Honestly, the response to Arc Raiders has been disappointing. It's not just the voice acting, they're also using gen AI to produce weapons. I guess most people just don't care as long as the game is fun in the end. Am I in the minority for caring about authenticity in the development of games?

2 programming #gamejobs on Splinter Cell @ Ubisoft Toronto ⬇️⬇️⬇️

🎉 Pinball Spire is participating in the Metroidvania Fusion Festival on #Steam, featuring a whole bunch of great indie games that contain #Metroidvania mechanics! 🥳 ▶️ buff.ly/GKzmulN Big thanks to @humanqube.bsky.social for organizing this event! #indiegames #games #gamedev #indiedev #steamdeck

🎉 Pinball Spire is participating in the Metroidvania Fusion Festival on #Steam, featuring a whole bunch of great indie games that contain #Metroidvania mechanics! 🥳 ▶️ buff.ly/GKzmulN Big thanks to @humanqube.bsky.social for organizing this event! #indiegames #games #gamedev #indiedev #steamdeck

Check out all the nominees for the Best Music for a Video Game or Other Interactive Media category in Australia's 2025 Screen Music Awards, including @starlingoboe.itch.io's amazing soundtrack for Pinball Spire! 🎹🎶✨ The awards ceremony is just days away (Oct 28!). #music #vgm #ost #gamedev

Speedpainting 33 #digitalart #scifi #postapocalyptic #conceptart

I started a new job as a programmer at Blackbird Interactive! Really happy to be joining a very friendly team over there working on a cool project. 😄 I'm not sure what this will mean for Pinball Spire and other indie projects but I'd like to try to continue working on that stuff as well!

Melatonin is currently discounted for the Steam Autumn Sale! It is 50% off until Oct 6th. Thanks for playing and please leave a review if you can! store.steampowered.com/app/1585220/...

📢 Announcement 📢 =================== Code: Elyse steam page is now live Any Wishlist or RT are much appreciated 👍♥️ #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #solodev =================== store.steampowered.com/app/3731810/...

Huge congratulations to @starlingoboe.itch.io for her nomination in the Best Music for a Video Game category in the Australian Screen Music Awards! Hiring Starling for the Pinball Spire soundtrack was one of the best decisions I made on the project. Very well deserved! 🥳

🔥 Pompeii: The Legacy is OUT NOW on Steam Early Access! 🔥 Rebuild Pompeii, guide your family through generations, and face the looming shadow of Vesuvius. 🌋 👉 Play now: store.steampowered.com/app/2632240/... #indiegame #citybuilder #Steam #Pompeii

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine 2025 Charity bundle has crossed $100,000 in donations! There's still a bit of time to grab the bundle if you'd like to donate. Check it out: itch.io/b/2979/play-... Contains almost 400 games! #gamedev #indiegames #gaming #gamebundle #playforpeace

TIC TACTIC IS OUT NOW ON STEAM! (launch trailer was too big for bsky so please accept this clip instead) #indiegames #deckbuilder #roguelike

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

It's my🎈 birthday 🎈 SO I'm putting the Hellscreen+ Vaporwave pinball bundle down to 75% off ‼️FOR 24 HOURS ONLY.‼️ This means you basically get Hellscreen for free!! GET EM QUICK store.steampowered.com/bundle/51136... Below is a trailer for Hellscreen #indiegames

☄️ Demo for PC, Mac and Steam Deck now available 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3684910?... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #pinball #videogames

I'm excited to announce that, at long last, Tic Tactic is coming to Steam on September 18th! #indiegames #gamedev #roguelike

So Many Indies: A chance to highlight an indie game that you may have missed. This time we feature Pinball Spire, a one-of-a-kind ‘pinballvania’ where you’ll bump, spin, shoot, and flip your way to the top and solve the tower’s mysteries! store.steampowered.com/app/2601940/... @tom.voros.ca

The Games for Palestine charity bundle is out NOW! 🍉🎮 Get 382 games, including Atuel, for donating just $8 (or more) to humanitarian aid for Palestine and Palestinian refugees. Please help to fight against genocide by donating and spreading the word with a RT! 🙏✨

I think I should make a regular, monthly call to action for indie developers to reply with their games, leave a description, and relevant links, instead of just doing it infrequently whenever I like. So why not a September #ShowCasey? INDIE DEVS, I WANT YOUR GAMES ON MY DESK BY TOMORROW!

