The puns were there from day one.

It was lovely to be on the Quest Unplayed podcast with George last week! 🙌 ❤️

Our art for Sparrow Warfare has really come a long way! Here you can see one of Howl in his paper prototype form versus how he looks today - all done with public domain illustrations re-coloured, collaged, and vectorised 🦉 #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

This is going to be EPIC!!! So excited for it & @craigbreathnach.bsky.social has been doing an insanely good job with the Steam Irish game curator page & getting this rolling. GET HYPE FOR IRISH GAMES 🙌🇮🇪🍀

We were super happy to host #TurnBasedThursday last week - check out the hashtag to find lots of awesome turn-based games to add to your wishlist! ✨

It was a lot of fun to host #TurnBasedThursday last week! Check out all the cool games in the thread & here are 4 of my most-anticipated: 👾 Quasimorph - extraction roguelike in space 🃏 Forbidden Solitaire - creepy 90s cards 👻 Deck of Haunts - become a haunted house 🍲 Arcane Eats - cook magically

I am so honoured to officially host this week's #TurnBasedThursday on Bluesky! 🗣 INDIE DEVS! Show off your turn-based games in this thread with the hashtag! PLAYERS! Come on in & 💬comment, ❤️like, 🔁repost & ✨wishlist all the great games in the thread!

It's me! Super excited to get to officially host #TurnBasedThursday here on Bluesky tomorrow - so get ready to see a lot of awesome turn-based games from ~lunchtime CET!! 🙌

Yes this video also shows my desperate sticker game on the much-hated Windows machine. The stickers themselves are great though. Thanks Triband, David Lynch and @beingbrin.bsky.social!

We're playing lots of demos as we get our own one ready to launch for Sparrow Warfare, and we want to share the best ones along the way. Here's @martinpi.bsky.social playing PLUTO - a weird and wild demo with a super unique mechanic. Give it a try! #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #pluto #demo

We're in the pub celebrating this evening! 1000 hours played of the Sparrow Warfare playtest!! 😮🍻 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

SYSTEM ALERT: #TurnBasedThursday engaged! 🎉 Official host protocol activating. #GameDev / #IndieDev: Initiate upload sequence. Share your turn-based games, demos, and links in the replies. Players and fans: Execute support functions. Like, repost, and wishlist. Help some indies succeed!

A few of the physical game inspirations for our deckbuilder with wings Sparrow Warfare! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

The most interesting bug report we’ve received so far for our game Sparrow Warfare! #gamedev #indiedev #magpies

Lots of news & games in last week's #TurnBasedThursday thread! 🎲 Release date trailer for an adorable dice RPG ♣️ Gamble your way out of hell roguelike w/ a free demo 🟣 New mancala-like roguelike announced 🚀 "Firefly meets Dune" sci-fi captain RPG & much more! ⤵ #Gaming #TurnBased #IndieGames

I got my usual - mayo, onion, peppers, a little coleslaw, spicy fillet - and the girl at the counter judged me

What engine are you folks using out there to make your indie games? #gamedev #indiedev #godot #godotengine

Happy Friday out there, game devs! May the bugs be squashed and the beer flow!! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, wild @badgerpunch.com! As you are all about old school games, today we bring you the oldest-school game: 17th century card game Piquet! We show you how to play: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zE9... We're also making: store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

We are thrilled to officially host this week’s #TurnBasedThursday! 🎉 🛠️ #GameDev / #IndieDev - drop your turn-based games below and use the hashtag! 🎮 Fans - like, RT, and discover your next obsession in the replies 👇 RPGs, tactics, strategy, all welcome!

She’s alive! My second solo game is out now. You'll like my narrative adventure game if you like: - Weird things made by creative people - Meeting cats, frogs & dogs - Puzzles so easy you could make them yourself - Lamenting the games industry unaminh.itch.io/another-day-... #gamedev #indiegames

Great games in last week's #TurnBasedThursday thread! 🛹 Pokemon-like creature collector w/ a skateboarding kick 🔮 Upcoming tarot tactics roguelike 😱 Demo launch for a cryptic CD-ROM card-slasher 🦚 Two lovebirds making a lovely bird game & many more! ⤵ #Gaming #TurnBased #IndieGames

AND @martinpi.bsky.social & I are getting hype to spend this Saturday evening drawing birds with @ipaintbirbs.bsky.social - & you can too with this live event: academy.allaboutbirds.org/live-event/i...

It's #BirdArtWeek2026! Here are some of my collage homages to amazing bird art that I am including in our game Sparrow Warfare, where your magnificent bird army frees the world!

Thanks so much for the Sparrow Warfare shout-out, @michaelklamerus.bsky.social!

