the game awards but everyone in the audience has a button and if enough people hit the button during your trailer then the trailer ends and you have to cancel your game

geoff: "this last reveal is gonna redefine shooter games" *shows a game where you are shooting a gun*

getting a medical bill for thousands of dollars and then your insurance saying "hey just give us $20 and we'll call it even" simply can not be a sign of a functional system

sorry devolver but this is the only skate story for me

im late on this but just now noticing that first party nintendo games are $10 more expensive as a switch 2 version compared to switch 1 versions. what a stupid decision. what does that $10 even mean ???

we're getting somewhere here maybe idk

projects as large as a game will inevitably have ups and downs. right now im in a low spot. juggling a handful of different changes which all feel like a lot of restructuring for not a lot of immediate payoff. i was very hopeful to have a steam page and demo up in December but now im not so sure. 😔

as per indie dev tradition, i'm kinda redoing the entire structure of SongRunner unexpectedly. before (left), i had a grid of levels. i felt like this made each level feel too separated. now (right, WIP), i've grouped those levels together into chapters. i like this... 1/2 #Godot #indiedev #gamedev

it must've felt so god damn cool to write these lyrics down for the first time im a cowboy on a steel horse i ride im wanted dead or alive

great article with a lot of good insight into Silksongs development, its future, and the lack of accessibility controls. i dont agree with TC there but i respect that they had a thought process behind their choices.

ive been finding that making a short list of "next thing(s) to do" before I close out of my project for the day really helps me get back into development easier because I very quickly pick up where I left off even if it's been a couple of days. #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

can anyone help me figure out if the bsky app got a slightly new icon or if im just crashing out

the gorons of Zelda echoes of wisdom have huge belly buttons but if you switch the camera to overhead view then you get this really funny perspective

steam: good news devs, store pages are now wider!! devs, after spending agonizing hours measuring pixel perfect custom image headers for the About section: 😭😭😭

screaming and crying that this is a real screenshot from metroid prime 4

even the game jam version was a really surprisingly satisfying little metroidbrainia!!

maybe we could use another splash screen.

whats your favorite shootem up game ill start

torn because I really want everybody to play my lil music game but also I'm working on some really fun updates to the visuals that I think will make it look really nice and polished once they're done #godot #indiedev #GMTKjam mattgoode.itch.io/songrunner

ive had conflicting thoughts about Arc Raiders. the AI voice acting bit is admittedly a small part of the overall package, but I also think it sets the absolute worst precedent, and I fear for how this gives other developers the green light to take bigger steps into generative AI in future games.

feel like Mario kart world was such a blip this year. played nonstop for about 2 days and then nothing. I'm still really looking forward to when Nintendo finally gives it an update though.

theres a good thread on /r/games right now about astroturfing and how it intersects with self-promotion and the fact that many subreddits' rules unintentionally encourage a little astroturfing because of how much people dislike open self promo. anyway check out SongRunner on @itch.io

the boomers are doomed honestly

my first #PitchYaGame ! SongRunner was featured as a favorite from @gamemakerstoolkit.com 's 2025 game jam! now I'm trying to make it less bad! use keys 1-8 to play music which creates platforms to reach the end of single-screen platform challenges! Here's an early level and a later level!

being self taught on programming means sometimes you have to scroll through the Godot docs because you forget what enums are called

very spontaneously picked up an open box 1440p monitor at best buy and replaced my 1080p. everything is so tiny now !!!! this is great

taking some baby steps to de-google and take some of the megacorp leeches out of my monthly bills. I think the hardest apps to really get rid of will be Google Drive and Spotify, though the latter is on a really impressive speedrun toward supervillain status.

was using @wanderbot.bsky.social 's blog posts about content creator outreach and next fest preparation and found this absolutely amazing takedown of the dangers of generative AI infecting every facet of the internet www.wanderbots.com/blog/youtube...

