I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

👑 the Below the Crown Demo is now on Steam ♟️ Our nerdy love letter to Roguelikes, Chess, and Dungeon Crawlers is here: 🔸Take the Wizard King below in our procedural dungeons 🔸Spells, Upgrades, Bosses ...and Psychological Testing! 🔸Daily & Player Challenges store.steampowered.com/app/4023520/...

Prune, my bonsai puzzle game and love letter to trees, is finally out on Steam for its 10th anniversary! store.steampowered.com/app/3903490/...

Do you write short-form horror stories? Please DM me, I have something I want to show you :)

🎉 We're so excited to announce that Few Shall Return Demo is now available on Steam! 🎉 store.steampowered.com/news/app/337... #gamedev #indiedev #demo

this looks amazing

I just picked up this OTHER Meteroidvania that dropped today, out of indie solidarity and because it frankly looks awesome. This dev has been working on this since at least 2016 and locked in today as their launch date before Silksong announced their date. store.steampowered.com/app/1292460/...

I heard y’all like little bugs, throw us a wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/864930/U...

Silksong released today with more than 75k wishlists! Amazing achievement.

Someone please tell me if you try Race The Sun on this monster of a screen

It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter! We are HeartLoop Games! ♥

I'm basically not traveling anymore because of this. Is it likely I'm going to get arrested for taking a piss in a restroom if I have a stopover in Texas or some other state that's hard to control? No. Is that risk still enough to utterly offset any chance I'm going to PAX or whatever? Gosh yes.

The game industry's biggest secret is that you don't need to ship a game to become a developer. You just need to go to your Android phone's settings, find the "build number" and tap it 7 times.

"Contra, but RPG?" What the heck, how am I just now hearing about this

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I don't know that anything in tech annoys me as much as when a website uses .webp as an image format.

"I've learned that I have more determination than I initially thought, that my voice is louder than I thought it was..." In a piece we've republished from @wisconsinwatch.org, Natalie Yahr reports on quality-assurance testers at Raven Software ratifying their first union contract after three years.

Wait, Kenney is making a cozy room building game? This looks amazing.

Prune, my digital bonsai game about cultivating what matters, just turned 10! In an age of endlessly fractured attention, I still believe it has something to offer--now more than ever. So to celebrate, I'm finally bringing it to PC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v7c...

I've just released a brand new 5 part series on how to create your own Myst-like point and click adventure game in Game Maker Studio 2! Along with the videos, you get the full project file, a cursor pack, and scripts to help you render your footage in Blender. valerie-paris.itch.io/game-maker-s...

😈 Announcing Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, a procedural narrative RPG by A Sharp @radiofreelunch.bsky.social and published by us! ▶ Wishlist the game now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

A NEW unseen trailer for the banned 1995 title Forbidden Solitaire has surfaced... Forbidden Solitaire is in the @yogscast.games #tinyteams2025 event, which starts today. If you encounter streamers in possession of a short demo build, exercise extreme caution. #tinyteams2025 #TurnbasedThursday

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!!! 🎲😴💤SLUMBER REALM💤😴🎲 A dreamy dice roguelike with ‘90s flair. 😱 Battle your adolescent fears 🧠 Discover powerful synergies 🗝️ Unlock upgrades and equipment 🥦 Fight broccoli

Hey! I'm announcing a video game soon! Do I know any streamers or YouTubers or members of the press or hosts of Late Night television shows who would want to play it around the announcement? You fight broccoli🥦

Help, I need a playtester or two this week! 1. Written a short story, especially in the horror genre 2. Have never used ANY game narrative tools like Twine etc. 3. Would be willing to do a 45 minute playtest this week or next on a zoom call Then please get in touch!

🚨 SURPRISE TRAILER DROP! 🚨 We just dropped a new trailer for Rogue Eclipse as a part of the Offbrand Games Showcase 😎! 🕹 Tight Arcade Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome Enjoy! #ScreenshotSaturday #pcgaming #gaming Wishlist Here! bit.ly/4bRLumD

If you want a DOPE demo with *hours* of play time where you're fighting back against the end of the world, check out my demo. (and give it a review!)

