Exciting news! 📼Asterism is on cassette! 📼 (well, a usb in a cassette case, which is pretty cool) You can get a copy and check out the other indiepocalypse and tape club games at pizzapranks.com/tapeclub/ 🥳

Coconuts is a little paper puzzle game I made recently, thank you to @shimmerglitch.bsky.social for helping make and edit the clay artwork! jctwizard.itch.io/coconuts

If you're in / able to travel to Dundee and would like to take part in a game jam soon, I'm organising Fuse Jam here in-person 1st-3rd August! Please share with anyone you think would be interested - open to all! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fuse-jam-5...

Fuse Jam! 5 comes to Central Library + @scrapantics.bsky.social Wellgate 👾 Organised by @shimmerglitch.bsky.social + @susepicious.bsky.social of @biomecollective.bsky.social, join on August 1-3 for a playful games jam 🤩 Find out more + book your ticket here ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fuse-jam-5...

Does anyone have any Music video-game recommendations?

Can anyone recommend me some games that are in some way interactive museums / exhibits? My main reference points atm are 90s CD-roms like Encarta, The Beginner's Guide, and now The Museum of Screens which was at A MAZE this year

@amazefest.bsky.social was wonderful this year and very inspiring as always! very glad to have been able to meet / catch up with so many cool people!

I'm down to my last CD at the maker's market at A MAZE (apart from my sample CD which I guess is technically for sale too?) - all the rest are back in the UK so come and find me if you want one!

On ep. 44, Tom spoke to developer Claire Morwood about her interactive, intergalactic album/game Asterism — about its hand-crafted visuals, her influences, and music game design choices. Listen now on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods: linktr.ee/gxmpodcast @shimmerglitch.bsky.social

If anyone is coming to the A MAZE Maker's Market today I'll be here selling Asterism CDs, zines, plectrums and crochet Rubys!

This week multi talented musician/singer/developer/writer, Claire Morwood, aka @shimmerglitch.bsky.social, joins the podcast to tell us all about Asterism, her latest adventure game/interactive music album. You can check it out anywhere you listen to podcasts and below. Enjoy! youtu.be/HTG025p2uwE

Speaker announcement #6! ‘Asterism’ is simultaneously a video game and a music album, placing you inside a series of interactive music videos. Join Asterism’s creator, Claire Morwood (@shimmerglitch.bsky.social), on a journey 1/2

Are you an indie game studio that wants to make a splash? Our game submissions for #GIGF2025 are NOW OPEN until 1 June! 🌟SUBMIT YOUR GAME HERE forms.gle/hnXpfsMvnt4X... ✨ALL INCLUSIVE (Space/Equipment/Support, Physical or Virtual) We can't wait to host you :3 #indiegames #convention #indiedev

For this month's Kritiqal Care I had a nice discussion with @shimmerglitch.bsky.social about her recent interactive concept album Asterism. We discuss writing music for play, how making the game from physical objects impacted its design, and the value of a good dev log. kritiqal.com/articles/kri...

Asterism is currently on sale on Steam, if you want to check it out and haven't picked it up yet, now is a great time 😉 store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/...

Hey bluesky! We're hiring for a few positions! Come work with us on Project D :) -> halfmermaid.co/jobs 🌟 Senior Character Artist 🌟 Cinematic Manager 🌟 Senior Environment Artist (European timezones) 🌟 Level Designer (European timezones)

Had a fun time talking about my favourite album :)

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

if i have to make another new social media account you all have to read my lost rat poster

In a 20 minute talk is it ok to have over 3 minutes dedicated to a scene-by-scene analysis of the music video for A-Ha's Take On Me lol

10 years ago this week, I started work on Tunic. The game wouldn't have been the success it was without LGBTQ+ folks, both devs and players. So, I'm matching donations to Trans Lifeline. If you can spare $5 (or more!) reply with your donation and I'll X2 it. Thank you! 💕 give.translifeline.org

HELLO! I'm opening slots for guitar lessons and guitar guest recordings! Here is a little reel I put together with some of my works :3 Feel free to DM or send me an email if you're interested! 🩵 [email protected] #guitar #gameaudio #composer #indiegame #gamemusic

I put some info from a website into zine form so you can print them and have fun. It's all happening on www.littlemouse.fun

I'm trying to write some coldwave-inspired music. What are your favourite coldwave songs

We love Shutterbug! As do our visitors! 🙌 Be sure to check out this brilliantly fun, bug photography game! 🐞📸 We recently chatted with the games developers @vividfax.bsky.social, @doodledemmy.bsky.social and Dan Pugsley about the game and its development ⬇ thenvm.org/blog/shutter...

