You know what feels really really really good? Feeding the birds. It's cold out there, & most of us have the ability to walk outside with a few fistfuls of bird seed and absolutely make the day of scores of beautiful, talkative, feathered friends. Makes my day too!

Ahem, "peckbuilder". 😁

I think I've never had such an embarrassing finish in a run.

We're excited to officially host this week's #TurnBasedThursday! Devs: Reply with your #TurnBased game, screenshots / videos and Steam link Let's all support each other by ❤️ 🔁 and adding to your wishlists. Thanks! #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev

A great joy of progressing with our game is that I can no longer get anywhere NEAR the top of the leaderboard, as our playtesters are now so much better than me 😀 Still cataloguing my daily shames over on our YouTube if you're ever in the market for some second-rate advice! youtu.be/cTYVF-YZGcg

A great joy of progressing with our game is that I can no longer get anywhere NEAR the top of the leaderboard, as our playtesters are now so much better than me 😀 Still cataloguing my daily shames over on our YouTube if you're ever in the market for some second-rate advice! youtu.be/cTYVF-YZGcg

Our brand-new wiki explains the scoring rules in detail. Absolutely necessary to reach the upper echelons in Daily Flights: sparrowwarfare.wiki.gg/wiki/Scoring...

Making games is a LOT easier than getting eyeballs on them, lemme tell ya! Speaking of... our weird bird deckbuilder has a great new free playtest build out: 🦜 Daily flights! 🦩 Tutorial! 🦚 2 playstyles! 🦆 So… many… birds!!! Join us! Or tell a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Making games is a LOT easier than getting eyeballs on them, lemme tell ya! Speaking of... our weird bird deckbuilder has a great new free playtest build out: 🦜 Daily flights! 🦩 Tutorial! 🦚 2 playstyles! 🦆 So… many… birds!!! Join us! Or tell a friend! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

Looking for a producer? Úna-Minh is AMAZING: truly the multi-talented Swiss army knife of indie studio dreams!! If you're hiring, look no further.

Facebook memories tells me that today 15 years ago I posted this image. Back then I was working in Facebook, longing for a creative life. Here I am, many many many mistakes later: still alive, creating, making mistakes. Life is so wonderful: as long as we breathe, we can always choose our next step.

Wish I could internalize this

Hello from frozen Copenhagen!

Certified banger from @neonaurelius.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

We're making a card battler that goes very fast from chipping away at a health bar to absolute synergistic mayhem. No long-winded buildup. No time-consuming fillers. No exposition. Short sessions made of pure gameplay. Sounds like your jam? Join our playtest!

I see Sparrow Warfare as one of the most casual hardcore games ever made. Super easy to get started and all depth is in the cards themselves. There are very few systems but they're all intricately interacting with each other.

Given how explosive our game's math is, there's also a lot of balancing to be done. To make the right calls, we need some data by real players. Our numbers escalate pretty intensely and we have to make it so that that feels gratifying and happens at the right time and under the right circumstances.

Our game already offers hours of gameplay and without testers it's impossible to find all those unlikely sequences of actions that lead to unforeseen results. We have hundreds of play modes as the result of our daily run modifiers, for example.

Personally I think Steam playtests are one of the coolest features Valve has introduced in recent years. I can't imagine creating a systems-heavy game like this any other way (given that Early Access is not working as it should nowadays).

We're looking for more people to test our peckbuilder. If you like birds, cards, occasional bugs, and trying out new stuff, we have the perfect game for you! The secret sauce: instead of playing single cards you play sequences of three cards.

Slay The Spire-like made by a tiny awesome indie team of @martinpi.bsky.social & @alphachar.bsky.social. ✨🐦 Be sure to wishlist, too! store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

If you haven't playtested @neonaurelius.bsky.social's Sparrow Warfare, now is your CHANCE as their latest public playtest is liiiiiiiive. If you love BIRBS and BIRBBUILDERS, then this is for you. Very fun and lots of modifiers. youtu.be/0G6Ek4ADfbE?...

(4/7) This is our first full year of weekly showcases on Bluesky as well, and it's been incredible. More engagement, tons of follower growth for participants, custom feeds and starter packs (like ours - go.bsky.app/RdUBvce) making it easy for people to find games.

