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Genuine question re: Valve's announcement of removing curation: has algorithmic reliance *ever* resulted in a better experience in any medium? #gamedev #gaming store.steampowered.com/news/group/4...

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Steamworks Development - Upcoming Changes to the Discounts & Events Section on Steam - Steam News

Improvements coming in early 2027

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 29/09/2026

Fourteen years later, still working on updates to our first #indiegame, Home. We'll have news about our never-ending eldest child soon. #gamedev #gaming

Pixel art screenshot of horror game Home, showing the main character standing near a door in a fence.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 28/09/2026

New #indiegame dev: "I'm gonna be spending all of my time making amazing graphics and levels!" 🤩 Actual #gamedev: "This entire week is for debugging controls and glyphs for five separate inputs." 🫩 #gaming

An Adobe Illustrator artboard showing artwork for controller and keyboard button icons.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 26/09/2026

"And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." #cats #caturday

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 25/09/2026

One of the weird things about being a teeny-tiny #indiegame studio is that you're like a single-core processor, just chewing through tasks, one by one. Work just takes the time it takes. 😩 #gamedev #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 24/09/2026

"I'm sorry, we have another deadline WHEN!?" The #indiegame machine never stops! #ganwdev #cats

A black and white cat sits on a black-and-white carpet, and looks intensely at the camera.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 23/09/2026

Ben was on the @p1podcast.com this weekend to discuss physical games, the #indiegames business, and reactions to Wolverine. Watch/listen and wonder where in that office he keeps his shameful anime figures!? 🤔 #gaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc0y...

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Player One Podcast #1034: Follow the Fart Trails

YouTube video by Player One Podcast

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 17/09/2026

A big thanks to everyone who gave Alone With You a shot for free on the Epic Games Store these past two weeks! 🙏 We got some really nice comments from new players who just powered through it and loved it. 💝 #indiegame #gamedev #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 15/09/2026

Fun fact about our #indiegame Alone With You: it's VERY Canadian if you're paying attention. 🍁 Characters named after Prime Ministers 🍁 Space-faring company is "Hudson-Cartier" 🍁 Cast reflects the diversity of Canada 🍁 We never shy away from injecting Canada into our games. #gamedev #gaming

Pixel-art screenshot of adventure game Alone With You. Depicts the space-suit-wearing player character in their quarters, shown as an isometric view of the teal room filled with retro tech and books.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 14/09/2026

Meet a #GameDev: 😽 Husband-and-wife team ⌛ Been doin' this for 14+ years 🔨 3/4th of our games are made in @gamemaker.io 🎮 We dev, publish and do all our ports ourselves #indiegame #gaming

Key art for indie sci-fi adventure game Alone With You.

Key art for indie horror game Worse Than Death.

Key art for indie paramedic action game Neo Harbor Rescue Squad.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 11/09/2026

For the Friday crew: our lonely sci-fi adventure game Alone With You launched on mobile this week – and it's FREE on the Epic Games Store. Easy to play, hard to stop thinking about. 🥳 Epic: go.bancy.co/AWY-Epic 📱 iOS: go.bancy.co/AWY-iOS 📳 Android: go.bancy.co/AWY-Android #indiegame #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 10/09/2026

Today, our sci-fi adventure game Alone With You launches on mobile! 🙌 🥳 Get it FREE until Sep. 17 on the Epic Games Store mobile app! go.bancy.co/AWY-Epic 📱 App Store: go.bancy.co/AWY-iOS 📳 Google Play Store: go.bancy.co/AWY-Android #indiegame #gamedev #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 09/09/2026

We might have something for you to play on that new iPhone. #gamedev #indiegame #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 09/09/2026

Only one day left to get our very well-regarded sci-fi adventure game Alone With You for FREE on PC via the Epic Games Store. 👇 And then tomorrow... we have even more news! #gaming #indiegame #gamedev

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 08/09/2026

Thursday. More Alone With You news. 🚀 God, we worked so crazy hard all summer. #indiegame #gamedev #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 08/09/2026

On the one hand: it's a terrible week to have to promote your own games. 😰 On the other hand: wooooooooooo ⚔️🛡️🧚 #indiegame #gamedev #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 07/09/2026

Spare a thought and moment for all of the #indiegame studios trying to eke out a living with zero-dollar marketing budgets during this time of massive showcases and insanely high new releases per day. 🙏 #gamedev #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 05/09/2026

In our big 10th Anniversary update for Alone With You, we revamped the entire control system on PC so you can play the whole game as a point-and-click adventure. (Did we mention the game is free right now on the Epic Games Store?) #ScreenshotSaturday #indiegame

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 04/09/2026

For the Friday crew: our sci-fi adventure game is now FREE on the Epic Games Store, and enjoys a new 10th Anniversary update. How many single player games get supported for 10+ years? #gaming #indiegame #gamedev 🚀 👇

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 03/09/2026

As part of Alone With You's 10th anniversary celebrations, we've brought the newly updated game to the Epic Games Store — and it's FREE on PC until September 10! 👉 store.epicgames.com/p/alone-with... #indiegame #gamedev #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 31/08/2026

Crunch is bad. Don't do crunch. In totally unrelated news, we have four SKUs of one of our games coming out or being updating this week... 🥹💀 #gamedev #gaming #indiegame

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H2di Cat: Ultra Relaxed Pose

ALT: H2di Cat: Ultra Relaxed Pose

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 30/08/2026

Oh look, it's Lake Ontario for no reason

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 29/08/2026

It's hard to get your #indiegame done when your QA team is so lazy. #caturday #cats #gamedev #gaming

A black cat is curled up lazily next to a Steam Deck gaming handheld.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 26/08/2026

Once more with feeling! Our 10-year-old #indiegame Alone With You is getting a big update and is coming to the Epic Games Store and mobile devices... next week! My, how they grow... 🥲

