I can't keep getting away with this... (Frontier Scum in 1 rule for @shutupshow.bsky.social) youtu.be/xDmb_JS3ZL0?...

🎙️ I Talked About Playful Learning! Just did my first-ever podcast with @athanateus.bsky.social on @gamedevlocal.bsky.social 🎮 We dug into what makes learning playful, why gamification falls short, and how game mechanics can teach. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/SLZrkSqjfBk?... #GameDev #PlayfulLearning

Haven’t playtested Hive & Seek in a while - itching to bring it back to the next Playtest UK meetup! I always come away with new ideas… feels like it’s getting real close to done 🤞 #Playtest #BoardGames #GameDesign

We’ll be there with @oubliettegame.bsky.social, come say hi! #IndieGames

🚨 I’ll be at Develop next week, pitching Oubliette - a first-person roguelike set in freefall beneath 1950s Paris. Any tips for a first-timer? 😱 We're also showcasing at Brilliant Indie Treasures from 4-8pm, if you want to have a go! 🎮 #DevelopBrighton #IndieGames #OublietteGame

At Gamebridge today showing Oubliette! Loving the energy here - so many good student and grad games on display. If you’re around, come say hi and try our occult roguelike descent through 1950s Paris 👀🎮 #Gamebridge2025 #IndieDev

Just played Peak and I’m obsessed. A chill climbing game with a shared world regenerated weekly, streamlined survival mechanics, and clean coop interactions. It feels simple, but there’s real depth underneath. Surprises, discovery, vibes. Peak is peak multiplayer design. #IndieGames #PeakGame

🎮 Been thinking about how prototyping isn’t just for early dev - it’s a mindset. My 1st smuggling-FTL prototype was a mess. 2nd version? Cleaner, more fun, and faster to make. Prototypes or features, it's the same. Focus on making it playable first - then improve it. #GameDev #IndieDev

Throwback to Droplet - my first real game release. Just a silly endless faller on mobile… but I learned so much! Biggest takeaway? Analytics are gold. I saw where players quit, what they bought, where they got stuck. Honestly changed how I think about game design. #GameDev #IndieDev

🎮 Showing Oubliette at Interactive Futures today with @lucfoster.bsky.social! Wild to be back in Leamington Spa - studied just up the road at Warwick uni and lived here for years. Big nostalgia vibes. Come say hi if you’re around! #InteractiveFutures #IndieGames #GameDev #OublietteGame

Been playing so much #DuneAwakening lately I caught myself IRL scanning for shade like it’s survival priority #1

It’s like interactive slam poetry without voice but full of heart Check it out! ❤️ #IndieGame #ArtGame

GARBAGE COUNTRY 🌵 Just properly announced our game at PC Gaming showcase! Go check out our fancy new Steam page and drop us wishlist. store.steampowered.com/app/2530870/...

I'm already 10h into @duneawakening.com and I’m already hooked. I don’t play many MMOs, but the mix of survival, base-building, and reckless sandworm baiting is great. Curious to see how deep the Landsraad politics will go in the end game. Anyone else trying it? #DuneAwakening #MMO

Officially announcing my new game: GARBAGE COUNTRY. A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world. feat. vast wastelands, tower-defense battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.

Herdling will be here so soon, and we can’t wait for everyone to go on this journey with us 🤎🧡💛

📋🍕 Ran the Kanban Pizza Game workshop for our first-year MA Game Dev students at @nftsfilmtv.bsky.social! Like an IRL Overcooked, it's a great intro to Agile: fast iteration cycles, feedback loops, WIP limits... and it's always so much fun! #GameDev #Agile #Kanban #IndieDev #LearningThroughPlay

🐻🐝 Hive & Seek hit the table at UK Games Expo today - and I had a blast! Thanks to everyone who came by to play! Stomping your way as the Bear or boldly bluffing an escape as the Bees - you were awesome. ❤️ 💌 Sign up for updates: forms.gle/zBxEu3Fe7i3n... #UKGE #HiveAndSeek #IndieGames #BoardGames

The #Playdate season 2 has breathed new life into this gorgeous handheld.

the best 3d platformer (since at least a year ago), getting better every day. wishlist on steam #videogame #jumping #philosophy #platformer #cozy #mario64 #parkour

🐻🐝 Hive & Seek hit the table at UK Games Expo today - and I had a blast! Thanks to everyone who came by to play! Stomping your way as the Bear or boldly bluffing an escape as the Bees - you were awesome. ❤️ 💌 Sign up for updates: forms.gle/zBxEu3Fe7i3n... #UKGE #HiveAndSeek #IndieGames #BoardGames

Just set up at the UK Games Expo! 🐻🐝 Hive & Seek is live in the Playtest Zone - 2 players, 1 smart bear, 3 sneaky bees, and a whole lot of bluffing. Come play, or just wave at Seek (the teddy)! #UKGE #hiveandseek #indiegame #tabletop #gamedesign #indiegame

🐻🐝 Bringing Hive & Seek to the UK Games Expo tomorrow! A 5-min duel of bluff, deduction, and memory - one player’s a Bear, sniffing out honey. The other? A swarm of sneaky Bees, racing to the hidden Hive. Catch me in Hall 2-108 from 10–1pm if you want to play! #UKGE #UKGamesExpo #BoardGames

That's right! We made a little game for the Playdate as part of their Season 2 bundle! Check out the video to see me chat about our game, Fulcrum Defender! Also here's a dumb ad I made.

