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Indie game dev 🇨🇦 It Consumes:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/It_Consumes/
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I'm a solo dev making It Consumes, an arena-FPS set in total darkness where you see by beating your heart.
store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/...
#wishlistwednesday
#indiegame
#gamedev
#fps
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over 1 year ago
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Gameshaped
about 1 month ago
the playtest for my fps roguelite Blast Judgment is now open
store.steampowered.com/news/app/304...
#indiegame
#gamedev
#lowpoly
#psx
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Blast Judgment - Blast Judgment Playtesting Now! - Steam News
The Blast Judgment playtest can now be downloaded. Please try it and let me know your thoughts!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3042120/view/541133047968301887?l=english
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Viv @ Home
about 1 month ago
What if instead of trying to forcibly invent the next big technical revolution... what if we paid devs and funded projects? The budget for this stuff could create so much THRIVING art. Imagine: more games! more weird games! more games that take risks! games that dont need to monetize aggressively!
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Dominic Tarason
about 2 months ago
Hear me out... Univerally praised games are neat enough, but nothing hits quite like something unpopular that speaks to *you*. So show-and-tell: Link and Explain a game that's UNDERRATED (sub-500 user reviews), UNDERRATED (sub 80% score) or BOTH (ideally!) that is near and dear to your heart.
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KZ
about 2 months ago
Leon giving Grace the Requiem in RE9
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matthew | ENCHAIN out NOW
2 months ago
ENCHAIN has already been out for almost 2 weeks! early access launch has been great. feedback has been super positive and thoughtful, from what I peeked at so far. thank you for the support! been on a break, excited to jump back in. I will start making the first update (QoL+polish) next week.
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Holy shit CICADAMATA is bursting at the seams with style. It's like it's from some alternate reality where everyone went all in on making sick as hell Jumping Flash type games.
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Morgan La Kay
3 months ago
this game is fun even on levels that are unrefined
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Unbelievable what's happening. How broken do people's brains need to be to support this outright nazi shit?
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3 months ago
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I can't get over how cool this project is. Very inspiring
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5 months ago
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Casey Explosion
7 months ago
Indie devs! Time for another
#ShowCasey
DEMO EDITION! Do you have a demo in the Steam Next Fest? Do you need some eyeballs? Reply below with a link to your steam page and a brief description of your game, and let's see if I can't GRANT YOU EYES! (As usual, no GenAI)
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Joe Mirabello (->GDC)
7 months ago
So our new coop-comedy-horror-heist game Good Boy is part of Steam
#NextFest
. We'd certainly appreciate any RTs!
store.steampowered.com/app/3670740/...
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It Consumes is in Steam Next Fest! The demo includes a good chunk of the main survival mode, with lots of different abilities and modifiers to mess around with. And save data will carry over into the full release.
store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/...
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7 months ago
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Nick Lives
7 months ago
New public Patreon post today! I am not an expert at most things, but at being lazy? I come close. 😉 ➡️
www.patreon.com/posts/135447...
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Johan Toresson
7 months ago
GDC has always been ass, and GDC now trying to further impose control outside moscone to strangle out side events is a sure sign that it's not going to get better. If you're a dev, this sheet is free and will have a higher impact than paying money to go to sf
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Boomstock starts tomorrow! It Consumes will be part of it, along with a bunch of other awesome FPS games.
7 months ago
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Freyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL
8 months ago
What an expertly called shot
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daffodil 🇵🇸 🇱🇧
8 months ago
If you have an interest in making an ambitious rhythm game with me, with a DIY attitude, radical liberation worn on it's sleeve, queer focused subject matter, and colorful characters, I am seeking to build a team ahead of grant applications this coming March. Interested in contributing?
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Really smart technique. And gives it such an awesome vibe that I'm not sure would be there if everything were coloured individually.
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9 months ago
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If you've been looking for a Notion alternative there's some good options in here that I hadn't heard of before
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9 months ago
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game!
9 months ago
visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help. this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls. we can beat them phone numbers and a script:
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AuraPuffs ☁️
10 months ago
It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️
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Mcdoogleh
10 months ago
Alrighty
#ScreenshotSaturday
have ya taken our Starfox x Armoured Core inspired Spaceflight Shooter 'Rogue Eclipse' for a spin yet? Features: 🕹️ - Tight Spaceflight Controls! 🚀 - Unlockable Starfighters! 💥 - Explosive Bullet-Hell Action! Wishlist Here!
bit.ly/4bRLumD
#scifi
#IndieGame
#Gaming
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Dominic Tarason
10 months ago
Not out yet, but The Last Salvage Squad looks like a really interesting indie FPS experiment.
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The Last Salvage Squad on Steam
Battle enemy forces reminiscent of alien weapons from retro sci-fi works in this single-player 2.5D FPS.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3551190/The_Last_Salvage_Squad/
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Dominic Tarason
10 months ago
I've said before that I have a low (but not zero) tolerance policy on AI trash in games. It sucks, but I won't let it ruin something that's 99% hand-made. THAT SAID, keep doing this and pressuring and embarassing studios that try to slip in that little bit of garbage. They might back down, like so!
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Casey Explosion
10 months ago
Yeah, this especially an issue, I've brought up privately with some gamedev contacts, about some assets being used that were snuck in there without them knowing it was AI, and it causing them more hassle to remove it later. It's just putting extra work on people.
