Happy Holiday to all lil sickos out there! 💙 We're keeping the Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator demo online until Jan 6th because what would this time be without Nan shouting "SHORT THAT BABY!" 📉 store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

Oh I'm late, but Happy Holidays 🎁 and thanks for the #TurnBasedThursday host!! Oh!Ware is the name of the game. It's a Mancala Rogue like and been having a blast making it. Shooting for a demo and steam page release soon 👀 #indiedev #gamedev bsky.app/profile/perr...

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, @glasshousecrpg.bsky.social! Quasimorph is a #turnbased extraction #roguelike. Unforgiving combat, your own spacecraft, and mysterious dark threat to all life. Our NPCs care about each other since the last update!

Hey @glasshousecrpg.bsky.social thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday today and the amazing event art! As a team who worked on a single game for >10 years, we bundled up with another dev who worked on their game for >10 years 💫 currently 30% off on Steam store.steampowered.com/bundle/48742...

Our game #GLASSHOUSE is a dark thriller CRPG set in a locked-down condominium shattered by a triple murder🎲 (Steam Playtest available until January 2nd). bsky.app/profile/glas... #TurnBasedThursday | #RPG | #IndieGames | #IndieDev | #RPG

We’re honored to officially host the last #TurnBasedThursday of the year! 🎉 💡 #IndieGameDev / #GameDev, drop your bloody #turnbased game below (Don't forget 'bout the hashtag!) 🎮 #Gamers, do ye love turn-based games?❤/🔁 your favorites in the replies and @ other devs too! 👇

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Star Spark is a roguelite, tactical turn-based fighting game in which you battle your way through a survival tournament. Here's the trailer and a look at what I did last week! 🌟 store.steampowered.com/app/3639950 #GameDev #IndieGames #StarSpark #Roguelite

Hello to all the new folks! 👋🏻 My name is Alex and I'm the lead indie dev at Polygon Treehouse. We're a micro indie studio making award-winning art-led narrative games like Röki & Mythwrecked.

FINALLY can get back to game deving!! It's a Christmas miracle!! #indiedev #gamedev

manifesting indie devs mov over here so I can find some cool games 🥺🥺🥺

Merry Christmas peeps!!

Oh Rhythm Doctor..... I was unfamiliar with your game 🤣🔥🙏👌

What you're doing with mancala looks really fun and interesting!

M A N C A L A<3

It's been 2 months since I launched Star Spark's Steam page and I want to share the wishlist stats so far with y'all again. Right now I have 451 wishlists and 9 removals (it's okay, it happens 🙂). #GameDev #IndieGameDev #Steam

Out of all games to draw inspiration from, Mancala was not on my list of expectations, but I'm here for it!

Devastated. Outside of consistently hearing him be very pro-player and anti-shitty corporate practices I can’t speak to Vince professionally, but personally he was such a down to earth, funny, warm person. The industry already feels far less bright without him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

FINALLY can get back to game deving!! It's a Christmas miracle!! #indiedev #gamedev

Thank you for the #TurnBasedThursday host and Happy Holidays peeps! Work has had me hella busy, but tis the season to get back to my Mancala Roguelike Was able to do some sweeping changes in recently and I think it's coming together #indiedev

Also check the trailer out on youtube! like, share and all the usual verbs. youtu.be/KcIhhdfc9pM

In honor of Sunken Stones being nominated for the 2026 indiegameawards.gg BVIG Award. I wanted to (re)Introduce everyone to my current project with a shiny new animated teaser! Check it out and Wishlist Now: store.steampowered.com/app/1958800/...

This looks amazing, would buy

I didn’t have $1 million for a Game Awards trailer, so I’m posting my Chaotic Delivery game here for free instead! #gamedev #indiedev

We're honoured to announce that Spooky Express and LOK Digital are finalists in the @thinkygames.com Thinky Game Awards! LOK Digital & Spooky Express are up for: Game of the Year, Best Approachable Game, Best Puzzle Design and Best Art Direction. Vote for us here! thinkygames.com/events/award...

