The journey to this year's Full Indie Summit begins now! 🏔️ This year's series of game dev talks + indie demos takes place on September 20, 2026 at the Westin Bayshore. Speaker applications for talks across a wide variety of game dev-related disciplines are open until June 15!

This year's Garden Shed is lush with talks from experienced local indie game devs across a wide range of disciplines: design, art, audio, programming, and more! Check out the talk schedules for Day 1 and Day 2 below to help you work out your 2026 Game Garden gameplan 🌻

What an amazing episode! @nelsanderson.zone provides some candid answers to some tough but fair questions.

Shatter Remastered Deluxe is $0.99 on Steam buff.ly/7GsvNhv

Friend slop game about deep diving for increasingly evil oysters called Aw Shucks

LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS

City of None is an upcoming adventure game published by Extremely OK Games! Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3189450/...

I'm in the process of trying to organise Punk Games Fest, a curated Steam event showcasing punk games as a celebration of underground and alternative game developers. If you've got a cool game and interested you can apply here: forms.gle/oTXEcu9Fjxrb... #gamedev #indiedev #punkgamefest

Just a reminder to register your intent to submit by May 1 if you are interested in submitting a game to Game Poems Issue 2: www.gamepoems.com/submit #gamepoems

If you’re qualified for this role, go work for Glenn!! Dude is smart af and you’d learn a ton, golden opportunity ✨

Sound Designer/Artist (Indie Game Development) at www.goldboroughstudio.com (remote, 🗺️) "Design and implement fully bespoke, diegetic soundscapes" #gamejobs www.goldboroughstudio.com/jobs#Sound_D...

After a length of development that - if I truly, deeply thought about it, I would instantly go insane as if I'd opened some Lovecraftian skin-bound tome - our narrative city-builder Generation Exile has launched out of Early Access into full 1.0 today! store.steampowered.com/app/2963240/...

This year’s Experimental Games Showcase is up on the GDC Vault, and it’s free for anyone to check out! If you wanna see a handful of really interesting projects doing very unique things in the industry, take a look: gdcvault.com/play/1035831...

we worked very hard on this, I hope you like it!!! 🥹💜

An AI dares to dream that she is human. You’ve been hired to put her in her place. We’re sunset visitor 斜陽過客, the creators of 1000xRESIST, and this is our next game: Prove You’re Human. Published by our friends at @blacktabbygames.com. s.team/a/4533950

GO PLAY THE PROLOGUE

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