Soothing colors, unsettling shape

7 days to go!!! Pompeii: The Legacy is almost ready to leave Early Access! Can’t wait for you to experience the full game on April 9 😊 #indiedev #citybuilder #gamedev

At this restaurant you either sit well behaved or well beheaded

I feel like some of the environments in my game tell their own stories… 🎮🛠️

I'm making "Video game in cozy vibes, with land shaping, building, and exploration, on an island."

Put differently: your game needs a vibe more than it needs a gameplay hook.

Okay this is NOT a drill! Relic Abyss will officially come out on Early Access on April 13, 2026! 🤩 Our build finally got green lit by Steam! No turning back now!! 😩 Let's freaking goooo! New trailer probs on release!🔥🔥🔥 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Me, when I see you using a switch statement on the runtime type of a generic method parameter, so it can return a string based on that type.

testing "overhang shadows" huge change in the art direction but I find it adds more depth and contrast to some scenes #gamedev

proposal for a new special edition PS5 devkit

Me trying to figure out how to get a Unity game on PS5

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

Microsoft announced today that it is pivoting its XBOX division to fast food, effectively immediately.

Quote with your Sunday plans. ✍️ 🎶

Guys, guys, I have a plan to save the games industry! I really do! But, and sorry I don’t mean to sound so crude about this, it all hinges on you giving me your money.

People: “Indies will save us.” Indie devs:

I've been working remotely for 10 years now. We moved to a smaller town so we could afford a house, banking on the availability of remote work. But now that ALL work has dried up, what's gonna happen if (when?) I get laid off from the current one is keeping me up at night for real. 😨

Nothing does romanticism like a good harp glissando.

Not a mathematician but I'd cosine this all the same

90% of fantasy lit

I used to live in Istanbul. There are no words to describe my culinary loss.

Starting to wonder if my chronic recurring pain has some psychosomatic component. Any time I have to work on ad tech or similar bs at work it flares up.

After every lay off I see posts trying to tell the execs how it’s all counterproductive and such a waste of talent and won’t anyone think of the pipelines, etc. And guys: They really don’t care. All of that is priced in, along with your misery.

Anyone have a moving company they recommend for going from Seattle to Vancouver BC?

TTRPG question: if your character has a piercing gaze, do you get a penalty to your charisma rolls vs the undead?

Oh hi! My game is 40% off for the Quebec Games Celebration! It's funny, it's sad, it got 100% positive reviews and it won *some* awards. Give it a look! #indiegames #storygame store.steampowered.com/app/3129110/...

Started orchestrating a piece I had left on the back burner for months. Here’s the first bit I did tonight. What vibe are we getting from this?

No, it won’t be ruinous for the industry. It will be for the people in the trenches, but not for the industry. There will always be wide eyed suckers who will be grateful for any chance to get paid to do what they love. When they burn out, the next batch will be ready and so on so forth.

That trailer of ours popped off. Hello to all our new followers! Figured now is a solid time to reintroduce ourselves. We’re Halftone gaming, an indie dev working on TMFN. We also made Blooddome99, a pair of survivorslike game, it's on sale now, check it out! store.steampowered.com/app/2351890/...

So basically anyone is allowed to make money from video games except the people who make them.

“I cannot in good conscience recommend this game I have played for 800+ hours, and the systems and mechanics of which I have come to know better than I know my own soul, with consummate, occult devotion. Follow me not, oh fellow gamer, I beseech you… for madness lies in my wake.”

Oli celebrated the puppy day with a special meal and peeing on the carpet for good measure.

Oli reminding me it’s the international puppy day.

My side project is live on Steam! I tend to overthink, slow down, and get stuck, but this time I gave myself one month to go public with whatever I had. It's so not normal me, but a great experience. Check it out and reward me with a wishlist if you see potential! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #gaming

Alright then, on my way to becoming a best-selling sci-fi author, I need to get hired and fired by Blizzard first. Getting out is easy, getting in is the tricky part. Oh and I need to write a book somewhere along the way.

There should be a very special place in hell for whoever places a bunch of cilantro under the Italian parsley sign.

I do this to myself over and over again

Everyone once in a while some younger person will be like “Does anyone remember game X?” like it was some obscure back catalogue title, and it will be a formative, genre defining hit that people my age spent hundreds of hours playing

I have a plan for visual feedback in screenshots. Now I need to touch up some UI, add some music and record a rudimentary gameplay video. Then it’ll be go time for the Steam page.

Hearing good things about Marathon. Studio closure in 10, 9, 8…

I started releasing free Pixel sprites on itch as I started doing game jams. After a couple of years, thousands of people have seen and used my art and sprites in their games. Im grateful to be able to help the #indiedev scene. Check it out at skalding.itch.io! #gamedev #freegameart #pixelart #itch

My 3D Metroidvania and OOT inspired #indiegame is on sale 35% off for the #Steam spring sale! Support goes toward my future #gamedev endeavors. Thank you, you can not imagine how much I appreciate it! store.steampowered.com/app/3343360/...

86'd is officially released, and is 25% right now! If you find any issues, head over to my discord, and please leave some honest feedback with your thoughts! I really hope you enjoy the game! store.steampowered.com/app/4256320/... <3 #gamedev #godot #cookingsim #pixelart #newgame

Spent the last couple nights trying to add particle fx to the terraforming interaction so that it reads well in screenshots. Then realized maybe a simple animated icon would suffice, similar to how Tiny Glade does it.

Since the game comes out tomorrow I figured I’d finish up my “how it got made” blog series on 86’d. It’s a raw look at my process and struggles. Giver a read, let me know if you enjoyed it! 🙏❤️ #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #postmortem hearthsidegames.itch.io/86ed/devlog/...

Dog fooding continues: Some minor skinweight fixes. Switched to Standard Shader. Hooked up outfit switch. Bashing some new feature. Getting closer with every new line in notepad++ #rigging #animation #deadlock #mgearframework

Been There Dune That Dune: Podracer Dun Dun Dun Dune Dune: Jared Leto is Leto Wuthering Dunes Dune: Rise of Spicewalker

Dune: Snyder Cut

Centrist political parties everywhere:

The most economical rebranding option at this point is Metai.