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Gershwin Impact @ensis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

🐸 𝙍𝙞𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙩 🐸 Vous trouvez qu’il y a de plus en plus de grenouilles dans le jeu vidéo ? C’est le cas. Pour @jvlemag.com #116, j'ai plongé dans le 𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘵 hole des jeux de grenouilles. Je suis allé à la rencontre d'une quinzaine de devs pour savoir pourquoi et comment cet animal est devenu cool.

Photo du numéro 116 de JV Culture jeu vidéo, thématique "animaux et jeux vidéo" (la couverture présente des animaux en dégradés de gris avec des pointes d'orange), sur un fond végétal. La lumière du soleil traverse deux suncatchers hors champ, ce qui créé une auréole arc-en-ciel autour du magazine.

Capture d'écran de la première double page d'un article de six pages intitulé "Ribbit hole - la grenouille est-elle devenue la chouchoute des indés" publiés en page 44 du numéro 116 de JV Culture jeu vidéo. Sur la moitié haute, on voit des captures d'écrans de Mudborne et Time on Frog Island. Chapo : "2026 sera-t-elle l’année de la grenouille ? En tout cas, joueurs et développeurs du monde entier semblent de plus en plus obsédés par des petites bêtes qui pullulent sur tous les continents et dans toutes les cultures. Nous avons demandé à une quinzaine de développeurs pourquoi, la grenouille, ils y crôa plus que jamais."

Graphique généré par votre serviteur pour mesurer l'augmentation du nombre de jeux publiés sur Itch avec les tags "chien" et "grenouille" entre 2014 et 2025. Là où l'augmentation des jeux de chien est constante, on constate une augmentation bien plus forte des jeux de grenouilles à partir de 2020.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 31/07/2025

The craziest thing happened, and our first Steam release reached over 100k players!

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Moczan @moczan.com · 24/07/2025

Back to playing with grass

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Moczan @moczan.com · 11/02/2025

My first Steam game just reached Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam! A lot of crazy things happened in the last two weeks, but this one takes the spot 🙈

Screenshot of Steam store showing Ropuka's Idle Island with 504, 96% positive review score

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Moczan @moczan.com · 29/01/2025

🎉Ropuka's Idle Island is out 🎉 Together with extremely talented @littlechmura.bsky.social we've made an idle game that sits on your screen like a small, playable sticker. Watch little frog tend to his garden (and take frequent naps) while you work or relax! 🐸

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Moczan @moczan.com · 28/01/2025

Releasing my first small project on Steam tomorrow, it was a crazy ride to get it done on time, but I'm happy we've stuck with the initial deadline. I hope people will enjoy our little playable sticker 🐸 store.steampowered.com/app/3416070/... #gamedev #cozygames #indiegame

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Wholesome Games @wholesomegames.com · 23/01/2025

Ropuka's Idle Island is a "playable sticker" for your desktop. "Focus on work or fun while the little frog tends to his garden."

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Moczan @moczan.com · 21/01/2025

I will be releasing Ropuka's Idle Island, a small idle game in the form of a desktop sticker, on Steam on January 29th! store.steampowered.com/app/3416070/... #gamedev #indiegame

Screenshot of a desktop, painterly wallpaper with green hills and could sky. In the right bottom corner you can see a video game, small 3D island with a lot of grass and a cartoony frog sleeping on a chair.

Screenshot of a desktop, painterly wallpaper with green hills and could sky. In the center you can see a video game, small 3D island with a lot of grass and a UI panel showing different colored grass and house and ability to buy new tree, chair and fence.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year, let's release two 🐸 games this year! #gamedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 20/12/2024

This little buddy has been keeping me company while I work on his 'main' game

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Moczan @moczan.com · 18/12/2024

Work on the main frog game is going well, but I got a bit distracted by a small, Ropuka-related side game... #gamedev #indiedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 05/12/2024

Show me four games that influenced YOUR current game project. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Cover art of video game 'To The Core', shows a drilling robot that displays large L on a screen drilling into asteroid

Screenshot from video game 'Peter Talisman Quest', shows a lonely building in the huge field of grass during a night

Poster for video game 'A Short Hike', a cartoon bird with a walking stick, forest and mountain in the background

Key art for video game 'Cruelty Squad', I'm not good enough with the English language to describe it properly.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 02/12/2024

UI with sounds is better than UI without sounds

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Moczan @moczan.com · 28/11/2024

For the past 2 days, I've been working on some UIs, as always it's a bit of a pain to support different input methods and avoid all the edge-case bugs, but it's also extremely satisfying and makes your game feel more like a game #gamedev #indiedev

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Valorware @valorware.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

9th Dawn Remake is on a 20% discount as part of the Steam Autumn Sale! This is the first sale since Launch :D store.steampowered.com/app/1550180/... #indierpg #openworldrpg

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Moczan @moczan.com · 26/11/2024

The player character from my indie game.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 25/11/2024

Figured out that the first instinct everyone will have playing as a frog is to jump into the water, so I've added swimming to Ropuka today. Placeholder animation but hey, isn't swimming just underwater flying anyway? #gamedev #indiedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 16/11/2024

Barely started posting and already matched my first 'x followers' post from the old site 😅

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Boruta.dev @boruta.dev · 10/11/2024

Calling Polish game devs! 🇵🇱 As more of us arrive here on Bluesky it would be great to re-create the network we've had. Here's a Polish Game Dev starter pack to make it easier. Please let me know if I should add you or someone, and consider reposting for reach! #StarterPack #GameDev #PolskiGamedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 13/11/2024

Just submitted my first steam page for review 🐸

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Moczan @moczan.com · 09/11/2024

Sooner or later every game needs a UI, always pain in the ass to implement, but at least it starts to feel like a real video game now #gamedev #indiedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 09/11/2024

Sooner or later every game needs a UI, always pain in the ass to implement, but at least it starts to feel like a real video game now #gamedev #indiedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 06/11/2024

Need an excuse to show off that in Ropuka the grass is always growing, what can a lonely, small frog do against the forces of nature? #gamedev #indiedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 05/11/2024

Repost with a banger photo of your cat

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Moczan @moczan.com · 05/11/2024

Scythe from last month with proper model and texture, new grass variant. #gamedev #indiedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 01/11/2024

Anybody know how to handle bsky's video compression for #gamedev ? The 'other' site just accepts whatever I throw at it, but here the compression is always harsh and I often get upload errors :(

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Moczan @moczan.com · 01/11/2024

Added some visual fluff, new shears texture, tweaked grass particle colors; all small, almost insignificant stuff, but it builds over time and makes the game look better #indiedev #gamedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 24/10/2024

Post a creature from your game, and its inspiration. #indiedev #gamedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 21/10/2024

Played with some 'fake' stencil lights today, had to double fake it for the grass since all the foliage is unlit. #gamedev #indiedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 03/10/2024

Got some custom tools for authoring my grass up and running today, making new levels should be much faster now. #indiedev #gamedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 27/09/2024

Started working on a new tool for Ropuka, turns out adding a two-handed one is more complicated than I thought, but the first draft is already pretty fun to use. #indiedev #gamedev

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Moczan @moczan.com · 13/09/2024

Heard this works now, so a random clip from frog game 🐸

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