TRAILS is a cozy puzzle game in which you guide sand ships across a crumbling desert to reach isolated outposts. Draw paths for each ship across the treacherous sands, planning carefully to avoid collisions and ensure each ship reaches its goal. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #puzzlegame

📱⛵ TRAILS is now available to go! ⛵📱 Get it on iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/trail... google play: play.google.com/store/apps/d... * no ads! * first 20 levels free! * full game as one-time purchase! * portrait and landscape * dark mode #indiegame #indiedev #mobilegame #puzzlegame

Take your beloved sandships with you in train, bus or ferry: Our challenging pathfinding puzzle game TRAILS is coming to mobile on December 1st! Follow us for more information. #indiegamedev #mobilegames #puzzlegames

ALL HANDS is a couch coop sailing game that combines elements of games like Journey and Death Stranding.   Work together to master everchanging winds in a post-revolutionary solarpunk world. We are looking for publishing! Hit us up! #PitchYaGame #Solarpunk #CouchCoop #WorkerOwned

We're cooking something #indiegame #horrorgames

Faschismus muss sich nicht durchsetzen. Er kann aufgehalten und besiegt werden, es gibt Beispiele, in denen genau das gelungen ist. Momentan scheint es sehr schwer, sich eine bessere Zukunft vorzustellen, aber sie ist möglich. Es liegt an uns, sie zu erkämpfen.

The last fight took me quite a bit longer than I expected. I ran out of shards and ended up killing her with only the needle. Overall a great game with a few hiccups in when it came to pacing, buildcraft and rewards, but outstanding exploration, combat and env. storytelling.

Almost.

Im now neck deep in act 3 of silk song and I'm enjoying it imensly, but there is one thing that has been frustrating me and it gets worse with every new boss that requires somewhat quick reactions:

Faschismus. Die öffentliche Sphäre wird gesäubert. Social Media kommt als Nächstes.

On reflection the crows wern't that bad after all 😬

Looks like my gamepad has been taking double damage too 👀

Found a proper platforming area =D

Sister Splinter is my favorite bossfight so far. Like the previous bosses her moves are well telegraphed, few in number and easy to understand. She does add in what made the arena sections so much harder than the earlier bosses though: giving you multiple foes to juggle. Reminiscent of DS2!

Last day of #gamescom and I finally find some time to check out the non-indie halls. Some slightly amusing observations: People stand in line for 4 hours in order to buy a Wednesday themed drink, but just around the corner no one seems at all interested in playing WoW :D

Come by our booth at #HomeofIndies in Hall 10.2 Booth E10-D10 we finally have #hologramstickers of our game Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts. A short narrative game where you can explore the thoughts and feeling of a neurodivergent character. #gamescom #indiegame #dragon #oc #indiedev

Best form of unwinding from the Gamescom exhaustion: checking out colognes vegan cafe scene 😋

10 games to get to know you Dex Riven (1997) Woodruff and the schnibble of azimuth Gothic 2 Night of the Raven Anti chamber The darkest files Neherim Net hack Guild Wars Cloudpunk

PPU512 Releases its 2nd game today!!! Huge congrats to our team, and I'm so proud of what we've made. @m0zrat.bsky.social @bonsaitreehouse.bsky.social Y'all are awesome!!

First day of Gamescom wasn't too bad and it's nice to meet so many new and familiar indie devs. Let's see what the next 4 days bring - it's bound to get worse (crowd wise) 😅

We won! 🥳 Thank you so much for recognizing our efforts to make The Darkest Files accessible to more players. We believe everyone should get the chance to play the games they want and we are grateful for all the feedback we got along the way 🧡 #GamingOhneGrenzen

can't wait to release that shoegazy grungy queerwave album 🥰💜✨

Come to the @amazefest.bsky.social booth to see these awesome indie games! 🎮 Booth (10.2 E030) Thursday August 21 10:00 - 12:00: Swimpossible! 12:00 - 14:00: Deck of Memories 14:00 - 16:00: TRAILS 16:00 - 18:00: Later #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #gamescom

Go check out Frame of Mind at gamescom everybody! ✨

Join us at our A MAZE. Digital PlayGround #2 at gamescom. It’s a relaxing pink oasis filled with international arthouse and altctrol games plus indie games made in Berlin Brandenburg . We also have talks . Check the schedule and get more details here: gamescom.a-maze.net . #AMaze2025 #mbbfunded

At #gamescom ? Come by the @amazefest.bsky.social playground area (Hall 10.2 - E030) and 🕹️ try out TRAILS or 👋catch us in person tomorrow between 2 pm and 4 pm and say hallo :) #indiegamedev

