3 weeks ago, I released Gambonanza Since then the game has reached: - 200k+ sales (135k on Steam - 75k on mobile) - 300k+ wishlists I wanted to share the real numbers, what helped the most, and the things that genuinely surprised me as an indie dev 👀 Thread 🧵 1/15

Really enjoying working with an actual Localization Team. ✨ I had a building named “Safe” and thought the meaning was self-evident. Meanwhile, they’re like: “safe” 🤔? as in protected? shelter? secure? vault? Tiny reminder that players don’t have access to the designer brain.

Hold The Mine is getting a new Roadmap for the upcoming months! Next update is set for May 26th and will add new content including: 💥The 5th Powers for the Dragon Hunter, Sea Witch and Huntress 🌅 New Weather Events 🧩 New Relics & Buildings 🪄 Several Quality of Life & Bug Fixes Full post link 👇

Face drama. Trust the chicken. CLAIM VICTORY! 🔥 ARTE and @flying-oak.com are proud to reveal KNUCKLE PARADISE! 🥊🐓 Join Jane and her fellow warrior chicken in a non-stop action game packed with fights, combos, and pixel-art extravaganza.

Hold the Mine is getting even cooler. Check it out! 👀

Heart of the Machine enters 1.0 on March 6, 2026. From its incredible narrative complexi

Hold The Mine is out since 3 days and I'm ready to share the Early Access first months Roadmap! We have very excited things coming in the following weeks, including new content, Bosses and more! If you want to support us, feel free to leave a positive review, it helps a lot!

🌟ANNOUNCEMENT!🌟 We’re so happy to share that we’re teaming up once again with Wholesome Games Presents, this time for our little game Milki Delivery! 🚲🐄🥳 @wholesomegames.com

Here we are! Hold the Mine is officially out in Early Access! Hold the Mine is a unique rogue-like survival game where you explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters! And we have a brand new trailer for launch: youtu.be/YADKxYJnIZw

Hold The Mine releases TOMORROW in Early Access on Steam and guess what... ... We just reached 30 000 Wishlists! I'm so happy 😁

⛏️ 5 Days before Hold the Mine's release! ⛏️ In August, I crafted a little Fimo Dwarf for @hookariagames.com , just for fun ✨ (and I recently had proof he still has it 🙌)

Now you too can play a slowed down version of a game from 20 years ago with no actual level design or enemies and all it costs is a complete collapse of the world economy, biosphere, education system, and multiple entire creative industries.

Les premiers visuels sont sortis ! Retrouvez-moi le vendredi 27 l’Enjmin Game Conferences à Angoulême pour une heure de folie où je vais me bagarrer avec les bugs d’un jeu de l’époque où les menus étaient gris et vous raconter l’âge interlope entre la naissance du FPS et celle du jeu service.

With 26,846 outstanding wishlists reached today, Hold The Mine is getting closer and closer to the symbolic 30k! Thank you everyone, I'm so happy ☺️

Played Hold The Mine démo a few months ago and it was already really really fun. Plus it has dwarves. Several. Plus the devs behind are great. Wishlisting the game would then be the smart move as it releases in 2 week !

🚨HOLD THE MINE is coming to Early Access in February 17th!🚨 I can’t wait to share the game with all of you soon! Thank you everyone for the amazing support! Full announcement 👇

I made a small seal in fimo today! He's joining his new beetle friends 🦭🩷

If you or anyone you know is looking for a tradigital 2d animator, I’d appreciate the chance. Looking for new mid-to-longer term projects mainly. Previews of some of my work here: camillecee.weebly.com Reposts appreciated, with love, increasingly urgent anxiety and thanks!

We've got something to tell you: NEW GAME! Poke @arteinteractive.bsky.social <3 #indiegame #gamedev #arte

Noobs Are Coming is n°1 in New & Trending 😭 #solodev #indiegame #indiedev #steam #roguelike

Attendez, vous voulez dire que la culture, dont on coupe allègrement les subventions dans les collectivités locales, contribue à faire tourner l'économie ? Qui aurait pu prédire ?

