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Dad, photographer, gamemaker follysoft.github.io jwest.itch.io
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Chloe Appleby
about 15 hours ago
ALT GAMES has a Steam page to Wishlist and play all the beautiful games on display. Do it or I’ll perish 🫵
store.steampowered.com/curator/4601...
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ALT: GAMES 2026
ALT: GAMES is a celebration that brings together the Australian games community and industry, running from 18 – 19 April in Sydney, Australia.
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46014622/sale/ALTGAMES2026
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CURRENTS New Media
1 day ago
We’re excited to announce our upcoming CURRENTS 2026 Art & Technology Festival, a 10-day celebration of immersive work across virtual reality, robotics, multimedia performance, video, and more! ✤ 10 day festival | June 12 - June 21 ✤ El Museo Cultural | 555 Camino de la Familia
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ZIPIT! Games
2 days ago
one of the best videogame soundtracks of the year is now streaming on, like, every platform
recordu.lnk.to/Ge5pHQ
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Charlie Kilgore - The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish (Original Soundtrack)
Listen to The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish (Original Soundtrack) by Charlie Kilgore.
https://recordu.lnk.to/Ge5pHQ
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Anyone remember in Fairly Odd Parents where Timmy enters a movie festival to impress a girl but feels the movie he makes with his friends isnt good enough so he has the fairies ✨magically create✨ the footage but this upsets his friends so he submits the old film instead and wins best comedy?
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hatim
4 days ago
my and
@hanwenxumame.bsky.social
's talk is at 53:00 but also watch the rest it's good 😎
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Pushed a minor update to 2PPPP4P, allowing the Mario player to lock in their current forward direction rather than being beholden to the camera's.
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Minor Update - Lock Forward Direction
This is only a minor update that adds the capability to
https://jwest.itch.io/2pppp4p/devlog/1490470/minor-update-lock-forward-direction
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Carol Mertz
4 days ago
This year’s Experimental Games Showcase is up on the GDC Vault, and it’s free for anyone to check out! If you wanna see a handful of really interesting projects doing very unique things in the industry, take a look:
gdcvault.com/play/1035831...
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Experimental Games Showcase
The Experimental Game Workshop Showcase, which featured games like 'Baba Is You', 'The Longing', 'Braid', 'Untitled Goose Game' and 'Katamari Damacy', is back for its 24th year at GDC! In this fast-pa...
https://gdcvault.com/play/1035831/Experimental-Games
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John Axon
4 days ago
All of these are 10/10 GOTYs
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boshi's place
4 days ago
we're hosting a watch party for
@gameworkerscon.bsky.social
may 22-23! it's a free, online conference by & for workers organized by
@videogameworkers.bsky.social
. please use the qr code to rsvp! there will be snacks, swag, park hangs during breaks, & we can learn how to build worker power together.
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Helen Kwok
4 days ago
🍉 THE DIS-LOYALTY ZINE 🍉: Punch a hole through these "killer" brands every time you boycott them. Complete the set to reveal a poem and hidden image. ✊🏻 Created with
@chadtoprak.bsky.social
for
@avantbeetle.bsky.social
's Protest Game Jam. 📄 Wanna print your own?
heyitshelen.itch.io/the-dis-loya...
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🌱🌿🌲
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Hapshapen Games
5 days ago
Check our Argil, our historic old town made out of clay!
#indiedev
#indiegames
#gamedev
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Still pretty broken, still pretty fun too imo
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boshi's place
5 days ago
did you know that we do classes? this summer find out whether GAMES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD in this 8-week seminar & speculative game design workshop class taught by
@hatimb00.itch.io
more info & apply here:
hatim.tips/can-games-ch...
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Mr. Z
7 days ago
Please repost & share this.
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bug band
8 days ago
teaser reveal
#screenshotsaturday
youtu.be/WV3DBmb_fXo?...
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bug band: teaser v0
YouTube video by bug band
https://youtu.be/WV3DBmb_fXo?si=DQxqS_LEMunh2EKn
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boshi's place
9 days ago
[04/25 1-3 PM] Handcrafting Your world: A Photogrammetry & Godot Workshop in collab with
@hapshapen.bsky.social
! RSVP on eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/e/handcrafti...
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eva khoury
10 days ago
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Feel like I should push to finish this in the coming weeks to celebrate LP4 releasing in May
11 days ago
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Daniel Linssen
11 days ago
proudly presenting PRINT GALLERY OF AN ARTIST, a short platformer exploring recursive spaces, inspired by a video on M. C. Escher's Print Gallery
managore.itch.io/print-galler...
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Nathalie Lawhead
14 days ago
one of the coolest jams on itch is happening again, and the theme is more important now than ever… 🔥 Fuck Capitalism Jam 2026 🔥 “We're living in shitty times, but there's room for optimism. Capitalism is collapsing; that much is obvious.”
itch.io/jam/fuck-cap...
let’s go! 👆
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Tuxedo Catfish
15 days ago
god, actually, a traitor game where you play as the twelve disciples sounds hysterical
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droqen and 24 others
24 days ago
game where everything is fine :)
#pixelart
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Serenade
16 days ago
Announcing FORM 👀 👉
fannaan.events/events/2090
Kick off the weekend with us on Friday April 17th with an exhibit of experimental games and artist talks, exploring the rich undercurrent of alternative process and experimentation developing outside the commerical sphere of games✨ Supported by ACE
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gate
17 days ago
Derelict Star is OUT NOW! Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...
