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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The results of the jam are in! Congrats to everyone for the cool games! While Go Go Kobold surpassed my lowest expectations with the 159th spot, it turned out to be far from my optimistic ones (was hoping for top 50). Time to figure out what went wrong and how to make better games in the future!

Summary page for the jam rating results of Go Go Kobold! Overall place 159, while the other categories as followed:
Quirkiness 106th
Secondary Theme interpretation 118th
Graphics 125th
Soundtrack/sfx 182nd
Gameplay 236th
Gameboy Soul 280th

This is also followed by rate distribution, 22% 5 stars, 33% 4stars, 25% 3 stars, 10% 2 stars and 8% one stars.

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reached double 100-s yesterday night! 💯 The #gbjam community is blowing me away with all the rates, never imagined the game would gain this much traction! Very thankful to all the feedback and ain't resting myself either, reached 100 rated games the same night! #indiegames #gamejem #gamedev

Screenshot of the GBJam jam page of my game, Go Go Kobold! On the top right the site tells us that 103 have rated the game! Super thankful to every one of them and to all the lovely beans who left constructive feedback!

Another screenshot from the GBjam submission page, this time my summary of played/haven't played, which now shows 100 games in the rated category! Encountered many lovely games throughout all the play sessions!

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Will you make the dragon go >:( or ^_^ you decide Finished up the core gameplay loop on stream, so now the rest of the job is polishing and making a music track for the game! (and some bugfixes). Might actually have a chance to finish #gbjam #indiedev #gamedev #usagi #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

BunBun in place ✌️ Slogging through the boring part of setting up a state machine for scenes, but other than this no progress today. The deadline seems ever closer and I'm far from finished #gbjam #indiedev #gamedev #usagi #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do you have the power to keep the rules in mind? 🧠 I'm so glad for the stream today, because we finished implementing the sorting system. Now the dragon gives you actual rules you have to follow and if you don't, beware 🔥🔥🔥 (no fire yet though) #gbjam #indiedev #gamedev #usagi #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You are now sorting under the watchful eyes of the dragon 👀 Also a little change, instead of colors, I changed the visuals to work on iconography, so no more "which is gold" issues coming up! #gbjam #indiedev #gamedev #usagi #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now we got the hands to pick up and put down stuff! Ready for sorting and the design headache on how to show different properties of items. #gbjam #indiedev #gamedev #usagi #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you are more of a reading person, the fist devlog is also up on my codeberg page! It will summarize the long brainstorm session and let you in how I did this cool little ingame mockup! achiegamedev.codeberg.page/posts/gbjam-... #indiedev #gamedev #gbjam #usagi

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

🧵GBJAM 14 thread, theme: OLD GOLD Had a huge brainstorm session with new tools and all (KDE Drawy is neat!) and decided on an idea, we are going to be sorting a lot of treasure from a dragons hoard! Little crude mockup and the absolute infodump of my brain :D #GBJAM #indiedev #gamedev

Very crude mockup of the play area. The watchful eye of a goofy dragon gazing down on our protagonist, a little kobold task to sort the dragons hoard into wanted and unwanted piles or ... well taste dragonfire.

sadly hard to describe, but a massive mind map of today's brainstorm session. Exploring the theme of OLD GOLD, breaking into categories and ideas around Mythology (Midas, Eldorado), Pirates, the era of the gold rush and Treasure, where eventually we arrived the idea of a treasure sorter game!

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Nyooom 🍄 Slowly progressing along with my Playdate project, not exactly remaking my Druid Dash games, but adding a new entry to the adventures of Luna.

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

🧵Usagi Jam Thread @fletchmakesstuff.com and I have teamed up for the first time to try and bring the cutest of banger games to you through the Usagi Game Jam! With the theme of MOON we have gone for ... mice??? (super hyped to work with him!!!) #gamedev #indiedev #usagijam #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thank you everyone who played, rated and left some feedback, the Pursuing Pixels jam was a blast! Super humbled to be able to grab second place. Now onto some well needed rest, surely nothing starts soon ... Looks at calendar: Usagi Jam starting on Friday. AAAAAA #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam

Screenshot of the jam results, where Pond Protect maanged to grab first in Fun Factor and Creativity + Theme and second place overall on the jam!

