Beyond disappointed with @playstation.com customer service and how they don't honor their return policy. My kid accidentally bought AstroBot when we already own it. Didn't download it, which they can see below. Tried to return as soon as I noticed the purchase. Refused a refund.

New jam game! 🌻👿 SLAUGHTERING CAN 👿🌻 Made in a weekend for #PEGJAM 2025. The theme was "An Unconventional Weapon", so I tried to make a watering can feel like a satisfying weapon. It's a small, loud, and silly little project. Try it here: graebor.itch.io/slaughtering...

CW grief & death of a loved one my entry to the #36wordrpgjam is this business card game consisting of exactly 35 words, with the last one to be provided by you. the title was chosen because those are the last words i ever spoke to him. check it out in full: naladraws.itch.io/i-will-see-y...

alright y'all let's let's just do this SKELETON GELATIN, out now on adamatomic.itch.io/skeleton-gel... !! 🍮 World's FIRST "blobtroidvania" (maybe) (I haven't checked) 📉 No upgrades 💀 No HP 🏃 No jumping 🏆 No items I do not recommend attempting an all-skulls run until you have finished a regular!

Happy 12th Birthday to Anodyne!! We have a little sale running on our store to celebrate, great time to get the Anodyne 1 Fan Book or T-Shirt!! Use the code "ANODYNE"! analgesicproductions.bigcartel.com

Gaming Freelancers! I've changed the way I commission paid features, and am using a dedicated Slack channel. Every month I will reach out to grow my pool of writers to call on for new opportunities. Right now I'm looking for writers with NES and DS experience. Is this you?

Keep Walking (Plasmator Games) "Just keep walking. Something is moving." PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/02/07/keep-walking/

Keep Driving, our management RPG about life on the open road, is OUT NOW! 🌍 Explore an early 2000s setting 💥 Unique turn-based 'battle' system 🔧 Strategic resource management 👋 Pick up folks along the way 🚗 You’re young, you have time… Available on Steam: s.team/a/2756920

🏁Nightmare Kart: THE OLD KARTS🏁 ➡️ Brand new FREE expansion! 💉 New mini campaign! 🏎️ New racers & karts! 🗺️ New tracks! 💥 New power ups & game modes! 📅 COMING SOON 📅 Press kit below! #NightmareKart

New Mashina update in which I chat about the art and aesthetics and stuff. One week left! Spread the word please. www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...

How to turn off AI. 📌

Horror games starting off strong this year. Butcher's Creek is quite good, mix of Condemned and Manhunt. ~ 2 hours. Great creepy vibes, solid melee combat. store.steampowered.com/app/2512560/...

Dale and Dawson has something going for it: an Among Us-like set in a staitionery company's office. "Slackers" have to try to watch cat videos and sabotage the office without getting caught... store.steampowered.com/app/2920570/...

BrokenLore: LOW is a first-person horror game taking place in a remote Japanese village haunted by supernatural entities. Releasing on February 21st.

A Butterfly is now available on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/... "The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner." a poem about overcoming, surrender, and death. 🦋✨🌒🌓🌘 #GameDev #IndieGame #Dreamcore #Poetry #InteractiveFiction

I've sent a load of press releases for Mashina but if you are a games press person or you know someone I should try, please let me know here or in DMs, please please pleeeaase.

Castlevania Bootleg 'Castlevania Reincarnation' Gets New English Fan Translation Patch. (Repost)

Faunamorph is OUT NOW on Steam!!! Recombine your DNA 🧬, transform into animals 🐻🦏🐬, and find a way to escape the abandoned laboratory!!! Thanks so much for everyone's support, and we hope you'll have a great time playing it! Buy it now on Steam: https://buff.ly/3P9XCWv

Gareth Damian Martin on creating Citizen Sleeper 2 without coding (and more) www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...

Seeds of Hope (MicroGiant, Joran De Pessemier, Tijmen Matthys) "Create unique plants & heal your customers" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/20/seeds-of-hope/

A GitHub repo with a English fan translation of Hideo Kojima's development diary for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty just popped up. github.com/mgs2translat... #gamedev #metal #metalgearsolid #gameindustry #kojima #mgs2

Pluma Familia (@sandervhove.bsky.social, Ben Lega) "Grow a beautiful tail, build a family" PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/18/pluma-familia/

Been working on a new solitaire for A Solitaire Mystery, this time with a murder mystery! #gamedev

Very excited to announce that ASTERISM IS LAUNCHING 17th JANUARY 2025!! Wishlist on Steam -> store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/... Follow on Itch -> shimmerwitch.itch.io/asterism Pre-order on Bandcamp -> shimmerglitch.bandcamp.com Also I made a cool trailer check it out! 💖 youtu.be/mPYVPOZFems

Bigfoot's Big Break (Just a Bee, Isaiah Sugar) "Recent reports of Bigfoot sightings in the area sound very promising, and you're up to the challenge." Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/16/bigfoots-big-break/

This is a fantastic read and I absolutely believe redubbing and re-translating SOTN is like spitting on the Mona Lisa

And here's @lyn-aka-blpry.bsky.social's new game about social anxiety! It's free! And it's waaaaay more fun than actual social anxiety. rhana63.itch.io/i-need-to-le...