Do you make weird, artsy, short-form videogames? Or know someone who does? Check out this new zine project I've been working on (intended to kind of bridge poetry/academia/art world/indie games) - and consider submitting a game for the first issue! www.gamepoems.org

Throwback to when I made Yin & Yang in 48h, just 3 months after I started learning Unity. Simple idea: two orbs want to be close, but if they see each other directly, you fail. Still one of my favourite and most played games. 🤯 Limitations breed creativity. ✨ #GameJam #IndieDev #Unity3D

Hey! It's been a week since the launch of my poem game split EP, and would like to shed light on my upcoming bilingual interactive slam poem anthology, Concrete Spaces! You can wishlist it here: olisinpa.com/002 Thanks.

ive been struggeling to make stuff and then i played your game and was like: "ah of course we can do whatever we want, i forgot"

What if distance made your love cheesier… and society just couldn’t handle it? Built a tiny prototype about emotional tension and PDA limits – pitching it to #Briefs2025. #IndieDev #GameDesign

i wanted a playdate arcade game i could play on the train with one hand, and i also think there should be more portrait mode games, so i started making one

I can so recommend drifting through the olisinpa split by @comfiedev.bsky.social sometime it reminds me of the old internet in all the best ways, of stumbling upon glades of wildflowers while lost deep in a digital forest 🌿✨

Releasing on my birthday?! Well, that’s a treat! 🥰

Throwback to when we made Fumble for a mental health game jam with @comfiedev.bsky.social. Puzzle mechanics simulate social anxiety - and it hit home for some players. Game design can say something real. Link to game in 🧵 #GameDev #MentalHealthGames #PlayableEmpathy #GameJam #IndieDev #IndieGame

Our new game is releasing soon! 🤩 TRAILS is a cozy puzzle game in which you plot routes for floating sandships and deliver vital cargo to remote outposts - without collisions, dead ends, or backtracking. ⛵ Wishlist now ⛵ store.steampowered.com/app/3605120/... #indiegame #indiedev #puzzle #gameart

The Olisinpa Split is available digitally right now! For the low price of $2 you get two experimental art games packaged together into a small Split EP. comfiedev.itch.io/olisinpa-split. (more info below)

Throwback to when we made Fumble for a mental health game jam with @comfiedev.bsky.social. Puzzle mechanics simulate social anxiety - and it hit home for some players. Game design can say something real. Link to game in 🧵 #GameDev #MentalHealthGames #PlayableEmpathy #GameJam #IndieDev #IndieGame

The End of Gameplay is out RIGHT NOW! My masterpiece. A pixel art adventure through my mind, broken by kill gameplay 🔪 love, droqen store.steampowered.com/app/3120040/...

people are like "how do you be creative?" it is very simple: 1) you be very curious about other people and envision them as internally rich as yourself and wonder about them 2) "what would it be like if [novel combination of things]" ta-da

🎣 Pilkki is my most impressive indie game - and also my biggest failure. Started as a game jam win, over-scoped into a claymation puzzle adventure, and finally cancelled. But it’s playable now on itch. And I learned so much from it. Link in thread! #GameDev #IndieDev #Unity3D

Looking for a Unity dev who makes learning feel like play? I’ve worked on educational games, museum exhibits & learning tools - watch my showreel👇 Available for part-time freelance work (3 days/wk, remote). Let’s build something new! #UnityDev #PlayableLearning #MuseumTech #GameDesign #Freelance

My hands-on preview of Europa Universalis 5 is up! Get ready to get your PhD in historical strategy. www.ign.com/articles/eur...

Looking for a Unity dev who makes learning feel like play? I’ve worked on educational games, museum exhibits & learning tools - watch my showreel👇 Available for part-time freelance work (3 days/wk, remote). Let’s build something new! #UnityDev #PlayableLearning #MuseumTech #GameDesign #Freelance

Relevant extra details if you're an Unreal Engine studio: if you simul-ship on EGS, you get a GLOBAL revshare % reduction from 5% to 3.5%. All platform stores. So when suddenly all Unreal studios start supporting EGS? This is why. It finally makes very good financial sense.

🎣 Pilkki is my most impressive indie game - and also my biggest failure. Started as a game jam win, over-scoped into a claymation puzzle adventure, and finally cancelled. But it’s playable now on itch. And I learned so much from it. Link in thread! #GameDev #IndieDev #Unity3D

I got to play quite a bit of this pre-launch and I really like it. They've done a great job making the steppe this anarchic stew where anyone can come take your stuff at any time for any reason, but that also goes for you. We have the complete middle ages now. Bases are covered. Feels good.

Hey! I've managed to release my newest project, The Olisinpa Split, and you can purchase it right now! The project consists of two poem-games: A side - Burn the Scrapman. B side - I'm not Stanley Parable. Consider ordering a copy here: olisinpa.com/003 this one's for the in small dependent art.

🚀 Freelance Unity Developer Available – Starting May! 🚀 As an indie dev and games tutor, I bridge the gap between game design and education. But I’m open to exciting projects of all kinds! If you, or anyone you know, need a highly communicative developer, DM me! 😊 #Freelance #GameDev #OpenForWork

@gameengines.bsky.social I would like Unreal Engine please!

Game designers are great at teaching: combos, systems, flow. What if we used those same tools to teach something beyond the game? What if reflection and learning were the reward, not just progression? Still exploring this space, would love to hear your thoughts. #GameDesign #EdTech

Game designers are great at teaching: combos, systems, flow. What if we used those same tools to teach something beyond the game? What if reflection and learning were the reward, not just progression? Still exploring this space, would love to hear your thoughts. #GameDesign #EdTech