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

He hop, he snack, but most importantly, he protecc 🐸 Getting ever closer to finishing the #ppjjgg entry I have falled back to, little bit of this and that, an intro outro and we are there! #gamedev #indiedev #usagi #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Shoot mosquitos at you enemies! 🦟 Had to pivot a lot from the idea, but keeping the core theme and sprite work the same! So pivoting to a simple shmup like idea #usagi #indiedev #gamedev #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🧵 #ppjjgg progress 🐸 Theme is Protect for the jam and I got the urge to draw a frog, so Pond Protect(or) is under development progress. A weird mix between inventory management and typing games, things have started. For now they are vibing together #gamedev #gamejam #usagi #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm on a roll, 2 in a month? 🤯 We will continue the little gamedev I made an article about, then wholesome direct demos (Colorbound I'm coming to beat you) and on the weekend not fully sure yet.

My upcoming streaming schedule for the week of June 8th to the 14th.

Tuesday 19:00 CET - Usagi Gamedevelopment
Thursday 19:00 CET - Game demos from the Wholesome Direct!
Saturday 15:00 CET : Not sure yet what to do

All on Twitch, at url: https://www.twitch.tv/achie7240

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Someone posted this sticker on the trolleys in my city as a little game! Count how many passengers/cyclists it eats while you travel and post it with a hashtag 😆

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Look, I got to making one of these again! ⭐ Tuesday we gonna continue the #pico8 train and try finish Soulbound. Thursday we gonna check two cool steam demos for awesome looking indie game and on the weekend, well I don't know yet! See you there!

My upcoming streaming schedule for the week of June 1st to the 7th.

Tuesday 19:00 CET - Pico-8 gaming
Thursday 19:00 CET - Trying out Steam demos
Saturday 15:00 CET : Not sure yet what to do

All on Twitch, at url: https://www.twitch.tv/achie7240

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I really should go back to this project ⛳ It is sooo close to the finish line, I'd just need to power through a few polish steps and fixes ... #pico8 #indiedev #gamedev

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

huh, this was a lot of fun, a few pink/magenta ones got me :D eyes burned out from those

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Super green! 🟢 Now the game has a little bit more juice around the transition parts, so at some point I'll have to get my head down and design levels #indiedev #gamedev #PicoASCII #pico8

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Push S to start! 🔤 A chunky progress on day 2, I've got maploading implemented in a way that I don't have to do anything by hand, except drawing the maps! #indiedev #gamedev #PicoASCII #pico8

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Do you like #pico8? Of course you do! 🕹️ @nerdyteachers.bsky.social published this years PICO-View full of amazing articles! Reviews, dev articles, showcases, everything your heart might desire! Cover Art by OK_Letterhead1848 nerdyteachers.com/PICO-8/pico-... #indiedev #retrogaming

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Little Secret Santa drawing of two amazing #oc characters of @kbdraws92.bsky.social ! It was a blast to try and draw in actual "normal" resolution instead of all the 8x8 art ✏️ Gotta had to ask the question how Denadiris would wear a Santa hat, maybe one day we will know 🤔 #pixelart

Secret Santa art for KBDraws! There two OCs, Denadiris and Eyebie in Christmas costumes. Denadiris on the left towering in Santa costume, without the iconic hat yet, to the right Eyebie in green-red Elf costume thinking about how Denadiris would wear it. Small hats on the tips of the crown or pierced hat the eyes poking out of it. Maybe one day we will know. The background is a mix of lavender shades mixed with eye shaped Christmas decor and snowflakes.

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Did you guys upload the fixed version? 🤔 Loaded in the calendar cart, prompted to update, now shows the menu and starts a song, but as soon as I start the game music is gone and the tree is still missing. This is not the case in the separate cart thread so maybe the loader is still messing smth up

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Thanks for everyone who tuned in to me just babbling around while playing or making games! To me a truly amazing year this is/was, met amazing peeps, had so many cool conversations and just silly jokes. 1000+ hours watched?? HOW? 140 streams with almost 10k chat messages, loving y'all!

To me a truly amazing year, met amazing peeps through the year!

