eagerly awaiting delivery of my gender affirming pencil sharperner

oooo yea give this a couple screens, it has some lovely surprises!

868-back is really on another level you go so quickly from being a (relatively) normal person to being like oh damn i can get at least 17 legacy without even porting if i loop blit that block of sprites and pull those viruses and cryptogs into a debug stack

868-back is really on another level you go so quickly from being a (relatively) normal person to being like oh damn i can get at least 17 legacy without even porting if i loop blit that block of sprites and pull those viruses and cryptogs into a debug stack

So Garden of Spheres by @decassette.bsky.social got THREE EISNER NOMINATIONS. You know what that means. CONGRATULATIONS LINNEA!!!!!!! let's F GOOOOO we are so extremely hyped up we will just use all the rest of the characters to say that we are so proud of what Linnea has made and we will always

turd boomerang is also a dope game dev turdboomerang.itch.io/sno-mans-land

my last 20 games!! 98% positive on steam :O store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...

so rare for a single player game to capture the profound joy of 1 - COOKING UP SCHEMES and then 2 - RECEIVING THE CONSEQUENCES OF SAID SCHEMES but gollllly 868 is good at that

back in my day thr was only 1 data center and it was called the NSA.. and jack black and seth green worked there

We are hiring freelance QA/playtesters for Future? No Thanks! Some experience required but our standards are *low*. DM or email me.

legends

hello, we're milktooth! our secret project is part of the official selection in the 2026 tribeca games program from june 10-14. watch this space, something shiny coming soon 👀 tribecafilm.com/films/milkto...

breaking non-AI tools to "encourage" adoption of AI tools is very "de-fund this public resource in order to privatize it" kind of thing isn't it

so rare for a single player game to capture the profound joy of 1 - COOKING UP SCHEMES and then 2 - RECEIVING THE CONSEQUENCES OF SAID SCHEMES but gollllly 868 is good at that

PLAYISM and Rusted Moss developer announce ‘momentum Metroidvania’ game Iron Bramble for PC Publisher PLAYISM, Rusted Moss developer Emlise, and developer Mini Bunnies have announced Iron Bramble, a momentum-based Metroidvania game. It will launch for PC via Steam in 2027 with English, Spanish,…

Dude I need everyone to know how good 868-BACK is. @smestorp.bsky.social has taken a huge swing at innovating how blessings/curses (to use S&D terminology) can work in a roguelike, and he totally hit the home-run. bsky.app/profile/finj...

pushed out a big update and the game is 50% off for Steam's Deckbuilders Fest!

new font (soon). fixing the crimes of VCR OSD Mono.

Stone sinks but boats float! #gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegame

"I kept running into questions that the original game couldn’t answer. Who are these character classes...Who does the computer you’re hacking even belong to? What’s your motivation?" Michael Brough on the story of 868-BACK in this month's Finji News: finjico.substack.com/p/the-night-...

‼️💿 We are looking for gamedevs to be part of our R&D 💿 division to make experimental nonphysical books with controller support. DIAMOND DISK UNIT You can read more about it here peow.studio/blog/join-di...

my #pico8 arcade game now has: - improved system for managing the ramp up of enemy spawns - the ability to slam into enemies to clear them out and get some points - more juice especially a slight little landing effect I quite like

Here's a step by step guide to stop Chrome trying to use the 4GB local AI model it secretly downloads: 1. Go to chrome://settings/system and disable "On-device AI" 2. Go to chrome://flags and disable all the flags in the 2nd and 3rd images. 3. Delete the model folder from your Chrome user data.

Presenting Pull Chain, a puzzle game about pulling a light source steven-miller.itch.io/pull-chain

U.V.S. Nirmana is now available on Steam! Set off on a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe. Stop by distant worlds and ancient civilizations, helping them as part of your pilgrimage with your companions, the Renunciants. store.steampowered.com/app/2536720/...

Call for content creators! 👾 We'll have launch keys soon for 868-BACK! Fill out this form: forms.gle/R9A1cWcmd6CQ... Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

THIS is the TRUE heart of game design, BOY. THIS is MY religion

Just watched a Square Enix interview with Hiroyuki Ito about Dungeon Encounters, which includes pearls of game design wisdom such as "I put a value of 12 there because it felt right" and "I can't remember what that's for".

go on plumbert, destroy the financial district. make the people happy

one of my numerous, many children finished a whole game! its really cute! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=188...

stamp prototype... hop as you like while dry, but no stamping over existing stamps (INAPPROPRIATE) or mixing inks (CRIMINAL)

i talked to ap thomson about the weird game he made and all the bits of himself that he put in it: kotaku.com/titanium-cou...

busy af on @usualjune.bsky.social and helping out w 868-BACK *however* you will be SHOCKED to learn i am also working on a new pico8 tentatively titled "masked wrestlers punch dungeon", its yet another entry in the overpopulated "anger management sokoban" genre FURY IS A RESOURCE. USE IT WISELY

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We're making an action adventure game set in the midwest! Fight monsters, talk to ghosts, hang out with friends, and save the world. 👻 Wishlist Usual June on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2702430/...

🖥️We're seeking an experienced Graphics & Animation Engineer to join our San Francisco-based team! Come help us build what's next after Hades II. This opportunity is open to US residents. ✅For details and how to apply: www.supergiantgames.com/blog/career-... #gamejobs #gamedevjobs #gamedev

Are you a 2D game artist looking for a new job? Do you live in the Redmond, WA area? Do you think that UI is the most exciting part of a video game? Were you sad when skeuomorphic design went out of style? Consider joining the Coincidence team! coincidence.games/artist/

busy af on @usualjune.bsky.social and helping out w 868-BACK *however* you will be SHOCKED to learn i am also working on a new pico8 tentatively titled "masked wrestlers punch dungeon", its yet another entry in the overpopulated "anger management sokoban" genre FURY IS A RESOURCE. USE IT WISELY

uhhhhh is pod raceing back asking for af riend

City of None is an upcoming adventure game published by Extremely OK Games! Check it out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3189450/...

Many Nights a Whisper is 1 year old! 🎂 To celebrate, enjoy the pleasure of buying it at full price, the whole 3 bucks. Or buy it for a friend so they can experience some healthy and meaningful anxiety. Luckily, some catharsis even. Thank you all for playing! store.steampowered.com/app/3541130/...

so delighted to inform you all that you are Wholly Unprepared for: - the amount of hacking schemes you're about to cook up - how many of them will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - AND how many of them will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory get ready to get thyself into Serious Trouble

New game, available next week! U.V.S. NIRMANA Set off on a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe. Stop by distant worlds and ancient civilizations, helping them as part of your pilgrimage with your companions, the Renunciants. store.steampowered.com/app/2536720

so delighted to inform you all that you are Wholly Unprepared for: - the amount of hacking schemes you're about to cook up - how many of them will snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - AND how many of them will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory get ready to get thyself into Serious Trouble

One of @smestorp.bsky.social's most underrated superpowers is that he writes so impressively well about his games and the design thinking that went into them. You should play CORRYPT for many reasons, but #1 is so you can read this (2014) post-cariem: mightyvision.blogspot.com/2014/07/corr...

The wait is almost over, hackers! 👾 868-BACK is releasing May 28th! Play the free demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

Lazy Kickers is coming this summer on Steam! Incremental football micro-manager! Grow balls, shoot goals, get coins and dominate the league charts! Click the magic button on Steam and make sure to tell all your friends about it! store.steampowered.com/app/4613890/...

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

Dancing up the creaking beams of the semaphore tower, a lost tune in the rain. Who once used this place? #memamorkin