188 KB of the game. No textures, no meshes, no sprites, no samples, no assets at all except for the voice-over audio which is +2.8 MB. An experience that is short but complete in every aspect, looking, feeling, and sounding pretty decent, can be condensed in under 3MB. #gamedev #indiedev #horror

Just got my first ever youtube let's play of my game! Someone found the game on reddit, played it 4(!) times to find all the endings, gave me a lot of great feedback, and even made a whole 30min video. This is so cool! youtu.be/1PFEuSDaT_Y #gamedev #horror #retrogaming

Phew, just finished my little horror ASCII game! It's a short story about exploring the depths of the Southern Ocean in a submarine. You can play it here (it's free): haldane4.denisbondare.com #gamedev #horror #ascii #indiedev #solodev #retrogaming

I'm making a tiny ASCII-style horror story about exploring one of the deepest under-ice cavities in Antarctica alone in a cramped submarine. It gets dark and messy pretty quickly, can't show everything yet haha Would you play this? #gamedev #horror #ascii #indiedev

Is there a way to subscribe to a feed of most popular game jams so I get notifications before they start? Itch io has like hundreds of them and I can't find a way to get notified.. #gamedev #gamejam

Sorry babe, but my Notion 3D Engine stays on #notion #coding

Playing Doom in #Notion after a long day #creativecoding #gamedev

music is code

I gotta get back to work but I keep torturing this strudel snippet #dnb #creativecoding #beatmaking

I keep enjoying using Strudel. Feels like being a kid trying Basic for the first time haha #creativecoding #livecoding #junglemusic

My tiniest task manager. I like the idea of a task bucket, you drop in random stuff you need to do, and when you have time, you pull one out and do it. I just made a small local app for this. Adding tasks is easy at any moment with a hotkey. I really love minimalistic apps haha

I just opened the repo of my tiny horror game that runs in the terminal. You can play it with python. Story: in the 80s, a deep cave was found but couldn't be explored. A robot was sent 3km down. You're the engineer controlling it from the surface. #gamedev #ascii #horrorgame #indiedev

Wanted to try something new. I like that it's that simple, mostly just sine waves, and only 29 lines of code. Shifting arpeggio notes 4 chords behind was accidental, but turned out surprisingly well and I kept it. #strudel #music #livecoding #creativecoding

First time trying Strudel. Spent half a day reading docs and playing around. So fun! Also I love the McCulloch interview, I think it aged so well, go watch it.

If I didn't need to earn money, I'd definitely spend years making hundreds of tiny games alone, hidden in some cave on a picturesque mountain. #gamedev

Apparently, Midjourney is unaware of the "brain rot" term. Who would've thought it'd be the last aesthetic humanity kept organic. The frontier of human culture if you will.

We all know human memory isn't perfect. But do we really understand the extent of its imperfection? We do, but it's fun to pretend we don't. Imagine if your expectations were way off. What if your life isn't actually 95% like how you remember it, but more like 50, 30, 10%?

I gotta finish this mf to complete my set of Notion #gamedev tools!! This is basically everything I've learned in 7 years of managing game development. All my HP went into this XP. A full workspace for teams to build a game in peace. Hoping to finish it soon and find some indies to test it for free

Any games with Hieronymus Bosch vibes?

Is there a website collecting data about indie #gamedev s? Like, how many games have been made, how many players played them, how long did it take, how many times the release date was postponed etc? Could be very enlightening and inspiring for others

I've been shooting film since 2018, but I've never tried to grow an audience for my photos. I think that was a mistake, this support could really help me in life. So, I invite everyone who loves #filmphotography to my Instagram: instagram.com/denisbondare 📌 Some of my shots from 4 countries:

Initial conditions: m1=58.5 m2=85.1 m3=107.3 (solar masses) v1x=-4.357 v1y=0.363 v2x=4.894 v2y=2.922 v3x=-4.173 v3y=1.123 (km/s) x1=-1.0 y1=-11.0 x2=-27.0 y2=-10.0 x3=-4.0 y3=19.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in E Minor – Chopin

