Catfish is coming to Next Fest!!! #NextFest #IndieGame #SteamEvent #IndieDev

folks: we're serious. We got 3 hours to meet our minimal budget needs for another year of ROMchip. Wanna help? www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal 👉 Text a friend who loves games. 👉 Post the stream link 👉 Drop into chat and make it lively 👉 Raid us if you’re streaming 👉 Give direct: donate.romchip.org

So many people I adore are showcasing some wild stuff on @romchip.bsky.social's annual Twitch charity stream today! If you want a lovely stream to chill to this Saturday or would like to support this titan of open source game histories please check it out! www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

Horsey Game is released at long last! Behold my magnum flopus! store.steampowered.com/app/3602570/...

Hey! Any folks attending GDC, with or without a ticket? We're hosting a free event for devs from all walks, whether they work in games or adjacent to games. It's just a quick BART ride from the Moscone Center!

Loving this interview with @add-hawk.bsky.social about how scoring metrics have influenced what we value in the world and in ourselves. youtu.be/yd24EuQeJtI Really resonates with me and why I make participatory shows the way I do

For all of my connections in the Las Cruces/El Paso area interested in game development: 🕹️ 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 🕹️ 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 @ 𝗗𝗔𝗖𝗖, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝟲-𝟴 𝗽𝗺! All are welcome, no matter your experience or interest level in game development!

if there are any streamers/press in our following here - we want to give you our game for free to check out!!! message us!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxG... #indiegame #cozygames #wholesomegames #indiedev #indiestreamer #varietystreamer

new blog post: The future of public game arts festivals and non-commercial games culture, with notes on @free-play.bsky.social / indie games events around the world www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/02/the-...

I'll be at GDC this year, and I'll be pitching around Car Guy! If you, or someone you know, may be interested in talking with me about publishing (or something publishing adjacent) I would love to meet up, just shoot me a DM here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkRg...

What if a game was about beginning, not winning? I made a tiny, wordless interactive poem called Firsts about the feeling of starting something new. It is in the first issue of Game Poems Magazine. Five quiet minutes: namidasai.itch.io/firsts

fish of the day!!! i love the humphead forever. #indiegame #indiedev #cozygames #wholesomegames

Its #bandcampfriday make sure to #remember to #buy everything ive ever made fot 100 dollars each please. I would love u very much! skooka.bandcamp.com

If you're looking for an excuse to make a game (and win a delicious pizza) the next PIZZA JAM 🍕 starts March 13th itch.io/jam/pizza-ja... So far Ive had pizzas delivered to Brazil, Canada, Sweden, Norway, USA, Italy, Taiwan, Germany, Argentina

as started making a game last year, I went close to gaming industries which led me deeply depressed. what helped me to look forward again was the existence of hobbyist game makers who create things for own personal pursuit. regarding those, this article pushed my back and eased a sense of isolation

Hey yall. As you've seen here - unfortunately a large portion of the ivy road team was laid off today, myself included. We're all looking for work! Gonna do a quick thread about those who were laid off today and why you should hire them:

While we've gotten affirming feedback on Engine Angel, pitching unfortunately hasn't been successful. As a result, we've had to make the hard decision to lay off five team members. Each of these devs are incredible: if you have a place on your team, or know someone hiring, please keep them in mind!⬇

stay warm, y'all #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

DAMMIT WHY IS THERE WEIRD POPPING SOUNDS IN THE TRAILER 💀💀

Never reposted faster

Announcing Bog Bodies from Dreamfeel! A "short hike”-alike 3d adventure set in a far future Ireland populated only by radioactive talking cats. Players explore a late 19th c inspired landscape full of strange characters and stories...

Slowly unmuting everyone now that this season is winding down, I missed my gamedev gremlin friends

2PPPP4P has gotten it's last update (for now, at least). I love how this ended up, especially since it started as a gimmicky prototype to fill in the quiet hours I had on paternity leave. It's an oddball, but I hope anyone who tries it has as much fun with it as I have 📸 youtu.be/ZwrI5vDsZUE

Man this game is great <3

This is gonna be a good one

in our game you parkour up mountains with your friends: you might think we have metrics. but we never graybox. it's just more fun to download models and prototype in real places, like blood gulch. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

Doing a bit of a hard reset and just muting everyone for a bit. I love you all but I have a bad habit of opening this app multiple times a day and ending up like 🥴

I'm a fan of game designers leaning into their personal taste. One way to do that is to write a Taste Manifesto. I wrote about mine here, and why you should write yours! open.substack.com/pub/ezraszan...

paradise-collab.itch.io/paradise-dig... new paradise zine! I contributed some travel writing and painting from my China trip. Not very game design related but oh well! Enjoy!

Im so excited for this 💖

check out my cool talk at @technicallygames.bsky.social about the making of BLUEJEWELED www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPqU...

The Polaris List is out! Top 100 most personally influential games as listed by senior game designers. Fascinating trove that is at the root of most modern game designs. What inspires us and why? Spoiler: It ain't all Call of Duty polarisgamedesign.com/the-polaris-...

If you're looking for new games for the #SteamWinterSale, all of my games are currently 67% off so now's a great time to pick them up! (links below)

Don't put off making what you want to make because you're "not ready yet" Not knowing how to do something and then doing it anyway is how we learn It's how we surprise ourselves. It's how we discover what no-one would have encountered by doing it "the right way"

Every time a discourse makes its way into my feed I realize how uneducated I am in games

The Center for Digital Play (digitalplay.itu.dk) has a YouTube channel, and we've just published a ton of content! Seth Giddings (@sethgiddings.bsky.social) on Postdigital Playthings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjE...

💼 I’m looking for work as a board game designer. 🌎 I’m open to in-person, hybrid or remote work. ⭐ I’ve previously worked at the Uzzle and made Abandon All Artichokes, Starry Night Sky, and other board games.

I was hoping to have this update for 2PPPP4P out by the end of the year, but with a new job starting up and all of the good stuff that goes on around Christmas, it's just not happening yet. But here's a little clip from the trailer. Can you tell I've been on a huge American Football kick lately?

IT'S A WRAP! ✨ @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I have de-installed Traces of Play at Footscray Community Arts. With over 40 game contributions, we want to thank everyone who played/contributed a game, our workshop participants, the exhibition curators, producers, artists & FCA staff. 💛 📸 Yi Li & Thuy Vy

I played this while I had the American Football LP1 Covers album playing in the background, highly recommend

Golden Retriever Gamer

Showing off some of the improved enemy behavior!

"It is what it is." - Everyone, 2025

Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation. The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token* Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes. Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.

boshi's fundraiser update!!! www.gofundme.com/f/boshis-pla...

Gosh - just realised it's five years since New Rules came out. It was a project I put together in the second half of 2020 to publish little essays and articles and poems about different experiences of play and games during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic newrules.website

today we're recommending one of our favorite games ever zk maps for stranger, by Marek Kapolka, you will understand why we believe that the best platforming levels are "undesigned" ones. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

Official 2002 European Super Mario Sunshine screensaver that features Mario sliding across the screen and periodically turning into his famous "aggressive" render from that game.

I've been working on puzzle design on Order of the Sinking Star at Thekla for the past 2 and a half years, and I'm excited the game has just been announced!! It's a special game, made by a lot of talented people, and I hope everyone enjoys it when it comes out!