🌞Summer might be upon us, but it's time to go to school...✏️ MONTABI school, that is! Get ready for a bunch of fun, informative Montabi skill-building sessions with your buddy and mine, @BuddySola.bsky.social ! Today's lesson: Starter Montabi @playmontabi.bsky.social @mankibo.bsky.social

🚨TOMORROW🚨 Your good friend and mine, our own Buddy Sola, is going to rock some Montabi expertise for all who are lucky enough to join! Tune in to get one step closer to Montabi mastery! We REALLY should talk him into teaching Montabi...🤔 🐢🐢🐢

🎉 Yes, it's true! Thinky Direct is returning for 2026, with a whole new line-up of exclusive trailers and reveals for the most amazing thinky games. Keep an eye out for more info very soon! Puzzle sicko content creators and journalists, reach out! More info below 👇

We had a nice interview with Hilton from @thegamerweb.bsky.social last week at the Galway Games Summit. Love the cover image 🤣 www.thegamer.com/interview-pa...

Spooky Doorway snagged some awards for The Séance of Blake Manor at the 2026 Imirt Game Awards at the Fís Games Summit. Game of the Year & Best Game Design. We also received the runner up trophies for Best Audio and Best Narrative. Many thanks to @imirt.bsky.social and @ardan-ie.bsky.social

Friday on the Akupara Twitch, the master himself, our own Buddy Sola, takes us all to school as he rocks some Montabi action to kick off your weekend! 🐢🐢🐢 @playmontabi.bsky.social @mankibo.bsky.social @buddysola.bsky.social

📢 ATTENTION ABSOLUTE CLASS OF '89 📢 Episode 1 of Kumitantei: Old-School Slaughter arrives on PC April 23rd! Investigate, solve, and expose your classmates in this episodic murder-mystery ADV card-battler inspired by retro anime 🔪

We should all be playing Airframe Ultra. When we're not playing Airframe Ultra we should be asking when we can next play Airframe Ultra

🚨 LIVESTREAM ALERT 🚨 Join us this Friday at 2PM EST as Louise plays #Mewgenics! 🐈‍⬛ Come for the cool cats and chaotic genetics, stay for the "so-called free thinkers" (and maybe a real cat cameo). 🐾 Watch here: buff.ly/AtdQVJu #IndieDev #AkuparaGames #Gaming

Dead Pets from Triple Topping is out today. Have I played it yet? No. Did I play their last game, Welcome to Elk, and thought their blurring of documentary and game was fantastic? Yes. Did you play it? Probably not, but you should. store.steampowered.com/app/1851720/...

Sweet Nova is back, the cutest lil girl in all of Provenance. (Just don't say it to her face...) --- Demo and wishlist Echo Weaver: store.steampowered.com/app/2184080/...

🎸 Dead Pets: A Punk Rock Slice of Life Sim is releasing February 6th! 🎸 Dead Pets will FINALLY be on top of the world! 🤘 Well, after we make a bit of money first... and I get Vel, Jay, and Brian to ACTUALLY show up for practice… 😅 Wanna help?

Going to be talking to the amazing people over at @getwigi.com on January 14th!! 💕

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

A lil peek behind the animation curtain, Nova getting an adorable skip cycle ❤️ --- Demo and wishlist Echo Weaver: store.steampowered.com/app/2184080/...

Happy Holidays from Erika Hakurei, the Absolute Plastic Surgeon! 🌨️ 🥰 Her birthday is TODAY! So celebrate for her if nothing else! 🍰🎅

If we talk the talk, we have to walk the walk. Thank you to everyone who has provided valuable feedback and for your love and support. Like I mentioned elsewhere yesterday, we’re not perfect and never will be but our ambition and love for the indie scene will never diminish. Love y’all 💙

Love yourself, love each other, love the scene. See y'all in 2026 <3

Like I said at the end of the Awards tonight. Read the room. 💙 We love y’all and thank you to every single developer and their games for making 2025 so damn special. See you next year!

@discordiadystopia.bsky.social ahh @grundislav.games shared a link to your publisherpathfinder.com, and I love everything about it. EGA forever, and also a fun and very useful service. Thank you so much, to you and your team for this!!

Announcing The Darkside Detective: 🌔Backside of the Moon! 🕵️ @darksidedetective.bsky.social RETURNS for a 3rd installment! Werewolves, cursed items, and the most terrifying monsters of all - 🤑rich people💸 - will put you to the test in 6⃣ (six) new cases! Wishlist now 🥳 @spookydoorway.bsky.social

Bestowed upon thee: the 🗡️GIGASWORD! This epic adventure is OUT NOW on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation + Xbox. 🎮 ⚖️Wield the GIGASWORD to slash foes, solve puzzles, and retrieve the 🔮God Crystal, all to save humanity. Will you rise to your destiny?✨ @studiohybrid.bsky.social

How do I get @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social involved with Made in New York City™️ @sixoneindie.com and @indiegameawards.gg? A Mayor Elect-hosted segment featuring independent NYC-developed games sounds pretty sick to me. My DMs are open, sir.

