Been quiet for a bit on TMF, but that's because I've been doing a major rethink! But today I've finished the initial draft of the totally new tutorial section along with a peek at the new game structure. Still rough, but coming along quickly! #indiedev #indiegame www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp3p...

Also, last chance to get Station Zeta for its lowest price ever! All the running, jumping, and crate-shoving action you could want as you puzzle through the worst station in space! Save the crew (or don't!) and yourself! #indiegame #wintersale #puzzleplatformer store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...

I don't want to cause any undue panic, but it's the last day of the #wintersale and your last chance to get Camp Keepalive and start the new year off right! Outwit the monsters and help your campers avoid a grizzly fate! #thinkygame #indiegame #turnbased store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

Or if turn-based strategy isn't your speed, how about some running, jumping, and puzzling through the SPOSHA (Space OSHA) rated Least-Safe Station in Space? That's right, Station Zeta is also on sale for less than a cup of coffee! #indiegame #thinkygame store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...

Have you considered spending the second-to-last day of the year the best way possible: playing Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer? There's still time! Grab it on sale now and finish up the year keeping monsters at bay and campers in bed! #indiegame #turnbased store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

Christmas is getting closer, but you've still got plenty of time to treat yourself to all the 1980's summer camp monster madness you could want! Lead your counselors, save the campers, and keep camp open for one more summer! #indiegame #turnbased #strategygame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

Looking for even more treats? Station Zeta is on sale for literally cheaper than a small cup of coffee! Spend some cold winter days running, jumping, and puzzling your way through the worst station in space! #indiegame #indiedev #puzzleplatformer #retrogame store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...

Get ready to give yourself (or someone else) the perfect holiday treat - all the 1980's summer camp-based mayhem you could want! Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is on sale right now for its lowest price ever! #indiegame #turnbased #strategygame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

Voting closes today! There's still time to vote for Porch Weather Games for Indie Dev of the Year! (if that's how you are so inclined to vote). And lots of other great things to vote for as well! www.thehorrorgameawards.com/news/public-...

Porch Weather Games has been nominated in the 2025 Horror Game Awards "Best Indie Developer"! Should you vote for us? Only you can answer that for yourself. Would I like you to vote for us? Yes, absolutely. You should do it here: www.thehorrorgameawards.com/news/public-... #indiegame #indiedev

We are thrilled to announce we've been nominated for "Best Indie Developer" in the 2025 Horror Game Awards! You can cast your vote to help support us now here: www.thehorrorgameawards.com/news/public-... Voting closes Dec 3rd, so run - don't walk! - to that link above!

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

New Devlog: Narrative Tools and Getting All That Story Into the Game #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #devlog porchweathergames.com/blog/2025-11...

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/...

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.

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/...

Or if Steam isn't your thing, you can get DOUBLE THE SPOOPY and grab both Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer AND Night in the Unpleasant House on itch.io in our Halloween Sale bundle! #indiegame #indiedev itch.io/s/162321/hal...

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?...

New devlog up: porchweathergames.com/blog/2025-10... In which I confront my old frenemy, UI design. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #indiegame

And don't forget, also ending today over on Itch, you can pick up Station Zeta *and* Night In The Unpleasant House for a mere $5! Get your puzzle-platform on, then enjoy an appropriately creepy and kooky tale of local politics for spooky season! #indiegame #indiedev #IF itch.io/s/161213/aut...

Last day of the Autumn Sale and your last chance to grab Station Zeta for 50% off! Picture yourself wrapped in a cozy autumn sweater, sipping a hot beverage of your choice, and blasting your way through 30 levels of puzzle-platform mayhem. Then make it happen! store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...

New devlog up! This week, finally diving into the details of the battle system and the experience I'm aiming to create for the player #indiedev #gamedev #solodev porchweathergames.com/blog/2025-10...

We're hosting our Autumn Sale on Itch as well, so you can pick up both Station Zeta *and* Night In the Unpleasant House for [appropriate regional/generational idiom for a $5 bill]! itch.io/s/161213/aut... #indiegame #indiedev

You can grab Station Zeta right now in the Steam Autumn Sale for less than the price of a tariff-adjusted cup of coffee. Run, jump, and puzzle your way through the worst station in space today! store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...

Station Zeta is on sale during the Autumn Sale right now - here are a few important reasons you should get it! ⭐ It's puzzley, platformy fun! ⭐ You should support indies now more than ever! ⭐ Space O.S.H.A.! ⭐ Did I mention it's fun? #indiedev #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...

