mobile is in such an unjustifiably terrible place right now. find me a single indie dev that doesn’t have an existing audience and isn’t using a gross business model on mobile to survive. just one! i don’t know any success stories like that over the last few years.

Which Berlin indie game studios are on Bsky? Help me out for a little starter package in the future please: @paintbucket.de @megagonindustries.bsky.social @toukana.bsky.social @byterockers.games @tametick.bsky.social @bildundtonfabrik.bsky.social @happybroccoligames.bsky.social #sharingiscaring

Welcome to Basingstoke is coming SOON to @PlayStation 5! Zombies! Stealth! Crafting! Skulduggery! Wheelie Bins! Wishlist NOW!

will watch!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9...

headline: “how [game] sold [high number] in just one week!” my mind: 20% trying everything, 80% luck article: (lies) 100% intentional and reproducible every fucking time

Wishlist Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game on Steam! 👁️Push your luck 👁️Game breaking "perks" 👁️Escape Sunbright Pharma store.steampowered.com/app/3616280/...

WIth picoCAD2 being built on love2D I can add some cool shaders to the gif output. Check out this chromatic aberration test! #gamedev #lowpoly #3d

I've learned (and I am still learning) how to run a game studio for the last seven years doing both creative and biz. Here's a list of guidelines that work for us and might be useful for others that were lessons I've incorporated with our experience and guidance from others. 🧵

🌜The House is finally open 🌛 The Horror at Highrook is an occult card-crafting RPG 🕯️Uncover the dark secrets of Highrook Manor 🌙Manage your team of investigators 🔥Summon Ancient Demons www.youtube.com/watch?v=drjG... store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT. (Yes really). So I have been working on this as a sort of hobby for 18 months but its become a real thing. I hereby announce: Ridiculous Space Battles, a space auto-battler and spiritual successor to GSB, the first auto-battler (AFAIK) www.positech.co.uk/ridiculoussp...

Yes. I found I was able to code the basic mechanics of many types of games quite quickly, but in order to build it out into a shippable commercial game takes a huge amount more work. Also much of that work isn't as fun as the first part.

The Electrifying Incident is OUT NOW on Steam and itch! Featuring the monster from A Monster's Expedition in a brand new sci-fi setting! Explore a mysterious facility, manipulate the electrical hazards and find a way to the source of the problem.

I’ll soon be available for game design, creative direction, and consultancy opportunities while I develop my own projects. I’m also open to paid speaking engagements if you know of any! If you’d be willing to share/repost this, or just send a kind word, I’d truly appreciate it. Thank you! ♥

I moved from 13 years of C# in Unity to GDScript in Godot about 1,5 years ago and the change in programming language in particular wasn’t a very big deal. here’s a thread on my experience as a professional multiplatform game dev. 🧵 #gamedev #unity #godot

We're excited to share that our new game, The Electrifying Incident: A Monster Mini-Expedition, will be launching on Steam on April 15th! ⚡ Wishlist Now: store.steampowered.com/app/3352300/...

✨ Our cosmic, cozy and chaotic game is launching on March 31st on Steam! ✨ 🚀 Explore your quirky & mysterious spaceship 🙃 Bend physics ⚗️ Experiment with strange gadgets 🧩 Solve puzzles & use your knowledge to advance ⌛ Each run has limited time! Wishlist now! ✨ tinyurl.com/SpaceSprouts ✨

First Impressions: SPACE SPROUTS • It's a time loop game (of sorts)! #ad 🤍 youtu.be/5lJ_DDvbQXY 💜 #spacesprouts #puzzlegames #firstimpressions

✨✨✨Space Sprouts is launching in 24 hours!!!✨✨✨ This feels so surreal!!! 🔥😱 We'll share all the activities that we have planned around the release here tomorrow! 💜 Make sure to wishlist to get notified as soon as we press the green button! 💜 ✨ tinyurl.com/SpaceSprouts ✨

I don't want an AI that renders images that vaguely resemble Ghibli films. I want an AI - or just a regular I - that informs everyone the man's name was Yoshifumi Kondo, he's the guy who designed the characters you think of when you think of "Ghibli", and he died in 1998 at age 47 from overwork

Our little puppet guy just hit the front page of @itch.io and is currently featured! Go checkout Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card game! giantlight.itch.io/mr-magpies-h...

- Important announcement! To improve safety for all trade visitors there is a strict cap on the amount of Known Sex Pests this year. If you are a KSP please check the FAQ. you may be ineligible to attend this year if quotas are already filled - Haha yes, it really is quite scary. Even daytime

🙃🙃🙃 #GDC2025

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

Just in case, if you are wondering if there is any benefit from buying a game from a studio on the brink of closure... yes, there damn well is. It's 9 bucks on lauch. Make it count now. :) Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/2129810/...

i just recorded (apparently without audio 🤦) a play through of a TtS constellation for a player on discord that didn’t manage to get past it (youtu.be/9owTD23C7-M), this game is fun 🥲 You can get it for 35% off for 32 more hours: store.steampowered.com/app/2073490/...

