Then there’s the latest Margini videoludici (At videogame margins) column featuring the philosophical game-essay HAMM-3R by @gua-le-ni.com, @amidos2006.bsky.social, @demigiant.com, Irina Tomova, Costantino Oliva and Danielius Degesys.

I made Moss Moss, a #pico8 game about mossing the world and finding secrets. Hope you enjoy ♥ noelcody.itch.io/moss-moss

And also play our new small game for free at: hammer.gua-le-ni.com :)

Our new #short #philosophical game, HAMM-3R has some nice-looking postcards for events :) Make sure to get yours if you see us at any event :) @gua-le-ni.com #indiegames #IndieGameDev #experimental #indiedev #indie #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #fps #Philosophy #Free #Godot #WebGame #Space

Sound design in games is easy to overlook, but can be the secret sauce for the mood and knowing whether something hurts or helps. Dr Oliva reflects on the sound design for HAMM-3R: www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/le... #SoundDesign #IndieGames #musicology @gua-le-ni.com @amidos2006.bsky.social

Eldiron v0.9.2 is out 🎉 This update adds several new tools (including the new Dungeon Tool), plus more work on authoring and text-style play (IF). Read more: eldiron.com/blog/2026/04... #gamedev #indiedev #rpgdev

🤔 @fortkenmei.bsky.social explores the new experimental philosophical game by @gua-le-ni.com and @amidos2006.bsky.social.

HAMM-3R - the new experimental game by @gua-le-ni.com and @amidos2006.bsky.social featured on @newgrounds.com! It's free, short, and hopefully thought-provoking, try it out: www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/... #indiegame #philosophy #gamedev #research

Our new game, HAMM-3R, can be played over @itch.io: amidos2006.itch.io/hamm-3r @newgrounds.com: newgrounds.com/portal/view/... An experimental short philosophical game (5-10 mins) #indiegames #IndieGameDev #experimental #indiedev #indie #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #fps #Philosophy

For the US, I wanted to let you know about our new short philosophical game :) I just noticed that it is #AprilFoolsDay, this is not an April Fool. #indiegames #IndieGameDev #experimental #indiedev #indie #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #fps #Philosophy #RT

Short. SImple. Sweet. This is far more difficult to manage than it seems or looks. This one does it. #GameDev #Exemplary #InteractionDesign #Masterclass #Dialog_Balance #Impressive Don't take my word for it. Play that one scene demo. You'll see. 💎

For the US, I wanted to let you know about our new short philosophical game :) I just noticed that it is #AprilFoolsDay, this is not an April Fool. #indiegames #IndieGameDev #experimental #indiedev #indie #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #fps #Philosophy #RT

Our new game, HAMM-3R, can be played over @itch.io: amidos2006.itch.io/hamm-3r @newgrounds.com: newgrounds.com/portal/view/... An experimental short philosophical game (5-10 mins) #indiegames #IndieGameDev #experimental #indiedev #indie #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #fps #Philosophy

New paradigm alert! 🎮 AgenticPCG We combine classic PCG (Procedural Content Generation) algorithms with large language models for generating game levels. LLMs on their own are not good at level generation, but when given the right tools from our PCG toolbox they're killing it!

The joy of playing Hamm-3r for the first time! Immerse yourself in a free, short, thought-provoking philosophical game by @gua-le-ni.com and @amidos2006.bsky.social and let us know how it ended for you (or not - be mysterious)! hammer.gua-le-ni.com #indiegame #philosophy #artgame #godot

Ready to shape the future of 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝗜 or lead the conversation in 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀? #GameDev #GameAI #GameStudies

Play HAMM-3R! 🚀 FREE + SHORT (5-10 mins.) >> hammer.gua-le-ni.com << An experimental game about tools and technologies made with @amidos2006.bsky.social, @demigiant.com and other friends at the @indigitalgames.bsky.social! 🔨

the latest from @nocapsbb.bsky.social on noclip_2 an exploration of the world of #pico8 game design. the free "fantasy console" that allows players to create and play hundreds of inspiring games. WATCH & SHARE: youtu.be/1VFSJx8YSIU

Hey gamers, wanna do a good deed? Add an #IndieGame to your wishlist on #WishlistWednesday! Here's a suggestion! 🥹 store.steampowered.com/app/4321920/...

🌟 It's here! Mistpaw Ravine is now available on Steam!! 🌟 Build a home for magical cats, have them shoot lightning, clean their poop! Get it now: store.steampowered.com/app/3735490/...