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 25/08/2026

Let's celebrate 10 years of Alone With You - now coming to the Epic Game Store, iPhone, iPad, and Android this September! 🚀 Our award-nominated sci-fi adventure game gets a big update with new controls, 60 FPS gameplay, and full mobile support. #gamescom #indiegame #gamedev

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Komi Games @komigames.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Escape a space nightmare as the sole survivor of an alien infestation, in the new @grahfmetal.bsky.social point & click adventure! Search for clues, solve puzzles and avoid deadly zombies, mutants, robots and much more... Wishlist on Steam TODAY! store.steampowered.com/app/4964640

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 23/08/2026

🇨🇦💪⬆️

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 21/08/2026

Love making trailers for our #indiegames. Probably the most fun part of the entire project. #gamedev #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 21/08/2026

@dylanreid.bsky.social Can you please remove us from your starter pack?

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 20/08/2026

As you saw from yesterday's news, we have a lot going on. Trying to just land all of these planes on all of these runways! #gamedev #indiegame #gaming

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Nervous Man Sweating in Headphones

ALT: Nervous Man Sweating in Headphones

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 19/08/2026

Some big #indiegame updates from us: 🚀 ALONE WITH YOU gets an update on PC and a new release this September! 😱 HOME also gets a PC update and a new release this October! 🚑 NEO HARBOR RESCUE SQUAD on Nintendo Switch moves to 2027 🤔 And new stuff from us next year! More news very soon. #gaming

An image showing the key art for the indie game Alone With You.

An image showing the key art for the indie game Home.

An image showing the key art for the indie game Neo Harbor Rescue Squad.

An image showing obfuscated pixelated art for an unknown indie game.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 15/08/2026

Always charge your cat to a maximum of 80% to preserve its battery health. #cats #caturday

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 12/08/2026

✨ WED ✨ ✨ NES ✨ ✨ DAY ✨ (One of the weirdest words to write.) Uh, anyway, you can wishlist our games here! 🟢 Steam: go.bancy.co/SteamGames 🔴 Switch: go.bancy.co/SwitchGames 🔵 PlayStation: go.bancy.co/NHRS-PS5 #WishlistWednesday #indiegames

Banner reads "Wishlist Wednesday" with a grid of four game images for indie games Neo Harbor Rescue Squad, Worse Than Death, Alone With You, and Home.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 11/08/2026

A fun side-effect of being an #indiegame studio for 14 years (and in graphic design for 12 years before that!) is that you love documentation and brand standards. 💖 #gamedev #gaming

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 08/08/2026

In Silent Hill 2 Remake, James is clearly on the trail of an #indiegame developer who's trapped in bug-fixing crunch mode. #gamedev #gaming

Screenshot from the Silent Hill 2 remake game. The main character is looking at a dirty sheet of paper that reads: "I won't rest until they are solved. I won't rest. I can't rest. I don't know how to anymore."

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 06/08/2026

More! Toronto! #indiegames! Capy Castaway has been everywhere — even on the news! But now it can be in your HEART, because it's available today. 🥰

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 06/08/2026

Toronto #indiegame friends Soft Rains just launched Act 2 of their sci-fi game Ambrosia Sky today, and you should play it!

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Jeffrey "GrahfMetal" Canam @grahfmetal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In our #PointAndClick Adventure game, Spectacle, there is a day/night cycle. The sky shifts in 30 min. intervals whenever you move to a new screen. This is often used for puzzles The bottom mirrored half is for reflections on water surfaces Download the game for FREE! grahfmetal.itch.io/spectacle

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 04/08/2026

Toronto. #gamedev . Friiiieeeeends. 👇👇👇

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 04/08/2026

Really on-point article by @gibiz.bsky.social . We've all been saying this for years — often in meetings with platform holders! Over and over! 😔 There ARE answers; but the peeps with the power don't seem to want to do anything. #gamedev #indiegames #gaming www.gamesindustry.biz/the-industry...

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The industry makes great games, but nobody can find them

Algorithms built to surface content are increasingly rewarding volume, familiarity, and short-term engagement over quality or originality

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 02/08/2026

Sundays are for videogames. #gaming

A Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch 2, Analogue Pocket, and PlayStation Portal lay on a black and white rug.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 01/08/2026

"Well, time to refactor this ten year old code..." #gamedev #indiegames

Screenshot from the Silent Hill 2 remake game. Depicts the main character, James, looking disgusted as he about to stick his hand into a filthy toilet.

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Hilltop Studios @playhilltop.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

After months of hard work, we're thrilled to finally welcome you to the island of Resthaven.  The Curse of Resthaven demo is LIVE. Come experience our unique blend of investigation, trading, deck-building, and gothic horror, and begin unraveling the mystery at the heart of the island.

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 30/07/2026

Been replaying the Silent Hill 2 remake (and loving it all over again). Still find it funny that it has the same X-ray puzzle as our second horror game, Worse Than Death. #gamedev #indiegame #horror

An x-ray puzzle from the indie horror game Worse Than Death (2019).

An x-ray puzzle from the horror game Silent Hill 2 (remake, 2024).

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 29/07/2026

🎉 We're celebrating another anniversary today! 🥳 Somehow we're still married after 24 years despite working together almost every day. The secret? Just remember that Nancy is right 80% of the time. 😙 #gamedev #indiedev

Cute icons of game developers Ben and Nancy are shown on a white background, surrounded by colourful confetti. Text reads: "24 years!?"

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BancyCo @bancy.co · 28/07/2026

Shout-outs to all the other #indiegame studios who don't get summer vacations because June – August is always your busiest period. 🥵🏖️ #gamedev

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Anime Girl Worried at the Beach

ALT: Anime Girl Worried at the Beach

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