📣 ICY TOWER IS COMING BACK Stoked to announce that we're making a brand new Icy Tower game, ready for the 25th anniversary next year! Check out the trailer, spread the news, and wishlist on Steam :D s.team/a/3014860 More in thread 👇🧵

oh no silksong reminded me of an EMUUROM feature idea i had forgotten i might have to add it in... it's too good...

i cant explain it but gamemaker games feel kiki and godot games feel bouba

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

thank you lua for being a cursed language. i needed to add an element to the middle of a list without changing indices. so i added it with the index 4.5,

The writers this season aren’t even trying anymore

i'd like to get to test my game myself, but first i have to implement fixes based on findings from earlier playtest sessions. someday...

I feel like in a normal series they would have kept raven beak alive for like 15 more games. theyre so bad at not killing things that the prime series exists just because “damn we fucked up and killed all the metroid REALLY EARLY in a series of video games called METROID”

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Falling Block Jam is starting! The (optional) inspirational vibe is "Analog Memory." Let's go!! #FallingBlockJam itch.io/jam/falling-...

As the leaves on the trees change with the seasons, so do the feathers of the wood-cranes... #fall #autumn #fantasyart #cranes #illustration

Cirno Day

Just released Snekcross, a dense open-world puzzle about a very long snek crossing a very wide chasm #puzzle #freegame #webgame

referring to metroidvanias as "hollowslop" to simultaneously piss off people who like metroidvanias, people who like hollow knight, people who want a better genre name for "metroidvania", people who are sick of the word slop being misused, and gradius fans who want to see more checkpoint recoveries

finally, my steam payment went through... i've waited for this moment way too long

EMUUROM: A new cryptic exploration game Scan the EMUUROM creatures and use the gained knowledge to create new paths forward. Obsess over hidden pixels while you document an ancient paradise before it's lost forever. EMUUROM - Coming 2025! #PitchYaVania #indiedev #gamedev

SOMEWHERE, AT SOME TIME IN THE PAST: person 1: it's like this dude wants to eat his cake and still have it after person 2: whoa. that's powerful person 3: yeah. that's good. but what would be better is if we took that phrase and just really mangled it so that it doesn't make any sense

new site from ex-polygon folks just launched. hell yeah

would be fun af to slide like that irl #gamedev #indiegame #godot #pixelart #2D

Oh yeah, now we're cookin with gas

It’s the last day to submit games to our Pico-8 arcade cabinet residency! Submit your games here: tinyurl.com/Pico8CabinetSubmission

working on my playable dandelion... the idea is that you play one of those little dandelion wisps. you float, then you land and the plant grows, and then you can float again... so you're floating through the world. you're the only sign of life. #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev

cost of showing your trailer on gamescom: $520,000 cost of posting your trailer on bluesky: $0 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iTV...

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I left little critiques on lots of game trailers so here's a thread with the most common issues (and additional reading) 🧵 1. Don't put logos at the start. It's just dead air that could be gameplay, which is 100000000X more interesting. www.derek-lieu.com/blog/2021/3/...

HEY FOLKS!! I am currently LOOKING FOR MORE WORK! If you or anyone you know needs pixel art, programming help, graphic design work, etc. I'll do commissions OR contract work!! Reach out via DM, or by email to [email protected]!!

just a note btw that before cohost went down i copied these into a google doc which should be slightly easier than reading an archive.org snapshot docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EMUUROM code size update: there's about 7k characters left in the cartridge. i reintroduced one semi-huge feature that was removed ages ago, which meant i had to remove the title screen demo mode to make space for it. which means there isn't anything extra left to be removed anymore... 😬

so many new followers :o welcome! now wishlist emuurom store.steampowered.com/app/1634360/...

my favorite part is when someone is like "this game has really good writing" and you have to ask "good writing for a video game or actually good writing"

itch has been, from their earliest communications on the matter, very open about the fact that the payment processing situation forced them to cast a wide net on which tags lead to the temporary delisting. They were not going through individually to delist games.

I keep seeing “but they’re not responding” and it’s like nobody doing that seems to grasp it’s just a couple of people, not a massive company who can move PR into an attack formation at a whim and the precariousness of the situation Itch are in. If they say the wrong thing, they are done for.

"Öoo" the bomb caterpillar exploration puzzle platformer, is out now! 🎉 Dive into an adventure packed with discovery and clever puzzles, we hope you enjoy it! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

hey friends if you put scrolling text in your game, and it does this Happy birt Happy birthday! then you have fucked up. You have fucked up real bad and i am going to notice every time it happens and i will be so very sad about it

🌻Fourmiworld is OUT NOW on Steam FOR FREE! Immerse yourself in a surreal alien dimension and find all sorts of strange things along your journey! #indiegame #indie #games #gamedev #indiedev #godot

does super mario bros have any rules ?

i wrote an article about that stupid little question i asked a couple weeks ago, why i asked it, and how the answer to the question can be tremendously beneficial for ttrpg designers possumcreek.medium.com/does-super-m...

top two, maybe top one books about game design that are actually about game design, ever

lily's top 3 amorphous game design concepts: - building & breaking patterns - tempo - secrets

wishlist EMUUROM youtu.be/3iTVKUJ_peI

- if payment processors' current policies had always existed, huge swaths of culture, from the prestigious to the pulpy, simply wouldn't exist. Today's disturbing indie work might be tomorrow's essential text. And even if it isn't, the freedom to create and access challenging content is valuable.

It's almost that time again! If you haven't played it yet, this is the best way to experience Boku no Natsuyasumi 2.

Next weekend: Slavic Game Jam 2025! Anyone coming? :D

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️