As we wrap up our final build of #DARE2025 today, we'd like to remind you that you can come visit us at the DCA on the 30th August! We'll have the game and some fun stickers too! Check out the games being showcased (including #ECZT) here: www.dca.org.uk/news/games-a... #gamedev #indie #abertay

I'm happy to announce that the Elusive Core: Zero Trace OST is now on all major music streaming platforms! Follow me on your platform of choice to see my future stuff! Give it a try! It's got ambience, jazz, electronica and something a little heavy too! :) Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7rukbQ...

Our #OST has now made it onto major streaming platforms! go check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/7rukbQ... YouTube Music: music.youtube.com/playlist?lis... and more! #ECZT #DARE2025 #Abertay #indie #gamedev #soundtrack

New Ability: DASH To help with mobility and speed, Emira can now DASH. Great for when you've mistimed a long jump, or ran into a wall by mistake! We also think Adele and Boti made it look really cool too! download now at: cosmic-coda.itch.io/eczt #DARE2025 #Abertay #ECZT #indie #Gamedev

Ever wonder where the Guards come from? Well wonder no more! Throughout the levels Emira will encounter Guard Charging Pods. If one activates, your best bet is to run away or try to jump over its head. #DARE2025 #Abertay #gamedev #sleepingguard #eczt

Wouldn't be Wednesday without a pic of SMOL. This time he's joined the whole Cosmic Coda team for a bit of a team photo! This team has worked together and grown so much throughout our time at Abertay and DARE. We're very lucky to have these opportunities. #DARE2025 #ECZT #Gamedev #indie #Abertay

We can't believe how quickly the 4 weeks of #DARE2025 flew by! What a wonderful opportunity it was. While we polish up to the deadline, checkout our hot housing work at cosmic-coda.itch.io/eczt Oh and don't forget to share it with all your friends and family!! #gamedev #indie #abertay #eczt

SMOL wants to help with the final polish this week, so he's joined our art team. It looks like he wants to give himself some shiny upgrades and take Emira's place as the hero! comment below if you think he should be the main character! #cute #team #DARE2025 #Abertay #eczt #android #gamedev #indie

Producer Mark accidentally trapped Emira inside a collider right at the start of the level. I don't think she liked being in there! Repost this and share your funniest bug on the project your working on! #DARE2025 #Gamedev #indie #unity #eczt #Abertay

Created by our very own Rebecca Taylor, we now have an OST! With lonely synths, chilled bossa nova, and chaotic metal, this OST helps Elusive Core's world to be as immersive as possible. Stream now on Soundcloud today: shorturl.at/qjv5K #DARE2025 #Gamedev #OST #Abertay #indie #ECZT

Whether you're into atmospheric ambient tunes or high energy earworms, you'll likely find something you like in this OST! It's currently only available on SoundCloud (for free!) but it will be streamable on all major (and some not major) streaming platforms soon! I will post when that happens! :)

As we start the final week of #DARE2025, we'd like to say a big thank you to the staff at #Abertay and all the wonderful guests who have given us invaluable insight and support on our project! Time for us to push on to the finish line and show just what we can do! #gamedev #eczt #indie #cosmiccoda

#ECZT will be coming to the DCA on the 30th August! Come along and meet the Cosmic Coda team, and get hands on with the game. A great chance to ask us questions, and give us any feedback you have! Find out more about the event here: www.dca.org.uk/events/ZtU-d... #DARE2025 #Gamedev #indie #DCA

Its Friday, so that means we have a new updated playable build! head on over to comiccoda.itch.io/eczt to download it for free! Visual updates, ability balancing, revised tutorial and more await! Patch notes can be found at cosmic-coda.itch.io/eczt/devlog/... #gamedev #indie #Abertay #DARE2025

Cleaner bot SM-01 affectionately called Smol-bot, wants to help us out so today he's on Audio with Rebecca. Hitting the midi controller he's gonna give us some awesome jams for the game! #cute #team #DARE2025 #Abertay #eczt #android #gamedev #indie

Half way through #DARE2025 already? Time flies when you're having fun! Check out what we've done so far by downloading the latest version for free now at: cosmic-coda.itch.io/eczt patch notes: cosmic-coda.itch.io/eczt/devlog/... #gamedev #android #eczt #Abertay #indie

You asked, and we listened. By popular demand, controller support is coming to #ECZT. Master the dash, cloak, hack, wall jump and general movement on your chosen gamepad in our next release. #DARE2025 #controllersupport #gamedev #Abertay *mapping not final, not ingame footage.

Week 2 of #DARE2025 hot housing begins. Last week we effectively were breaking the game to make it better. This week we hope that the return on that investment is something really exciting to show you. Stay tuned for updates as we progress! #Abertay #indie #gamedev #eczt #progress #cosmiccoda

Team hard at work in our space at #Abertay for #DARE. You can spot that Boti is under the watchful eye of our cleaner bot mascot who'll be making a few appearances on our socials this month! #cosmiccoda #indie #gamedev #teamwork #mascot #android

Say hello to our newest team member! our cleaner bot has been brought to life by the wonderful Rebecca Taylor. He really should be given a name. We have an idea, but what do YOU think? Share this message and Post your ideas in the comments to help us out! #DARE #gamedev #indie #robot #cute #team

We're excited to announce that we've been accepted as a Finalist for DARE Academy 2025! We'll soon be bringing exciting updates to Elusive Core: Zero Trace. check out the current progress of our game: cosmic-coda.itch.io/eczt #DARE #Abertay #Gamedev #ECZT #cosmiccoda

Today we officially start our Hot-Housing for DARE Academy 2025. We're so excited for this opportunity to keep making EC:ZT better for you all! Follow us here and on YouTube for updated throughout the event! www.youtube.com/channel/UCrd... #DARE #Abertay #GameDev #ECZT #indie

If you follow us and haven't already played our game Elusive Core: Zero Trace, we have to ask, why not?! Run, Jump, Slide, Boost, Cloak and Hack your way through high security buildings as you aim to escape the system you're trapped in. Go check it out now on cosmic-coda.itch.io/elusive-core...