✨ MY BOOK IS OUT NOW ✨ "Mastering Community Management" is finally here! 😭 Learn what goes into community management for video games from pre- to post-production. ❤️ Get my step-by-step strategy for creating meaningful online spaces! Shares appreciated. AHH!! Buy: www.victoriatran.com/book

Proud to announce that Sunken Stones - my puzzle strategy grid-based game about deploying (and ditching) crew mates to stave off a salty demies - is ⭐OUT NOW⭐! Features: 🏴‍☠️6 Pirate Captains ☠️48 Crewmates 🌊Risk vs. Reward Mechanics Grab the Game Now (and leave a review)! ⚓ s.team/a/2601810

Precisely one week ago, I had the Grand Opening of The Merry Fairy, my enchanted cottage deep in the forest of Fairyland. Look at what my guests are creating!!!! These are all screenshots kindly shared on the Steam community hub <3 #indiegame #cozygame #ScreenshotWednesday #scrapbooking #fairy

What's your favorite creative online "toy" ever that lets you tinker/create things in a browser? I'm thinking about things like: - Line Rider - Shadertoy - Oskar Stålberg's 3D planet creator

I've got a thoughts on "UGC game platforms" like Roblox and its competitors. There's an interesting opportunity here, especially for indies. But not by trying to make the next Roblox. Instead, I think "game as a platform" is much more interesting: www.dissectinggames.com/thoughts-on-...

Surprise! Our new game is out TODAY! Kickoff League is a daily soccer puzzle game you play in your browser! Players move like chess pieces, so figure out how the goals in today's soccer match were scored. We've created a virtual league with seasons that run for a month: kickoffleague.com

You could be playing the BAFTA-winning, IGF Seamus McNally Grand Prize-winning Venba instead of this hate crime of a game lmao. It’s 60% off! s.team/a/1491670

I always get so much rage on behalf of indie developers when I click on a developer name on a Steam page and instead of seeing a list of everything they've made, it takes me to the PUBLISHER page. Let indies build a following ffs

Random question but: What are the most *unhinged" brands out there, with unconventional marketing campaigns and fans that actually like them?

Uhh. Did anyone else just now realize the switch 2 has already launched?

What are your favorite games that are build largely around user-created content, and have in-game tools for creation? examples: Geometry Dash, Happy Wheels, Tabletop simulator, etc

@zeestermeester.bsky.social you’re on my favorite podcast!!

I just backed Big Hops - a fresh and froggy action-platformer on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/chr... (Good luck @luckshotgames.com !)

Who would drop a new game, unannounced on the same day as Deltarune 3 & 4? 👍🤪👍 This guy! Here's Hard Code, an attempt to make the perfect ball droid sim using mouse controls, a short but polished game for $3 for PC and Mac. Download: gamehole.itch.io/hard-code #indiedev #gamedev

Mark your targets ☠️ ! Sunken Stones release on Steam July 18, 2025! Wishlist Today! ⚓ s.team/a/2601810

I had a wild experience today where a person texted me and I thought it was just some kind of spam, so I replied STOP to try and unsubscribe. Then I got this text from 911, followed by an actual call from 911 checking if I had an emergency. Turns out a scammer made an actual group chat w/ 911!

I've been thinking about how easy it is as indie game developer to fall in a trap I call a "Well-executed process fallacy", where our focus on improving process makes it easy to ignore the deeper question of whether we're working on the right thing. New blog: www.dissectinggames.com/the-well-exe...

Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast. For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join

emotional day for me. managed to lead my team & release Rift Riff being caretaker of my wife (long covid, hasn’t been out of bed this year) and our 2yo son. i’m exhausted. proud. anxious. it would make my day if u can repost, buy, enjoy, review🙏🏼 Rift Riff: store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

It's quite an emotional challenge to market my #indiegame, but today the advice to be here on Bluesky convinced me. So, hi there, folks! If you love #cozygames, I make one. The Merry Fairy is a scrapbook journal sim set in a fairytale environment. It has a Demo on Steam& launches on July 9th!

We are excited to share that our 7th annual MDEV will expand to a two-day show for the first time ever! Both single-day and two-day passes are currently up to 40% off at www.mdevconf.com. Grab them while they’re on sale - we can't wait to see you there! 🧡

Something I wish gamers everywhere understood about indie games is that if the devs stopped actively updating it while it could have used more love, it's likely because it wasn't selling enough and they had to do something else to keep themselves fed.

Polygon is effectively dead :( This sucks. I'm sorry to all who were affected! It's getting real depressing seeing this industry and all adjacent ones being gutted.