good commit names from the jam: "removed My Dad from the pool" "strongman works more like My Dad" "My Dad is back in the pool"

PINCH HITTERS is out! ⚾Customize your team! ⚾Discover hidden secrets! ⚾Can you defeat all nine pitchers? Made in 17 days for Build Your Own Game Jam 2026 joespacio.itch.io/basedball

Is it normal to put sidequests and split evolution paths in a game jam game

kill all fake lovers

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

Refactored + simplified + deleted like 400 lines of code in the last week, feels great

I got to play Horsey Game about a year ago at Vancouver Game Garden. It made me cry laughing from all the wonderful horses we bred This is a really good group activity game, just watch it unfold

Personalized for you

Days since I last cried while writing a sad narrative for a game in my head: 0

you, too, can now play the demo of the Game I Can’t Stop Talking About

legitimately one of the most beautiful games ever made like, you don't need to do anything more than this. that's the ideal visual style.

Do modern RPGs still all end with you killing god? Or is that mostly gone now

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

If I see "+2.5%" in a game's trailer, I'm probably out

BIRD! My most recent commission - a really fun challenge making non-standard VTuber models! This is my test live tracking my motion in VSeeFace to make sure it's all working correctly🪶

"(...) the lovely Cobalt Core is not only joint top with 94, but it’s also the best-performing deckbuilder, ahead of Slay the Spire and Balatro!" Thank you for highlighting Cobalt Core in this list, @roguelikerofficial.bsky.social ✨

@meredithgran.com the Bohemian Rhapsody bit in Station to Station was genius, I can't believe I've never seen that done before

I JUST figured out that my "exit streamer mode" Discord shortcut, in certain views, also sends a friend request Suddenly this explains why randos I've inspected in Discord recently keep becoming my friends and asking me what I want...........

Greatly enjoyed Cobalt Core by @braceyourselfgames.com - so here's Riggs, the somewhat-scatterbrained ace pilot of your starship crew, with a cup of boba and her hand cannon that she can *absolutely* be trusted with. (Pose was inspired by a piece by @beezii.bsky.social, go check them out too!)

Truly excellent game design happening here

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

Small, free act you can do to bring some good in this world: add positive reviews to ALL you Steam games, especially the small indies. You don't need to write anything smart, just "game good" is enough. Every positive steam review tips the algorithm and helps your fav artists get more sales

for example

Finally went back and did the extra secrets in Öoo... This is one of the most tightly designed games I've ever played

walking light house

congratulations to rogue bus guy on the new job

Gently places my isometric environment art onto your feed

I want game covers to be a thing. Why does music get to do covers and games don't???

The bigger a project, the longer it takes to tuck the whole design into my brain. It's like I'm trying to fit a big complicated shape under one blanket, and I gotta fold + tetris the shape until it fits but when it all fits.... and you can just cook the whole thing at once.... oh! chefs kiss

vertical shmups have names like "Understated Sadness" and sidescrolling shmups have names like "Glorbian"

IGF judges, how do you decide between "wanting to participate in IGF judging" and "wanting to submit your games to the IGF" Being an IGF judge gives me so many ideas for cool games.... games I wanna submit....! but if I submit them then I'll have to skip judging that year.........!!!!!

"average indie game dev gets an IGF nomination" factoid actually just statistical error. AP Thomson, who lives in a cave and got 9 nominations over two years, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

not a new observation but still striking how many things boil down to the difference between people who get power and go “ok, I better try not to be a jerk” and people who get power and go “now I get to be a jerk”

Titanium Court got announced! I got to play this for IGF and it's so, so, so good

IGF nominations are out and I can finally say that this is Titanium Court, which I enjoyed so, so much

Huh? AP Thomson's what? AP Thomson's what's the name of that game? Finally I can fuckin talk about it!!!!! store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...

Hey can anyone tell me if Metroid Prime 4 ends with the planet exploding? And if Samus did it? I wanna know her planet killcount

More game developers should study the visual language and techniques used in opera scenery and opera staging

Looking at the Switch eshop makes games feel so bleak... It's like 93% AI slop, 5% real games that are getting rereleased to their tenth console, and 2% real indies trying and failing to get their foot in the door

Happy new year!!! 🥳

a watched clock stops twice a day

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

two messages from john, two hours apart

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

looked up the etymology of "doujin" and it literally means "same-person", as in denoting shared interests amongst people, while "indie" is short for independence, for solitude and iconoclasm.... really makes you think (smokes bubble pipe)