Stats:
79 new followers
1000+ hours watched
3 new subscribers
Top categories as following: Software and Game development, Factorio, Retro which is PICO-8 streams for us Backpack Battles and .. Minecraft?
140 streams with almost 10k chat messages, loving y'all

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

More enemies, particles, juice 🧃 Still rough around the edges, but the project is chugging along. Plan is to release it at the end of the year, so I can look into the next one without projects looming over me. If you are interested in the development, check YT! #gamedev #indiedev #lua #playdate

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Shapez - #playdate learning project 🟨🧵 I recently got the itch for actually diving into Playdate development, so we hopped into the API and SquidGods channel and went ahead to make a little shooter game. Aiming for a very small scope, just to dip our toes into the system. #gamedev #indiedev #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Might be a bit hectic this week as I have things to get used to, but hopefully this will stay! See you in chat! Gamedev is back for a bit, until my burnout allows, then some gaming and stuff. I'm also working on a "monthly" kofi article! #indiegame #schedule #PngTuber #SmallStreamer #Twitch

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The elusive schedule post??! I got introduced to Tinkerlands and it is very much so keeping my attention, so today we start the week with it! #indiegame #schedule #PngTuber #SmallStreamer #Twitch

Monday 19:00 CET - Tinkerlands
Wednesday 19:00 CET - OpentTTD 64x64 map
Friday - maybe a stream
Saturday 15:00 CET : PICO-8 and Picotron Gaming

See you there: twitch.tv/achie7240

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

With the results out, I can say, not bad. Considering gameplay balance was a whack and this is my first proper #love2d game, I'm happy. #lowrezjam #gamedev #indiedev

Result from lowerezjam on my entry, lightcrawl. Overal 34th out of 119, with creativity at 26, audio at 36, gameplay at 40 and graphics at 44th place!

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

With the submission time over, we are gonna jump into playing all the cool #indiegames that came out for #lowrezjam! Come join our live play and rate sessions, and tune if for offline recordings as well on YouTube as I'd love to cover a lot of entries who exported to the web! #gamejam #retrogaming

Join us every day throughout the week for lowrezjam games! starting from 19:00 on most day, except today and on Saturday, when we start at 15:00 CET!

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Sometimes you won't make it far 🪦 For these moments we have a nice scene pepared for your eventual demise. A little stat screen and you nemeis who delivered the final blow #LOWREZJAM #indiedev #gamedev #love2d #lua

Game over scene for our upcoming lowrezjam entry, lightcrawl. A stylised game over title, followed be the distance the player ran and the enemies they defeated!

After all this a little tomb with the enemy qho defeated them next to it as a sligjt nod to the current gameplay loop.

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

You remember those stupid mobile ads? ❓ Now we have those as well, in a better way, I hope! These kind of choices will be frequent on your journey so choose wisely! Are you sacrificing a health for one more durability? #LOWREZJAM #love2d #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #gamejam #pixelart

"Mobile add game" like choices added to the game. They are spawned and interacted the same way as enemies, just walk into them! They always consits of two values, one might be negative, and effect the player stats. Little anvil or heart like icons showcase weapon durability or player health changes

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

We have actual combat and better UI ⚔️ Lot of progress today on stream which resulted on the basic combat fully implemented. Armor, weapons, weaknesses and berserk enemy skill already in the game! #LOWREZJAM #love2d #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #gamejam #pixelart

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🧵The #LOWREZJAM 2025 Finally broke free from the grasps of python and could actually sit down and work on our entry! An infinite runner made in #love2d, or at least infinite until your weapons and HP will last! ⚔️ Using only 1 button! #indiedev #gamedev #gamejam #pixelart

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

#dailyverse 2015/07/16 - 99 points! "graphic media" so you don't spoil yourself! Give it a try at: achie.itch.io/dailyverse - daily #indiegame #puzzlegame #dailygame

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Quasar Las(e)ar! 🎇 One more to join, this time I tried to draw a Quasar! For the first time I'm happy with it and hopefully it will improve in the future! 108x184, palette: rising-sun-gb from lospec #pixelart #space #digitalart

A new art joins the space theme. An active quasar in the depths of space expelling mighty beams into the vast nothingness. Be careful, activate shields and DO NOT APPROACH!

