Social media adds constant wear and tear to my brain and soul but it’s also the only way I can find out about indie games given few of the websites have the staff to cover them these days. I love blogs, if you have a blog with an RSS feed send me it!

Got promoted to Staff Software Engineer at the day job and found out someone else is making a game in my game engine so that’s a lovely start to my year professionally

Today’s board reminds us of a certain 1979 classic…

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

I wrote my end of year games list! I felt pretty deflated doing this. I don't know why, has something been happening to the games industry recently? Lift my spirits by yelling at me about what I missed. www.joelotter.com/posts/2025/1...

Not much of a view from the top of Binnian but still gorgeous to be out in the Mournes on the first day of the year

Happy New Year! Congratulations Harry!

Gah, so close: playdwg.com

Big thanks to @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social for the Dave’s Word Game shout-out in VGBees’ GOTY coverage. It appeared briefly, incidentally, in the letters section at the end… which marketing has assured me is legally indistinguishable from “Game of the Year.” bsky.app/profile/vgbe...

Catching the last glimpse of the sunset tonight, reflected by the Royal Mail building.

It's our first day back at Bearwaves Towers. We're leaving the tree up for a bit.

a full understanding of wallace and gromit requires accepting that while wallace would not vote reform, he absolutely voted for brexit

Merry Christmas from Bearwaves! Hope you like the decorations we put up in DWG ❄️

This evening I encountered a Christingle for the first time. How the English conquered the world I will never understand. Have a lovely Christmas friends, it’s hard out here but I love you and I’m glad to know you.

Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??

Staying home? We hope you have the most PEACEFUL time ❤️

Visiting loved ones this festive season? Safe JOURNEY from all at Bearwaves ❤️

Fun #DWG board today. I struggled to use my one-long-diagonal-word strategy so had to use a smattering of smaller diagonals to stop the board refilling too early. #DWG8

This dog keeps alternating between loudly snoring and yelling while walking around

Joel's words on DAVE'S WORD GAME. "Five minutes of picking out words you like morphs into fifteen minutes of headshotting critical targets with laser precision because you give the FULLEST of fucks, plotting not just the next move, but the next move beyond." Read here: www.electrondance.co...

On Dave's Word Game from @bearwaves.com: "There’s nothing like miscalculating and finishing a row, seeing your hard work at assembling a 4×4 strike vandalised with renewed letters, like so much GRAFFITI." A few more words on the subject can be found here: www.electrondance.co...

Lovely piece here about DWG from @electrondance.com!

Think that’s a new record for the amount of time it’s taken me to get a response to a GitHub issue

This Steam sale, @bearwaves.com are giving away our first game, Feud, for FREE! The reason for this is because it is, and had always been, free #indiedev #freegames #videogames #indiegame

'Step into Christmas' by Elton John but all the lyrics are 'welcome to my christmas song'

My first ever double clear! #DWG5

Very proud of @lucygjwhite.bsky.social featured on the FT’s annual Jealousy List!

I asked @will.bearwaves.com and @okw.bsky.social to take over the Bearwaves socials and they are having so much fun with it that I don't regret that decision one bit

dave........... thank you so much

Logging onto linkedin is always a mistake but today I got to see @downieseb.bsky.social body some fuckin idiot so that was nice

And what a year it’s been, big big thanks to Sam for introducing me to a show I have become an absolute Guy about

Realized it’s been a while since I posted my Bronze Age Fellowship of the Ring so here the lads are again

I originally pitched the title "Dave's Word Game Best Word Game Fun Relaxing Puzzle Brain Training With Friends 2025" But the guys turned it down for being "obvious SEO bait", "bad for our brand" and "makes me want to vomit" Too late to change it now Playdwg.com #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

there’s truly nothing like launch day 🥰 👉 playdwg.com

For a year we worked to turn Dave’s Scrabble ruleset into an app. Today, over 1,800 games, you turned our app into Dave’s Word Game. Thank you 🙏 See you tomorrow 🥊

🧩 Your next daily word challenge is here. 👉 Dave's Word Game is out now! playdwg.com

Currently top of the leaderboard! Can you beat my score? #DWG

Meant to do this at like 5pm today but Apple jumped us by sending it out at midnight, so that was a bit stressful. But! It’s out! And people are already playing it which is lovely. Please have a go, it’s free!

Dave's Word Game comes out tomorrow! This is very exciting for lots of reasons, but for me particularly it's exciting as the first game written in Growl, my game engine. Here's a writeup of what it was like building an engine from scratch and what I learned. www.joelotter.com/posts/2025/1...

reading this as the game's producer

Dave's Word Game comes out tomorrow! This is very exciting for lots of reasons, but for me particularly it's exciting as the first game written in Growl, my game engine. Here's a writeup of what it was like building an engine from scratch and what I learned. www.joelotter.com/posts/2025/1...

HE IS GIDDY Dave is so excited to see you post a score on the leaderboard this Monday (and so is everybody else at @bearwaves.com ) Presave here: playdwg.com #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #boredatwork

That’s my WIFE

Sun Dogs

Dave’s Word Game works offline, so you can play it wherever you want! #DWG #Wordle #OfflineGames

Random discovery I’ll share in case it helps a future traveller (or future me): the native C++ SDK for Google Play Games hasn’t been updated to support 16KB page size, making it now functionally unusable. You need to JNI bridge across to the Java SDK.

MERCIFUL MOVE We're dropping DWG at the end of the year so it wouldn't sweep #TGA You're welcome 🤗 Coming MONDAY playdwg.com @bearwaves.com #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #goty

Diagonals!