New victory screen! 🙌

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

Some players seemed to want a proper UI button for pausing the game instead of just pressing escape. I tried a classic hamburger button, but it stood out like a sore thumb. So I added this little bookmark and sliding menu instead, and I really love how it looks! Works by pressing escape too!

Beautiful Sliders, Sliding Hero is now officially available! Slide out of a Carnival Mystery, and help Luca unmask his destiny in this odd mix of ice movement and #metroidvania exploration! #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame #indiegames #pixelart #ドット絵 #倉庫番 #sokoban

Today is the one year anniversary of the release of Stig 🥳 50% off for a week to mark the occasion!

We just added a bunch of games to our database by Bart Bonte! He’s a prolific developer who makes casual puzzles great for people stepping into the thinky genre. @bartbonte.bsky.social thinkygames.com/stud... 1/7

SURPRISE! My friends and I made a cozy idler, and you can play it RIGHT NOW! Our submission for #ComfyJam Autumn is Knittin' Critters - four grannies knitting blankies for everyone on the planet! 🦊 jlansing.itch.io/knittin-crit... 🧶 #indiegame #cozy #itchio #idler #gamedev

Since my game is playable in the browser on itch.io, I decided I wanted to have my save system work there as well. So I'm trying out the Godot JavaScriptBridge for the first time, and it's going well so far! Here is how you can save data to local storage from gdscript:

The Picto Kickstarter is Now Live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pic... #IndieGameDev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegames #mobilegame #mobilegames #androidgame #iosgame #mixedreality #mixedmedia

🥼 - Tester had trouble tracking affinities. So I worked on new attack effects for the mini overlay to help convey the damage dealt to units. 🔖 - One step closer to the Steam Demo, Are you a fan of the #FE #GBA games? Follow to get the announcement! #GodotEngine #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGames #SRPG

Testing what it could look like having different board backgrounds for different parts of town!

Made a little animation for when you find new stuff around town in my chess game! #screenshotsaturday

Agree 100% on this one! Big recommend!

Announcing the line-up for ThinkyCon 2025! 🎉 Tune in for 3 days of amazing talks from the makers of your favorite puzzly games! thinkygames.com/even...

Spooky Express is OUT NOW on PC and Mobile! 🚂🎃 All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet! spooky.express

Are you trying to check out #SteamNextFest demos but can't quite make it past all the AI crud? Overwhelmed by the sheer number of games of varying degrees of quality? Well look no further! I'm going to be playing tons of demos this week and cataloguing the most standout ones in this thread:

Implemented a system for collecting pieces just by talking to characters around town!

Going live in ~20min. I'll start with a few Devil Daggers runs and a few RoA2 matches, and then continue my playthrough of Stig by @bergberggames.bsky.social . store.steampowered.com/app/2834830/... www.twitch.tv/jagriff #puzzlegame #Twitch #Stream

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@jagriff.bsky.social is playing Stig! www.twitch.tv/jagriff

Finally took the time to setup a pre-push hook that runs all my GUT unit tests. Also added tests that validate all my dialog files. Feels so goooood to see the little '✅' whenever I push 🙌

I’m unsure how I feel about having characters in a game tell me how to play in terms of keyboard buttons and stuff. It’s a bit of an immersion break, but it’s also cool to have the game explained by a character rather than a popup hmm..

With the autumn sale, Stig finally reached 500 units sold! 🙌 526 sold, 22 refunded. 28 positive reviews, 0 negative. It’s nothing huge, but it’s a big milestone for us. And having no negative reviews makes me really happy! store.steampowered.com/app/2834830/...

Saw an interesting reddit post from someone who made a free game with paid dlc. It’s basically the same as a demo that’s the first part of a game, if progress is transferred over between the demo and the full game (like it is for Stig). But saying the game is free might attract more players?

