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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 2h

You gotta be fucking kidding me

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 16h

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Matěj Hložánek @mlozanek.bsky.social · 7h

Czech countryside is largely defined by small hills for me so I added some terrain and a photo mode, where you can look at the landscape from a different perspective. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re making a scrabble tower defense game! Every word in the english dictionary is a unique tower ARROW pierces enemies PUNCHES knocks them back

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

why would you try to lock down all the big picture elements of your game before going anywhere near polish when you can instead rush into making something that "looks finished" which ends up introducing rigor mortis to the rest of the project that you have to work around. absolute waste of time.

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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

very annoyed at the concept of vertical slices and demos at the moment... cant help but feel like this sort of stuff just poisons the natural flow of how things are made

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another sign of me getting old: I've seen a rabbit in our neighborhood three times in past two weeks and now I'm looking at BRIDGE CAMERAS. I'm cooked, dude.

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hoped to put something together for Falling Block Jam but just couldn't bring myself to it in the end. Got no energy and not in a good place overall. Had an idea before the jam started, but lots of people went in a similar direction with their entries due to the theme, so that didn't help either.

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Chris posting about his game months ago is actually how I discovered mancala. An entire family of games completely unknown to me until then! I've since played and enjoyed mancala IRL and am now even more excited to try this :)

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey! Did you know we have an upcoming Steam event called BIRDS OF PLAY celebrating 140 bird games? October 10th to 16th on good old Steam! No link until it's live, but in the meantime you can find details and assets here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Promo image for Birds of Play event containing title, dates October 10th to 16th, and a range of cute birds!

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Apex Mango - WISHLIST 🍎💀 ~FRUITBEARER~ 🍎💀 @apexmangostudio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FINALLY!!! 😍 Fruitbearer is OUT NOW! Please go give some love and write a review on steam. For small indie devs like us it helps us a lot 😭💖 Our first attempt to make this into a full time career🥹 Hope you enjoy! 🥰💖 store.steampowered.com/app/4300180/... #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #art

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026

no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are apparently people who hate raisins but my only source for this info are American movies. Might be a made-up thing.

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Perfect theme as far as my coding skills go!

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Muting continues to be the best feature of any social media platform that has it.

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StevePixelFace @stevepixelface.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hello! I’ve been working on Hidden Drive: Pobal an Tobair, a detective mystery set in rural Ireland. Dig through a stranger’s old hard drive and piece together what happened to him. Here are a few early screenshots! #gamedev #godot #indiedev #detective #puzzle

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 15/09/2026

3 days!!

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Been going for walks in a weighted vest for a while and it's been so nice. It's like the perfect form of exercise for me, just adding extra sauce to something that I already enjoy doing a lot and not having to force myself at all.

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Been having a lot of fun with Grail lately! If you enjoy deckbuilders and autobattlers, buy it!

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thanks, past me. One less thing to worry about, I guess!

Screenshot of code comments from my project:

# some magic number below
# don't worry about it bud

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 10/09/2026

test 👏 your 👏 own 👏 work 👏

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bilge @bilgetbd.itch.io · 10/09/2026

excited to announce my new game 'Maybe... I'll go to the beach' 🏖️ it's a small spatial programming puzzle game inspired by Cellular Automata, CellPond (TodePond), MarkovJunior(mxgmn) more info below <3

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From Chris @fromchris.com · 01/09/2026

My turn-based beat'em up game, featuring real-time playback! #TrailerTuesday #indiegame #indiegames #cartoonnetwork

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Got our cat in my lap and yeah, she's VERY chill

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Games" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Treated myself to...quite a few board games today! 😅 The cool thing is that these were all second hand, returned or had damaged packaging but were otherwise in *perfect* condition or close to it. This entire haul ended up costing me only a hundred euro, roughly.

Top down photo of a coffee table filled with board game boxes. You can't really see much of the table.
The games are Endeavor Deep Sea, Karuba, Go, Qwirkle Travel, Abalone, a wooden Backgammon set, Fantastic Factories, and Harmonies.

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Games industry (and more broadly, uh, everything) starts making a lot more sense when you accept that nobody actually knows anything. It's all best guesses and then taking credit if they happen to be correct.

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Chris Perry @perridot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh!Ware, a roguelike Mancala deckbuilder, RELEASES SEPTEMBER 24th 2026. The gods are watching. 👀 🟠 Place marbles 🔄 Chain their movement 🙏 Make your offerings ⚔️ Challenge the gods WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM store.steampowered.com/app/4121430/...

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Crux Games - Combolands @cruxgames.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Our game COMBOLANDS is out NOW on Steam :) and Polygon called it ‘The coolest new roguelike in years’! - Mini citybuilding roguelike - Described as “Balatro x Cities Skylines” - Deep strategy in short bursts - Chain huge combos + break the game

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dude what if Shai-Hulud was a giant rabbit

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

*removes access to everything except the torment nexus* people are using the torment nexus a lot more than we expected,

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Got myself a used Zoom H1n. Excited to learn a bit about audio recording and to make my own sound effects for future projects 🙂

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Excited to play the first good Souls game

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This has more character than 99% of modern software

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think about this line approximately seven times a day. Manifesto jam was such a banger. stanwixbuster.itch.io/shut-up

A screenshot of a text document, with this line highlighted:

The real answer is that they don't hate making games. They hate making [industry products].

It's from SHUT UP ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU HATE MAKING GAMES, a manifesto by Stanwixbuster submitted for Manifesto Jam 2026.

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Ellian @thisisellian.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I've been learning Godot for the past 6 months and I needed a placeholder character to test some stuff... So naturally I spent an unreasonable amount of time making way more frames and directions than I needed #pixelart #animation

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

People like to mock those negative reviews with hundreds of hours of gameplay but have you ever seen one like this?

Screenshot of a game review on Steam:

"Seeing that the reviews are 100% positive at the time of writing this review, I feel I had to type the first negative review. Not even to complain about the quality of the product, since it's incredibly well made, but as a warning for those who like to be informed about the risks of picking up a game by reading negative reviews. The only reason why I would not recommend this game is completely subjective : if you really can't handle sad stories, avoid this game.
Congrats to everyone who made this game and hopefully this will be the only negative review needed."

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