OK so Dan lost a file - er, *iterated on this enemy and made him better! When attacked he deploys his human shield and can't be hurt from the front. And now his brain is exposed at the back so you have a reason to roll behind him to attack. Cool new gameplay options! #indiegamedev #indiegames

New room! This is the Forest of Nightmares, inspired by a classic video game which was a leader in gore. Can you guess which game?! #indiegames #retrogames

No idea how this happened (probably an AI hallucination built into web content), but our studio has been misattributed to this game. Anyone who knows Ember would know this isn’t our game though, haha. So weird

Oof, has it been a fortnight already?! SAGE 2026 was epic: thanks so much to the SAFC for putting on another great show. As always we love showing folks the game, and it was great to be a part of this amazing gamedev community in South Australia. Until next time! @safc #indiegames #indiegamedev

Huge news! End of Ember has been optioned for development into an animated TV series, in partnership with Cosmic Scream. (Pssst... Netflix!) See our press release for more details. #indiegames #tv #adaptation #netflix

Those 2016 throwbacks are so last week! Here is an original 'devil' concept Dan drew in Grade 5 (circa 1998), and a boss concept he did just recently. Satan, now known as Gary, is in an office politics nightmare after a hostile takeover from Heaven. Performance Review ahoy! #indiegames #indiegamedev

We are SO excited to exhibit at SAGE next week. If you're in Adelaide, come along to check out our booth, and all the other amazing games being made in SA right now. It's a very exciting time to be an indie in this industry right now: come celebrate! Thanks @safc #indiegames # indiegamedev #sagames

In an OUTRAGEOUS and SHOCKING act of pure PLAGIARISM, this rad comic totally STOLE OUR IDEA of having a possessed girl strapped to a bed. BOYCOTT! #indiegames #indiedev #comics #art #theexorcist

Art update! Here is Timbsbly, a new enemy type. He will replace the boring old floating heads in the game, which was the first enemy Dan ever made. It is a modular enemy type, so he can take various forms with different looks (shown, along with the gore layers), behaviours and attacks. Cute/weird!

New year, new enemy! Meet the Spider Birther: it spawns little spiders every time you damage it. This animation test shows the procedural animation that Dan is using for spider enemies. Creepy! #indiegames #indiegamedev #horrorgames

New build, free on Steam Playtest! New feature? SWAPPABLE WEAPONS, baby! Instead of having just items, Ember can now carry up to two weapons with unique projectile types, that then synergises with items and upgrades to make the crazy kinds of build the game is getting known for. #indiegames

Ok folks this is not a drill: look at that schedule for Sunday! Ember played in a chainsaw?!?!? Cannot wait for this

Super cute and super gory ✔️ Game 👉 End of Ember #paxaus #indiegames @endofember.bsky.social

Love seeing a vid on the Tikkers! Thanks Indie Brew? Love ya work vt.tiktok.com/ZSfyJEnbV/

A little bit of coverage is always nice, but sharing a hometown with #Silksong means it’s extra nice to be mentioned next to them. Big shoes to fill hahaaaaaa thepostsa.au/industry/202...

ICYMI: How to Create a Presskit for Your Indie Game — a must-read for #IndieGame creators and #GameDev beginners.

Tomorrow, four CEOs get together and try to survive! Come watch @livzombi.bsky.social @maxxgrimm.bsky.social @jaydab777.bsky.social and @nymphette616.bsky.social fight for their lives live on twitch!

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

This is going to be great! If you haven’t read the first two volumes they are amazing

UI elements for our Mutator, which will be used to upgrade weapons. Guess what this upgrade effect will be? #indiegames #indiegamedev

Great advice here for indie devs

Our programming update for #screenshotsaturday, Eli has been working on enemy behaviours, building out the behaviour trees for a whole variety of different kinds of attack. One more step on our Road to Demo! #gamedev #indiegames #indiegamedev

Because reasons, we needed to give Abe a bit more personality, so he didn’t seem like such an inert chainsaw type dude. Dan delivered with aplomb, as always. #indiegames #indiegamedevs #horrorgames #indiehorror

A lot of the business failures of the games industry are really rooted in this desire to create a product that dominates the market. The recent Amazon thing really highlights that: they wanted to create a product that outperformed Steam, but they didn't understand Steam or what the audience wanted.

