looking for a new indie game engine? for the past year i've been working in and helped design Lily2D: * just realeased in early access * similar in scope to Love2D, but using a new easy-to-learn language called Swamp * one time fee license (directly supports @peterbjorklund.bsky.social aka piot)

even if you have no interest in the game, this is an amazing look into the concepting + preproduction process that went into one of the most visually daring AAA games in recent memory.

Going to start a thread of all the areas I worked on for Marathon <3 <3 first up: bioresearch #MarathonTheGame #Marathon

I'm not sure how widely known this is, but Bungie made the entire original trilogy of Marathon games (developed for Macintosh) available as open source, and a group of fan developers created an engine called Aleph One to run them in. They are free on Steam: store.steampowered.com/developer/al...

just off the top of my head. that last one is a really cool magic-like by @eriksvedang.com

the point of the Lily2D framework is to get folks to learn to code and become efficient coders - I've basically levelled up from bad Lua coder into dreaming about structs, building my own GUI frameworks and WGPU pipeline packages for the engine (which will be released for free!)

looking for a new indie game engine? for the past year i've been working in and helped design Lily2D: * just realeased in early access * similar in scope to Love2D, but using a new easy-to-learn language called Swamp * one time fee license (directly supports @peterbjorklund.bsky.social aka piot)

spent the afternoon yesterday playing through MYST, and wrote down some thoughts catnipped.bearblog.dev/thoughts-on-...

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I'm a history of ideas nerd, and a few years ago I gave a public lecture on the common link between "disclosure" (the aliens are here!) and the "singularity" (we will merge with machines!) I had a hunch there was some underlying connection, so I did a bit of research, and oh boy... 🧵

"Marathon looks at the ills of today and instead of providing flaccid critique asks you to indulge in play of it, asks if you feel lucky yet." Our Marathon issue comes to a close with an article by Charlotte Lindsay. Read here: bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/27/h...

i don't remember this part in the original?

*starts trailer* oh this is silly why would anyone cry over thi *welling up*

Lily2D is out in Early Access now! A code-first 2D game engine framework built for developers who want complete control. No editors. No inspectors. Just code. Build the engine your game needs: store.steampowered.com/app/4467860/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

It has been a lot of hard work to get it done! Thanks to @ossianboren.bsky.social for all the feedback, encouragement and for using Lily2D in an upcoming game from @flyingsaucer.se.

Woke up to a whole bunch of comments! Thank you everybody! Don't forget to check out the steam page! :D It has a bunch of neat looking gameplay vids in the about section to see more game features like base decoration. store.steampowered.com/app/2843060/... #IntoTheWindGame #PCGamingShow

despite the headline, this is a well structured, clear breakdown about the still ongoing genocide, why microsoft is being boycotted and how you can act. highly recommend it

do you like card games? not a fan of the hyper-commercialization of the best card game to ever exist? miss old school design philosophy? you might like my game

This looks incredible. Nonogram puzzle combat, body horror and romance?

this past month i've been learning WGPU and WGSL to set up my own render pipeline and shader code. wound up writing my own graphics api, including sprites, nine-slice, sdf fonts and now normal mapped 2D stuff!

i started a little solo game studio for freelance work and to release my indie games. hire me please! flyingsaucer.se

Serpent's Gaze is finally OUT ON STEAM!! 🐍 store.steampowered.com/app/3069050/Se…#steamreleases#soulslikek#roguelikek#soulslikegameses#indiegameme

METAXIA has a steam page now + a trailer wishlists and reposts are highly appreciated! #metaxiagame

When it comes to innovation in the games industry, one of the most positive things we can do is to make it so that gamedevs can work on side projects in their own time and own their work. This should become a standard freedom across all companies.

LinkedIn is by far the worst social media platform I know. I'm serious. I always get incredibly pissed/annoyed/angry after only a few posts with the amount of bullshit, opportunism, misinformation and blatant ignorance of reality I have to endure. I have never opened LinkedIn and left happy...

Satoshi Kon's unfinished last movie is very interesting. It's like Astro Boy gone wrong — the future promised in the '60s is now a post-apocalyptic ruin. Enough material is public (including a storyboard page) to get an idea of Kon's plan. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-sat...

Sign it!!! Better games industry for all of us!

Dreams on a Pillow is the game that the establishment doesn't want you to play. A game made by Palestinians about Palestine. This game needs to exist, and we can make it happen. Please back, share, and talk about this game. We must amplify the voices that they're trying so hard to silence.

When we're too obsessed with plot and not obsessed enough with story, we risk losing whatever substance mass-produced media has left.

yeah. I can get not wanting to play a PvP multiplayer game but the "why couldn't it be Halo 3" complaints are so incredibly boring/unimaginative. They have made a New Amalgam Thing here, an arcade tarkov whose architecture is plot, and being in the center of it is magical bsky.app/profile/spac...

I've been having a lot of medical troubles this past month so I'm putting all my games and soundtracks on sale this week to try to make up for the unexpected expenses store.steampowered.com/curator/4561... I appreciate any support during this tough time, and I hope you enjoy the games, thanks

got sent this from the other site

arts awards should not have names like this. it’s terminology for stockholders that belittles human expression, creativity and effort into content that can be sold and resold.

like this is part of what I mean. This is a game where losing your loot is at once meditative practice, stakes which make combat exciting, and an exploration of extractive capital. It’s fucking dense dude!!! Is that not worth exploring?

im daffodil and i make video games and I'm looking for a job helping you make your video game im very experienced in unity + pretty experienced in Godot. I'm great at implementing art assets, configuring animations, programming gameplay systems, and generally putting all the pieces together

amazing art from a local indie game dev making a 1-4 player soulslike

real lesson: having a X% chance of something happening in your game means you also have to consider designing for the player who has played a hundred games of magic and never drawn a single land.

90% is 100% 50% is every other time 5% is 0% 10% is 25% a shuffle is even distribution every time something with a chance of happening doesn’t its chance is increased until it reaches 100% in a item rarity distribution, ”common” is the least common

Videogames should have been thriving. We should be currently in the midst of an era defining flowering of institutional experience translating into a transformative refinement of both the design and production aspects of game making resulting in new horizons of experiences and possibilities.

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Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6! Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future. PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6! s.team/a/3350750

3×3 Logostudies Vol. 4 [Chess Edition]

the plush girls just released a new #pico8 game about running; jumping; going with the momentum; leaping across gaps on the floor; galloping; exploring a vast, living structure, falling into sewage and die; hopping; learning about your surrounding; sprinting.. not-articulated.itch.io/pixel-runner

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

warmup from earlier this week, trying to get back into Textures

Hey, hey, I'm looking for work and open for commissions. If interested send me an email to: [email protected] Portfolio: www.matejkollar.com