Dithered dust clouds forming rings around the exploding stellar object in the middle, while the lone spaceship carefully avoids it in the shadow shadow of two lonely dead planets.

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

🧵 Space art thread 🪐 I recently got inspired by @dyamode.bsky.social to draw mobile background and always wanted to explore space as a theme, so here we go, some space themed mobile backgrounds. (soon on Ko-fi for free). 108x184, palette: bittersweet lospec #pixelart #space #digitalart

Space art cuz my recent fascination of art backgrounds for phones.

A lonely spaceship cruising between a double ringed planet and one that is illuminated by a bright white/pink star behind it. Edge lighting and dithering into the background color to help sell the empty darkness as well. Some space jellyfish on the bottom right swimming out of a fluffy space cloud. Dim stars illuminating from parsecs away.

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Loading new maps and map completion 🔥 Gather all mushrooms for the portal to activate and send you to the next stage! We are now almost core-loop complete on this learning project! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #lua #love2d

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Hey nerds! 🕹️ We will be jamming Journey Through The Nightmare realm 2 this afternoon! Join in for some cool Picotron action! store.steampowered.com/app/3784870/... #retrogaming #indiegame #picotron #pngtuber

Thumbnail art for Journey Through The Nightmare Realm 2! Featuring a fiery background with the newly discovered arcade game's character, a mysterious eyeball!
We will be playing this game on our stream, starting 15:00 today!

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We will play around with timings a bit, so we start half an hour later on weekdays for a bit! This week, #pico8 gaming today, #love2d on Wednesday and Saturday not fully sure yet, probably a mix of gaming and gamedev. #indiegame #gamedev #PngTuber #SmallStreamer #Twitch

This week is gonna consists of 3 streams as usual, not fully set on everything.
Monday: 19:00 - PICO-8
Wednesday: 19:00 - Löve2D
Saturday: 15:00 CET

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Particles and Mushrooms? 🎇🍄 Heck yes, we worked some more on the game recently and we got some basics down for actual game development. Still mostly learning, but one step forward at a time! #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #lua #love2d

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

🧵Thinky Puzzle Jam I started a small little project this week for the jam, hopefully I can finish. The game will be a small shape coloring, cutting and assembling shapes on the board! #thinkypuzzlejam5 #indiedev #gamedev #pico8 #gamejam

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Got introduced to #thinkypuzzlejam5, so I might just be making another jam project! I might have a POC for the most difficult part already! So join me this week on the jamming journey! Link in bio, drop a follow, never miss any rando streams. #indiegame #gamedev #PngTuber #SmallStreamer #Twitch

This week is gonna consists of 3 streams as usual, but now mostly on Thinky Jam, a puzzle game jam!
Monday: 18:30 CET
Wednesday: 18:30 CET
Saturday: 15:00 CET

Join me on random others, drop a follow to never miss any!

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🧵The #love2d learning project thread 🍄🌳 This will be where I'll spam ya'll with dev content about me learning Löve2D! Excited to jump out from the warm embreace of PICO-8 to something new. But first, we need the basics. A map (made with Tiled) and movement! 🏃‍♀️ #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #lua

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We will continue the #love2d learning today, as I want to create a particle system and a collision one! After that, regular PICO-8 to Indie Gaming cycle! #indiegame #gamedev #PngTuber #SmallStreamer #Twitch

This week is gonna consists of 3 streams as usual
Monday: 18:30 CET - Learning Löve2D
Wednesday: 18:30 CET - Pico-8 gaming
Saturday: 15:00 CET - Playing more Trails

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Achie - Indie Dev, Reviewer, Streamer @achiegamedev.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

We will return to our regular schedule and will check out some cool Steam demo-s today! Then some PICO-8 as usuall and on the weekend, you can join me while I try to learn #love2d! #gamejam #indiegame #gamedev #PngTuber #SmallStreamer #Twitch

This week is gonna consists of 3 streams as usual
Monday: 18:30 CET - Steam demo games
Wednesday: 18:30 CET - Pico-8 gaming
Saturday: 15:00 CET - Learning Löve2d

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