Ember is excited to be showcasing at Music With Motion! We’ll be part of the Convention Showcase, showing off our game alongside other incredible local developers. 🎟️ The showcase kicks off at 6pm and is included with your concert ticket. Get yours at woodvillecb.com.au/tix #musicwithmotion

Indie sleuth @firkraags.bsky.social continues to highlight her PAX Aus 2025 highlights, this time with a couple of bullet hell games that caught her eye. www.player2.net.au/2025/10/pax-...

How cool is this?! A true friend of Ember modelled and 3D-printed it. It couldn’t have been a small job because until now Ember has only existed in two dimensions. We love it so much - thank you, wonderful creator! #indieart #3dmodelling #indiegamedev

One minute into Headlice demo and I was in love! This is reverse horror-comedy at its finest: best use of ragdoll physics and parasite behaviour mechanics with a hilarious corpo satire background too. Dan said it was his favourite game at PAX. Check it out now store.steampowered.com/app/2851800/...

New enemy! Meet Heather from the Personal Hells, and see the layers of fire that Ember will chop away at. When Heather shoots her limbs will break and snapping back in the wrong directions. Fiesty! #indiegames #horrorgames

What a great initiative. We just signed up, and you should too!

Always love a review that picks up what we’re laying down! Thank you @bunguin.games !!!

Our recent PAX build was totally… not bug free, haha. Oh well, that’s #indiegamedev

Hi everyone, can I ask a favour? We are gunning for the People’s Choice Award at SxSW Sydney, so we’d love it if you could vote for us. Just go to this link: sxswsydney.fillout.com/t/vAtGSiz6QWus - enter email/code, then select End of Ember. Thank you so much! #indiegames #indiedevs

Part 1 | Interviewing indie devs at @paxaus.bsky.social ! First up with End of Ember! This was my first time doing interviews and definitely something I want to do at future events. This year I picked some of my favourites that I eyeballed in PAX Rising! #paxaus #gaming #indiegame

Love #MIGW, and loved being able to contribute to this piece on edgy out means so much to us, as gamers, and developers, and human beings.

We love people loving the game!!!

Big news! Despite the release of #silksong, we remain committed to our unannounced release date of late 2026! @teamcherry.bsky.social #hollowknight #indiegames

Part 2 of our #NeonAbyss2 playthrough, we give the Hatchmon enthusiast Elise a bit of a run! #Indie #ANZCreators youtu.be/vtsA51Dn6ZY

It’s been a hot minute but we are now working hard towards our full demo! Part of this involves another boss, new rooms and of course new enemies. Here is a bunch of concepts Dan has planned out - we can’t wait to share the final versions with you in game! #indiegames #indiegamedevs

Oh yeah baby see what’s coming up on Friday morning! Can’t wait to see Scarnon stream Ember - excited for this! #indiegames #indiegamedevs #contentcreators

Gnarly track!

We love this so much!!! Thanks so much Shane ❤️

Calling all #artists! To celebrate AVCon we are running a Fan Art Competition! You don't have to be attending AVCon to enter. For details visit the event page at store.steampowered.com/news/app/321... - spread the word! #indieart #indieartists #gamedevs #indiegames @avcon.bsky.social

Love this! Thanks for playing!!! #indiegames #indiegamedevs #creators #content

Huge thank you to Ubuu for his playthrough and review of the game! Some really useful feedback that we can build into our development, and always great to see people play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWCt... #gamedev #indiegames #reviews

Some very exciting updates for End of Ember! store.steampowered.com/news/app/321... #gamedev #indiegames

New room for the Human Processing level! There is a special Easter Egg in this one too - can you name the film footage on the screen near the end of the video? #WIPWednesday #indiegames

VERY EXCITED to have @cptsumi streaming End of Ember this Saturday, check details in the invite: calendar.app.google/3nyDTFn7rdNR...

We are now recruiting for playtesters for End of Ember! If you want to join this community please had to our Discord and react to the announcement post for this: discord.com/channels/114... Thanks in advance for helping us make this the most rad game we possibly can! #playtesting #indiegames