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games, books, comics, music, game assets, and other art from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Includes my little musical puzzle game, Micron! #indiegames #gaming #games

Whisper of the House is out now on Steam! 🏠 Cozy pixel-art organizing game—tidy, decorate & uncover town secrets. 🎉 $14.99 (10% off launch week!) ⏳ ~10 hrs main story, plus 15+ chapters, 18 tasks, 30+ showrooms, 1800+ furniture & more. #cozygame #pixelartist #tidygame #Steam

I am excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity bundle page is now live!!! Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated. If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience. thank you

Flightless Fables is 50% funded, but there's only a few days left in the campaign! Let's see what's possible with just a few days of crowdfunding 👀 #indiegame #videogames #gamedev #Steam #itchio

Hey devs, if you submitted a game for the Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle on itch.io, make sure to check your email for a link to approve the bundle! If you didn't get an email (some people don't seem to be getting them!) please check the original bundle submission page. #gamedev #indiedev

The first big publisher that decides not to spend $100m on one AAA game and instead spends $20m on five AA games, or even $10m on 10 games, is going to make so much money...and they'll all pretend it's some amazing new business model rather than just How It Used To Work Before You Broke It.

Hey folks - I am around for work from mid September so if you need for your game: -Technical environment work -VFX work -Level design DM me or get me at my email address Jamie.degen(at)gmail.com Reshares of this are greatly appreciated!

This bundle supports Game Devs of Color, a nonprofit organization that uplifts and amplifies game creators of color. itch.io/b/3171/game-...

opening your new game announcement with this is so fucking funny and real

Do you wanna help brainstorm ideas to improve game discoverability on the web? Introducing the Game Discovery Project with a very groovy website: 🪩 gamedisco.com. Ok, so, there's not much here yet, and what's here might be too simple or naive, but with your help we can figure this out!

I'm working on putting together a project for this and will be looking for folks who are interested in contributing. Not jumping directly to a solution but rather creating a space to discuss what something like this might look like so we can figure out the details in a collaborative way. More soon!

Been feeling stressed lately... I want to continue supporting Pinball Spire but I also need to find a more secure source of income. Might be time to return to a regular job. 🥲 I may have also started a new prototype on the side... It's gonna be something completely different!

💙 Grow connections with yourself, those around you, and the world at large in Delphinium; a bittersweet cozy, story driven farming simulator. Take a look at this teaser for just a little of what this game has to offer ✨ #gamedev #indiedev

Resurrecting this thread for this very sweet melodic and nicely groovy track from Pinball Spire by @starlingoboe.itch.io starlingoboe.bandcamp.com/track/overgr...

I love this idea! If only there was a reliable way to detect a request is from an AI scraper...

DWARRF: A Pinball Roguelike is officially selected to be a part of Tiny Teams this year! The demo will be released alongside #TinyTeams2025 so you can play all the new boards soon - such as this sewer one :) Demo Link - store.steampowered.com/app/3803120/... @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social

So, uh, do I know two other ex-Ubisoft people who want to start a studio? 😉 Just kidding... that'd be insane. Or would it...? 😅

Finished Exhibition 33. What an incredible game! It has some rough edges, and there are places you can feel the budget constraints, but they really nailed the important parts. The story and characters are fantastic and well realized. Feels so rare for a game story to be this good.

Is there anything like a catalog, index, or search engine of individual webpages where you can purchase/download indie games directly from the devs? And if not, would people be interested in something like that? #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

There's one week left to grab the Canadian Wildfires Fundraiser bundle featuring 81 games, books, TTRPGs, and other goodies, including my puzzle game Micron. 100% of the proceeds are going to charity! itch.io/b/3125/canad...

A bit late to this but here's "Make it Exist" Pinball Spire edition, plus a few extra screenshots from the early prototyping phase. 👀 See if you can spot all the differences from the final game! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

🎵 Delphinium's soundtrack, and the music you hear in this video, is composed by @starlingoboe.itch.io - check out her account for more examples of her amazing work!

follow our kickstarter pre-launch page!!! ✨ working on this game has been an exercise in being blessed with so much beautiful art constantly (and you could be too)

briar, sassy in the church 💙

#PinballSpire is an interesting take on #pinball from @tom.voros.ca @join-indie-io.bsky.social‬. Chekout my review: youtu.be/HtYuxFFdbT0

The Woke And Gay Charity Stream to raise money for @translifeline.org kicks off at 8PM ET on 7/25 and goes until 8PM ET 7/26 DONATE HERE: tilt.fyi/ew6I2v1vGW SUBSCRIBE: Twitch.tv/HardDriveMag FULL SCHEDULE IN THREAD 👇

A company advertising AI-powered marketing services is spamming me via a non-existent email address (I'm getting the messages only because I have a catch-all rule) and repeatedly addressing me by the wrong name (George). 😐

If you're a Canadian dev directly affected by these changes on Itch or Steam, I want to talk to you.

Let’s change gears. Do some good Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination action.aclu.org/petition/mas...