Lovely streamer playing live right now! www.twitch.tv/qwizicalqwak

Sparrow Warfare now has a wiki! Thanks to the kindness of @wiki.gg for hosting us, you can now explore all current wildtiles, daily flight modifiers, and tips & tricks right here: sparrowwarfare.wiki.gg

We’re honoured to be this week’s official #TurnBasedThursday host #GameDev and #IndieDev, share your turn based projects in the replies with screenshots or videos and your store page link. Don’t forget the hashtag. Players and fans, support your favourites with likes, reposts and wishlist.

We post our daily flight every day during our playtest sessions! Never making it to place #1 because our playtesters have eclipsed us, but isn't that great?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfLH...

We post our daily flight every day during our playtest sessions! Never making it to place #1 because our playtesters have eclipsed us, but isn't that great?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfLH...

I think I've never had such an embarrassing finish in a run.

We're excited to officially host this week's #TurnBasedThursday! Devs: Reply with your #TurnBased game, screenshots / videos and Steam link Let's all support each other by ❤️ 🔁 and adding to your wishlists. Thanks! #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev

A great joy of progressing with our game is that I can no longer get anywhere NEAR the top of the leaderboard, as our playtesters are now so much better than me 😀 Still cataloguing my daily shames over on our YouTube if you're ever in the market for some second-rate advice! youtu.be/cTYVF-YZGcg

Our brand-new wiki explains the scoring rules in detail. Absolutely necessary to reach the upper echelons in Daily Flights: sparrowwarfare.wiki.gg/wiki/Scoring...

Making games is a LOT easier than getting eyeballs on them, lemme tell ya! Speaking of... our weird bird deckbuilder has a great new free playtest build out: 🦜 Daily flights! 🦩 Tutorial! 🦚 2 playstyles! 🦆 So… many… birds!!! Join us! Or tell a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Certified banger from @neonaurelius.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Personally I think Steam playtests are one of the coolest features Valve has introduced in recent years. I can't imagine creating a systems-heavy game like this any other way (given that Early Access is not working as it should nowadays).

Our game already offers hours of gameplay and without testers it's impossible to find all those unlikely sequences of actions that lead to unforeseen results. We have hundreds of play modes as the result of our daily run modifiers, for example.

Given how explosive our game's math is, there's also a lot of balancing to be done. To make the right calls, we need some data by real players. Our numbers escalate pretty intensely and we have to make it so that that feels gratifying and happens at the right time and under the right circumstances.

I see Sparrow Warfare as one of the most casual hardcore games ever made. Super easy to get started and all depth is in the cards themselves. There are very few systems but they're all intricately interacting with each other.

We're making a card battler that goes very fast from chipping away at a health bar to absolute synergistic mayhem. No long-winded buildup. No time-consuming fillers. No exposition. Short sessions made of pure gameplay. Sounds like your jam? Join our playtest!

We're looking for more people to test our peckbuilder. If you like birds, cards, occasional bugs, and trying out new stuff, we have the perfect game for you! The secret sauce: instead of playing single cards you play sequences of three cards.

Slay The Spire-like made by a tiny awesome indie team of @martinpi.bsky.social & @alphachar.bsky.social. ✨🐦 Be sure to wishlist, too! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

If you haven't playtested @neonaurelius.bsky.social's Sparrow Warfare, now is your CHANCE as their latest public playtest is liiiiiiiive. If you love BIRBS and BIRBBUILDERS, then this is for you. Very fun and lots of modifiers. youtu.be/0G6Ek4ADfbE?...

MY 2026 AWAITS!!!

We're excited to welcome 2026 in later today, but EVEN MORE excited as Sparrow Warfare will be a tiny part of @cringer.bsky.social's end of year show today over on Twitch!! Starting from 11am ET (5pm Copenhagen time!), join in the fun here: www.twitch.tv/cringer

And that's it from the Sparrow Warfare advent calendar! We wish you a relaxing and nourishing holiday out there, and a glorious start to 2026 ❤️ We're excited to launch our game next year - wishlists are very much appreciated to help us along that road! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

DAY TWENTY-FOUR In our game, one of the eggs hatches into a very strange "bird" indeed, a little lad just happy to be invited: CHANCE Genus: Erinaceidae (hedgehog) Art origin: Wikimedia public domain hedgehog photo, recoloured & collaged Motto: "Well... that's surprising!"

DAY TWENTY, TWENTY-ONE & TWENTY-TWO Some of us (ahem @alphachar.bsky.social) took the weekend off & forgot about Dre, but we're back with the triple threat: KING MOB Genus: Alcedinidae (kingfisher) Art origin: Watercolour by pikisuperstar Motto: "There's never just one..." #ArtAdvent #birds

It is safe to metaphorically hold you breath until our third playtest will launch but don't do it for real. Still a few bugs to iron out before we can open the gates to new players again but the bug reports keep rolling in and our patches rolling out.