This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters

👁️Henry Halfhead👁️ OUT NOW 👃 🍎 Play as 250+ everyday objects 💌 Experience a wholesome life story 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Join a friend in the local co-op mode! Get it on Steam, EGS, PS5 and Switch! Tell your friends, family and help us share this post!

OH MY BISCUITS!!! Cookie Crumble finished #65 out of 2300 games in Brackeys Game Jam 🍪🎉 Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to try it, and to all the people who left such lovely feedback. Your support means so much! 🥰 #BrackeysGameJam #IndieDev #GameDev

ANNOUNCING: Mail Time 🍄 As a newly trained Mail Scout, put on your pack, grab letters, and deliver them across Grumblewood Grove! Coming physically to Switch! 💌✨

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices, If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text. You get the idea. If you value your job: protect others jobs too.

Welp, I've just found out that my role has been made redundant 🫠... So I will be looking for work! If anyone is looking for a 2D/3D Generalist or Art Director for games (particularly specialising in stylised projects!) please shout! From concepts > modelling > animating thru to implementation 💛✨

Still looking and available! 🫡 Had quite a few interviews with potential studios recently (interviews and tests), but not sure what else i need to do there to be a final choice. In the past 6 years, I worked on 7 shipped games and estimate I'm quite able to deliver solutions.

After a lot of consideration and discussion with other game devs and players alike over the past week, I've landed on a new release date for the demo for Stomp and the Sword of Miracles. The demo will now be launching October 13th! ⭐

This past week we've been working with the amazingly talented @mayabloem.bsky.social and @esmmazing.bsky.social to bring you: 🍪 COOKIE CRUMBLE! 🍪 The fabulous cookie tin guessing game! Get all the cookies you can and avoid the sewing supplies! indooranimal.itch.io/cookie-crumble #BrackeysGameJam

this was so fun to work on!! i contributed the audio and a little bit of writing & art!

🎉Game jam complete!!!!🎉 Thank you @esmmazing.bsky.social, @mayabloem.bsky.social, and @derekachoy.bsky.social for committing to the bit with me. My abs are still sore from laughing so hard Give it a shot if you have a sec! indooranimal.itch.io/cookie-crumble #BrackeysGameJam #indiedev #gamedev

here it is!! @derekachoy.bsky.social @bitebitebited.bsky.social @esmmazing.bsky.social & I did #BrackeysGameJam this week & made COOKIE CRUMBLE 🍪 a game where you guess if tins contain cookies or sewing supplies we're very proud of it so please give it a spin!! indooranimal.itch.io/cookie-crumble

I left little critiques on lots of game trailers so here's a thread with the most common issues (and additional reading) 🧵 1. Don't put logos at the start. It's just dead air that could be gameplay, which is 100000000X more interesting. www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2021/3/...

Wispfire is casting English speaking actors for our next game! If you are an experienced EU voice-over artist, or a VTuber who has the ambition to bring a vampire to life in a game, now is your chance! Please have a look at these paid jobs on wispfire.com/jobs #VA #VoiceCasting #VoiceActing #Vtuber

The artist responsible for the Wholesome Games Celebration artwork (and many other WG pieces over the years!) is also working on a game participating in the event: Capy Castaway! Be sure to give the brand new demo a try, and thank you for the beautiful art, @saffronaurora.bsky.social!

🎉We have some VERY special new visuals to share in our latest Steam update, celebrating the start of @wholesomegames.com today and International Cat Day tomorrow!🐱 🍼~Lots of KITTEN CONTENT! ✨~A cat design GLOW-UP! Check it out through the link below👇

Mine, refine, and sell in Gemporium! Released as part of the Wholesome Games Celebration on Steam, you'll have to manage your time wisely while purchasing upgrades and growing your gem shop's reputation day by day.

had a bit of a rough year ngl. feeling no control like I'm swimming upstream. that's why this lil game me and @mayabloem.bsky.social made for #GMTKJAM is so special to me 💜 you play as a kid floating in a backyard pool. if you'd like a minute to ponder you can play it here! itch.io/jam/gmtk-202...

Last week @esmmazing.bsky.social and I made a game about being a little kid and floating wistfully in an inflatable backyard pool for #GMTKJAM you should check it out! ⬇ itch.io/jam/gmtk-202... rate and comment for a little kiss on the forehead

🎨Our lead art director Carmen spoke about the creative process of developing "Cat Cafe Manager 2: Big City Bliss" at INDIGO Rotterdam.✨ 👀Curious? Her presentation is now available to watch! 👇Link in the comment below!📽️ #indiedev #indiegames

Hi #PortfolioDay! I’m a freelance game writer and narrative designer looking for work! I like to write for games that are silly, cozy and heartfelt. Here’s a clip of Gab Smolders laughing at something I wrote ⤵️ HMU for writing samples!