Enjoyed playing and chatting about this a lot!

I asked indie devs to recommend their favourite 'no code' tools for game development for this Creative Bloq feature. Hopefully it will be useful for anyone who's thinking about making a game but has no idea where to start! www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam...

My new game + album Asterism is out now! I made a behind the scenes of my handcrafted art to celebrate! 🚀 Please share around! If you play, a steam review would be super appreciated :D It's very hard to get seen as a small indie game and reviews do help! store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/Asterism

"Fair fa yer honest sonsie face... No not you haggis! JUDERO!" Celebrate Burn's Night with a hot toddy and Judero, your favourite stop motion game from the Scottish borders. 👇 Link below 👇

Our new game MASHINA is live on KICKSTARTER. www.kickstarter.com/projects/637... It's a digging and mining game with cute stop-motion robots. We would love your support spreading it and supporting the campaign.

Thinking about the gentrification of the indie space in videogames and how increasingly hard it is becoming to try new concepts that aren't "already a thing".

I am enjoying everything about this

Oh, so lovely, I guess my Gamepass subscription is helping pay for testing AI-assisted genocide on children. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

We're headed to outer space and it ROCKS 🚀🎶 Join me on Twitch as I play #Asterism - a playable indie-rock concept album! bit.ly/MightyYellTw... #indiegame #Twitch @shimmerglitch.bsky.social

Omg Asterism got a super lovely review and 8/10 in Edge 🤯🫣😍I AM VERY HAPPY!

A couple of days ago, I sat and played through Asterism by upcoming guest Claire Morwood (@shimmerglitch.bsky.social). A game that is more an interactive concept-album-music-video, as you traverse several mini interactive sections set to music.

It's official, the Asterism CD is out in the wild!

Such a lovely review of Asterism from @cgdannyb.bsky.social ! :D

this looks very cool!

Delighted to see the launch of @shimmerglitch.bsky.social's lovely new game Asterism, (of which I edited and did a bit of narrative consulting on a while back) - massive congrats to Claire on such a huge achievement, and for scooping up a mighty 8/10 in EDGE! store.steampowered.com/app/2187450/...

Ooh, I played a couple of the Off-Score tracks on Itch a while back and they did some very interesting things in the interactive music video space!! Very exciting that it's coming to Steam, make sure to check it out!

Here's a *beautiful* thing from a very talented solo #game developer. #Asterism is a game and an album in which handcrafted characters and environments meet the digital universe. It's a short-form, hand-made labour of love from @shimmerglitch.bsky.social - you should play it.

I had a little launch party last night to celebrate Asterism releasing and had the loveliest evening, very grateful for the love and support from everyone ❤️

TWO WEEKS TO GO (if you pretend I posted this yesterday when I was supposed to) until @shimmerglitch.bsky.social starts the return of the podcast in 2025 as she talks about @davekki.bsky.social's "Dark Nights With Poe & Munro"

Asterism is out now!!!!

I'll be releasing Asterism at 7pm GMT today!! 9 hours to go 🤯

If you’re an indie dev (or PR for indie games) with an upcoming game you’d like to have featured in this series then get in touch via DM or email (in bio)

Very excited to read more of Alan's upcoming interviews on games with unique aesthetics! It was lovely chatting about Asterism and very cool to read the write-up today!

My Asterism CDs are ready to go! So cool to be able to hold the album in my hands! I've got them on pre-order now, and they'll be releasing on the 17th Jan at the same time as the game / digital album! Take a look at the preview tracks on bandcamp! shimmerglitch.bandcamp.com/album/asterism