Reminder: applications for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant close tomorrow evening! (23:59 Pacific Daylight Time) grants.draknek.org Good luck to everyone applying :)

I'll be at Vancouver Game Garden tomorrow with @tallywinkle.itch.io, showcasing Make Ten Deluxe and giving a #pico8 talk. come by and grab a sticker!

Awesome game demos and art aren't the only things at this weekend's Vancouver Game Garden! 🌼 We also have a great lineup of free, drop-in talks on both days of the event! Saturday will see showcases of specific game engines and Sunday will highlight a variety of indie game dev topics ✨

I'll be at Vancouver Game Garden tomorrow with @tallywinkle.itch.io, showcasing Make Ten Deluxe and giving a #pico8 talk. come by and grab a sticker!

Vancouver Game Garden 2025 is TOMORROW!! 🎮🌱 Join us on September 27 & 28 at the Roundhouse Community Center for this free, all-ages event full of indie game demos, a video-game-artist alley, educational talks from speakers like Daniel Mullins, Davey Wreden, and Maddy Thorson, and cool prizes! ✨

Checking out that metroidvania everyone says crashed the Steam store store.steampowered.com/app/2232950/...

RAT KING! A broughlike about a rat and a rat »» torcado.itch.io/rat-king «« 👑 🐁

SAG-AFTRA Members Approve 2025 Video Game Agreement. www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-me...

Just released my jam game, "Just a Normal Snake". itchio: werxzy.itch.io/just-a-norma... lexaloffle BBS: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=149... #pico8 #indiedev #gamedev #thinkypuzzlejam5

all i'm gonna say here is that @pancelor.bsky.social/tallywinkle's The Tower is one of the best games ever made tallywinkle.itch.io/the-tower

Mouse Wants Cheese: squeak your way to the cheese pancelor.itch.io/mouse-wants-...

made a interactive quilt toy thing for TTJ10, jigsaw puzzle vibes: pancelor.itch.io/patches #tweettweetjam #pico8

Today's games: 💽 ArchaeOS by Florence Smith Nicholls and @mtrc.bsky.social 🔟 Make Ten Deluxe by @pancelor.bsky.social 🔫 Abyss Vaulter by @sinclairstrange.bsky.social Please check out these awesome #IndieGames!! www.youtube.com/live/dP-g9Bg...

The original Make Ten is extremely good - like one of the best casual puzzle concepts I’ve seen in a decade. It’s as satisfying as Bejewelled. Excited to pick this expanded version up!

two-three-five!! it's great, check it out. a tiny little droqen experience, succinct and provoking

i really like "the end of gameplay" (releasing today), with a few caveats. i think if you approach it cynically, you won't like it. also, if you are hoping it will clarify what "kill gameplay" means, you will probably just become more confused. that said, i found it very beautiful and cute

It is time! Cattle Crisis has been just released on Itch. Thank you for sticking with me for such a long time. Enjoy! 🕹️ https://krystman.itch.io/cattle-crisis #pico8 #shmup #stg #arcade #indiedev

I remember our talk about how most games don't let you "turn to any page" like books do, while trying to decide how to give players all these new modes without it being overwhelming. In the end I put up some easily-vaulted walls just to organize and convey intent. like book pages! kill gameplay

although there is a sense in which May 11 could be said to be… May 10 Deluxe

New game: Make Ten Deluxe! Select numbers that add to ten, easy. Then try dozens of wild variants -- 35+ modes These are the most surprising, challenging, or otherwise delightful modes that I've made over the past year. Enjoy! $10 / free demo (-20% sale!) pancelor.itch.io/make-ten-del... #pico8

tired of games adding unecessary stealth missions for no reason? Well im not! STEALTH CROSSWORD is out now✨ ComputerJames.itch.io/stealth-cw 🧩6 mins of Stealth Crossword Action! 👑Two endings ('caught' and 'not caught') 💻Play in browser

a major issue with video games is that they produce a bunch of people who consider themselves brain geniuses for solving problems that were designed to be solvable. as a remedy, we should be making more games that are actively and irreconcilably hostile to the player. thank you

tiny new game: "poke!", an unwieldy match-3. the controls are admittedly overwhelming but what can I say, I like games that make your brain hurt. enjoy!(?) pancelor.itch.io/poke #pico8 #nokiajam

