Abysm today: Replaced the episode 1 chamber Szimmetria with a new more puzzle-focused chamber called Gorogoro. Also significantly updated Abominations, Explosive, Veiled, Pale Brood, and Grottesca. I believe this significantly improves the demo. Iteration is key. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #bevy

Abysm today: Released new versions of the demo and the full game, fixing a couple of small issues, and introducing the new atmospheric effects I've been working on. Play the demo or the full game and tell me what you think! store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steamdeck

Abysm today: Finished up my episode 3 environmental shader combo. It's #WishlistWednesday, so if you like what you see, please wishlist my boulder-pushing puzzle game! store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #boulderdash #shader #bevy #bevyengine #rustlang

Abysm today: Working on an environmental shader for episode 3. It's kind of subtle, but I think it looks good. Will hopefully be able to get these updates out towards the end of the week. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #shaders #puzzlegame #pixelart #boulderdash #emeraldmine #steamdeck #wgsl #wgpu

Abysm today: Infra for my next effect after the light shafts, some minor polish to story texts, started to plan further chamber updates in episode 1. It's #DemoMonday, and mine is available: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #eldrich #pixelart #supaplex

Abysm today: Finalized the light shaft effect with a color shift, a slant, and a subtle fog effect. Good enough for now and when I don't think so anymore, I will iterate. That's #gamedev. #indiedev #indiegame #shaders #pixelart #puzzlegame #ThePortsmoorAbysm #steamdeck #lovecraftian #boulderdash

Abysm today: Working on a simple light shaft effect for episode 1. Looks good? It's a Boulder Dash-inspired cosmic horror puzzle game. Try the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steamdeck #bevyengine #rustlang #pixelart #lovecraftian

Abysm today: As yesterday, so today. The weather was great and on top of that this day, every year, I get older. So, a bit of infra work, not much. And if you wanna help me celebrate, check out my game: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steamdeck #life

We just published the steam page for Torp :D Check it out here store.steampowered.com/app/2756680/... Any feedback is welcome. #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #ColonySim #VikingGame

Abysm today: Very little, tiny bit of setting up the next shader Im trying to create. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #devlog #pixelart #steamdeck

Abysm today: Finished up the effect I was working on yesterday and did a bit of drawing trying to imagine the next one. It's #WishlistWednesday and mine seems to have stalled, so if you see this and haven't, please wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gif

Abysm today: Playing around with a "dark emanations" effect for episode 4. It's #TrailerTuesday, so maybe look at mine? youtu.be/Szdv97J9gdQ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #shader

Abysm today: Released new version of the demo and the full game, including the replaced level in episode 1 and the fog in episode 2. This #DemoMonday I'm showing a clip from my demo: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #steamdeck #boulderdash #pixelart

Abysm today: Finished up a fog effect for episode 2. Coincidentally, this #ShowMeSunday I'm showing a clip from episode 2 of my atmospheric puzzle game, inspired by classics such as Boulder Dash: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #bevyengine #bevy #rustlang

Abysm today: Updated capsule art with the updated environment art. Played around with a new environmental effect for episode 2, looks kind of neat, but there's more work to do to determine whether I can make it look good enough for to actually include in the game. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

It's #ScreenshotSaturday and I'm showing this clip of a sliding ice boulder, from the 4th episode of The Portsmoor Abysm, my atmospheric Boulder Dash-inspired pixelart puzzle game. Available on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #steamdeck #lovecraftian #cthulhu

Abysm today: Updated the animated GIFs on the Steam page with the new environment art. Constructed a new chamber for which I currently have no use. It's #FollowFriday, so follow me, and play my Boulder Dash-inspired puzzle game: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Abysm today: Replaced the Episode 1 (demo) chamber Quartet (formely known as Hex) with Metallassó, a more puzzle-focused one. The goal is that the demo should better represent the complete game. Gamedev is a long series of tweaks. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steamdeck #puzzlegame #bevyengine

Abysm today: It's #WishlistWednesday rather than #TrailerTuesday, but I've just released an updated version of the trailer for my atmospheric puzzle game! Watch it: youtu.be/Szdv97J9gdQ Then play the demo, and the full game: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Abysm today: Updated screenshots on the Steam store page to match the updated environment art. store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steam #steamdeck #steamstore #steamdemo #pixelart

Abysm today: Released a new version of the game either updated environment art, including some technical changes to enable it. Notice how the dirt flows around the boulders now. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #puzzlegame #bevyengine #bevy #rustlang #steamdeck #devlog

This #DemoMonday I'm releasing a new version of The Portsmoor Abysm, my atmospheric puzzle game, with updated environment art. This example is from episode 2, what do you think? Play the updated demo now! store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #steamdeck #bevy

Abysm today: Finished up pixeling the updated dirt in episode 2, and released new beta versions of the full game+demo with the new art for every episode. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #showmesunday #pixelart #steamdeck #steamdemo #aseprite #boulderdash #indiegaming

Abysm today: More pixeling... finished up dirt tiles in episode 4, getting closer for episode 2. This art update is now fairly close and I'm contemplating that I will want to update screenshots and trailers and all that. Sigh. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #aseprite #steamdeck #bevyengine

This #ScreenshotSaturday I'm showing this clip from The Portsmoor Abysm, my atmospheric boulder-pushing puzzle game. This shows the updated episode 3 pixel art that I'm working on. Play the demo, get the game: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/ #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #bevyengine

Abysm today: More pixeling; done with updated dirt in episode 3 (screenshot) and mostly done in episode 4. It's #FollowFriday, so follow me, play the demo, and if you like it, consider playing and reviewing the full game? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart

Rust 1.95.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨ This release includes cfg_select!{}, if-let guards in match, Vec::push_mut, VecDeque::push_{front,back}_mut, std::hint::cold_path, and more! Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/16/R...

