Games aren’t an escape from life so much as a rehearsal for how we wish life felt. Sharing this piece on Jane McGonigal’s Reality Is Broken and how games can make us better and more connected: www.themarginalian.org/2011/01/20/p... #VideoGames #Booksky For more join the club: tmuec.bsky.social

Today’s Indie Gem is: Rhythm Doctor. A deceptively simple one-button rhythm game where you save patients by nailing the offbeat. It’s clever, chaotic, and somehow both brutal and wholesome. Have you played it yet? #RhythmDoctor #IndieGame #RhythmGame #GameDiscovery #IndieGemCard #CozyGaming

I’ve been quietly renovating the Discord: fewer cobwebs, more comfy corners. Think rainy-day lounge for offbeat/indie gamers, stream updates, and Essay Club meeting notes (once we're back in session). If you’d like a seat on the couch, join here: discord.gg/kCWHK4F4 #Discord #CozyGaming #IndieGame

Long time, no me. 👋 I’ve been off designing Indie Gem Cards — collectible "membership passes" for standout indie games. Here’s a sneak peak. They're gonna' get filled with new releases & hidden gems soon! What’s one indie you’d nominate for a card? #IndieGame #IndieGames #GameDiscovery #IndieDev

Can't wait for the most important award show this year.

Good morning. Bleary-eyed, with my 'comfort show' still playing from the night before, I'm up. And writing. Actually writing. #5amwritingclub #writingcommunity

🎨 Launch Day Hype for Constance, y'all. Check out this hand-drawn Metroidvania where you play a paintbrush-wielding artist fighting through a decaying inner world built from burnout and stress. store.steampowered.com/app/2313700/... #Constance #IndieGame #Metroidvania #Cozygaming

The Berlin Apartment is the most beautiful story-driven game I've played recently with a glimpse into the rich, but in many ways, painful and complicated past of Germany over the last century. I cannot recommend it enough. Thank you @bluebackpack.bsky.social for this beautiful game and experience.

Good morning, y'all. Got a fun rec for everyone, check it out. It seeks to subvert the farming sim genre. Looks interesting. Delphinium: Bittersweet cozy, farming & story by Sev @cinnadev.bsky.social #indiedevs #indiegames #cozygaming #kickstarter

📰BREAKING NEWS!📰 PARALIVES (set to release on December 8, 2025), has been DELAYED! #lifesim #cozygaming #indiegames #indiedev #cozy #thesims #nooooooooooo

Vine is back under the new name Divine. - Funded by Jack Dorsey who co-founded Twitter and went crazy in the last few years. - Including over 100K OG Vine videos - only 6 seconds long videos - no Ai generated content allowed - Open source and no algorithmen. popculturenews.com/vine-is-back/

Good afternoon, everyone! I wanted to drop a quick post to thank everyone who is following me. I know a lot of us are mutuals, maybe my 'ratio' doesn't look impressive, but I'd stepped away from social media for 10 years before making this account... Honestly, y'all make me very glad I am here. 😊

From @travisbaldree.bsky.social comes Brigands & Breadknives ☕🗡️ The third entry in the Legends & Lattes series snuck right past me. It released YESTERDAY?! Guess Rue Valley had me in a chokehold. 😭 #FantasyBooks #NewRelease #BookCommunity #CozyReads

Good morning, Bluesky! Last night's stream was so much fun. Thank you to everyone who came by the channel to check out Rue Valley with us. But now--let's get writing. #5amwritersclub #amwriting

Strange town. Everyone’s got something they’re hiding (especially you). 🔴Live Now: Launch Day Hype for Rue Valley! Let’s see how hard the demo hits. Am I gonna' plop down coinage for the full game on launchday? 👀 Find out. twitch.tv/beast2plate #HiddenGem #CozyHorror #GameDiscovery #Streamer

'Rue Valley' dropped TODAY, and I'm streaming the demo later. 💭It's a story about the shadows in our heads and the strange comfort of meeting others who have their own. Let's find out if it's worth buying at launch--together! twitch.tv/beast2plate #RueValley #IndieGames #SmallStreamer #StoryRich

Ahhh! #stardewvalley #cozygames #gamemusic #FestivalofSeasons #vgm #ATL

GUESS WHAT?! I'm at the Stardew Valley concert at the Fox Theater in ATL. 🥰 You guys, I'm so excited. I promise to post about it!

I bought the WRONG PENS! 🤬 They're .5s instead of 1.0s. Pleeeeeease tell me I'm not the only one who needs certain pens to operate smoothly in life. 😭 (Pilot G-2s, if anyone is curious.) #WritingTools #PenAddict #Stationery #ADHDlife

IT IS TIME! 😻 Replicat launches on November 18! Thanks to everyone supporting, wishlisting, and spreading the word. Can't wait for you all to flip cards, build combos, and score billions of points. Get your paws ready! 🐾 s.team/a/3509430/ #roguelike #deckbuilder #solodev #indiedev #cats #gamedev

Refined the time-rewind effects. They express subtle unease when something feels off, and the release as supernatural power awakens. With light and distortion, I aimed to show reality unraveling. Visualizing abstract emotions is never easy. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame

Good Morning, Everyone! 💕

I’m starting my first indie game! It’s a small murder/mystery dating sim with cozy autumn vibes 🍂 
I’m handling art, writing, and design, all on my own.
 I’ll share my progress along the way. 👀” #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #DatingSim #MysteryGame #cozygames