Always wonderful to see all the IGF finalists each year :)

IGF 2025 Finalists: Seumas McNally Grand Prize Caves of Qud (@cavesofqud.com) Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Despelote ( @despelote.game) INDIKA Thank Goodness You're Here! (@coalsupper.bsky.social) UFO 50 (@mossmouth.bsky.social) #IGF2025

#IGF2025 Finalists: Nuovo Award Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Despelote (@despelote.game) Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity Ginger individualism in the dead-internet age:... (@alienmelon.bsky.social) Starship Home tapeçaria (tapestry) The Exit 8 (@playismen.bsky.social)

IGF 2025 Finalists: Excellence in Visual Art Children of the Sun (@devolverdigital.com) Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Hauntii Judero (@taloketo.bsky.social) Nine Sols Thank Goodness You're Here! (@coalsupper.bsky.social) #IGF2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Excellence in Narrative Caves of Qud (@cavesofqud.com) Closer the Distance (@osmoticstudios.com) Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Despelote (@despelote.game) INDIKA No Case Should Remain Unsolved #IGF2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Excellence in Design Balatro (@playbalatro.com) Blue Prince (@dogubomb.bsky.social) Caves of Qud (@cavesofqud.com) Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Pacific Drive (@ironwood.bsky.social) Tactical Breach Wizards (@breachwizards.bsky.social) #IGF2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Excellence in Audio Anger Foot (@freelives.bsky.social) Despelote (@despelote.game) INDIKA ODDADA (@svenahlgrimm.bsky.social) Thank Goodness You're Here! (@coalsupper.bsky.social) Utopia Must Fall (@pixeljamgames.bsky.social) #IGF2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Best Student Game A Dual Ascent DisplaceMen Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation Slot Waste The WereCleaner (@thewerecleaner.com) Year Unknown #IGF2025

Out today!! Super Puzzled Cat is an absolute treasure with nearly a decade of care and passion poured into it. It's an incredible achievement to get lost in! Make sure to leave a review! Even just "👍 cat gaem" is huge for the algorithm store.steampowered.com/app/2650350/... #indiegame #gaming

Two and a half years ago, a team of friends and I made a game about loss and community in the face of disaster. Now it feels weirdly prescient. gwenckatz.itch.io/arbor

I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...

Palestinian dev Rasheed Abueideh has impacted players before with emotional storytelling, and he plans to do it again with #DreamsOnAPillow. Congrats to @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social & the team for hitting their crowdfunding goal! Let's overfund & support future Palestinian #gamedev initiatives 🍉

Judero creates such a stirring feeling of connection - to loved ones, artists, strangers, the world - in a time of intense disconnect. In a time of endless noise, it brings me peace.

heya gamers. did you know i made a whole masterpost on how to make video games if you dont know how to code 🎮 www.tumblr.com/insertdisc5/...

director Makoto Ikehara & character designer/illustrator Tatsuya Yoshikawa discuss Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, the decidedly unconventional fifth entry in Capcom's JRPG series, with topics that cover DQ's many harsh game systems, the new aesthetic/setting & more shmuplations.com/dragonquarter/

For games media freelancers, I made this starter pack of commissioning editors at various games sites. Follow these folks so you know when work callouts go out here on Bluesky. If you see someone is missing from this list, let me know.

'After the Janazah' is a bite-sized yet powerful #RPGMaker visual novel. Follow a woman to her father's Muslim funeral, and engage directly with the associated rituals. It's very poetic, and even educational-- definitely a must play.

"Crypt Stalker" is an awesome modern day Castlevania with an extra dose of adrenaline!?!🐸💜✨ #indiegames 📺: youtu.be/BEmGdQXDA5M

So this post has led me to yet another fantastic Croatian game that I just barely didn't discover to make my GOTY list: store.steampowered.com/app/1939100/... A game that is finally respectful to the SCP universe and gets the bizarreness of it _right_.

A well regarded Zach-like programming puzzler, ABI-DOS, just went freeware. It launched in November but just failed to sell. So the developer put it on 90% sale over the holidays and just made it entirely free now.

I’m about 75% done with Proverbs and it is both satisfying as a puzzle and educational! Plus more little dudes with instruments keep showing up as I get closer to the end store.steampowered.com/app/3083300/...

It's like if The Return of the Obra Dinn was cute and full of animals! Play Bring Your Pet to School Day for free: gwenckatz.itch.io/pet

In 2025, let's stop using the word gaslight to mean lying or misrepresentation. It's insulting to abuse survivors and diminishes the meaning of a word that has very specific uses.