Announcing my pagan trading game Prophet Margin Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/... Sharing appreciated!

Good write-up by @riad.de about #Steam Algorithm "A common consensus used to be: "Ideas are nothing, execution is everything." I think we have to reverse that. We are back to the point where ideas are everything." ⚔️ www.linkedin.com/pulse/steam-...

Yesterday, our very own Irina ( @codecks.bsky.social ) interviewed @joostvandongen.bsky.social about how Galaxy Grove organizes their development to ship on time and on budget. Check it out if you want to see real examples from successful studios making great games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Huu...

I'll speaking as well here. Happy to support this initiative!

Huge thanks to everyone who played, shared & gave feedback on The Greenening demo! 💚 The response has been kind, constructive & way bigger than I expected. Lots to think about now, but it's a great place to be in 😊 Haven’t tried it yet? 🌱 store.steampowered.com/app/3634980/... #indiedev

There is a lot of space in our coop office for indie game developers in Berlin at the moment!

Wenn Geoff Keighley "Guten Tag" sagt, sende ich das natürlich bei Deutschlandfunk Nova. Und auch und spannender den Felix Falk vom @gameverband.bsky.social und @riad.de zum Stand der deutschen Gamesbranche.

Showing @codecks.bsky.social at #devcom! If you're here make sure to stop by our booth.

As we all know the game industry is going through very turbulent times, unfortunately this has also affected several members of our collective. The silver lining is that one of the largest rooms in our coworking space in Berlin will be available from September 1st. More info in thread...

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Maschinen-Mensch is yet another award-winning German studio to close its doors. Although the Berlin-based company hopes to make a comeback, it is initially focusing on supporting its team members in their search for new opportunities. www.gamesmarket.global/business/ger...

So I've tried out Codecks when it was pretty new and while I thought it was neat, it lacked a lot of features. I came back to it now, migrated a bunch of documentation over from Milanote and I'm incredibly happy with all the new features they added over the years, so I'm finally switching over :D

We just released the biggest Codecks feature so far. A unique way to bridge visual ideation and actual task data in one. mmensch.codecks.io/changelog

Steam market reality check: When we released CE1 in Sept 2016, 462 games launched that month. This March it was 1,817 games. That's 4x more releases while Steam users only doubled. Doesn't sound that bad right? It's about catalog size though.... 1/

As game dev I often wonder if my intuition about the Steam market matches reality. So I did a small game to test it: Guess how many reviews a random game has. You can now play it too on steamle.com

Some recent days on steamle.com featured the same game across multiple days. That should be fixed now. From now on always fresh games.. until I run out of games on Steam, which should take a while!

Over 25k guesses have been made on steamle.com since I announced it a week ago. 😮

Steamle.com - Guess the number of Steam reviews My results for Day 7 🟧🟩🟨🟩🟨 320/500 Didn't recognize a single game today

I released a smol Steam review guessing game! You asked for the ability to play previous days, so I added it! Enjoy beeating those scores and discovering some new Steam gems. steamle.com

Last chance to get Death Trash in the Steam summer sale: store.steampowered.com/app/941460/D... We released a major content update: store.steampowered.com/news/app/941... Roadmap is on the store page. Daily devlog: steamcommunity.com/app/941460/d... Plus I can honestly say that I love this game.

First! Steamle.com - Guess the number of Steam reviews My results for Day 5 🟧🟩🟨🟩🟨 Score: 320/500

A really cool, fun AND useful tool by @riad.de at @codecks.bsky.social Can you guess how many reviews a game has, based on title, screenshots, release, etc. ? steamle.com

Steamle.com - Guess the number of Steam reviews My results for Day 4 🟨🟧🟩🟩🟩 Score: 370/500

As game dev I often wonder if my intuition about the Steam market matches reality. So I did a small game to test it: Guess how many reviews a random game has. You can now play it too on steamle.com

@riad.de, our co-founder and MD, joined the latest Indie Game Movement podcast to talk about why traditional tools fall short for game dev workflows, practices to best manage your #gamedev team, his love for Street Fighter II, and more. Have a listen: www.rengenmarketing.com/podcast/game...

