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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The first Toem was utterly utterly delightful.

John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The state of these people! Do I want to feed a system designed to erode creative humans ability to pay their rent and feed themselves? Do I want to sign over the fruits of years of my own labour to destroy my own livelihood, so some cheap tech bro can make a quick buck? The audacity is dizzying.

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vicki @vickitingle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's @samuelscaife.bsky.social's birthday today! 🎂 I think a fun gift would be to wishlist our game, especially if any of this sounds like your thing: - Atmospheric 3D text-adventure - Derelict spaceship - Corporate horror - Human-made, with agonies store.steampowered.com/app/4253280/...

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REMOTE CONTROL on Steam

Remote-control human proxies to explore a derelict spaceship. Type your commands, manage risk and decide how disposable a life really is.

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Eddy P | Pin-Crawl @empika.co.uk · 14/08/2026

GO GO GO! The demo for Pin-Crawl is now LIVE and ready to play! Please enjoy bopping, bashing and bonking your way around a dungeon! 🎉🙌💖🧙🔮 store.steampowered.com/news/app/351...

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Pin-Crawl - Pin-Crawl Demo Now Live! - Steam News

The demo for Pin-Crawl is available now for PC and Mac!

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Canteen - Wishlist REMOTE CONTROL @canteen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We had a go making a short devlog style video about how we fixed a problem our game was having with communicating it's fantasy. If you're interested is how we make games give it watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSQ... #indiegame

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How we solved this common indie game problem

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hello, I wrote about intriguing space mining visual novel A Line Held Tight from Humble Grove and spoke to the team about games, unions and folk music www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

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A Line Held Tight – miners, mechs and mismanagement on a distant planet

Deep underground the player joins a colony of ruthlessly exploited pit workers who could be taking on the bosses. How things play out will depend on you

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Playing Proteus triggered the realisation in me that there was a space, and maybe even an audience, for the things I wanted to make. I can't say for sure that I would have made The Collage Atlas if it wasn't for the reassurance that Proteus gave me.

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Canteen - Wishlist REMOTE CONTROL @canteen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

being an indie dev today consisted of adding voids to a corridor and making sure the player gets thanked for moving their character away from fire #indiegame

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Phew, thank you. As stupid as it sounds, I really like not being on fire.

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Cedre 🍃 @cedre.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This personal cards project is a thing that's still a work in progress! Here's a bit of the design evolution, until I find more time to make these real printed cards!

A bunch of card designs with two illustrations of fantastic places

Another batch of cards with slightly different design, illustration are black and white

Back design of cards, some clean, some sketches

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Very cool to have A Line Held Tight in the Nonbinary Coded Games event! As well as having two nonbinary developers A Line Held Tight also has two nonbinary characters: The Hare and our player character, The Canary. You can play the demo now! #NonbinaryCodedGames

nonbinary-coded games, A Line Held Tight

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Nathan P. Gibson @nathanpgibson28.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Collage Atlas is a poetic hand-drawn journey through an ever-shifting illustrated world of memory and meaning. Explore its expressive visual development in Indie Game Works, featuring artwork and creator insights. #IndieGames #GameArt #GameDev @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

📖 A Line Held Tight is a branching visual novel. 🛠 Far from earth, your only weapons are your work mechs, your only support your fellow miners. When tensions boil over, will you take a stand? 💫 Demo avaliable now: store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

There will be no further games news on any outlet for the foreseeable, unless it's gta related. Also, Jason will turn out to be a cop.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I miss the days when I could share what I was working on without having to worry that it might get scraped by some unscrupulous ""ai"" (read: llm) apologist. Or just auto vacuumed up by some crawler, and used to fuel the system that is making creative folk's livelihoods increasingly precarious.

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Cel Davison @celdavison.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

it all started with the thought: “what would it look like if Arthur Miller wrote a Gundam?” in case you missed it here's my viddy on why we're making A Line Held Tight, and how

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Headed up by some particularly lovely, and particularly talented folk, this is definitely worth keeping an eye on.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

My pals are making something really rather special here, please do give it a look.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If you like art made by humans, and indie games, and books, and things that combine all 3 of those, I have some good news for you... tldr; my pen & ink game 'The Collage Atlas' is included in this lovely new book celebrating indie games and their visual design.

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

✨🪐Game Reveal🪐✨ A LINE HELD TIGHT follows The Canary, a member of a mining colony on a far-off planet. Out there, cut off from the rest of humanity by a vast expanse of space, tensions both political and personal are starting to rise… Wishlist now!: store.steampowered.com/app/3897300/...

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vicki @vickitingle.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

our next game REMOTE CONTROL is ready to wishlist on Steam! very stoked to be making this thing. help out your local indies, we're just little guys: store.steampowered.com/app/4253280/...

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REMOTE CONTROL on Steam

Remote-control human proxies to explore a derelict spaceship. Type your commands, manage risk and decide how disposable a life really is.

