iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

cronch @paprika.live · 28/09/2026

33rd/162nd makes it about the 80th percentile which is pretty good plus the high originality score which is what we were going for anyways so yay

Screenshot of an itch.io game jam rating results page, showing that out of 17 ratings, the game got 6th in originality, 20th in fun, 20th in graphics, 33rd overall, 40th in audio, 53rd in theme, 69th in controls, and 84th in accessibility

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cronch @paprika.live · 25/09/2026

I see the gamedev YouTuber to Minecraft speedrunner pipeline is alive and well

YouTube thumbnail screenshot of a video by Juniper Dev titled "I Trained To Become The #1 Minecraft Speedrunner"

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cronch @paprika.live · 24/09/2026

Steam Frame standalone Godot editor in XR mode....... Whoa

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cronch @paprika.live · 23/09/2026

tierlist of every game i've published

Tierlist of 9 different itch.io game thumbnails, with Baal's Birthday Bash and ex vivo at the S tier, Critter Carnage, Yoinkusbox, and Kaiju Road Rage at the A tier, Sproingusball and Rogue Stern at the B tier, Not Business, Just Personal at the C tier, and bank shot at the D tier.

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cronch @paprika.live · 22/09/2026

eating popcorn while watching a movie is the equivalent of pressing a button to advance in a visual novel

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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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cronch @paprika.live · 29/08/2026

my most powerful git commit yet

Github screenshot showing a git commit titled "added multiplayer"

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Goomboo @maplegecko.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

#Asemulator v1.0.0 releases on August 28th! 🎉 The Top-down and Side-scroller templates will be available on the same date. Get ready to preview, test and share your characters' animated sprites in context, directly in @aseprite.org! Reposts highly appreciated~

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Glen🌊 - Making Aqua Mundo! @glenbourgonjon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Spelkollektivet is an amazing co-living co-working space for gamedevs. It's my home, and the reason Aqua Mundo will eventually actually get finished. We are facing eviction unless we raise enough money. If you can, consider supporting an amazing indie gamedev community here ♥

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Osaka, we 🐇 @osaka.zone · 10/07/2026

Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer (2002) how the did they get the water to look like that, this is incredible I don't mean the reflections, look at the shape of the wave as it moves, the lighting, the glow.. This and the game loop are **amazing** and needs to be studied This is lost technology oh my god

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🦎Galileo🍉 @galileogb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

in light of my announcement of candidacy for World's Biggest Quitter, i have made a starter pack of other furry and furry-adjacent devs you should totes check out cuz they rad furry+djacent dev moots feel free to slap my hand if i missed you, bsky's ui for this stuff aint great and i am BAD w names

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

So apparently there's a Godot For Switch port on the Nintendo forums? Like I thought I had to go with one of the handful of publishers or do it myself, but if I can just, go grab the open source Switch version of Godot? Holy fuk old.reddit.com/r/godot/comm...

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I ported my Godot game to Switch 1 & 2 and Nintendo just approved it!

I’ve always designed my game *Dawnfolk* with handheld consoles in mind, so bringing it to Switch was a must for me. At first, I thought porting...

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Rémi Verschelde @akien.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I see some concerns raised about Godot's policy on contributions using AI. TL;DR: Godot isn't vibe-coded. As a whole, the Godot foundation and maintainers are fairly critical of AI usage, and don't make nor accept vibe-coded contributions. Godot doesn't include AI features nor intends to add any.

Godot's current policy on AI-assisted contributions reads like this:

"The use of AI to contribute to Godot is discouraged, and contributions made entirely by AI are prohibited.

We acknowledge that AI can be useful, but we are convinced that human effort results in better and more relevant contributions.

If you do use AI, we expect that you put in effort to proofread and improve anything it generates, and that you disclose what you used AI for. As maintainers spend significant time reviewing your code, please make sure that the code you submit is well-tested and functional. Please be respectful of their time and only submit something you have put thought and effort into."