Abysm today: More pixeling, new dirt tiles for episode 3 today. Not quite done, but getting there. Play the demo maybe? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/ #ShowcaseThursday #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #bevy #bevyengine #rustlang #steamdeck #steamdemo #aseprite #puzzlegame

Abysm today: More pixeling, mostly done with redrawing the dirt tiles of ep1, and started with ep2, deciding the basic design. It's #WishlistWednesday and I certainly like wishlists... but reviews are also sorely needed: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart

Abysm today: More dirt pixels... getting there. It's #TrailerTuesday and today I'll plug my release trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDdN... Because that's a thing I did, release the game. #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #puzzlegame #bevyengine #rustlang #steamdeck #steamdemo

Abysm today: Pixeling dirt, experimenting with ways to add variation. It's #DemoMonday and the demo of my game covers the first of four episodes: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 Try it, and if you like it, consider buying the complete game, supporting a solo dev! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Abysm today: Completed the move from "transition in dirt" to "transition in empty space" tile layout. This should allow varied dirt graphics, with basics demonstrated in the screenshot. store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #puzzlegame #showmesunday #steamdeck

Abysm today: My experiment continues ahead as shown. The goal is more flexibility and increased variety for the dirt. It's #ScreenshotSaturday, and if you like what you see, the game is available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #bevyengine #puzzlegame

Abysm today: More work on my latest graphical experiment. Looks wonky still, might ultimately not be worth pursuing, but going to give it some polish to see if I can make it work. Try the demo of the game? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #followfriday #pixelart

Abysm today: Looked around for inspiration and references for some updated graphics, and then started some provisional pixeling. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #aseprite #graphics

We recently surpassed having 1,000 games in our database! 🎉 As that number continues to grow, you can look through all the puzzly games we've cataloged here:

If ya'll could boost my game I'd very much appreciate it! Trying to get to 50 reviews for the Steam algorithm. I already have glowing reviews from the likes of Raigan Burns (N++) and Daniel Linssen (Leap Year) and just need a handful more. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...

Abysm today: Split the tile map into two layers, background and foreground, to allow me to play around with some new graphical effects. It's #WishlistWednesday so maybe wishlist/demo/buy my game? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #retrogame #puzzlegame #boulderdash

Abysm today: Started planning out the next steps, including a bit of graphical experimentation. It's #TrailerTuesday and I have one for my #BoulderDash -inspired #Lovecraftian puzzle game with 16bit style pixelart: youtu.be/I5oDUAn1Nr8 #videogame #retrogame #steamdeck #retro #amiga #supaplex

Abysm today: Finished up the bats, which now randomly spawn while digging, and released new versions of both the demo and the full game. store.steampowered.com/news/app/402... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #rustlang #pixelart #cthulhu #lovecraft #steamdemo #steamdeck #boulderdash #supaplex

It's #DemoMonday, and I just released a (very slightly) updated version of the demo of The Portsmoor Abysm, my atmospheric boulder-pushing puzzle game. It now has bats! store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/ #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #lovecraftian #boulderdash #puzzlegame #steamdeck #bevyengine

Abysm today: Fixed a bug where the ambient light would reset to the wrong value. Also started adding my new decoration, as shown by the screenshot, into the game. The game? See link! Demo? Yes! store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/... #ShowMeSunday #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Pixelart #Atmosphere

It's #ScreenshotSaturday and this is a video from The Portsmoor Abysm, my atmospheric boulder-pushing puzzle game: youtu.be/BaCSKwKh7H8 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #bevyengine #rustlang #boulderdash #supaplex #retrogaming #gaming #c64 #steamdeck

Hey! It's #FollowFriday and if you're already following me, maybe also follow @maelduinplays.bsky.social who played the demo of my game, The Portsmoor Abysm: youtu.be/esguangnQIw The game? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/ #indiegame #videogame #steamgame #steamdemo #gamedev #indiedev #bevy

Abysm today: Busy with other stuff, so only a tiny bit of promo work, along with some testing. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #cthulhu #pixelart #puzzlegame #thinkygame #bevyengine

Abysm today: New ambient sound effect, and finished sound for my next fun little decorative element. It's #WishlistWednesday and while I already have 557 I'd like to make that... an even 1000 why not? And play the demo? store.steampowered.com/app/4025180/ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #bevyengine

Abysm today: Created a small pixel art animation and went looking for a matching sound. Watched Thomas Brush stream my game and liking it quite a bit, particularly the sounds, which was really satisfying: youtu.be/v12eMslcikU?... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #lovecraftian #gamesound

Abysm today: Small bit of bug hunting and promo work. It's #DemoMonday, so maybe play mine, and if you like it, there's a full game available, and your progress will be preserved: store.steampowered.com/app/4025180 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #puzzlegame #steamdeck #cosmichorror #bevyengine

Sometimes* your game is about 5 or 6 things and it only needs to be about 2 or 3. *nearly always

Abysm today: Released a new version of the full game and the demo, with the last week of accumulated fixes. Then(!) fixed a grammar problem and tweaked the volume of a sound. store.steampowered.com/news/app/402... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #steamdeck #showmesunday #cosmichorror #puzzlegame