Moonlit Dreams has a demo available at the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase, alongside many other fantastic games! You can check out the first few levels of my sokoban game with overlapping levels at this link: store.steampowered.com/app/4482070/... Hope you enjoy! 🙌 #gamedev #indiedev

We're excited to announce that the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase will begin TOMORROW and run from May 28 - June 4! Featuring discounts on a selection of excellent puzzle games, streams from our favorite streamers, demos for upcoming games & plenty more! Links below 👇 www.cerebralpuzzleshowcase.com

Last year, miHoYo copied my puzzle game Ouros in Zenless Zone Zero. Because they are a recognized, billion-dollar studio and my game isn't well known, some people are now assuming that their version is the original, and mine is the clone. I hope this video clears that up.

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

SO happy to announce Moonlit Dreams will have a demo during the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! You can read more here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/448... Thank you @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social for the opportunity! Hope everyone'll check out all the fantastic thinky games at the event when it starts!

More and more I see people say "it's ONLY used for translation" when it comes to genAI in games. As if the act of writing into another language is not worth respecting. As if people in other countries (both gamers and workers) don't matter at all. Translation IS writing. Translation IS art.

Moonlit Dreams is a sokoban game with overlapping levels, taking place inside your dreamscape! I've been working on it for a solid 3 months now, and it's shaping up to be very special... You can wishlist it on Steam! :D store.steampowered.com/app/4482070/... #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

kulupu #tokipona a! o pana e pona tawa mi 🙏 toki Pona la mi sin. taso, mi wile e kepeken ni lon (lon? insa?) musi mi. mi wile sona e ni: sitelen la, sina ken sona e ni anu seme? pakala li lon? pona tawa sina a! #gamedev

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

Tempted to reply to this scam with something stupid like "the game's $4 on Steam you don't need the other $96" I wonder what the goal here genuinely is tho. Do they just buy the game and fill it with cryptominers? What's even the play here #gamedev #indiedev

Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...

fuck it, i had more thoughts about this, so i wrote them down mors.games/blog/do-we-e...

Vendo um monte de gente aqui falando como se Toby Fox não soubesse da existência de "empresas profissionais de localização" e gostaria de lembrar que ISSO AQUI quase foi a loc oficial de Celeste, feita por empresa muito bem recomendada:

when developing any user-facing software, make localisation something you think about fairly early on in the development process. it gets a lot easier to work on in the future, even if you dont currently intend on it, if you already have groundwork laid out for it

devs know pain when this happens to you

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

Hi everyone. Things have been happening in the fan-translation scene and I've been overdue in talking about them. For the first time ever I've made a long writeup. Please read it and feel free to reach out to me with comments.

i hope one day i will be able to make a post on this damn site with the word "gamedev" in it without this stupid bot account liking the post

A big draw of the game-design-by-A/B-testing type thinking is that it absolves you from having to form your own opinions & taste. It allows you to outsource the most difficult part of any creative endeavour: actually believing in your vision.

Spent some time today redoing all the Steam assets for my game. Previously I just used some sketches I'd made, but now I sat down and actually made some bespoke art. I'm quite happy with the result, but what do you think gang? :) #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday (<- bit of a stretch but...)

Hello, everyone!! So, SO proud, so, SO happy to announce that my block-pushing puzzle game with overlapping levels now has a Steam page up! Feel free to check it out, wishlist if you wanna, I think it's pretty neat :) store.steampowered.com/app/4482070/... #gamedev #indiedev #madewithgodot

So I had a name for my game since 2018, I checked Google and Steam to make sure there wasn't another game called that in the past, it was all good to go. I just paid the Steam Direct fee and thought to double check... ...a game with the exact name I was thinking of popped up. ...whoops. #gamedev

Another week, another devlog, this time recapping all the work I've done this first month of development, in presentation format! I promise it's interesting. Maybe. You decide! youtu.be/DM29rivIcf8 #gamedev #indiedev #devlog

and we have made back our development budget after 3 hours. Thank you all :)

