Happy #Noirvember - Just learned it's a thing! I'm making a Nordic Noir styled Point&Click adventure game called "The M/S Cornelia II Incident"🌕 #PointNClick #Mystery #Nordic #Solodev

I threw together some clips from my (v early in development) immersive sim game Electrician ⚡ #avektukee #immersivesim #gamedev #indiegame youtu.be/I3KOrJMBisA

In a country of many weird games, UnReal World has to be one of the weirdest for me. Not enough is written about it, happy about this article! "The spells and rituals and magic that exist in the game, they are picked up from real spellbooks that have been preserved by recording old people's tales."

Non-violent (ok... non-lethal) magical realist immersive sim with my best friends with good enough pay that we can all focus on doing what we love and not hustle from project to project 💚

black screen is done, coming to Dreamcast + Steam in a month, and I'd really love it if you wishlisted it 🖤✨ store.steampowered.com/app/4063290 #dreamcast #homebrew #gamedev #spacegame #furry

What a fun read!

My Summer Car youtu.be/AHdd65cuAIE

also that game design and narrative and "aesthetics" i.e. art and sound are inseparable from each other, it doesn't make sense to look at any of those elements in isolation, and we only do that because the production of bigger AAA games has necessitated a Fordist model & set the tone for everything

Couldn't get this out of my head so youtu.be/lXqSLQ3lQhU

The permanent @amazefest.bsky.social place in Berlin is becoming reality. The opening is on November 20. If you produce outside of the digital area, cool physical stuff, anything unique that relates to independent and arthouse games and playful media just send a dm . #AMaze2025

Happy to say that Concrete Spaces is taking part in the Finnish Games Week '25 on Steam! The game is on sale at -20%, so you should totally consider grabbing a copy. store.steampowered.com/app/3580760/.

🧩 My puzzle-action-adventure game Reconfigure has a Steam page now! 🕹 Wishlists are a HUGE help for tiny devs - thank you! store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/... #godotengine #indiegames

Yesterday together with @helcominfo.bsky.social we pre-launched Baltic Rescue at Helsinki Central Library Oodi as part of the Baltic Sea Day! 🌊🥳 Players from all age groups came to our booth to enjoy the game, and online on itch we were one of the most popular new and free browser games 🤯

I walked out of a casino at 3am once to find Charles Martinet gently petting one of those guide dog charity donation boxes that's shaped like a dog

joining the planet threads!

If you see this, post a planet 🪐

small games by tiny devs finding huge success by dropping all notions of expression and focusing on dopamine delivery has done some sort of heavy damage to whatever I believed in in the 2010s about game design

Concrete Spaces is released! I'm dead. The game is available on Steam, and there's a launch discount on it right now! Interactive bilingual spoken word -inspired poetry. s.team/a/3580760.

In video game simulations, what do we call the opposite of abstraction in processes? Where instead of "crafting two things together" with a button press you must enact processes of grinding, attaching, etc? Or what Bennett does with limbs+muscles, instead of just "push forward to move" abstraction?

there are eighty billion videogames out there, and many are marvelous miracles, but I’m struggling to connect as the years go on just gimme something with two buttons that takes thirty minutes at a time, that is dumb fun but also secretly smart, soulful and surprising, that’s what I’m after

Any new Thief thing is a win in my book — no matter if it’s THIVRF.

free advice for game developers: try to make the next smash hit video game, such as grand theft auto. if you do, you'll be making more than just a video game – you'll be making millions of dollars

EMUUROM's demo is featured in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social from May 29 to June 5 - thank you once again @draknek.bsky.social & friends!! #indiegame #gamedev

I'm working on a bigger Dreamcast game It's called black screen It'll be done in 3 or 4 months maybe, but I'm putting out development snapshots starting now: captkuso.itch.io/black-screen #dreamcast #homebrew #gamedev #spacegame #raylib

M (1931) - Fritz Lang The Third Man (1949) - Carol Reed Tokyo Story (1953) - Yasujirô Ozu Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) - François Truffaut Bande à part (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard Betoniyö (2013) - Pirjo Honkasalo (also cheated and did 6 lol)

dragon lady next to me at the second life rave was too close and her wings kept clipping through my player model. I didn't mind but she apologied each and every time it happened. chat was filled with hundreds of variations of "oop sowwie >_<!! xoxo" and "uaah! not again! orz" by the end of the night

Also for consideration: Japanese business aughts-core

EMUUROM is featured in Thinky Direct next week, so I wrote a new devlog about it! borbware.itch.io/emuurom/devl...

Thank you!! Happy that this is finally out and maybe it inspires fresh ways to think and talk about game feel! You can check it out here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #gamedesign #gamesresearch #research #gamefeel #juice

Sauna by @zhamul.bsky.social Can’t wait to get back to my modded console so i can burn this onto a disk and play ♨️ zhamul.itch.io/sauna

in spite of the decades-long clamoring for the need to look at video games as a serious and consequential art form, we still largely don't do that. instead they're still largely approached as excellent machines for a certain kind of playful addiction. the "play" is more important than anything else

Game design inspiration of the day ✨

Wanna help make a stealth game where you play as a dog? 🐶 Playtest the first demo here and give your feedback! 🙌 tatsoni.itch.io/escape-from-... #gamedev #indiedev #stealthgame #godot #playtest #demo

Making a stealth game starring our family dog 🐕 Escape unseen — and collect bones 🦴 #gamedev #indiedev #stealthgame

Here i am, making a new game again (tho i shouldn't) 🌨️ 🐕

facts

to me it felt like AAA was really starting to enter an existential crisis in the 2010's and then a handful of games like Breath of the Wild allowed big companies to recapture that cultural dominance and relevance for a little longer. but it also just felt like delaying the inevitable to me.

#gamedev tip. When I worked on Alan Wake's levels I fixed about 20% of the level bugs reported by QA by placing a rock over the bug ☝️

i think just like how much videogame music has influenced music in general the past 2 decades+ it's hard to understate the influence of games on other media and definitely is something that is underreported for many different reasons

Can you help Energeezer learn about energy saving? Do your best! 🔋 cool-kotka.itch.io/energiasyoppo

We are releasing a new game today! 🔋

The fake news game we are making made its way into South-Korean TV! 😮

Thief 2 is 25 today. It's one of my favourite games ever. But more importantly, it was one of Terry Pratchett's favourite games ever. www.theguardian.com/games/2021/d...

Happy 25th anniversary to Thief 2: The Metal Age!

An immersive sim is a game where you can flush the toilets.

Very nice idea to have a game jam at the National Archives of Finland using old maps in their archives as the theme. More collaborations like this please! The games could be a start for some new project with the museum as well.

It’s a Finnish night in Tokyo with @finnishcottage8.bsky.social

Such an inspiring story about the creation of the Sleng Teng riddim: thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

This is what i post from