Look... it's gonna' sound like I'm just trying to hype my game, but I genuinely get so distracted when working on Berry Bury and end up throwing berries in that damn hole for like 15 minutes before snapping out of my fugue state.

Just pushed a patch for the Berry Bury Berry Demo, addressing some common feedback I've received, including: ⭐A rework of one of the abilities ⭐Falling into the hole only loses HALF of your held money, instead of all ⭐An added upgrade 🪱And fixing a soft-lock bug (full changelog in the discord!)

Big thanks to @nocapsbb.bsky.social for the awesome video on the 🍓 Berry Bury Berry 🍓 demo. This absolutely made my day! You can check out the demo for yourself on the Steam page 🤠 youtu.be/42MdZyF6fBI?...

📢 NEW GAME REVEAL 📢 🍓Berry Bury Berry🍓 is an absurdist first-person incremental physics game about growing berries and putting them down an ominous hole... it's safe, I promise. Add it to your ⭐WISHLIST⭐ and play the 💽DEMO💽 now! store.steampowered.com/app/3370870/... #indiegame #steam 🍓🕳️⭐⚰️

That impossible game design balance of "leave the *eureka* moments of player discovery" and "oh no, players are stuck and bored."

Played the demo for this and it’s fantastic. Enter-the-gungeon meets a typing game. Def keeping it on my radar.

Chatted with one of the devs, such a sick looking game! If you wanted to know what a “second person perspective” game would be, check it out.

Any sickos I know at MDEV? Lemme knowww!

It's wild to me that "incremental" isn't a tag or genre option on Steam. It's a HUGE genre at this point, and certainly not the same as a clicker or an idler (which are tags/genres currently). Anyways, new game announcement soon. *wink wink*

Game dev is full of random terms that sound horrible out of context, like "skinned mouth mesh" and "abandon all children".

*whispers* I've been working quietly on a new game and hoping to release it mid November and I should have news about all that soon okay thanks for listening

You ever think about how it's kinda' funny we have hardware, firmware, and software? They're perfect descriptors for what they do, but also funny like "uh... crap what's in between soft and hard... firm? firmware. okay yea ship it"

oh heeeeeeeeeeey, have you been waiting for a good sale on Wormtown? NOWS THE TIME, you can be wormin' and squirmin' with your buds for 40% off in the #SteamAutumnSale store.steampowered.com/app/2318480/...

Why does the built-in Windows clock/timer app require my login pin every time I launch it? What nefarious things could someone do with my timers/alarms?! make it make sense.

I get its for gaining hype for release, but I'm such an impulse game buyer that when I see a streamer playing a pre-release game, and I go to the store page to buy it and CANT... Like, you hooked me as a customer, only to then be like *but you gotta wait!*. Buddy, who's to say I'll still care then?

Wormtown Patch Any% Speedrun

Everyone wants to make video games until they have to sit down and actually *make the video game*. (me included) Anyways, back to making a video game.

Been playing Deadlock since last year, and the progress they've made is unreal. The most recent art pass they've done is absolutely incredible. I can't remember a game that is just so *COOL* in all of it's bold designs. This game is specifically made for me, my gaaaaawd

It's wild that my Steam account is old enough to drink.

The contradictory ideas of "make prototypes very simple and unpolished to see if they're fun first" and "half the fun of a game is the polish and juice" makes me pretty bad at prototyping, ngl

Here's what Darwin California currently looks like on wplace thanks to the Wormtown Discord 😊

There should be a gaming review website that only scores games on one metric: how easy it is to eat string cheese while playing. Most games score very poorly, I'd imagine.

I just need to know how lit my player is, and wasn't expecting a "is this thing in shadow or not" check to have taken me 6 hours of trying (and failing). 😩

One of the OG Wormtown discord members has now modded de_dust2 into Wormtown alongside a PVP mode where Pardners can blast each other with Bullworm Rifles lmao

Being a multiplayer dev means you'll get negative steam reviews that amount to "my friends made me angry, so this game sucks".

I really love word games/puzzles, so it's always a tough part of game dev when I really want to add them, but know they'd be literally un-localizable... herrumph :c

🚨MAJOR WORMTOWN UPDATE🚨 🐛 Welcome, Wormlings! 🐛 Wormlings are new AI-controlled Worms with unique attacks and behaviors. Solo, Co-op, or add them into games alongside player-controlled Worms for extra chaos! Full Patch Notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/231... #Wormtown #Steam #IndieGame

It still never fails to make me laugh, the dichotomy of steam reviews. I'll get a negative one, "game complete trash", and then a positive one, "Best game ever" - within minutes of each other.

Did a private playtest for the upcoming Wormtown update tonight and was my stomach hurt from laughing. I'm hyped for people to get their hands on this nonsense 😂 (hoping for a release next week if all goes well)

It's easy to take modern video games for granted with the hyper realistic graphics... but like, some days the realization that I can push a button and a little guy moves on screen still feels like magic. Games are neat!

oh heeeeey Wormtown is 30% off for the Steam Summer Sale, does posting a link tank bsky algorithm? Who knows! store.steampowered.com/app/2318480/... Additionally, working on a new content update for Wormtown as well as my next big project. So keep an eye out for details soon!

Due to the success of Rocket League (soccer but with cars), we've now seen Rematch gain immense popularity (Rocket League but with people)

Listen, I get it's a more enjoyable and "underdog" narrative, but saying PEAK is a "surprise hit", when it's in one of the most popular current genres, made by well respected and fan-favorite devs, with MILLIONS of sales behind them - like come on. This was always going to go beaucoup bonkers.

"Peak" is my current GOTY. Not even close. (do keep in mind my goldfish memory means I forget games I played like... a week ago. So take this with a grain of salt.)

Peak is such a perfect game. Yet another banger from Landfall and Aggrocrab.

Oh no, I'm becoming a "bike guy" in my mid 30's. *(pedally feet bike, not vroom vroom bike)

Making a procedural house for my next game, and was like "if only there was a game that has a bunch of different room types I can look at for inspiration..." *loads up the Blue Prince wiki*

maaaaaaaaan I *avoiding posting spoilers* ran into one of the nostalgia throw-back bosses in Nightreign and they even included the soundtrack, I was marking out in the voice chat.

Ugh that "is this too video gamey... or should I lean into it being video gamey" part of level design

Walking around my house analyzing the doorknobs, because game dev is weird

Shoutouts to WhyKev for releasing PaperKlay today after *years* of hard work and development. Check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/1350720/...

9 Kings is my new addiction... store.steampowered.com/app/2784470/...

if you're not doing wild hand gestures, painting out invisible diagrams in the air & speaking out loud by yourself while trying to solve bugs... are you really coding?

Working on an eye look system, where player models will look at points of interest with their eyes. (Similar to R.E.P.O.s characters) Funny bug of the day: players were trying to look at their own faces.

Wow can't believe they made this "Dune" thing after seeing Wormtown. brb calling my lawyers. Update: they hung up on me :c

Running a Discord for your game is fun because sometimes modders will show up and ask "why is this coded so dumbly?" and I have to simply respond "because I'm dumb".

My favorite part of Skin Deep so far is how immediately and obviously it's a Blendo Games game.

I'm stuck in the mental hell of "finish these small projects to help fund the larger project" and "well... why not just work on the larger project, you're wasting time on the smaller ones". Been rubberbanding back and forth on this for weeks now 🙃

Anytime I see "third person shooter" abbreviated to TPS, my brain reads "Tony Pro Skater" instead

Wow, losing all sense of time and staying up way too late playing the Oblivion remake? It truly is exactly like it was 20 years ago😊