making a steam page is really hard!!! I don't know what to say just buy my silly game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been thinking about video games that are either about being a musician or which incorporate music into their gameplay - not mere rhythm games, but games where music is a central theme. Here are 25 good ones (+ some encores!) (A thread) #gaming #videogames #vgm #videogamemusic #retrogames

trying bg effects today. want to maintain the minimalist look but also levels were feeling a bit sterile. i think i like the first one (the faded platforms bop to the beat) more than the second one (the white squares move up and down vertically - a little distracting imo). #Godot #gamedev #indiedev

"Return of the Obra Dinn" is seven years old this week. For this not-particularly-special anniversary, here's a re-cammed and narrated timelapse of (nearly) all character creation, object modeling, scene posing, and general 3D work for Obra Dinn from 2015 to 2018: youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s

i just opened my freezer for the first time today and a singular small fruit fly came flying out. my entire understanding of biology is shattered.

ok! i had a lil personal goal of finishing this update this week and (barely) made it!! my music-based platformer SongRunner has been updated on itch with 10 new levels! #Godot #IndieDev 🎮

just putting some proof that i can beat my own game 💅 10 new levels dropping today or Monday on Itch depending on how my focus is today (i only played the Dogpile demo from @folly.studio for about two hours this morning sooo yeah) steam page soon!! follow for more updates!! #Godot #IndieDev

these cute lil launchers are comin along 🎵🎵🏃‍♂️🎮 #Godot #IndieDev #gaming

wrote a lil dev log about SongRunner, the game that Mark Brown of GMTK called "pretty neat" 🎮 short and sweet version is - more new levels coming soon to Itch, then a steam page, then a steam demo, then a (hopefully better) demo for the February 2026 Next Fest! wahoo!! #IndieDev #Godot

it feels so good just testing out new platforming levels/mechanics and just haphazardly slapping down notes to make a neat little bop im really excited for what this game looks like in a few months. i think it could be an awesome submission for the February Next Fest 😈 #indiedev #godot #gaming

any recommendations for sites that manage posting lil clips to tiktok/insta/shorts on a schedule? i'd like to start accounts for SongRunner but all the overhead of scheduling on each platform has deterred me in the past #Godot #IndieDev

my brother it is called "staccato" and it means the notes are very short and thus the platforms you create are also quite short new levels coming soon to SongRunner 😈😈 a new world means i gotta make a new song and instrument to go with it too hmmmmm #indiedev #godot #GMTKJam

new short video about some good progress i've made on SongRunner, my entry in the 2025 #GMTKJam (and a MARK FAVORITE)! #GMTKJam #IndieDev #Godot

having a really weird issue with OBS recording my screen upside down and i found a troubleshooting conversation on reddit from someone with the same issue that really made me giggle

finished silksong today with 100% completion. absolutely phenomenal what team cherry was able to cook. i do think the game needs some difficulty options, but if you can manage without them, theres such a wonderfully weird world waiting to be explored. one of my all time favorites without a doubt.

oh no Matt how good did you make the speedrun times!

gosh i know theres a lot of weird stuff happening in america right now but i just put in a little update to my game to add a lil star when you get a good speedrun time on a level 😈 #Godot #indiedev #GMTKJam

i didnt know how badly i needed this godot 4.5 feature oh my god

been spending like.. idk a couple weeks in a row on just menus and UI, and dont get me wrong it's satisfying seeing it slowly come together, but gosh it's not quite as exciting as building out new game mechanics and design. but hey, i think it looks pretty acceptable #godot #gamedev #indiedev

what do the buttons on the bowser phone do

sometimes when i write an email for work i have two things to say, so i write "[first thing] additionally, [second thing] thanks, matt" and the number of times that people ONLY answer [second thing] absolutely kills me oh my god

silksong, blue prince, and inscryption manage to pull off this absolutely mindblowing concept where the player simply does not understand the full scope of the game even after many hours of playing