Still chipping away at my puzzle game with overlapping levels, so I figured I'd make another devlog! In this one I talk all about NPCs, dialogue, and so on and so forth. You can check it out here if you wanna :) youtu.be/4H9q4NBYaK4 #gamedev #indiedev #devlog

Proud to share that YARG and CUBERUN'24, my two precision platformers, are part of the #NoICEinMinnesota bundle alongside 1 437 other FANTASTIC games, benefiting the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Get some cool games and support a good cause! 👉 itch.io/b/3484/no-ic... 👈 #gamedev #indiedev

it's kinda fucked up that we universally agree that if a programmer lacks art skills, them resorting to using ai is wrong... but a lot of artists seem to be okay with using ai, just because they lack the programming skills where do we draw the line? what makes one ethical and the other one not?

Some more work on my puzzle game with overlapping levels! Little maze, little memorization puzzle, yeeee 👍 #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Been working on my puzzle game with overlapping levels a bit more, and I made another devlog! This time I'm talking about what the game's progression is gonna be, and showing the current state of progress :) youtu.be/BaHigOFf230 #gamedev #indiedev #devlog

just to provide a counterexample; I've been using linux full time for gamedev for over a year, and my experience has been: - installation is pretty simple - drivers, etc, everything worked out of the box - all the software I cared about using works perfectly - I never have to use Windows in a VM

Introducing the first 15 units of my game, each with their own tiny 24x24 pixel mugshot. It was a challenge, but I’m pretty happy with how they turned out! 😅

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

Made a lil #devlog type thing talking about... knock on wood... my next big long-term #gamedev project. I'm working on a block-pushing puzzle game with overlapping levels! You can check out ma lil video talking about it at youtu.be/VnCoKgB3HCM if you wanna 👍

ITS LIVE PLEASE WISHLIST I SPENT A YEAR OF MY LIFE ON THIS THING store.steampowered.com/app/4233970/...

things i didn't expect when publishing my game on the google play store: * getting emails in indonesian asking me if i would sell my play console account * getting emails from mysterious companies asking if i would publish their apps under my name #gamedev #indiedev #mobilegames

I spent this year learning coding. At the start of the year: Hated reading documentation Was unsure if Id need github Never understood why code didn't work. Now: Love to read documentation since its the most accurate Github has saved my ass several times Don't understand why my code doesn't work.

For gamers out there, leaks like this means nothing without context. It doesn't prove the in-game model is the same. It could just be the LOD/low-res model from an aerial scene or main menu, a reference for mappers, a test model, or something completely different.

Yipes! I don't remember my neighbours looking THIS green! Did Halloween start early? Did I miss the latest in fashion? Or, could it be... there are ZOMBIES in my SUBURB! A game about (literally) mowing down zombies. Check it out! 🧟 f4b1.itch.io/zombies-in-m... #gamedev #indiedev #jamsepticeye

The WORST thing about getting published by Devolver is that we had to get rid of this

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

here's what im cooking for the #FallingBlockJam so far! i decided to restart that puzzle game concept of mine... except NOW it's competitive >:)

bob ross paintings (golden rays of sunshine, cactus at sunset), but very tiny and very square #pixelart #ドット絵 #rkgk

I come to Bluesky once again with: videogame Blown Away is a game about a hot air balloon ride going very wrong, very quickly. Avoid birds, balloons and planes by blowing into your microphone and aiming with the mouse! Check it out over here! 🙏 f4b1.itch.io/blown-away #gamedev #indiedev #minijam

Hello Bluesky! I come to you today with: videogame Pętla is a time-looping, you-from-the-future-fighting, single-player asymmetrical card game. Play cards, attack, defend, get a high score, or else the timestream will dissipate FOREVER Check it out! f4b1.itch.io/petla #gamedev #indiedev #gmtkjam

the code you write in the last few weeks of a game's development is just horrendous. truly nightmare programming. absolute duct tape over a crack in a million gallon aquarium.

Kaizo Mario Was My Physical Therapy by @imrankhan.bsky.social "I might have been the first person to ever cry while playing a Mario & Luigi game." Imran shared a personal story with us about finding a unique pathway on the road to recovery. Read it here: skyboxcritics.com/2025/05/21/k...

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