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Joel Couture @joelcouture.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Plus putting an option to just walk into a room in Astro’s Playroom and have the purchase page for AstroBot pop right up feels a bit predatory. That’s how my kid accidentally bought it. He just thought he was starting more of the game.

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Joel Couture @joelcouture.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Yeah I thought it was a really strange criteria, but then it didn’t even matter that I met the criteria for the refund. They just told me to kick rocks.

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Joel Couture @joelcouture.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Anyway, I know I am at fault for not locking purchases on the system. But it would be nice if PlayStation actually followed their policies instead of just trying to get rid of me after I've supported them with my business for over 30 years.

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Joel Couture @joelcouture.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Was told that I had streamed or downloaded the game. Yes, it had been played BEFORE the purchase, which was my point. We already owned it. But the digital version we didn't need HADN'T been played. I am not sure what is so complicated about this when I provided the screenshot.

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Joel Couture @joelcouture.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Beyond disappointed with @playstation.com customer service and how they don't honor their return policy. My kid accidentally bought AstroBot when we already own it. Didn't download it, which they can see below. Tried to return as soon as I noticed the purchase. Refused a refund.

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Graeme Borland @graebor.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

New jam game! 🌻👿 SLAUGHTERING CAN 👿🌻 Made in a weekend for #PEGJAM 2025. The theme was "An Unconventional Weapon", so I tried to make a watering can feel like a satisfying weapon. It's a small, loud, and silly little project. Try it here: graebor.itch.io/slaughtering...

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jae is not dead i promise 🩸✨ @naladraws.com · 31/01/2025

CW grief & death of a loved one my entry to the #36wordrpgjam is this business card game consisting of exactly 35 words, with the last one to be provided by you. the title was chosen because those are the last words i ever spoke to him. check it out in full: naladraws.itch.io/i-will-see-y...

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i will see you later. by Nala J. Wu

35 words to help you let go, one word at a time

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

alright y'all let's let's just do this SKELETON GELATIN, out now on adamatomic.itch.io/skeleton-gel... !! 🍮 World's FIRST "blobtroidvania" (maybe) (I haven't checked) 📉 No upgrades 💀 No HP 🏃 No jumping 🏆 No items I do not recommend attempting an all-skulls run until you have finished a regular!

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Melos Han-Tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Happy 12th Birthday to Anodyne!! We have a little sale running on our store to celebrate, great time to get the Anodyne 1 Fan Book or T-Shirt!! Use the code "ANODYNE"! analgesicproductions.bigcartel.com

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Paul Murphy @pmurphy1978.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Gaming Freelancers! I've changed the way I commission paid features, and am using a dedicated Slack channel. Every month I will reach out to grow my pool of writers to call on for new opportunities. Right now I'm looking for writers with NES and DS experience. Is this you?

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 07/02/2025

Keep Walking (Plasmator Games) "Just keep walking. Something is moving." PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/02/07/keep-walking/

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Y/CJ/Y @ycjygames.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Keep Driving, our management RPG about life on the open road, is OUT NOW! 🌍 Explore an early 2000s setting 💥 Unique turn-based 'battle' system 🔧 Strategic resource management 👋 Pick up folks along the way 🚗 You’re young, you have time… Available on Steam: s.team/a/2756920

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 05/02/2025

🏁Nightmare Kart: THE OLD KARTS🏁 ➡️ Brand new FREE expansion! 💉 New mini campaign! 🏎️ New racers & karts! 🗺️ New tracks! 💥 New power ups & game modes! 📅 COMING SOON 📅 Press kit below! #NightmareKart

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 26/01/2025

How to turn off AI. 📌

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Javy Gwaltney @jgwalt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Horror games starting off strong this year. Butcher's Creek is quite good, mix of Condemned and Manhunt. ~ 2 hours. Great creepy vibes, solid melee combat. store.steampowered.com/app/2512560/...

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A first person melee horror game where you use rusty tools to brutalize a gang of serial torturers in the remote Appalachian Forest.

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Austin Lancaster 🎮✍ @crawfordscat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Dale and Dawson has something going for it: an Among Us-like set in a staitionery company's office. "Slackers" have to try to watch cat videos and sabotage the office without getting caught... store.steampowered.com/app/2920570/...

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HORRORVISUALS @horrorvisuals.com · 23/01/2025

BrokenLore: LOW is a first-person horror game taking place in a remote Japanese village haunted by supernatural entities. Releasing on February 21st.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

A Butterfly is now available on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/... "The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner." a poem about overcoming, surrender, and death. 🦋✨🌒🌓🌘 #GameDev #IndieGame #Dreamcore #Poetry #InteractiveFiction

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A Butterfly on Steam

The abyss called your name. You followed it here. Now you are its prisoner. A Butterfly is part horror, part interactive poem about overcoming and bittersweet surrender

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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I've sent a load of press releases for Mashina but if you are a games press person or you know someone I should try, please let me know here or in DMs, please please pleeeaase.

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Pedro | Game Developer @pedromarangon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Faunamorph is OUT NOW on Steam!!! Recombine your DNA 🧬, transform into animals 🐻🦏🐬, and find a way to escape the abandoned laboratory!!! Thanks so much for everyone's support, and we hope you'll have a great time playing it! Buy it now on Steam: buff.ly/3P9XCWv

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 20/01/2025

Seeds of Hope (MicroGiant, Joran De Pessemier, Tijmen Matthys) "Create unique plants & heal your customers" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/20/seeds-of-hope/

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 18/01/2025

Pluma Familia (@sandervhove.bsky.social, Ben Lega) "Grow a beautiful tail, build a family" PWYC to download / play on itch.io - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/18/pluma-familia/

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Hempuli @hempuli.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Been working on a new solitaire for A Solitaire Mystery, this time with a murder mystery! #gamedev

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Joel Couture @joelcouture.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'm sorry to hear that Alissa.