Isn't a video game the ~perfect~ form of art? It's versatile, inclusive, engaging, and expressive. It offers countless ways to absorb and convey the creator's ideas and vision. And all you need to create one is a laptop. #gamedev

I wonder what percentage of game devs make what they actually love? Game development became such a huge industry, poisoned by the mass market, business, even ideology sometimes, it must feel like finding an oasis in a desert if you got lucky to work on smth actually valuable and authentic #gamedev

Interesting proposal, but impossible to implement. Still interesting to think about! simone.org/advertising/

Game devs, how's your team tracking asset production? Sprites, textures, .fbx, SFX, texts, all of it. #gamedev

If you're a game dev, what digital tool you wish you had? Something that would really help you organize your work. Tell me, and I'll tell you how it's possible with Notion. #gamedev #notion

I made my first game with Unity in 2016 and spent the next 7 years coding and managing many game projects. I've seen a LOT of.. let's say good and bad practices. The major obstacle to success when making a game is chaos. Trying to make our work less chaotic led me to Notion (thread)⬇️ #gamedev

The best thing I've done for myself this year is turning off my laptop and smartphone two hours before bed. It's refreshing to be able to think clearly and feel alive again.

Hey, #gamedev people, show something you enjoyed working on 👇

This is the Pixel World, a small 64x96 2D simulation populated with AI creatures making their own decisions to survive. They explore, gather resources, build, talk with each other. There's no scripted behavior model. Just a prompt with a list of actions, short memory, current state, world info.

Over the past 4 years, I've read 209 books. I enjoyed a lot of them, but only a few really stood out to me. I just want to start sharing my top picks in this thread 👇 #books #reading #literature

Game devs, what was the first game that made you think, “This is what I want to create someday”? For me, it was definitely Flashback on the old Sega Mega Drive. It was such a masterpiece—unlike anything else I'd played before. I still remember all the SFX from it vividly. #gamedev

50,000 followers. It's a good start. But as I said before, I'm not destroying the world until I reach 100,000. That should be all the motivation you need.

What's your opinion on AI? 1️⃣ I like it and/or use it 2️⃣ Neutral 3️⃣ I hate it 📊 Show results

Ok, I've got 1 thousand followers. What do I do next??

Are you #indiehacker or #buildinpublic? I made an Indie Hackers starter pack! Let me know if you want to join! 😀 And please help share it with others 🙏 go.bsky.app/BTNbXXx

Friday thoughts: What if mammoths had hands at the end of their trunks?

Bought an e-book yesterday, super happy! Now choosing a nice screensaver. Which one should I pick?

Noise within noise

Passionate about discovering #indiegames and connecting with devs? Join the community—there are still spots open! 🙌 Check it out: go.bsky.app/3NENmTy #indiegame #gamedev #IndieGameDev #indiedev

Gamedev tip. Keep a little list of easy to handle but unimportant QoL fixes / bugs. I've got mine in an actual notebook by my PC. If you're towards the end of your day and don't have the energy to tackle a hard bit of coding or design, you can still feel productive crossing a few of these off.

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I wish the sales of my Notion tools for gamedevs were as intense as my Bluesky following notifications 😂 If you're a #gamedev and you want to organize your work and FINALLY finish your game, check out the tools I've built from my experience working on 20+ games over the past 7 years.

Hey BSky Unity Devs! I just started this Unity3D Developers starter pack of developers who are working on amazing Unity projects or sharing their experience and knowledge. If you want to be included, drop a comment and I'll add you! #indiegamedev #unity3d #indiedev #gamedevelopment #gamedev

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Wait, what? 😮 I jumped from 100 to 600+ followers in just THREE days?? This platform is crazy. I love it 😂 Btw, growing on twitter to ~560 followers took about 8 months.

By the way, if you want to learn #pixelart and somehow still haven't seen these amazing tutorials by @saint11.art, go check them out now! Timeless stuff saint11.art/blog/pixel-a...

Wow, this is oddly specific, but back in 2019 I was working on such a game as an experiment. I guess I can't participate with it though. Zero graphics, audio only, use headphones. You have to hold to start. It wasn't published, so I'll just leave a link to .apk drive.google.com/file/d/177Ua...