Day 19: Nominees for Pulp Game of the Year! @orangethief.bsky.social @ldbrart.bsky.social @qhoang.bsky.social #Playdate

Hypeeee!!

This is swiftly becoming my daily mantra when I'm feeling low

i used to have sort of cool shapes but 0 colour game #pixelart

Echo: The Oracle's Scroll will be 50% off for the first time in this sale! So if you're thinking of picking it up... Maybe wait a week!

🔧 Ratcheteer DX is a snack sized Link's Awakening-like adventure launching next week for the low, low price of $9.75. 🎮 Steam Demo out, save transfers over - s.team/a/3908650 📝 Request a code - forms.gle/Njropf1dgWwApe5AA

The Wunder Demo finally has a rating!!! 😭 Yayyyyy

I should nottt have signed up for a half marathon on sunday during next fest, gonna be actually dead ☠️ like, in the ground with dirt on top

Wunder passed 300 wishlists this morning! Whilst that's not a lot, the general vibe from players is that the game is good! #steamnextfest

OMG, we hit 50,000 WISHLISTS! This has never happened to us before. Huge thanks to everyone who has wishlisted it, streamed it, and who has kept sharing our posts to help reach a wider audience. Much appreciated. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... #steamnextfest

Just pushed a big update for Wunder. You can now save and quit a run, then reload it later! #indiegame #nextfest

Hey y'all our game has a demo up for Next Fest now too so you can check it out before release in a couple weeks! Spread the word and hopefully people like it so I can keep working lol store.steampowered.com/app/3468410/...

Final Week of Month 2! Really enjoyed making these and looking forward to starting next month with a new theme! Month 2: Retro 📼 Week 4: Mobile Phone #blockbench #psx #lowpoly #3Dmodeling #gamedev

📢 INDIE DEVS WHO ARE IN NEXT FEST! If you're participating and would like your demo/store page reposted to 37K+ Bluesky followers then drop it in the replies below* *No games that use Gen-AI please and thank you.

Also as I drift off, I know I've been all salesmany about Wunder recently, but I really do appreciate any and all support it gets! It's a solid little game, perhaps a little too "by the book" but it's my first roguelike so I wanna make something concrete, before trying weirder and wilder things

Midnight snack tonight was a cheese and burger sauce sandwich... I shouldn't have tried it, it's too good and fast to not become a regular now 😩

the year is 2026 and we are making Computer Games

💀 Wunder 💀 is in Next Fest!! I've been working on this game for about 7 months now, I honestly think you'd like it!* If you fancy it; 🎮 Play the demo 🃏 Review the demo 🥶 Download an extra copy, put it in the freezer for later ✨ reposting this would also be cool! s.team/a/4410430

YAAAY!!! this is like my pet award honestly. i did #playdate launcher animations for reel-istic fishing (@toadley.bsky.social) and spilled mushrooms (@scizzorz.com) which both wound up *winning* this award in their respective release years, and now rowbot's up to bat for the same! thanks everybody 💖

Like everyone else I don't do these, but it's zelda haha 1) Wind Waker 2) Link's Awakening 3) Minish Cap

Absolute Poppycock

This is just a fantastic thing to do with a day! And I wholeheartedly agree, Amanita has been doing making games better than almost anyone else for a very long time!

I think the thing I hate most about capitalism is the "forced" part, in a free market of ideas surely they should feel less threatened by trying new / different ideas? Anyway back to making a game where you live or die based on how your coins flip... Not gonna introspect on that too much

it's actually starting to feel like I'm releasing an actual game again!! 😅 It's been far too long since Echo launched

Day 207 of making my Fidget Coin ASMr... I mean Double-Sided Deckbuilder!!

Making partner belated pancakes and she said it looks like the doctor who paper skin monster 😭 Will no one ✨ trust the process ✨ anymore!?

Went dentist yesterday (context: had minor surgery 2 years ago for something, but it came back), dentist did x-rays and whilst the bone had fully grown back, there was still an issue. I'm cash poor atm so I was a worried when I asked the cost, but he just said "oh nah, nothing, don't worry" 😭

Today was a really cool first proper "demo is out" day, someone reported some bugs, I fixed a bunch of them and shipped the first little demo update. I'm sure there's some more truly game-breaking bugs in there but we ✨ trust the process ✨

texturing pass on the first non-default weapon in the game, the photon driver⚡ #gamedev #blender

One of my friends has released a demo for their new game! Its a deck builder based around coin flipping and it has a good balance of luck and strategy to it, I heavily recommend checking it out if you enjoy this genre!

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

Yayy, it took a bit to actually go live but the demo for Wunder: The Double-sided Deckbuilder is out now!! Gonna make more noise about it tomorrow, for now I sleep 😅 #gamedev #indiegames store.steampowered.com/app/4410430/...

Game is feeling really cool now, and whether you win or lose there's a cool show-off screen for your stats & deck Demo is gonna come out tonight if there's no big bugs found in a few playthroughs!

any microtransactions. I think cosmetics are as poisonous as loot boxes, just in a different way. I try not to begrudge anyone else doing microtransactions but I can't help feeling let down that it's been entirely normalised to co-opt players feelings of belonging in a game world to sell hats.

having to really fight the urge to buy chipsynth sfc and spend the day making music for my mini jrpg 😭 toycompany.bandcamp.com/track/theme-...

I genuinely think we'll have flying cars before I can move a video from my phone to my pc in front of me in a nice way Where's the scifi folder I can open on my pc to see a preview of every file on my phone, then copy and paste it somewhere and it initiates a transfer for that just file.

Gonna launch the Wunder demo in the next day or 2, still a lot of stuff to add / fix but it's pretty solid!

I’d add; this beautifully illustrates the development ethos “make it in a week, finish it in a year”. it’s maybe even a better tool for prioritization than “make it good later” because 1) you may not know what makes the thing ‘good’ and 2) the good thing should probably be part of the small thing?!

my take on game industry finance is any analysis of dev time, dev cost, sale pricing etc. is pointless without acknowledging the role of big capital in systematically acquiring and extracting all of the wealth it‘s like giving someone diet and exercise advice while Dracula is actively killing them

In a just world we'd have a The Nice Guys trilogy 😞

@juniperdev.bsky.social's new vid is great! Nice to see a positive take on "number go up" games that isn't just a business case! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdwA...

been making more of these shorts and they're doing okay, but I have a question for anybody else doing similar what do people do for the captions? cause I manually do them atm and it does not seem productive 😅

new music? new music! wanna visit the bazaar that has everything from magical automatons to parts from an ancient floating city? here it is: jukiokallio.com/r/mechanical...

I know this is just complaining about the first thing, but pubs seeing a game that has a lot of potential and saying "come back when it's further along" is just out-right disgusting to me. I totally see it as a yes or no thing, you either assume the risk and fund it or you've lost your chance.

I live for games like this!

I finally figured out a visual for the coin upgrade booster packs in my game!!! 🕯️ little letters sealed with a wax seal 🕯️ #gamedev

Its been a long journey for this small game, but I'm excited to say #SuborbitalSalvage is available meow on Steam 🚀🙀 store.steampowered.com/app/3687960/... #gamedev #indiegames #love2d #endlessrunner #scifi #cats #pixelart

trying to stretch my money a bit further has brought these back into my life and honestly, I'm having a great time tag yourself, I'm "The Nation"

a friend just shared the album that was being made for Morrisons for Nintendo 3DS and I CANNOT stop listening to it www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kLT...

"I was just about to open notepad but it doesn't have copilot in it 😭" - said by no one ever, in the history of computing, noting and padding