Today marks the one year anniversary of my first YouTube video! 🎉 In the past year I’ve made 8 devlogs. During that time Miriam and I released our first game, and had our first kid. It’s been a busy year! 😄

Added the possibility to display images with messages in my dialog system

PANIK IS OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🎉 Thank you for your support! ♥️ #gamedev #indiegames #puzzle #gamemaker

PSA: The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant application deadline is this Sunday at 23:59 PST. The team and I may not be available over the weekend to answer any last minute questions, so please check out the FAQ and if there's any doubt - apply anyway! grants.draknek.org

It's been a couple week but I am back with my first update for the Fantasy Football Tactics demo! - Status Effect UI - "Kickoff" After Goal - Loads of bug fixes - ...and more! Full list here + link to demo: store.steampowered.com/news/app/303... #indiegame #steam #lowpoly #turnbased #gamedev

I beat BOND. It was a fun game! It definitely deserves more than the 9 reviews it has right now on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/2835670/...

I just released a major update to my game prototype. Solved a huge chunk of feedback I got on the previous version, AND added a point and click overworld. Would love your input! lageb.itch.io/bergberg-chess

After two years of development, Heroes of the Seven Islands is OUT ON STEAM 🎉 #gamedev #indiegames

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

I couldn't be more proud to have my game join Thinky Games' award winners from the past two years: Maxwell's puzzling demon and Can of Wormholes. Get a 10% discount with the Gentoo's Demon Wormholes bundle! store.steampowered.com/bundle/58516... #indiegamedev #puzzlegame

I'm opening art commissions. I draw characters and silly fantasy thing! I ask you to repost to share the message around! Thanks in advance! #art #drawing #characterdesign

Every day on my way to work I walk through this alley. Every day I choose between continuing on the path under the roof to the left, or taking a few steps to the right and get the open sky and this pretty cool mural. You have to appreciate the little things!

Made a puzzle game where the controllers are inside of the game. Finally releasing this on Steam on monday. #puzzlegame #puzzlevideogame #indiegame #sokoban #onemorebutton #gamedev

I’m looking for people who want to watch an almost 40 year old play indie games live on stream. I’m a goof and love to make people laugh, all in an inclusive space, and sometimes though rare am good at said games. Please share this with your communities. Link for twitch is in my bio and ⬇️

It can be scary to post about your game online, and open up to criticism. But man is it worth it. I'm 100% sure my game will be better because I share my progress and get input from so many smart people!

One thing that came up when testing my prototype is that some people don't like using drag and drop to move pieces. They want to be able to click to select, and then click again to move. So now there's an option for that! The UI still isn't super pretty, but hey it works!

in my latest vid i checked out a sand castling building game by @solsatelier.bsky.social 🏖️🏰 it features a very round elephant named Elfie. youtu.be/nIszp8Kn6gU

The deadline for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is 23:59 PST Sunday 28th September. If you'd like to be reminded nearer the time you can sign up for email notifications on the grant homepage. grants.draknek.org

What’s a good process for coming up with names for stuff? I kind of want to name my game something abstract that doesn’t mean anything, but then no one will know what it is. Do I add a subtitle?

First iteration of the point and click overworld for my chess game is done! Really happy with how it turned out

I've been thinking of having a 'point and click' style overworld in my game. But since I don't have any art skills, I was thinking of maybe just tracing some photos of my favorite places around town and use as background art. What do you think? Could it work?

Join me in discovering these two games in tomorrow's stream: 💥 5 minutes until self-destruction (by @parttimemonkey.bsky.social‬‪) 💭 Lucy dreaming (by @tallstorygames.bsky.social) See you LIVE on YouTube❤️+💜Twitch #puzzle #puzzlegame #puzzlevideogame #indie #indiegame

My chess game prototype is now playable in the browser over on itch! 🙌 Check it out: lageb.itch.io/bergberg-chess Made a video about it too: youtu.be/_oqEV-uDoD0?...

For this weeks #screenshotsaturday, here's a video of me playing my Godot game in the browser over on itch.io! Help me playtest: lageb.itch.io/bergberg-chess