Need a quick pick me up to get you through the rest of the work day? Add Kiln spirits to your real life ceramics, just like tumblr user creaturewiththefeatures did! This is so creative and adorable, we love it 😍 It's making the whole studio REALLY excited to see all of your Kiln fan creations!

Exciting News! The "Request Access" button for the Kiln Open Beta Throwdown (April 9-11) is LIVE! 🤩 You can help support Kiln's launch (and all of us here at the studio!) by heading to the link, wishlisting, and joining the open beta crew: 

Playing Keeper may also result in unexpected emotional shifts. Plan accordingly!

Come play Keeper at @londongamesfest.bsky.social and fall in love with a sentient, walking lighthouse and its beautiful seabird companion! A totally normal game with no weird stuff! ⚠️ WARNING: Playing Keeper may cause sudden and permanent metamorphosis ⚠️

See you in the Wedge in about an hour, closed beta crocksmiths!

Smashing good times, pottery humor, and more leading to an April 23rd release! But why wait that long? Get a two week head-start and dabble in the open beta, starting April 9th! It'll be the best time you've had since fighting @timoflegend.bsky.social for a Brütal Legend achievement!! =)

🚨 ATTN: KILN CLOSED BETA TESTERS 🚨 You're all having so much fun, we added one more playtest session, as a thank you! DATE: Saturday, March 21  TIME: 10am - 2pm PDT (Note: This is for the **closed beta** test. Kiln's Open Beta Throwdown is slated for April 9-11) See you on the battlefield!

🫖 Friendly Friday Recap 🏺  Big KILN news this week: Launch date, open beta info, deluxe Fired Up edition, pricing, and preorder timing! Any Kiln-related questions? Drop em in the replies ⬇️

Did you miss this VERY IMPORTANT information? ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

🚨 KILN OPEN BETA, PREORDER & LAUNCH INFO🚨 Our pottery party brawler launches on APRIL 23, 2026! Please wishlist it! We like feeling important. 😌 PS5: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/kiln/ Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/kiln Steam: https://bit.ly/Steam_Kiln

🚨 KILN OPEN BETA, PREORDER & LAUNCH INFO🚨 Our pottery party brawler launches on APRIL 23, 2026! Please wishlist it! We like feeling important. 😌 PS5: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/kiln/ Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/kiln Steam: https://bit.ly/Steam_Kiln

Someone PLAYING our new game? In PUBLIC? Where other people could SEE!

This is such a powerful question that I'm gonna ask the team about it first thing tomorrow morning and get you some answers like you're J. Jonah Jameson demanding pictures of Spider-Man! SUPER unrelated...but you're all signed up for the beta, right? 👀 doublefine.com/beta

The cutest lil spirits with adorable butts, that's what! 😍 (seriously they're so cute and you will love sculpting them pots to wear into battle) doublefine.com/beta

Step 1: Make cool & cute pots Step 2: Wear the pots as armor Step 3: Break the other team's pots Step 4: Extinguish the enemy kiln Step 5: Rinse, repeat TLDR: Make, Break, Overtake 🏺🤜🏽💥🤛🏽🫖

We aren't saying you HAVE to sign up for the Kiln beta, or that you should share this with your friends and make them sign up for the beta too, or that this would be a super good day to sign up... But we aren't NOT saying that, either? 👀 Come smash pots with us! doublefine.com/beta

It's Pi Day 🥧! Let's celebrate by making a pie pot-- or is it a pot pie? 🤔 ⚠️ warning: strong opinions about pie present in this video ⚠️

It's always a good time for a rewatch!

🤣 Things that weren’t on my GDC26 bingo card. 1. Tattooing myself with the @doublefine.com KILN logo 2. Butchering Hamilton at karaoke (ty for letting me sing it anyway) 3. Someone already used my Tutorial Matrix from 2020 blog?! 4. Winning a P4V bee claw machine 🐝 ✨ TYSM!! ✨🙏🏼 That’s a wrap! ✨

🚨Important Sale Alert🚨 KEEPER is currently *** 30% OFF *** on Steam—the first time it's ever been discounted that deeply! Want to take a journey into the unknowable and mysterious with a walking lighthouse and a seabird? Get it today:

HUGE props to brilliant Principal Designer Seth Marinello on speaking about the State of Level Design at GDC today, too! So many great Double Fine speakers this year, show em love with your favorite weird celebration gif in the replies ⬇️

Our next GDC panel will feature our Director of Development, Kevin Johnson, where he'll chat about junior talent in gamedev and why studios need them! Wednesday, March 11 3:10pm, Moscone West Hall Room 2016

Look at our very own Nick Maksim doing a great job introducing his @officialgdc.bsky.social talk, "The Modular and Expressive World Art of 'Keeper'" We are so proud of all our Double Fine GDC speakers! 👏🏽👏🏼👏🏿👏🏽👏🏿👏🏼

The Kiln Closed Beta needs YOU! And you get an in-game trophy just for participating! Sign up today: DoubleFine.com/beta

An absolute pleasure to Interview @timoflegend.bsky.social @doublefine.com at @dayofthedevs.org to talk all things #Kiln ! Multiplayer Pottery Brawler Hilarity;) #LOGNET #ILP

You can wishlist your favorite game, you can wishlist a few games, or you can do what you know you should do: wishlist ALL THE COOL GAMES from Day of the Devs by following this link right here. HOW CONVENIENT! store.steampowered.com/sale/Dayofth...

