Expedition 40 of The Bathysphere is out, and this week we have a lovely essay from Chris Donlan on the Brontës and paracosms! The Bathysphere is now entirely FREE to access! Make sure to subscribe to be updated each week! buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01 A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format. Thanks for playing and sharing!

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

The protagonist's morning routine: From a strange dream and a stubborn alarm clock to broken coffee machines, cryptic newspapers, and mysterious deliveries - there's puzzles everywhere to be solved!🧩✨ #Illustration #IndieArt #PuzzleGames #ThinkyGames #IndieGames #DigitalArt #VisualStorytelling

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

There's some tasty graffiti artists at work on those store shutters... (By which I mean, @mattjohnss.bsky.social who designed nearly all of them ❤️) (AND @balazsronyai.bsky.social created a lovely bunch of vehicles and characters to pass by) (AAAAND @ginaloughlin.com made another killer song)

enclose.horse Day 9 🥇 Excellent! 🥇 96%

Oh yeah this review gets me <3

well here she is! my very first solo game and all about Ireland's best deli choice: the Chicken Fillet Roll. free to play in browser. LMK what roll you decide to make & if you get the feels or a laugh, even better. this is a roll-driven game. made lovingly in Twine unaminh.itch.io/chicken-fill...

Can you solve a puzzle without knowing the rules? For the first week of January, I'm publicly sharing the experimental beta of Scriddle - a daily puzzle where the rules are kept secret. I'd love to know how many guesses it took you to solve it. 🔴 SCRIDDLE #24 ▶️ scriddle.net?d=MDEtMDEtMj...

Wishing you the best in … oh no um should we uhh ah nvm it can wait

This NYT-Connections-alike is very upsetting thomaswc.com/2025.html

Someone suggested I do a tierlist of the building games I've made over the last couple years. It's difficult picking favourites cause I've enjoyed making all of them! You can play them on my itch.io page but I'll also link them below. #gamedev

i keep itching at the way that tile based videogames and textile aesthetics overlap. not done anything with this yet, but i keep trying to.

I wrote an article about dialogue choice as part of a narrative designer’s toolkit *aside* from branching, instead considering how choice can invite us to *perform* a character. My case study is South of Circle’s beautiful fuzzy meaning-making (using symbols instead of words). 💜 Give it a go!

As an early Christmas present to the ham radio community and MORSE players...🎄 Introducing the Teaspoon Telegraph, a beautifully crafted, open-source games controller and telegraph key designed by @nachimir.bsky.social! Learn more here: ympt.co.uk/teaspoontx.h... #hamradio #MORSE #indiedev #maker

Skype Kids (2017)

Gift Jam is back for its 10th edition🎁 Make something small for a friend, your partner, or a relative. Thank them for their help during a hard time or just for making life a little happier. That's the theme! More info on @itch.io Banner by @isi-cano.itch.io. itch.io/jam/gift-jam...

Sneak peek at Outpour's new look! Outpour is a puzzle game where you redirect flowing water across dreamy cathedral rooftops. Manipulate your surroundings to guide a dynamic water system, traverse high places, and restore harmony to sacred structures.

Choose yr character

Draknek & Friends Official Podcast Episode 44 featuring @philippawarr.bsky.social is out now! Topics include the development of A Monster's Expedition, worldbuilding in non-linear games, and writing localization notes about comedy. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

hi whoever’s awake! I made this little book of the cover art I made for @gaemz.bsky.social in no particular order and it’s probably available at the amaze shop if anyone wanna have a look 👁️ there’s just one copy.

New Post: Magpie (Part One) 🐦‍⬛ Magpie is my tool for livecoding visuals, made inside #picotron! This post explains what livecoding is (briefly), what Picotron is (also briefly), and shows a bit of what Magpie can do. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/m...

curated player ship forms 002

i'm really excited to announce DOGSPINNER: FESTIVE EDITION available at pigenpalace.com until christmas

btw i am making a game called "no players online" rn noplayersonline.net

No Players Online - the full version of the viral abandoned online FPS horror game - is back on Steam. 🎉 The game was falsely removed weeks ago, just after launching, which has severely impacted the studio's survivability. Please spread the word, and support it! ❤️ (No Players Online Steam page)

hi I just found out about planthopper nymphs

I'm so excited this is finally out! 🥹❤️ I've been (and am!) working on the illustrations on this project for a while now. Please join us doing a puzzle daily! Share with your friends if you can❤️

Look at me, I'm doing a marketing

Ok, Nearly the end of the year, and 6 months since Highrook was released! I wrote a little postmortem, covering some nerdy production info and my thoughts on what it was like to be an indie in the last few years. www.nullpointer.co.uk/game-post-mo...

No new @adventjs.itch.io from us this year, but hey - 2024 and 2023's calendars are still there, go follow along and enjoy all the surprises!

Bad news: no new @adventjs.itch.io this year as @mtrc.bsky.social and I have both been snowed under Good news: if you missed either or both of the last two years, we've got two months of creative coding wonders for you! Treat yourself to a door a day, or open them all at once, we won't tell ;)

Some value sketches from a recent trip - it was quite nice to not worry too much about anatomy and just enjoy painting some fuzz.

Bad news: no new @adventjs.itch.io this year as @mtrc.bsky.social and I have both been snowed under Good news: if you missed either or both of the last two years, we've got two months of creative coding wonders for you! Treat yourself to a door a day, or open them all at once, we won't tell ;)

😶‍🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025! github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...

here's some that i have the Biggest Opinions About wrt the new designs and the software. i can make them feel like what using the programs feel like to me, and it feels sooooo good. i'll prolly draw some more and write up a blog post about my thoughts about each of them cause it was really fun :)

🐟Trout Priest is OUT NOW! ✨ Piously strike down waves undead fish, and ensure Wallace the priest survives the night in this short, spooky action game. demmy.itch.io/troutpriest #indiedev #indiegame #short #spooky #atmospheric #combat #blackandwhite #new

This was such a special video to make, and I really appreciate the Consume Me team being so generous with their time and ARTIFACTS! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfaM...

Do you like weird puzzles? You don't mind playing the first experimental iterations of a game? Like this post and DM me your mail, I'll have a surprise in your inbox everyday of December 🎁✨

The theme for #PROCJAM 2025 is: ❄️ ☃️ COLD PLACES ☃️ ❄️ Brr! We selected this theme using a new method: I asked community members to send in theme suggestions, then we turned them into word vectors, found the average, and looked at the words nearest to that! A little bit of unpredictability. 🔮

Blog that's been cooking for wayyyy too long finally out. About considering the ways games intend themselves to be played, and how players interact with those intentions. sandboxdunes.neocities.org/posts/Touchi...

Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse. Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/... or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays before November 21th 9PM CET!

We just published the latest update to our prototype on itch. Involving a massive art overhaul and mechanics shake up - lootdonkey.itch.io/fool-king

Wait 🙌 New BUG LOVER bundle just dropped on Steam 💌🐞🐝🪲💌

Just finished polishing up all the zines for Wax Heads 🔥😱 One of them below here shown by the fabulous Paul 👀❤️ #indiedev #indiegame

FRIENDS! 💛 My team at @bluebackpack.bsky.social and I just released The Berlin Apartment, the game we’ve worked on for the past 4 years! 😭💛 Give us so much love, wishlist and buy! ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...

Tiny Earth Sprite, singing to the plants and soil. www.martintomsky.com/shop/earth-s... #art #illustration #woodwork

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