We pressed the button! Demo is out now! Its been a week trying to wrap this up and get it together. If you have any feedback just let me know, its much appreciated! store.steampowered.com/app/3578080/... #gamedev #indiedev #bevy #steam #honk

First class at the new gym and I walked into AAF Smooth Criminal blasting out of the speakers. I'd have done 100 push ups on the spot if asked.

Lads, gotta say, the Irish national broadcaster being publicly shamed into boycotting Eurovision has been great because I haven't seen or heard a second of that shit all week.

I'll be teaching at the Irish Writers Centre again this summer - if you know anyone who would like to get started with writing for games, send em over! 🙏

Delighted to say that Axyz has been selected for the upcoming 2026 @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social May 28th - June 4th. Honoured to be picked again! There will be a tasty discount during the event to celebrate xoxo

This video of my new game 'SUSHIAMO' went viral on IG, and more than 500 people played the Steam demo! 🤯 Thanks everyone! especially to those destroying the game by scoring trillions! 🤣 If you haven't Wishlisted, check it out 🍣 s.team/a/4555040 #indiegame #gamedev #gaming #roguelike 🎮

made a game for uni :> check it out i did the 2d characters :D #gamedev #indiedev #unity #csp #illustration #clipstudiopaint sebkii.itch.io/solas

Anyway, for the day that's in it

How fucking tone deaf have you gotta be to know mostly furries play your game and you decide to pull a fucking “AI VIDEO CONTEST” our your dumb stinking ass … and you think they’re gonna be cool with that? I can the review bombs now. Fuck Ai, Party Animals you just dug your own grave.

New laptop is a Windows laptop (boo!), which I aimed to immediately put Ubuntu on and wipe completely. Then I thought it might be useful to keep a tiny Windows partition, just in case. So I went through the process of installing Windows 11. Fuck me.....

Meet Laura, our Ireland-based Sound Designer 🎼☘️ Often found standing in cupboards and playgrounds making strange noises at weird hours. 👀 She’s a fan of things with wings as proven by her tattoos! 🐦 Laura also tours Ireland with her music and enjoys drawing underrated animals for fun! ✨

Anyone ever do that thing where you set up a really nice pipeline for creating content for your game, then hit a writer's block when it comes time to actually create any? #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign

New Blog Post!! This month we’re taking a deep dive into the design for our player character, and (some of) the trials and tribulations along the way 🚬 saltstonestudios.com/2026/05/12/d...

The political map mode is 🫦 store.steampowered.com/app/4346210/... #Steam #gamedev #dwarves #strategy #indiegame #PCGaming #gamingnews #art #ireland

Nobody knows what game developers do. Imirt and @screenireland.bsky.social are trying to change that. We need your expertise to help us review the Digital Games Competency Framework. We'll be running 3-4 webinars to induct people into the process. Sign up here - forms.gle/Jh6Tq919Jj1Q...

We are excited to introduce our new Dark Academia bundle with the fantastic Strange Antiquities. To learn more about Strange Antiquities and to buy the bundle visit: https://bit.ly/4whNiQu

IWGB Game Workers Northern Ireland presents an afternoon of special interest topics and light hearted discussions. The afternoon will consist of four presentations on various topics related to video games followed up by further chats and drinks at the Marcus Ward. luma.com/b7ed4p6g

feels like in order to be a Recognised Game Developer and Foster Community, you gotta luck out and be born in canada or sweden or somewhere. where's all the northern irish indie meet ups

✨ Charity Donation Final Count ✨ The Púca are done counting, and they've got the donation money in Selkie's safe flippers. Our final donation count is a massive €13,035.17!!! Thank you all so much 🙏 Check out our visit to Seal Rescue Ireland here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2Z...

‼️Attention‼️ We currently have less then 50 tickets left for weekend and Saturday and less then 350 for Sunday. Tickets will only be sold on the day if we still have tickets available, and will only be available for purchase with card.

I keep seeing folks say it's been 12 years, but it hasn't. Gamergate was 12 years ago, but the harassment of Anita Sarkeesian predated Gamergate by over 2 years, the Tropes vs. Women Kickstarter was in March 2012. So it's even more pathetic. IT'S BEEN FOURTEEN YEARS.

