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In Japan now for Tokyo Game Show. Throwing a party called Video Game Prom with some friends 💙

An example of why you never ever rely on any 3rd party to do the work for you. Market your own games! Doesn't matter if it's a publisher or platform. no one cares about your game as much as you do www.pcgamer.com/games/surviv...

Heading to Tokyo! 🇯🇵✈️

It's my birthday ❤️ This has been a year of growth and stability in my personal life. Looking forward to seeing what comes next

Indie devs -- there is nothing for you to learn about the success or launch of Silksong. Do not try to extrapolate from extreme outliers and then think you can follow some predetermined formula for success. It doesn't exist. It didn't exist for that team the first time around either. Stop it.

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

Situations like this are part of why I quit doing marketing consultations. Some devs ignore all reasonable advice and do whatever they want. They think they're are the exception and can get away with it 🙄 Later, they even apologize for not listening to me. Thinking I was personally attacking them 😮‍💨

This is exactly what the internet is for.

In Paris I see people hanging out in the evenings, going to cheap art galleries, valuing fashion, enjoying food and talking about ideas. Meanwhile in the US we're devising "hacks" to not engage with art, ingest the bare minimum to live, and become the most efficient personality-free drones possible.

When writing a visual novel or RPG is there any good software to keep track of the story?

Someone just told me indie games aren't mainstream 🫩

Me trying to date

Indies have been doing “solo dev who’s not really solo” for a long time. There was a period of time where articles about auteurs were THE thing. We’re a core team of 11 right now. Roughly 100 people had hands on Bugsnax including us and we thanked about 200 others in the credits as well.

I actually rested today and it felt amazing

Here is an updated version! Thank you to everyone who gave feedback.

I can't believe some people dont know what scritches mean

me trying my best

I usually don't have much luck getting feedback, but would really appreciate it! I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to animation. #animation #2d #indiedev #gamedev any animators out there? 🙏

Finally got a day off from my day job. I should be napping today but instead I'm gonna work on my game. Doing a little animation and figuring out UI

skill issue 💀🔥

Even if you aren't a dev, if you have small/indie game or game dev recs, I always welcome them! #Vtuber #JustJihye #Indiegames #Gamedev

Hello, if anyone in America sees this, can you tell me what phone service you're using? T-Mobile is charging me $76 a month which is crazy.

Heading to Japan now. I will be doing updates in stories on Instagram. Same name as here 😊

I'm about to go to Japan in a few days. Need some advice. When the staff ask me if my drink/food was good what should I say? Just say "very good" in english? nod and smile? 美味しい?

Every head represents a task on my to do list

Watch this GDC Vault talk about marketing Balatro if you think Balatro just marketed itself by being a good game.

How to not be jealous of other people: 1. love what you already have 2. be happy for others 3. pet dogs

Thinking a lot lately about how to make more time. If I figure it out I'll let y'all know

All I got

🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 literally any 🕯 good news 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

If a game has over 1,000 reviews to me it's not a hidden gem

YouTube tries to serve me a 'MOST UNDERRATED INDIE GAMES' video. In the video... Balatro. Fallen Aces. Omori. Anger Foot. Caves Of Qud. Real deep cuts there, champ. I guess this is why despite being a barely-functional disaster, my work is still considered important by some.

Totally relate to this. I have a simple day job now where it cuts into my time but also allows me to just do my lil' arcade game in peace

It's important to support local businesses

Hullo, hope you have the best week 💕

something people don't talk much about in this era of "publishers expecting a near-finished game before investing" is games are being made sub-optimally in order to speed-run vertical slices/convincing demos instead of finalising systems then building content, you have to make content alongside 1/

What kind of animal should run this cafe? wolf, fox or something else?

a little before and after for my next level. IDGF when I make concept sketches😂

My plans for the weekend

What a productive week. Feels like I made good use of my time 😁

It takes a lot of hard work to make something look simple

The criticism of text-heavy games that goes "If I wamted to read a book, I'd read a book" always come from people who don't read shit

"Why is your game taking so long?"