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cronch @paprika.live · 21/06/2026

this is what i've been doing for the past week #indiedev

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Alexander the Fine @alexrineh.art · 15/06/2026

Cyberrats in Space is LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! Get this game of fast, tactical combat, revenge in space, and giant rats in giant mechs! www.kickstarter.com/projects/201...

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Cyberrats in Space

Rats. Mechs. Revenge.

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cronch @paprika.live · 15/06/2026

new game top down with fake z-axis and cool movement

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CHAOKO🍥 @chaokocartoons.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

MY GAME #KilaFlow is AVAILABLE ON STEAM TODAY! PLAY IT NOW!!!! store.steampowered.com/app/2927510/...

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Cool 3D World @cool3dworld.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The wait is finally over. Ultimate Drummer is now available on Steam 🥁🥁🥁

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cronch @paprika.live · 21/04/2026

just finished a new game where you control a little army of demons and kill hikers in the woods and cops it's called Baal's Birthday Bash play it in your browser captcronch.itch.io/baals-birthday-bash

Capsule art of Baal's Birthday Bash. Two round red little goat demons are seen carrying a log and a mound of bloody flesh in the woods, and behind them amidst the trees is a large fleshy bloody idol to Baal.

Screenshot from Baal's Birthday Bash showing a handful of little red goat demons carrying bloody flesh piles back to a pulsating demon mouth pit in the earth, in front of a half-finished fleshy idol, surrounded by puddles of blood and what seem to be extradimensional portals.

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bumbleborn - Wunder is OUT NOW! @bumbleborn.com · 01/04/2026

Give this game a look, I really want Super Debt to get funded! The game looks great and the dev deserves all the support they get!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sup...

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SUPER DEBT! - The Roguelike where EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY!

An unrelenting horror themed bullet-hell roguelike where EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY, and I mean EVERYTHING.

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Toada Brava @toadabrava.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

HORA DO ANÚNCIO! 🐵📣 Depois de muito tempo, a página do Steam to do Toada ESTÁ NO AR Se liga no nosso trailer e deixa seu wishlist no Steam #jrpg #steam #indiegame

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Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com · 13/03/2026

Blown away by this showcase today, everything in it is so fascinating and inspiring. I wanna make more games that are like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6_...

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COMPUTER WORLDS - A New Showcase Celebrating Strange & Distinctive Games

YouTube video by noclip_2

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cronch @paprika.live · 16/03/2026

Naming my gamedev studio like a band

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Cookie🍪 @realcookii.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

every time i think abt lethal company / the upturned i think abt the fact that the fire exit door text is just the default blender text tool with no other changes made except a solidify modifier

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cronch @paprika.live · 11/03/2026

throwback to that godot docs page deleted 5 years ago

Encrypting save games

Why?

Because the world today is not the world of yesterday. A capitalist oligarchy runs the world and forces us to consume in order to keep the gears of this rotten society on track. As such, the biggest market for video game consumption today is the mobile one. It is a market of poor souls forced to compulsively consume digital content in order to forget the misery of their everyday life, commute, or just any other brief free moment they have that they are not using to produce goods or services for the ruling class. These individuals need to keep focusing on their video games (because not doing so will fill them with tremendous existential angst), so they go as far as spending money on them to extend their experience, and their preferred way of doing so is through in-app purchases and virtual currency.
But what if someone were to find a way to edit the saved games and assign the items and currency without effort? That would be terrible, because it would help players consume the content much faster, and therefore run out of it sooner than expected. If that happens, they will have nothing that prevents them from thinking, and the tremendous agony of realizing their own irrelevance would again take over their life.
No, we definitely do not want that to happen, so let's see how to encrypt savegames and protect the world order.