Draknek & Friends Official Podcast Episode 44 featuring @philippawarr.bsky.social is out now! Topics include the development of A Monster's Expedition, worldbuilding in non-linear games, and writing localization notes about comedy. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

the good news is that the media attention and support from an audience has helped Horses do well enough that Santa Ragione has been able to pay all its owed royalties and loans. so it's not in debt. the bad news is it's still not enough to keep the studio together. www.ign.com/articles/hor...

@theblackhokage.bsky.social is right.... Y'all not playing new games 😭😭

disappointed but never surprised an absence of black women in these articles

Without further ado here are ~30 of my favorite game trailers from 2025! You’ll find games of all sizes, and trailer concepts familiar and incredibly unconventional. All of them stood out from the crowd of many well executed trailers. I guarantee you’ll find something fun and/or inspirational 😄

Been following this one for a while, happy to see @perridot.bsky.social back in action!! For fans of mancala and rogue likes.

Honestly tho, expecting consumers to simply have the best hardware instead of optimizing in the first place was shitty so I guess we MAYBE win a little here ... Hopefully

this happened to monster hunter wilds and borderlands 4 this year, the future is now

Looking good as always :D

Performance and optimization will be key in the upcoming years. Gonna be interesting seeing what games fail because the gamers can't "just upgrade their hardware"

Twas the week before Christmas 🎅 Santa’s loading his sleigh And #gamers rejoiced It’s #TurnBasedThursday! All #gamedev / #indiedev Show your #turnbased game! 🩷 Like, share and wishlist To increase their fame! I’m honored to host This great weekly fest Thanks for having me 🥹 You all are the best!

Also, here are some Visual Novel trailers I think are very good. First (mentioned in the video) is Amarantus. This trailer was made by @garyjkings.bsky.social. A great sense of the situations and character dynamics and just shy of a minute long!

Star Spark is a roguelite, tactical turn-based fighting game in which you battle your way through a survival tournament. 👊 You can punch the wishlist button here: 💥 store.steampowered.com/app/3639950 #WishlistWednesday #StarSpark #IndieGames #GameDev

Lots of really strong puzzle games in this year's nominees for the Thinky Awards! 🏆 Go place your vote if you haven't already!

This week's #TurnBasedThursday host is another multitalented solodev, composing his own music for a fantasy sports battle game. Final Fantasy Tactics meets football? Sounds like a stunner to me! What's the score with your game? Follow @jlansing19.bsky.social & show us in tomorrow's thread!

Announcing the nominees for the 2025 Thinky Awards! 🎉

Tune into the Indie Game Awards this Thursday, December 18! 🥳 There are so many talented games nominated, who are you excited to see? 🗓 Dec 18, 3:30pm PT / 6:30pm ET ▶ YouTube & Twitch www.indiegameawards.gg @indiegameawards.gg #gamedev #indiegame

It's the final Fully Ramblomatic of 2025, and @yahtzeecroshaw.bsky.social reviewed Metroid Prime 4: Beyond! Presented by Incogni.

Rainbow x Lionfish

clip from a month or so back, testing obstacles, even though I don't really know if they make the game more or less fun #gamedev #indiedev

In a lot of ways, Larian was a poster child (alongside folks like Remedy) for how retaining a team and continuing to refine a toolset makes seemingly impossible things achievable. Why spend 2 years talking about how critical this was to BG3's existence--and then say major parts of it don't matter?

I adore the work and advocacy of Larian, and wish it extended to respecting and refining the craft used in *all* of their processes, rather than selectively eroding them with AI--especially because it's those refined processes that have produced the games so many loved over their last three titles.

Congrats!!

Star Spark is a roguelite, turn-based fighting game in which you battle your way through a survival tournament. You'll have to master combos, learn new skills, and outwit your opponents if you wanna make it! ↗️ store.steampowered.com/app/3639950 #TeaseYaGame #StarSpark #IndieGames #GameDev

LARIAN'S DOING WHAT!?

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.