Stoked to share the latest Shroom and Gloom Dev Log! Featuring! 🐸We're in Steam Deck Builders Fest! 🔮Wishlist update! 🍄Game development developments! ⬇️ Read all about it! ⬇️ store.steampowered.com/news/app/327... #gamedev #indiedev #devlog

Kinda weird that we're even getting asked this, but here's our answer to the question of if we're using generative AI to make assets for our game: #gamedev #indiedev #illustration

Deck builder fans, what games should we check out in the Steam Deck Builder Festival? We're stoked that our 1st person, fungal-punk, dungeon crawler is part of the fest. If you're looking for a good time to try Shroom and Gloom, this is it! But what awesome games in the fest should we be playing?

Tried a demo of this at Playtopia, very cool bsky.app/profile/cloc...

I'm in the process of trying to organise Punk Games Fest, a curated Steam event showcasing punk games as a celebration of underground and alternative game developers. If you've got a cool game and interested you can apply here: forms.gle/oTXEcu9Fjxrb... #gamedev #indiedev #punkgamefest

Some of us started a little side project at a game jam: Alt control 4 player party game where each player sees a tiny holographic view of sea creatures battling for control of a rock! 🦐⭐🐟🦀 Showing it off for the first time at a pop up arcade this weekend! #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam #altcontrol

Gave a talk about what we can learn from the Claude Code leak at our local gamedev meetup. Covered security leaks, why prompts aren't code, why LLMs can't search reliably and how AI generated code creates incredibly fragile blind bucket chains of data.

Hey new kid, quit day dreaming, we've got a record store to save! #Indiegame #Music #Records #Narrative #Wishlist

Building a video game diorama one layer at a time. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #illustration

It’s a work in progress, but we couldn’t wait to share how cool our prologue chapter is looking! Is anyone else a fan of intuitive tutorials that only use gameplay to teach you how a game works? #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #devlog #indiegame

Added a character selection screen to our game! 🍲 #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev

Anthology of the Killer is OUT NOW on PS5 and Nintendo Switch! The groundbreaking and dreamlike, IGF Nuovo-winning horror-comedy series from legendary auteur thecatamites, is finally on console! Play once and remember forever.

"What is this game called?" and why we might be the worst indie devs. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

I don't want photo realistic video games! #gamedev #indiedev #gameplay #indiegame

Shroom and Gloom March Dev Log!🍄🔮 Check out the latest dev log for our first person fungal punk deckbuilder! 🎸 Reflecting on how game dev can sometimes be hard! 🐸 Announcing our Steam Developer Profile! 🍦Preview of 3 new enemies! ⬇️ Read all about it! ⬇️ store.steampowered.com/news/app/327...

The moment we discovered that our programmer has been tagging our art assets: #gamedev #indiedev #streetart #indiegames

Adding character selection to our game. So stoked with how the selection screen is looking! Who's excited to be a lunchlady? 🥣 #gamedev #illustration #indiegames

Draw what you're wearing in 5 minutes max

Ben Lazerbeam was a guest on the excellent Secret Life of Games Podcast to talk about Playtopia Festival!

Kicking off another week of making the game. #gamedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

Absolutely slammed on this side, but here's a little glimpse of how our first person card game looks in engine. #gamedev #indiedev #leveldesign #illustration #gamedevelopment

Hi! We're Team Lazerbeam and we are #WhatAGameDevLooksLike 🎸 We're a video game band 🇿🇦 Proudly South African 🌈 See game dev as punk rock 🍦 Have been making weird games since 2014 🎨 All our games have hand drawn art 🔮 Currently making a 1st person card game about roasting & eating mushroom monsters

🐸 Imagine quitting your animation industry job and then spending your days drawing frogs and molemen for a game. #gamedev #indiedev #animation #indiegames

🐸 Teenage Blob, our genre-bending punk game is a part of a fantastic bundle of indie games from The World! This is a really stellar collection of games. Thanks to @themix.bsky.social and @humblebundle.com for making it happen! www.humblebundle.com/games/mix-sp...

Roguelike fans, does anyone actually enjoy endless modes in roguelikes? If so, which roguelikes do endless modes well?

Our game, Teenage Blob is in this bundle. 🐢🎸Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Blob in the same bundle. Let that sink in.

Wanna crawl through our hand drawn dungeons? Good news - you can! We have an epic demo live on Steam and Itch! #gamedev #indiegames #newgames #gamedevelopment

Going away to a little house next to the coast to work on our games. 🌈 From the archives, here's a little document of us jaming on our games Snow Cones 2 and Dress To Express Dancing Success. 💖 #gamedev #indiedev #teamlazerbeam #gamejam www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1U...

Drawing a new weird little guy for our game. Please send name suggestions, we can't keep calling him "Eyeballer". #gamedev #indiegames #illustration

Making some new weird little guys. #gamedev #indiedev #illustration

Imagine getting into work and finding that one of the programmers on your game had made this! He was supposed to be implementing a system for players to save their games, but instead we got this. Please never change, Ross Lazerbeam.💖 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #animation #proceduralanimation

This weekend we made something special for one of our players: 🍪🐱 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gamedevelopment

Snapshot of a random Friday in our little studio, working together on our dream game. #indiedev #gamedevstudio #indiegame #gamedev

What went wrong with our game?🔥 🔮Breaking down one of the most dramatic and weirdly beautiful bugs we've hit while making Shroom and Gloom. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames

This Steam review made us smile. We're obviously doing something right out here.

Inspiration is everywhere:

I can't control the outcome of Steam Next Fest but I've been told putting a HOLOGRAPHIC ULTRA RARE GABE NEWELL on your Steam Page helps boost your discovery algorithm

Release date schmelease date.

If that's crazy, I don't want to be sane. Make sure to check out Shroom and Gloom on #steam - one of the indie games we are looking forward to in 2026 ( and we have talked about in our latest episode)

The Dungeon Experience demo is the weirdest thing you can play during #SteamNextFest. The sheer amount of nipple gameplay alone is worth your time. 👉️

Anyone else have this game dev experience?🕷️ Sometime making a game is just a series of incredibly long conversations about trying to find names for the all the different threads in the spiderweb of a game you're making.🕸️

We love 2.5D games. We love that our game is reaching people that like what we're doing out here!💖 #gamedevelopment #indiegames #indiedev #shroomandgloom

Are we crazy for making a game like this? We're building a game entirely out of hand drawn illustrations, layered thousands of times in 3D space.🎨 #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #illustration

Playtesting at a Cape Town game dev meetup! So grateful to be part of such an awesome community! #gamedev #indiegames #gamedevmeetup #gamedevelopers

Who wants a development update on Shroom and Gloom from Team Lazerbeam in under a minute? You do, that's who.

Happy Thursday morning #screenshotsaturday I'm working on a zine for #ClubSoko today and here's a bit of a sneak peak so far. It's filled with tons of development sketches, old procreate mockups and in engine screenshots throughout development! :) #zine #illustration #gameart #indiedev #procreate

What they are not saying in this post is that the games are free on itch for the next few days: itch.io/s/180333/laz...

We're out here making a nice looking game. #indiegames #gamedev #gamedevelopment

If you're a fan of cute and weird punk games, might we recommend our 2 entries in the Snow Cones Saga? 🍦💖🍦 #indiegames #gamedev #punkgames #indiedev

I've put a skateboard in Club Soko that you can put stickers and wheels on, is this enough to justify putting the 'skateboarding' tag on Steam for the game? 😅 #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #steam