The Seance of Blake Manor is my Blue Prince aftermath.site/seance-of-blak...

This is such an incredible tweet. The picture. The quote. The fact that thousands of people even know this off-hand. I kind of can't believe how perfect it is.

BREAKING NEWS!!! My REAL soulstone has been located by the daring @bottenbig.bsky.social! They even decided graciously not to keep it, figuring its great power was too dangerous for anyone to wield, EXACTLY like Harrison Ford at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark! youtu.be/2qqilcGfIlE

47 indies. 72 minutes. The Six One Indie Showcase returns September 18th via IGN, GameSpot, and Six One Indie's channels! • World premiere from ORIGAME DIGITAL • Lil Gator Game: In the Dark gameplay • Super Rare Originals, Blumhouse Games, and so much more! Save The Date: youtu.be/QncfsZr_fxQ?...

We're reviving 🤘🎸Dead Pets Unleashed. Yep 😎 Guide Gordy and her struggling punk rock band, 👩🎤Dead Pets, as they look for their big break and navigate messy friendships in their 30s. Created by Triple Topping and revived by us, follow @deadpetsu.bsky.social for development! 🎮

Yes, of course: it’s Silksong week. While plenty of games have gotten out of Hornet’s way, there are still a bunch of other indie drops this week worthy of your attention.

Well, this is one for the bucket list: Someone made a 2.5hr video essay on a video game that I published. youtu.be/wePWYFGjLh8

I got to play this at MIGS 2024 and holy cow-- Chasing Rats and the Indie Asylum are really striking gold with this one.

Reminder the real The Escapist team that made all the cool stuff you did like is at @secondwindgroup.com now, so go follow us there if you like essays, fun streams and podcasts! Just a brand name, the people are what's important and we're all still together!

TC writer @crypticcharlie.bsky.social : I don’t need another virtual pet Also Charlie: My Nanomon just suplexed some random blob and now wants a snack 😭💥 We dove into the virtual pet world of Nanomon Virtual Pet‬ and it’s adorably chaotic 👇 www.thumbculture.co.uk/nanomon-virt...

This is not a story of triumph. This is a story of defiance, when the world demands you kneel. Will you submit to your knees? Or fight- against all odds?

3 things announced at Akupara this week, with Fae! 💖 🐹Nanomon releases June 24! 🗡️We're streaming GIGASWORD on Twitch this Friday! 🐼Montabi demo live now! Wishlist our games or somethin if you’re cool like that 🥳

#PAXEast2025 led us to discover #Gigasword by Jack Breen of @studiohybrid.bsky.social - a weight mechanic focused puzzle centric metroidvania game. One of the best demo experiences of the show, hands down! youtu.be/4-hcHT91sr4?...

Someone made a website where we all collectively solve every possible 5x5 Nonogram (aka Picross) 😅 11,263 down, 24,965,248 to go! Let's do it, folks! pixelogic.app/every-...

Don't forget to tune in to our first-ever Thinky Direct this Thursday!

Next Stop: Six One Publishing. www.sixoneindie.com/publishing

Pull your own 🗡️GIGASWORD here at PAX East! 😤🌱 (And give this metroidvania a try, of course! ✨) Over at Booth 15090! 🗺️ @studiohybrid.bsky.social

This is an absolutely fantastic piece of writing.

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Perhaps the Gamers are alright

Thank you so much to our friends @sixoneindie.com and @humblebundle.com for featuring FUTURE VIBE CHECK in the Humble Games Showcase! The show just started so get in that stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMej...

Automate, defend, and BECOME the 🎶🎸VIBE! Please welcome 🎺Future Vibe Check by Manik Bhat to the Akupara family! 🐢💜 @futurevibecheck.bsky.social Your 🏭factories don't just produce goods - they make music! Rebuild reality into optimized sound in this ✨musical automation title. youtu.be/PngfN6gbKko

Sorry We're Closed will be coming to consoles March 6th! It will be available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S ✨New features include Time Attack mode, difficulty modes and New Game+ (also coming to PC)! Wishlist and pre-order today!

Marvel teases a new story arc in Spider-Man that's an accidental meta-commentary on Marvel's entire business strategy.

our indie game for 15 seconds 😈🌈💋