We're back with a new project! A 2D towerdefense game where you mine resources in a polluted wasteland and upgrade your city with different building blocks to survive the night. Check out the demo here: itch.io/wretched-lead #gamedev #indiedev

🥳 The Farmer Was Replaced is leaving Early Access! We’re publishing the 1.0 full release on October 10 🌻  Check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160

Just an ordinary day, right?

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

We’re gonna leave the games industry better than we found it 😤 Introducing DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library 🧬 📚 ongoing, always growing, digital archive for all 💸 COMMUNITY-FUNDED and freely accessible 🫡 curated + maintained by DnA Creative (us!) dnacreative.notion.site/codex

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The Wandering Village 1.0 is OUT NOW on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox! 🦕 Check out our new animated trailer ✨ 🔃 Repost and comment until July 24 to win a game key for your platform of choice!

My playdate arrived! The thing's a lot of fun, and I can't wait to program a lil' something for it myself. Its just what I need to wind down after months of stress due to my Bachelor's degree (yes, I know, I am taking a break from making games by making... a game)

The day has come to behold the mouth. The In Full Bloom steam page is live! Please check it out & wishlist the game if you're interested or want to support us. It helps us out & you'll get notified about big changes, like a playable demo perhaps? 👀 #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/3810240/...

I am a bit late, but 🌈 happy pride month y'all! It's tough times out there, but I hope everyone gets to stay safe and celebrate ^^

Man, am I happy that I graduated from secondary school before Sam Altman's plagiarism machine was a thing. Good job tech bros, your fancy new gadget has brought us the future of "people can't read anymore", my favourite flavour of dystopia.

For a person like me, whose only experience with classic nintendo games was lending a game boy from our local library for a single week, the switch online collections are a blessing. Its making me feel nostalgia for something I've never had!

Even without fancy particle effects, collecting crystal shards and enemy loot is already quite satisfying! #screenshotsaturday #screenshotsunday #gamedev #indiedev

All over the surface of the planet, strange tornadoes appear. They are surrounded by a massive wall of dust and seem to be powered by a powerful source of energy. What dangers will await you inside of it? #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Did we just forget about click workers? Did we really?? Do these people even understand that the hallucinations of fancy applied statistics they call "AI" are built on top of thousands of HUMANS labelling the stolen training data for abysmal wages? When will these HUMANS get HUMAN rights???

While precious resources scatter the lands of our Dual Perspective Strategy & Action game, there are also hives full of angry bugs and critters! Luckily, rockets beat rock! #screenshotsaturday #screenshotsunday #gamedev #indiedev

Sometimes weird stuff happens when reworking what you already have. This time around our screen got sucked into the vortex by the shader gods, they do not seem to listen to our prayers. #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

Speaking of bouncing rockets... here are some rocket modules we've been cooking up! The possibilities are endless (if you can't count higher than 27)! #gamedev #screenshotsunday #indiedev

Approaching the storm is a dangerous feat in our drone combat strategy/action game... Although it ain't so hard if you have rockets bouncing all over the place! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

This is why I hate it when economics bros use "supply and demand" as an excuse for companies doing evil stuff. Who wants this!? Bring me ONE person who would genuinely enjoy playing that. This is nothing but an insult to human art and creativity.

We've prototyped a video showcasing how our planets mega-storm might create different feeling areas. If you don't like sand because it's course, rough and gets everywhere this planet might not be for you... except if you're up for an adventure? #screenshotsaturday

Coder Appreciation Post! One of our coders visualised the data we collected from testings we did and I fricckcking love this! One cube per Restart - can't wait to get back to level design to improve the game based on this data! AAAHHH so EXCITED! #indiegame #gamedev #racinggame

The cockpit of the harvester is the center of your journey in our Dune-inspired survival game. From there you will plot a course across the alien desert, and steer a drone to defend your moving home! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Sometimes all you need is to see the world from a different perspective... #GameDev #indiegame

Just finished @okomotive.bsky.social 's FAR: Lone Sail, and I am in awe of the elegance of it's design. It got me into the flow many times, even though all I was doing was pushing buttons and admiring the landscape. It's proof that simple, polished interactions can do so much! (take notes, Manuel)

That looks about right

I know Balatro is one in a million, but somehow the fact that localthunk got scouted by a publisher instead of the other way around gives me comfort. In general, it's nice to read a game industry story with a happy end once in a while...

