they protec but they also attac 🔪 #art

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

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Love this so much. 💜

The best way journalists can support indie games is to cover more than whatever the current indie hits/darlings of the moment are. Games like Hades, Blue Prince, and Silksong do not need help with visibility, but discoverability is the biggest challenge facing many indie devs today.

Stay safe, stay strong, stay beautiful 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #illustration #transawarenessmonth

just existing with u >>>

👻❄️✨ #art

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

that’s what I’ve been saaaayying maaan

Hello 🦋! Time to reintroduce myself. I’m Mary Ann and I draw little ghosts on little heartwarming adventures. I hope you find them as charming as I do 🥹🫶 👻 Art prints & stationery: theghostegg.shop 👻 Patreon: www.patreon.com/theghostegg 👻 IG: www.instagram.com/theghostegg

Many freelancers in the United States rely on ACA marketplace plans for their health insurance. In an industry that has already been working overtime to turn gamedevs into gig workers, freelance and contract devs are about to get even more squeezed. This is unacceptable.

hello game dev community, i am looking to interview a few people who have been in the industry for 5+ years and are comfortable in the role they chose for themself in their career. i want to hear from everyone, producers, engineers, narrative, community managers, etc. !!!

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

If you like it, consider supporting the game with a late pledge on Kickstarter from now until November 24th!

Hear ye, hear ye, denizens of His Country: the BLANKSWORD Demo has received its final major update! Alongside a bunch of bug fixes, there are now new maps and movesets to explore. 👀 This is the best time to try out the demo if you haven't yet!

Gen AI is the ultimate expression of capitalism in a machine. It steals everything to regurgitate lesser slop while is hoovers up all the water and it doesn’t even work. Costs massive amounts of money and everyone is being forced to use it.

bimbos rise up github.com/iznaut/bimbo

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

Two more weeks to apply to our microgrants program! We've received a few applications already (wooo!) but there is room left, so shoot your shot! Head over to blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-10-12-2..., and ask us any lingering questions - we want to hear from you!

hi it's me! 💕 i've been helping my friend star (@slide20xx.com) with the @risingstarpatronage.com project, a fund that supports diversity among game music composers. i wrote a track to support the project along with 5 amazing composers from underrepresented backgrounds. album drops in 3 days!

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3 DAYS LEFT to back our roguelike RPG on Kickstarter! ⚔️Play as an Angel that lost everything⚔️ ⚔️Face mushrooms, were-rabbits and landlords in mortal battle⚔️ ⚔️Rearrange your brain before every run⚔️ 🔽Links to Blanksword's Kickstarter, Steam Demo & Discord below🔽

Just a few days left to preorder blanksword 👻👀

cat and leaf boat #pixel #pixelart #animated

still processing over here, and also incredibly grateful 🥹

38k and only 11 days left! had a wild push over the past few days. we can do this, but we need your help!!

Big thank you to everyone contributing, it means the world to us if you keep the pressure up 💖

Back & preorder Blanksword on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/283... Play the free Demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/... Join our community on Discord: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv

Our indie Roguelike RPG where you play an Angel that rebuilds his brain back from scratch is over 50% funded on Kickstarter, with 2 weeks left to go. We need ⚔️ YOUR HELP ⚔️ to cross the finish line! (Kickstarter, Steam Demo & Discord links in first comment 🔽)

I froggot to add tags! #VisualNovel #IndieGames #RenPy

October is here, what a better time for a goth and haunted visual novel demo? 👻🖤 🖤 A hot ghost and a very bad case of mistaken identity 🖤 Gorgeous art and gloomy music 🖤 Minigames / activities 🖤 Partially voice acted Play Crafted To Hold You demo now on itch: eidolethe.itch.io/crafted-to-h...

We're super fortunate to have guests as wonderful as Splendidland, Aivi & Surasshu and Mortis Ghost associated with our Kickstarter campaign - if you're backing Blanksword, you're supporting us but you're also supporting them! www.kickstarter.com/projects/283...

blanksword officially over that 50% mark! 17 days left plenty of time to hit our goal and then some! lets fucking go

I've been using the itch butler for the first time for a project this week and it's SO cool and useful I love it

Didn't we agreed to stop romanticing Inktober a couple of years ago bc the guy running It was terrible and the trend glorifies art as content, or what happened

I know we are inundated with bad news these days but I want to take a moment for good news. Massively good news. They are figuring out how to treat Huntington’s disease successfully.

If you're trying to get an old wacom to work w newer mac OS, I can't recommend the "Connect my tablet" app highly enough!! they're not paying me to say this lol. got my 2013 cintiq working 6 years ago AND got the same model cintiq AND a ~2011? intuos working on a much newer OS today. lifesavers!!!

If you're curious about Blanksword's Demo and you enjoy discovering games in a chill "Let's Play" format, I can only recommend that you check out @wanderbot.bsky.social 's video! It's a super pleasant watch with neat, thoughtful commentary and I'm very grateful to be featured on this channel 🙏

Gonna go even further: don't refer to it as "consuming media" when doing this. You aren't a consumer - it's not a product. You read books. You look at art. You watch movies and/or videos. Be careful about word choice. Reject "consume" and REJECT "CONTENT." IT IS ART. YOU ARE ENGAGING WITH ART.

Our Discord server is welcoming a bunch of new Blanksword-themed emotes to celebrate the Kickstarter reaching 40% funding!! Hop in: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv Back the campaign: www.kickstarter.com/projects/283...

20% on everything (including lots of stickers and sticker sheets!) until Monday with the code "SASALELE" 💛 ! www.paraplyshop.com

Discoverability is one of the most crucial challenges for any indie creator, whether they make games, books, music, comics, whatever. Sharing their work, talking about them, recommending them, is always hugely valuable and appreciated. It can grow their audience and find them opportunities.

If we manage to get into stretch goals territory, we have really exciting stuff lined up, like a collab with Mortis Ghost (which I heard some people thought was an elaborate prank but no, it's real!!!!) so please consider backing if you believe in the project!

Our Kickstarter hit 30% funding on its first day! Thank you all so much 💜💜💜 In addition to preordering the game, we have a bunch of reward tiers like being able to design an in-game element or getting your pet doodled in the credits, so please check it out if you're interested in Blanksword!!

Played the demo, backed the Kickstarter! I cannot recommend the demo enough, it's so good. Such an awesome game 🧠

⚔️TIME ⚔️ TO ⚔️ RECLAIM ⚔️ YOUR ⚔️ BRAIN⚔️ Blanksword's Steam Demo & Kickstarter Campaign just launched as of RIGHT NOW! Play the Demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3484670/... Preorder the game on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/283... Join the Discord: discord.gg/ftmCfsupyv