💥Quick-fire talks covering: 🎶Games x Music 🎶 💡Games x Philosophy 💡 🗺️ Games x Migration 🗺️ 🔨And an exclusive chance to play @gua-le-ni.com's new philosophical game: Hamm-3r. ▶️ www.eventbrite.com/e/science-in... @amidos2006.bsky.social @danielvella.bsky.social @vthewanderer.bsky.social #gamedev

Yeah, looks like we will soon release a new experiment in playable philosophy called >> 'HAMM-3R" << (made with @amidos2006.bsky.social and @demigiant.com and others who are not on Bluesky). We will demo it and give a short talk in Valletta on March the 24th :) Come say hi!

Mind-blowing. youtu.be/h5kWDOuY2Uo?...

LevelForge is such a cool little toy... level-editor.onrender.com

From one small island to another! 🏝️ Iceland ✈️ Malta @joshbayer.bsky.social (Senior Game Designer, EVE Online) will keynote the Malta @globalgamejam.bsky.social! Ready to make a game in 48h? Jan 30 - Feb 1. All experience levels welcome. maltagamejam.institutedigitalgames.com #GGJ2026 #IndieDev

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

"Was ist Suppe?" A little old game (of mine) causes confusion and delight, it seems [in German]. www.zeit.de/2025/54/some... Cc @zeit.de @indigitalgames.bsky.social #soup #gamestudies

Unto Deepest Depths is out NOW! Battle your way through punishing turn-based combat in this roguelite where every move matters! store.steampowered.com/app/3106600/... #turnbased #roguelite #GodotEngine

Modern LLMs are good at writing code, but not necessarily at optimizing policy. But you can wrap the LLM in an evolutionary framework, and search for policies. In a new Nof1 paper, we show that we can automatically generate strong trading policies.

🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social offered some techniques for procedural generation in 2D games at at ExpoVIT 2025 in Costa Rica. Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games. 🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...

On Dithering ⇢ visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

raw as hell and super-well-done flicksy by @amidos2006.bsky.social (cw for slurs and institutional homophobic violence) amidos2006.itch.io/queen-boat

🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social was interviewed by @trueavatars.bsky.social at the @qgcon.bsky.social where he was presenting his game: Queen Boat. 🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview 👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b... #GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames

finished! this was a good time, loved the main twist on platforming language and the masocore levels were a pleasant surprise. (note that the down key is required for a verb later on, and it didn't work on my xinput d-pad, only the analog stick. that was my only wrinkle in an otherwise rad game)

I am one of the editors for the upcoming Transaction on Games special issue :) The special issue is about "Multi-Modal Content Generation for Games." One topic that excites me the most is the orchestration between different facets of content generation. (1/5) #PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames

My friends have just released their amazing poetry-based visual novel. Go support them and buy it if you are into cute games and poetry :) #gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday

Congratulations :) That is amazing :) Next time, I am in the US, I will go to @barnesandnoble.com to see it on the shelves :)

We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games. Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.

Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :) Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :) #research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle

Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :) Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :) #research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle

Great tool by our researchers to help #AI students and researchers in comparing their algorithmic advancements (in #PCG, #LLMs #GenAI) with as little friction as possible. Full thread with links and explanation by @amidos2006.bsky.social 👇

We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games. Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.

We introduce PuzzleJAX, a benchmark for reasoning and learning. 🧩💡🦎 PuzzleJAX compiles hundreds of existing grid-based PuzzleScript games to hardware-accelerated JAX environments, and allows researchers to define new tasks via PuzzleScript's concise rewrite rule-based DSL.

Next week (on September the 3rd), I will be talking about my 2024 book at the @festivaletteratura.it >> www.festivaletteratura.it/it/home My talk will be in in Italian, and tickets are still available! >> www.clappit.com/biglietteria... << If you're in Mantova next week, come and say hi :)

We’re not just about making games, we're about #research. 🔬 Our strong research focus highlighted by StudyInternational.com as one of the programmes inspiring future #gamedesigners alongside Abertay and @nyugamecenter.bsky.social 🔗 studyinternational.com/news/3-unive...

#QueenBoat is part of this amazing bundle. The bundle has a great number of games by tons of creators. Don't miss it.

'Between Puppet and Actor: Reframing Authorship in This Age of AI Agents', by Yuqian Sun and Stefano Gualeni, examines the conceptual tensions in understanding #AI agents’ role in creative processes, particularly focusing on Large Language Models. bit.ly/4fGwN8U#AI#BookSky