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playing big walk solo

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i've been working on the platformer project i've been fated to actually make and giving it the whole Focused Production Plan treatment to reinvigorate my trust in the game making process and it's been so good. having a concrete plan for what i'm doing and why has made development so fast so far

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 4h

last day at ko_op and i wanna be all sappy and sentimental about it but this bitch got covid doing fuck all and can barely think let alone type 😵‍💫🫠

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 8h

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 29/09/2026

Come make it with us, sundog! Launching on Steam November 3rd! hi.youngsuns.com/Steam

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Cozy Lives @cozylivesgames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In Dressmaker, you can choose fabrics, cut patterns, sew garments, and add detailed trims with complete creative freedom. Fulfill custom orders for the townsfolk or make your own off-the-rack designs. Out now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/... #CozyGames #IndieGame #Gaming #Steam

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today is the one-year anniversary of the release of Unfair Flips!!! The game is not on sale today because I forgot. But also it's $1.99 anyways so a sale is mostly in the mind store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

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Unfair Flips on Steam

A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm doing a little experiment with pre-rendered backgrounds. I wanted the backgrounds to look lousy as hell, btw

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Lex Feathers 🍂 @lexfeathers.ca · 22/09/2026

I am so excited to show people this winding, kind of proggy track. It's some of our best work in my opinion, and has some of my favourite guitar tones on any Waxlimbs release. << also i sing and i'm nervous >>

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 21/09/2026

We’re so excited to share our BRAND NEW trailer for Young Suns and announce that we’re launching on Steam on November 3rd! 🚀 ✨ Wishlist now! hi.youngsuns.com/Steam

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George @hannahtempler.com · 22/09/2026

luckily!!! in 2026 there are a lot of independent Webcomic templates that are more affordable and accessible than ever (thank you to the heroes building these!) this is one that I know of, but please reply if you have others: rarebit.neocities.org

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Rarebit | HTML Webcomic Template

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Geneva/Styx @gensuta.itch.io · 22/09/2026

So so excited for another awesome year of GDoCExpo!! I've been going since 2017 and it's genuinely made a huge impact in my gamedev journey I'm so grateful to be a part of this year's event with my microtalk at 11:55am on Friday "How Games Influence Kids to Create"

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Stayd @stayd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Game-dev friends, I'm now urgently looking for remote work! I have 12+ years of total experience, and I've worn a lot of hats: lighting, graphics programming, modeling & texturing, environment art & design, tooling & workflow dev, and more! DM me for info and inquiries! Reshares also appreciated :)

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 19/09/2026

i found the most Unity Forums Post ever at the end of a thread started 16 years ago

screenshot of a post on the Unity forums from december 2025 that starts with a quote reading "It's just a bug unity has to fix" followed by a edit of a spongebob time card that says "10 years later" and then the user saying "Considering how someone everyone fixes it in a different way, I’d take a gander that the issue is somehow still around."

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 18/09/2026

Falling Block Jam 2026 begins now! You have 10 days to create an original game celebrating blocks and gravity. The optional theme this year is: 🍝 Spaghetti itch.io/jam/falling-...

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Falling Block Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-28 hosted by davemakes. Falling Block Jam celebrates the combination of blocks and gravity in video games. Think Tetris, Puyo Puyo, Panel de Pon, Dr. Mario, and L...

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 17/09/2026

for those who like dynamically typed languages, what is it about dynamic typing that you like? do you find yourself changing a variable's type on purpose more often than you do it by accident?

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

September's entry in the PIZZA PRANKS Video Game Tape Club is 10S FOREVER (+more!) by @unluckychloe.bsky.social! Enter TENNIS HELL (and other hells) in this unmissable collection of games. (and music) pizzapranks.com/tapeclub/

screenshot for 10s forever showing two characters facing off in a tennis court

screenshot for the game palace of woe showing two characters and a large die based ui between them

screenshot for the game gloom reducer showing a character on a bridge

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The 6th annual Indiepocalypse Pledge Drive is live with the ever present goal of Breaking Even! (and more so supporting the whole catalog of contributors) Any support, whether it's contributing to the drive or spreading the good word, is very much appreciated! pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalyp...

