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Feniks - Controller Support Expansion Released! @feniksdev.com · 13/08/2026

Excellent taste, and a few more people to add to my own dash! Thanks for the boost too 💖

Feniks - Controller Support Expansion Released! @feniksdev.com · 13/08/2026

I'd love a resource addressing 3, as it's a situation I see come up over and over that a dev has essentially not considered marketing at all and now they suddenly need to market a completed demo or Kickstarter campaign or (yikes) the whole game.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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Feniks - Controller Support Expansion Released! @feniksdev.com · 25/07/2026

I've released a small addon for #RenPy - reactive image transitions! Declare a special kind of displayable that shows different images based on variables or other Python conditions, and a transition to use automatically when changing images. feniksdev.itch.io/reactive-ima...

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Reactive Image Transitions for Ren'Py by Feniks

Add dissolves and other transitions between images in response to changing variables.

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Daniel Fedor @dcfedor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

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Feniks - Controller Support Expansion Released! @feniksdev.com · 24/07/2026

I've released an update for my inline conditions tool! It has improvements for efficiency, error handling, and nested conditions, while remaining compatible with existing scripts. Simplify repetitive lines by putting the condition right inside it! #renpy #vndev feniksdev.itch.io/inline-condi...

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Inline Conditions for Ren'Py by Feniks

Use if/else logic right inside dialogue lines in Ren'Py

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Your reminder to leave reviews for the things you like, and if you aren't one to write much even two words and a thumbs up or five stars means that little extra bump in visibility or approach to the next threshold of rating.

A Recommended Steam review with 0.4 hours on record posted today, July 20th 2026 with the review only saying two words: Nice one.

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crescence @crescence-studio.itch.io · 17/07/2026

【 Enter a world of magic—of Fae and Dragon.】 The Fae are finally here, officially marking the end to our 5 year long journey and the beginning of your love story ✨ Our fantasy romance visual novel is ready to play! 🌙 Alaris out on Steam and Itch NOW!

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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 13/07/2026

💛🤍NONBINARY CODED GAMES💜🖤 is live on Steam! For International Nonbinary Day, we're showcasing 150+ games by devs who are nonbinary, genderqueer, & outside the gender binary! Take a look and see the spectrum of what we have to offer 🌈 store.steampowered.com/curator/4610... #NonbinaryCodedGames

Nonbinary Coded Games: July 13-20 2026. Celebrating games made by nonbinary developers! The banner shows a nonbinary witch, cat, bunny, and underling.

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Feniks - Controller Support Expansion Released! @feniksdev.com · 04/07/2026

Only 48 hours left for my summer tool sale! I likely won't have a bundle quite like this again, so pick it up for cheap if you're interested ✨ Your support means a lot!

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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 01/07/2026

there's going to be a steam event for games by ace devs & games with ace themes!!! the organiser is still looking for submissions so if your game fits the bill fill out the form 🙌

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The only reason anyone can access any part of the games that jumpstarted my career anymore is an entire group of dedicated fans archived episodes of the mobile game by recording it, video by video, with months of grueling effort before the apps vanished and servers disconnected.

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maurimo ☀️ @maurimo.dev · 01/07/2026

i've made an amazing discovery: if you make your own game you get to do things that make you happy. therefore I can spend 3 hours making funny little CDDs

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

LOUDER

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 30/06/2026

For years we have been overwhelmed by the volume of code contributions we have to review, especially from new contributors. AI has made the problem much worse. That's why we are taking steps to reduce the burden on maintainers while still welcoming new contributors: godotengine.org/article/cont...

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Changes to our Contribution Policies – Godot Engine

Godot is growing fast, so here is how we are dealing with the huge increase in contributions.

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

my programmer friends have been venting to me a LOT lately about how awful this feels even internally at companies - being handed broken code by coworkers and when you ask them about it, they say "I don't know, claude wrote it". a fundamental abandonment of responsibility to your peers

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ebi @ebihimes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

ppl who tip on itchio even when a game is discounted are so kind you are all wonderful thank you 😭 🙏

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crescence @crescence-studio.itch.io · 27/06/2026

do u all like kuna'a's underwear brand alaris finally releases july 17, 2026. MARK UR CALENDARS ‼️✨

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Feniks - Controller Support Expansion Released! @feniksdev.com · 24/06/2026

Pick up my most popular paid tools for a discount until July 6th! If you've been eyeing my #renpy outline shader or layered image visualizer, now is the chance to pick them up! A bundle of 5 is also available for $10. Your support helps me make more tools for the community ✨ itch.io/s/192731/sum...

