

Yeah, I’m at GDC. Good… Dog….. at my house….. Cool!

When Tia Rohrer (AKA @irischroma.bsky.social ) joined the team, one of the first prompts we sent them was a ‘spirited’ Beastie. Often it was easy to come up with something that looked cool, but what was often harder was coming up with a good answer to “why.”