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 16/01/2025

Bigfoot's Big Break (Just a Bee, Isaiah Sugar) "Recent reports of Bigfoot sightings in the area sound very promising, and you're up to the challenge." Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/01/16/bigfoots-big-break/

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Bryan "Gazpacho" Carr @learnonaut.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is a fantastic read and I absolutely believe redubbing and re-translating SOTN is like spitting on the Mona Lisa

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Original Chungus @tronknotts.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

And here's @lyn-aka-blpry.bsky.social's new game about social anxiety! It's free! And it's waaaaay more fun than actual social anxiety. rhana63.itch.io/i-need-to-le...

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I NEED to Leave by Rhana63

Available for macOS

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Joel Couture @joelcouture.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Always wonderful to see all the IGF finalists each year :)

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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Seumas McNally Grand Prize Caves of Qud (@cavesofqud.com) Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Despelote ( @despelote.game) INDIKA Thank Goodness You're Here! (@coalsupper.bsky.social) UFO 50 (@mossmouth.bsky.social) #IGF2025

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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

#IGF2025 Finalists: Nuovo Award Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Despelote (@despelote.game) Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity Ginger individualism in the dead-internet age:... (@alienmelon.bsky.social) Starship Home tapeçaria (tapestry) The Exit 8 (@playismen.bsky.social)

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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Excellence in Visual Art Children of the Sun (@devolverdigital.com) Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Hauntii Judero (@taloketo.bsky.social) Nine Sols Thank Goodness You're Here! (@coalsupper.bsky.social) #IGF2025

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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Excellence in Narrative Caves of Qud (@cavesofqud.com) Closer the Distance (@osmoticstudios.com) Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Despelote (@despelote.game) INDIKA No Case Should Remain Unsolved #IGF2025

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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Excellence in Design Balatro (@playbalatro.com) Blue Prince (@dogubomb.bsky.social) Caves of Qud (@cavesofqud.com) Consume Me (@qdork.bsky.social) Pacific Drive (@ironwood.bsky.social) Tactical Breach Wizards (@breachwizards.bsky.social) #IGF2025

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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Excellence in Audio Anger Foot (@freelives.bsky.social) Despelote (@despelote.game) INDIKA ODDADA (@svenahlgrimm.bsky.social) Thank Goodness You're Here! (@coalsupper.bsky.social) Utopia Must Fall (@pixeljamgames.bsky.social) #IGF2025

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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Best Student Game A Dual Ascent DisplaceMen Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation Slot Waste The WereCleaner (@thewerecleaner.com) Year Unknown #IGF2025

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Brianna Townsend @brianna.town · 13/01/2025

Out today!! Super Puzzled Cat is an absolute treasure with nearly a decade of care and passion poured into it. It's an incredible achievement to get lost in! Make sure to leave a review! Even just "👍 cat gaem" is huge for the algorithm store.steampowered.com/app/2650350/... #indiegame #gaming

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Help Puzzled Cat use jetpacks, portals, bombs, gum, and more to conquer treacherous platforming stages. Play your own way using save states to explore a world full of challenges and secrets - but can ...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Two and a half years ago, a team of friends and I made a game about loss and community in the face of disaster. Now it feels weirdly prescient. gwenckatz.itch.io/arbor

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Arbor by G.C. Katz, Cycles, King_Kai258, Nick Halim, smiller77, friedlettuce, jonnydeboy, katiedawky

A boy, a tree, and a war

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ading.dev @ading.dev · 13/01/2025

I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 10/01/2025

Palestinian dev Rasheed Abueideh has impacted players before with emotional storytelling, and he plans to do it again with #DreamsOnAPillow. Congrats to @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social & the team for hitting their crowdfunding goal! Let's overfund & support future Palestinian #gamedev initiatives 🍉

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Joel Couture @joelcouture.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Judero creates such a stirring feeling of connection - to loved ones, artists, strangers, the world - in a time of intense disconnect. In a time of endless noise, it brings me peace.

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adrienne ✨ Truth Scrapper @insertdisc5.com · 08/01/2025

heya gamers. did you know i made a whole masterpost on how to make video games if you dont know how to code 🎮 www.tumblr.com/insertdisc5/...

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HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME!

Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?

To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:
SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!

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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 08/01/2025

director Makoto Ikehara & character designer/illustrator Tatsuya Yoshikawa discuss Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, the decidedly unconventional fifth entry in Capcom's JRPG series, with topics that cover DQ's many harsh game systems, the new aesthetic/setting & more shmuplations.com/dragonquarter/

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Mark Ⴟ Ⓥ Delaney @blueskynoise.com · 08/01/2025

For games media freelancers, I made this starter pack of commissioning editors at various games sites. Follow these folks so you know when work callouts go out here on Bluesky. If you see someone is missing from this list, let me know.

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Electric Airship✨ Isle of Reveries OUT ON CONSOLES!! @electricairship.com · 08/01/2025

'After the Janazah' is a bite-sized yet powerful #RPGMaker visual novel. Follow a woman to her father's Muslim funeral, and engage directly with the associated rituals. It's very poetic, and even educational-- definitely a must play.

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Pursuing Pixels 🐸💜✨ Indie + Retro Gems @pursuingpixels.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

"Crypt Stalker" is an awesome modern day Castlevania with an extra dose of adrenaline!?!🐸💜✨ #indiegames 📺: youtu.be/BEmGdQXDA5M

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