Grimoire Groves, our magical garden roguelite, is out NOW!! 🌿 Grow enchanted plant creatures 🔮 Craft magical items and learn new spells 🏡 Decorate your home base 🧦 Unravel the mystery of the Rainbow Socks buff.ly/TsPFguF

Heya! ✨ We are looking for a Marketing & Community Manager Freelancer to help us promote Henry Halfhead 👁️ 👃 👁️ - Paid opportunity - Plan, produce and post video content on relevant social media More infos here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Thank you for sharing!

Saw Mad Max: Fury Road. 10/10, big dust cloud. I loved it when the titular max said: "it's mad maxxing time" and mad maxed all over them (I'm sorry)

Does anyone have some good references for alien creature designs? I'm currently loving Scavenger's Reign for their "what if" approach that results in some really unique creatures. I'd love to find more media similar to that! #gamedev #worldbuilding

Another project released! In Rest in Somnia you play as a douchebag CEO who collects and controls sinful creatures (who might've once been human) using abusive employment contracts! Life imitates art they say... #gamedev #indiegame #creaturecollector gwydi.itch.io/rest-in-somnia

Another style experiment! This time with cel shading and procedural clouds using good ol' #Unity Shadergraph. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

In my completely unbiased experience, the prototype is a lot of fun! We spent a lot of time polishing the combat and we'll keep building on that foundation. Give us a follow if you want to see where the journey leads us to ^^ #GameDev #indiegame

So do I understand correctly that Bartle's Player types are based solely on his observations in his own game, with no statistical basis whatsoever, and everybody just went with it? I feel like I've seen it presented as fact more than once, and it seems a bit too loosey-goosey for that. #gamedesign

Finally figured out that LUTs exist and how to use them! This is just me messing around in Unity with some assets and postprocessing effects, but it gets me really exited thinking about the possibilities for my upcoming project! #screenshotsaturday #unity #gamedev

It's also a really good excercise to actively reflect on the games you played and why you liked (or disliked) them! Which is great for learning Game Design, so really it's a win-win!

I tried really hard to upload a video, but BlueSky said not today, so have some screenshots in the meantime! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

My latest project is on itch! It's a game where you play as a drone protecting a harvester by shooting, retracting and detonating rockets! The game is meant as a combat prototype for our first project at @brainflick.bsky.social! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame manuelini.itch.io/blight-proto...

Seeing a lot of #promosky posts atm, so I'll give it a shot! Here's what takes up most of my brain: - game dev - video games - digital art, mostly 3D - french horn - classical music - philosophy - the swiss game dev scene - novels of any kind - anime (ping pong the animation = goat)

Opening this starter pack back up! Again this list is HIGHLY CURATED so if your page is indicative of you being an indie game dev or independent artist feel free to comment ALSO requirement to join is you have to SHARE THIS POST 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 #indiedev #gameart #digitalart #solodev #oc go.bsky.app/E8hRoHu

Fellow indie devs, what do you use to promote your game early in development? I feel Bsky can be nice to talk dev to dev, but I wonder what platforms work the best for reaching early adopting players. Are mailing lists still a thing, or are Social Media platforms the way to go? #indiedev #gamedev

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty 3D Game Artist: how did this cup end up having 10k Tris, all I did was bevel an edge?!

Finally got around to finishing Baldur's Gate 3, and what a ride it was! I had teary eyes when I realized I'd missed my chance to save Karlach, but every time Lae'zel was in frame wearing clown makeup, I couldn't hold back a chuckle. I guess that's what people call an emotional rollercoaster. #bg3

Does anyone have a good example of a radar/sonar being used in a game? Not a map looking like a radar, where you can clearly identify whether something is an enemy or ally, but actually a display where you can only see dots like this: #gamedev #gamedesign

Thinking about picking up Baldur's Gate again to break through the cycle of playing 50% of a game and then dropping it. Happened WAY too many times, with games that are way too good to just be collecting dust in a corner of my Steam library

I am amazed by how much you could technically do with shaders, but whenever I touch them I spend half a day in a delirium haunted by pink screens and obscure error messages. It's a never ending cycle of excitement and despair.

What got you into #gamedev? As a kid, whenever I was not gaming, or outside, I was on my dad's computer trying to find all the ways of using it creatively. After doing special effects, editing photos, 3D modeling and composing, making games seemed like the logical next step!

I am currently preparing a workshop about 3D modeling for games for some fellow students at university, and in the process I'm discovering tools that could've saved me DAYS if I knew them earlier... Like what do you mean I can export multiple FBX files from one blender scene with one click?!?!?