At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs. There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.

The interesting, sophisticated thing about games is not whether they can tell stories as well as books or movies (they can’t) or float shocking themes as well as fine art (honestly, who cares). It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

One more for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Stripes Hope you all enjoy your day wherever you are in the world. Take care and see you soon. Remember to support each other. Get on the BOTD feed, like a few and repost if you admire the capture. It’s a community. 😊 #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

GUYS! I need your help. If we get to 100 followers by tomorrow my manager said I can leave early for the day. If a sim game with a cozy-punk narrative about running a struggling record store your thing drop us a follow and a repost 🙏 We can't wait to bring Wax Heads to you all in early 2026!

this week indie studio santa ragione announced that it's on the verge of closure after steam blocked the release of its upcoming provocative art game, horses. valve, despite all of its algorithms and purposefully vague policyspeak, is once again telling us exactly where it stands

Steam is for products, not art aftermath.site/valve-steam-...

I love to talk about birds so much, really, I could go on and on forever

Make sure to #WishlistWednesday Wax Heads so you can help Mike get out of his "Haze" hole 😅 store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/...

Bueno, suelo callarme con el tema de claros vetos en la industria que llevo años sufriendo en medios, eventos, organizaciones y todo tipo de saraos, porque ya sabéis que a las feministas bocazas se les da una lección a través del aislamiento, pero lo que he visto hoy es tan evidente que os lo enseño

I am working on one of these two games, Goblinmancer! Writing wacky time-traveling death-ridden shenanigans and designing the game's visual elements; it is all about time, death, losing oneself and A WHOLE PACK OF GREEN BASTARDS.

🐦 hello again !! at @backtobits.bsky.social we're working on a bunch of projects and would love to have your collaboration in this, just fill this form to better know our surroundings :)) (please don't fill it if you already sent the Spanish version) forms.gle/eF4wiMcxeszN... #gamedev #indiedev

Gunna pick this one up on itch. $4.99 to support artistic freedom is an extremely low cost.

⭐ hello everyone !! en @backtobits.bsky.social estamos trabajando en unos proyectos, así que hemos creado una encuesta para conocer mejor nuestro entorno. nos vendría genial que la completárais :)) forms.gle/Gd8RLRLk8Q6E... #gamedev #indiedev 🐦

Can’t believe we’re living in a time where I agree wholeheartedly with the pope

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Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time

technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive

“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...

My Card Is Better Than Your Card! demo is now available on Steam! 🐸 It contains a preview of the fun stickers, events, opponents, and starter decks you would have in the beginning of the full version. The progression will be transferred to the full game and can be immediately continued! #indiegame

finally got the opportunity to play #OfMonstersAndMen 's last work, All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade,, such a lovely double record #NowSpinning #NowPlaying

Pequeño huequito para cierto juego antes de que se publique la entrevista la semana que viene. Hablaba con @jboppdev.bsky.social de cómo está Madriz el otro día y nada lo representa mejor que el juego de @junomenager.bsky.social Por ahora, en el Reload: www.patreon.com/posts/143050...

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Ahora sí que ha llegado el momento de la verdad ⏰Últimos 7 días para nuestro crowdfunding ⏰ Tenemos unas ganas locas de desvelar las stretch goals, reventar la meta que nos pusimos y ponernos manos a la obra con el año 5 Puedes ayudarnos en vkm.is/loop5 o difundiendo por todos lados la campaña

"I coded my own portfolio site from scratch" suddenly turned into "I am the web developer in my team"… I regret so many things

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

Mesh2Motion (@scottpetrovic.bsky.social) is an open-source alternative to Mixamo that allows you to rig humanoid and four-legged characters! mesh2motion.org

Also worth noting: Jenny Jiao Hsia's autobiographical opus Consume Me, which won the Grand Prize at this year's Independent Games Festival along with a few other awards, is also delisted in itch search (but also has a searchable Steam listing)

DIY > AI

This is important to sign and share. I archive Dutch language educational games (yeah very niche, that's why they require archiving) and I have to deal with lost media a lot. Don't let games disappear, please. stopkillinggames.com

more and more elements of the games industry are going to align themselves with gambling in the coming years, in a normalization of market failure. it is crucial to build a new paradigm for games and it must be ideologically opposed to this one. restructuring around gambling is anti-culture.

hiding birds in doodles is my passion

And that's a wrap! Último programa del Refugio 101 en el que participo. Estoy contentísima de haber tenido esta oportunidad para reírme, conocer a gente nueva, y crecer como persona y profesional.

I've seen the Ursula K. Le Guin "divine right of kings" quote doing the rounds a few times recently, but I feel like people keep excluding a very important part of it. This quote is about art and storytelling, and how these have the power to shape our future and set us free. #Solarpunk

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc. F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨ Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne More info below 👇

today is being great day (bird-wise, at least) - saw some spotless starling """children""" practice their flight - three white tits played around us for a little while - one pigeon perched by a friend's head and just stared at us

unity is not working today (neither my brain) but at least I got a perfect coffee puck !! (forgot to take a picture)

An amazing comic for the #Solarpunk feed! Go check it out 🌻

Me voy a volver LOCA con los temas que elige últimamente LOOP... ¡Qué ganas de recibir el próximo número y no soltarlo hasta que lo termine!!

I’m happy to see this one in the wild again, thanks for reminding me

critically we also choose to focus on mercenaries, the original ttrpg protagonists, as opposed to revolutionary soldiers. your average rpg player is not an active radicalized militant but does make their living in a brutal, extractive system that materially rewards the most unethical behavior

flew a little too close to the sun (changed my handle to itch) and got burnt (I had no idea how to log in)

Si os quedasteis con ganitas de probar los juegos podéis probarlos en el itch de @femdevs.bsky.social femdevs.itch.io

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Nota importante: nos estamos acostumbrado a leer cada día robos de datos. NO es normal que roben millones de datos cada día. NO es inevitable. Se roban porque las empresas se ahorran dinero en software, ciberseguridad y auditorías. NO hay ninguna razón técnica para que se roban masivamente datos.

Torna la SANT JORDI JAM! ❤️ Segona edició de la game jam per celebrar la cultura catalana 🌹🐉📖 📍 Format online 📅 De l'1 al 22 d'abril 📢 Temàtica desvetllada el primer dia 🎨 per @viojpg.bsky.social 🌱 ⬇️ Inscripcions i més info abaix! ⬇️ itch.io/jam/sant-jor... ✨

en el búnker una semana más

Amores, todavía faltan firmas españolas apra rebasar el minimo requerdo para que el parlamento europeo plantee prohibir las terapias de conversion en toda la UE. Si ya habeis firmado haced RT. Si no os acordais poned vuestros datos de nuevo. controlan por DNI.