Gumby screens that feel like Elden Ring @gumbyscreens.bsky.social

Games industry veteran Alyssa Kollgaard has put together a tool called Publisher Pathfinder, which guides developers towards publishing partners and investors that match their game's needs. www.gamesindustry.biz/publisher-pa...

Gotta start posting about Order Automatica more : ) Another big update coming soon. Your last candle is flickering... Complete the ritual before the darkness takes you! ⚙️ Roguelike auto-battler played on a 3×3 grid. #PitchYaGame #indiegame #roguelike

Started a lil side project this week as a treat and it’s all clicked so effortlessly! Any guesses what I’m making? 📅 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev

While I remain adrift in publisher pitch purgatory, I'm giving myself the ultimate #gamedev treat today: Permission to work on something new. 🎁

My game is good, the algorithm just ignores me My game is good, the algorithm just ignores me My game is good, the algorithm just ignores me My game is good, the algorithm just ignores... #indiegames #pixelart #gamedev

Dear folks. I’m collecting case studies on good/interesting game dev practice/process from artisanal solo devs or small teams. Please; more reccs for developers who are not dudes.

This is entirely accurate and it’s not even close.

Gamedev friends, this is more proof that we are not to blame for the current state of our industry. These are the same executives that follow every trend blindly and ignorantly. Aggressive MTX, everything is a live service, DRM that only punish paying players, NFTs, and now AI. What a shitshow.

🎃 The itch.io Halloween Sale 2025 is LIVE! 👻 Over 13,000 spooky deals on games, tabletop RPGs, assets & more—running until Nov 4th. itch.io/blog/1096153/the-itc...

Question for my #gamedev & #indiedev friends: Have you supported an #indiegame Kickstarter within the past year? Drop a like if so ❤️ I'm curious if this is still a viable form of fundraising for tiny teams while the publisher availability continues to shrink. It is HARD out there, full stop.

Happy Halloweeeeeek! 👻 I just saw good ol' @itch.io is having a spooky sale, so I decided to make my first full-length game AQUAMARINE available for $1. 😱 It's an exceedingly chill experience, but things do take a turn the deeper you dive... moebial.itch.io/aquamarine

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There is no doubt in my mind that the legendary teams/ studios of the 2030s and 40s are going to be built over the next few years. There's so much talent available right now and all it's going to take is a handful of money guys that remember you can make money off of Good Fundamentals.

In Capital, Marx quotes a bunch of bourgeois folk who say actually automation creates jobs because employers use the money they save on expanding the scale of production. His reply is essentially ‘well yeah eventually but it’s still a fucked time for the individual workers’

Keep coming back to this days later. Thinking of our story on Drag Her!, thinking of every story that I heard from friends that did sign. My new plan? Build towards grants. Keep your games small, novel, clanky. Disregard people who do not add to your project, which means... nearly every publisher.

Ouch but.... Not false. We need people to drop the excel sheets and get in early, get in and take risk instead of just being fucking middlemen. If you're taking revenue % - fucking earn it.

I am desperate to know of any instance of this not being true.

Oh baybee I got some exciting updates in the works for Doodle Champs! I'll be adding even more free cosmetics and challenges in the next update too. 👉 Full roadmap here: www.doodlechamps.com/roadmap #indiegame #gamedev #drawing #artist

We put in a ton of hard work to get this update ready for y'all! I've already got a favorite nameplate that I'm reppin' HARD in the game ("Mouse Master" if you must know 🐭) Check out what else is new & if you haven't already, pick up the game for only $8! ✍️

Please read our statement regarding the proposed Electronic Arts buyout. We refuse to let corporate greed decide the future of our industry. cwa-union.org/news/release...

Looking for a party game that combines social deduction with the pleasant absurdity of rating animals, films, and the weather on a scale of ★ to ★★★★★? And it's just a simple deck of cards? AND it's live on Kickstarter now?!?! Guess what, STARFRIENDS has launched! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

The nod of respect through ages when you realise ‘I want the mechanic to feel like game X’ is often achieved by putting in a round number, or the simplest possible shape of code. Feeling in that moment the reality that all games are made by a somewhat frazzled person just trying to get it to work.

Imagine, you are buzzing after the last sip of your third Kim Crawford sauvignon blanc. You just met a lovely retiree whose daughter-in-law is going to phone you about the condo in Hallandale. You walk up to my tent, I smile at you. I have Golgotha loaded up in Classic.

An inspiring interaction 🥹

I am fascinated by how ubi has welded the aesthetics of politics in its games and marketing for decades, but always been profoundly cowardly about engaging with them. Political aspartame.

Yup

Very, very proud of what the Raising the Bar team pulled together ahead of a big deadline. Here's to hoping.

DOODLE CHAMPS is $5.99 in the STEAM AUTUMN SALE! 🍁🍂 grab it while it's... crispy... #indiedev #gamedev #artist #digitalart #steam

I know it's a real cliché but I still think Karl Marx is one of the most important theorists to read if you want to understand capital's obsession with generative AI. This is from pg 692-93 of the Grundrisse.

Good morning everyone, a short alpha gameplay reel featuring the latest progress on our new game is up on Patreon.

GDC has always been ass, and GDC now trying to further impose control outside moscone to strangle out side events is a sure sign that it's not going to get better. If you're a dev, this sheet is free and will have a higher impact than paying money to go to sf docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If you're on LinkedIn, here's the opt-out for LinkedIn's AI bullshit using your content. www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

Fix your brain and heart

Eric Adams just installed 200 of these in central park

This next @jeremycouillard.bsky.social game has a very long title, and we have a character limit. ⌨️ Sometimes to Deal… is a collection of virtual ideas. There is no beginning or end. There is no winning or losing. It also comes with a 100-page manual. 📖♾️

this is video games, and i love it for that

En taller de una Amiga quedamos pa hacer cositas random cada semana, hoy tocaron cartulinas articuladas y me salió esto

What's up #gamedev & #indiedev friends! I've entered my hardcore game pitching era and I'm curious if y'all have suggestions for publishers I should be getting in touch with. Any you're especially fond of lately? Bonus points if they love RPG/narrative-focused games!

Now that I have some distance from my GDC talk, I think if I were to boil down my game design advice into a single sentence, it might be something like: Focus less on adding stuff to your game, and more on developing connections between the stuff you already have.

🎂Celebrating: 9 years of 🐢Akupara Games! ✨ For story lovers, challenge seekers, deck makers and any and every gamer at heart, we have an indie video game for you. Our publisher sale starts now, with over 30 titles on discounted up to 90% off 💘

adobe / word now have this godless AI warning "this appears to be a long document? read a summary instead?" Me, at a keynote for the 8 people able to graduate from college in 2030: 🎤 "Brief. Cogent. Succinct? Three words for FAILURE. You are thinking meat. Be unsummarizable. Death to the machine"

I don’t know who needs to hear this as they wake up today, but HOLY SHIT the sound design in Silksong is outstanding. Sells the immensity and grandeur of everything in full force. Easily my favorite upgrade since Hollow Knight (so far).

I already beat another guy who cut Medicaid, gave tax breaks to billionaires, and hounded multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment — might as well debate the one actually calling the shots.

Ah yes, the two genders

They should’ve just pulled a U2 and forced Silksong onto everyone’s device automatically. Probably would’ve been way easier to only manage the folks who want to opt out.

between the silksong release and rfk jr testifying to congress about his plans to kill lots of people, what a huge moment for murderous worms

Rebounder is announced! Wishlist it on steam, or play the shareware version right now: reboundergame.com/shareware

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...