!!!! we just dropped a 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎 for curiosmos !!!! woah… I almost can’t believe it but everyone gets to try this silly game of ours >:•) s.team/a/2585710/

🏔️PEAK is OUT NOW on Steam‼️ Scale the mountain as a group of lost nature scouts (or solo) in this co-op climbing game Work together, communicate, and support your fellow scouts to make it to the peak... or perish 💀 Finally... we made PEAK

Tune into the YouTube broadcast of #WholesomeDirect tomorrow for captions in the following languages: Spanish by @lamalamuerte.bsky.social Japanese by @myrrh0707.bsky.social Dutch by @esmmazing.bsky.social German by DerEineSchwarzeRabe French by @thomasc0.bsky.social youtu.be/D4ZRXGcmDlM

Squeakross: Home Squeak Home is available NOW on Steam and Nintendo Switch! 🧩Solve 650 nonograms! 🧀Decorate your home! 🐭RATS! Made with love for picross experts as well as total beginners! Steam: s.team/a/2871440 Switch: www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... More info: squeakross.cool

INDIGO SPEAKER Carmen van Sleeuwen - Roost Games, will speak at INDIGO about: Cat Cafe Manager 2 - The Visual Journey from Caterwaul Way to Covestadt! “Transforming a cozy cat town into a vibrant city.” INDIGO 2025, May 27-28, Rotterdam. More info: indigoshowcase.nl #INDIGO2025 #gamedev

🧡Have you eaten your obligatory orange tompouce yet?! 🤴🏼Roost Games wishes all folks from the Netherlands a lovely Kingsday today!🤗 🇳🇱Hoezee, hoezee, hoezee!🐈

Sorry for being gauche but if you want to get invested in media about witches that isn’t racist garbage that enables a transphobe, check out a game made by a majority of trans people including yours truly. Bonus it helps fund my hopeful escape from this hell.

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

i want gayer games with gayer graphics made by the gayest people and i'm not joking

⭐ NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT ⭐ Embark on a mission to save the world from the god of chaos! Explore a world of lost secrets, make new friends, and use creatures to your advantage to reach new heights in STOMP AND THE SWORD OF MIRACLES! Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/283759

Hi new followers, I organize free legal consultations for marginalized identities in games, esports & content creation every week! As I would love to reach the people really needing this: reposts are appreciated. Feel free to AMA here as well! More info: www.deviantlegal.com/free-legal-c...

If your pay doesn't rise at least as much as the rate of inflation, you are getting a pay cut. Look up the annual inflation rate for your country. Did your pay increase by at least that percentage this year? If it didn't, that is a pay cut, by any meaningful measurement.

✨Squeakross: Home Squeak Home✨ 🧩 Solve relaxing, picross-like puzzles 📦 Decorate the perfect home for your rodent friend 🐭 Beginner & Rodent friendly 🧀 More info soon...! Coming 2025 PC/MAC ⚠️ DEMO OUT ON DEC 6 2024 ⚠️ Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ8l... Steam: s.team/a/2871440

My (game) writing tip o' the day is You gotta learn to love your own writing. No iffybuts. No doubtysads. Loved writing reads so much nicer Plus. by loving your own writing, you'll be able to spot issues in your writing. After all, the first editor is you Your work deserves love, whatever stage

wow I wonder why I listened to coconut mall 87 times two weeks before my game launched

life drawing from last week at overkill festival! really cool to get in touch with the experimental side of the industry again. thank you @zoewi.bsky.social for organising playful friday !!

If you're new here and looking for cozy games and/or cozy game developers to follow, I got something for you ✨ Check out my two starter packs 💕🌈🍵 ✨ Cozy Games/Studios ✨ go.bsky.app/LDqJYBD 💕 Cozy Game Devs 💕 go.bsky.app/Q68Qvbi

🖌️I tried drawing something for Huevember yesterday but ended up hating it so I redrew it lol. I'm still not a fan but that's okay, I can still post my uggo art here, too. Anyways, I drew the Sun from Paper Mario! #huevember #art #fanart #PaperMario #SuperMario

prepped my #Huevember prompt list for busy artists 🐝 who could still use a sense of accomplishment 🌈 every 3 days in November you pick the assigned hue + use it in your art as the most prominent colour 🌈 you can still adjust the brightness + saturation 🌈 join in (late) or make up your own prompts