For the second article in our Pride Month series, we talked with Idolon about Clover's Quadrants!

dead found a video where they censored them like this lmao

Marr 🕯️ #art #furry

And that’s a wrap!

Godot offers a feature to let you adjust the line spacing of fonts. Neat! Unfortunately, it uses pixels instead of being relative to the font size, so it is Completely Fucking Useless

Three weeks to launch and Clover's has been sent off for build review! Currently working on localization. After that it's just all promo work. I can't believe this thing is almost done.

We were excited to feature Clover's Quadrants — a challenging puzzle game by Idolon where your four directions of movement are also inventory slots — in this year's Thinky Direct! We can't wait for its June 26th release date! thinkygames.com/game...

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month Thinky gamers!!🏳️‍🌈 For the first in a series of interviews with LGBTQ+ video game developers, we talked with Ashe, the game director of Blobun!

the start..

Another demo from the Thinky Direct I really enjoyed. The premise is ingenious, the presentation sophisticated. Simple to understand rules, hard to solve tasks. Well, not the first 6 ones that ease you in, but for the last one that had the second difficulty indicator I needed the hint provided.

So incredibly proud to see Outpour featured in the official Thinky Direct today! Outpour is a serene, tactile block-pushing puzzle game about redirecting the flow of water. If you enjoy hand-crafted, systems-focused challenges, where every single puzzle presents a unique idea, give the demo a spin!

Just announced on the Thinky Direct - Clover's Quadrants will be releasing on June 26th! Try the new demo here: store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...

The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase begins in 1hr! 🕰️✨ To celebrate the opening, we have a livestream running on the showcase homepage. Tune in today to see 👇 🧩 @thinkygames.com Thinky Direct 10am PDT 🧩 @thinkygames.com 11am PDT 🧩 @draknek.bsky.social Podcast 1pm PDT 🧩 @zandravandra.com 2pm PDT

260525 pico-8-edu.com?c=AHB4YQIyAZ... #pico8 #dailycarts

Pushed an update to the Clover's Quadrants demo! Main features include updated art, menus, and assist features.

we will be streaming pronoun palace on youtube on thursday 8:30 cst... wherein you will watch my friend cometz play my video game

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

this sort of thing is honestly such a huge part of why doing game development is so wonderful.

Clover's Quadrants has passed 1,000 wishlists! I don't really know what to say. Thank you all for the support!

New Times Prophet

okay no but seriously THIS time the problematic trans woman definitely deserves it

So excited to be a part of this!

A city choked in ash and smog. (@sprawlfps.bsky.social) #gamedev #indiedev #y2k

🎉 Aw yeaaah, Thinky Direct is back for 2026! Over 40 exclusive trailers for upcoming puzzle and problem-solving games! It's gonna be freakin amazing! 📺 Watch live on Thursday May 28 🕕 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST thinkygames.com/direct2026/

Clover's Quadrants will be part of this year's Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! Expect an updated demo... and maybe some news? @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...

level design

being gay and transgender kicks ass btw

Nothing Doing no. 65

my new article, the three secrets of making games, is all about playing your game early, quickly, and enjoyably possumcreek.medium.com/the-three-se...

Today I saw someone advertise their game's female protagonist as a "cute tomboy waifu" and I'm genuinely unsure how to react. It feels... Icky. Is objectifying women ok again? Is there some line of sex-positive feminist thinking that I'm missing out on? I need help understanding this.

The 2026 remake of Databank is out! Keeping the foundation of the original and bringing it to new high-tech heights, this total re-imagining seeks to prove that maybe, just maybe, not all computer updates are bad. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

I finally made a trailer for our game, Pronoun Palace! Tell your friends and loved ones! youtu.be/Zfn-_mZ7JSQ

How did it know.

@pokealltoads.bsky.social I put two fairies on my island and one immediately crushed on the other. Is this canon?

Deeply held beliefs about art: - It's important to dissect and criticize even things you enjoy (you will be called a hater for this). - You will loathe some things everyone else loves. That's healthy and good. - There will be some shit you love that's totally indefensible. Also healthy and good.

I got a lot of negative feedback on the stickers, so I invested some time into making the ink stamps look good. Shout-out to @iibo.games for putting together a Substance pipeline for this!

birds and rot and stars ✧ #art, #mspaint ✧

Two desert maps, Reservoir and Rafters are on the Steam Workshop Now! If you like classic themes as much as I do, id appreciate if you voted them up <3 #TeamFortress2 #TF2 #LevelDesign

A map I worked on is now REAL: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

my girlfriend asked if she could make a Mii for my island and handed this back to me 30 minutes later.

More work on level backgrounds. I also added the ability to skip levels, and replaced the stamps for level completion with cute little stickers.

I'm working on environment design for next Zium Exhibition, more details eventually. This poster shows the overworld which each artist's gallery is located within

Tokyo

isotopia

Instead of doing the last bit of playtesting and iteration that the game needs, I've been writing a new editor feature so I can layer in nice watercolor / marbling textures by @purenonsens.bsky.social. Still more work to do to get this looking as good as it can.

Nel's debut album is absolutely out-of-this-world beautiful and bubbling with sweet sound design and journey-like compositions. Already listened to it 6 times this week and it's been a huge source of inspiration & one of those albums that makes you open the DAW again. Tap in!!

I find myself fretting over compression / fidelity to keep my game's filesize down and it helps to remind myself that the current build (effectively a finished game) is the size of an Unreal build with nothing in it. Perhaps I don't need lossy compression on these textures.

Last night I encountered "hobbydev" used as a pejorative by a game developer against other game developers and I can't stop thinking about it