More UI 😶

Everything is fine.

Any dev with enough experience knows that placeholder can always make it to release, that's why we use bring pink, the dumbest names possible, or ninja monkeys for mobs. If it looks remotely shippable, it WILL be shipped.

“Everybody (probably) steals hamburgers” - Hamburglar

Hello, not only do we not use AI we would rather cut off our own arms than do so. Demonschool is 100% human made.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

maybe we could use another splash screen.

Dispatch coming out in episodes appears to have been a very good strategy for developer Adhoc Studio. Astounding numbers here. Episodic games often risk losing audience attention over time but 8 episodes across 4 weeks seems like the perfect cadence to keep players hooked and talking

#DarkFantasy? ☑️ #Roguelike? ☑️ #Deckbuilding? ☑️ 🔥 Runeborn 🔥 LocQuest has brought Runeborn to life in French, German, Spanish (Spain), and Korean. Thanks to @goblinzstudio.com, iDream Interactive, and the talented translators and LQA specialists who worked their magic on this one. 🧌

oh hello hi!

bluesky got me hooked by showing me posts by people I like and follow on purpose

Hold The Mine has been in development since December 2023. Here is a timelapse of the shots I have taken almost every day from the first day until today. #indiedev #indiegame

Don't miss this roguelike demo during Steam Next Fest!! 👀

You can play the demo FOR FREE right here! store.steampowered.com/app/3939600/...

We've reached 10,000 wishlists on steam! Thanks everyone for support and all the feedback since the announcement. See you in few hours today to check out the first demo of the game 👀 #indiedev #indiegame

Hello #PitchYaRogue! Hold the Mine is a survival mining roguelike mixing Dome Keeper, strategy and dwarves?! ⛏️Dig and collect resources 🏰Construct powefull buildings with unique effects ⚔️Maximize your heroes, spells and relics 🌜Defend your mine against monsters at night #indiedev #gamedev

Pyrene is 1 year old today! 👉👈✨

ANNOUNCEMENT: Detective Instinct will be launching on Steam and Nintendo Switch... November 26th, 2025! 🤩 Uncover the story in this DS-inspired adventure game about a mysterious woman who goes missing on a train 🚃 Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2689930/...

The brainstorm for our next game continues 🐄🚲💌

answering the question of "why are the books levitating" by levitating other things

We just reached 5,000 wishlists on Hold the Mine in 14 days! This is huge and feels incredible, thanks a lot everyone for playtesting the game on steam and sharing the game around, it helps us a lot 🥰✨

🔥5000 IN TWO WEEKS🔥 what the hell.

My friend Paci has been working on this for a while, so cool to see the store page after all the iterations the game has gone through! Very excited for this one ⛏️ one of those games I’ll probably sink a bunch of hours into on my Steam Deck

I made a little polymer clay dwarf for @hookariagames.com , because we're working on Hold the Mine and it's fun ✨

Here we are! Hold the Mine is officially announced! Hold the Mine is a unique rogue-like survival game where you explore and defend your mine against waves of monsters! And you can try the playtest version right now! Wishlist & Playtest here: store.steampowered.com/app/3164960/

It's funny because all the devs & pubs I heard from at Gamescom had strong anti-AI and "let's take our time" sentiments. Yes, they're all indies. You're only listening to and parroting the side of the industry that's completely lost the plot and will chase infinite growth into a AAAA-sized grave.

This is it! I’m near the end of this journey! After nearly 2 years in the making, Kitty’s Last Adventure will fully release on August 25! 🎉 It’s been in Early Access for 1 year, going from 5 playable cats to 20! Thanks everyone for the support along the way!

Pikachu says trans rights

Here are all the transition weapon forms in Kitty’s Last Adventure! My favorites to draw were definitely the Cupcats, which you can spot right at the start! Two years ago, I never would’ve believed I could create all of this. And on August 26, it’s finally the full release! 🎉