Happy New Year! Congratulations Harry!

Big thanks to @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social for the Dave’s Word Game shout-out in VGBees’ GOTY coverage. It appeared briefly, incidentally, in the letters section at the end… which marketing has assured me is legally indistinguishable from “Game of the Year.” bsky.app/profile/vgbe...

It's our first day back at Bearwaves Towers. We're leaving the tree up for a bit.

How are you faring on the monthly leaderboard for December? Which @bearwaves.com team members can you beat with 5 days remaining? playdwg.com to show us what you're made of 😉 #videogames #indiegames #indiedev #wordgames #december

Merry Christmas from Bearwaves! Hope you like the decorations we put up in DWG ❄️

Visiting loved ones this festive season? Safe JOURNEY from all at Bearwaves ❤️

Joel's words on DAVE'S WORD GAME. "Five minutes of picking out words you like morphs into fifteen minutes of headshotting critical targets with laser precision because you give the FULLEST of fucks, plotting not just the next move, but the next move beyond." Read here: www.electrondance.co...

"You got the six-letter word HOUSES? Nice, have six points. You got the six-letter word ZYGOTE? Nice, have six points. Oh, you sweated over it? Nice, have six points. You think you deserve more? Nice, have six points." I wrote about my current daily crush, DAVE'S WORD GAME: www.electrondance.co...

This Steam sale, @bearwaves.com are giving away our first game, Feud, for FREE! The reason for this is because it is, and had always been, free #indiedev #freegames #videogames #indiegame

Be like water, my friend.

dave........... thank you so much

this game rocks

there’s truly nothing like launch day 🥰 👉 playdwg.com

For a year we worked to turn Dave’s Scrabble ruleset into an app. Today, over 1,800 games, you turned our app into Dave’s Word Game. Thank you 🙏 See you tomorrow 🥊

🧩 Your next daily word challenge is here. 👉 Dave's Word Game is out now! playdwg.com

Dave's Word Game comes out tomorrow! This is very exciting for lots of reasons, but for me particularly it's exciting as the first game written in Growl, my game engine. Here's a writeup of what it was like building an engine from scratch and what I learned. www.joelotter.com/posts/2025/1...

Dave’s Word Game works offline, so you can play it wherever you want! #DWG #Wordle #OfflineGames

Diagonals!

WAIT FOUR DAYS It's almost here! 15th of December 👀 @bearwaves.com 🟧🟦⬜ DAVE'S WORD GAME 🟧🟧🟦 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #wordgame

This is the last #wishlistwednesday you can pre-save Dave's Word Game at www.playdwg.com because it's OUT ON MONDAY!!!

Well this sucks, what the fuck, letters Dave's Word Game coming soon from @bearwaves.com - find words, get high score from line/block clearing. As much about geometry and planning ahead as word searching.

We've been building it all year… and it launches in just 7 days! Pre-save Dave's Word Game Now: www.playdwg.com

LET MAX VROOM Sorry they didn't let you vroom, Max... but congrats Norris! @bearwaves.com Dave's Word Game crosses the finish line on 15th December! #indiegame #indiedev #wordgame #wordgames

It happened again

I wondered why we’d suddenly got so many hits on our App Store page - seems we’ve been added to the Coming Soon list 👀 If you haven’t preordered yet, it’s free and helps us with getting the algorithm to be nice to us! www.playdwg.com

Sad to be losing all our 11 year old Korean fans but they'll be back next year.

Standing at the tailor right now and need input!!!!!! Need these ready by the 15th #indiedev #indiegame #wordgame #wordle

🥵 There are 126,410,606,437,752 possible Dave’s Word Game boards. That's enough to have 70 unique boards per day until the sun burns out! www.playdwg.com on Dec 15th

🏆 Here's the Dave's Word Game November Top 5. Congrats Jonno, you beat Dave at his own game! And a sincere thanks to all of our beta testers, not long until you'll be able to compete against the world. #DWG is out Dec 15th.

We’re two weeks out from release now so I wanna take a minute to shout out @absintheuse.bsky.social who did us a go-to-market plan for the game. None of us have a *clue* how to do any of this stuff and Haley’s guidance and patience with answering even the stupid questions has been so invaluable.

Turns out I'm not the only Dave with a word game?! Play @daverutledge.com’s word game today and check out our own Dave’s Word Game on Dec 15th: www.playdwg.com

Thanks @pocketgamercom.bsky.social for the kind words: "for those who enjoy not just showing off thesaurus-level knowledge, but also dunking on friends ... a great new addition to your catalogue." www.pocketgamer.com/daves-word-g...

Dave’s Word Game is great but like… how do you play it? www.playdwg.com

🧩 Dave’s Word Game is a new daily word puzzle that fits into that #Wordle space in your routine. 🐻👋 It’s from @bearwaves.com, the indie studio I’m part of. 🙏 It’s out Dec 15, pre-save it on iOS or Android at playdwg.com

Wanna snag a cool username on launch day? First come, first served! 👉 Pre-register now to play Dec 15th: www.playdwg.com

We’re releasing a mobile game in 2025, of course we have light and dark modes. Which is your favourite?

PAY THE NURSES @bearwaves.com Dave's Word Game coming 2025/12/15 #nhs #indiegame #wordgame #wordle

Fun fact: We prototyped Dave’s Word Game using Scrabble tiles.

Nearly 2 years ago from now @joelotter.com shared this with me and it's unbelievable both how much fun and dangerously addictive Dave's Word Game is. Don't sleep on this one!

🧩 Dave’s Word Game is your next daily word challenge! Test your vocab, strategy, and foresight. Everyone gets the same puzzle each day. Beat your friends to the top of the leaderboard. 👉 Be among the first to play on Dec 15th

You can never have enough word games!

We're announcing our new game! Dave's Word Game is a brand new daily word puzzle. We've been building it over the last year and we think it's really fun. We're releasing it for free, on iOS and Android, on December 15th. Give us a follow to see more updates, we'll be sharing more very soon!

Since apparently it now needs to be said: @bearwaves.com do not use GenAI tools at any stage of development: from ideation, to production, to release, it's all real, organic, ursine contributions.

Well we were going to announce it anyway so

It’s the spooky season again, so we’ve put the Halloween skins back in the Feud piece store! Get em while they’re, uh, spooky

We’ve just announced our next game to our Patrons! If you’re not subscribed to our Patreon (maybe think about it?) you’ll have to settle for trying to guess what the initials stand for: DWG! www.patreon.com/BearwavesGames

The 4-person team at @bearwaves.com *are* friends, but if we ever decided to label ourselves as 1 solo dev and 3 friends, we wouldn't be

Hey, it's Feud's 6th Birthday today! 👑🎈 Why not join the Bearwaves Discord and play against the Bearwaves team? We'll be online and battling it out all day today ⚔️ discord.gg/bearwaves @bearwaves.com #indie #indiedev #indiegames