📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀 Hey come check out some experimental clicker / idle / incremental games! 👇📈👇📈👇📈👇📈👇 For their final projects in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some awesome incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread sharing their work! 🧵⤵️ 1/~15

SQUARES (@jontopielski.bsky.social) "Fill the screen with squares. Buy upgrades. Repeat." Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/06/09/s...

Catechesis demo is out now! Links below.

Horse Magnifier (@sketbordcat.bsky.social) "game where you magnify horses" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/03/28/h...

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

I've gotten some really nice messages / reviews on 1,000,000 shrimp so thank you to those who have supported it! Here are some early screenshots from before it went full 1-bit.

1,000,000 shrimp: incremental shrimp boating jontopielski.itch.io/1000000-shrimp

so... #duck

1,000,000 Shrimp by @jontopielski.bsky.social: jontopielski.itch.io/1000000-shrimp

1,000,000 shrimp (@jontopielski.bsky.social, Seth Cardinal, Mafgar, Wesley Olmsted) "catch 1,000,000 shrimp. hover with your mouse." Free - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/01/07/1...

the shading adds a lot

Any rule in a board game can & will be missed or forgotten by someone. So increasingly when deciding whether to add a rule, I consider whether it "fails gracefully." If you forget that rule, does the whole game halt or break? Or does it continue functioning (albeit with a minor loss in quality)?

Angeline Era is out NOW!!! ^.^ here's a breakdown of some elements and techniques I used to create the HUGE visual world of Era. Ultra-dense action and secrets meant a bigger focus than ever on visual clarity and communication! ⚔️🔍 See it in action!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

great design talk by @namataka.bsky.social about the reactive / observational process behind creating his most recent (and superb) game!

Whenever I make my game's resolution higher, it feels like non-game developers appreciate it more. And maybe the inverse is also true, the smaller the resolution the more likely game developers will appreciate it.

Finishing up a small incremental game about shrimp fishing, coming pretty soon!

I finished the #pico8 version of clockwise knight ! You can play it here : www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=151... #gamedev #indiedev How many days do you need to defeat Karnoth ?

hi i make games i made a game go checkit out fungalvoiid.itch.io/microjam

Looking for good VGM soundtracks to work to, any suggestions? I've played the Stardew Valley, Toby Fox, etc ones to bits

I made this guide to doing procedural legs (as in Thwack) for someone awhile back. It's pretty scrappy but figured I'd share it anyways if someone finds it helpful.

You can override the default #GodotEngine loading bar color if you go into a project's exported index.html file and then add "accent-color: <your color>" to the 'status-progress' class. Paired with a custom bootsplash image in the settings, you can get a much more customized loading screen :)

Made some small post-jam tweaks to orbo. Thanks to everyone who's been enjoying it! jontopielski.itch.io/orbo/devlog/...

Made a precision/puzzle platformer based around an orbiting mechanic for #gmtkjam. After Wes (aka my roommate) did the audio! jontopielski.itch.io/orbo

50 people joined the "Update" Jam! There's a still a week left if anyone wants to join in and work on an update :-)

I made a jam about making an update to an existing game. If you're like me and tend to neglect previously released games :'), maybe you'd like to work on an update as well! itch.io/jam/update-a...

all things going well, my new little game Formless Star will release on friday! explore an ever changing planet and look for animals.

I've started to stream Godot dev sometimes on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/jontopielski

Wrote a blog post about the making of my microtherapy game: jontopielski.com/blog/therapy...

Vol. 187 of the @wf-games.itch.io newsletter is out now, featuring Into the Deep Web by @jontopielski.bsky.social: wfgames.substack.com/p/weird-fuck...

I made a "microtherapy" game meant to help you when you're overthinking a comment you made jontopielski.itch.io/microtherapy

microtherapy for when you overthink a comment you made (@jontopielski.bsky.social) "answer some questions about the event, draw it, and finally... purge it!" Free - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/03/05/microtherapy-for-when-you-overthink-a-comment-you-made/

⛩ Build a team of tiny gods, then play off their synergies against your opponent and try to get the better score! 🃏 🐉 Smol Gods comes out on Itch and Patreon, Thursday 20th! 📅

tnns

Got some new followers recently, so here are screenshots of some of my previous games!

Candy Bag was the first game I made with Love2D / Lua. For some reason, my brain aligned more with building UI from code and not through an engine interface. It's kind of fun and creative to build your own "UI engine" from code just for that game.

An animation I made for jam back in 2021. Based on the game by @jontopielski.bsky.social . They need to up the file size limit already so I can just post the mp4. #newgrounds #blender3d #3D_Art www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

Moon Base An astronaut training program developed by NASA during the 80s #pixelart #textmode

Hi hello!! Yesterday was the start of the #StudyBuddyJam2024! You've got til Dec 8th to pick up something to learn, like a new game engine, tool, or asset, and make something using your newfound know-how! indietsushin.net/jams.html I'll be posting some stuff that might give you some ideas! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Hi Bluesky! My name is Alphons, I am a pixelartist and gamedev I'm trying to move from Twitter so please consider following if you like what you see :)

Made a trick or treat simulator.. plan your route to get the most candy! jontopielski.itch.io/candy-bag