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I'll tap the sign, though. Strange and brilliant games do continue to be created. And they don't need to be state-of-the-tech, massive budget projects to do so. The tech for most 3D and 2D mechanics used in games approached maturity over 20+ years ago.

what ended up happening is the third biggest sales spike of the game!

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

if you were wondering what i meant with "expression" in that post about the slotmachine indies a while back, here you go: "Expressionist games are negotiated experiences shaped by the unresolvable tension between mechanically-imposed external worlds and passionate inarticulate internal worlds."

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

northernlion has played mosa lina on stream :) let's see what happens next :)

EVERYTHING SPIRALS TO A FINAL POINT OF UNIFICATION THE SACRED ΩMEGA POINT cathroon.itch.io/omega-point A MIXTAPE AT THE END OF THE WORLD [FLASHING IMAGE WARNING]

Been thinking about this all week; but really this just brings a bunch of stuff bubbling up that I've been sitting on for way longer. On the death of criticism: noescapevg.com/games-critic...

You'll never believe how this newly-released BABY was made! - only nine months development time - solo female developer! (with contractor help)

“performative male” this is not 2014. They’re not trend tweaking. Hipsters are gone. Obama’s gone. This is literally just the new wave fascists telling men w any troublesome care or conscience left to stop being a pussy and get behind the dictator

Cloth game is looking more like cloth now!

another one of these images that spawned in my head and can only be flushed out again by posting

I'm so ready for genAI to be gone. I want these people to be shamed for the rest of their lives. Not only the VCs who shove it down our throats, but the scientists who let it happen because they don't want to stick their necks out. If you can't handle tough decisions, go paint houses or something.

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

i generally think it's a good thing for a game to be book-like, in the sense that you can flip to any "page" (game state) relatively unimpeded, which i feel is a more radical position on difficulty than "dark souls should have easy mode"

The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is offering $15,000 USD to traditionally under-supported game developers working on thinky puzzle games. If this is you, we invite you to apply! Deadline: September 28th grants.draknek.org

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

platformer capitalism

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.” walzr.com/IMG_0001 this is beautiful 🥲

uhhhh

sadly not going to be able to finish even a smaller interactive fiction project this month. I'll take this week off from work to actively think through some stuff & hopefully have a healthy creative re-start in september :))

cool video that talks about FALLSTRUKTUR, Mosa Lina, Staftat & Öoo! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NV4...

kinda noteworthy that the event powering this surge (basically classic fake youtuber beef between the Developers of two huge live-service games) is called "The Admin War" ig to manage the continous social space they facilitate, developers have to become administrators :)

Working on stamina/oxygen usage systems You can press "R" to retract chest, this increases oxygen usage but lets you fit through a smaller space When you let go, the chest is still bound by physics and that's what actually drives the stats, not the input directly #gamedev #indiegame #godotengine

progress on the hyper-reactive interactive fiction thing has been very slow! I'm starting to get a feel for the tone & pace, but there's no way I can finish the thing this month. It has ballooned into something very large, but trying to make it work/discovering what it can be, is exciting

new angeline era devlog up! Pretty close to the finish line now, if not on track for a 2025 release due to schedule concerns, we'll certainly be wrapping beta testing this year. The Era of Bumpslash, New Action, and New Adventure is upon us... melodicambient.substack.com/p/angeline-e...

Incredible quote from Team Cherry. Can't believe they make games like this

The ones that log off from Omelas

20 Aug 25 -- Bluesky has suspended multiple trans users for anti-J.K. Rowling posts even when they didn't mention threats or violence. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Even if the writer intended for simple blue curtains, you can always try to figure out why he thought that was a normal thing for curtains to be

We were in a Steam Daily Deal the other day and it's nice to see some new people and find out the game is still good :) Still 50% off!

it doesn't get mentioned all that much in books on drawing or comics, but i don't know any technique that's more useful than walking away for an hour

it's really funny that the last video polygon was able to do was all like "it's not gambling dw" and meanwhile indies are like

JESUS, MARY, AND JOSEPH! This gave me old Google back! It killed the AI results dead!

i've gotten kind of hooked on The Life & Suffering Of Sir Brante! it's 60% off rn as well! store.steampowered.com/app/1272160/...

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

another entry in the saga of really cheap appartements: my brother just sent me one that is basically a single room, really close to the city canal, that rents for only 160/month. again, it's the kind of strange setup I was trying to avoid, but damm... I am very tempted

i sincerely believe we can make it to 1000 backers if we combine our powers. after all, what's 60 more souls (or more!) in the next 6 days? "back the drac" today... if you dare! 🫵 www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

"Öoo" the bomb caterpillar exploration puzzle platformer, is out now! 🎉 Dive into an adventure packed with discovery and clever puzzles, we hope you enjoy it! 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

SAVE THE DATE!!!! 10 years of game dev days!!! October 4th at @tugraz.bsky.social #gddg25 #gamedev #indiedev #tugamedev

Even though it was a short experience overall (around 30 min), I couldn't stop playing the game until i saw the end screen. So fun and compelling, thank you for making this @stuffedwomb.at ! Fallstruktur is free so check it out on steam, you might be surprised 😁

We've made 2 more maps! This time they're experimenting with building larger, more intentional spaces :) >> steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... >> steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

Fynn & me just made some new maps for FALLSTRUKTUR! they're pretty experimental, but it's very interesting to explore the possibility space of this little game :)) @fakefrogsonly.bsky.social map: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... my map: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/...

thank you so much for all the nice FALLSTRUKTUR reviews! There's also already a bunch of cool user generated maps on the Workshop & we're planning to add a couple more ourselves in the next days :)

i looooooooooved this game!!!!! this was my route #myroute