Come to the @amazefest.bsky.social booth to see Time in Place from 16h - 18h, and two other awesome games! 🎮 Booth (10.2 E030) Wednesday August 20 10:00 - 12:00: Dung Slinger 14:00 - 16:00: Rogue Voltage 16:00 - 18:00: Time in Place #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #gamescom

More indie games to see at the @amazefest.bsky.social #Gamescom booth! Check out TRAILS, by @purplesloth.studio Thursday August 21 14:00 - 16:00: TRAILS Booth (10.2 E030) A MAZE Booth store.steampowered.com/app/3605120/... 🕹️ 🎮 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #demo #boats

New album out ! With music made for movies like Feverish by Fabienne Garçonne, Vernal by @vesperal.bsky.social and Confess by @mahxcapacity.bsky.social . Creative Commons 0 and By ! chezmonplaisir.bandcamp.com/album/its-al...

saying "i wish ill" isn't even a wish of harm, it doesn't even violate the rules, get your shit together bluesky

Heading to Gamescom. If you want to say hi - or rant about how exhausting these mega-events can be - come find me 👋

I'll be at gamescom! Participating in a panel! With @yunikorn.bsky.social moderating!! 💚 I won the NRW Award for Young Women in Games at the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis in 2022. Forever grateful, I'll discuss with the rest of the panelists what this prize means (or can mean) for future generations ⭐🎮

We will be at Gamescom as part of the A MAZE Playground. Come and say hi! Are you part of the press and want to talk to us about our latest game, puzzle games in general, cooperatives, queerness in games, the indie scene or anything else? Let us know so we don't miss eachother! #indieDev #gamescom

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Trails is hitting mobile soon, and it’ll come with a limited free version to give you a taste. So we thought it was only fair to bring a demo to our desktop platforms too.

We have just released the free #demo for our latest puzzle game TRAILS. You can now check out 20 levels (18 on the main path and 2 optionals) for free! Let us know what you think of them 😊 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3605120/... itch\.io: purplesloth.itch.io/trails #indieGameDev #freeDemo

Just make it exist first - you can make it good later! When developing our game TRAILS, a lot of time was spent on improvements and polish, but the crucial first step was a prototype that was created in less than a week! #indieGameDev #prototyping

🎮✨ Stand Up for Creative Freedom in Games ✨🎮 Game creators are facing increasing censorship from payment processors and religious groups pushing personal agendas. Sign the petition to stand up for our freedom of artistic expression: chng.it/6LnZdRYY5Y #savegamesfromcensorship #gamedev

It's supposedly about porn and abuse at the moment, but "adult content" will include any form of queerness soon enough! We need to create alternatives - but in the meantime we also need to stand together and fight what is happening! #sexWorkIsWork

i dunno why but i get the feeling when these people say "no no it's to protect kids" they're actually lying?

Choose your own colors! 💜🦥 With update 1.3 of TRAILS you are able to customize the ships' colors to make them stand out best for your individual needs. Even though we are only a small studio, as neurodivergent devs we care about making our games as accessible as possible. #gamedev #accessibility

When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)

Checkout 'Cryptid Gardens' our own @entencomics.bsky.social and @radow.bsky.social s entry to the thinky puzzle jam. Its a rule deduction game in which you place curious little creatures on a board in such a way that all their needs are met. purplesloth.itch.io/cryptid-gard... #gamejam

Accidentally setting up a collision course in Trails by ‪@purplesloth.studio‬!

Another new Sloth game! 🦥 After working on the localisation of TRAILS to toki pona our own @fuchsi.purplesloth.studio has participated in the pali musi game jam and released musi Nana, a game entirely and exclusively in toki pona. Check it out: purplesloth.itch.io/musi-nana #gamejam #TokiPona

This was really fun to make. And a lot less stressful than many other game jams.

We have two exciting events for TRAILS today(ish): First the joyous @kaemsi.bsky.social will stream the game at 8pm CEST. 👑 And after this at 1 am CEST you can join the Moonlite Madness Showcase by @nevermoreniche.bsky.social The event tonight will feature a variety of indie game trailers. ✨🎮

We checked out Trails, a cozy game about guiding your sand ships through the desert! www.youtube.com/watc...

Our friends @randwerk just announced their second game a week ago! ✨ Go check it out and wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3624140/...

Thu 6pm #Trails @purplesloth.studio Fri 6pm #Sedapi @isolated-games.bsky.social @pressengine.net Sat 11am #LoveAndDeepspace #Rafayel #LemurianSeaGod myth Livestreams on #twitch at twitch.tv/kaemsi