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SULLY - POLYPAINT out now! 🎨 @artofsully.com · 15/09/2026

N64 and PSX artists rejoice - my vertex/normal painter tool POLYPAINT is now (finally) live on the Unity Asset Store!! 🎊 Grab it 30% off for the launch week - I can't wait to see what you all do with it! assetstore.unity.com/packages/slu...

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 15/09/2026

seeing games+tools like "pwease we only use ai tools for code and mundane things so not the creative things... 🥺👉👈" skill issue 🫵 i am a programmer, it is a machine, and i have the superpower of Thinking For Myself to learn enough to make machines do what i want them to

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

anyway, one of the things i'm very excited about in young suns right now is the jovipedia feature. my friends have heard me gripe about writing the entries for it for years but it's amazing to see it come to life after my crappy little miro mockup from 2+ years ago

a screenshot of a miro board where i am writing out the proposed structure of jovipedia entries with footnotes, tone and author ideas, and structure by category of entry. shoutout to valonia ventricosa fr

a screenshot of the now-implemented jovipedia, featuring an article i wrote for the brewbug xenofauna creature

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So with the news of the layoffs at KO_OP, I'm officially looking for work later this fall. I'm an experienced narrative designer that's worked on both sprawling open world stories and intimate cinematic narratives, even netting some award wins and noms. More details on my experience below!

key art for Goodbye Volcano High by KO_OP

key art for Spirit Swap by Soft Not Weak

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nick nick nick nick @nicknicknicknick.net · 11/09/2026

it's been a rough couple of days, and weeks, and months. i wrote a bit about how it's felt to say au revoir, and possibly goodbye, to ko_op. nicknicknicknick.net/notes/2026/0... ❤️

noé @celechii.itch.io · 10/09/2026

charlit is the reason we have such an absolutely baller character creator in young suns!! literally one of my favourite people to work with because not only is she incredibly skilled but she brings so much joy to absolutely everything she does and i'm gonna miss our morning ko-working sessions sm 😭

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charlit ⭐️wishlist YS on steam 🪐 @charlit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So sad to go but so grateful for the opportunity 🫶 I love the team sooooo much and hope to get a chance to work together again in the future! Our ko-working era may be ending, but the gifs will live on forever ✊

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Noah Magnolia @noah.aesthetic.games · 10/09/2026

I've had the chance to work with Noé lately and I can confirm everything that's being said in the other quotes. They are very thoughtful, kind, and a joy to work with!

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Miracle @miraclebutt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Noe is genuinely the coolest person I've ever met, oh my god. Deeply curious, unbelievably talented, built our Yarn integration basically from the ground up. I feel like I could ask her literally anything and she'll have an answer within 20 minutes.

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Kevin Maxon @sonofbadru.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

noé is a fantastic programmer and coworker, extremely sharp, kind, patient, communicative and calm under pressure, a hard worker, a dream collaborator. If I were hiring they'd be on my shortlist.

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 10/09/2026

alex is an absolutely unstoppable force of sheer animation skill!! all the animation in Young Suns is his handiwork and it's astounding how fast he is for the volume and quality of animations he does. he's also a joy to be around and his patience and understanding makes working together so so nice 🥲

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Miracle @miraclebutt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've been affected by this. I'll be remaining at KO_OP until the end of the year, at which point I'll be looking for full time animation work, either remote or onsite in Vancouver. I will likely open commissions around this time too, so keep an eye out.

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Noé joined KO_OP soon after I did and was such an integral part of getting our narrative tooling for Young Suns set up!!! She's so driven and passionate about tools and narrative systems and our resident Yarnspinner Sicko on the tech team, any team would be hugely lucky to have her

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it's daniel @dkmode.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

everyone who knows her considers noé their coolest friend. owned our localization process and our Yarn Spinner implementation on Young Suns, plus tons of other work across the game (and a bunch on others too). the noé brainworms are real and they are powerful.

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max turnbull @max.please.rest · 10/09/2026

when i tell you the JOY i experienced when i found out i was joining ko_op at the same time (on the same day!!) as noé after working with them for the last 4 years i can tell you that anywhere they go from here will be lucky to have them. they learn SO so fast its astonishing, an actual rising star

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 10/09/2026

ellen's an absolute powerhouse! i still have a sketch of klos they drew saved from over a year ago because it gave me brainworms and all the other characters feel so distinct and expressive thanks to ellen's designs. they're such a joy to work with, hit them up for any work you'll be so glad you did

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ellen 🌻 alsop @spaceellien.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sadly I’m one of the affected members. I love KO_OP and it’s hard to imagine working anywhere else. Manifesting that they get a pitch funded soon so that the studio can keep going strong. Please play Young Suns when it hits steam! If anyone has a concept/2d artist gig after Dec, please let me know!

