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THYSIASTERY (retro-inspired DRPG) @dirgagames.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The Labyrinth will open soon! We are excited to share the official release date for our debut game, THYSIASTERY. The full version will launch on March 9, 2026. Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3140180/... #TurnbasedThursday

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Thumbprint cookie as baked by my mom, with the thumbprint cookie charm I designed! 😊 The raspberry jam is from British Columbia and the charm was 100% produced in Toronto 🇨🇦. Have a cozy rest of your weekend! The Crimson Diamond is 25% off for the holidays! store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/...

Thumbprint cookie baked by my mom and the 10k gold thumbprint cookie charm I designed, produced by Cuchara jewelry in Toronto. Shown on a reclaimed piece of fruit wood by Translucent Finishing in Victoria, BC.

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Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games · 09/12/2025

🪱🪱🪱Wirm is out right now!!!🪱🪱🪱 Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...

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The Séance of Blake Manor - COMING TO CONSOLES🔮 @blakemanorgame.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Have you begun your investigations into the disappearance of Miss Deane? If not now could be the time as The Séance of Blake Manor is 25% off until 5 January as part of the Steam Winter Sale. store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

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SKATE STORY @skatestory.com · 05/12/2025

SKATE STORY ON MONDAY

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Spooky Doorway @spookydoorway.com · 27/10/2025

The wait is over. The Séance of Blake Manor is OUT NOW! Begin your investigations into the disappearance of Evelyn Deane. The fate of everyone may just depend on you. store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

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POLYGON BIRD Games @polygonbird.games · 07/07/2025

The RADON Daughters have launched their ultimate weapon. Take control of the experimental gunship HALCYON and break out of the CAGE. BIRDCAGE launches on PC and consoles later this year! Wishlist now - tinyurl.com/4cy9szsk

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PAUL CONWAY @doomcube.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#ScreenshotSaturday. Can you solve the supernatural mystery of Blake Manor. Launching on OCt 27th. Wishlist Now! #Indiegames 👻 store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

#ScreenshotSaturday A man with spectacles standing at the bottom of a grand staircase

#ScreenshotSaturday 3 red comic panels. A strange panel is carved on a standing stone. A man's eyes are white with power.

#ScreenshotSaturday A woman stands agains a black screen. The UI highlights a pin on her shawl.

#ScreenshotSaturday A UI showing connecing pieces of information.

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sunset visitor 斜陽過客 | Prove You're Human - Wishlist Now! @sunsetvisitor.studio · 30/09/2025

Hekki, we’re hiring! First up: Senior Programmer! 💠 80k CAD salary 💠 Hybrid/remote work (relocation support available) 💠 Health benefits plan 💠 4-day work week 💠 4 weeks annual paid vacation, unlimited sick/personal days Job listing ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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molegato (Frogun & Twinkle dev) @molegato.com · 23/09/2025

Here's the trailer to my coming game: Twinkle's Galactic Tour! Just an alien gal trying to make it as a singstar 👽⭐ A musical platformer with feels and rocket boots, inspired in 90s anime! #lowpoly #indiegames #gamedev

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #nsfw #censorship #canpoli @acvalens.net

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Petition e-6695 - Petitions

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of the Devil @ Merch Now Live on Fangamer! @nthcircle.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Episode 2 coming soon. The Devil always collects His Due.

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Necrosoft Games @necrosoftgames.com · 25/08/2025

We hope you'll still support us through this delay - it's tough on everybody as we were doing a massive push to the finish line here, and now we're looking around like zombies. But you'll get more game, more polish, and we'll try to make it worth your while. Still would've liked to fight Silksong.

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Demonschool on Steam

Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mys...

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Vancouver Game Garden @vangamegarden.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The exhibitor list for Vancouver Game Garden 2025 is now live!! 🎮🌱 More than 40 different indie studios will be showcasing their games at this year's event, including games such as 1000xRESIST, Peglin, Beastieball, and many more! ✨ Check out the full list here: vangamegarden.com/exhibitors

A poster for Vancouver Game Garden 2025. The subtitle says "Enjoy works by local developers and artists", the date is Sept 27-28, and the details are "Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, 11am-5pm - FREE ENTRY! vangamegarden.com"

The poster features retro-inspired pixel art of people wandering through a garden of game demo tables and art displays as well as a section where attendees are watching a presentation.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 08/08/2025

Ooh, we have some GREAT sales happening over on @gog.com... BROKEN AGE is 80% off! MASSIVE CHALICE is 80% off! And PSYCHONAUTS 2 is a whopping *85% off* in GOG's Weekly Deals! All of these excellent deals run from Aug 7 - Aug 14, so jump on em! But stretch first. www.gog.com/en/games?dev...

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I want to get a better grasp on making shaders and VFX but every time I try to learn I feel so overwhelmed by the volume of information. I don't even know what questions to ask to even kickstart my learning!

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Is This Seat Taken? @potipoti.studio · 07/08/2025

✨🚌 Is This Seat Taken? is OUT NOW! 💺Arrange picky characters. 🕵️‍♀️Piece together satisfying puzzles. 🔶 Follow Nat on their journey. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Pie in the Sky is out now on Steam! @monstershopgames.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Cheeky magpie causes mayhem on the Sydney Harbour Bridge! 🔗⬇️🧵

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Jay Castello 🌻 @jaymcastello.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

ok, i had a pretty big editing contract fall through today. luckily, their loss is your gain! i'm an IGF-nominated editor and writer, and the games i've worked on have been very well received. let's talk about what i could do to help your team tell the story you want to tell! email in my pin 💛

The splash art for Ninja Gaiden Ragebound.

The splash art for Many Nights A Whisper.