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Sam Scaife @samuelscaife.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Our type to remote control humans game now has a Steam page! We're showing of a bunch of new stuff, have a peek and leave us a wishlist if you're into it #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/4253280/...

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REMOTE CONTROL on Steam

Remote-control human proxies to explore a derelict spaceship. Type your commands, manage risk and decide how disposable a life really is.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Every book mark represents a moment I became genuinely excited about an idea - a thing I stumbled across, the result of enjoying the process of research. Learning about cool things I wouldn't even know to search for online.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Absolutely! If you don't enjoy research, perhaps try *a different approach to the research*. Find what excites you. Flea markets, charity shops etc. Have yielded the best research materials for my game. Access is a challenge for some. But if you are able, step away from the screen for ideas.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

My pals, who prev made CorpoNation, have uploaded a demo of their new thing. I've had a play of it, and it's really cool - I'm excited to see where it goes from here

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

We’re going to Gamayo! And what’s even better is we’re showing a demo of A Line Held Tight. If you’re going and you recognise us please come say hi! This will be our first time showing a game publicly in a very long time, and we’ll be excited and nervous in varying measures. See you there!

An image containing the text: I'm going to GaMaYo 13.11.25 WX Wakefield

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I've been working with Geometry Nodes in Blender to make a system for authoring patchwork meadows for my game The Wings of Sycamore #blender

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Cel Davison @celdavison.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

i don’t exactly blame devs for signing bad deals with publishers. in a lot of cases i imagine they feel it’s the only way their game will ever get made and they probably right

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Cel Davison @celdavison.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

i often see people say “you don’t need a publisher” etc as if most developers don’t understand that. but games do require labour and labour requires payment

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Canteen - Wishlist REMOTE CONTROL @canteen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

So our game is about remote control human beings #IndieGameDev

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Tom Betts @tomnullpointer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Theres a lovely article on Highrook and its production in the latest edition of Debug++ 25/10 @debugmag.com www.teamdebug.com/plus Debug++ is free to subscribe to and you get a nice downloadable pdf each time a new issue comes out!

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Cedre 🍃 @cedre.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Thrilled to share the illustration I created for my friend's play, "Kill the Dinosaur", currently being performed in London!

Illustration of a bus stop near a road, a wide pavement, a giant shadow of a whale is looming over that same bus stop.

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Sam Scaife @samuelscaife.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Get ready to hear me rant about start up culture bleeding into indie dev, and why we should be making our dream games! 👀

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This French language channel did a very lovely playthrough video of my game 'The Collage Atlas'. It was really heartening to see it really connect with someone. youtu.be/I8X6Xn6_hak?...

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Un jeu vidéo peut-il nous aider à guérir ? (The Collage Atlas)

YouTube video by MARKHO

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 14/09/2025

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Why You Absolutely Should Ignore the Advice & Make Your Platformer / Solo MMORPG / Sims-Like Dream Game First Sam Scaife - Indie Developer In this talk I’ll share lessons from my experiences making & releasing my first game & make a case for you to start on your dream game!

Why You Absolutely Should Ignore the Advice and Make Your Platformer / Solo MMORPG / Sims-Like Dream Game First

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

We’re excited to share some news: the demo for our new project, A Line Held Tight, is available today! You can get access by joining our aptly named ‘Demo Access’ tier on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/demo-a...

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A Demo Arrives | humble grove

Get more from humble grove on Patreon

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Canteen - Wishlist REMOTE CONTROL @canteen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

We've been working on our game's story recently. And in the process have created a very normal, 100% not weird, timeline! #indiegamedev

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Currently busy doing huge amounts of landscaping and world design for The Wings of Sycamore. There's something weirdly deflating about working flat-out and then committing to repo and seeing the file has grown by...only 200kb

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Pretty horrifying Resident Evil trailer: trainers on the bed.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It's happened, I've started naming files for my game "_final". That's surely gotta do something, right??

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Working on some mountain region terrain for 'The Wings of Sycamore' You can see more of my dev progress on insta: www.instagram.com/johnwilliame...

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A little test-flight through some block-out terrain for 'The Wings of Sycamore' See more on www.instagram.com/johnwilliame... www.tiktok.com/@johnwilliam...

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vicki @vickitingle.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

we are in the indie showcase in the develop expo all day today, come and get some sweet stickers

A PC setup with a collection of stickers.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Highly recommend giving this a look, it's really very cool.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

New dev update for The Wings of Sycamore over on TikTok... All about hand-crafting my little game world. vm.tiktok.com/ZNdfs5r9B/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Breath of the Mario Kart is extremely good.

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John William Evelyn @johnwilliamevelyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My entirely pen & ink, actually-was-drawn-on-paper, first-person adventure is 50% off this weekend (Steam, PC). lose yourself in a peaceful, meditative, picture-book world. Reviews are greatly appreciated - good, bad, or indifferent 🖤 store.steampowered.com/app/2581960/...

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hmblgrv @humblegrove.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

New Patreon exclusive post and video on our approach to world building 🌍 www.patreon.com/c/humblegrove

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