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Hawkun @hawkun.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Found these fellas shooting up a grave. #badpixels #indiegamedev #pixelart

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Wizbird Games @wizbirdgames.com · 17/07/2025

📢📢 I'm proud to finally reveal my indie game... 📢📢 Cutting Edge is now available to wishlist on Steam! Perform life-saving operations in this fast-paced surgery sim + visual novel-lite! The patient's life is in your claws! #indiedev #indiegame #announcement #trailer #godot #CuttingEdgeGame

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

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Jacob Janerka @jacobjanerka.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The WORST thing about getting published by Devolver is that we had to get rid of this

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cronch @paprika.live · 27/09/2025

Gamedev grindset schedule (GUARANTEED SUCCESS): 10 AM wake up 11 AM watch devlog videos 1 PM read indie game marketing blogposts 3 PM relax with "making a game in 24 hours" videos 6 PM open engine and leave running in the background 9 PM scroll feeds 1 AM wind down with a GDC talk 2 AM bedtime

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cronch @paprika.live · 25/09/2025

also ever since i learned about color spaces every time i see a digital gradient with gray in the middle i sigh to myself

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cronch @paprika.live · 25/09/2025

i finally finished all 9 ships so now it doesn't look weird anymore hooray #gamedev #thistookme10months

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Bianca 🦌👑🔺 (Triumvora out now) @blissbybits.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Hi #pitchyarogue! just in time for my release :0 My roguelite's about creatures in conflict over food and power 🦙 I'm super close to 400 wishlists and it would mean the world for me to reach that milestone! bsky.app/profile/blis...

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cronch @paprika.live · 20/09/2025

thanks to my gamedev socialization now every time i see a steam game whose description starts with repeating the game's title i cringe a little inside

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cronch @paprika.live · 12/09/2025

for decades, the nascent field of game design has been wrapped up in one question. how can we make the player feel true power? how can we truly question their morals? this is why for my newest game, i have put myself in a hydraulic press that will descend 1 cm every time a player beats a boss

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Hipton @hipton.itch.io · 14/05/2025

JUST STICK TO STANDARD PROCEDURES... WISHLIST ON STEAM BELOW vvv #GodotEngine #indiedev #gamedev

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cronch @paprika.live · 31/01/2025

Why don't they sell computer mice that vibrate like controllers it would be awesome

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Ed @ed3800.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Do you like puzzles? Do you like cubes? Can you rotate a cube in your head? Well you don't have to anymore because we've got a game that's all about rotating cubes: ~ Orifoldium ~ Out now! #indie #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/3244150/...

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Orifoldium on Steam

Fold your way through mindspinning puzzles

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cronch @paprika.live · 08/01/2025

sorry for following 3700 people i promise im not a spam bot i just really like art

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cronch @paprika.live · 04/01/2025

1: bro is running out of money 2: Notch barely even knew what he was doing when he was part of Minecraft's development, the parts of the game people really love can all be attributed to Jeb (who joined in and then took over way sooner than people think)

Screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail, which contains a Twitter screenshot of a tweet by Notch, where he says "If people want Minecraft 2, then fine." with a 2 superimposed on an image of a Minecraft grass block. The title of the video is "Notch Confirms: Minecraft 2 IS Happening", and the channel name is "ibxtoycat".

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Nelward @nelward.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

let this be a PSA to game devs - don't waste peoples time unless you are sure you can pull through. I understand making a game is harder than making a song. but along with time and energy, making any good art requires passion

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Glowsticks 4 Bones @goldfomger.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Made a board game style poster for Heretic 🚲♟️🙏🦋

A poster for the movie “Heretic” that looks like a vintage board game where all the places contain the credits and names of everyone who worked on it

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cronch @paprika.live · 06/12/2024

Every game dev knows about coyote time and jump buffering for platformers but mantling is still so underrated... There's so much potential in that mechanic... I think it should be placed alongside the double jump in the platformer mechanics basic toolbox

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Cherub @polygoncherub.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

If you want to compete in the indie game scene, your protag's hips must be massive.

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cronch @paprika.live · 04/12/2024

The new game genre name "lethal-like" really sucks can we just call them "extraction horror" games instead? It's a much more self-explanatory name that also reuses terms people are already familiar with

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Lori Vornoy @necroticspider.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

hi 👋 i made this game 💿 maybe you should check it out 🫵

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