The splash art for The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood.

text that reads "a secret fourth thing I can't talk about yet <3 (actually more than that)"

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I've been mulling over my prototype work and thinking about why I haven't been enthusiastic to work on my existing projects. I think it comes down to both projects sticking too close to their inspirations; I need to find something I can make my own rather than just recreating with new tools.

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Vincent // HEARTWORM 📸 THE ATTIC DOOR 🚪 @adinolfi.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Heartworm - the retro, fixed camera survival horror inspired game I have been working on for five years is out NOW on Steam. Please check it out if you're into that sort of thing! And if you enjoy it, leave a review as it really helps! Thank you store.steampowered.com/app/1257030/...

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Gonna be travelling and while the Steam Deck with a dock makes a decent laptop replacement I don't think it's enough screen space for working on game dev haha

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Sorry for the big chain of posts, I could probably use a blog site over BlueSky for this. Looking forward to sharing more stuff as I find time to work on this more!

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Figured it was about time to show a little of what I've been fiddling with in Godot: a 3D platformer prototype! I'm going to put a little blabbing about what I've done so far in the replies if you want to read more.

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LuBu @lubu.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I'm going to present my current Playdate-project next Monday at @indietreff.bsky.social in Hamburg. It's called 🛡️G l o o m G a t e⚔️ and it's an action RPG with reaction based fights, a node based overworld, Souls-Like elements and still looooots of missing features. But I'm getting there😅

A 1-Bit game on the Playdate handheld. A knight is standing battle ready across a giant stone monster

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Siactro @siactro.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🐣Toree Saturn is officially coming to Switch 1 and Steam on August 8th! 🐣 (also, feel free to watch the trailer till the very end...😏) It will be purchasable and playaple on Switch 2 as well (still the switch 1 version though). #indiedev #lowpoly youtu.be/UlAUqaSSk8s?...

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Toree Saturn - Release Date Trailer

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Talha Kaya @taloketo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Mashina is our new stop-motion digging and mining game, right after our studio debut Judero, and it’s coming out soon!! Please wishlist 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 store.steampowered.com/app/3395930/...

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Fighting mental block on my one project by starting another. Is it a good idea? I dunno, but it's fun!

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Regardless, I think I've sorted the design and implementation for my RPG's first boss. Just have to draw it now. Getting closer to being able to fully test and polish the content I'm targeting for my demo!

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It's been difficult maintaining motivation on hobby dev projects while working full time in games. Love the freedom of expression working on my own stuff gives but keeping going on longer projects gets difficult when the initial excitement wanes. Still moving forward at least!

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I want to learn Blender so I can fool around and make some low-poly 3D stuff for fun but every time I look at that interface I start to panic.

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Mucking with Godot as a break from my normal hobby dev and learning a new workflow is both exciting and terrible at the same time. I got basic locomotion, movement animation, and a 3D camera with only a handful of nodes and 40 lines of script but just knowing that the bits exist is the hard part.

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Alright, a few days off drawing sprites did me good, I got 2 NPCs done, added dialogue to all the existing ones, and made a little girl hop around a little 💪

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This is the vibe right now (I do not do art for a living): www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCZ...

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FUCK ART (FUCK YOU)

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

While I still think it was a good idea to build all my core systems stuff up front, I've been left in a situation where most of the work left before I can start building out my demo's levels is art. And I...uhhh...I'm very bad at art.

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Now that I'm working on NPC sprites and animations I finally grabbed Aseprite and I know it sounds obvious but using a tool built for the thing you're trying to do makes your life easier! So much less painful than trying to use GIMP for this.

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lincoln carpenter, skeleton @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Good morning. It's Saturday and I'm writing news. "It's not hard to imagine ways in which repeating the myth of Clair Obscur's team size could contribute to worse conditions for games and the people developing them." www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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No, Geoff Keighley—Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was not made by a team of 'under 30 developers,' and devs say repeating the myth is 'a dangerous path'

SGF's fascination with small staff sizes discredits the integral work of external contractors and contributors.

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Relooted by Nyamakop @nyamakop.co.za · 07/06/2025

Not all treasures are lost… some are just waiting to be reclaimed. Announcing Relooted: An Africanfuturist heist game where you reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums. Please share, & wishlist! youtu.be/KgPxPfXb734 (Wishlist links in next tweet!) @dayofthedevs.org #SummerGameFest

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Relooted Announcement Trailer

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I didn't appreciate how many tiles I'd made until I finished this iteration: almost 170 already just for the forest and village! All crammed into a couple of KB (binary color goes a long way).

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Finished revising my placeholder tileset so I'm finally ready to show what I've been working on: an action RPG for the #playdate starring a young witch who can't use any magic (yet?)! I'll be sharing progress as I work towards a playable demo (coming sooner than later, hopefully)!

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molegato (Frogun & Twinkle dev) @molegato.com · 22/04/2025

Are you ready to be a star? 🪐💚 #indiegames #gamedev #lowpoly

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Playdate @play.date · 29/05/2025

💥 Season Two is OUT NOW! Grab your Playdate and check out the games premiering today. LET'S DO THIS (You can get S2 here: play.date/s2)

OUT NOW. Playdate Season Two. A dozen unique games. ONE LOW PRICE.

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Alright, non-joke version of what I'm working on. Just finished revising my tileset for the first area and I'm actually happy with it (for now)! I need to update how the map is drawn in-game so it respects the layering and add a little animation to the water but I think it's coming along nicely.

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I want to start sharing progress but I need to finish fleshing out this placeholder tileset 😞. My testing gyms are a mess and I'd like the first thing to show to actually resemble what I'm trying to make!

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nel != null @nelnotnull.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I will post what I'm actually working on at some point but I want it to look representative of what I'm trying to do first. I've been focused on an initial pass of core game mechanics but I need to iterate on tilesets and content beyond greybox stuff.

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