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Raj Patel
10 months ago
So many of the games you love are worked on by Canadian devs. Honestly, its a HUGE chunk of the industry and you never REALLY hear about it, to the extent it deserves. Here is a great sale, and its only showcasing 300 of those games, which is just a taste.
store.steampowered.com/curator/4554...
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Canadians Games Sale
Welcome to the Canadian Games Sale
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45548675-Canadian-Games-Devs/sale/canadiansgamessale
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〽️ax krieger locks in
11 months ago
if you try to play to any sort of content algorithm by insinuating anybody in video games is "lazy" you're going to hell
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Almar | MAKING A SCI-FI SURVIVAL HORROR
11 months ago
Extract skulls. Mutate. Survive. Escape. My new game is a small arena FPS that drinks from Devil Daggers, Post Void and Splatoon's Salmon Run. Coming soon!
#PitchYaGame
#indiegamedev
#solodev
#gamedev
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Chris
11 months ago
Liha – A first-person action rogue-lite where you scavenge procedural anomalies for parts to build powerful upgrades and new ships. Every run is a choice: dive deeper for better loot or escape before the Flesh devours your ship. Demo on Steam:
bit.ly/3FKZAvg
#PitchYaGame
#gamedev
#indiegames
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Bastinus Rex
11 months ago
#PitchYaGame
CARIMARA - Beneath the forlorn limbs My short spooky game will release this summer ! - 🏡 A well polished tiny world with a weird retro style - 💀 Low horror and dark tale aesthetic - 🃏 Card based dialogs system and investigation
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#PitchYaGame
I’m a solo dev making It Consumes - Arena-FPS + survivors-style roguelite - Set in total darkness, see by beating your heart - Break everything with custom games. Make truly cursed game modes you can share with your friends! Wishlist on Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/2371060/...
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11 months ago
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Alpha Beta Gamer
11 months ago
Announcing the Games to Get Excited About Fest 2025! 100+ upcoming indie games. No CGI trailers. No Filler. Just awesome upcoming indie games to get excited about. Game submissions are open! Post your games below or fill out the form!
#gamedev
#indiegames
#indiedev
#gaming
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Casey Explosion
11 months ago
Apparently Twitter is down, so how about this? Any indie developers got upcoming games they need signal boosted? Let's try and get some eyeballs for you! Reply to this post with a little bit about your game, a trailer if you have it, and make sure to include a link to any relevant store pages, GO!
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷
11 months ago
The new AI video game generator is fucking disgusting, creatively bankrupt, morally empty, soulless horse shit. Yet, I fear the masses won't care, and the day games invented by robots are accepted is coming. What's the point in a world without human-made art? We have destroyed our humanity.
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Nathan Savant
12 months ago
Once again, a study has found absolutely no one benefits from GenAI.
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I don't understand how a company that can attract some of the best artists in the industry resorts to stealing art assets. Just... why?
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12 months ago
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Well shit this is good news
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12 months ago
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Everyone should check out the trailer for this on its steam page. Stunning visual style.
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about 1 year ago
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Tanya X. Short
about 1 year ago
yo old dudes if you didn't want your games industry filled with horny bisexuals you shoulda made different games in the 90s and early 2000s just sayin, it's like it was someone's master plan who never showed up to take credit
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Happy to share that It Consumes will be a part of the 2025 Lovecraftian Days event on Steam, which runs from April 14 - 21. There'll be an updated version of the It Consumes playtest, plus tons of other games with weird cosmic horror and freaky tentacle monsters.
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John Walker - Industry Analcyst
about 1 year ago
Hello lovely people. I was wondering if you could support Buried Treasure? It's a site where I cover amazing games that the rest of the press aren't noticing. It's a lot of work, and it's only possible because of the amazing people who support me on Patreon.
www.patreon.com/c/buriedtrea...
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https://www.patreon.com/c/buriedtreasure
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Haley MacLean
about 1 year ago
Indie game devs! Worried you don't have a good publishing deal? May I present my firm's 2025 Publishing Agreement Data Report! Taken from 100+ actual Publishing Agreements ranging from 2017-2025, providing averages for rev share splits, advances, IP ownership and more!
indiegamepublishing.com
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Debug Magazine
about 1 year ago
The current discourse is that “games media doesn’t cover indie” We’d like to use this opportunity to tell the world that we exist 👋 Debug is a print magazine covering thousands of indies Please help spread the word!
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Watched this clip like 20 times in a row. Pretty good sign I'll be losing hours and hours to this when it comes out.
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about 1 year ago
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First time showing off some music for It Consumes! The OST is being done by
@silentsphere.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database
about 1 year ago
I’m seeing a lot of soft takes from industry mutuals at the moment that we shouldn’t be so hard on those who use generative AI because it’s becoming harder and harder to resist. Wrong. Betraying your ethics (and your peers) because ‘everyone else is doing it’ does not suddenly make it acceptable.
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Matt Hackett
about 1 year ago
It's done! 150/150 seats filled in this starter pack: 🦋 Solo Game Developers Features
#solodev
game developers out there doing hard work. Give 'em a follow and spread the word:
bsky.app/starter-pack...
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🔥🔥🔥
#indiedev
#gamedev
#screenshotsaturday
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This is like telling someone they're not an artist because they didn't build their own paintbrush
over 1 year ago
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jitspoe
over 1 year ago
Had a great time hosting my first indie game showcase stream! If you missed it, I've got the full list of games and developer Bluesky accounts as well as a recording of the stream here:
lonewulfstudio.com/indieshowcas...
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Lone Wulf Studio 2024 Indie Showcase Stream
https://lonewulfstudio.com/indieshowcase2024/
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