Participate in the Kiln Closed Beta (coming *very* soon) and you'll receive this EXCLUSIVE in-game participation trophy to add to your collection. It's very fancy. 😎 Sign up now: https://www.doublefine.com/beta And before you ask: YES, you can use it on the battlefield! 🏺💥🏆

@dayofthedevs.org was something special!!! Thank you everyone who came by to play Beastro and talk to us and thank you @iam8bit.com and @doublefine.com for organizing everything so perfectly for the devs and visitors 🖤

Lynn absolutely crushed making these amazing pieces! Please take the time to check out her whole thread. We are so grateful for fans like her (and there's a link to the super cool breakable/fixable pot at the end of the thread, too). Thank you so much @lynnmuffin.bsky.social!🙌🏼

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We found @timoflegend.bsky.social and Greg as @dayofthedevs.org was kicking off! We will be posting here and on IG and TikTok all afternoon, follow us if you can't be here in person! IG: www.instagram.com/doublefine TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@doublefineg...

DAY OF THE DEVVVVVVVVVVS! Come on down!! 💀🎮♥️ #dayofthedevs

Today's the day—the @dayofthedevs.org, that is! 😁 From 3-8pm, The Midway SF will be filled with more indie games than you can shake a (joy)stick at! It's FREE for ALL AGES. In town for @officialgdc.bsky.social? RSVP:

In SF for @officialgdc.bsky.social? Live locally? On vacation in the Bay Area this weekend? Come to @dayofthedevs.org on Sunday 3/8 from 3-8p PT —you'll get to play so many indie games, and KILN will be there, too~ It's FREE and ALL AGES! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/day-of-the...

Did you know that @dayofthedevs.org is THIS Sunday? And that Kiln will be PLAYABALE there? In honor of Kiln's first public appearance, we made a Day of the Dev's skull pot to commemorate. 💀 What pot will you try making at Day of the Devs? 👀

This does help us! Even if you plan to play elsewhere, wishlisting on Steam lets the platform know you're interested (and that can mean being featured more prominently or recommended to more folks with similar interests)!

We're gonna be sprucing up our Steam developer page real soon, and it would be so helpful for us if you would: Follow our Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/developer/do... Wishlist Kiln: store.steampowered.com/app/1165990/... 🧡

Alec's 10 year old daughter drew this amazing fan art! Big kudos are in order~ 👏🏽👏🏼👏🏾👏🏿👏🏼

The Lumberstack interior was a fun work-up too! 🥞

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Did you know today is #NationalPancakeDay? Help yourself to a heaping stack of flapjacks while you enjoy this very cool #WIPWednesday concept art image of the Lumberstack Diner from Psychonauts 2 by our very own @leviryken.bsky.social#NationalPancakeDay?#WIPWednesday No one serves you taller stacks! 🥞

Watch a map tour of ATHENA'S WAR ROOM and shape your 4v4 strategy for KILN's launch this spring! Two opposing kilns stand side-by-side, but you'll have to fight through a tabletop battle map to fill up your pot...🏺💥🫖 Sign up for Kiln's Beta: doublefine.com/beta

Our secret is OUT! KILN is going to be *PLAYABLE* at @dayofthedevs.org, alongside some other amazing games! If you're in SF this coming Sunday from 3-8pm PT, get in your RSVP today, and meet us at The Midway~ It's FREE to attend, and all ages are welcome: bit.ly/dotd-sf-2026

Double Fine Production is back with another wacky idea, this time in the form of Kiln, an "online multiplayer pottery party brawler" where you make your own playable pot, and use it to dowse the other team's kiln! Watch their #IGNFanFest trailer:

You miss 100% of the pots you don't bake

“You miss 100% of the betas you don’t sign up for” ~ Plain Gretzky, the most basic pot to have ever been fired.

Happy Friday! Have you signed up for the Kiln Beta Testing Program yet? NO??????? 🟢 Good Beta Stuff 🟢 It's FREE! 💰 Play Kiln before almost anyone else! 😎 ⚠️ Potential Uh Ohs ⚠️ Making pots in Kiln is *highly* addictive. Once you pot, you can't stop! 🫖 doublefine.com/beta

🚨REMINDER🚨 Our email newsletter goes out on the last Friday of every month, so get in on the Double Fine Action Newsletter today and enjoy: - Recaps of notable happenings! - Previews of upcoming fun! - Exclusive fan content/goodies! - Weird/silly surprises! www.doublefine.com/news/newslet...

Even MORE Kiln information for you to enjoy! Get in there and read about our newest game's journey from prototype to pottery party brawler:

YOU THERE! We bet you love pottery. Would you like to make pots and then battle with other pots? You do? Great!🏺💥🏺 Get fired up for the throwdown in ATHENA, the first map we're showing off in Kiln! Start strategizing, then tell us what part looks the most fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_t...