X-YZE is out now, for free! chrislsound.itch.io/x-yze X-YZE is a bump combat action game with a mysterious short story. Cool bonus stuff is available for $10+! Trailer by @alixesque.itch.io #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #GodotEngine #solodev #pixelart #bumpcombat #bumpslash #bumpygame

Bucket list is empty now.

I think good game music tends to come down to - unique game art style (forces composer to come up with unique music solutions. Abstracted art (8bit etc) does the trick more often imo) - unique game (same reason as above) - long-term composer-game studio relations (i.e. trust)

anyway check out: Eclipsium store.steampowered.com/app/2419670/... Baby Steps store.steampowered.com/app/1281040/... Blippo+ store.steampowered.com/app/3323850/... and Consume Me store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

being a game dev in the era of backloggd is wild. you can read a 2 star review of your work panning your writing and characterization, then click their profile and see their favorite games include 'paper mario' and 'sonic adventure'

Gonna give a Tokyo insider tip to anyone here for TGS: the best donuts arent the 3 hour line im donut or anything trendy in Shibuya/etc, but these udon flour donut holes an udon chain (marugame seimen) sells for some reason! Moist and soft.. You heard it here first.

Submissions to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on! More info about the session and where to submit can be found on our NEW website here www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

~ ANNOUNCING: X-YZE ~ A bump combat action game with a mysterious short story narrative. Available for free Friday, September 26 at ChrisLSound.itch.io (it's pronounced "excise") Trailer by @alixesque.itch.io #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #GodotEngine #solodev #pixelart #bumpcombat

Little convo on exploration in games

new devlog for angeline era! getting close to the end now.... see what's been done, and read about some early plans for analgesic's next game! melodicambient.substack.com/p/angeline-e...

new devlog for angeline era! getting close to the end now.... see what's been done, and read about some early plans for analgesic's next game! melodicambient.substack.com/p/angeline-e...

195X...

cycle release date trailer. dvtzr.itch.io/cycle store.steampowered.com/app/1947160/CYCLE/

Angeline Era is our first game to really demand that you conserve HP and generally beat the whole level in one go. There's a nice buildip of action skill, stage knowledge, and loadout strats that make it fun and interesting to replay the rooms and hone your run

we should stop designing runbacks and start designing funbacks...

It seems runbacks are being discussed again... I think it is really a game by game basis but generally the more the runback is mechanically tied to the thing at the end, the better. It also helps to be funny (Capra demon/Mario sunshine game overs). Otherwise it reduces to hardship metaphors hehe

Thinking about runbacks makes me wonder about a runback mode with HP in Sephonie instead of frequent checkpoints. Or even the ocean. That idea is kinda cool actually...platformer dungeons...too bad I'd have to make another 3d platformer (hard!) to try it. I think the game Big Catch is doing it.

Happy that @angelineera.bsky.social was able to participate, please check out the other games too!

Bumpslash interview!! Got to answer a bunch of questions about the design and some future ideas!

History, housing, harmonies: Tokyo-based artist Melos Han-Tani draws inspiration from the everyday for his games, music and writing.

If you want to think about game difficulty it may help to be precise. Here is my brief writeup of Zach Barth’s Difficulty Pentagram, from Cohost, long may she live. web.archive.org/web/20250107...

Castlevania takarazuka! Can't wait to see otokoyaku alucard

Seeing that tweet about having a computer room led me to only having my non-work discord/insta/twitter on my desktop and it has really reduced phone time. Also word mute lists on bsky! And browser block plugins for YouTube to hide recommendations. Also no push notifs from anything ever lol

Review codes are now available for Disaster Arms - Impact Project B.A.H.N. This application is open to all content creators, big or small. Please fill out the form below and I'll get in touch soon 🙌 forms.gle/GBFKnD3hiRuo...

Who are the nerds at Google writing this stuff NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THIS MEANS!!!

thinking about Silksong boss runbacks. I feel like they don't quite make as much sense as in games where the runbacks are borrowed from, because it's easy to start boss fights with maximum HP resources. So the levels/runbacks become untethered from the boss fights, making the levels feel like filler

We're still aiming to release GAME this year!! Please send Bumpslash energy in meantime. 🗡️ 💨

47 indies. 72 minutes. The Six One Indie Showcase returns September 18th via IGN, GameSpot, and Six One Indie's channels! • World premiere from ORIGAME DIGITAL • Lil Gator Game: In the Dark gameplay • Super Rare Originals, Blumhouse Games, and so much more! Save The Date: youtu.be/QncfsZr_fxQ?...

