my mom is shilling my game at work and she got a sale already

Vancouver Game Garden is just around the corner with a fresh new spring date!! 🎮🍃 This year's showcase of local indie games & video game art returns to the Roundhouse Community Centre on June 13 + 14, 2026! ✨ Interested in showcasing your game demo or art? Apply here: vangamegarden.com/exhibitors

Just learned that the Epic layoffs affected two integral audio engine designers who were the only outstretched hands to the audio community working in-house at a major game engine. They were integral to making Unreal the best native engine for sound. Terrible, terrible move.

steam wouldn't let me do a build review until it's solitaire had a trailer so i made this wishlist it's solitaire on steam if you like what you see! store.steampowered.com/app/3912770/...

Yet again I love Mt. Pleasant.

Every Steam sale I learn how much a cup of coffee costs in different countries.

I just backed All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

The Steam Spring sale is on now and Generation Exile - now bursting with its own spring bounty of the Rainforests & Radiation Update - is currently 35% off through March 26th! store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

We're back with what you need - 45 minutes of back-to-back game announcements with zero fluff. World premieres. Gameplay reveals. Release dates. No hosts. No ads. Just games. Be there April 9th - 9am PDT / noon EDT / 6pm CEST.

horse shapes ✸

I HAD A GREAT GDC! SO MANY NICE CHATS!

Horses is $4.49 on GOG buff.ly/IkeLOg7 #ad

I had a lovely time giving away blueberries in YBG yesterday 🥰

marketing an indie game in 2026 be like:

Tree-sixty degree projection

Now that IGF and GDC is over I finally got around to writing up my postscript on IGF submissions and some of the issues we ran into in 2025. If you plan to submit your game in 2026 I recommend reading this, tbh. auratriolo.com/blog/2026/03... Here's a little spoiler:

FUNI RACCOON GAME OUT NOW

So cool whenever Darkest Dungeon shows up in a talk!

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 Crabmeat is stressful, scenic and a unique challenge. GO PLAY CRABMEAT! If you are not scared of crabs you will be after playing Crabmeat. 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Played the Titanium Court demo on the recommendation of @keirmiron.bsky.social, and it's really something special. Best of luck to @apthomson.bsky.social at the IGF Awards tomorrow. I'm rooting for ya! store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...

Ikenfell is $5.99 on US eShop buff.ly/bAunQu3 Steam buff.ly/hjeWsBN

When meeting new people don’t worry about being “memorable” or any other pick-up artistry bullshit. Just be genuine and interested in what people are talking about or doing. At the end of the day, networking is about making new friends so don’t be a weirdo oddball creep.

Great new GDC kick off!

A big draw of the game-design-by-A/B-testing type thinking is that it absolves you from having to form your own opinions & taste. It allows you to outsource the most difficult part of any creative endeavour: actually believing in your vision.

Question for devs still on twitter and bsky: How do you decide what goes on which platform?

HEY 👇 so secretly we've been working with a cabal of indie devs making the type of strange & distinctive games that we love to play on noclip_2. tomorrow we're announcing a SHOWCASE on noclip_2 as part of an upcoming Steam Festival about these games. it's gonna be fun. we hope you tune in.

Tom and his team are really cool, and this is a great field within "games for impact" to get into, because it's likely to expand a lot.

move slow and repair things

I know Horsey Game looks like a joke with a crude, janky style, but I’m 8hrs in and it’s the funniest, most brilliantly designed game I’ve played in years. I could list dozens of hilarious emergent moments from my playthrough but I don’t want to say too much. store.steampowered.com/app/3602570/...

Rotwood out of Steam early access ($29.99) buff.ly/nXvaR9b US eShop buff.ly/6w6ynm5

Dear project management software company This ai image is not giving 'awesome project manager'. It looks like someone sent a kid from the childhood bits of IT into the future from Bill and Ted to learn how to make synth music but instead they got pod people'd and now they just want me to join them

Nintendo Indie World Showcase announced for March 3rd, 6 AM PT

Submissions are . ݁₊⊹OPEN⊹₊ ݁. We can’t wait to get our hands on your wonderful games 💖 Submissions are open from today until May 1st, here’s the link: glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/ What are you waiting for? Submit your indie games .✦ ݁˖TODAY˖ ݁✦. #GIGF26 #indiegames #glasgowgames

I really enjoyed seeing Em present this talk last year at EmCon, it contains some really valuable advice for indies who get distracted from their health in pursuit of their passions.

people should go see Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie because it's very good and also i want weird indie canadian stuff to do well

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Horsey Game is released at long last! Behold my magnum flopus! store.steampowered.com/app/3602570/...

45 second internet cat videos now have 5 second summary trailers embedded at the front. Our self respect knows no inverse limits.

i get to make a game w rust and idk thats pretty cool imo

幻獣牧場のユニコーンとペガサスたち

We made a documentary about BIG HOPS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtee... #indiegames #gamedev #bighops

Come and build an empire (aka; a sensible and sustainable indie development studio with creative practice at its heart) with me. 🫡📈🤙🏼

Our next speaker event will be Feb 25! We'll be hosting Nhi Do and Remy Siu of 1000xResist @sunsetvisitor.studio @nhitendo.bsky.social AND Super Animal Royale AND working with voice actors There's a few tickets left for just $10 and they basically just cover the pizza for everyone.

Is there still an IGF speaker track at GDC? Or is it just the awards now?

Come be a speaker at Our Sonic Landscape. Our game audio conference in May. www.oursoniclandscape.com #gameaudio

I don't think anything is more exciting to me than a whole 2010-"fuck it, this is cool/important to me, we're making it"-coded indie game, made by a team-up of two of the most notable indie devs still standing of their dinstinct waves of indie devs, over what is basically a decade of work.