Game dev highlight of last year was the security asking to take a selfie with me cause i 'look like justin trudeau'

yeow! @kevindu.itch.io has been nominated for the Nuovo Award 3 years in a row for 3 separate games? the most nuovo man in history <3

okay game idea 'Golf crossword'

this time of year it’s important to reach out to friends to show them this lumpy Doshin the giant from the original guide

Dogman95 in @wf-games.itch.io Weird Fucking Games of the year list!

🏆 James' Indie James Awards, there are still people making wonderful Idiosyncratic art, heres my annual roundup of the best i played this year🧵

my Character of The Year 🏆 is the fancy top-hatted snake on the poster for The Lady Eve (1941)

this can still be on your GOTY list if you loosen your concept of calendar

I spent too long not knowing there's a stealth crossword game aftermath.site/stealth-crossword

this can still be on your GOTY list if you loosen your concept of calendar

the xfiles fmv game caters to my specific desire to have walter skinner talk sternly and exhale loudly at me

Just played this now and it's wonderful. Give it a go!

like games? come on down to Riyadh for the racist poison festival hosted by jk rowling and the Sackler family featuring the oily goo monster from fern gully voiced by tim curry (now on the blockchain™)

reminder that MAP COLLECTION remains one of the best experiences on itch, and somehow only has 9 ratings!

Kotaku! I was wondering why a heap of people played stealth crossword this morning

the algorithm has me pegged

*comically scrambles to get new game finished before podcasters seal their goty lists

insanely generous write up in edge, my childhood self turning over in his grave to give a thumbs up

:D

Another month of playing wonderful games on itch dot io 🧵 GOBBLE FANTASY 2003 🍉(by @dogsunderstand.bsky.social) a loveletter to RPG maker and 'little guys', singlehandedly reinventing 'collecting dots in a maze' for a new generation dogs-understand.itch.io/gobble-fanta... Free / 20mins

for my birthday im playing through my itch backlog, pleease recommend any itch gems i mightnt have played💫

horse sims are obsessed with hair physics, but rarely do they attempt to simulate the phenomenological experience of being horse

It’s DOGMAN95s anniversary 🏆 the first game adhering to the rules of the dogman95 movement ComputerJames.itch.io/Dogman95 (Free / 5mins)

some very good folks have orgainised a Game Manual jam starting in two weeks, one of the most beautiful lost art forms itch.io/jam/game-man...

finally played this, it was precisely the goofy fun my tired mind needed

glad to report the laurie anderson video game is the most 'what if laurie anderson made a video game'

If you like rule deduction games LINELITH by @cwpat.me is a perfect diamond of a puzzler, an hour of escalating eureka moments down to an exact science. AND you play as some sort of rock crab

Ill be showing STEALTH CROSSWORD at EGX London's Leftfield Collection! Im there friday and saturday if you want to say hi ✨

If you like rule deduction games LINELITH by @cwpat.me is a perfect diamond of a puzzler, an hour of escalating eureka moments down to an exact science. AND you play as some sort of rock crab

~GAME RELEASE~ Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity (OMUI) is OUT NOW!!! on Steam and Itch for F R E E! It is a first-person narrative horror game about the Iranian revolution, nuclear war, and my Uncle Ramin's suicide. Please share and leave a review on Steam if you are able to!!!

oh no very tempted to just use a list of oblivion quotes as the Pizza Jam theme? id play all of these

in a world obsessed with polish i wish we could normalise releasing more unfinished projects. treat them like artist sketchbooks, this is already better and more interesting than plenty of released games

three days until Pizza Jam starts! 250 people signed up so far 🍕 www.itch.io/jam/pizza-jam-pizza-prize-15

never been so geographically jealous in my life

real gamers love a hand drawn greenaway dvd

wait EXTREME EVOLUTION: DRIVE TO DIVINITY isnt an inscrutable art game?? turns out its actually a solid platformer with a great gameplay loop and a 53 track philip glass style soundtrack store.steampowered.com/app/2111360/Extreme_Evolution_Drive_to_Divinity/ @samatlas.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRs... i desperately need any crossword + metal gear fans to try Stealth Crossword, its absurd and delightful

if you’re into narrative design this is pure heaven

as the goal of the jam is more about self expression and collaboration we’ve made the easy decision to disallow GenAI art for all pizza jams

i changed my phones Brough icons to unsettling david lynch characters so i wouldn’t play them so much, it didn’t work and now these are canon to me

hugo award speech quoting thecatamites? the arc of history bends correctly for once!

getting very mushy reading write ups of the festival!

The blog continues to grow... I've added a GIGF roundup as well as more book reviews, the latest gig I went to, and a whole new zines tag: hotelpaintings.neocities.org

this looks incredible holy shit akuma-kira.itch.io/basilisk-2000

another week of playing astounding games on my computer🧵 PRICE OF FLIGHT 💫(demo) just a demo for now but they seem to be going for 'Space Funeral meets Mario Party' god bless em, these people clearly have a dream store.steampowered.com/app/2636710/Price_of_Flight

easily the best ‘shmup set inside a zoetrope’ at our fest last year

Yo! If you're looking for an excuse to make a game (digital or physical) and win a delicious pizza (physical), the next Pizza Jam 🍕 starts Sept 12th Itch.io/jam/Pizza-Jam-Pizza-Prize-15 So far: 🎮700+ games made 🌎Ive had pizzas delivered to Brazil, Canada, Sweden, Norway, USA, China, Argentina...

It’s DOGMAN95s anniversary 🏆 the first game adhering to the rules of the dogman95 movement ComputerJames.itch.io/Dogman95 (Free / 5mins)

went to a swoon-inducing talk from stephen gillmurphy (thecatamites) yesterday about games & memory ❤️ he just put up the text version >> harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/s...

HARMONY SUMMER HARDPACK a TheCatamites (Stephen Gillmurphy) collection of short music games 🎶 consistantly inspiring, I have no idea how he can express so much with so little thecatamites.itch.io/harmony-summer-hardpack-tape-11-in-1