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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 · 29/07/2025

The grass is rotating away from the ball and slowly coming back after, there is also some randomness to the direction of the bend so it looks more natural!

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Moczan @moczan.com · 24/07/2025

Back to playing with grass

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Moczan @moczan.com · 13/07/2025

We welcome all the frogs to our islands!

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Moczan @moczan.com · 08/07/2025

Thanks for sharing, 'I just want to make small games, have fun making them and not overwork myself' hits really close to home, I'm always glad when other devs touch on the lifestyle part of being indie and not just focus on numbers.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 21/04/2025

They said you can go ahead and sample the sounds!

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Moczan @moczan.com · 19/04/2025

Thanks! I will have to confirm this with our musician, will let you know when I get an answer.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 21/03/2025

Hi, right now the game is only officially supported on Windows, there is no quick fix to make it work on Linux other than making a version specifically for it (which we are working on, just no ETA yet).

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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 · 06/02/2025

Too busy cutting grass so he missed the beans 😢

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Moczan @moczan.com · 30/01/2025

Thank you, people seem to love it so far!

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Moczan @moczan.com · 29/01/2025

It's thanks to your gamejams that we discovered we love making games together so sincerest thank you for organizing and I hope we will soon have a free week to participate again 😅

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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 · 29/01/2025

Thank you for sharing our game! 🐸

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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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Moczan @moczan.com · 24/01/2025

~250Mb according to Windows, will probably increase by 100-150 soon

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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 · 20/01/2025

The Indie Games Polska is pretty much just shilling AI everywhere now, extremely disappointing

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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 · 19/12/2024

Wolcen was one of the rare cases where Steam didn't have any problems refunding it way past the 2 hours window because of how broken the game was at launch.

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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 · 06/12/2024

I rediscover this term every half a year and proceed to forget about it until I see a post like this again.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 05/12/2024

It's Peter Talisman: Lord of the Harvest, you can play it in the browser petertalisman.quest

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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 · 04/12/2024

We used to have a word for those self-published games without market pressures from publishers balooning their budgets...

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Moczan @moczan.com · 02/12/2024

ngl bluesky audio still sounds terrible if you upload a quiet video 😢

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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 · 01/12/2024

Welcome to the grass cutting gang 💪🐸 Looks awesome, like a living postcard

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Moczan @moczan.com · 28/11/2024

Mostly PlasticSCM/UnityVCS, it's actually pretty cool for gamedev projects and avoids the usual git headaches.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 28/11/2024

Hello there, I think my upcoming game Ropuka would also fit in here 🐸

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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 · 27/11/2024

What's considered a proper ultrawide support? Just the game working in 21:9 ratio?

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Moczan @moczan.com · 27/11/2024

If there are spots left I'm also developing in Unity since 2018 😀

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Moczan @moczan.com · 27/11/2024

'hell yeah!' type of weapon

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Moczan @moczan.com · 27/11/2024

She sometimes drags her ass on the floor leaving skidmarks all around which is equally disgusting and funny.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 27/11/2024

Only if a piece of poop sticks to their fur, otherwise she just screams a lot until somebody cleans the litterbox.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 27/11/2024

Or not an excuse to harass Manor Lords devs either of course, didn't mean to imply that, just the wording came out strange due to character limit

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Moczan @moczan.com · 27/11/2024

If this happened to you, I agree it's shitty. I think the whole solodev debate started with Manor Lords, where the credits had 50+ people listed, while the game was being marketed as made by one guy, but that's not an excuse to harass other devs.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 27/11/2024

I don't think this is about doing everything yourself or demonizing seeking help; it's about proper credit and not diminishing the labor of others. How would you feel if you spent weeks or months on a game and the main creator would then say they are solodev and did everything themselves?

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Moczan @moczan.com · 27/11/2024

It always counted like that for freelancers/non-game companies, it's nothing new and most contractors will require the company they work for to provide/pay for the pro/enterprise license.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 26/11/2024

The player character from my indie game.

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Moczan @moczan.com · 26/11/2024

This is absolutely terrible, it doesn't work like that in W10, it just stays on the edge of the screen like it should.

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