Back on track with a new Devlog! Laying a lot of groundwork this past week or so, but you've got to have a good foundation before you slap on the building. #indiegame #indiedev #solodev porchweathergames.com/blog/2025-09...

No devlog this week, but a quick video of the "encounter map" layer of things as more structure starts to fall into place. In next week's entry I'll dive into this in more detail, as well as some absolutely thrilling talk about pathfinding algorithms! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

New Devlog up today: Paper to Prototype Starting the journey from getting something playable in any form possible before delving further. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedesign porchweathergames.com/blog/2025-09...

So since something broke the major storefronts, I decided to go about as opposite as I could and put my interactive fiction pseudoscience adventure Night in the Unpleasant House on sale on itch. A game you can buy and play right now! #indiedev #indiegame porchweathergames.itch.io/night-in-the...

Getting back in the devblog groove as I ramp up on a new project, and starting off with a little self-reflection on process porchweathergames.com/blog/2025-09... #indiedev #gamedev #devblog

I've entered a game into IFComp for the first time! It's a text adventure called Murderworld and it's about the X-Men. (Though, you don't need to know anything about the characters to play.) Superhero drama, action, and above all: teamwork!

Station Zeta is still half off for just a bit longer 🔹 Save the crew, though they don't deserve it! 🔹 Shoot some robots and question whether they deserve it! 🔹 Push some crates knowing full well they totally deserve it! #indiegame #thinkygame #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/2950320/...

Is Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer the perfect 1980s summer camp strategy horror game? Summer Camp: ✅ Horrible Monsters: ✅ Awesome Counselors With Special Powers You Can Lead To Incredible Victories: ✅ Not up to me, but the evidence seems solid. #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

It's August 1st, and summer is entering its final stretch. But what if you could make the best parts of summer last forever? GOOD NEWS! Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer does exactly that (It's right in the name) Get your camp strategy mayhem fix today! store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

We've just released a small update for Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer to fix a few issues. So why not take the opportunity to dive on in and give it a try now that it's even better than before! #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased #strategy store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer's launch discount ends in just under two hours now! That's still plenty of time to click the link and get the #1* 1980-horror-movie-camp-based strategy game of the summer! #indiegame #turnbased #solodev store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/... * as far as I'm aware

Less than 24 hours left to grab Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer during our Steam launch sale! Don't miss your chance to grab the perfect game for beating back the mid-summer blues at a 15% launch discount! #indiegame #turnbased #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

It's Friday, and sure, you could spend your weekend with a certain destructive ape, but might we recommend instead some *hot summer camp monster action*? Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is out now, and those campers aren't going to save themselves! #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

Did you know that if you're feeling in the mood to make your Keepalive experience *extremely* immersive, you can turn on the optional CRT Mode? The full fidelity you'd expect from a TV stuck in a cabin the middle of the woods! #indiegame #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eYp...

Hey @thinkygames.com - we know you like strategy, but how about strategy wrapped up in 1980's summer camp horror shenanigans? Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer just released this week, and we think it's the perfect #thinkygame to fight off the mid-summer doldrums! store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer released yesterday on Steam and Itch! How did your first night at camp go? Every camper safe and sound back in their bunks, or anything we need to let the lawyers know about? #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

Porch Weather Games, aka my friend Joel, has created a great tactics game with a killer soundtrack. Buy a copy, please! Available on Steam and Itch.

Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer has officially launched! Grab your bug spray, gather your counselors, and get out there to save those campers! It takes more than an endless parade of hideous monsters to keep you down, right? #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

BONUS CAMP FACT #6: Camp Keepalive: Endless Summer is launching ***tomorrow***! Put all the critical Camp Facts™ you've learned this week to use and step into the shoes of our newest camp manager! #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

CAMP FACTS #6: Nobody is sure exactly what these are, but they keep popping up and the owner is pretty sure it's important. Someone should probably look into it... #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

CAMP FACTS #5: Although no counselor has ever returned to work at Camp Keepalive for more than one summer, some former counselors have returned in... new roles. #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased (two days to launch: wishlist today!) store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

CAMP FACTS #4: It's entirely possible that a recent popular group of martial-artist reptiles was in fact inspired by the exotic wildlife variations that pop up around the camps various toxic storage sites! #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased #strategy store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...

CAMP FACTS #3: Though no one knows who exactly built the mysterious stone circles dotting the woods around Camp Keepalive, several anthropologists and at least one FBI agent have vanished attempting to find out. #indiegame #indiedev #turnbased store.steampowered.com/app/3637630/...