@riad.de, our co-founder and MD, sat with @pocketgamerbiz.bsky.social to talk about the challenges of #gamedev in 2025, the vision behind Codecks (including our plan for this year and beyond), and share some advice for new studios. Have a read: www.pocketgamer.biz/how-codecks-... #gaming #gamemaker

Congratulations to @megagonindustries.bsky.social and @happybroccoligames.bsky.social, two amazing studios powered by Codecks, for their wins at the German Computer Game Awards! It's a real badge of honour for us to see so many Codecks studios at the ceremony. Congratulations! #gamedev #indiegame

📢 Mother Machine finally has a launch date!! 💥 Get ready to cause chaos and explore everything the game has to offer on 🎉 March 26th! 🎉 Curious? Watch our brand new announcement trailer now! ✨ youtu.be/oQT6vGuqRrs

"I never made the conscious decision to embrace gaming, because as far as I can tell gaming already is the default, straightforward path." (Sid Meier, Sid Meier's Memoir!)

Remote and hybrid really forces teams to step up their production process imho.

Calling it now.. 2025 will be big for us. 😅

my indie game for 15 seconds #UnrealEngine #IndieDev #GameDev

This game is shaping up well!

Horribly behind with my photo backlog. Go figure! Today I tip my hat to my friends at @maschimensch.bsky.social. A few weeks ago the studio celebrated its 10th birthday, which is quite an #indiedev milestone. Congrats! Other than being one of the pillars of the @saftladen.bsky.social, they ... 1/3

Mother told us it's #WishlistWednesday today!! 👀👀 We're continuing work on our action platformer Mother Machine - have you wishlisted it yet? ✨ store.steampowered.com/app/1555980?...

Surpriseee! We're sneaking in another Mother Machine playtest for all the gremlins who missed it last time ✨ Mother is good #feelingblessed 😌🙏 📅 When? Literally RIGHT NOW until Monday 11AM CET 🎯 Where? On Steam ▶ store.steampowered.com/app/1555980?...

Our Youtooz Duck Detetctive plushie is live! 🎉🎉 Pre-orders are only open for 3 weeks and once it sells out, it's gone for good! Grab them before Freddy buys them all! 🔗 Get your plush on youtooz.com/products/duck-detective-plush-9-inch ! #youtooz #duckdetective #indiegame

One of the highlights of my career has been collaborating with the Goethe Institute in organizing a series of 8 games jams around the world. This journey took us across the world and we finally released a documentary about this experience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQnR...

I want to wish @maschimensch.bsky.social a very happy 10-year birthday. I've been an illustrator for nearly 24 years and working for Johannes and Riad and the MM team (on Curious Expedition 2) was one of my favourite experiences. Go wish-list their new game, Mother Machine, on Steam!

Mit @codecks.bsky.social lässt sich die Games-Entwicklung anhand von Decks organisieren - wie in einem Trading Card Game. Renommierte Indie-Studios nutzen die Software. Jetzt haben sich die Berliner eine substanzielle EU-Förderung gesichert.

Huge milestone for us! It's a big pleasure to make life for game studios a bit more playful and easier. We're just getting started!

One million Euros in funding will ensure that Codecks can continue to grow in 2025. The project management tool specifically for game developers is being developed in Berlin. @codecks.bsky.social @riad.de www.gamesmarkt.de/business/gam...

Having a lazy sunday? Perfect time to play Mother Machine on Steam for free right now! We're super excited to do this open playtest. ☺️ Let us know what you think! store.steampowered.com/app/1555980/...

The game I'm helping with has an open playtest this weekend. Mother Machine just opened it doors. Coop crazyness with chaos gremlins. We will stream tonight on the MaschinenMenschLive twitch and play with gamers and answer questions. store.steampowered.com/app/1555980/...

This was a blast! Great to have a cool b2b dev conference in Berlin again. Highly recommend Games Ground. 🧡

As part of our Mother Machine Open Beta Playtest we'll be having a stream where you can play with our devs (pls be nice to them!) 🤖 Join us on Twitch on Friday 22nd of November at 18:00 CET ▶ www.twitch.tv/MaschinenMen...

😯 Holy Shit #GameDev peeps check out Codecks! I've only scratched the surface playing around with it but... it's REALLY cool so far. Still have to figure out templating and GDD integration but I think it's all there. Kudos @codecks.bsky.social - very cool app design! Codecks.io

Time to be more active on this platform 🙌 Some Electric Beam vfx I worked on for the upcoming Mother Machine from @maschimensch.bsky.social

In total 2,306,286 cards have been created on @codecks.bsky.social ✌️