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 10/09/2026

daniel is a DREAM and not only is he incredible when it comes to QA, he's been an absolute godsend producer on young suns. ive been so lucky to have him handling all of the loc coordination and i could not recommend him enough. incredibly considerate and thoughtful, he's an absolute joy to work with

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 10/09/2026

i'm SO lucky to be one of the few programmers who've gotten to work directly with jenna for the last 2y and let me tell you, they're an absolute POWERHOUSE. only writer whose writing is so potent it's made me literally faint. only writer to make me sob looking at my IDE. absolute generational talent

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Extremely heartbroken to say that I'm one of the affected members. Working at KO_OP for four and a half years has been one of the best things to ever happen to me and I really hope that my teammates can land a pitch that can bring us all back together again.

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it's daniel @dkmode.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

i have unfortunately been affected by this, and will be leaving the studio at the end of this month. i will miss it dearly and am really hoping to make it back. ko_op is/was likely my last ride in games, but i am open to the right opportunity. deets on my experience in thread.

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 10/09/2026

so sad to say i'm one of the devs affected by this and am leaving at the end of the month i've had an absolutely incredible time at ko_op helping ship our 3 most recent games over the 4 years i've been here. i love all my coworkers and hope that things improve and we get to work together again soon

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 10/09/2026

An important update from KO_OP.

With great sadness and respect, over the next few months KO_OP will be saying goodbye to 13 members of our team. This decision was made to ensure the survival of the studio, and we deeply regret its necessity and the negative impact on our colleagues’ lives.

KO_OP has been making games for nearly a decade and a half, and our project funding has primarily come from publishers and platform partners. The games funding landscape has changed radically over the last few years, and unlike previous project cycles, this time we have been unable to secure funding for new projects while developing our current engagements.

As with all our company's operational decisions, this one was made democratically, and was motivated by the survival of the studio rather than maximizing profits. Our members are regularly updated on our cash flow situation, and were made aware of this upcoming shortfall well in advance. Membership then appointed a group to plan for this eventuality, and ratified their recommendations. Team leads and our elected executives will also be impacted by these reductions. We believe this level of transparency and accountability ought to be a minimum requirement for all organizations.

Young Suns will be reaching new platforms, with new content and features. We're all tremendously proud of it, and hope it will find its audience. Our bylaws ensure that any profits from Young Suns will still be shared with impacted team members. Our goal now is to develop new game concepts and prototypes while continuing to support Young Suns. In the event that we secure funding in the coming months, our intent is to rehire as many of our colleagues as possible.

In the coming days we will be sharing a list of impacted workers in the hopes of helping them find new work. We thank you for your support.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING! "Saddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights and jurisdiction to provide safe refuge for those seeking and providing gender-affirming care. Any Albertan will be able to access gender-affirming care on Saddle Lake Cree Nation reserved lands and territories"

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KZ @kzxcellent.live · 10/11/2025

I read a thread about games with terrible UI earlier and this video has been destroying me all day.

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 07/09/2026

the best part about being a polyamorous bisexual transgender genderfluid nonbinary vers switch is everything, i think

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Joyce [MinionsArt] @minionsart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Made some fall-themed assets, they'll be public soon! All done in Blender~ #gamedev #b3d #lowpoly

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 05/09/2026

what if i finally made mech cat wrangler 3 except you're not in a mech and you're some extra dimensional terror with many eyes trying to herd your cats back into your lair before halloween

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noé @celechii.itch.io · 05/09/2026

so glad that after 11 agonizingly long months it's halloween again 😌

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Lex Feathers 🍂 @lexfeathers.ca · 05/09/2026

I have recorded a cover of Hildegard Von Bingen's "Karitas Habundat" for this compilation! If you're thinking about what to get for #bandcampfriday, this is a lovely release with proceeds going to Bridge of Solidarity in Khan Younis, Gaza. kubriaid.bandcamp.com/album/bridge...

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Bridge of Solidarity, by Compilations for Bridge of Solidarity

5 track album

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