The full list of award winners at this year's BitSummit indie games festival in Kyoto has been announced, including VGC's own Media Highlight Award. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bitsumm...

🐸⚔️Saturday night at Bitsummit come check out some sweet music near the river party and dodge the rain! 🌧️

Announcing the next MinnMax Spotlight... @sarahpodz.bsky.social and @haleyfax.bsky.social are traveling to Kyoto, Japan to visit @17-bit.bsky.social and learn about the development of Awaysis! Stay tuned for more details! store.steampowered.com/app/3334760/...

Play flock around with your friends. It is the cool thing to do!

Flock Around has reached 99% Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam!🎉Thank you all to your support and love! Are you getting a group of friends together to play this weekend?🐦

As the world’s biggest Fowl Damage fan, GO BUY THIS GAME ON SWITCH! It’s so unique, one of my favorite hidden gem puzzle platformers. $4 is an insane insane deal for a game this clever and polished! www.nintendo.com/en-ca/store/... Congrats @may-gardens.bsky.social @rednexusgames.bsky.social!!!

Any Peglin lovers? Here's another adorable plush they are kick-starting! www.makeship.com/products/rou...

My favourite "EVs are good actually" story in this vein is about an electric dump truck, for quarrying so it's huge, that never needs to be charged. If it gets loaded at the top of a hill, it'll *gain energy* braking on the way down. And drive back up empty. www.businessinsider.com/edumper-121-...

fyi i dont mean to harp on this but donations have slowed down but the need hasn't, appreciate any boosting / reposting etc even outside of bsky, you have my consent

BIG NEWS‼️🟢 Peglin's 4th and FINAL act is available now, and you know what that means! NEW MUSIC 🎵 Here's a sampler of my favorite parts of the new songs! GET THE UPDATED OST HERE ⬇️ crashtroid.bandcamp.com/album/peglin...

damn if only someone listened to me when I wrote about this exact phenomenon years ago (although tbf I wasn’t even considering the worst case scenario of Trump starting a war with Iran and it blowing up in his face) open.substack.com/pub/betterci...

✨Hire me to write some memorable melodies for you!✨ Im available for more music work this year! Im always open to negotiate pay and can write in a variety of styles and do implementation in Wwise🔥 This is a small medley of some of my more RPG ish music RTs appreciate (for me AND Nala heh)

Four video game streamers and podcasters united to raise more than a quarter of a million dollars to support families struggling to make rent during the federal agent surge in Minnesota.

Dark money groups are paying influencers to spread attacks about our campaign. Voters deserve to know who is trying to manipulate our election.

setup a barebones gofundme, feel embarassed to even ask, but i can't go on being apart from my spouse anymore or constantly worrying about my future as a queer woman in america. please help share. gofund.me/93a45b185

this is the stupidest thing and it absolutely undid me

Fake Xerox and real piano wire. Gorillaz’s new video for ‘The Mountain’ rebuilds a 1950s animation pipeline using painted backgrounds, optical tricks, and strict self-imposed limits. www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...

17-Bit's Jake Kazdal stops by to talk Zelda anniversary memories, his upcoming game Awaysis, Virtual Boy do's and don'ts, and all the big news out of Microsoft and PlayStation. 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

Extremely cool that PC Gamer is talking about why Awaysis is bringing the SILLY to dungeon brawling. The demo is on Steam Next Fest nowwwwww! 🐸⚔️ www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

I have some time coming up, so if you need any music, sound design, or audio implementation work done, lets talk! I'd love to find some cool new projects to help out with!

It’s LIVE. BIT.TRIP RERUNNER is coming home to Nintendo Switch 2. Featuring Charles Martinet as The Narrator. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cho... Vault items. Limited physical editions. Big stretch goals.

Our next game is Verminsteel! You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Avowed is really good, especially for $50 and without really obtuse people yelling at you because it's too woke or whatever. www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/av...

Ready for a fresh take on action games? Ever wish the emergent depth of physics-sim games could have a bit more oomph and Nintendo-like response? We built custom engine tools within UE5 to forge a new way to play action games, give it a spin for yourself! store.steampowered.com/app/3334760/...

Play our fresh demo on steam RIGHT NOW. plskthx - would love to hear what you think of it!

Our roguelite FPS Soulslinger: Envoy of Death is out on consoles today! 🤠 Become an Envoy of Death, able to unleash the incredible powers that will make you the most dangerous soul in Limbo. 💀 💚 www.xbox.com/games/store/... 💙 store.playstation.com/concept/1001...

Demon Tides review: "Super Mario Odyssey and Wind Waker collide in this expressive 3D platformer that's already one of my games of the year" www.gamesradar.com/games/platfo...

New Indie Dispatch is here, and we have a fancy new logo too. But the biggest win this week is #Mewgenics is here! indiedispatch.online/posts/tactic... @edmundmcmillen.bsky.social @crowbarcollective.com @cyberneticwalrus.bsky.social #indiedev #gaming #indiegames

For any folks that are into VR, Character Bank is making a fully realized RPG straight from Kyoto. Check out their Kickstarter and get this while it's hot!

Very excited to launch indiedispatch.online into the world with @sheegoggery.bsky.social. It's way earlier than we expected, and we don't even have the logo yet. But the whole YouTube thing meant we just wanted to hit the ground running.

An update: Unfortunately Freeplay didn’t secure multi-year funding and is potentially looking at its last year of operation. We’re exploring what comes next & want your input. Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026 Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...

That… seems pretty worth paying attention to.

Shibuya may be the home of the scramble and Hachiko, but @jkooza.bsky.social  has some other feelings towards his old stomping ground.  #indiedev #gamedev #sega #japan

I want to start a petition that we release a “COLIN MODE”. It’s kinda like a director’s cut, but cooler

DEMO IS LIVE 🐣

forgive me father for I have blogged simulacrum.pika.page/posts/but-th...

I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends. It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.

So proud of our crew. This game at a critical moment for us as we round out our beta before the end of the year, and launched our first demo. A lot of exciting things happening at The BIT. #gamedev #indiedev

Wishlist all the amazing games from Day of the Devs right here: (Go, do it now. I'll hold your Sleepytime Tea.) store.steampowered.com/developer/ia...

Take to the skies of Explora as Townseek is coming to PC and Consoles in Spring 2026! 🎉 Hop on your airship and uncover the lost legacy of Sir Reginald Sharkingston! Our new release window was just announced in Cozy Quest! 🦈 Play our demo and wishlist the game at s.team/a/1659360! 🐟

My new favorite solo project on Steam.

I love how Day of the Devs highlights indies, and now something I'm working on will be featured as well! Can't wait to check out the whole showcase and see what other folks are giving us a peek at.

HEYO!!! Our long-in-development new game AWAYSIS has our first official demo available in the wild! Its a custom physics-based 1-4 player game about little animals running around a beautiful sky castle beating the crap out of goblins and zombies with a huge sword! www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

You can play the Awaysis demo RIGHT NOW! [PC/XBOX S|X] The team would love to hear what people think about it, please give it a look! www.xbox.com/en-US/games/...

It's time to talk to you about my cat.

Martial arts roguelite Forestrike is out now on Nintendo Switch in addition to Steam! 🤛🏼 martial arts roguelite 🧘🏽 practice each encounter before committing to the fight 🥋 upgrade your moves and learn unique fighting styles 💸 just ten dollars