Checked it out and yes, this game is amazing

You don't hate AI enough.

Open! On a Monday! Why you ask? Well one cause we had a delivery and two were SO CLOSE to rent I couldn’t take it so I’m here to get us over the line before I pay rent this afternoon!

I wish I could say I was in disbelief about the Mixtape discourse, but I'm not. "Industry plant" is just conspiratorial thinking, nobody should be seriously entertaining the idea that just because a well-received game doesn't appeal to you, that there's some sort of scheme to deceive you about it.

You want videogame discourse? I'll give you videogame discourse! There's so many incredible games coming out nearly every week that you can play just a fraction and still be completely overwhelmed, it's non-stop banger after banger with all kinds of genres and styles, more than enough for everyone!

If you wanna help me afford more indie games you can make my backlog worse by tipping me :D ko-fi.com/caseyexplosion

Hats off to Red Hook

I'm sorry but didn't they explicitly carve out an exception to this for Jesse Singal because the abuse and harassment that they acknowledged took place on his Twitter and Substack? Fuck off man

boycotts work. anyone stating otherwise is spreading state & corp sanctioned propoganda

I will be guesting at Amicon in Dublin THIS WEEKEND. I’ll be doing an Eyepatch Wolves merch table most of the weekend, plus Satruday and Sunday panels. If you are not in Dublin, then please enjoy this photo of me in the tokyo sanrio store:

Nobody asked, but I really and truly think that David Bergeaud's soundtrack for the Ratchet & Clank games, especially the PS2 games, is some of the best work ever done in video game music and I am not joking

Rise of Piracy hit 400 reviews this week! Delighted with how the game has been received after only 2 months in Early Access. So many folks see the potential & have put many hours into it. Its extremely motivating. Thank you <3 #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #riseofpiracy

One Year youtu.be/7cBxmHWp8FA?...

Sometimes, gamers could offer indie developers some grace.

Mixtape isn't an industry plant, it's just that it very specifically appeals to a very specific type of demographic. That demographic happens to be incredibly prominent in an underfunded games media. Games media is, right or wrong, predominantly male, 30-45 yrs old and American.

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It's all about the she sell seashells bullshit

I was in the control group for the pilot BIA but don’t qualify now under the new, more restrictive application. In the pilot scheme everyone who wanted to apply finished their applications in 5 minutes (as it should be) But now every artist I know has been stressing the application for months!

So @tolkoto.com has committed to 101%-ing Donkey Kong 64 to celebrate Giant Bomb's one-year anniversary of independence, and the Twitch chat keeps on trying to torment him. He seems unfazed, and I think know what's going on....

Did you know there's a Burden Street Fanart contest running from now until the 17th May!!? Now you do! Wow! The internet is so cool Check it out: store.steampowered.com/news/app/312...

The Irish government clearly taking the position that there are simply not *enough* road deaths

We've updated our demo and you can play Sparrow Warfare with a controller now. This one will need some iteration but we regard the demo as a free Early Access build until the full game launches. store.steampowered.com/news/app/347...

Ill be showing stealth crossword at A MAZE @amazefest.bsky.social this week, boop me if you wanna wax lyrical about the medium

Intro time!! You can call me Rose or Impy! I’m a composer and sound designer for games based in Dublin, Ireland ✨ My music taste is very broad and I love writing anything from Orchestral Fantasy to Silly Guy Music! Below are just a few little snippets of my more recent works!!

Irish National Broadcaster to air Father Ted instead of Eurovision. #Proud m.independent.ie/irish-news/r...

This neatly sums up my feelings on the matter. I don't have to be affected by these policies to hate them - they harm my friends, and even if they didn't they are an affront to basic decency and the rule of law.

This is a good time to remind everyone that: -professional and senior artists use references, 3d, photos and yes even TRACE those things if it's needed/useful -using references will always make you a better artists -using 3d / photos is a great way to make you understand how volume and anatomy work

🪷 Portrait #commissions are now open! 🪷 Only 2 slots for now, but I also will have a waitlist open for June. So, if I can't accept your comm right now, I can put you on the waitlist and work with you next month :) All instructions in the image! I'm looking forward to see your characters ✨ #FFXIV