thank you everyone for your suggestions!! here's all the big aussie and nz-made games you should watch this year!!

Congratulations to my friends at @5livesstudios.bsky.social on the v1.0 launch of Cozy Caravan! 🎉 Developed here in Brisbane, Steam and Apple Arcade are ready to play today, but I'm so keen to get my hands on the Switch version (coming very soon).

My small desktop PC decided it no longer wanted to live after lunch on Wednesday. Regular viewers will know how much Pickles loved sleeping on it. This is a big change to her working day, and so far she's only got in the box it came in and rubbed her face on the side of the new much taller PC case.

Today is the day: Cozy Caravan graduates from Early Access on Steam, and debuts on Apple Arcade! Thanks so much for the support during Early Access, we hope you'll love Harvestvale for years to come 🩷

Righto, we’re back youtube.com/shorts/fdbpP...

planning out new ingredients, feeling like

The Cozy Caravan soundtrack is coming out on the 8th (along with the full release of the game)! It will be available on Steam and Bandcamp for purchase, but if you're keen to stream it, you can pre-save it here: ditto.fm/cozy-caravan...

I am on the lookout for a contract games designer for paid work. Preferably with experience in Unreal and at least 1 shipped game (due to the responsibilities). Remote Australia, VIC preference but not required. Send them my way for a chat!

The game I’m making vs what I hear when making it #indiegame #gamedev

Anaconda was stupid fun. Take your brain off the hook, forget about *everything going on* and just go and laugh. www.imdb.com/title/tt3324...

Oh to have the blind confidence of all the folks who decided a busy Sunday morning at the shopping centre was the time to learn how to reverse park for the first time.

Happy New Year friends! A quick reminder that I'm going to be running THREE pitch workshops for NSW Game Developers this year, and they're absolutely FREE. Details below:

I'm coming up on 40 years in the games industry, and I think we can all be grateful that I've not done the stereotypical middle aged man thing of starting a podcast. If you'd like this blissful radio silence to continue, then you can help by engaging me in 2026 and becoming a new client.

Pickles and I both enjoyed the Mario Kart LEGO set, but for entirely different reasons.

Spent a bit of time reworking the walkable ropes to make them fully dynamic! Feels way better and much more responsive. #indiegame #gamedev

Pickles subscribes to the mantra "If I fits, I sits".

Christmas Eve viewing. Wes Anderson is always stylish, but it probably needs a few more viewings before I know what the hell is going on. Also, Benicio del Toro with a beard looks like Post Malone. Good luck unseeing that. www.imdb.com/title/tt3084...

Pickles says it's the most magical time of the year.

#Devmas with #Adaptory - Day 11 We have high hopes for 2026 and everything Adaptory can be - we can’t wait to share the #earlyaccess release with y’all, and our plans for awesome updates further down the line. #indiegame #basebuilding #simulationgames #2026

Aaaaand not for the first time I've ended up signing a contract for some work in the New Year on the last working day of the current year.

We're already at the second to last day of the 12 Days of Devmas! 🎄 Today, the prompt asked us to look forward to our 2026 plans. This was an easy answer! Does releasing Beyond These Stars in Early Access in 2026 sound like a good plan to you?! We think so! 😍

There have been loads of great games released this year. But y'know what? I've decided to revisit Watch Dogs: Legion on PS5. I had so much fun with it first time, which seems to put me in the minority. And 2nd playthrough is 🎉 Play games your enjoy folks! www.playstation.com/en-au/games/...

Day Ten of Devmas has arrived! 🎄 Today we're tasked to share a 2025 recap! So here's a peek at how the year went over at the Balancing Monkey Games Studio ✨

If you are vaguely familiar with Yarn Spinner and want to help me test some new Try Yarn Spinner stuff over the holiday season (requirement: regular non-phone computer with a browser), and give whatever feedback you have time for, please DM me! <3

All Witch Beam games are currently on sale on Steam! #SteamSale #IndieGame #Steam store.steampowered.com/developer/wi...

#ScreenshotSaturday 👽 Echo Zero – Kingdom: Two Crowns meets Ridley Scott's Alien #gamedev #indiedev

Cast n Chill is now available on Nintendo Switch & Switch 2. Yep whether you’re sittin’ on the couch or in the outhouse, you can drop a line anywhere, anytime. Oh and don’t forget to tell a bud because Cast n Chill now has co-op! www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro... #nintendoswitch2 #nintendoswitch

Sometimes the games industry is hard, gruelling, and unforgiving. But then there are days like today, where folks come together in support of others. And these are the days that make it all worthwhile. 😺

Hey @riley.sbug.games I think you've started a trend of kids spruiking their parents games.

