The @beastieball.bsky.social april fool's event is pretty great lmao

Vancouver Game Garden is just around the corner with a fresh new spring date!! 🎮🍃 This year's showcase of local indie games & video game art returns to the Roundhouse Community Centre on June 13 + 14, 2026! ✨ Interested in showcasing your game demo or art? Apply here: vangamegarden.com/exhibitors

Here’s some updated thoughts on my approach to game balancing. The main takeaway is that there’s no such thing as a balanced game 😝 wishesgames.com/blog/balanci...

Usually I have to beg the animators to scale down, but this was a rare instance where I begged to add this. Broslidon is particularly funny to me… I wanted them to feel obsessive with constantly greasing up their chest to enable their perfect slide.

IT’S TIME! The Beastieball update is HERE!! 💖10 more hand-drawn animated Beasties! 🎉Sunsoo hangouts complete! 💅3D model and shader rework 🇪🇸El juego completamente trasladado en Español! 🌈A bundle with… @byttenstudio.bsky.social ?? TWO great monster catchers in one!?

Man the new live action one piece season is so good. The over the top energy is so infectious! It’s so good I came to accept chopper despite him not being a muppet.

This album comes out tomorrow. But you can get it on discount, and support the artists extra, if you pre-order it today! Very excited for everyone to get to experience the full album tomorrow. It's really something.

Horsey Game is released at long last! Behold my magnum flopus! store.steampowered.com/app/3602570/...

Nirvanna the band the show the movie ….. is VERY good! You don’t need to know anything. If you can, go see it!

This is the most thorough evisceration of armchair game design and online gamer groupthink I've ever seen

The new MinnMax Interview is a dev one-on-one discussion about the rise of autobiographical games! We have @gcuzzillo.bsky.social and Julian Cordero from @despelote.game, Jenny Jiao Hsia and @apthomson.bsky.social from Consume Me, and @meredithgran.com from Perfect Tides! youtu.be/RhS732KU1kg

A fan designed a full beastieball-themed magic the gathering set. and i played it! wishesgames.com/blog/mtg-bea...

Announcing Chicory: A Musical Tale! Releasing March 7th~ I'm delighted to collaborate with @resonantunion.bsky.social, Wishes Unlimited, and a host of talented collaborators on a 32-track arrange album releasing across four discs. It's a real dream project & I can't wait to reveal more!!

The next Bigmoon Bash is HERE! Join us TODAY, Friday February 6 4PM PST to Sunday February 8 4PM PST for a bash that’s a bit random! No preparation necessary, work with whatever team you roll Good luck 🎉😇 and join our discord to chat with other players! discord.gg/wishesultd

Dosa Divas, a spicy narrative turn-based JRPG, launches on April 14 for PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch, and Switch 2. Demo is now available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2950710/...

in a month, it won't be possible to purchase or download the software that opens thousands of beastieball's most valuable, labored project files. 😅 i was going to make a joke but all i can think is "why"? a generation of artists grew up with flash... what a profound waste...

Today is the finals of an epic 2-day fan run beastieball tournament! Live-streamed with commentary, the games are quite fun to watch with diverse teams and strategies ☺️ twitch.tv/bbnetrush

It's Perfect Tides: Station to Station release day! After 4 years the game exists and it's ready for you. Here is the launch trailer to get you through the work day

I was on this jury! I played these games! And so many more! But these ones in particular are REALLY good www.gamedeveloper.com/production/b...

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

geen #beastieball #beastieballfanart #Sprecko

I totally understand people wanting to wait until beastieball is “1.0” to play it. I also don’t usually play early access titles. My main worry at this point is that the game is already so complete and universally beloved, by the time we call it 1.0 i might accidentally make it worse somehow…

4,000 words on the stage I haven't been able to stop playing for the last six years. Early dev screenshots, talk of tech challenges, five demo tracks embedded so you can hear the song's evolution. All the good stuff.

Please…. I’m begging you… if your game has a dialogue choice… and all the answers say the same thing in a different way…. You can just remove the dialogue choice……

VS. The Crimson Racers 🏎️ now in the latest Beastieball milestone update! nyoom www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_eW...

Another milestone update for beastieball today! Our tiny team has been putting in such tremendous work… I’m so proud of this game… how is it still so fun to work on…

Baby

Angeline era! Skate story! Rhythm doctor! Unbeatable! Ahhhh….. a true gamers feast

Rhythm Doctor 1.0 is out NOW on Steam! 🎵 Act 6 and the finale of Story Mode has been added 🎵 5-3N added to Physiotherapy Ward 🎵 The game is now available in French! 🎵 English Audio Descriptions now available for Story Mode! Have fun! store.steampowered.com/app/774181/R...

SKATE STORY is NOW AVAILABLE on PC, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch! Go forth. Devour the Moon.

Angeline Era is OUT NOW!!! 🔍Every level hidden in plain sight… 🗺️… chart your own path through the world! ⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places… 👼… and a soul-shattering story! GET IT HERE!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

The Morsels OST is really great. Very good thinky music, lots of weird and fun sounds... I don't know much that sounds like it. samwebster.bandcamp.com/album/morsel...

The Games From Vancouver Steam Sale is now live! Browse over 100+ games, 50+ discounts, try demos, or wishlist upcoming releases -- all of it supporting and celebrating Vancouver-made games and their incredible developers! store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesFr... Please RT and share the love 🇨🇦!

Jurying for the IGF again this year... at this point the span of team sizes, budgets and even sheer number of games in consideration altogether is about as large as the entire games industry was when the awards were first instantiated in 1999

taking a moment to appreciate how the edge of australia actually looks like the unfinished edge of an open world video game

In real stroke of genius, we've expanded our official Chicory collection with a pair of colorful new items! Add a splash to your collection with a new tee and acrylic standee both designed by artist @mikotoazure.bsky.social, available now for pre-order: theyetee.com/chicory

A legendary release day for Vancouver games! My friends have been toiling away on generation exile for years… it’s an ambitious idea not quite like anything else and it took real effort to realize. City sim, space politics, multigenerational storytelling store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

Beastieballlllll #art #beastieball

My team at the end of Z-A! I had my issues with the game, but I loved all the new mega designs…

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 🍕