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Summer Sale 2026 by Feniks

A bundle by Feniks, $10.00 for 5 games

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Feniks - Controller Support Expansion Released! @feniksdev.com · 24/06/2026

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Summer Sale 2026 by Feniks

A bundle by Feniks, $10.00 for 5 games

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/06/2026

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.

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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Google’s AI search is a revolution in one way - it redraws the boundaries of theft. Given how valuable web traffic is, a search engine designed to lift information from sites wholesale while actively depriving them of views is burglary of the Internet. I genuinely don’t think it should be legal.

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adrienne ✨ Truth Scrapper @insertdisc5.com · 06/06/2026

The demo for my newest visual novel Truth Scrapper is out! You are an amnesiac green girl 📚. Will you decide to remember buff red girl ❤️ or princely blue girl 🧵?!?!? YOU DECIDE play the demo play the demo play the demo store.steampowered.com/app/3239830/...

The two main love interests are looking at you interestingly

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This article is SO fucking funny. "The real problem is there aren't enough 50+ game designers!" Yeah, agreed. Any thoughts on why that might be? Like maybe the fact that this industry fires treats anyone over 35 as "not hungry enough", and relies on burning out a steady stream of younger devs? no?

Yet when it comes to accommodating the needs of older players, Emmert thinks the biggest thing that's holding the industry back is that there are so few game designers in the 50-plus age bracket. "There are no elder statesmen. And I think this has hurt the industry tremendously. We lose tons of experience constantly, because gaming is always focused into a younger demographic... And I don't know whether they consciously do it, or it's subconscious, but it's just a fact."

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The Power of Pride Bundle 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @powerofpridebundle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's here! The Power of Pride Bundle 2026 is now live on Itchio! All in support of 284 queer creators and their 396 creations. View the bundle on Itchio here (until July 6): $60 Bundle: itch.io/b/3682/the-p... $10 Pay-What-You-Can: itch.io/b/3684/the-p... #PowerofPride2026

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Ori-Warui -KNUCKLE JET out now on Steam! @oleivarrudi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Didn't have time to add it for the demo, but we're finally putting the intended "puppet show" aestethic into the dialog screens in Knuckle Jet!

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maurimo ☀️ @maurimo.dev · 06/01/2026

so what I mean is that, for example, you can make a button feel way snappier and tactile if you just ease in rather than ease both ways. it's like breathing in and out, it's different motions. i notice a lot of game UI using ease inout and it bugs me a bit especially with buttons. thats my tedtalk

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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The Power of Pride Bundle 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @powerofpridebundle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

itch has an impressive track record in helping the under-served—often hosting charity fundraising bundles that wouldn't get visibility or support otherwise. Everyone wants to see this platform succeed. We're not sure how to improve their ticket response, but clearly something needs to change.

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Carrot 🥕 @justacarrot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hello, all! I am currently gauging interest for a potential Steam festival this fall for games from devs on the asexual spectrum and games that feature characters on the ace spectrum! Please fill out this form if you have a game that applies and would be interested! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Interest Form for Ace Steam Festival

This is an INTEREST FORM for a potential Steam festival for asexual devs and games with asexual characters. Do note that this is NOT an official submission form and it's NOT guaranteed that the festiv...

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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 23/05/2026

thank you to everyone who submitted games to our nonbinary coded games event!! we now have a form for streamers & press who want to play/review games & be notified when the event goes live. if that's you, fill out the form here! 👇 forms.gle/4wx8bLegx9YT...

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Nonbinary Coded Games - Streamer & Press Form

This form is for streamers & press who are interested in the Nonbinary Coded Games Steam event being run by nomnomnami & npckc that will take place from July 13 to July 20. The event showcases games ...

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cid garlond's foot fetishist @garlethottie.etheirys.social · 18/05/2026

HI!! IF YOU'RE CANADIAN, PLEASE WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR MP!!! IF YOU AREN'T CANADIAN, SHARE THIS AROUND INSTEAD!!

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Feniks - Controller Support Expansion Released! @feniksdev.com · 14/05/2026

This was really excellent insight! I appreciate the 2026 notes on your earlier devlogs for context on how the future went vs what you thought originally. Thanks for the writeup!