Itch:
gate.itch.io/derelict-star
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Gonna start posting my pics from
@zipit-games.bsky.social
's The Wide Open Sky is Running Out of Catfish 📸🧵👇 (likely spoilers ahead!!)
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17 days ago
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Global Game Jam
18 days ago
Pablo Quarta joins GGJ Podcast to talk about rivers as protagonists, co-ops as survival & why games can hold the weight of real communities and real crisis. “My work uses games as tools to think about labor, climate justice, queerness, and Latin American realities.” 🎙️
buff.ly/UQKa3WO
#IndieDev
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Xalavier Nelson Jr.
18 days ago
if you're gonna have a giant man fill the skyline so you can drive through his belly hole you gotta do it right truck-kun is supporting me from another world is coming soon
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Brin
19 days ago
Me and
@alienmelon.bsky.social
are organizing a free workshop series meant as an intro to
#gamedev
where you will make your own walking-sim game in Unreal a span of 8 workshop days over 1 month. It's based in
#ljubljana
and open to all ❤️🚶 More info here:
wiki.ljudmila.org/Controllers
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Game Workers Conference
23 days ago
Do you work in the games industry? Join us for the first Game Workers Conference, online May 22nd & 23rd ❤️✊🏽
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ZIPIT! Games
20 days ago
hey do u pc game?? catfish does.
www.pcgamer.com/software/pla...
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Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 30, 2026)
Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/five-new-steam-games-you-probably-missed-march-30-2026/
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I really often get the urge to start a a semi-regular blog but I know I'm inevitably going to have to talk about AI at some point in there
21 days ago
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JohnLee Cooper
22 days ago
break the targets!
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ZIPIT! Games
22 days ago
have you played our giant flying catfish game at all? if so, PLEASE leave a review!! it doesn't matter if you've finished the game or not!! we're campaigning hard to get on new & trending!! 🐠💖 THANK YOU!
store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/...
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Ivy Road
23 days ago
Unfortunately, we've got some bittersweet news: today we must share that Ivy Road is closing its doors due to being unable to secure funding for our next project. Read more via our blog post at
www.ivyroad.fun/studioupdate...
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Ivy Road
https://ivyroad.fun
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ZIPIT! Games
23 days ago
The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish is now available on Steam :o) We hope you enjoy <3
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Save 10% on The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish on Steam
A story-driven photography game... on the back of a giant, flying catfish! Transform clouds into sea creatures and bring abundance back to an empty sky!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/The_Wide_Open_Sky_is_Running_out_of_Catfish/
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ZIPIT! Games
23 days ago
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Yall aren’t ready for the amount of photos I’m going to be posting
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24 days ago
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Thank you
@writnelson.bsky.social
for validating my workstation with your PAX keynote ❤️ Ready for a gush thread? Because here it comes.
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24 days ago
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Pictured: Senior engineer in video conference with project manager
25 days ago
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Chad Toprak
25 days ago
this was so much fun to work on 😋💖 very proud of Helen for whipping together a mobile friendly playable game in such a short timeframe 🥰🙏
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Comfie
25 days ago
A hand-crafted interactive political allegory written in the author's mother tongue. One intricate vignette about 19 national birds, a red planet and freedom. My upcoming game "Kansallislintuja; punaisessa planeetassa." can now be wishlisted on Steam! (link below)
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dialogue tree
26 days ago
A trailer for episode 038 of Dialogue Tree, featuring
@zipit-games.bsky.social
on The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish, the latest game in the photography genre, and Tom Halfhill, the retired journalist who accidentally made the first. Listen here:
www.dialoguetree.cc/episodes/038...
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JohnLee Cooper
27 days ago
some sort of first person shooter (cupid style) with tank controls and some special moves a la mario 64.
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Experimental Games Showcase
29 days ago
We just posted the games reel from this year's session on our brand new YouTube channel! It features clips from the showcased games, along with some standout submissions from the many we received last year. Watch it here:
youtu.be/5Y-BezGV6mU
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Experimental Games Showcase - 2026 Games Reel
YouTube video by Experimental Games Showcase
https://youtu.be/5Y-BezGV6mU
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We‘re still keeping this going on a seasonal basis! 🌷
paradise-collab.itch.io/paradise-dig...
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Paradise Digest: Spring 2026 by Paradise
Play in your browser
https://paradise-collab.itch.io/paradise-digest-spring-2026
29 days ago
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ZIPIT! Games
30 days ago
Was such a pleasure to be on Dialogue Tree! Andrew's recount of playing Catfish - I don't think I'll recover from such thoughtful engagement 😭💗
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Dragon Wasabi Potato ドラゴンワサビポテト
about 1 month ago
I'm proudly announcing the launch of my alternative gaming news site "Dragon Wasabi Breath", and the first article is just published! It's about a solo developer Hubol (
@hubol.bsky.social
)'s recent active releases. He already created six games in 2026.
dragon-wasabi-breath.ghost.io/hubol-active...
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Hubol actively released six games already in 2026
Did you know Hubol has actively been releasing games recently?
https://dragon-wasabi-breath.ghost.io/hubol-actively-released-six-games-already-in-2026/
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This is literally down the street from me ❤️❤️
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about 1 month ago
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Sometimes I scroll through the repo's screenshots folder and find a gem I completely missed
about 1 month ago
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