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Dive again into the world of indie games with Indiepocalypse #68! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by olszoj​​ (olszoj.mmm.page) -Cover by CharleyJadeIllustrations (charleyjadeartistry.com) pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-68

I subscribe to this... FULL of interesting games you won't find elsewhere.

Introducing... Laugh Track! A perfectly normal game in which nothing weird happens. Write a wacky teen sitcom and keep those ratings high, or else! Or else what? Don't worry about it! Win/Mac/Linux Demo out Oct 10 (for Steam NextFest), full game Jan 13! store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

All this week, I'll be posting lesson plans and materials from my History of RPGs class, where I ran micro versions of historically significant TTRPGs like AD&D and Apocalypse World! Every day I'll post a new game I ran in my class. Stay tuned!

Narrascope talks are up! Here’s one I did with @jesshaskins.bsky.social about running a scenario in Rosewater as a TTRPG, and the Twine model she built to test the companion relationship mechanic: youtu.be/4l5YMIuQoRo?...

I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!

Immense news! My new game now has a Steam page. YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. (In case you don't know, I mean you should wishlist it. Thank you!) Explore a surreal tourist resort hellscape in this post-apocalyptic #RPG. store.steampowered.com/app/3909230/... #indiegame #indiedev #rpgmaker #jrpg

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ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is now available in print for the FIRST TIME EVER. www.lulu.com/shop/choiceb... We were once "The world's best magazine about narrative games." Now we're shooting for "The worlds best magazine." #indiegames #narrativegames #zine

Celebrate the thriving world of independent games with this month's Indiepocalypse #66! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @vidityavoleti.bsky.social -Cover by @pimientosdulces.bsky.social pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-66

I used to release all my games on Android, but I gave up on that. But I sometimes get messages from Android players asking if my new games will be released on Android or if I can update my old ones to work with the new OS. It's so sad to have to say no them. =/

Screenshots from my game! After hours of play-testing, I'm starting to get used to my own ugly graphics, and now I love them. Good job, me! #rpgmaker #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Battle screen from the #RPGMaker game I'm making. The Girl Scout is my favorite enemy in the game, I think. #pixelart #gamedev #indiedev

Here's a heavy metal album based on the Traveller role-playing game. It's so gosh darn silly in the best way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-s7...

OM MY GOD! I once thought, "There will never be another game 428: Shibuya Scramble." WELL, MAYBE THERE WILL BE! I wrote a review way back in the first issue of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine. choicebeat.wordpress.com/2023/03/28/c...

Vol. 195 of the @wf-games.itch.io newsletter is out now, featuring Cucina Stellata by Filthy Eden, Dogma IX, Blondprod and Cristian Magalotti: wfgames.substack.com/p/weird-fuck...

I played this, and it really captures it's vampiric theme. The rules push forward the inner conflict of being a superpowered monster... but one that was once human.

Monster graphics for an #RPGmaker game I'm working on. I'm really into fungus creatures. #pixelart #gameart

Bless those game devs who keep updating their old games to make them run well on new operating systems. But I will never do that. I've come to terms with my games being ephemeral.

Title screen for the #RPGmaker game I'm working on. That bubble font is just about perfect, I think. #pixelart #gameart

narrascope 2025 is this weekend! I helped jury this year’s talks and love how wide-ranging this year’s schedule is. Online registration is still open today and tomorrow: narrascope.org

ALTER EGO is the first "life sim" from 1986. Written by a REAL PSYCHOLOGIST. For a "realistic" game, there are so many ways to die. As a child, I got abducted by a murderer. What game! Review in new ChoiceBeat: The Visual Novel and Interactive Fiction Zine: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/c...

An early game I made was an extremely cryptic puzzle game that was inspired by Swordquest. The clues to solve it were SO obscure. But no one liked it because I never offered REAL MONEY prizes. There is something respectable about this unapologetic style of obtuse puzzle design.

This is haunting me: thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/adventures/ A website with 1,000+ dream-like flip phone camera pictures. There is an article about the artists (game devs...?) in the new issue of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine. choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/c...

<ALARM KLAXON WAILS> Issue 14 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine just burst into your reality. You better hide! It's narrative game anarchy here, so be careful! Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c... Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/06/14/c... #indiegames #zine

Never played this guy's games but if someone urges me hard enough, I might.

Coming soon to a town near you (probably) in a bag full of indie games, Indiepocalypse #65! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @hexrae.bsky.social -Cover by Dajia Zhou (www.dajiazhou.com) pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-65

More enemies for my game. The guy on the right is the Mothman (coolest cryptid). #gameart #pixelart #gamedev #rpgmaker #indiedev

Game over screen for the game I'm making. I don't LOVE it, but I LIKE it. #pixelart #gameart #gamedev #indiedev #rpgmaker

I recall another Tempest 2000 magazine ad. There is a guy in an almost-full water tank. His face is pressed into the corner of the tank as he sucks up the last little bit of air. I thought that was a creative, and evocative ad. More games should sell themselves on being brutally, unfairly hard.

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#pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker

This was supposed to be a marmoset, but then I went freestyle. Just give him something to eat! #pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker

Cute platypus from the game I'm making. You gotta fight him! Too bad! #pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker

Howdy, all! Dropping off a rare post to say hi, and show you that I'm still alive and making games! Here is a chameleon commando guy. Don't mess with him! Peace! Talk again in 3 months! (Kidding, maybe!) #pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker

Attentat 1942 is in here. It's an #InteractiveFiction game set during during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in World War II. It's an interesting one!

You didn't read ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine, so I have to post again. ☹️ What about the quiz for interactive fiction freaks? Test yourself and see if "Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?" is a real game or a hoax! Zine: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/c...

This game was so ahead of its time. It's a fully-formed life sim ~10 years before anyone else did it.

In-progress map screen for the #rpgmaker game I'm writing. The blue letters should probably be smaller. Adding the hand in the corner is my greatest accomplishment as an artist. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Yo choice fanatics, Issue 13 of ChoiceBeat: The #VisualNovel and #InteractiveFiction Zine is out! Game poems The first sound novel Superheroes, Choice of Games-style Sexy Hatoful Boyfriend pigeons 35 pgs! Read: www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/c... Download: choicebeat.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/c...

I drew my character for the Exalted #ttrpg I'm playing in. He is a super tough clown martial artist. The version on the right is after he died and came back as a goth Abyssal Exalt. I admire the silly names all the characters in Exalted have. #Exalted #rpgart #rpgcharacter

I've been pretty conflicted on whether I think my map tiles look really cool or really ugly. But today I decided that both are true! #pixelart #gamedev #rpgmaker #indiedev

Battle screen from the post-apocalyptic RPG Maker game I'm making. #pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker #gamedev #indiedev

Here's a playable character from the post-apocalyptic RPG I'm making. #pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker #gamedev #indiedev

I made this account, so I guess gotta post something! =) Here are some foul creatures of darkness for an RPG I'm making. My fav is the koala mummy! #pixelart #gameart #rpgmaker #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames