Fun fact about the number FIVE ✨ Five is the number of days remaining between now and the release of the beat-slinging music production game OFFBEAT! Wow! Stay tuned for more, fact fans!

Monthly shout-out for the strangest #indiegames you’ve found over the past four weeks. The games that raise eyebrows. The games that subvert expectations. The games that fuck with genres. Show me the good stuff.

Congrats to Pantaloon chum (and developer of It Takes a War) @freeze.ltd on the release of Forest of Deceit. Great to see it so prominently placed during Steam’s Social Deduction Fest, too. store.steampowered.com/app/2388580/...

if you thought the latest single from OFFBEAT Radio was a stone-cold banger (it is! And was composed, produced and exported all from within the game itself) you'll be chuffed as chips to learn that it's now available on Spotify etc open.spotify.com/track/2CYEWt... 👂🥚

Well since the FMV demo was very short I got busy making some stuff in OFFBEAT by @pantaloon.io and that was incredibly fun. Wishlisting that game immediately.

As I put the finishing touches to my talk for #developbrighton, I'm looking for stories from developers, of the most exceptional or outlandish things that players have done to show their love for your game. Was it unhinged fan art, multi-volume fanfic, tattoos, themed weddings..?! #gamedev

We have OFFBEAT press/creator keys now available ahead of release! 🚨 [email protected] or @ us here or something, whatev Our strange little music production toybox launches into early access on July 22nd store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/...

We have OFFBEAT press/creator keys now available ahead of release! 🚨 [email protected] or @ us here or something, whatev Our strange little music production toybox launches into early access on July 22nd store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/...

We’re 2 weeks out from the early access release of OFFBEAT. The release will welcome a number of new instruments you won’t have seen in the demo, including - and I say this objectively - the raddest drum machine you’ve ever seen in your life 🏰 store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/...

It’s the Steam Summer sale! Every single Tributary Game is in it: 🐐 Over The Alps is 50% off 🧿 Occlude is 40% off 🏊‍♂️ King of the Castle is 66% off And I don’t know how emojis work. Go grab a deal:

ICYMI, we've summoned @blumhousegames.com as our July newsletter partner🕯️

It’s here! Future Egg! The hot new single from @edsibley.bsky.social of @whetstone.games! The sound of the summer! 🥚 Oh! And OFFBEAT - which Future Egg was composed and produced from start to finish within - will launch into early access on July 22nd. Not long now… youtu.be/G6uFFS8CRvg?...

let’s all hold hands and commune with the spirit of this month’s newsletter partner ⛧🕯️J O I N U S 🕯️ ⛧ Yes. Yes, they’re in the room. We shall say their name this afternoon… 📩 www.pantaloon.io

This month's Bold and Bizarre Game Bulletin features @sonderingemily.bsky.social @reindeerflo.bsky.social @christhegamedev.bsky.social @freeze.ltd and more go watch it with your eyes and ears youtu.be/_VeH7ez-TXE

🕯️The séance has now begun 🕯️ This month we've partnered with @blumhousegames.com to bring you Fear the Spotlight. A new puzzle &ARG will drop via our newsletter on July 23. Solve it & the game is yours. As always, 5 keys for Bluesky - follow & share this to get involved. www.pantaloon.io

Personally if a thing that developers hate in game development also is a scarlet letter that makes players try to kill the game, I wouldn't do it instead of trying to hide it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epic-ga...

Okay here's what I'm thinking: I think a lot of devs had trouble getting reach during Next Fest due to the large volume of content. I'm gong to host a "jam" on @itch.io to let people submit their demos. Then we'll take over the homepage to showcase everything to give creators a second chance.

pour me a large glass of whatever this aesthetic is called

go buy/play this it’s smart and weird and brilliant

Ready to see what's next for BOXROOM? 📦 store.steampowered.com/news/app/433...

we've got such a blinding partner and game for the newsletter next month. ready your inbox www.pantaloon.io

Twenty K 🙈

Lots of people asking how we made Over the Alps: The Devil's Quill. Also asking why we made it, which is fair enough! So! A brief thread about how I finished off a game I started back in 2013. 🧵 #gamedev

and this, in short, is basically why we made the whole game

OFFBEAT (@whetstone.games )🔸Fun lil visual music maker! Start w a synth and a kid's keyboard cat, upgrading as you go. End result: real music that YOU made & own - devs stress that at start. V v cool. Jump-scared by the printer a lot tho. 😄Audio options pls? tinyurl.com/42fxbrwc

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OFFBEAT hit 10,000 wishlists overnight, with nearly as many Demo downloads. Shout out to those of you realising your creative dreams and making music with your human hands and brains 🎹 store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/...

yes pls, v cool

The mad bastards did it. They made FLESH KATAMARI. pantaloon-io.itch.io/rolla

ok yes, you understood the brief

alright send me the weirdest shit you've seen in Steam Next Fest so far. Give me the oddballs. The misfits. The double-you-tee-effs. will share, and best might make it into next week's Bold & Bizarre Game Bulletin 📨 #indiegames | #gamedev

go watch @lomadiah.bsky.social decorate 📦

Played the OFFBEAT Demo in Steam Next Fest yet? Compose and produce a killer track. Send it to us. Maybe we'll publish it under the umbrella of OFFBEAT Radio & you'll be like more famous than Daft Punk or something, who knows store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/... open.spotify.com/track/7EsqOO...

ROLLA demo is available on Steam (by Tyrmä Games) store.steampowered.com/app/3975830/... "ROLLA is a B-movie inspired horror arcade destruction game about survival."

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NEWS JUST IN! Eye-witnesses have confirmed that that the rolling mass of pulsing flesh - ROLLA - has now found its way to @itch.io Play the demo! Destroy some stuff! Set some big scores! pantaloon-io.itch.io/rolla

hello there music liker! DID YOU KNOW that there is a new OFFBEAT Demo out now in Steam Next Fest!? I know! Wild! Answer your creative calling! Make and export music! Get famous probably I don’t know store.steampowered.com/app/4468030/... youtu.be/FuQVYxVkFCI?... #indiegames

playing boxroom, made the "animal person having a terrible no good bad time" trilogy

lol this is so cursed

Choo choo 🚂

go get your boyfriend body pillow x

BOXROOM is OUT NOW on @itch.io and Steam! 📦 Organise your library! Build a sanctuary for your games! Revel in the organisation of it all! As always to celebrate launch, 5 keys to win here on Bluesky. Follow and share this, we'll pick winners on June 18th. pantaloon-io.itch.io/boxroom

MOVING IN DAY 📦 store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/...

A little BOXROOM update! 📦 After a little delay, we're launching June 11th (CRIKEY THAT'S TOMORROW!) Important details and whatnot ahead of release: store.steampowered.com/app/4335460/...

'Very Violent Testicle' was actually the original name for the game but the suits made us change it 😔