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arimia @arimiadev.com · 11/05/2026

talking to people... doing research..... seeing what others do..... it's not as hard as it looks—let's do it together!! in my latest article, I go over how to contact streamers about your visual novel and requesting game streams~ 💖 read it here: arimiadev.com/how-to-conta...

How to Contact Streamers about your Visual Novel
(or, I've sent too many emails the past 2 weeks)

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Stella De @stelladevt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

It's been over a year in the making, but the Speaker Series is happening in less than 2 weeks. Can't say that I'm not nervous about it, but at the same time I'm confident we've put together an all-star panel of speakers and topics for our first proper run of it. Gonna chat a bit about it.

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SteamberryStudio @steamberrystudio.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Have you ever wanted to explore space with a bunch of hot people? Do you like yelling at your family at across space and time? Do you enjoy banter at inappropriate moments? Well have I got the FINALE UPDATE for you. WSC final update is now available on Itch! steamberry.itch.io/wsc

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When Stars Collide by Steamberry Studio

A science fantasy romance adventure.

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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 03/05/2026

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

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Nonbinary Coded Games Submission Form

This is a submission form for the Steam sale event, Nonbinary Coded Games, which will be happening from July 13 10:00 AM Pacific Time to July 20 10:00 AM Pacific Time. (July 14 is International Non-Bi...

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kc 💀 play TRUE LOVE'S CURSE! @npckc.net · 30/04/2026

it's been three years since i became a full-time indie dev (& translator!) so i made a post with a ✨pie chart✨ here's to a hopefully good year 4 despite various misgivings i have about the game dev scene as a whole right now 🤞 🎮 tnywndr.cafe/office/2026-...

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three years of full-time indie dev

info & data for three years of full-time indie dev!

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Brianna Lei @briannalei.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Kickstarter for The Crane Rider's Tale is now live! Fly passengers around a fantasy town inspired by Chinese folktales and unravel a mindbending mystery with multiple endings. Zero Escape meets Disco Elysium 🗡️🎲 LINK: www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...

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cross couloir ☄️ Comet Angel on Steam @crosscouloir.cc · 25/04/2026

Update to the #renpy chapter select plugin fixes a major bug which could cause a game crash in certain circumstances. Pick up v1.1.0 now! cross-couloir.itch.io/renpy-chapte... #indiedev #gamedev #visualnovel #vndev #indiegames

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Ren'Py Chapter Select Plugin by Cross Couloir

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🌵🌺 mado 🌺 🌵@ C•ko•fn•ta•C 💧🪱 @madocactus.itch.io · 23/04/2026

WANTED: REN'PY+PYTHON CODER i'm working on a big project for a certain tenna fanbook... and i need someone who's good with python to help me take it to the finish line! if you're interested in volunteering, the sign up form is below, with more info on the requirements 👇👇 forms.gle/EPpDgF8ZN6aU...

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foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) @foxyoreos.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I truly hate to just be constantly dropping more things onto your timelines to worry about, and I've been trying to pull back, but if you're thinking, "we need a mass movement to sideloaded apps", then unfortunately I do need to link you to keepandroidopen.org

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Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

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Mike Futter | Wishlist The Final Cut of Lilith Cunningham! @futterish.fsquared.biz · 06/04/2026

We need a low barrier to entry option, and we're rapidly losing them all. Consoles WERE the on-ramp for new / returning players, esp later in the gen when prices were much more reasonable. If we lose the low barrier option, we will shrink our footprint (and phones aren't the answer in the West).

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Dan Floyd @danfloydplus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Reusing animations and assets across multiple game sequels is good

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The Power of Pride Bundle 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @powerofpridebundle.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Calling all queer creators on itchio! The #PowerOfPride2026 Bundle is now open for submissions! Digital games, physical games, books, zines, comics, assets & tools— we're accepting them all! NSFW OK! We want to work with you to share your projects. itch.io/jam/power-of... Tell your friends too!

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Natasha 🧛 Wishlist Bonded in Darkness @ Steam @cosmicatelier.itch.io · 18/03/2026

I just noticed that the answer to the AI generation disclosure is now included in the game's info panel on itch. You've now got double the reason not to use one of your 10 tag slots on "No AI" When you only get 10 tags, you gotta optimize

Screenshot of an itch.io game info panel with "Content - No generative AI was used" at the bottom

Screenshot of an itch.io game info panel with "AI Disclosure - AI Assisted, Graphics, Text" on the bottom

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