Minesweeper if it was actually about mining: #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #godot #godotengine #pixelart

and we will keep adding more branching 😤 one must imagine sisyphus grinding

╭────────────── ✦ ──────────────╮ nov #promosky K • lvl 35 • they pc main 🍳 cooking + 🎣fishing = mini-games | 🎲 roguelites | 🎮 indies │ 🌧 cozy horror | 🎥 studio ghibli │ 📚 new books │ 📝 poet |🌱personal growth ꧁♡/↻ appreciated ꧂ ╰───────────────────────────────╯

🔴 Live now! Got demos on deck and a side of cozy horror. We're gonna' be stretching Halloween into a long weekend, because why not?👻 twitch.tv/beast2plate

Streaming later today! Planning to poke at some new demos first, then finish our run of No, I'm Not a Human, and start Order 13. Cozy-horror is our vibe (as per usual) and we're sticking with it to finish out Fright Fest on Twitch. 😘 #smallstreamer #indiegames

It’s been a long, long time since I wrote a poem. And I haven't posted poetry on social media before (that I can remember). If it lands… please tell me the mood it leaves you with. #amwriting #poetry #indiepoetry #writingcommunity

Happy Halloween, Everyone! I'm planning on streaming later in the Fright Fest category to play some scary games, but-- IT'S ALSO MINE AND MY PARTNER'S ANNIVERSARY! ❤️👻💕🎃 Best day, amirite? 🥰

On my way to joining the #5amwritersclub . Got up at 6am today, so we're inching closer.

Don't bend, don't water it down, don't try to make it logical, don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka #5amwritersclub #WritingCommunity

My therapist & I pinned down three of my core values: Intuition, Risk-taking, and Dedication. Now I’m trying to figure out what that looks like in practice.. Maybe writing again, maybe just listening better? To myself? If you had to name your top three, what would they be? #therapy #selfdiscovery

🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

Good morning, Bluesky. Been writing about indie ethics and the idea of “authenticity” in Indie gaming after the stream yesterday. Question: What makes a game--or a developer--feel authentic to you?

Live now. Starting with a chat about developer ethics, indie authenticity, and what it really means to be independent—then diving into Little Rocket Lab. I wrote a mission statement for my site, and I’m reading it live. twitch.tv/beast2plate #IndieGames #HiddenGem #GameDiscovery #RainyDayChill

🔴 Going live with 'Little Rocket Lab' SOON! 🚀 I’ve been low-key afraid to play it because I get overwhelmed by games like Factorio… but tonight I’m giving it an earnest shot! Here’s to progress, not perfection. twitch.tv/beast2plate #IndieGames #HiddenGem #RainyDayChill #LittleRocketLab #Cozy

Booting up Easy Delivery Co. It’s exactly what it sounds like… until it isn’t. How many times will I succumb to the elements this go 'round?🥶 twitch.tv/beast2plate #IndieGames #CozyGaming #streamer

🔴 Better late than never: it’s Wyrd Wednesday! 🕷️ Kicking things off with Cloverpit.☘️💥 Been curious ever since I heard the suspicious/alarming sounds coming from my partner’s PC once they got into it. Come hang out. twitch.tv/beast2plate #streamer #indiegames #cozyhorror #firstplaythrough

If anyone is in the market for a cruise to celebrate @nomorerobots.io 's very first game, hit me up. As a new travel agent, I get all the joy of booking the cruises without any of the hassle of making commission on them. 😛 I'm only half-kidding. #travel #indiegame #sim

Going live to play Escape from Duckov. I assume the ducks will win. twitch.tv/beast2plate

✹━━ Good morning! ━━✹ We loved the demo, so I bought us the full release with MY OWN MONIES! 😊 Welcome back: Escape from Duckov! It's on the menu for later today. Where else, but twitch.tv/beast2plate ? store.steampowered.com/app/3167020/... #indiegames #streamer #ducks

Don't listen to those negative thoughts your brain ends up making about yourself because they aren't true! If noone has said it to you lately, be proud of making it through your hardest days, you are stronger than you think. 💪 Every day is beautiful because you are in it. 🤍

Heya, people. Got some pics from the #NoKings march here in Columbia, SC. I don’t post much outside games, but this is part of my world too and I wanted to share. 🫶 There was a pretty solid turnout and I was glad to be a part of it.

I made this sushi roll back in 2015, when I was first learning the craft. I was reminded of how it tasted recently. Food can pull old versions of us to the surface. It’s been almost a year since I left the industry, and I still miss it. What’s a job, hobby, or old chapter you still think about?

✹━━ Good morning! ━━✹ (Or happy timezone--idk where you are, man.) I hope you've got your foods and/or beverages of choice and that you get to spend this time doing something that nourishes your soul. (Or, y'know, making fat stacks, you be you.) Point is: I'm over here sending you good vibes. <3

Good morning, All! Or is it still night? 3:55a is a weird time.

RIP Itagaki. A true trailblazer in action and fighting games. He was always really open to interacting with fans on Facebook, he’d answer pretty much anything someone would ask. 58 is so young too….

🪄 The Spell Brigade just announced a fanart challenge! 🎨 I know a lot of y'all are artists and creators--this one’s worth a look. (Demo available!!) Fast-paced spell chaos mixes with co-op mayhem. 🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/2675670/... #TheSpellBrigade #IndieGames #Fanart #HiddenGem

INTERMISSION! Anybody have any #gamerecommendations they want to throw at me while I'm grabbing mid-stream din din? #indiegames #hiddengems #streamer