Wishlisted it. Beautiful pixel art and looks fun! Can't wait to play it.

Looking forward to Valve's Gabe Cube!

For a solo indie working on my first game, is it better to try a smaller-scope game that "finds the fun" rather than a high-risk, years-long one? Thinking about pausing my current "dream project" and make a Great Conjunction game: howtomarketagame.com/2025/11/04/t... #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Usagi Shima joins Steam's Animal Fest from Nov 10-17!! 🐰✨ Relax, decorate your own bunny island and care for adorable rabbits! 🐇🏝️ Wishlist Usagi Shima on Steam and check out the other animal games in the festival! 🥹🐶🐱💖 store.steampowered.com/app/3144010/... #SteamAnimalFest

Game design is simple, actually. Except when it isn't. Here are the 12 things you need to know.

New awareness campaign

this 5 minute doodle that I drew on a post-it note is superior to AI art in soul, skill, originality and personality ANYTHING that you create yourself is ✨️ fuck ai ✨️

A useful little gdscript function to crossfade sprites. gist is here: gist.github.com/jwel/4beb5ae... #godot #gamedev

Phew busy morning. Gonna highlight things I'm part of! First: NEVERWAY IN A NINTENDO INDIE WORLD. RELEASES IN 2026! Sooo happy to have them as part of @outersloth.com and loved that @saint11.art and @isadora.codes did their presentation in Brazilian Portuguese. So cool!! 💜 @coldbloodinc.studio

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gJK... japanese version of the vid of our game...... KOYASU NARRATING...... IM GOING TO EXPLODE IDK HOW TO WORK TODAY I

A highly optimized rogue build SHREDDING little ASCII monsters #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegame #indiegaming #roguelike

Announcing TORMENT HEXUS, a match-3 roguelike about putting technofascist CEOs on the wrong side of skyscraper windows! Please spread the word, and wishlist on Steam at store.steampowered.com/app/3238420/... And remember: they SHOULD be afraid of us. #indiedev #indiegame

I've been making video games in some form for 20 years, so I wrote an article about my process - and why I don't use an engine. noelberry.ca/posts/making...

taking the subway (City of None with @liamberry.ca) (metro map still wip / doesn't have art yet)

You’ll grow things. You’ll lose things. You’ll become something you don’t recognize. Neverway trailer is out. Wishlist now on Steam

Spent some hours playing with raymarched SDF primitives and smooth minimum to render a humanoid-like thing out of blobs. It was fun but takes endless hours tweaking the math in the fragment shader. #sdf #raymarch #gamedev

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

Had fun blending 3d SDF shapes. Now, making custom 2D Renderer for a classic roguelike. It's a single full-screen quad where fragshader renders tiles & sprites. Batches of quads likely not needed, although that would allow the pipeline to cull the vertices for me. Hoping to share screenshot soon.

@gameengines.bsky.social I would like Custom/In-House Engine please! I am building my engine in zig and OpenGL. Thanks!

Stay safe folks travelling to #GDC these aren't the fun times anymore.

Finally was able to verbalize what Joe Rogan experience podcast's "business model" is --> Oligarch Laundering. #oligarch #DOGE #podcast

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

Post-Processing Shaders as a Creative Medium by @maxime.bsky.social blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/post-p...

@gameengines.bsky.social I would like Custom/In-house Engine please!

reasons why you reinvent the wheel in gamedev: 1. you can afford the short-term investment for the long-term (you start 5x slower to become 3x faster) 2. you disagree with current wheels 3. you want to try a different approach 4. you want full control of the stack 5. because you have fun doing it

Exploring an idea doing ray marched SDF modeling for player, platforms, and everything using glsl opengl #shader and #zig lang. #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Learning SDF Ray Marching with smin blending. Used ~600 LoC of zig and modern opengl to port and modify one of iq's MIT-licensed shader toys for learning. Also, I love how w/ a single line of code one can gamma correct, boost the midtones, or dither to help remove banding artifacts, etc.

HELLOOO I'm still looking for work!! If you need any music/audio services please feel free to reach out!! All shares are appreciated as well :3

Indie game dev

Some days I cannot believe I got to make this.

Watched a random YouTube short played with advice for new writers and that I think also applies for new game devs. It was something like "if you are writing your first book your goal is not to sell books, it is to write more books so you can find your voice..." #gamedev

I hear there are games about cleaning up , and sorting, about structure and grids and organization. About solving challenges by the use of logic and deduction. We'll have none of that here. Just chaos.. beautiful chaos.. I reject your bourgeois need for building games to be about order.

Do not dunk. Do not quote-post. Do not screenshot and repost. They wish to be visibly cruel because it makes them feel big and strong. Block them with the most powerful block button we've had on social media to save yourself the energy, and save others from the garage being spread

C IS LEGAL AGAIN

Googling Stuff: Then v Now.

Update on my pixel art guide for beginners: Transferred all the information from Tumblr to a Google Doc, so anyone who doesn't have a Tumblr account can now read through the whole thing! I also updated quite a bit of information too. I hope it will help somebody! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We need to create a non-profit pagerank-like search engine that filters out AI-generated garbage from the results. It can use AI to help filter-out AI but under no circumstances should it provide AI-generated result content--just help me find human-generated content again. Engineer-driven only.

The Odin + Raylib + Hot Reload template has gotten a big update! New stuff: - Web build support (for web release builds, no hot reload!) - Clearer project structure - Documentation improvements Check it out: github.com/karl-zylinsk...

So many great podcasts at Gamemaker's Notebook of AIAS. I really enjoyed LocalThunk(Balatro) and Billy Basso(Animal well) interviews and gained so much from their down-to-earth generosity in sharing their game dev stories and game design insights: interactive.libsyn.com

Write down ALL of your ideas as soon as you have them, with no quality judgment about them. Once you start treating your creativity with respect, you’ll have more creative ideas Periodically read through your entire list to make new connections between them

Happy new yr! In ~1 hr, got cross-fade of music working using godot AudioServer parallel method tweening. Most of the time was spent remembering that gdscript Callable.bind() puts the additional parameters AFTER the ones .call() is passed. I've been conditioned to the opposite from other languages.

Coming out of games journalist retirement for exactly five seconds and having enough time to do a better job than that New York Times article

got a little carried away experimenting with pixel art crt shader but kind of like the look and proud of my quirky death animation. haha. Next is some decisions for the game design whilst keeping the scope small.

@gameengines.bsky.social I would like Godot please!

Godot 4.x Tween eases (pun intended) wiring groups of concurrent tween calls in series/parallel. Use tween.set_parallel(true) to group tween calls and tween.chain() to serialize between groups. Rinse, lather, repeat. (see my replies for a more concrete example) #godot #gamedev

Trying out a different pixel art style. It will be a mix of real-time rogue-like action and classical roguelike turn-based interaction.

Luigi got them shook.