Love being part of this great community! 🙌❤️

well here she is! my very first solo game and all about Ireland's best deli choice: the Chicken Fillet Roll. free to play in browser. LMK what roll you decide to make & if you get the feels or a laugh, even better. this is a roll-driven game. made lovingly in Twine unaminh.itch.io/chicken-fill...

[hearing that someone has died] oh no that guy hated dying

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MY 2026 AWAITS!!!

MY 2026 AWAITS!!!

I'll be opening the champagne early today! 🍾🥂

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

Good game alert! @martinpi.bsky.social & I played through DREDGE on the iPad over the Christmas break and loved it! Beautiful little game, highly recommended

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Merry Christmas & happy holidays everyone! I wish for every single one of you to get a day or two of truly nourishing deep rest & relaxation in the week before 2026 arrives. May you feast, may you feel safe & snug, may you be loved, may you be content & joyful, may you be healthy, may you be warm 🎄

DAY TWENTY-FOUR In our game, one of the eggs hatches into a very strange "bird" indeed, a little lad just happy to be invited: CHANCE Genus: Erinaceidae (hedgehog) Art origin: Wikimedia public domain hedgehog photo, recoloured & collaged Motto: "Well... that's surprising!"

Feast YOUR EYES upon the glory I had last year! Crispy roast pork, spiced red cabbage, roast potato, in a bun with verrrrrrrrrrry rich gravy.

It's aaalllmost time to take a little break for Christmas. @martinpi.bsky.social & I are staying home in the Cope this year & have planned up a feasting regimen. The 1st stop is this evening: CHICKY GRILL! The most glorious 50 year old diner, where I get insane flæskesteg sandwich drowned in gravy!!

DAY TWENTY-THREE The second last day calls for the second best bird! And, in my estimation, that has to be: ZEUS Genus: Cuculidae (cuckoo) Art origin: Cuckoo painting by Elizabeth Gould (1804–1841) collaged with clock illustration Motto: "The dice of Zeus always fall luckily" #ArtAdvent #Birds

A few years ago we (@joonturbo.bsky.social, @polclarissou.bsky.social, @torfi.bsky.social, @muuutsch.bsky.social & I) made a cool game about squirrels - it's on sale on Steam now & people are still enjoying it. What a delightful feeling!! ❤️

Last night @martinpi.bsky.social & I made our feasting plan for the 3 days over Christmas while watching some David Chang & Chris Ying cooking vids, eating homemade leftover rogan josh strudel & sipping a lovely wine. I think we unlocked a new kind of heaven while making our reciple lists!

DAY NINETEEN One of our earliest lads: HOWL Genus: Bubo bubo (Eurasian eagle owl) Art origin: Owl painting from 1829 by Magnus von Wright, collaged together with a BIG MOON, recoloured & vectorised. Motto: "Wisdom in silence" #ArtAdvent #birds #indiedev

@nuckpang.bsky.social it's.... time! www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Nc...

I might or might not have called the movie "Walk again, Pacman" a moment after waking up, brain still drowsy from sleep, and that's now its new name, sorry.

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

It's super lovely to see folks playing the playtest build of our game every day, and it's even more lovely that they like it so much that they want to share! 🥲💖

Rewatched Rosencrantz and Güldenstern are Dead yesterday and a) it's clearly a prequel to Q-UP and b) since the movie is not available on any service we just found it on YouTube and so can you! Young Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are amazing and so is Richard Dreyfus! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f6g...

It's super lovely to see folks playing the playtest build of our game every day, and it's even more lovely that they like it so much that they want to share! 🥲💖

Hello #TurnBasedThursday friends! We are @martinpi.bsky.social & @alphachar.bsky.social & we’re making SPARROW WARFARE, a wild deckbuilder with tons of birds! But enough about us! Today, we want to send folks towards some of OUR favourite indie games this year:

Just submitted my little piece for this & it's so exciting to have a collection like this to look forward to! Huge kudos to @jon.inkle.co for wrangling all us writers and putting all the pieces together! 👑

For a long time, part of my morning practice has been drawing cards: these days I draw one card from the Thoth Tarot, and one card from the Supra Oracle. When I started this practice ~15 years ago, I spent a lot of time looking at meanings and symbolism of the cards.