Today is The Daily Spell's 100th day of daily puzzles! ✨ www.the-daily-spell.com We're now at: 🧩 104 letter-dropping puzzles 📜 13k words of story 🪶 2500 daily players Could not have reached this milestone without so many enthusiastic and helpful players! Thank you! #gamedev #puzzlegame #thinkygame

While you're waiting for us to finish up work on Season Two of Thinky Dailies, we've got a puzzle snack to tide you over! thinkygames.com/dail...

Oh wow, this game looks amazing. Very strong aesthetics. store.steampowered.com/app/4331110/...

🌼My new game is here!🥀 "She danced in the wind like a holographic dream before the world died." alienmelon.itch.io/flower A game poem and interactive fiction about The End. You play the very last flower left on Earth, bringing peace to long dead soil. #IndieGame #VideoGame #GamePoem #Game

It's weird because I think anyone involved in a creative enterprise would feel unfairly judged if the quality of their output were assumed to be the result of laziness/lack of care. It's okay to say something is bad, but you likely have no idea why it wound up that way! Maybe I'm just incompetent!

I really liked this game. It's pretty short and you should totally play it.

The amount of racism in the Relooted reviews is sickening. A bunch of assh*les clearly bought the game just to leave a negative review before getting refunded, and another bunch of assh*les are marking these reviews useful for them to be displayed a the top store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/...

Thinky Dailies is a daily puzzle game that follows the story of a curious protagonist! The Professor Layton games were a big inspiration when designing this puzzle adventure! thinkygames.com/dail...

Hear me out. What if there was a game like Magic The Gathering but: - Cards aren't bought. You craft them at home (lore, drawing, skills, etc). - There's a free manual with restrictions you need to follow when making a card (to balance them). - When playing with friends you actually trade cards.

"[W]orkload creep can in turn lead to cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems." hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

I think this video does a good job at explaining something complex and scary here, how tech companies are increasing their debt, and the consequences that are likely to follow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifya...

Have you solved the Thinky Dailies Season 1 finale? Does the answer look familiar? If not, you can join our Discord to get some help deciphering it! thinkygames.com/dail...

You know how Gmail and Google Docs will suggest how to continue a sentence? I made a new document, wrote "Please make a copy of" (with the intention of following it with "this document"), and Google was like "I totally got this".

The Thinky Awards ( @thinkygames.com) are about to start! Watch it live on Youtube👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cwr...

In this episode of Thinky Dailies, it's pretty easy to see the parallels in the story and the puzzle! thinkygames.com/dail...

Happy Thinky Awards day everyone! There are so many AMAZING games up for awards! You can see the full list and all the details on where to watch here ahhh✨ thinkygames.com/events/awards/

The custom controller we made for our @malagajam.bsky.social game. @rothiotome.bsky.social @coppolaemilio.com @gerardgascon.com

This has been wild. We announced the game, had thousands of players join this first season, even got featured on a Cracking the Cryptic video. My highlight was seeing all the discord chats, people helping each other with hints and coming up with story theories. We'll be back soon with Season 2!💛

The custom controller we made for our @malagajam.bsky.social game. @rothiotome.bsky.social @coppolaemilio.com @gerardgascon.com

Season 1 taught me to hate slippers and not drop cookie crumbs everywhere. Roll on Season 2.

That's a wrap on Season 1 folks!! Can't recommend this enough. A nice little puzzle every day, with solid hints to help guide you, and the whole season is out now. Next season is in 34 days!! Plenty of time to catch up!!

This has been wild. We announced the game, had thousands of players join this first season, even got featured on a Cracking the Cryptic video. My highlight was seeing all the discord chats, people helping each other with hints and coming up with story theories. We'll be back soon with Season 2!💛

Murat Can Tonta, who has designed many logic puzzles for Thinky Dailies, shares his experience working on puzzle books and magazines!

After getting ready, the protagonist heads outside following an unexpected note delivered to them by mail. Now, maybe without them knowing, a huge adventure begins... ❤️🐑🧩 #thinkygames #illustration (Play in thinkygames.com/dailies/)

I think gAI at game jams is *particularly* fucking gross. Game jams are all about celebrating creativity and cooperation. They're about trying a new skill, or working with someone new. They're about celebrating the joy of creation in all its messy, buggy, and most importantly, human glory.

Just got my copy of @letibus.bsky.social's Herd. I've been very excited about this solo puzzle boardgame 😁

The Global Game Jam theme reveal video has footage that looks very AI. They said if there's AI content in the video, it is completely unintentional. They are pretty open about allowing AI and AI sponsors. So it wouldn't be such a long shot.

Finished Ghostwire Tokyo. I thought this one had a lot of personality. Despite the cluttered map and the horror elements, it kept my attention until the end.

We made this simple alt-control game for a birthday that can be played alone or in co-op by doing a high five.

David has designed a bunch of clever (and sometimes pretty tricky) visual puzzles featured in Season One of Thinky Dailies! thinkygames.com/dail...

Doing these dailies for the past fifty (!) days has been so much fun. A really great grounding ritual

Just received a package from @laurabutwhy.bsky.social that had three handmade junimos and French chocolates 😭

One of the puzzle types in Thinky Dailies is a Nonogram! It's a very famous logic puzzle trademarked by Nintendo as Picross. Coincidentally, two designers both independently invented Nonograms in 1987 — Non Ishida and Tetsuya Nishio. thinkygames.com/dail...

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Cracking The Cryptic is huuuuuuge in the puzzle community. And he just uploaded a video recommending Thinky Dailies. Do check it out🥲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Omv...

This is so cool! Thank you Cracking The Cryptic for recommending Thinky Dailies😭

Cracking The Cryptic is huuuuuuge in the puzzle community. And he just uploaded a video recommending Thinky Dailies. Do check it out🥲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Omv...

I've been tinkering with this mini projector connected to a Raspberry. Mostly thinking of using this for game installations and experimental stuff. It's super portable.

Who's your favorite Thinky Dailies side character? The librarian, the farmer, the lockmaker, or Greg? thinkygames.com/dail...

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Here are a few puzzle games you should keep an eye on👏

Alumnos de un IES riojano hacen imágenes sexualmente explícitas con una IAGen de al menos diez compañeras de clase. La dirección del IES no lo ve como un "acoso". www.eldiario.es/la-rioja/alu...

This is a great breakdown of something complex and very meaningful. I think it's really important to listen to this instead of just reading the final ruling on a headline.

Today's Odd Path puzzle is an original logic puzzle type invented specifically for Thinky Dailies by Prasanna Seshadri! thinkygames.com/dail...

Serkan Yürekli has designed many puzzles for Thinky Dailies, from star battles to irregular sudokus! thinkygames.com/dail...

I've played all the games here. Some purely out of design curiosity. It gets harder to recommend playing some of the older ones. Like, I've played Ultima IV, and I'm glad I did. But when talking about it, I'm tempted to recommend waching a video and then playing SKALD or Moonring.

As part of the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant I mentored this developer on The Detective's Apprentice last year, and I'm incredibly proud and excited for this game 🤩💖 It scratches a real puzzle itch with complex but incredibly satisfying cases. It's something special and one to watch, for sure.

A Dungeon Game is here and it's free! (It's been both of those things for ages tbh) Explore subterranean depths, face dragons, and discover what lurks beneath. It's classic dungeon crawling with modern design (i.e. it's good). https://loottheroom.itch.io/a-dungeon-game

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.