In case you’re attending #GDC2025 and do not know about this; if you’re ever feeling unsafe, need assistance, or see something troubling, you can call this 24 hour hotline. They will listen and assist however possible whether you’re at an official GDC event or simply in San Francisco for the event.

Severance meets Inscryption in Mr. Magpie's Harmless Card Game! 👁️👁️👁️Play it now👁️👁️👁️ giantlight.itch.io/mr-magpies-h...

my hot take on games publishing is I don't like how much we've accepted the idea that a publishers goal is to find and back games that are going to blow up and sell far better than anyone could have predicted because that's gambling

SPACE SPROUTS LAUNCHES IN EXACTLY 3 WEEKS!!!!!!!

Indie game devs! Worried you don't have a good publishing deal? May I present my firm's 2025 Publishing Agreement Data Report! Taken from 100+ actual Publishing Agreements ranging from 2017-2025, providing averages for rev share splits, advances, IP ownership and more! indiegamepublishing.com

To the Stars is now 50% - the deepest discount it ever had! Check it out and sharing appreciated 💫 store.steampowered.com/app/2073490/...

To the Stars is a solid choice for those seeking a fast paced RTS experience without the complexity and mental fatigue, especially now at 50% off! Thanks, @tametick.bsky.social! #gamereview #indie #game #gaming #review #indiegame #indiegames #steam #promosky steamcommunity.com/id/BAEuro/re...

Steam has now reached 40 million concurrently online users for the first time. 12.6M users are currently are in-game.

Hello Lyssa! We'll release a new demo of Space Sprouts, our cozy & chaotic cosmic adventure, for the #SteamNextFest! 🚀explore your spaceship 🙃bend physics ⚗️experiment with strange gadgets 🧩solve puzzles & use your knowledge to advance ⌛each run has limited time! 🩵🩵🩵 rb.gy/8cfcfk

This week is the 10 year anniversary of A Good Snowman is Hard to Build! ☃️❄️ To celebrate, the price on itch is now permanently "pay what the temperature is" https://draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman

So happy to announce our next game Eyes of Hellfire. A gothic horror co-op experience with an Irish setting (the HELLFIRE CLUB, a place of urban legend in Dublin) Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/... Or come hang out on our discord: discord.gg/gambrinous

Steam should really have an "Undiscovered Gem?" slot in the Games Like This list, that focuses on games that aren't getting a lot of visibility via their other metrics. Maybe with a specific discount. The algorithm tweak that made Games Like This only big sellers hurt so many careers.

I'm proud to announce Reality Drift, a roguelike racing game where your choices matter. Race through a series of strange worlds, choose upgrades for your car and decide which track will be next - your decisions are just as important as how you drive! store.steampowered.com/app/3078120/...

#SteamNextFest is live and so is the latest demo of Space Sprouts!!! 🔥🔥🔥 🚀explore your quirky spaceship 🙃bend physics ⚗️experiment with strange gadgets 🧩solve puzzles & use your knowledge to advance ⌛each run has limited time! Check out our cosmic cozy and chaotic game: ✨ tinyurl.com/SpaceSprouts ✨

My tiny metroidvania Ascent is coming to Steam in glorious 64x64 pixels. It’ll be a free game so just go ahead and wishlist! 🙏 https://bit.ly/ascent_dx #pixelart

Steam Next Fest starts today and I'm scared as fuck our game will drown in a sea of games, even though I KNOW what we're making is good. 😫 #gamedev

My game To the Stars is at 90% positive and 40 reviews - at 50 we get the “very positive” tag, any 10 people in the audience willing to give it a go and see if you like it? store.steampowered.com/app/2073490/...

Turn-based tactics that feel real-time, Brutal roguelike combat, Doomed moons of Jupiter, Shotguns, chainsaws, and demons... Jupiter Hell arrives on #NintendoSwitch tomorrow! Please repost and spread the word!

Chatting with a long-time friend about how these things affecting AAA ripple into impacts on indie and other non-AAA scale #gamedev, I created this video to share a few of the things I see from my view as a person who has stayed focused on the bridge between freeware projects and early career steps:

“i wish there were more [X type of games]” is a discoverability problem. it’s impossible to keep up with so many people making games. the few places most of us discover games at aren’t doing a good enough job of providing diverse games AND (seemingly paradoxically) filter / curate games. #gamedev

ANNOUNCEMENT! 📢📢 Old Skies has a NEW DEMO! Join time agent Fia Quinn, as she travels to the 1870s in a slice of a never-before seen area of the game! This demo will be live until Feb 20th as part of the Game Over T1D Steam sale. Nab it here! store.steampowered.com/app/1346360/...

folks, I'd really appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes of your time to vote on some game concepts we've been thinking about, it only takes 5 minutes: forms.gle/gdZE5VWNkiHL... Just give 1-5 star rating to each concept based on how much you'd want to play them! 🙏

folks, I'd really appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes of your time to vote on some game concepts we've been thinking about, it only takes 5 minutes: forms.gle/gdZE5VWNkiHL... Just give 1-5 star rating to each concept based on how much you'd want to play them! 🙏