Excellent blog post (yes, we still do these) from @scott.hanselman.com on signing Windows exe files (we still have those too) with Azure and GitHub Actions. Great for indie devs to sign your games. www.hanselman.com/blog/automat...

Hey Twitter, you okay?

Some of the choices for GOTY on the 2025 Indie Game Award nominees is questionable. Absolum - 1500 players, 7650 peak and Roger - 4 players, 69 peak Consume Me - 6 players, 145 peak Citizen Sleeper 2 - 60 players, 1300 peak Pipistrello - 22 players, 188 peak The others nominees make sense.

Collect souls from the 9 circles of Hell in my latest game "Nine", build defenses, and protect your portal... Play in your browser and have fun harvesting souls and ruling the 9 circles! bsimser.itch.io/nine #indiedev #indiegame

As an ex-animation artist the process behind Studio Ghibli is a masterclass in creativity! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aacg...

Check out our first @steamsentinels.bsky.social podcast, Trust on Trial where the boys discuss @steampowered.com's most recent controversies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUmj...

It's not cool that your UE5 AAA game leaks memory over time and kills your performance. Restarting the game helps but seriously? Test your game better if you want us to hand out $$$ for your games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWW...

As for the Click Adventure game scam on Steam, we've written up a shorter summary of the issue on Louis Rossman's excellent Consumer Rights Wiki. Check it out there for more details and links: consumerrights.wiki/Click_Advent...

Victims on @steampowered.com of the recent "Click Adventure" scam need some help as Steam has denied refunds out of they money they lost. We are hoping to raise funds to refund the victims ourselves. If you want to help please check out our fundraiser here: www.gofundme.com/f/click-adve...

Been having fun play testing a new post-apocalyptic zombie survival game from a fellow indie dev. You can play test it too! Enjoy! store.steampowered.com/app/3701310/...

Is it time to get back to physical media with it's commentaries, cool menus, and special features? HBO Max, Disney+, Paramount+, Netflix, MGM+, Screambox, Shudder, Prime Video, all cycle the same movies between each other and you don't own anything.

Indie studios, but more importantly AAA ones, should take notice of what @teamcherry.bsky.social did here and successfully released #SilkSong for $20. Your game doesn't need to be $80+. That's just plain greed. We can do better.

Just got a DMCA takedown on one of my repositories on GitHub for an XNA game I wrote in 2007 (the claim is from some HTML game released in 2020). Let's see how this plays out.

We need more developers talking the truth on UE5 and game development. Please keep spreading the word from people that know what they're talking about like Dallas Drapeau. Also, magnificent stache! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAGD...

Watched @scott.hanselman.com's TEDx Talk about technology. The Internet I grew up with was a place of sharing and belonging and creativity sorted by date. Now it's a series of walled gardens run by billionaires not humans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVG8...

The good old days when it was all about crafting, and survival.

🎮 3D Maze - A classic maze game reimagined in Unity 6! Navigate through procedurally generated 3D mazes right in your browser. No download needed. Try it now: bsimser.itch.io/3d-maze #gamedev #indiegame #webgl #madewithunity #indiedev

Just saw the Halloween trailer. Horror game devs should be looking at games like Alien Isolation and Amnesia: The Dark Descent for inspiration, not Dead by Daylight. store.steampowered.com/app/214490/A...

It's Stratego, but with zombies. It's Zombego! My latest game made in a week for a game jam and today's #screenshotsaturday post. Play it in your browser now! bsimser.itch.io/zombego

Getting accused of using AI is like this century’s version of a witch allegation.

A return to a simpler time.

Not the same studio that did Firewatch, but giving me Firewatch vibes. Might be good? Time will tell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GpA...

Easy checklist to remain safe online with your passwords: 1. Change your passwords on a regular basis 2. Use long passwords/pass phases not your birthday or your dogs middle name 3. Use a password manager 4. Don't reuse passwords and make them unique 5. Always use 2FA

For indie devs (and anyone else) who are trying to figure out what the difference is between mostly positive and positive on Steam, this might help.

The amount of change that is possible if we worked together rather than shit on each other is vast. There's virtually nothing we can't accomplish if we spent our time working together rather than beating each other down.

Please stop calling these () brackets. These () are parentheses. These [] are brackets. These {} are curly braces. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Welcome to The Clippening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Dt...

We're live on YouTube with IndustryDevs talking about payment processors and game censorship on @steampowered.com and @itch.io, the degradation of quality in games, and old tools vs. new tools and other assorted lizards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP5e...

Earlier today we posted a new article on the @steamsentinels.bsky.social group. The article discussed visa and @steampowered.com censorship issues. The article... got censored. Here's an archived copy of it. You be the judge if it should have been censored. archive.is/WeZ4r

The @steamsentinels.bsky.social have a new article on Steam around censoring adult game. Here's the breakdown on what's happening and why creators are fighting back. steamcommunity.com/groups/Senti...

Where's John Wick when you need him! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...

Some great advice and insight from Tim Cain about games and IP. Good info for those indie devs looking at fan games, sequels, remakes, etc. you might want to be making. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb2y...

Another banger video from Industry Devs. We (indie devs) are the future of game development. You can't argue with John Romero and his magnificent mane. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrTl...

Excellent video from David Plummer that everyone should consider if you evaluate new software or even just want to keep your Windows system clean. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jjG...

Peoples IQ should be stated like the weather. Actual IQ: 130. Feels like: 90

Please help support indie game devs like Final Girl Games (@dirtlord77.bsky.social) and DreadXP (@dreadxp.bsky.social) during this censorship spree that's going on with Steam and itch. dreadxp.com/vile-is-bann...

Come join us at the #StopKillingGames roundtable to discuss this ongoing concern with the gaming industry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIbs...

1/6: 400+ games wiped from Steam in July 2025 by activist group Collective Shout pressuring Visa & Mastercard. No debate, no laws—just corporate censorship. Gamers' rights are under attack! #GameCensorship

If you care about creative autonomy or freedom of expression in digital media please keep spreading the word on Collective Shout and their guerilla tactics against game developers everywhere. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXWH...

Stop game censorship from payment processors via Industry Devs. The money quote for me: "It'll be really funny if Collective Shout and these other idiots went after @nintendousa.bsky.social for animal cruelty because Mario is jumping on turtles". www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGGO...

Tiny Glades continues to impress me with it's amazing technical workflow building houses, castles, towers, and everything else you can think of. Highly recommended just to play around for hours in.

The censorship is real on @itch.io and @steampowered.com with groups like Collective Shout who don't like certain content. A dangerous precedent where franchises like Silent Hill, Baldur's Gate 3, GTA, The Witcher, and others could eventually get banned. www.polygon.com/news/616835/...

Great interview (long +1hr) with David Fried (aka @designerdave.bsky.social) a Blizzard Wizard. Lots of great stuff for indie devs to get insight into the industry (via Industry Devs). www.youtube.com/watch?v=llEW...

When are humans going to realize the more complex a society becomes, the greater the danger of something going wrong.

Steam dropped Rule #15, caving to payment processors and the demands of groups like Collective Shout and removing games. itch has also followed. This is killing indie game devs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlEH...

The most soulless rebrand that lost their identity. Might as well have used Papyrus.

Building out a cozy little RPG in Unity for #screenshotsaturday

Tell MasterCard, Visa & Activist Groups: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play - Sign the Petition! chng.it/6pPCCBhHsY

If you need a little step in your coding sessions I made this Spotify playlist to keep the vibe alive. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/playlist/3zv...

This. This is why I don't code in JavaScript.