My new genre is a Roguelike, but instead of permadeath you respawn, and instead of procedural generation we use pre-designed levels and story, and instead of focusing on ever-building synergies it's focused on mastering the available systems and building longer-term narrative satisfaction, and inste

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Imagine if I just made an 8 hour version of this... youtu.be/H5uE2IxamyY

Only the best games, for only the freakiest gamers!

like a modern-day sphinx

I saw this game at MIGW and was just blown away by the quality of the art direction!

Thursday 6th November 6-9pm we'll be hosting our last Indie Dev Night for the year! Entry is free - check out the games below ⬇️

When you make stairs in 2d, there's no laws. It's faking the space anyway, so it can be 4D just as easy as 3D. #indiedev? #indiegames? #keyfairy!

🌵 @deadstaticdrive.com and the Long Road to the End of the World. A haunting, human road trip that rewards curiosity and compassion as much as survival instincts. REVIEW: www.sifter.com.au/post/dead-st...

✨Games Exchange is back!✨ We're trading indie games with the UK! Try out some games, have a cuppa, and enjoy an evening with devs/games enthusiasts! ⏰14th Nov, Friday, 5:30pm - 8:00pm 📍Redfern Community Center Tickets are free: events.humanitix.com/australia-x-...

An industry group representing Japanese gaming companies, including Square Enix and Bandai Namco, has issued a letter to OpenAI requesting its products not be used as training data without permission. checkpointgaming.net/news/2025/11...

Key Fairy is part of the #MetroidvaniaFusion festival! Come play a bunch o' wiggly games, and play a demo of our sort-of-metroidvania, sort-of-fusion, sort-of-game: store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...

spoon museum 🥄

Please stop making games like it's the last game you'll ever make!

"Power Wash Sim" but instead of cars it's people, and instead of water it's bullets

Here are our picks from the PAX Aus 2025 show floor

𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙧 ⁽⁽ᵍᵃᵐᵉ⁾⁾ milosoft.itch.io/integer 'Indestructible Vacuum Object'. Milosoft® : Season of Lights [1/15]

Hi #screenshotsaturday! I'm super stoked to announce that Microvania is now verified on #steamdeck! It's a great fit, as the game was designed as if it was on a retro handheld 🎮 ✅ store.steampowered.com/verified/311... #indiegamedev #metroidvania #pixelart #retro #solodev #gamedev #unity #noai

The "Garden Update" 🐛 for #MakeRoom will release in November adding many new plants and other garden items. It'll also introduce additional garden shapes, and new features like an unrestricted camera!

The PAX content doesn't end, as we bring you even more brilliant indie games that deserve your attention. From fairies with keys to dogs that are naughty, here's our top 10.5 indie games of PAX Aus, according to @valkian.bsky.social! www.qualbert.com/top-10-indie... #PAX #IndieGame #IndieDev

some people asked us if our game is LGBT+ friendly but no one's asking if it's straight friendly 🤔 #datingsim #lgbt #indiegamedev #indiegame #gamedev #indiegames

Last chance to grab Isopod with a 20% off launch discount! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/... You can also pick up the Sbug's Bugs Bundle to maximise your time with these two adorable spiders! 🕷️🦐🕷️

I love this article! It made clear something I've been thinking for a while, but didn't know how to express: GenAI is Cringe! It's Embarrassing to use AI in games. Devs are embarrassed to be caught using it, and they should be! (This article goes deeper as well, haha, you should read it!)

"Did you know that Cinderella was actually really DARK!?!" "Did you know that Little Red Riding hood was actually really DARK!!!?" "Did you know tha- Yes! I know they were dark! That can't be the end of your literary criticism! The most interesting take you have can't be "is it dark or.. not dark"

Such a shockingly good game! Give it money so I can play it pleassssss

If anyone want's to know about our room-labelling, it's a mixture of descriptive and "vibes-based"...

Following up our Pacifist Bullet-Hell with a hyper-Violent Cozy Game

Obsessed with the type of gamer who's upset when extremely popular games don't get more recognition.

Remaking Halo to include deck-building and run-based progression

What's the appropriate amount of Psalms for the Machine God I can invoke to make Unity run properly, without upsetting the people in this co-working space?

Needed to write some otherworldly bird-folk. So for some reason I've decided that *they* speak in English, but *you* can only reply with crow sounds... #gamedev #indiedev #caw #caw #keyfairy

What are you gonna do after you make your "Dream Game"?

worms is spaghetti to a bird

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In Hades 2 you can be in a polycule with a spider and doom incarnate. This is peak game design.

🎉 My 🤏 bite-sized metroidvania is OUT NOW! 🎉 Play it now! ▶️ tinyurl.com/pac9j3su I strived making short but densely packed game. Please enjoy! 🙇 If you play, please give it a reviewing! 🙏 The first 10 REALLY count! #indiegamedev #metroidvania #pixelart #retro #solodev #gamedev #unity #noai

why: experimenting with a "quest marker" mechanic in Dead Zone where you sacrifice health to pool some of your own blood on a plate, spin it, and whichever direction it splatters in is where you need to go next. some characters will try to explain to you why it works. they will all be lying

Congratulations to @sbug.games for launching the incredible Isopod: A Webbed Spin-off this week!! To celebrate, we'll be interviewing the team on @4zzzradio.bsky.social's Zed Games tonight at 6PM AEST! You can listen-in live on 102.1 FM or via the website: 4zzz.org.au

fuck yeah brother!!

Frogreign Playtests!. you can lick box. you can lick salamander. I don't know if I'm selling this game... go play frog!

Kind words from Leah about Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic + many other highlights. Give it a read, especially if you couldn't make it to PAX!

"Better a wizard than a capitalist." #isopod

Try as he might, Bezos could not stop us from launching 😤 stick it to him by buying our cool game!

It's fixed! Isopod is now out! Please go buy it! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

lotta cool games at pax aus!! here's a few of my fave demos from the show floor

SXSW Sydney - thanks so much for such an amazing time 🖤 As a little love letter 💌 to everyone that came by the booth, here's all of your solutions put together in one gif ⭐️🟡 Can you spot yours?

Production IS Design! If you design a game that you *Can't Make*, you haven't designed a game. You've written fanfiction about being a game developer. Production Is Design.

I've been reading up on 1920s-30s British medical attitudes toward queer people. Please enjoy this excerpt:

The text of AI is "I'm stealing shit" the subtext is "we are incredibly hindered as a species by IP laws"