Considering breaking this one out for the release day trailer LOL

Come travel to many places! Calling it travel action makes a lot of sense, it's a very travel inspired game whether that be really local trips and walks in Tokyo area, or trips around japan/ireland. It's a game partly about how surprising and quietly inspiring the world is, just on its own

Who's That Neighbor? It's... Polly! 🌊 #danchidays #indiegames #retro #pokemon

Come travel to many places! Calling it travel action makes a lot of sense, it's a very travel inspired game whether that be really local trips and walks in Tokyo area, or trips around japan/ireland. It's a game partly about how surprising and quietly inspiring the world is, just on its own

for the quest 64 fans. other than processing and a few harmony synths i think it's all samples from whatever rompler quest 64 composer was using

behold my double-tetrahedron of action game design. By designing one of these points at a time (and refining them by considering their relation to the others) you can make a robust action game, or at least a bumpslash game with angera style levels idk

behold my double-tetrahedron of action game design. By designing one of these points at a time (and refining them by considering their relation to the others) you can make a robust action game, or at least a bumpslash game with angera style levels idk

Thinking of skipping sending (most) metacritic press review codes for Angeline Era. We do get some well thought out reviews but also a good portion of metacritic ones are trash 50-70/100 reviews which just stay on our metacritic forever. What's the point? Don't want to do this again anymore

I hope Angeline era's many boss designs will inspire a new wave of good bosses in action games that are not just memorizing exact twitch responses to 10 attacks. Instead shifting the focus onto improvisation, risk management, and consistency

some twitter gamethoughts... hmmMMm

Yum I love dinoslop

You'll meet unique neighbors in our Y2K adventure, Danchi Days! Daley Prepper's birthday is this week! He fears the coming of “That Day.” But what does that mean? Maybe we can check out his homepage! #indiegames #retro #heisei

Dropped my keys down an elevator shaft today. Asked for help but said NO!!! after they told me I'd have to play a metroidvania to get them back

I think falcom's dinosaur (1990) actually lives up to its cover art... very atmospheric dungeon crawl, interconnected world, slow-burn fantasy-horror, 'surreal dark fantasy world stuck in time' proto-dark souls atmosphere, party of people unsure how they arrived in the world

Saw Fuji's ICE HOLE (cave), where most of the ice melted from global warming so they now grow ice. US Soldiers used ICE HOLE as a dance hall. Then I saw WIND HOLE, which was colder than ICE HOLE, and not windy. What was in WIND HOLE? silkworm cocoons. What was *near* WIND HOLE? Corn ice cream

Remember Furbies? Were they birds? Some sort of hamster? Or rather, demonic creatures? *shiver* …What do you mean, that sounds like me?! 😨 ~Moro-Q 🐢

Playing Falcom's 1990 DINOSAUR, with some great suddenly scary sfx when unsealing a cursed castle, and spooky moments like dullahan appearing and telling you to leave leave leave leave

Reading a bit on dementia lately. Kitwood's Dementia Reconsidered (from the 90s!) is good. It takes issue with a culture that views dementia w/ fear and discrimination Lately have been feeling the most progressive thinking puts a focus on human relations, over the individual (see pics and thread:)

Finished adding the boss-rechallenge mode for @angelineera.bsky.social ! You can play for time, but it's much weirder (and hard) to play for score, which pushes the combat into strange playstyles - trying to maximize combo while still winning quickly, as your base score decreases over time.

Tbh the car key take is why I'm pretty soso on metroidvanias as a genre..which reminds me of another design principle I forgot about for @angelineera.bsky.social , which is that with a few exceptions there's no "need the ability/item" gating in the game

My lizardman game is out! It's free! Very happy with how it came out, if you give it a try let me know what you think of it. Most of all... enjoy swamps. june-flower.itch.io/elbe #gamedev

Have you always wanted a toilet minigame?? 😄 ...No? 😨 ...Well, luckily for you, there's one in Danchi Days! 💩 ~Moro-Q 🐢