2025 was a big year for me in gamedev! Rose and I normally make a jam game or two a year, but this year I also happened to stumble into a really nice community of narrative deduction game fans and got inspired to dive even deeper. 🧵 This is a Jamwitch 2025 recap thread! jamwitch.itch.io

For @thinkygames.com's #ThinkyCon jam, I made The Daily Spell, a daily puzzle with an ongoing narrative. ✨ My goal was to combine satisfying word puzzling with a story you'll be excited to see unfold. Try it and let me know what you think! #gamedev #puzzlegames jamwitch.itch.io/the-daily-sp...

The secret to keep consistency through all my games?? I use the SAME color palette ✨🎨🌸 #IndieGameDev #indiegames #cozygames #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

This #LudumDare 's narrative deduction game: stuck at home while your friends go catch monsters and battle trainers, can you complete your Monster Tracker with deduction alone? Follow the story and search for tricky clues in your friends' letters. celia14.itch.io/my-friends-t... #ld58 #gamedev

For #GBJam 13, we made an idle card game where your deck of cute familiars goes head-to-head against enemy monsters! To fit with the theme, "unlucky", you start with no luck opening packs, but can increase your luck to discover and merge more powerful creatures. 🐈‍⬛ jamwitch.itch.io/familiar-flip

Formless Star is out now! Travel to a mysterious ever-changing planet and gather data on the animals that live there. There's 60 different creatures to find, all with unique behaviours and descriptions! Get the game for free (or pay what you want) here! splendidland.itch.io/formless-star

Some Jamwitch Games highlights from me and @rosekeller.bsky.social: 💙Nothing to Say is a sweet letter-unlocking dating sim 💜The Case of the Dungeon Descent is a non-linear mystery like Her Story 🩷Interstellar Connection is a puzzle game with an unfolding story jamwitch.itch.io #gamedev #indiedev

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Our next game is The Incident at Galley House, a remake of the text game Type Help. If you liked The Roottrees are Dead please wishlist it on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...

the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

Just submitted our #LDJam entry! The Case of the Dungeon Descent was inspired by investigation games like Her Story, The Roottrees are Dead, and Type Help. #indiedev jamwitch.itch.io/the-case-of-...

Curious about the intersection between Metroidbrainias and conlangs? Check out our latest article! thinkygames.com/feat...

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development localthunk.com/blog/balatro...

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I wrote up a long technical blog post about how I built The Roottrees are Dead: eviltrout.com/2025/01/27/b... - it was a super fun project to work on and #Godot was a big part of it.

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the mystic milkshake 🍒✨ #art

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Some illustrations from our game!! Juliana did the sketches for these and I colored. A very purple year. 💜🧡

It's spooky out there tonight, let me light the way 🐈‍⬛✨ #art #cuteart #cats #witch

Happy Halloween! 🎃 To celebrate, we updated Hilda's Familiars with a few improvements we didn't have time for during #GBJAM. jamwitch.itch.io/hildas-famil... #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam

You are what you eat! 🍬🎃

Creative Types got 1st place for Innovation in #LD56! During the jam, we couldn't agree on the design: #interactivefiction where you type preset responses, or "Mad Libs" where you invent silly entries? The compromise - some of both - worked great! jamwitch.itch.io/creative-types #LDJam #gamejam

I made a pixel art upscaling/rotation algorithm called cleanEdge! It makes rotating pixel art as clean as possible torcado.com/cleanEdge I made a tool for it too! drop your sprites in and get some nice rotated or upscaled versions :)

My latest game jam! I wanted to make some cute tiny creatures like the Picori from The Minish Cap, but I'm totally new to 3D modeling and texturing, so they came out pretty rough. #GodotEngine was great as usual and I was able to bring the characters to life with tweens. #gamedev #gamejam

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Hi Bluesky! I'm an online #GameJam that started way back in 2002. Some say we're the worst kept secret in #GameDev. Our persistent caretaker @distraction.engineer runs events twice a year, every April and October! Follow us for updates! Please boost this, or quote and share your stories! ❤️ #LDJam

Tech cats~ #BRart #kawaiiart #stickershop

For my first post I’ll share a project I’m proud of! Diminutive Dungeon is a tiny co-op procedural puzzle game. I originally made it for #LudumDare but recently updated it to add polish and improve usability. #gamedev #indiedev rose11.itch.io/diminutive-d...