ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to the Lodge!! Eyes of Hellfire, our co-op gothic horror experience is now available on Steam Early Access! If you buy a copy, up to 4 of your friends can play free via the friends pass! 🖥️https://store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/Eyes_of_Hellfire/

HERDLING is coming out in just a few hours, so there's just enough time to go through some other fun tech-art stuff 👀 Here's another behind-the-scenes 🧵 with various other interesting tech-art stuff featured in our vast and furrious game ✨

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

in an effort to make a puzzle game hybrid, we've started working on an extremely early combat prototype (no final visuals, missing game feel stuff + bugs)! Aiming for a mix between hack-n-slash and tactics wrapped up in a Zelda inspired adventure game🧩 #gamedev #indiedev #prototype #WIP

Teaching AI literacy. (GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)

New procedural planet gen tech for Journey Space 2 #indiedev

every day i try to bring the moguta energy to my daily life

GDC talk submissions are open and just wanted to point out to people that if you were planning to apply to talk at a summit (like indie summit, narrative summit, tools summit, etc.) that there's only one call for submissions now and it's only open for a month: gdconf.com/gdc-call-for...

the part of me that wants to make balanced design choices is always at war with the (significantly more powerful) part of me that just wants to go wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee anyway im tuning a post-dash jump combo and its going swell thank you for asking

I was feeling a little burnt out on bug fixing and prototyping, so I took a detour make the moment-to-moment gameplay feel just a little bit better with vfx. Worked like a charm to build some development momentum 😤 switching tasks can really be a huge help sometimes. #gamedev #indiedev

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Hello, world! We've just begun development on a new sci-fi adventure puzzle game 🧩✨ Still very early in the prototyping phase, but if you're into thoughtful, handcrafted games and want to follow the journey, stick around 🙂 ! #IndieGame #ThinkyGame #PuzzleGame #IndieDev #GameDev

Game jam finally over! An unfinished story, but give it a try if you feel so inclined studiopolyfire.itch.io/dia-stole-th... No combat, just walking around, talking to NPCs. Some may not have your best interests at heart. #gamejam #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #unity #lowpoly

Eid Mubarak !! Handing everyone my Muslim artist starter pack again - if you're looking to follow more Muslim artists this is a great place to start! go.bsky.app/BPtxoeS

Game jam is nearing its end and its exhausting, but this little moment surprised me. #gamejam #indiedev #indiegame #solodev #unity #lowpoly

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Campfire #gamejam #solodev #unity #indiedev #indiegame

Making a game jam game about recruiting a slew of npcs to help stop [insert_villain_name_here] from keeping the world in eternal darkness. #gamejam #solodev #lowpoly #devlog #unity

🎉 We're excited to announce our very first Thinky Direct! Yep, we'll be sharing brand new trailers and exclusive reveals for lots of exciting thinky games! 📺 Watch live on Thursday, May 29! 👉 thinkygames.com/direct/

It seems like we are achieving something which is not that common on Steam: Approaching 1k reviews 1 year after launch. Apparently, if a game hits 1k revies, it is very fast. Not many claw their way there over a year lol. More below 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/1233070/...

Made a new trailer to celebrate our 1st demo being released to the public! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3031160/... music: @gpurisen.bsky.social #indieGame #thinkyGame #GameTrailer #puzzleGame #indieDev #indieGameDev

Okay this is cute, our game looks tiny and the colors are clashing a bit, but I like it lol. #Sokobanfest #BoxPushingFest

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

"AI art Ghibli trend" but it's Miyazaki's reaction and actually art

I have one Starter Pack that still needs more folks in it! If you're an INDIE GAME PUBLISHER (not just publishing your own games) then hit me up in the replies and I'll add you on. Currently at 71/150 so reposts welcome.

i've seen some comments calling our characters 'ugly'...? reskeet if you think they're hot, i'm trying to see something

Now a proper Intro: Hi👋 I’m Pauline, concept artist, illustrator - currently creating an adult coloring book, into Barbie nostalgia (recently bought all the Barbies I didn’t have as a kid but always wanted), DIY, and 19383 other things. Love the vibe here So happy to connect and be inspired. 💜 #art

Hi BlueSky. Would you play this game? #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #ue5

Space traveler, economy class

Some pieces of tech from SOTS, they look like taste good, crunchy... >:] #gamedev #indiegamedev #godot

Finally recorded some new up-to-date gifs! Here we have: dramatic low-angle walk🚶🎥 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #unity

Its probably a bad habit, but most of the textures in SOTS are hand painted with a mouse... At this point i think it adds to the whimsy :^] #gamedev #indiegamedev #godot

Isle of Reveries is a Zelda inspired adventure game coming to PC! You'll play as an owl named Lief as they battle through 8 dungeons and make friends with cute anthropomorphic characters. The Kickstarter now has PHYSICAL rewards, including the game and manual! Link ⬇️ #indiegame #gamedev

the kitchen #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #unity

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dev day: spaces between puzzles was feeling pretty lifeless, so I made all the lil floating objects interactable #gamedev

The tutorial world is almost finished! Who wanna play it ? I might have some early-demo keys for people interested to do some creation, DM me! 👀 #gamedev #indiedev

Don't forget to wishlist Demon Tides if you enjoyed the demo and want to be notified when it releases!

Back when I was a kid playing Pokemon Yellow, this is how the Veridian Forest felt to me. It's pretty straightforward, but when you were 6 and could barely read, it felt like a maze! #pixelart #pokemon

Amazingly we have just hit $200k for the CA fire relief bundle! Let's try for $300k? There's still 9 days left! itch.io/b/2863/calif...

I was quite confident on my knowledge of marine biodiversity in my area (I have a PhD in marine biology after all). But today I learn about Paromola cuvieri, one of the largest crab species of the Northeast Atlantic, that uses its last pair of legs to carry live specimens of sponges and corals 🦑 🌊

my game has shiny bugs 🪲✨

a quick look at some of the environment art progress I've been making for our puzzle game, Reverie Dreams of Sand 🧩 #gamedev #Unity

ATTENTION: I am starting a charity bundle to benefit victims of the Southern California wildfires. Game (and other) makers, please submit your projects so we can do some good. There is a call for submissions of projects through the 18th, please share widely! FAQ below: itch.io/jam/californ...

#UE5 #gamedev #indiedev This is the first asset I released on my Patreon, three years ago :) I'm starting the long process of updating all my projects to 5.5, just to check everything still works. It'll be a good opportunity to bring some older projects under the spot light.