A game where you can turn into a bucket (among other things) #TeaseYaGame #indiegame #gamedev

It's the fifth day of the 12 Days of Devmas! 🎄 Today, we've been asked to showcase Dev Doodles, also known as Concept Art 🎨 We have such talented artists on our team, don't you think?

Not *quite* the end of my year yet. Day 2 of my final Pitching Workshop of the year for NZ CODE. Lots of first timers bringing brand new, exciting games to the session. I LOVE seeing these before they're out in the world. As ever, thanks for the continued support www.nz-code.nz

In our game Teeto, you can absorb things, changing your form to get special powers. No better power than the power of invisibility from JOHN CENA #indiegame #gamedev #johncena

This year we released Bambas! and Mystery of Silence, but we are already working full steam ahead on next year’s games. One of them is Cutout Village, and today we’d like to give you a printable cut-out house sheet to wish you a Merry Christmas🙂 #papercraft #crafts #diy

#Devmas with #Adaptory - Day 3 Space fans will agree, when it comes to the best view, it’s hard to beat a front row seat to auroras lighting up a starry night sky. #indiegame #basebuilding #simulationgames #bestview

After a few years of #gamedev, Echo Zero has a Steam Page! 🥳This #indiegame is for you if you like: 🏰 Base Building 🌍 Procedural generation 🔫 2D Shooters 🤖 Robot companions Go Wishlist #echozero on Steam! It really helps our team make this game a reality. Link below👇

New build, free on Steam Playtest! New feature? SWAPPABLE WEAPONS, baby! Instead of having just items, Ember can now carry up to two weapons with unique projectile types, that then synergises with items and upgrades to make the crazy kinds of build the game is getting known for. #indiegames

Working on a new dive attack inspired by the one in A Hat In Time. Makes combat so much more chaotic plus will make for a cool extra platforming mechanic! #indiegame #gamedev #ahatintime

Blueberry is part of this very cool event next Wednesday in Cologne! Come by and play a super new version of the game. I might just have a puzzle or stickers for you as well 👀 Details 👇 Gaze & Games Summit lnkd.in/ejv53qib

And so it begins: 🎄 The 12 Days of Devmas 🎄 Day One: In a Nutshell In a nutshell, Beyond These Stars follows a Space Whale named Kewa and their new pals, the Peeps, as they journey together...Beyond These Stars! (see what we did there? 👀) Here's their first conversation!

On the first day of #DEVMAS, Dead Teapot gave to thee: Shape Sender Deluxe in a nutshell! #indiegames

Kia ora, explorers! It's me, the new community manager behind the scenes, letting you know what you can expect from us in the lead up to our Early Access release on January 26th! #Adaptory #IndieGames #basebuilding #simulationgame #EarlyAccess #nicetomeetyou

Love this! Love that it turns 3d paper cut out style. Just absolutely charming!

Sharpen your swords, steady your nerve, and maybe pack a spare pair of socks, because Scorpion Swamp has officially arrived as the latest DLC gamebook for Fighting Fantasy Classics! Available now for PC, Mac, iOS and Android, via Steam, Google Play and the App Store. #choosewiselyfestival

What's your favorite weapon in the Don't Stop, Girlypop! demo??? You better tell us all about it in the comments, girlypops 💅 Try it out in our demo here 👇 https://bit.ly/3KSGHJq

Evening reminder in case it was also 7am for you when we released the game: 🪱🪱🪱🪱Wirm is out now!!!🪱🪱🪱🪱 Please check it out and leave a review if you can. They really help! store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...

🪱🪱🪱Wirm is out right now!!!🪱🪱🪱 Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...

☁️🌊 TOROA: SKYCALL 🌊☁️ 🐥 OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🐥 Unravel the fate of the ocean and glide across an ever changing seascape in the hopes of reuniting Toroa with their family 💙 After 5 years of hard mahi, love and dedication, we're so excited to share our first game with you all 🥹 Mauri ora e te whānau!

I'm thrilled to announce that for the first time I'll be running THREE pitch workshops exclusively for NSW Game Developers in 2026. Thanks to the support from Screen NSW these will be at NO COST to attendees.

Teeto launches in Q2 2026 for PS5, Switch, and PC 3D platformer Teeto will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch, and PC via Steam in Q2 2026, publisher Super Rare Originals and developer Eat Pant Games announced.