Yesterday we finished making our first game for Nokia 3310 Jam, a game jam where you're bound by the limitations of a very particular old phone. I loved the constraints, we could feel them empowering us! Go check it out: yngvarr.itch.io/coffee-to-go

LEAP YEAR: MARCH is now available, for players who have beaten Leap Year and want an even greater challenge Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3458170/... Itch: managore.itch.io/leap-year-ma...

alright y'all let's let's just do this SKELETON GELATIN, out now on adamatomic.itch.io/skeleton-gel... !! 🍮 World's FIRST "blobtroidvania" (maybe) (I haven't checked) 📉 No upgrades 💀 No HP 🏃 No jumping 🏆 No items I do not recommend attempting an all-skulls run until you have finished a regular!

Celebrate 5 years of Indiepocalypse and supporting and celebrating indie games with Indiepocalypse #61! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @tallywinkle.itch.io -Cover by @ladyvictoriart.bsky.social pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-61

continuing to enjoy @pancelor.bsky.social's pancelor.itch.io/make-ten although I suspect the fact that my top score is now 434 might mean I've been playing it a little too much

A rule discovery game about exploring a hostile machine ecosystem. Metal Antlers by EugeneRadaev pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-60 #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

probably spent more time playing board games than video games this year, but my goty might have to be @pancelor.bsky.social ‘s make ten. spend enough time with it to understand the scoring, it’s so good !! pancelor.itch.io/make-ten

new issue of Paradise Zine is out! feat. some really cool articles including me starting a series that will be continued in each issue about "Cursors of Attention", basically about extending the idea of "what you are playing as" into some weird broad ideas. paradise-collab.itch.io/paradise-dig...

we made another zine! about games, art, play, etc. I made a page about bread. (ok it is also about games) paradise-collab.itch.io/paradise-dig...

@tallywinkle.itch.io (who made the above game) did 15 games over the course of October - you can see them collected together here: downpour.games/~tallywinkle...

It's day 1 of the Confounding Calendar - an advent calendar with a puzzling treat behind every door. Day 1's puzzle is Pipe Bind by wizard-melentis. wizard-melentis.itch...

boundary peaks (2023) 276 chars, source in reply #pico8 #postcart www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=157...

Introducing the new tiny cart format you didn't know you needed: the #postcart! - 300 chars (#pico8 src in reply!) - bbs gallery where postcarts can live forever! - can transform into physical postcards! Blog Post: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=145... Gallery: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/superblo...

more👏 puzzle👏 games👏 for👏 sickos

Ok now that you're all here, go own your own content and make your own website. Stop hitching your horse to VC-funded platforms. And then give me a button for my button wall!

Okay, HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! 🎉 Introducing the Thinky Games database - a treasure trove of incredible games you'll love to solve! Start exploring: thinkygames.com/games/

Hello bluesky, I am working on original JRPGs for the game boy.

This is one of the very good reasons why you shouldn't engage with these things _at all_, not for memes, not for jokes, not "just to see", not to screencap them failing at whatever. You're still doing the harmful thing!

not enough video games about climbing 100 floors of a tower these days

how to at least imagine what the sun looked like when you remember a fear you once had (2023) #glitchart #dithering

Important information regarding the future of There Is No Antimemetics Division! qntm.org/publ

I made a game for the GMTK jam, called Slime Stretch: draknek.itch.io/slime-stretch I'll likely be making a post-jam version with some improvements, but I'm very happy with what's there! It contains some of my most Bonfire-Peaks-esque puzzle design since Bonfire Peaks.

#gamedev money available: apply to the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant (this is "free money", not a loan or publishing deal) - $15,000 each to 6 thinky puzzle game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups Deadline: Oct 7 Apply!!: grants.draknek.org

This is fun. pancelor.itch.io/make-ten

BIG NEWS! There is now a BOARDGAME of Wilmot's Warehouse! It is very funny to play, and we've been working on it with our friends at @CMYK_Games and @ShutUpShow You can watch a trailer for it here: youtube.com/watch?v=bHa1... And preorder it here: cmyk.games/products/wil...

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.