We're very excited to say we have an opportunity to develop Elusive Core: Zero Trace further. We've got our own ideas on what we want to do to make it even better. We want to hear your ideas too! Grab it for free on itch at cosmic-coda.itch.io/eczt #gamedev #platformer #stealth #abertay #eczt

John by @gluetrapgames.bsky.social; A darkly comic narrative driven point & click adventure set in 1970s Glasgow. Mentored by @thechineseroom.co.uk: gluetrap-games.itch.io/john

Chronicles of Marten by @gooplinggames.bsky.social‬; Chronicles of Marten is a linear hack-and-slash deep inside a mystical ancient forest in the Scottish Highlands. Mentored by @veryevildemons.com: goopling-games.itch.io/chronicles-o...

Contrary Motion By @hellcatgamesdev.bsky.social; A funky and visually stylish genre-blending co-op action puzzle game. Mentored by @4jstudios.com:‬ hellcatgames.itch.io/contrary-mot...

Elusive Core: Zero Trace by @cosmiccoda.bsky.social; Escape the system in this 2D dystopian stealth-platformer. Mentored by Pocket Sized Hands: cosmic-coda.itch.io/elusive-core...

Still Forgotten by @final-prism.bsky.social‬; a non-Euclidean narrative stealth game where memories and spaces don't quite align. Sneak through the corridors of your thoughts and find out who you really were. Mentored by @summereternal.com: final-prism-interactive.itch.io/still-forgot...

Shore Leave By @splitscreendev.bsky.social‬. Relax and solve unique puzzles creatively in this beautiful, funny, cosy adventure game. Mentored by @ninjakiwigames.bsky.social: splitscreen2025.itch.io/shore-leave

Galactic Postal Servitude by @riverboatgames.bsky.social‬. Scan and send packages, detect illegal items, and do your part to make your planet proud in this point-and-click game of deduction!‬ riverboatgames.itch.io/galactic-pos...

Agent Squidge by @brainleakstudios.bsky.social . Couch co-op infiltration fun. Play as the best of the worst and steal data from an evil corporation. Stumble around levels, solve puzzles and avoid getting caught. Mentored by Team Terrible: brain-leak-studios.itch.io/agent-squidge

First up is Synaptic by @bonnybanditsgames.bsky.social ; A first-person, narrative-driven arcade shooter set within the brain of the player. Use your finger guns to blast the rot within the non-euclidean neural pathways. Mentored by @summereternal.com: bonny-bandits.itch.io/synaptic

A thread to celebrate the 3rd Year Professional Project games our students at @AbertayUni delivered this year. I'm linking to a dozen in the thread but all 31 can be found on our showcase page here: itch.io/jam/professi... Please, get in touch if you want to mentor next year.

DELTARUNE Chapter 3+4 came out. But you're not reading this because you're playing the game... right?

I would get annoyed with publishers asking for a vertical slice. Then they basically became finishing funds. At a recent talk I went to they were saying how proud they were to sign already released games. 'Publeechers' are plenty around.

I wrote this piece in 2023, naming EA's Respawn as one of the studios that has benefited from allowing employees to work remotely. Now, following big layoffs last month and this week's return-to-office announcement, Respawn may become a very different company. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

1) I write the two paragraphs on the left 2) Bottom-feeding video game websites publish headlines like the one on the right 3) Aggregators like Reddit and Google plaster those headlines everywhere, misleading countless readers Healthy media ecosystem we’ve got here

An indie producer’s view on why big-budget movies look worse than they used to

Somehow, I've been making platform fighters for over 20 years now.

We'll be showcasing the latest build of Elusive Core: Zero trace at the Abertay Digital Graduate Show later this week! Come by and check out the game, and meet a few of the people behind it! For more info visit: www.abertay.ac.uk/abertay-digi... #gamedev #elusivecore #abertay

I wasted a lot of time making mistakes while developing Hexagod, but I've realized that’s also where a majority of my growth as a game dev comes from. What's a mistake you've made recently and more importantly what did you learn from it? #gamedev #indiegame #godot #indie youtu.be/dgruN-oaqG8

On this day 30 years ago, Sony made waves at E3 '95. Sega had just released the Saturn for $399, but Sony was prepared. During the PlayStation presentation, Steve Race, head of development at SCEA, confidently declared "299" and left.

Nobody I’ve talked to at Rockstar has believed Fall 2025 was a real window for a very long time now. Too much work, not enough time, and what appears to be a real desire from management to avoid brutal crunch. GTA VI slipping to 2026 has seemed inevitable for months if not longer

A little group photo of the Bonny Bandits team (minus Alex and Stasi) to commemorate the final play party of the term. We have all had a blast making Synaptic and are happy to share our game is fully released on itch.io! Download and play here: bonny-bandits.itch.io/synaptic

As Xbox announces that it's raising game prices to $80, the three best-reviewed games of the year so far are $50, $30, and $50

That’s a wrap folks! Very special thanks to everyone for coming along to our #DES315 play party today. :) Best of luck on your Unit 2 submissions!

A Privilege to work as Producer on this project with such an amazing team. So much creativity and passion poured into this game. Check it out now! #gamedev #abertay #des315 #producer #elusivecore

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I really enjoyed working with the team on this! Hope you all enjoy my levels!