Reminder to all my fellow Canadians not to do any of your holiday shopping at Chapters/Indigo. They try to sell themselves as a more responsible Canadian Amazon alternative but their CEO uses her wealth to support Israel's genocide of Palestine.

Check out my friend's productivity creature collector, Motivi-Galaxy! Please wishlist, repost, & share! store.steampowered.com/app/4005940/... #indegame #gamedev #indiegamedev

Why not support indie games this Black Friday??? heptad.itch.io/devils-liminal Fight a ghost, get a girlfriend, uncover the circumstances of your demonic pact. #creatorday #yuri #yurisky #indiedev

You hear a lot of people complain about the line "meat is back on the menu" in the LotR movies, but why not same outrage over Gimli referencing the nervous system? 🤔

You should play @kymira.ca's adorable visual novel Love in the Time of Spellphage! sophiefromhowls.itch.io/love-in-the-...

In case you missed it: a new episode of True Avatars featuring Kirby Air Riders, The Game Awards nominees, and the loss of a gaming legend🏳️‍⚧️ Video version here: youtu.be/xSN88UHwFEQ

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Blog post of some of my favourite/influencial video game talks of the year. Which boils down to how the @thinkygames.com conference had a huge influence on our upcoming game 🫣 www.kymira.ca/blog/confere...

I look forward to this list every year!! 🎉🙏 Time to add a bunch of new stuff to my to-reads list.

DEVIL'S LIMINAL is part of the Choose Wisely Festival Dec 8-15, hosted by @studioephua.bsky.social A yuri horror visual novel with 2 love interests, family secrets, and a Faustian bargain. Currently in Early Access with monthly updates. store.steampowered.com/app/2271270/ #ChooseWiselyFestival

Blog post of some of my favourite/influencial video game talks of the year. Which boils down to how the @thinkygames.com conference had a huge influence on our upcoming game 🫣 www.kymira.ca/blog/confere...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Half Mermaid is hiring a Senior Gameplay Animator to help bring their new third-person horror game, Project D, to life! 📍 Remote, Contract 🎮 Made in Unreal Engine 5 🏗️ Proficiency in body and facial rigging a + ⤵️

We're excited to announce YOUNG SUNS: a new narrative-rich co-op life sim set on Jupiter. Experience life in an optimistic future full of colorful characters. Play solo or with up to 3 friends. Visit planetoids, ruins, and stations. Craft and decorate. Help society heal. youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg?...

I need to get a gum transplant to fix my sensitive teeth but I don't want too 😭 I like my smile, it makes me think of the writer description "a wolfish grin" because I'm all teeth 🐺

We're so excited to showcase the games & makers from our Pixelles Make Games program! Everyone is invited to hang out, play, and enjoy refreshments 🎉 🌿 RSVP required (free): events.humanitix.com/pixelles-mak... 📅 Dec 4th @ 6pm 🗺️ @unity.com's Montreal office 🍩Non-alcoholic social with vegan options

Join us tomorrow at 12 PM EST for an exciting announcement of our upcoming game! youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg

Been working on Fatemender but still supporting Spellphage! I'm planning on implementing achievements specifically for the Steam build when it releases 👀

Introducing the Choose Wisely Festival 💫 We’re returning to our first love, to host a free digital festival celebrating branching narrative games. Join us on Steam from Dec 8-15 along with 250+ indie darling studios featuring 390+ curated titles where your choices do matter. #ChooseWiselyFestival

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

Been doing some of my best art of the year but sitting on it for game reveal announcement 😤 Only Discord insiders get to see stuff for now.

Attention all comics making friends! MCAF (montreal comics art festival) is now accepting sign ups! Come to Montreal with your comics so I can see you! www.fbdm-mcaf.ca/en/about-us/...

🌻 OPEN COMMISSIONS 🌻 updated commissions with new examples and a new option!! i plan to have this open indefinitely as i need the extra income to help offset debt i accumulated during my medical leave 😳 shares are super super appreciated! #art #commissions 🌻 INFO/ORDER: ko-fi.com/prinxeling/c...

New Lancer Tactics build! wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti... Highlights: - First pass of *all* NPCs classes, sans optionals - Upload and download other player's maps via an in-game mod.io modal - Got mac & linux builds working again

Announcing my new project, Rigmarole! 💙🐈✨ A point-and-click adventure visual novel about a NY-Italian gyaru and her fruity mahjong buddies driving across the country to go snatch back her Nonna's cat from her gay homophobe rock star cousin! priro.itch.io/rigmarole This one's gonna be a wild ride.

COURTOOM👩‍⚖️ DRAMA😱 DECKBUILDER 🃏 Ecoterrorism brings billionaires to justice using the court of law!? 🔪 Wishlist our game where you can do all of that!!

This was not on my Unite bingo card

If you're mad about the boring Game Awards nominees, consider: You could be buying and playing many of the games on this list right now

Having now read all 3 books I feel like HBO should leave Game of Thrones in the dust and should adapt The Roots of Chaos novels if they want dragon stories.

That empty feeling of finishing a book that took 24 hours of reading 😞 Kind of felt like it would never end, in a good way.

Help me get verified on Vgen, if you like! Going to give that a try ^-^ so far I have 3 comm types listed. vgen.co/Sitaart

this transgender awareness week, you should go click around my website's indie haven, a place where you can find many different artists of queer and transgender varieties to become aware of. you can also submit your own ad FOR FREE if you click on a "your ad here" graphic! priro.pro/indiehaven

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.

You wanna know why we're having nag line discourse in 2025? Because developers know we're fighting an attention economy war we'll lose no matter what. Players don't read, have TikTok open next to them, god forbid we are scared you miss something and then blame us for not giving you all the info.

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

My free 43-page guide to bridging the gap between digital games and physical spaces has been released. Great for devs who want to bring indie games to local markets, shops, or spaces, and for organizers and business space owners to better understand indie devs! priro.itch.io/digital-game...

All of the talks from ThinkyCon 2025 are now on YouTube! If you missed them or if you want inspiration for the jam happening right now, you can find them here!

Another wild Peak experience between my wife and @marri.bsky.social

My wife has been playing a half translated game of Picross that we use my phone to translate the answer for at the end. We super weren't prepared for this one:

Playing Peak with @danarama.bsky.social

Playing Peak with @marri.bsky.social

Playing Peak with @danarama.bsky.social

This talk is probably why my wife spent the last 4 days programming an Undo button even though we also don't want to call our game a puzzle game 😂

If any concept artists have been looking for work ArenaNet currently has three senior contract positions open: www.arena.net/en/careers#O...

Playing Peak with @marri.bsky.social

Ambrosia Sky: Act One is available now!! 15% off on both Steam & Epic!! store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/... store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/ambr...

A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

Managed to watch all but 1 of the ThinkyCon talks this week! And now we have so much more we want to implement in our next game. Undo button, different grid shapes, a solver 😱 Full streams of each day are available for watching: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1mh...

Alert! Alert! New squirrel game! 🐿️

I've been pretty excited for Sea of Rifts as a big fan of Sunless Sea and Dredge! Love to assemble a motley crew.