Celebrating TEN years of Arcade Pit in a row, on December 7th. We never missed a single week, a 10 year streak. Also tons of bonus shows and goofy one-off projects. Sign-ups for a 10-game marathon of Arcade Pit are now open! We need 40 players! arcadep.it See you at MAGFest too; panel confirmed!

New week, new devlog! (...with a missed week in between). This week, rethinking how units work, from initial concept to today. porchweathergames.com/blog/2025-11... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

It sort of hurts when the Onion is this incisive, to be honest

This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is a German solo dev who got his animal-adventurers-inherit-the-earth dream game launched on Steam and now on Nintendo switch! Perk up your ears and smooth back your screenshots; follow @OfBladesNTails.bsky.social and showcase in tomorrow's thread!

At the dentist and the two receptionists are talking about how great ChatGPT is and they use it to write everything for them. The one even used it to write a birthday card for her granddaughter. People’s brains are so cooked.

I'm behind on devlogs, but I've got one coming later this week. In the meantime, I've decided to stop worrying about art style and get back to placeholder everything. I feel much better about this decision, and it's let me nail down quite a few problem interactions. More to come! #indiedev #gamedev

Doing more placeholder units today and added this extremely accurate horse-peg to continue the motif.

It was pretty self-explanatory, Netflix. You really do assume nobody is actually paying attention, do you?

Rebecca was one of the founders of Interplay and programmed & designed for some of the most influential games of my youth, notably Bard's Tale I & III and Wasteland. She will be missed.

As someone who has spent the last two days making nothing but placeholder art, the discourse today is feeling very relevant.

Much like gun waiting periods, we have to implement memoir waiting periods. You shouldn't be able to publish that book about that thing that happened for at least 5 years.

FFT is still an incredible game and one of my favorites, but playing again I am reminded of how absolutely out of whack the level scaling is.

Random person who plays indie games, you are the most important cog in an indie game's success. Most gamers don't know or care that indies exist.... unless a friend tells them. Our games succeed because you tell other people you liked our game. Word of mouth is the best marketing there is.

We’re honored to host this week’s #TurnBasedThursday! Drop your most creative turn-based screens in the receptacle below. Are you a turn-based game fan? Then 💬comment, ❤️like and 🔁retweet all these great games inside this post and support indie devs!

Is Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer the indie strategy game of year? Maybe! You could help make it happen! forms.gle/nNbnkCWFVFBi...

Not a single one of these emails is either to or from a drag queen 🤔

I mean, the real dream would be Kermit, Fozzie, and Gonzo.

Sure it cloudy here, but we’ll see who’s laughing tomorrow when this turns out to be a Day of the Triffids situation.

Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you. Fool me three times, yup, still looking in your direction. Fool me four to eight time, I'm positive the problem is on your end. This is not a "me" issue. Fool me nine or more times, ha ha, seriously, still putting this on you.

A lot of your dumber leaders will say it’s stupid to surrender when you’ve got the advantage, but the real strategic geniuses know to always give up when it looks like you might win.

Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when

My fundamental stance is that so long as their are children going hungry within it by willful design, any nation's claims to greatness are negated.

Working on honing in on designs for some of the early units, and feel like I'm getting close. Here we've got your brave Hunter and Peasant Militia, and the rude Council Thug. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

Did I sit down planning to build out a few more battle scenarios? Yes. Did I instead spend most of the day reworking pathfinding to squash some bugs and weird edge cases? Definitely. On the plus side, new version gives me some future-proofing (and doesn't break the game). #indiedev #gamedev

Alas, it seems the coldest cut of all is the pain man might inflict on his fellow man.

New devlog up: organizing my narrative with the tools at hand! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #devlog porchweathergames.com/blog/2025-11...

Sidebar: I had an interesting experience just now in Discord that explains a lot about how digital media literacy works today I posted this picture which seemed too goofy to be real. Immediately, someone accused it of "almost certainly" being a photoshop

I just learned that something I've always thought about Rollercoaster Tycoon - something that *the manual itself* says - is a total myth. I've been playing wrong for 25-odd years!

Daylight Savings means you get an extra hour today you could be using to play Camp Keepalive! Just one more day left during the Halloween Sale, so grab it now and tell Thanksgiving to hold on just a dang minute - you're still doing spooky! #indiegame #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

heard on a game podcast just now, that a 15 hour, single player game is maybe not long enough. We have to get past this idea as developers and audiences. A game will be, and should be, just as long as it needs to be for *what it is*.

You know, we all made fun of the "internet is a series of tubes guy," but I just had to have a technician out because the line coming into my house was bent and it was blocking the internet.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Just dropped a hotfix for Camp Keepalive to address an issue with the counselor action bar not appearing in certain circumstances when using mouse/keyboard controls! Fix is live on both Itch and Steam.

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

We are excited to host this week's official #TurnBasedThursday thread! #gamedevs & #indiedevs— drop your turn-based beauties below and don't forget to use the hashtag! #turnbased game fans —❤️,💬 and 🔁these amazing projects.🙏 Let’s make the algorithm take its turn too. 😎 #indiegamedev

Oh, and what's that? You wish you could listen to the Camp Keepalive soundtrack even when you aren't playing the game to really keep you in the spooky season mood? #indiegame #gamemusic GREAT NEWS: joelhaddock.bandcamp.com/album/camp-k...

Just 2 more days until Halloween, and you could be filling them *right now* with using that big tasty brain of yours to save the campers from all manner of things that lurk in the dark forests! #indiegame #indiedev #thinkygame #turnbased store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

The retro Heroes of Might & Magic 2 mod for #Civilization 2 has finally been released at #CivFanatics & #ModDB ! Almost every part of #Civ2 has been changed to feel more #HoMM2 like making this possibly the largest total conversion mod ever made for Civ2 Gold! #Civilization2 youtu.be/g1V7_hjmjD0?...

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

Having an owl show up in your backyard: Day 0: Whoa! it's an owl!!! Incredible!! Day 7: I am so happy this owl has found a home here Day 21: oh, the owl's back. Day 48 (2am): Does this owl never shut the fuck up? (seriously though, still❤️my resident owl)

Honestly, the single Hi-Potion Final Fantasy Tactics gives you after Riovannes Castle 1 is one of the rudest ^#^{% things a video game has ever done. #fft

Today's Random Old Game Music: a guy named Flimbo and he's on some sort of Quest. I don't know what he's questing for or why, but boy does the music make it seem like he's upbeat about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM8D...

It's almost Halloween and that means it's an excellent time to grab Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer as part of the Steam Scream Fest IV! Dark woods, scary monsters, and all the turn-based haunted summer camp mayhem you could ask for! #indiegame #indiedev #sale store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

It's Spooky Season, and Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is on sale now as part of the Steam Scream Fest! Get cozy, get creepy, and get yourself out in the woods to save those campers this Halloween! #indiegame #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

▶️ REVIEW! - Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer. A turn-based strategy game with an 80s horror twist! Its addictive gameplay loop, charming retro style, and rich horror movie references make it a worthy addition to your Halloween gaming treats. youtu.be/gYPY_8oSOnA?...

Today's Random Old Game Music - a medley from F29 Retaliator. Weirdly chill and then steadily ramps up. I will always have a soft spot for the SoundBlaster twang. #retrogame #gamemusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=34de...