I googled your symptoms, turns out you need an escape to a fantasy world that feels like cozy LotR. 🌿

I spent December making a little Bluesky Christmas Calendar where every day got a video clip I really like. Because video clips are art.

Ah, I didn't think to check 😊 £1.44! That is not a lot of money for a game I still return to four years after I got it. (But if it's in your budget, you can also go to itch.io and give the devs a little more for it.) store.steampowered.com/app/1475960/... imaginary-friends-games.itch.io/shindig

Play a very cute advent calendar with your kids, or your pets, or just by yourself, for free! ♥️ I also highly recommend Imaginary Friends' game Shindig. It's short and cosy and wonderful and perfect for those times when you need a bit of warmth and hope.

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

The purpose of a system is what it does, now and always.

#PPOD: When the Sun, Moon, and Earth align just right, moonlight meets the mist at the base of a great waterfall. The result is a moonbow: a rainbow born not of daylight, but of reflected lunar light. Credit: @joshduryphotomedia.bsky.social 🧪 🔭 📷

What a wonderful interview guest! And another interesting Youtube channel I hadn't stumbled upon before, very happy to know about it now 🤗

It’s the holiday season, so maybe you would enjoy my 2021 holiday hedgehog short film 🦔🎄

So many awesome indie games in this showcase! #15seconds www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOUw...

The 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree, growing on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. After the tree was criminally felled in 2023, the National Trust grew 49 saplings from its seeds, one for each foot of the tree’s original height.https://tinyurl.com/28da35cg #ShareGoodNewsToo

Potatoes are life 🥔♥️

Even in the depths of the Unwell, light finds a way. Today, we celebrate Saint Lucy’s Day. Glad Lucia, everyone! We hope this day brings you plenty of cookies, saffron buns, and cosy time with the ones you hold dear 🙏 🕯️ Art by @quartervirus.bsky.social #intotheunwell #gamedev #indiegame

Hi Bluesky! 🌷🦢 I am looking for a pixel artist that can create art similar to this beautiful piece that I got from Ohilin! (●'◡'●)

Trying to bring some well needed light to December by doing a chirpy little Christmas Calendar consisting of high quality video clips. It’s cute, maybe you’ll find something you really like. #TobsonCalendar

Lots and lots and LOTS of great lists in the quotes! ♥️

Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.

Another excellent bundle! 🤗🌻 Now if I just had a little more free time...

A cluster of juvenile Pachycephalosaurs shelter from an early spring downpour as the adult members of the clan stand watch against roaming predators. A pair of small pterosaurs attempt to stay dry beneath a fallen log nearby. #fossilfriday #paleoart

Freelance Opportunity! Calling all Pokémaniacs! For an upcoming project we are looking for someone to write a paid retrospective on #Pokemon Red and Blue for the Game Boy. We are after nostalgic love-letters, pieces detailing why the games were iconic and/or important.

finally got to the moment where plinky 12" prototype had ... plinkyness. ive been discouraged by the project for a few months because i couldnt find what i wanted with it, but this hastily grabbed (glitchy, debug build, phone audio) clip while debugging was the first time it was fun to noodle on

I wanted to share that My Friends the Monster Trainers was featured as the Thinky Game Club pick in @thinkygames.com’s newsletter last week! Thank you! I’m really happy people are enjoying the Pokemon-inspired story and puzzles. 😊 celia14.itch.io/my-friends-t...

(UK) Parliamentary Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690

What’s behind door number one on your HappyToast advent calendar?

TopatoCo is one of the nicest places I ever bought stuff from. Also, some of the nicest stuff I ever bought, including my two favourite hoodies 😊

Please give this a read to 1) learn about some new interesting indie games (including the best stealth game I ever played) and 2) support John in his quest to continue writing articles like this for Kotaku 😊

Who needs some more baaad influence in their life? Go follow Zein 🤗

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Hey, you! designer! My partner is starting a project of doing some free fonts based on vernacular writing we find around Brazil in our travels Go take a look! (It's reeeeally hard to find those kinds of fonts in the internet!)

I've barely posted on this kind of social media anywhere but I have a reason to now. I made a game!! It's called nuworm and you can play it for free in the browser. I worked on it over three years, it might take you three hours to experience. cubestudio.itch.io/nuworm

Hello indies! It's almost Thanksgaming 2025! If you have an unknown indie project in dev or just released, please could you email me at [email protected] with the subject "THANKSGAMING 2025", and a store page and YouTube link? I'll put as many as I can on Kotaku. Rules next. Reposts appreciated!

In just one week, this puzzle-packed advent calendar will be back for a 5th year!

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

Wanted to be an archaeologist, but chickened out and went for something boring instead. It's been nice, mostly. Still, sometimes I wonder... Lots of interesting stories in the quotes! Sometimes it takes a while to arrive somewhere good.

tis the season

*comically scrambles to get new game finished before podcasters seal their goty lists

Happy 10th Advent of Code! Two good changes: *ONLY* 12 days of puzzles (meaning we all have a better 100% chance), and though they've axed the global leaderboards (gee thanks for ruining them AI 😖), they kept the private ones. 👍 So yes, I will be sharing a private leaderboard for #LDJam & friends.

That's so true, and one reason I still dream of going back one day. But I've learned that most experts and professors are amazingly approachable if you show genuine interest. You can write to them and they happily answer! It's incredibly generous and I'll never take that for granted, either.

Oh good, they're asking the public to name something again! (replica sutton hoo ship). They have explicitly asked for nothing like Boaty mcBoatface, so this is time for old english scholars to represent. What is the OE for "Boaty McBoatface"? Can we do something with "whale road"...? #Medievalsky

Still ongoing until the end of the week 😊

These are great! I love the slaloming ghost. "WFH" from the same selection might be my favourite, though 😁

I need Spock with cat today. Leaving him here in case anyone else has a day, too.

This is Sektori! A twin-stick shooter I've been making (and documenting the journey) since April 2021. And it finally launched TODAY on Steam, PS5 and Xbox! Here's a fresh launch trailer, all shares highly appreciated. More game info in replies. #indiegame #ps5 #xbox #steam #indiedev #gamedev

40 games were submitted to the ThinkyCon jam! There's word games, sokobans, rule-discovery games, and a bunch more which you can find here! itch.io/jam/thinkyco...

Oh, this is beautiful. "Never stop creating. Don't let them get you down. Only you can be you. More than ever, we need you now." ♥️

Enjoy some recent positive news from around the world 🌍 🌱 (1/3)

So many amazing things to see in this thread! Sleeping kitty for a cosy Sunday.